Än en gång har vi dock fått det preliminära budgetförslaget bara några dagar innan herr Jensen lade fram sitt betänkande om den årliga politiska strategin i kammaren. ###>– Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that the first thing we should talk about is the actual function of this debate on annual strategic priorities, since in principle the intention was to establish a proper communication with the European Commission in terms of setting its budgetary priorities.