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"Mr President, I would like to extend my congratulations to the rapporteur. She has a very difficult job to do in these circumstances where the ambitions are set out in the 2020 strategy, and there are few who would disagree with the need to finance a range of different projects. The real problem is how to finance these ambitions in what are today even more dire circumstances – as we see in the European Council and in the discussions about the euro, and as my colleague, Mr Bokros, has mentioned.
Our group considers that we need to focus more attention on the question of value for money and on those areas of the budget where we could actually cut back. The Commission has begun to indicate this, with zero expenditure on administration, but there are perhaps other areas of the budget on which we have not yet really focused in the budget procedure.
As we come into the autumn, we need a serious examination, and we have put down some 60 questions to the Commission on this matter, with the aim of identifying where we are getting poor implementation. Otherwise, like the cynic in Oscar Wilde’s nice definition, we will reach a position where we know ‘the price of everything and the value of nothing’."@en1
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