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"Mr President, today there are 27 of us and we spend less than 1% of our collective wealth on the Community budget, roughly the same as we spent when there were 15 of us. This figure alone illustrates why the Böge report we are debating today is one of the Union's basic political ventures for the next five years.
It is a crucial question which we must answer: how much money and for what policies? Where do we set the limit, the measure of our ambitions? This time we must put everything on the table without any preconditions and the discussion must start from a zero base. We shall have to address two important difficulties in this major negotiation:
the first is that now there are, of course, more of us than there were on the previous occasion when similar negotiations were held; and
the second difficulty is that, unfortunately, this negotiation is taking place when the fat-cat cycle has closed and we are being hard hit by the economic crisis.
Nonetheless, the negotiation which is basically starting today with the very realistic approach taken by Mr Böge should confirm three basic preconditions which are pivotal to Europe:
firstly, that the future of farming in the Community must be secured even after 2013;
secondly, that the principle of cohesion and solidarity between the Member States must not end; and
thirdly, that the time has come for us to talk about smart development, about money which also goes into brains and not just into asphalt and cement."@en1
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