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"Mr President, honourable Members, thank you for this very short debate on the 2012 budget. I would like to highlight a few significant elements relating to the Council’s position.
Firstly, the Council is not questioning the European Union’s priorities. Please note that in relation to expenses for the Europe 2020 agenda, the Council has not restricted any funds earmarked as commitment appropriations. Secondly, the cuts proposed by the Council are not short-sighted and are not the result of Member States’ lack of awareness of the challenges faced by the European Union. They are, first and foremost, the result of the very difficult budgetary situation in which the Member States find themselves and the necessity of striking a balance and finding the lowest level of funding necessary to finance all the European Union’s priorities.
We must be aware of the fact that for many Member States finding an additional EUR 100 million or EUR 200 million from their national budgets is very difficult at the moment. They have large deficits and are having problems financing debt in the market, so we are not just talking about imaginary problems which are getting in the way of real discussion on the EU budget.
I hope that this year we will manage to conduct a debate on the budget which will focus on the problem of the 2012 budget, and that we will all have learnt lessons from the negative aspects of the previous debate a year ago and avoid them on this occasion. I hope that we will work well with Commissioner Lewandowski and I hope that, as always, the European Commission will, first and foremost, play the role of an honest mediator and suggest solutions to all sides which will be beneficial for the entire European Union. Thank you very much."@en1
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