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"Mr President, given the exceptional constraints we face this year, the agreement that has been reached on the draft budget for 2011 is the best compromise possible. For that, we must thank and congratulate our two rapporteurs, the European Commission and the remarkable Belgian Presidency, to which I would like to express particular gratitude.
Mr Wathelet is a little sad; he has the impression that too little has been done. He should see Parliament’s gesture of granting EUR 570 million to the Member States, rather than assigning this money to ITER, as an act of gratitude to the Belgian Presidency.
Since the start of these negotiations, Parliament has been anxious to show its awareness of its responsibilities. Now, at the end of the year, when the cohesion of the Union is once again being called into question, the Committee on Budgets is categorically recommending that we end the uncertainty on the 2011 budget.
However, the basic problems remain intact. In contrast to some of the national budgets, the Union’s budget is not threatened by bankruptcy. In terms of the statutes, it is a balanced budget, but it stands on the brink of political failure. Europe is financing its ambitions by indulging in words. Yet verbal inflation, the inflation of grandiose and illusory objectives is just as pernicious as monetary inflation.
The Union no longer has the means to finance the decisions that it has already taken, nor the new competences given to it by the Treaty of Lisbon. The Union has also failed to introduce the procedures that would allow it to ensure that, in the absence of Community financing, major joint objectives such as Europe 2020 are incorporated in the national budgets.
That is why Parliament attaches so much importance to the agreement achieved alongside the Commission and the future Presidencies for finding a way to secure the financing of future policies, via the Community budget, from new resources, which are no longer a drain on national budgets, and via the national budgets themselves, which are 20 times the size of the tiny European budget. In 2010, the Union has redefined its notion of financial solidarity. 2011 must be the year in which we reinvent budgetary solidarity."@en1
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