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Mr President, thank you for the remarks that have been made thus far. I wholeheartedly agree with them. I have two comments on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in connection with this. Firstly, there is of course the matter pertaining to unpaid bills. Where I come from, we pay our bills. This is not a matter that is up for discussion. I simply do not understand this discussion in connection with the consistent under-budgeting, which the Commission was also party to. I feel the time is absolutely right! We are in a situation where we discuss this every single time, and citizens simply do not understand the lack of logic in this consistent under-budgeting. Bills must be paid! We are in a situation where the work has been done and the money has been allocated, and now the bill must be paid. Naturally, our credibility as institutions will stand or fall based on whether or not these bills are paid. And of course, this also concerns the Member States.
Secondly, this must be expected to affect students. We now face the obvious risk that students across the Member States will not receive a grant at all or at least not the grant they were expecting, or that their grants will be cut. This is the actual situation that we are faced with. It is not a trivial matter, and it is a cold, hard reality and not an abstract situation for the young people concerned.
I would like to strongly advise against taking this programme, which several speakers have emphasised as being one of the most popular specific programmes that we have in the EU, hostage in a situation where there is a tactical game between institutions as to whether this ‘budget loss’ should be assigned to one institution or another. I would like to strongly advise against taking young people and a popular programme hostage. This specifically also concerns the level of confidence in this project among citizens, and here at last is a project that people understand, one where we hear again and again, across political boundaries, that it is beneficial to the EU. This is one of the reasons why people understand that this project is something that is worth being united over. It is this that hangs in the balance. It is not simply a question of some incidental money in a budget; it is about confidence in the entire project. Therefore, I would strongly recommend that the Council and the Cyprus Presidency firmly encourage colleagues to come forward with the money. Thank you for the opportunity to speak!"@en1
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