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dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.4.3-100"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-1012
lpv:speaker	lp:Eriksson, Frahm, Gahrton, Herman Schmid, Schörling and Sjöstedt (GUE-NGL )2
lpv:translated text	"We have voted against the Haug report. We see the report in terms of a desire on the part of the Committee on Budgets to furnish the European Union with its own right of taxation. This is in conflict with the general opinion prevalent within the EU and runs counter to the will of the Member States. We understand this as another attempt by the European Parliament, characterised as it is by federalist sentiment, to take further powers away from the Member States. In connection with Agenda 2000 and in the course of the Berlin Summit, the EU had the chance to implement a reform which would have distributed the financial burdens properly and fairly. However, this chance was missed by the EU, which did not wish to carry out adequate and thorough reforms of agricultural policy and of the contributions to the structural funds. These are a burden upon most of the expenditure under the EU’s budget. To introduce “autonomous own resources” as the Committee on Budgets wishes to, would also require the EU to establish its own tax administration. This week, the Court of Auditors has reported that at least 40 billion disappeared from the budget last year. In light of this, it appears extraordinarily provocative to propose that the EU be given its own right of taxation."@en1

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