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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101214.36.2-478"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Miguel Portas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-01-22)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 vice-chair; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-15--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 unknown; Bloco de Esquerda (2009-07-14--2012-04-24)3 member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, with the adoption of the draft 2011 budget, we come to the end of a turbulent negotiating process. First, a few words on the budget itself. It is the result of the imposition of the governments’ increases, which were residual amounts. The proposal tabled by the governments, and on which we are going to vote tomorrow, is well below the limits agreed when the Financial Perspectives for the period 2007-2013 were negotiated. My group contested this point of view because we do not agree with continuity budgets in exceptional times, and we do not agree with budgets that are unable to address the social crisis into which austerity policies have plunged our countries. This alone would be enough for us not to be able to vote for this budget. However, the underfunding has another consequence: it will require successive corrections throughout 2011, and the governments themselves are admitting it by signing a protocol that says exactly that. Now, about the future: the majority of those who will vote for this budget were hoping, at least, that this budget would not be repeated in 2012 and in 2013, but nothing could be less certain. Despite our criticisms, my group supported Parliament’s positions throughout the impasse, in order to avoid this very real risk. However, the final commitment is a weak one. I guarantee you that, in 2012, we will be having a revised and extended version of the discussion that we had this year, because a minority of governments, led by the United Kingdom, believe the current European budgets to be excessive: they want less, they do not want more. Moreover, these same governments also want to reduce flexibility. These are the governments that like sanctions and detest solidarity; they are the governments that want hyper-austerity and not social progress. It is for this reason that this Europe – a Europe that rejects European bond issues, a Europe that refuses to tax financial transactions – is a Europe that is set to destroy its own European project. It is not a Europe that we can be at peace with, and so we cannot vote for this budget."@en1
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