In his new 2007 budget, one of the programs targeted is Gear Up.
If the five per cent proposed rise was passed, it would see the EU budget top one trillion euros.
Allow me a segue into tomorrow's budget and one key issue: Regional Pay.
Co-decision on the EU budget is one of the innovations in the Lisbon Treaty, which took effect last December.
"Germany categorically doesn't want a European tax" where revenues would flow into the EU's own budget, one senior European official said.
Concluding an often stormy debate, Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander described the Budget as one "for the many, not the few".
If they agree to cut the budget to one point then almost immediately comes the demand that yet more must be done.
The budget was one of his last chances to burnish his legacy.
Since the pay bill makes up about two-thirds of the total NHS budget, one obvious strategy is to clamp down on wage costs.
Summing up for the opposition, shadow treasury minister Rachel Reeves condemned the Budget as one under which "millions would pay more while millionaires pay less".
Earlier this year the two overruled other parties and agreed on a cost-cutting budget, one of many instances in which, in a manner new to Belfast, they have reached compromise arrangements.
"Five years ago the authority decided to commit the equivalent of its entire annual budget to one project, a project located 3, 500ft up at the top of a mountain, " said Mr Roberts.
We've been following the saga of the extra-budget Matrix One tablet almost since its birth, and there's been mounting concerns as the company (or rather its parent, Direct Merchandise Marketing) went silent not long after reporting a customs freeze on shipments.
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One of the proposals that has received attention in Washington talking head discussions about how a compromise might be reached between Democrats and Republicans on the fiscal cliff and federal budget is one that argues for cutting back or eliminating the tax break the 401(k) deduction.
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Whether a Cuomo-like leader can suss out the core concerns of a sufficient number of legislators to meet the looming deadline in Minnesota with a budget no one likes but everyone can live with is the question that should be front and center in the minds of both political parties.
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On that last point, let me just point out that Secretary Albright often says that our whole diplomatic budget is only about one percent of the budget.
Budget cuts are one of the biggest reasons that the economy is doing so badly.
Yet there is one budget-busting provision that hasn't received the attention it deserves: a new long-term care entitlement.
"That is a huge sum of money for one budget cycle, " Spratt says.
Yet if California's budget passes, one in eight Americans will suffer a mood-lowering rise in their sales and income taxes.
Already his budget plan is one of the defining documents of that movement, and thrust him to the forefront of it.
Easy, efficient and effective online fundraising is a must to raise money for schools that are continually facing one budget crisis after another.
Mr. Hague left Parliament during the government's budget statement, one of the key events in the parliamentary calendar, after he was notified of the attack.
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Answering critics who say too much money goes into EU coffers, she said the budget is only one-fiftieth of the member states' total combined national budgets.
Indeed, from the moment of joining, Britain was on course to become the biggest net contributor to the budget despite being one of the club's poorest members.
So eyebrows collided with hairlines when it was revealed that this was the budget for a one-minute TV commercial for Ericsson phones, starring heartthrob Andy Lau Tak-wah, 36.
The report also found there was "no evidence of clear thinking" on how a decision to save money in one budget area might have a knock-on effect on costs elsewhere.
The party's finance spokesperson Paul Davies AM asked Finance Minister Jane Hutt AM whether she was disappointed at the situation, given that last year's budget was also one for "jobs and growth".
But Democrats were nervous about repaying such a bond out of general taxes in a state careening from one budget deficit to another, whereas Republicans balked at making farmers and water districts pay.
The two parties agreed to eliminate the budget deficit within one parliament, to give state schools much more autonomy and to redesign the welfare system so that taking a job almost always pays.
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