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"Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for the budget review, which is now finally here. What is crucial in the budget review is that we are going to look critically at whether the resources of the EU have achieved what we think. There is a lot of money going to agriculture and cohesion funds; have these sums been delivering on the targets that we aimed for? I must say that the budget review is a bit sparse on these kinds of questions.
But let us look to the future. I very much welcome your attitude, Commissioner, when you say we have to look at the goals we are aiming for in the 2020 strategy – i.e. goals on innovation, on climate, on poverty eradication, on employment. These targets should be given a central place and these targets should also be used for the budget review. That means something for our agricultural policies and for our cohesion policies, and here we expect some good and ambitious reforms from the Commission to make sure that agricultural policies and cohesion policies really deliver on poverty eradication, greenhouse gas reduction, innovation and unemployment. That is again, I think, very important.
I turn to some crucial ideas that you address such as some new ideas on private investors. I have to say that this issue of private investors has been addressed before, but we know from the ITER experience and from the GALILEO experience that they are not there, so we have to make sure that we are not building on them if they are not forthcoming.
As for the European Investment Bank, yes, try to include the EIB, but the democratic accountability of the Investment Bank is crucial. How can we make sure that their investments are also delivering?
Finally, on own resources. The financial transaction tax is mentioned again, but we know from the ECOFIN this week that the financial transaction tax is not supported by the Commission; it is not even on the Barroso list for the G20. Still, however, it is in this document, stating that maybe these kinds of incomes can be used. What is the position of the Commission on the financial transaction tax, because the Commission is vague and inconsistent here?"@en1
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