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"Mr President, let me start by emphasising that, for the first time, this agreement has been adopted entirely within the deadlines set out in the Treaty of Lisbon for the new budgetary procedure.
Nevertheless, for the second year running, the European Parliament has accepted the Council’s reading on increasing payments by less than 2% this year, which means less than in 2011 in real terms. We have repeatedly said that this decision is at odds with the Commission’s estimates, which identified far higher payment requirements for 2012.
Admittedly, we have obtained the commitment appropriations that we wanted in almost all areas, but nevertheless, we cannot constantly amend the budget and top it up during the financial year as needs are identified. This is a piecemeal approach that will prevent the European Union from setting broad guidelines, particularly in terms of research, as demonstrated by the ITER case.
Let me simply remind you that the EU budget is still a lever and that, despite the current austerity policies in Member States – which we fully understand – we do also need to make some minimum commitments. With 80% of the budget going back to citizens, the European Union budget is not a black hole, but rather a redistribution mechanism that can also be used to invest in the future."@en1
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