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"Mr President, on 29 June 2011, the European Commission published this unacceptable proposal to finance the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme outside the multiannual financial framework.
Eight months have passed, eight months during which the Member States and the European Parliament have intervened to firmly express their opposition and to call on the Commission to see reason on this matter. Must we still remind the Commission, as several of you have done, that GMES will have an impact on the daily lives of our fellow citizens by providing them with essential services? That is why we are all fighting for its survival, against the Commission’s proposal.
This financial disengagement is difficult to understand for everyone involved, Commissioner, when you, yourself, acknowledged the exemplary nature of this flagship programme. As things currently stand, if we were to summarise the Commission’s position, it would be as follows: ‘If you wish to see this programme survive, finance it yourselves’. Today, the Commission should open its eyes to the reality of the crisis. We cannot ask our countries and our citizens, once again, to make more funding available.
Commissioner, on behalf of the Commission, could you today explain the reasons behind the EU’s disengagement from these programmes, when they give Europe real added value? Furthermore, without getting into technical details, could the Commission justify to our fellow citizens its intention to exclude Parliament from this programme, thereby ruling out all democratic control?
I am calling on you today to express a clear, strong, reasoned position. We cannot allow this sword of Damocles to hang over the future of this programme; all the actors in this market are waiting with baited breath. This dialogue of the deaf runs the risk of paralysing the market, affecting a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises within our borders.
The idea of GMES is to enable the EU to be independent and to maintain the technological advantage that our businesses have been striving to achieve for years.
I hope the Commission will soon put forward a legislative proposal that includes GMES in the next EU budgetary estimates."@en1
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