Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-17-Speech-3-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-12-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft general budget 2009 as modified by the Council (all sections) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081217.3.3-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-12-17-Speech-3-0172
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	"Madam President, Commissioner, the grand total for payment appropriations in next year’s draft budget is lower than it has ever been. There will be enough cash for payments if the same payment policy is adhered to as in recent years. The Commission will not be fully implementing the budget. Yesterday, Parliament decided to repay the Member States almost five of the six billion euros that has not been used for payments this year, although it had been budgeted to be spent. A billion was added to next year’s budget for food aid. Since the Commission made this proposal, the price of food has halved, and the EU will soon have to intervene in its own production. There are a million starving people in the world, and aid will of course flow as needed, but the arguments behind the Commission’s proposal have become obsolete in six months. Last week saw the Commission indulge in PR and propaganda in connection with the preparation of the budget in order to promote its programme for the economic recovery of the Member States. This is budgetary acrobatics and a sham. The EU’s contribution of five billion means that the money was moved from one Article to another without the Member States committing to new money for the EU’s use. These are not genuine recovery measures to put right the damage caused by globalisation. We need robust action as a drug to cure us of the disease of ‘funny money’, and the EU is simply not delivering. The European Commission and the Council of the European Union are not prepared to decide on action of this sort."@en1
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