European Parliament
Goudin, Lundgren and Wohlin (IND/DEM ),
in writing.
(SV)
We support the idea of having a flexibility instrument in the EU budget in order to obtain a budgeting margin for purely unforeseen expenditure. The objectives must then be dealt with under separate arrangements. They may in themselves be of quite different kinds.
For example, the Peace II programme is something justified in terms of its being an internal matter for the EU, while we are opposed to the EU’s being involved, as an organisation, in funding the reconstruction of Iraq. The Member States themselves must decide about such efforts in accordance with democratic decisions in each of those States.

