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"Mr President, Mr Wathelet, Mr Barroso, Commissioner Lewandowski, ladies and gentlemen, my political group wants a normal budget for 2011. My colleague, Mrs Skrzydlewska, and fellow Member, Mrs Trüpel, have worked extremely hard to put forward a viable plan that has the agreement of all the political groups and is consistent with the need for austerity being asked for by the Member States.
The Members of the European Parliament do not come from Mars. We are German, British, Swedish, Hungarian and Spanish, and we are aware of and are experiencing the effects of the extremely serious economic and financial crisis in our own countries. Nevertheless, we feel that a strong and well-financed European budget is a valuable and essential tool for restarting the EU economy.
Blocking, reducing or watering down the European budget is paradoxically contrary to the interests of the 27 Member States and 500 million Europeans. If we do not have flexibility for the next three years, we will not implement the post-Lisbon policies. Without a political agreement between Parliament and the Council on own resources or cooperation on the next multiannual financial framework, there will be no political or financial stability. It is not simply a question of rights, but a question of common interest. The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament and the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance are entitled to come to this House as political opponents, but no one knows whom they are opposing. This does not, however, benefit anyone, nor does it benefit the ‘cohesion countries’.
Although there is many a political leader currently interested in the 2011 budget, I would like to remind you that I have 14 years of political experience of budgetary conciliation. Nothing that has ever been achieved in terms of budgets over all those years has been achieved through confrontation. We have always achieved things through cooperation. Posturing, whether in this House or in the Justus Lipsius building, where it also happens, is of no practical use whatsoever."@en1
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