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"en.20111201.35.4-215-000"2
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"With this report, the European Union is giving its final assent to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012, giving its backing to the joint text resulting from the negotiations with the Council. Further cuts are now being added to the failings of the previous draft budget, meaning that the 2012 EU budget is now below 1% of gross national income, at 0.98%. The EUR 129.088 billion in payments will represent a decrease in the EU budget in real terms. What we have here, therefore, is a clear surrender to the impositions of the most powerful countries and the interests that they advocate, at the expense of the countries with weaker economies, passing on to the latter the economic and social costs of the policies that led to the crisis. These are policies and measures central to the European process of capitalist integration, and they have been reinforcing these rather than reversing them, as was necessary. As such, the much vaunted economic and social cohesion is proving to be a big lie. It is a lie that the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – the same people who voted for this budget – have been peddling as propaganda.
For our part, we continue to fight for the adoption of policies promoting genuine cohesion, social justice, employment, solidarity and cooperation, properly supported in budgetary terms, obviously."@en1
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