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"Mr President, I would like to say a special thank you to the rapporteur, Mrs Jędrzejewska. She has established excellent cooperation both with the political groups and, in particular, with the sectoral committees. I think that is extremely important in this situation.
We need to have broad consensus on what we need to do when the Member States are in such an incredibly difficult economic situation. What is particularly necessary, of course, is to reach agreement in those cases where we will be fighting for a revision of the budget ceiling in order to get more money. We need to do that in a few areas, despite this difficult situation. I am thinking of two areas in particular. In category 1, in other words the policy for growth and jobs, it will be absolutely necessary if we are to be able to affirm Parliament’s role with regard to economic recovery, and also in category 4, the EU’s role in the world, although we really need to concentrate on the absolutely key areas.
However, on a few points our opinion seems to differ from that of the rapporteur, and we will be tabling amendments in a couple of important areas. I will just mention three of these quite briefly.
The first concerns youth policy. We are in agreement about the order of priority, but we feel that the rapporteur’s focus on mobility is much too one-sided. The situation of young people, particularly youth unemployment, involves much more than this. It is about education, it is about labour market policy and it is about social measures.
My second point concerns the question of Gaza. It should be an obvious course of action, even for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), to support the demand for Israel to lift its blockade, just as the Council did earlier today. Some are saying that this does not belong in a budget item. I think that is wrong. This has everything to do with the budget, because the blockade is hampering the EU’s efforts with regard to reconstruction and we are not getting the necessary materials through, for example.
The third point I would like to mention concerns aid. With regard to the climate, the so-called ‘banana company measures’ and cooperation with industrialised countries we need to be clear about the fact that this must not encroach on aid to the poorest countries or on the Millennium Development Goals. I therefore appeal to the rapporteur and the political groups to support these highly reasonable amendments."@en1
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