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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, a former colleague, who has now passed away, from your own political group – the MEP Miguel Portas – and I, as the budgetary spokesperson for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) did not agree on many things, but on one thing we did agree: that the Structural Funds and the European Social Fund are the driving force behind growth in Europe.
The Council now agrees and has released EUR 55 billion from the Structural Funds that can be reallocated and has included these funds in what is called the ‘growth package’. However, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, there are no Structural Funds and there is not going to be a growth fund without sufficient payment appropriations, and currently there are not enough payment appropriations in the EU budget in order to move forward with this reallocation of resources from the Structural Funds. This is because, in November 2011, we failed in the budgetary conciliation process between the Council and Parliament in this area.
For the 2013 budget, things are even worse, given that the Commission is asking for a 6.8% increase and you are offering 2.9%.
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, we think that small is beautiful, but we would like to know how you hope, under your Presidency, to reconcile two subjects that are so disparate as the request from the Commission and Parliament and the resistance of the Member States to increasing payment appropriations."@en1
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