Translation of "Einsparungen vorzunehmen" in English

Even if budgetary problems were your main concern, though, there are other ways of achieving savings.

For the 2011 budget, some attempts at making these savings have been made.

You know, it is an amazing thing that some people in this House are more concerned about New Zealand farmers than they are about the Community farmers.

For 1988, the Government decides to make additional expenditure cuts in order to compensate for some overruns of appropriations.

All possible effort must be directed towards savings and the better use of existing parliamentary resources.

In the current economic, financial and social climate, the budgetary procedure guidelines for 2012 present a real challenge, especially because the European Union's institutions are being forced to make considerable savings but, at the same time, they need to have sufficient resources to enable them to carry out their activities with the highest level of professionalism and efficiency.

I am also very much in favour of fiscal consolidation, as this would naturally allow us to make the requisite savings.

We keep hearing calls for more revenue for the European Union, at the same time as all other levels of administration are having to make cuts.

Mr President, the European Parliament has not taken the opportunity offered by the Council, in its draft budget, to make economies and to vote for the first time for a budget which is not larger than for the previous year.

As the rapporteur of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) for this budget, I believe that budgetary discipline and trying to make savings is necessary now more than ever, throughout its implementation.

On the other hand, the economic crisis has caused many Member States to find ways of economising.

But if we are to remain credible, we should also say where we are prepared to economise, which in my view should primarily be in relation to the disputed KEDO project.

Consequently, it had no alternative but to develop illegal secondary economies, much to the discomfiture of the Palestinians.

It may at times, however, be easier for the large institutions than for the small ones to make savings.

The Council’s draft Budget represents a tentative attempt at making economies in order to fund expenditure on Iraq, rather than on a truly ongoing vision of Europe’s external action.

I do not believe that climate change will never happen and that there is no need to economise.

We have found ways of reprioritising under the Commission’s proposal and of making savings in relation to the latter.

Firstly, I would like to say something about the backlog of payments which each year causes headaches as a result of the Council' s eagerness to cut payment appropriations, with the aim of obtaining this absurd and false saving, which looks very good on the national balance sheet, but which in reality only produces what we call a burden for the future, because it is clear that what has been committed to - commitments entered into - in previous financial years has to be fulfilled.

To this, we can add that certain institutions have been able to expedite their payments this year and have thus brought about the possibility of savings on the 2005 budget.

Trimming the deficit is now the government's biggest challenge, yet it consistently fails even to make the cuts promised in past budgets.

The EU institutions were under a lot of pressure to make savings and reduce staff by 1% per annum over the coming five years.

The Council had asked for reports (a) and (b) with a view to saving money.

It is thus possible to better utilize transmission and reception equipment, i.e. undertake savings, upon retention of the advantages of multiple coverage.

Moreover, in order to maximize the use of its own limited resources, the Office has been obliged to make economies wherever possible in order to find the capacity for dealing with urgent additional requirements.