Mr. Günther Oettinger:

My obligation is to develop a reliable and balanced proposal. In the end, it is not the Commission's budget, it is our citizens' budget. The worst case scenario would be to have no budget. Our farmers and our researchers would never accept and understand that we are not ready to come to a conclusion. The winner would be an autocrat in Ankara, an autocrat in Moscow, and autocrats tweeting in Washington DC. It is about good governance.