Translation of "Senkung der ausgaben" in English

France had undertaken to reduce its public spending and to make tax cuts.

It helps schools and education institutes reduce the total expense for live media broadcasting.

It helps hotels and restaurants reduce the total expense for live media broadcasting.

It helps corporates reduce the total expense for multi-purpose live broadcasting.

A reduction in public spending that depresses economic activity also reduces the tax base.

This can be facilitated by cutting non-future oriented spending and closing tax loopholes.

Turning to Parliament's budget, she focused on staff policy, stressing the low number of women in key posts.

The turnaround in Germany’s public finances was due mostly to a reduction in expenditure.

Secondly, a reduction in the burden of taxation and social security premiums must be weighed against the public expenditure cuts that this will entail.

This cannot be done without reducing public spending and increasing working hours.

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On the other hand, I fear that the statements made by President Barroso and confirmed today by the Ecofin Council which, in principle, recommend controlling the budgets, will lead to a reduction in the spending allocated to low-cost housing offices and, in particular, to social housing.

But, no, Members of the Council - and this is, I might add, addressed above all to the gentlemen Members, and not so much to the female Members - it is a sham to let people believe that we are going to meet the current challenges solely by reducing expenditure, as that will most certainly plunge Europe into recession, that will most certainly destroy the social fabric, this social cohesion that is part of the EU's identity.

Fundamentally, the path that the Member States should choose is that of seriously reducing public spending: having tax systems that are competitive and making structural reforms so that we can achieve the necessary growth.

It ignores, or at least underestimates, the recessionary effect of a policy to reduce public spending being carried out simultaneously by most of the EU Member States, just as the EU was leaving behind the major recession that began in 2008.

I would remind him that in most of the Member States there are considerable pressures on governments to reduce levels of expenditure and they are often narrow areas of coverage.

After the scrutiny of national budget expenditure in the light of financial discipline and the stability pact, after the reduction of public expenditure on education, health, social security and regional development, the Member States are now being asked to exercise control over their budget resources, increasing those contributed by the public, working people, farmers and the self-employed, and to increase their pressures for the continuation of low pay settlements or even reduced wages by changing labour relations.

The report of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, while it contains some positive findings and puts forward relevant measures, accepts in its entirety the new social protection framework. It addresses existing problems of the financing of systems of social protection from the standpoint of their impact on the competitiveness of the European economy, thereby lending support to those who call for a reduction in spending and for partial privatisation of social provision.

The reduction of expenditure through budget allocations and the launch of education system reform as a priority are other measures which can be added to this.

While 29% of EU citizens and one third of Irish citizens did favour reducing public spending, two thirds of EU citizens and 57% of Irish citizens favoured boosting the economy first of all, or combining both approaches.

But I do not feel the same enthusiasm for his efforts to make savings by reducing compulsory expenditure and putting part of those savings into the reserve.

Yet in spite of the smallness of the budget that we spend there are, generally, quite a number of voices talking about reducing spending.

At a time when all Member States are committed to policies aimed at massively reducing public expenditure, they have a huge interest in identifying and tapping into potential savings that could be made by pooling some expenses, either between several States or between all 27 Member States.

In its Decision 2002/581/EC [6] on the tax measures for banks and banking foundations implemented by Italy, the Commission considered that tax exemptions aimed at restructuring sectors in difficulty by specifically favouring mergers and acquisitions should be regarded as aid aimed at reducing firms' current expenses and thus constituting operating aid.

This being so, we feel that the Committee on Industry's proposal to reduce expenditure on so-called priority 8 is not a move in the right direction.

The PPE-DE Group expresses regret that the majority of the European Parliament has rejected our group’s proposal concerning the reduction of the European Parliament’s expenditure below the traditional 20% of total administrative expenditure.

It should be borne in mind, however, that this positive process needs to be consolidated by a further cut in structural expenditure.

This type of policy entails the risk of downward pressure towards a structural reduction of public spending. This could lead to insufficient spending, given the solidarity mechanism we endorse.

In France, today, they are nothing more than a good mark, given for freezing public spending until 2007 and even reducing it – and this covers the budgets for young people, education, work, accommodation, transport, research – and for halving current health spending.