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dcterms:Date	"2012-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20121022.19.1-045-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-10-22-Speech-1-046-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Alda Sousa2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ENVI (2012-05-22--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2012-05-09--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2012-05-23--2014-06-30)3 member; BUDG (2012-05-23--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Bloco de Esquerda (2012-05-09--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2012-05-23--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2012-05-22--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2012-05-22--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, this plenary session will vote on Parliament’s position on the 2013 budget before negotiations with the governments begin. The governments that announced their commitment to employment and growth at the June Summit are the same governments that have imposed unprecedented austerity on Europeans, and that have increased the number of unemployed. They also wish to make work permanently insecure and seek to withdraw all acquired rights. It is therefore no surprise that their proposal on the EU budget fuels that unchecked austerity. Over the past four years, all they have been able to do is cut, and 2013 will be no different. They want to make cuts in European research, education and training programmes and regional development and cohesion, as if the EUR 9 billion of cohesion funds and the European Social Fund in arrears, I repeat, in arrears, were not already enough for countries such as Portugal, Greece, Spain, and Italy, putting various programmes at risk, including Erasmus. It is true that Parliament is trying, to a certain extent, to reverse some of the more swingeing government cuts, such as the Seventh Framework Programme, Erasmus Mundus and Intelligent Energy, by actually going beyond the Commission proposal. It also true that the proposal has raised the appropriation for aid to Palestine, and that the European Parliament has taken the initiative to cut almost EUR 9 million from its own expenses, which I personally regard as clearly insufficient. Unfortunately, however, these proposals are not enough to change the nature of the EU budget and to counter divisive and recessionary austerity policies when solidarity-based policies are needed. In any event, one thing we cannot accept is the fact that the only institution with direct democratic legitimacy, that is, Parliament, is excluded from negotiations with the governments. For that very reason, as we have seen, leaving decisions exclusively to the governments makes no sense at all."@en1
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