preliminary draft budget

What then are the key figures for the 2004 preliminary draft budget?

I would like to go over the key figures of the Commission’s preliminary draft budget once again.

The preliminary draft budget also contains a new focus on foreign policy.

The same assessment was provided last year in the preliminary draft budget for 2004.

The presentation of the preliminary draft budget for the financial year 2003 is closed.

In fact, the preliminary draft budget already provides for a reserve.

Support for youth, educational and cultural programmes has also been built into the preliminary draft budget.

Let me say loud and clear that, in the preliminary draft budget, the Commission has given us no support.

However, it is always a little difficult at this stage to be too specific until we have the Commission' s preliminary draft budget.

At its first reading, the Council retained the figures in the preliminary draft budget.

Frankly, in this situation I would prefer to go back to the preliminary draft budget.

The next item should be the presentation by the Commission of the preliminary draft budget for 2001.

I wonder whether she has had a chance to look at the preliminary draft budget to see what impact that might have on her ambitions?

I would like, first of all, to thank Parliament for restoring the preliminary draft budget in many areas.

It is on this basis that the Commission will adopt the preliminary draft budget for 2009.

It can always be augmented in future preliminary draft budgets.

That is why 'back to the preliminary draft budget' is the standard response.

That is a proposal for the preliminary draft budget.

I believe that the budget in the preliminary draft budget has been much improved.

To my mind, the preliminary draft budget, as it now stands, takes no account of Parliament' s priorities.

Nobody wants to do that, and we will of course take that into account in the preliminary draft Budget.

We assess the preliminary draft budget with which the Commission has presented us and find much in it to criticise.

The Commission has no reason at this stage to depart from the estimates made in its preliminary draft budget.

As it is the first preliminary draft budget which I have presented, allow me to comment on the procedure and the timing.

We trust that there will not be a request of this kind from the Commission when the preliminary draft budget for 2002 is submitted.