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"Mr President, I am here to listen to your views on the draft budget presented by the Commission and on the mandate for the trilogue.
Important work lies ahead of us and we will soon have the opportunity at the forthcoming trilogue to discuss the points of interest to Parliament. But it is clear, and this was in the presentation by the rapporteur, that under the present unusual circumstances drafting and finding compromises on the 2012 budget cannot be ‘business as usual’. Therefore, a balance between consolidation of public finances and investment conducive to growth and jobs is a must and I think this is visible in our draft. Even in a time of crisis we need investment to reinforce the very fragile recovery of the European economy.
So here is a part of our answer in the 2012 budget. We have also clearly upgraded the priorities relating to the Europe 2020 strategy. In our estimates this represents EUR 62.6 billion, which is equal to 43.5% of the total draft budget. Also upgraded is the Lisbon-Treaty-related expenditure, which is increased by 4%. This is the first part of the answer.
The second part of the answer is, of course, a rigorous approach to administration, zero growth of the Commission, and what we call the negative priorities for the very tough assessment of programmes – to see whether they are working or not – and, on the basis of performance, in some areas budgeting below the pre-existing financial programming for 2012. As a result the 2012 draft budget is almost EUR 9 billion below the ceiling of the financial perspective set for 2012.
It is not enough to draft a budget. There is our common obligation to respond to developments globally. This is especially the case of the southern Mediterranean. Therefore we have agreed amending letter No 1 to the 2012 budget, which was agreed a week ago, in order to upgrade the budgetary response to our neighbourhood and especially to the southern Mediterranean for 2011, 2012 and 2013 by more than EUR 1.3 billion.
For next year that means mobilising additionally almost EUR 500 million for the southern Mediterranean and generally for that neighbourhood, consuming the margin of Heading 4, but that is also at the expense of flexibility instruments up to EUR 150-153 million.
The result is as it was presented. The payment should grow by 4.9% but this is not
; this is in order to pay the pending legal obligations, which are growing at the end of the financial perspective. This is, I have to repeat once more, exactly EUR 8.8 billion less than was the ceiling for 2012.
What is growing is research and development; what is growing is cohesion, which is now moving because eligible programmes have now finished and we have to pay the bills of the Member States. But generally we are, even for cohesion, very much below what was the upgraded forecast of the Member States for 2012.
So to sum up, I do not expect any easy discussions with the Council over the future. The experience of the 2011 procedure was very instructive. We need the support of Parliament to shape a decent budget for the next year: consolidation on the one hand and contribution to growth and jobs on the other. I hope that this year the procedure will be smoother and less nervous than the procedure for the 2011 budget."@en1
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