Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-199"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2008 draft general budget: Section III – 2008 draft general budget: Sections I, II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071023.23.2-199"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-23-Speech-2-2002
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, there is probably a wide spectrum of opinion in all the groups. Some are happy with the Council’s strict budget policy, while other Members feel it is a barrier to achieving all that is good and fine. The fact is that the Council’s proposal for the budget total is incredibly low compared with combined national income and that Parliament’s proposal also represents an exceptionally low level of budgetary expenditure. Our group is unhappy with the way the draft budget raises the Union’s military profile. Militarisation of the Union is also one of the reasons why our group cannot support the new constitution proposal agreed last week. The constitution, like next year’s draft budget, will do nothing to strengthen the Union’s social dimension. We are used to the idea that the Commission never fully implements the EU budget, and the Member States are used to the idea that they will have their own resources, as they are known, returned to them every year. That will be due to the RALs resulting from delayed programmes under the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund this year and next. The rapporteur, Mr Virrankoski, is speeding up the approval procedure for these programmes with good reason. It is our group’s view that it is right to amend interinstitutional agreements with regard to new expenditure for Galileo and the European Institute of Technology. There is not enough money in the budgetary framework; instead, the membership will have to bring new money to the Union for them. In this House, Parliament’s Bureau is not as disciplined in its budget targets as the Committee on Budgets. It is always trying to spend 20% of the EU’s administrative costs even if there is nowhere the money can justifiably be spent. Such projects include the memorial to Mr Pöttering, a museum dedicated to the EU’s short history, or converting Parliament’s parking area into a spa and baths. At the same time, the Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens voted in the Committee on Budgets on the indulgent supervision of the party support funds of the Europarties and now also of the Euro-foundations financed out of Parliament’s budget. There was no clause stating that the use of funds should be overseen in accordance with the best practices of EU budgetary control. My compatriots Mr Virrankoski and Mr Ville Itälä have tried, in their role as rapporteurs, to achieve a balanced outcome."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph