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"The Commission is proposing to increase the EU budget for the 2014-2020 period compared to the current budgetary framework, in view of the crisis, among other factors. Moreover, Parliament wants to have its own resources so that it is less dependent on Member State contributions. These measures are based on two misconceptions. Economic growth is not for sale. In addition, Parliament thinks that money does not need to be earned before it can be spent. Economic growth can only be facilitated by creating the right conditions.
A healthy economic structure and reforms are indispensable. As long as they are missing, EU measures will not encourage growth sustainably. In the Council, moreover, there is a chasm between net contributors and net recipients, who also call themselves the Cohesion Group, which, I understand, the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, has joined. I would ask the Commission to adopt a more neutral position in this matter.
Incidentally, this raises the question of whether the EU is capable of dealing responsibly with new economic powers and budgetary matters. A Union that claims to be representing its citizens is unreliable if it proposes to increase the EU budget at a time of drastic cuts in the capitals."@en1
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