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"en.20121121.4.3-110-000"2
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"The dispute over the multiannual financial framework is not about money but about the future of the EU. It is not about figures but about the political principles generating those figures.
A smaller European budget does not mean necessarily better spending, but more likely wasted resources and opportunities. We have to provide the EU with the financial resources necessary for achieving its objectives. Any disparity between needs, ambitions and funding is a loss.
A bigger EU budget does not mean bigger burdens on the shoulders of the national taxpayers but a better use and distribution of the taxpayers’ money. Bigger cohesion funds do not mean that the more productive Member States pay for the inefficiency of the less productive states. It means providing opportunities for growth for both more developed and less developed members. Solidarity is not charity but the only form of intelligent selfishness in difficult times.
On the background of the economic crisis, this Framework does not offer solutions for stimulating European solidarity, economic growth or job creation, but rather pushes for national selfishness, absurd austerity and nations’ fragmentation. Therefore the Council’s draft is unacceptable. Parliament and the Commission’s positions are the least one could support."@en1
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