The Budgets Committee of the European Parliament is getting out the calculators and upping the proposed budget by 7.4 million euros for 2010. The reason? You've got to spend money to make money say certain MEPs. Agriculture and the economic revival plans

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It's now the turn of the Parliament   to lay its cards on the table.

After the Member States offered   120 billion euros for the 2010 budget,

it was the Budget Committee's turn   to present its figures.

They are higher   and amount to 127.4 billion euros.

We should use the EU budget   to boost the EU's GDP

We want to construct the future,   that's why we need more money.

The EU institutions   must adapt the budget

Today, we see there's an economic crisis   we have to adapt to.

2,4 billion euros would be allocated   to the economic recovery plan

to boost the economy   and deal with the crisis.

Recent events are also taken   into account in the 2010 budget.

The Budget Committee, on the proposal   of the Agricultural Committee, offers...

to finance innovative measures   and solve the crisis.

The Parliament's budgetary proposals   will have to be approved by all MEPs

in October, during   the plenary session in Strasbourg.

The final version of the budget   won't be known before December.