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dcterms:Date	"2012-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft amending budget No 6/2012 - Revenue from own resources and other resources - Increase in payment appropriations in headings 1a, 1b, 2, 3a and 4 of the Multiannual Financial Framework - Reduction in the level of commitment appropriations entered in the budget - New general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20121211.30.2-415-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-12-11-Speech-2-416-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Ashworth2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this draft amending budget No. 6 was, in my view, always the Council’s problem. I recognise that the Cyprus Presidency’s solution, whilst no means ideal, was at least pragmatic and realistic. But what we now need to ensure is that we do not get into a payment crisis of this nature again. To do that, first we need systems in place to scrutinise and control estimates from the Member States and, secondly, we are going to need greater flexibility in the way that we manage the budget in the future. But turning now, if I may, to the budget for 2013, we in the European Conservatives and Reformists have been calling for restraint in the size of the budget. We do agree that there is an urgent need to invest in jobs and growth, but what we do not agree with is that this, of necessity, means increasing the size of the budget. We simply cannot be in denial about the level of debt in many of the donor states. For that reason, you cannot go on increasing the burden of cost to those contributing states. Nor can we expect taxpayers in those countries – people who are already experiencing tough times – to understand why it is that we want a bigger budget. Indeed, I would argue that with 25 million people out of work and the European economy stagnating, those traditional spending programmes, the very systems which should be creating jobs and growth, are not doing the job. You only have to look around Europe today to learn that big public expenditure and large government deficits do not seem to be providing the solution. So is it not time we in this Parliament began to focus our fire on better spending of the money we already have, before we resort to demanding more from the taxpayer?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2012-03-15--2013-11-18)3 member; BUDG (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Richard Ashworth,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group"1
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