debate on budget

I say this because the original idea was not to hold this debate on budget guidelines.

Past summit meetings, the last three especially, were marked by sharp debates on budgets and farm prices.

Last week escape finally seemed possible after eight full months of debate on budget and taxes in the longest legislative session in modern Connecticut history.

The more the text we approve results in uniform procedures, common shared parameters and a joint debate on budget projections, the more significant it will be.

He would require public debate on budget proposals and prevent the all-night sessions that have traditionally enabled the Legislature to pass bills without public scrutiny.

(DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased that we are holding so timely a debate on budget implementation so early in the year.

The current debate on budget cuts in mental health care comes when the state has been making slow progress in creating alternatives to homelessness and hospitalization for the mentally ill.

"I think the surplus will get larger, and we will enter into what will effectively be the most important debate on budget priorities in a generation," Mr. Greenstein said.

I congratulate Mr Prodi on the vision he has shown on opening this debate on strategic priorities. The debate should be linked to the debate on budget guidelines for 2004.

Debate on budget bills, stalled since early March, is expected to end by the end of June with cooperation between Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata's minority coalition government and opposition parties.

Therefore, I propose that, in future, the Court of Auditors does indeed attend debates on budgets and on budgetary control, and I should like the European Commission to tell me how it means to approach this challenge.

I feel that this is not a debate on budget volume, but rather on the supremacy of the Community method, and I think that those who have focused this debate on efforts to reduce the Union budget have made a mistake.