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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:System of own resources2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991116.2.2-022"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-16-Speech-2-0232
lpv:speaker	lp:Florence Kuntz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-03-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-03-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Haug Report, which is before this House, presents an eminently political problem, the problem of financing the Union by means of its own resources. In other times, French leaders would not have hesitated before adopting the policy of the empty chair on such a matter. Today, unfortunately, our country is the great loser of the Berlin Summit where the Fifteen agreed upon the review of the Union’s system of own resources. In Berlin, we effectively acknowledged the principle according to which some rich countries, those from the northern part of the Union, were paying too much, hence the revised weighting of Member States’ financing shares, resulting in the increased participation of France to the tune of several billion francs. It is, moreover, obvious that limiting the participation of some Member States in financing the UK rebate will have the effect of increasing the contribution of the others. As far as this corrective mechanism in favour of the United Kingdom is concerned, we obviously share the opinion of the Haug Report, which proposes that this privilege is gradually phased out, whereas the Commission is proposing only technical adjustments to the reform. We are opposed to the Haug Report, however, when it proposes to gradually reduce the system’s dependence on Member States’ contributions and to achieve financial autonomy in the long term. Financial autonomy, fiscal autonomy, is this not all leading up to the introduction of a European tax by the back door? At any event, financial autonomy of this type is still in line with that same rationale which we are clearly against. Ever greater integration, ever greater federalism within Europe, always to the detriment of nation states, eliminating their last remaining area of sovereignty, their fiscal sovereignty. We cannot accept this and we shall be voting against this report."@en1

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