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lpv:speaker	lp:Göran Färm2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-10-15)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-11-11--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I would like to say a big thank you to Mr Vaughan. He has certainly demonstrated the ability to achieve broad agreement in relation to this report in an area that has otherwise often been characterised by major controversies. It feels like a new era. Only a few years ago, it was practically a foregone conclusion that Parliament’s budget would expand. Instead, we now have broad agreement that freezing the budget is a minimum requirement and that further savings should be sought ahead of the budget procedure in the autumn, particularly with regard to MEPs’ own expenditure, which was extremely difficult to discuss at all in the past. I am also pleased that Parliament has adopted our proposal to establish a separate, independent working group to develop new rational working methods and to compare our models and costs with other parliaments. I am firmly convinced that there is huge potential for rationalisation without the need to sacrifice principles like multilingualism, high standards in our legislative work, good working conditions for staff, and so on, which are important principles to defend. Nevertheless, and despite this change in attitude towards Parliament’s budget, many people are still shying away from what I personally consider to be the biggest and most obvious saving: gathering all of Parliament’s activities in one place. In the Committee on Budgets, we achieved a clear majority last week for the amendment that was tabled, and I hope that we will receive a clear majority for it in plenary tomorrow, too. Obviously, we must try to find solutions for those who will lose their jobs, but let us look at this in a practical way. I am firmly convinced that it is possible to find models to compensate those who will lose out if we are able to concentrate Parliament’s activity in one place. Maintaining the current model makes absolutely no sense from an economic, practical and environmental point of view. It is in fact time now to start working to bring about such a change."@en1
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