If the Commission maintains or, should I say, takes the risk of maintaining, the level of financial resources of the EU at 1.24% of the Community’ s gross national product until 2013, it would be making a decisive investment in the European policy of solidarity, as the only means of achieving the homogenous growth of the entire EU, in the wake of the Lisbon strategy.
Vi skal også gøre, hvad vi kan for at sikre, at forslaget fra de seks rigeste medlemsstater - om at reducere Fællesskabets budget fra 1,24% til 1% af Europas BNP - ikke får lov at triumfere.