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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-04-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110406.29.3-346-375"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-04-06-Speech-3-346-5002
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Jäätteenmäki2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2013-04-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; ALDE (2009-07-14--2012-01-26)3 substitute; SEDE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"The Member States of the EU are having to make tough decisions these days concerning their own national budgets. Expenditure is being scrutinised, and we also have to do likewise in the EU. I am not in favour of increasing the Union’s budget: on the contrary, it should be cut. In a tough economic climate, it is not right that the European Parliament should be planning to increase its expenditure by 2.3% next year. We need to find more areas to make savings in Parliament’s generous annual budget of EUR 1.7 billion. Plans for the House of European History project now need to be put on ice. As for the Strasbourg­Brussels rally, this costs European taxpayers around EUR 200 million each year. That is as much as the annual budget for the European Court of Human Rights. The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, which represents centre and liberal parties in the European Parliament, has so far been the only one of Parliament’s political groups to say that Strasbourg should stop being used. I urge the other parliamentary groups and, above all, the EU Member States, which will actually decide the matter, to demand the same."@en1

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