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"Madam President, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Fernandes, and I would thank Mr Gerbrandy for what he has just said, which I consider most opportune. This is a more austere budget, in line with what the Commission and Council requested. It is being kept within the 20% limit, thereby observing the ‘gentlemen’s agreement’, even though that does not exist. We all talk about savings, some of us with partisan intentions, but we all have some shared priorities: for example, we Members want legislative output to be improved; we are called on to respond to the new priorities of the Treaty of Lisbon; we are asked to work more professionally in co-decisions; we are asked for more meeting rooms, more internal security, greater efforts in communication policy, better IT networks, and so on. Does this or does this not all have to be paid for? We have to comply with all the agreements concluded regarding property. It is being said that we could stop financing them, but we know that it does not work like that. If we are being responsible, we will have to accept that, will we not? Youth is never a controversial area: youth is a necessity. For example, my country has 50% youth unemployment. These problems are not solved by EUR 100 million for youth policy, but that does respond to Parliament’s priorities. I know that moving this money from heading 5 to heading 1 is controversial, and it could even be – and has been – argued that it contradicts budgetary procedure, but we are a living institution and we must adapt to the needs of the moment. I do not think that there is anything more urgent than solving the issue of youth unemployment. I am sure that is the priority for all of you. Finally, I will be voting in favour of the shared House of European History."@en1
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