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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Hour with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120201.13.3-098-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-02-01-Speech-3-099-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"At a time of austerity in Europe, the ECR is concerned about your demands for a further EUR 25 million to cover an expected overspend in this financial year in the External Action Service. It seems to us to betray a desire to grow the service beyond its existing remit, before the EEAS has been able to fully prove that it brings real added value in terms of the improved efficiencies which were promised at the outset, such as cuts in EU Member State bilateral embassies as a result of the new EU multilateral diplomatic input. It has also become your baby, Baroness Ashton. I must give you initial credit for the setting-up, at a time of general EU crisis, of this controversial service which understandably you believe deserves more taxpayers’ money. But the ECR has consistently argued for budget neutrality and for rationalisation of the EEAS’s resources. The EU missions and their relative sizes are often still distributed according to historical legacies and, some cynics might even argue, pleasant postings, with large delegations in some parts – e.g. Fiji – and none at all in other growing regional economic hubs, such as Panama, which do not always reflect the EU’s current geopolitical priorities. So please, how can you justify this structural expenditure rise, on top of the existing EUR 400 million a year for their running costs? Why do we need this extra money, Baroness Ashton?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2012-03-27)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group. –"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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