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"Mr President, we are now trying out the effects of the Treaty of Lisbon on ourselves. We and, generally speaking, the European media have often said that the powers of Parliament have increased tremendously as a result of this Treaty. Well, it is true that the two arms of the budgetary authority are about equally strong, but the strength of this arm cannot really be put to use, as the Treaty has condemned us to agreement. The only case where the powers of Parliament would be more extensive, namely, if the Council were to vote itself down in the future, is completely unimaginable. We must all face the fact that if we carry on with one twelfths, we can only stumble from one month to the next, and not make a European Union, and therefore, essentially in agreement with the other groups, the European People’s Party considers it necessary for the European Union to have a valid budget over the course of tomorrow.
The basis of this budget will be the budget submitted by the European Commission back in the summer and deemed by Parliament to be well-founded and sound. The Council was more or less of the same opinion, as it did not modify it much, and only lowered the level of payments somewhat, on the grounds of the big crisis. It is a funny crisis if, apparently, it can be solved with four billion compared to the income of the European Member States. To be honest, this level of cut could be considered somewhat populist. What pleased me in the final agreement, when Parliament adopted this four billion cut, was that we did not cut down numbers on a lawnmower principle, but instead retained the important areas that Parliament was particularly sensitive about as priority areas.
I for one consider it very important that there has been a significant, almost 15% increase in the funds available for cohesion policy support. It is also important that we achieve some measure of progress. I understand the signal, Mr President, I will stop in a moment, but I still need to say that Parliament made a big mistake at the end of the negotiation process, and interests rooted in party politics made it bitterly difficult for us to achieve all of our goals."@en1
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