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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of the day, this 2012 budget is the Council budget, to which the European Parliament has added a little spiritual something by ensuring the inclusion of a few priorities, but priorities in the form of commitment appropriations, which, Commissioner, will exacerbate the problem of amounts outstanding.
The countercyclical development and growth targets have again been severely obstructed in the EU budget for 2012. Firstly, because competition between programmes, which is the consequence of cutting costs willy-nilly, has been given priority at the expense of structuring measures that would allow us to take an active role in overcoming the crisis.
Secondly, because Member States are refusing to honour payments in a timely manner – despite being legally required to do so – and are therefore deterring project leaders from developing structural initiatives.
Lastly, because the Council has refused to increase, among other things, the funding for financial supervisory authorities and to further the creation of a proper fund to manage farming crises, thereby turning a blind eye to the context in which this budget will have to be implemented.
The Member States are therefore imposing austerity measures on the European Union, just as they have done for their own citizens. The current negotiations on this budget are merely the precursor to the impending negotiations on the next multiannual financial framework.
It will be hard to resolve the apparent lack of confidence between the institutions, resulting, in particular, from the Council’s decision to question the figures provided by the Commission, which I am sure you appreciated, Commissioner, and the failure to comply with decisions that apply to both branches of the budgetary authority.
Yet there are instruments in place for that purpose – I am referring to new own resources, which could put an end to the inevitable deadlock created by the antagonism between net contributors and net beneficiaries. There is now no time to waste."@en1
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