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"The long-term EU budget is a strategic tool for investment, for stimulating growth and competitiveness and, of course, for creating jobs throughout Europe. Although we understand the financial restraints and the rationalisation efforts which the Member States are making, the cuts proposed in the European Council’s draft conclusions are unacceptable. As regards cohesion policy, the proposals made by the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, for cuts amounting to EUR 29.5 billion in relation to the Commission’s proposal, represent the fourth round of cuts since that proposal was presented. The same 27 countries which in June unanimously decided on the need for investment, are now competing to see who will propose the biggest cuts in what is purely an investment budget, the European budget. We therefore continue to maintain that we need an ambitious European budget, capable of financing the priorities of the European Union, and that this cannot possibly be achieved with cuts. Ladies and gentlemen, the dispute between the European Parliament and the Council is not about money, but about the future of Europe."@en1
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