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"en.20110608.20.3-491-500"2
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"I voted on Wednesday, 8 June for an increase in the 2014-2020 budget. As we know, the budget represents the start of any political act. If you have no budget, you have no project. The EU budget must therefore reflect the EU’s growth strategy and its ambitions for its citizens. The Member States have suggested freezing the EU budget for two reasons. On the one hand, the money comes from contributions by the States and, on the other, a stable budget for the 2014-2020 period means that all the EU’s major projects to restore growth and to invest in the future are jeopardised. Member States would like to see the EU playing a decisive role when it comes to taking risks but they criticise it when it does so. I therefore, like the majority of my fellow Members – with the exception of the Eurosceptics – voted for a 5% increase in the budget to fund future major projects. We are now well aware of the fact that States are incapable of resolving on their own the problems caused by globalisation. The next step will be to provide the EU with a budget based on ‘own resources’ in order to curtail our reliance on the ‘bad’ will of States."@en1
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