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"Mr President, from what the previous speakers have said, it is clear that we are all pleased that it will be possible to implement the 2011 EU budget efficiently and without unnecessary delays as of 1 January next year. However, all these speeches have also made it clear that there is still a lack of certain things. There is a lack of discussion and a lack of understanding. It is clear to me already that the Treaty of Lisbon opens up new, uncharted territory for us and that a very difficult debate awaits us regarding the new multiannual post-2013 European Union budget. This debate relates to a fundamental issue, namely, how we can reconcile the ever-greater divergence between expectations of the European Union, or, in other words, what the European Union is supposed to do – and we can see that the Member States and all interested parties, including the European Parliament, expect more and more from the European Union, since the European Union is supposed to deal with an ever-increasing number of subject areas, and is opening itself up to new policies, new areas of activity and setting new tasks for itself – a divergence between the aforesaid expectations and an ever-diminishing willingness to finance these new undertakings. We must hold joint debates on this increasingly dramatic divergence. We cannot avoid such debates, all the more so since we are currently experiencing a financial and economic crisis, and so there is no place for taboo subjects as far as funding is concerned. We should talk openly about all the issues: about the EU’s own revenues, about what the EU should do, about what it should perhaps not try to do, about what is really most important for us and to what extent these priorities should be financed. In summary, I think that what happened during the adoption of the 2011 budget is both a basis for and a start of the debate, but by no means its end. I thank you for your willingness to engage in a debate, and I hope that there will be even more of this willingness next year."@en1
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