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"In this House today we are discussing Parliament’s mandate in the negotiations with the Commission and the Council over the budget for 2011. It is a difficult mandate because it comes in the context of widespread reduction and contraction in budgetary policies across Europe. The European United Left is openly opposed to the frightful and frightening rehabilitation of a new wave of stability programmes to reduce government deficits, which will end up plunging Europe into a new recession. The draft European budget, which is the basis for the mandate we are now debating, is constrained not only by the Treaties in force or a multiannual financial framework that should have been reviewed a long time ago: it is also fettered by this model that I have just criticised in very brief terms. With all 27 Member States drastically cutting their spending, no European budget, which accounts for just 1% of European GDP, will make up for it. None of the priorities put forward by Parliament can be satisfactorily achieved with a draft budget of EUR 130 billion. The mandate lays emphasis on youth, but it is obvious that this has been sacrificed on the altar of blinkered accounting. We lay emphasis on the environment, but it is obvious that governments only want to hear about these commitments a lot further ahead. We call for urgent action and solidarity in our support for Palestine and the Palestinians, but it is obvious that this is clearly not one of the Commission’s priorities. After what happened to the Freedom Fleet, this is unworthy, to say the least."@en1
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