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dcterms:Date	"2009-10-20"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091020.35.2-333"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-10-20-Speech-2-3342
lpv:speaker	lp:Miguel Portas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-01-22)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 vice-chair; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-15--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Bloco de Esquerda (2009-07-14--2012-04-24)3 member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3
lpv:translated text	"I would like to open with the most positive aspect: on Thursday, we will vote for more than EUR 3 billion in payment authorisations to go to Structural Funds and programmes of a social nature. The Council does indeed dispute this policy, believing that we should not ask the Member States for more money. I hope the Swedish Minister will forgive me if I say that this point of view shows a shopping list mentality. We are living in exceptional times, and I believe that, on the contrary, the Commission, the Council and Parliament should have had the courage to tackle the problem of funding this budget head-on and made it an exceptional budget. Even with the expenditure that we are going to approve on Thursday, this will continue to be a budget that skirts around the crisis. It is a business-as-usual budget. We do not need drops of water in seas of milk. What we need is another policy for rural areas. We do not just need Structural Funds for our territories, but a European social policy that complements the policies of each of our States. What we really need is courage! Today, there are as many people living in poverty – 79 million – as there were at the beginning of the century. There is a great deal of uncertainty about the standards necessary to tackle climate change. The key issue that we need to discuss is financing the European budget and future Financial Perspectives. That is the question, and do not tell us that there is no money, because there is; we can go and look for it among the tax evaders, in the taxation of capital gains in the financial markets and in tax havens. Mr President, rapporteurs, this problem with the budget is so vital that we, the MEPs, should set an example by making cutbacks. I have made proposals about travelling expenses. These days, when travelling, an MEP receives his/her salary, expenses for the cost of the journey, the distance travelled and the time wasted. This is ridiculous and incomprehensible. I hope that on Thursday, we will at least have the decency to review this state of affairs."@en1
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