MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
11.1.2005
by Sérgio Ribeiro, Helmuth Markov, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides and Ilda Figueiredo
on the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013
B6‑0065/2005
Motion for a European Parliament resolution on the Financial Perspective for 2007‑2013
The European Parliament,
– whereas economic and social disparities have increased in the enlarged EU and will continue to rise with the next enlargements,
– whereas the Commission proposal for the next financial and political multiannual framework is based on the as yet unratified European Constitution and fixes a real average annual expenditure of 1.09% of Community GNI, below the 1.10% average of Agenda 2000,
– having regard to Rule 113 of its Rules of Procedure,
1. Considers the Commission proposal for the next Financial Perspective to be profoundly inadequate as a response to the social, economic and environmental challenges facing the enlarged EU and as a means of addressing its cohesion needs and high levels of unemployment, poverty and income inequality;
2. Opposes the strategy of the signatories of the so-called ‘Letter of the Six’ which consists in restricting the debate on the next Financial Perspective by proposing to keep the budget at a maximum 1% of Community GNI;
3. Rejects the setting of annual average expenditure under the next Financial Perspective at a compromise level between the Commission proposal and the proposal of the signatories of the ‘Letter of the Six’;
4. Opposes the focus of the Commission proposal on competitiveness, security and defence, rather than on cohesion, sustainable development and cooperation; opposes the freezing of appropriations for the social and employment programmes;
5. Supports a duration of seven years for the next Financial Perspective, as proposed by the Commission.