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"en.20121121.4.3-060-000"2
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"Mr President, faced with the European Union’s worst crisis, the citizens represented here in this Parliament have the right to hope for a countercyclical budget that will help us to emerge from the crisis and simulate growth and jobs.
The Council’s proposal goes in the opposite direction. The European Union does not have a deficit or public debt, yet this budget makes it impossible to fulfil the ambitions laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon. It is unfair, it is completely unsupportive, it will increase inequalities and it reflects European fatigue.
It is bad news for the cohesion policy and, in particular, for the so-called transition regions. It is bad news for the future of the common agricultural policy, which is the heart and soul of the European project and which has an economic, a social and an environmental dimension. However, without money and without resources, not only can there be no common agricultural policy, there can be no reform of it either.
It is a blow to Europe’s future development and cooperation aid abroad, which shows Europe’s best side in the fight to reduce poverty. It is bad news for the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’ and for the trans-European transport, energy and telecommunications networks. It will also curb our ambitions in the area of freedom, security and justice.
In short, parliamentarism was first introduced to determine budgets and taxes. That is precisely why this Parliament has the duty to tell the Council in no uncertain terms that it either changes its proposal or this Parliament will have to vote against a budget that makes Europe look bad at the worst possible time."@en1
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