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"Mr President, speaking as rapporteur for the European Union budget for 2011, I would like to emphasise the constructive role which has been played by the Belgian Presidency. I would also like to express my thanks for the involvement of the European Commission. However, our efforts are not over. On the contrary, we should, now, intensify them. Personally, I think the fiasco of the 2011 budget negotiations is a defeat for all of us. However, I would like to share with you my interpretation as to why Monday’s fiasco happened.
We were witnesses to a regrettable situation in which several Member States prolonged the negotiations until midnight to make them end in failure. We did not manage to finish the negotiations on time, because on the part of several Member States, there was simply not the will to talk. It is for me, personally, an exasperating and very surprising situation, when around the negotiating table are seated diplomats and deputy ministers of finance and they do not want to talk about finance or about the future financing and the present financing of the European Union. It is absolutely incomprehensible and unacceptable to me, because what is to happen next, if the politicians and diplomats do not want to talk to each other?
My next point is that the tension concerning discussion of the 2011 budget began because the European Parliament wants to draw the attention of Member States to a problem which we see in the future and which we can already see today: that the European Union continues to take on new roles and start new areas of activity and that it has growing ambitions, but that at the same time, the Member States, which support those ambitions, also do not want to finance those ambitions, those plans, those actions and those new areas. We must talk about this growing inconsistency. At a time of crisis, it is all the more important to talk about finance and to talk about how the European Union is to be financed. Furthermore, the European Parliament is all the more necessary and it is not, at the moment, the right time to make the budget a taboo subject."@en1
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