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"en.20121023.4.2-078-000"2
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"The next budget of the European Union should reflect the increased range of functions and ambitions of the EU: it is impossible to finance closer cooperation, and economic, financial and political union with fewer resources. The budget must be geared towards growth and employment, enhanced competitiveness, and cohesion for less developed regions. Reducing the European budget would inevitably impede growth and competitiveness, goals reinforced by common agreement and which we need to achieve if we are to overcome the crisis. In many Member States today, EU support represents the only basis for economic growth. Expenditure cuts would increase the gulf between the developed and less developed regions, between affluent segments of the population and those living in poverty, undermining one of the EU’s most important fundamental principles, solidarity. For this reason it is vital to make our position clear: the European Parliament opposes freezing the budget at its current level or reducing it. Of particular relevance here is the demand put before Parliament by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament that in the next EU budget commencing in 2014 a quarter of the Cohesion Fund resources should be spent on projects aimed at promoting employment, social inclusion and poverty reduction. Equally vital in my view is providing more generous support in the 2014-2020 budget for programmes aimed at promoting human rights and enforcing the rights inherent in European citizenship. We must resolutely reject any attempts to produce a future budget for the eurozone that is detrimental or counter to the interests of the EU27."@en1
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