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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, may I take the liberty, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), of thanking the rapporteurs, Ms Balzani and Mr Fernandes, as well as Commissioner Lewandowski, the President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Dominik, and all my fellow Members, for the excellent work done and for the spirit of cooperation shown. I believe that the agreement reached during the night of Friday 18 November, after almost 16 hours of negotiations, has produced a good result, especially given the serious economic crisis and the difficulties faced by the national budgets.
As far as commitment appropriations are concerned, I am satisfied with the decision to use the flexibility instrument to the tune of EUR 200 million for headings 1 and 4, as Parliament had requested, in order to boost industrial competitiveness, finance priority policies, which are the essence of the Europe 2020 strategy, and tackle the difficult challenges in terms of neighbourhood policy.
It is clear that Parliament’s priorities have been fulfilled for the other policies from the point of view of commitment appropriations. However, it is also true that, as many MEPs have emphasised in the speeches before this one, and as the rapporteurs themselves have stressed, the agreement cannot be said to be as satisfactory where payment appropriations are concerned, not least because the gap between commitments and payments has widened, which will increase the amount of liabilities to be paid, and because of the difficulties that the Commission may encounter in financing certain programmes that are due to expire.
I believe, however, that today’s vote in Parliament, like the one yesterday in the Council, will serve to ratify a strict and responsible budget that takes full account of the crisis but that, at the same time, seeks to boost investment and the economy in order to achieve the aim of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth in the European Union."@en1
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