budgetary debate

I therefore do not believe we should return to this issue during the current budgetary debate.

We have developed the new budgetary debate in September, something which it will certainly be possible to develop further next year.

I welcome this because it shows the way to the future in our budgetary debates.

Clearly, this budgetary debate is influenced by the lack of agreement on the financial perspective for 2007-2013.

The system, blocked due to this Parliament’s budgetary debate, did the rest and dealt the final blow.

This is politics in figures and, historically, there has always been a specific political context associated with the budgetary debate.

The export subsidies form part of existing policy, and we in Parliament cannot simply change this in a budgetary debate.

It seems to me that the debate we are having this afternoon is sometimes relegated in importance in our budgetary debates.

Sport is seldom mentioned in budgetary debates, if mentioned at all, as an individual budget item or heading.

Above all – and this will be my final point – we must leave to one side a budgetary debate characterised by an increase in national self-interest.

I am of the opinion that it is a sound approach. It constitutes a move towards greater transparency and hence an improvement in the budgetary debate.

Recent budgetary debates have turned into a humiliating exercise in which we end up discussing, one by one, who is and is not a net contributor.

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, what we are discussing now is an encouraging beginning to a long day, rich in budgetary debates.

When the time comes, we will need to provide it with appropriate financial resources, and the forthcoming budgetary debate should enable us to be more specific about this plan.

We hope that during the budgetary debate this Parliament will be able to re-establish the kind of sums that Latin America deserves.

We now have a minister who will sit here for three hours or so in a budgetary debate, as we had last year, which says a lot about the Council.

Despite the efforts of the new Member States, which were prepared to make many concessions during the Summit, the budgetary debate did not result in unqualified success.

Mijatović wished to copy British budgetary debates but the Serbian parliament consisting mostly of peasant MPs did not quite understand this effort.

It seems to me that we ought to change these procedures relating to a so-called budgetary debate, because it is absurd to restrict each committee to one minute’s speaking time.

However, during our previous budgetary debate, the Council made a huge effort to sit here for four hours solidly, so I do not think we will take offence on this occasion.

Much of the 2012 Presidential campaign focused on job creation as a first priority, but the fiscal cliff and other budgetary debates took precedence in 2012 and early 2013.

The debate must take place in this House, with the involvement of national parliaments, so that they feel part of European decisions with consequences for budgetary debates in each country.

Firstly, for quite unconnected reasons, the fact is that in last year's budgetary debate it was decided to stop the budgetary line concerned specifically with urgent aid in cases of catastrophe.

The fate of that proposal in the budgetary debate just getting under way in Congress is uncertain, but if it is enacted it would probably have a bigger impact here than anywhere else.

It is important that the era for change which is enlargement should not be reduced to a budgetary debate about small change or large change, however one may perceive that to be.