European Parliament
Pedro Guerreiro (GUE/NGL ),
in writing
(PT)
The proposals for the financial perspective 2007-2013 that we have been putting forward since the outset of negotiations are as follows:
- ensure a Community budget that, on the basis of national contributions commensurate with the relative wealth of each country (based on GNI), will have a redistributive role. Its priorities will be to bring the levels of economic development of the different countries closer together and to improve the living conditions of their workers and citizens.
- a root and branch overhaul of the common agricultural policy, with the aim of safeguarding each country’s right to food sovereignty and safety, by means of introducing modulation and a ceiling for agricultural aid, and delivering fair redistribution of agricultural aid among farmers, types of production and countries.
- an end to the conditionality of the Cohesion Fund to the Stability and Growth Pact and the non-application of the N+2 (or 3) rule to this Fund or to the Structural Fund.
- Complete compensation for regions that will suffer from the so-called statistical effect, such as the Algarve.
- Portugal not losing Community funding and the creation of a specific programme for modernising the Portuguese economy in the context of enlargement.
The Community framework that has been adopted runs counter to these objectives and needs.
Hence our rejection.

