Traduction de «croissance budgétaire réelle zéro » (Français → Anglais) :

The ESS is facing a major challenge: how to provide high-quality European statistics to satisfy increasing needs for statistics in a context of substantially reduced budgets of Member States and a zero-growth human resource policy at the Commission and in Member States which, for some bodies, will result in a real reduction in human resources.

Takes the view that the Stability and Growth Pact proved not to be efficient enough in coordinating fiscal policies, that its reliance on individual countries' policies raised problems with enforcement and fairness of information, that it failed to make the link with employment levels and job creation in such a way as to generate a properly balanced economic policy mix, and that it also failed to address the issues of real convergence, competitiveness and creation of euro zone synergies; takes the view, therefore, that there is a need for further coordination among Member States, and the euro zone economies in particular, in order to st ...[+++]rengthen the economic balance in the euro zone;

Yet signs of progress are visible, such as progress towards democracy, higher growth rates over the last three years (up to 4.5% on average in 2004, 6% excluding Nigeria and South Africa), real growth per capita (2%), and improving fiscal balances.

5. Urges the Member States to draw up their budgets on the basis of reasonable assumptions concerning economic growth and to refrain from making use of one-off measures which artificially deflate the budget deficit and distort perceptions of the real budgetary situation;

3. Urges the Member States to draw up their budgets on the basis of reasonable assumptions concerning economic growth and to refrain from making use of one-off measures which artificially deflate the budget deficit and distort perceptions of the real budgetary situation;

Building on better than expected budgetary results in 2000 and on a high real output growth scenario, the stability programme projects the general government balance to turn into a surplus of 0.5% of GDP in 2001 and 1.5% of GDP in 2002.