determination to win a fair and just settlement of the
problem.
14. Those agreements are now being put into effect.
We are in the final stages of negotiating a text which
will guarantee the effective application of the
principles of budget discipline agreed at
Fontainebleau.
At last we shall see the principles of
sound financial management which we apply in our
domestic economy operating effectively in the
Community.
15. At the same time, and despite predictions from the
benches opposite, our refunds for 1983 have been
released and paid.
16. These achievements have cleared the way for
further progress. Budget discipline represents a major
step forward. We are now working to ensure that it is
matched by firm control of agricultural surpluses,
implemented through a rigorous price policy. In doing
so, we recognise that radical change cannot be achieved
overnight. So we shall make sure that our contribution
to the Community's supplementary budget for 1984 is the
absolute minimum. Not a penny more than is necessary
to meet the Community's inescapable financial
obligations, and to safeguard payments to British
farmers.
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