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22 Nov

2022

DE Speech

2023 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, It is accomplished: We have a result in our budget negotiations. And that in itself is very important, because I think it would have been very difficult to convey that in these difficult times we are even arguing about comparatively small-scale issues and are not able to bring a budget together. Nevertheless, some fundamental problems remain, and I believe the m…

18 Oct

2022

DE Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President! I believe that the debate has shown several points. On the one hand, it was precisely the colleagues from the technical committees who defended the priorities of the Council Presidency and also want to stand up for them and also want to finance them. I think that's a very good message. The second is: I believe that it has also arrived that Parliament is in great agreement here, that …

18 Oct

2022

DE Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The colleague rightly criticised the fact that this must not be a budget like any other – that it must also be remembered. If we look at heading 7, you quickly get the idea that it could be a household like any other. But I would like to remind you that at the beginning of this procedure, as a Committee on Budgets, we have already reduced a sum compared to th…

13 Sep

2022

DE Speech

Presentation by the Council of its position on the draft general budget - 2023 financial year (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, The budgetary challenges have been sufficiently described, and it is also true, as the Commissioner has said, that we must also set an example as an institution. I would like to point out that, as a Committee on Budgets, we had cut the ideas of our Bureau by an amount like never before. So we are fully aware of the …

4 Apr

2022

DE Speech

Future of fisheries in the Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Many thanks to the rapporteur and also to the Commissioner. I would like to use the short time given to me to point out an important point in my view. This is the fact that the Brexit Adjustment Reserve is intended to help a narrow group of people, namely the fishing establishments that are particularly affected, in a very limited period of time. Particularly…

23 Nov

2021

DE Speech

2022 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The European Union must be more than a money-distribution machine. That is why it is our task here in Parliament to argue for European added value, and our committee chairman has said a lot about it, and we have succeeded. I would like to thank all those who fought for it: EU4Health, Horizon In particular, rescEU and Erasmus+ were mentioned. And the other side o…

19 Oct

2021

EN Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)

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Madam President, a lot of wise words have already been spoken during this debate so I would like to seize the opportunity and draw your attention to some examples which might bring us to more general points. These are, for us as budgetary politicians, especially clarity and control. We can see that significant funds from financing programmes are transferred, for example, to decentralised agencies.…