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"Mr President, can I follow on from Ms Jutta Haug’s remarks and offer my congratulations to my colleague Anne E. Jensen for leading a very successful negotiation with the Council. Indeed it is said that it is the first time the Council has ever offered to increase the payments in any negotiation and she succeeded in securing an extra EUR 500 million, substantial amounts of which go into R&D, help for small businesses, and Erasmus as well. Well done to Ms Jensen. This will, of course, help increase investment and jobs and growth.
I could also welcome the real-term freeze in the Parliament budget which Monika Hohlmeier and other shadow rapporteurs managed to negotiate. That is against the background of the one-off exceptional cost of the election next year.
As I have said before, the harsh reality of the budgets that we are negotiating at the moment is that we are living on a day-to-day basis in budgetary terms. The commitments agreed back in the boom times in 2007 and the MFF are now making it extremely difficult for Member States laden with debts to honour the bills as they come in today.
Thankfully, in the 2014 budget the new commitments are less than 10 % of the budget, according to the Commissioner, and we get EUR 20 billion rolling over from 2013, so that at long last there is an opportunity maybe to try and reduce that overhang as we go forward into the next budgetary year. This is a one-off opportunity, and the rapporteurs have done an excellent job in negotiating this package for 2014."@en1
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