1 Amendments of Sabine LÖSING related to 2012/2092(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, while the EU budget cannot be exempted from budget discipline that affects all national budgets, is of the opinion that the efforts to rationalize external relations budget should primarily take the form of a search for synergies, and control of increases or, if necessary, scaling down of programs without European added-value; stresses, however, that EU's vital foreign policy interests shall not be jeopardised, which are poverty eradication, sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals, arms-control, NPT- regime and nuclear disarmament, peaceful resolution of conflicts, favouring balanced economic relations, fair trade and fair distribution of the world resources and wealth to ensure stability and prosperity in the Union and the world;