Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources
3:15 pm
Mr. Günther Oettinger:
Please fly to Den Haag. The Senator should ask her colleagues in the Netherlands or Malta. I have to fight to get a decision by unanimity, it is not so easy. One needs maturity here; I need unanimity. To think that with the UK leaving that there will be no cut anywhere is a mission impossible. I do not want to reduce the amount of money for Erasmus+ or for Horizon. I want to speak about acceptable cuts, meaning from minus 5% up to minus 10% in cohesion and maybe in CAP. It is an open debate.