Vi håber, at dette budget, som ordføreren forudser meget interesse ting med, og som er det første af de syv budgetter vedrørende de finansielle overslag, bliver ændret, og at der kan ske fremskridt med hensyn til budgetproceduren, f.eks. ved det første forlig, og især, hr. formand, med hensyn til de parlamentariske udvalgs prioritering af fællesskabsprogrammerne.
The Council must demonstrate that it believes in its own commitments: firstly, it should be attending this debate – though I see that it has not had time to remain; secondly, the Commission must be capable of convincing a very wary Parliament that it is going to be able to maintain an acceptable level of spending in order to maintain and fund the Community’ s programmes; and thirdly, it is also going to be necessary for Parliament to be very vigilant in terms of the quality of spending and the Council ’ s attitude to the size of the budget.