Hr. formand, nu, hvor vi er nået frem til den endelige beslutning om EU 's budget for 2001, kan vi konstatere, at vi bag os har en stadig kamp for at klare budgettet inden for de rammer, som blev skitseret, da budgetplanen blev vedtaget i Berlin i marts 1999.
Mr President, now that we have arrived at the final decision on the EU 's Budget for 2001, we can say that we have come through a year of constant struggle to produce the Budget successfully within the framework devised when the financial perspective was adopted in Berlin in March 1999.