At a time when public budgets are limited, there can be no doubt as to their importance for the European economy.

It is crucial to involve the private sector in this effort, since we can clearly see that public budgets are not enough.

We have to finance the implementation of these directives from our limited public budgets.

Reducing costs is not an end in itself because it may lead to a constant undermining of public budgets.

Compared with those predicted for the Member States' public budgets, this rate of increase is lower than the average.

I do not need to emphasise the kind of impact that this provision would have on already strained public budgets.

Secondly, we must pursue the goal of easing the pressure on public budgets.

Another problem is the deepening distress of public budgets.

We must continue to strive to reduce the present deficits and to balance public budgets at the earliest opportunity.

Resources need to be found from within public budgets, and we need to have the courage to take such costly political decisions.

Hence public budgets have increased and that is enabling the region to address the risks of social equality, which are still significant.

Since such infants are likely to be physically or mentally handicapped, they will burden public budgets for most of their lives.

As with all public budgets, the EU's budget is also at risk of maladministration.

Public budgets are in trouble because revenues plummeted over the last two years of the Great Recession.

Particularly important is the production of a guide describing the tools and methods for introducing the gender perspective into public budgets.

Because we in Europe cover the costs from public budgets we want to have a say in pricing levels.

That means that we will face a major pressure on public budgets in future, because our pension systems are at risk of being underfunded.

Reciprocal access to both sides' procurement markets would not only mean savings for public budgets but also provide huge business opportunities.

We now already have major social problems and major social costs to find from the public budgets, which is a problem for many Member States.

If public budgets are not the main explanation behind large external deficits, why should they bear the brunt of downsizing them?

Prior to the introduction of the euro, public budgets tended to be the preserve of experts.

We are debating the 2011 budget at a time when we are consolidating public budgets.

The need to consolidate public budgets means that we need to be more innovative and seek to achieve a greater impact from the available funding.

Then it was Mr. Kalikow's turn, and anyone who knows anything about public budgets could have suggested a plausible approach for him.

The ageing society places a burden on public budgets, with social benefits to be paid, and the Lisbon Strategy has undertaken to reduce these.