There is tension between commitments which must be made good, such as the funding of the restructuring of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets – on which, at last, we appear to have reached agreement – and new urgent measures, such as the need to fund the European Union’s participation in the Global Health Fund. It is a budget which, in my view, suffers throughout from the failure to revise the Financial Perspective established in 1999 at Berlin: a Financial Perspective which I believe is now inadequate and can only become politically more unacceptable in the coming years.
À mon avis, c'est un budget qui souffre d'un bout à l'autre de l'absence de révision des perspectives financières établies en 1999 à Berlin : des perspectives financières qui, selon moi, sont désormais inadéquates et dont la consistance politique ne pourra que s'affaiblir dans les années à venir.