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Mr President, the keystone of the European Union, the dimension that was lauded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is solidarity. However, there can be no solidarity without money, without a budget. We know today that over the past 14 years the national budgets have increased, on average, more rapidly than the European Union budget, and now the Member States want the EU budget to decrease more rapidly then theirs.
Moreover, President Barroso wants the social model to be the spearhead of our competitiveness. The International Monetary Fund tells us that the austerity policy that we are implementing is counterproductive. Day after day, we ask the Member States to carry out structural reforms. The first of these involves investment in human capital. I do not like that expression but it is what it says. Our greatest asset is the quality of our men and women.
In that regard, in the next budget, if we do not succeed in building a wall to consolidate social spending, allocating 25 % of cohesion policy funds to the European Social Fund, we will be on the wrong track and we will not be preparing the European Union to cope with the challenges that lie ahead.
In the same spirit, we must defend the programme for the most deprived persons and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund."@en1
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