Liberal leaders meet ahead of the European Council in Brussels to discuss their different positions over a potential agreement on the next the EU’s long-term budget for 2021-2027. Statements by Dacian CIOLOŞ (RE, RO), President of RE, Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice, and Xavier BETTEL, Luxembourgish Prime Minister.

ALDE leaders meet ahead of the European Council: arrivals and roundtable

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Title:  ALDE leaders meet ahead of the European Council: arrivals and roundtable

Arrival of Renew Europe's President Dacian Cioloș MEP (RE, RO)

SOUNDBITE (English), Dacian CIOLO&#350; (RE, RO), President of Renew Europe, We in the parliament, we want a strong budget with a strong chapter on own resources. And I want to congratulate Charles Michel, first of all, by the fact that he took over of this process. And secondly, he is looking to have a compromise not only with the Council, but also with the Parliament, because to be clear, we will have a European budget when the parliament will be onboard

SOUNDBITE (English), Dacian CIOLOŞ (RE, RO), President of Renew Europe, For our group Renew it is very important also the conditionality related to rule of law. What we have now on the table is not enough because he's not strong enough. And I think he's not a good idea to oppose new priorities to classical or traditional policies. We need a strong budget for CAP, for Common Agricultural Policy and cohesion. But of course, we have to modernise these policies.

Arrival of Marjan &Scaron;arec, Prime Minister of Slovenia

Arrival of Sophie Wilm&egrave;s, Prime Minister of Belgium

Arrival of Věra Jourov&aacute;, Vice-President of the European Commission, Values &amp; Transparency

Arrival of Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice

SOUNDBITE (English), Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice, Our hopes being that it will be possible to have a deal and make some progress. First of all, to invest in some modern activities for the European Union. I'm thinking about the Green deal and the artificial intelligence that we have launched yesterday with a consultation and I'm sure it's important to prove that it's possible to have a balanced situation was traditional policies, cohesion, agriculture, but to invest more in the modernization of Europe. And I pay also attention to the rule of law. And you know that there are some ideas proposed by the ommission to a conditionality between the budgetary situation and the rule of law.

Arrival of Andrej Babi&scaron;, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Arrival of Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg

SOUNDBITE (German), Xavier BETTEL, Luxembourgish Prime Minister, It is easy, do we have ambitions or do we not for Europe. I am not that we really are here now I have just asked the question. I don't like this attitude like Aunt Emma's shop, to say what I pay now, and what do I get out of it now, then we are in the wrong place. We should never forget what Europe brings us, even if it is not just money.

Arrival of J&uuml;ri Ratas, Prime Minister of Estonia

Arrival of Charles Michel, President of the European Council

Arrival of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic

Arrival Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Event date	20/02/2020
Reference:	I184545V
Format:	16:9 format
Copyright:	© European Union
copyrightYear:	2020

ALDE leaders meet ahead of the European Council: arrivals and roundtable

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