Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-07-05-Speech-4-076"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010705.4.4-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-07-05-Speech-4-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Claude Martinez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Front national (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"By multiplying free trade areas, abandoning customs duties in a system of generalised unilateral preferences, making gifts of customs duties to the 49 least advanced countries, under the pretext of welcoming everything ‘except weapons’ and above all submitting to the demands of the masters of the empire, from the GATT to the WTO, the European Commission has sawn off the financial branch the European budget used to hang upon – customs duties, which represented over 55% of Community resources in the 1960s, and only represent 14% of them now. In addition, with the abandonment of Community agricultural preference, the common agricultural levy on imports of agricultural products from the Commonwealth, Central America and elsewhere, which protected it, is on the way out. It only produces about 2% of Community resources now. So much so that only 17% of the European budget’s resources now comes from customs duties and that agricultural levy. As these two first historical resources are the only ones specifically belonging to the Community and able to make it financially independent of the Member States, their decline means the Community budget depends on payments from the Member States. That is illustrated by the size of the GNP levy, the fourth historical resource of the European budget, which has only been in existence since 1988. This constantly increasing levy already provides more than 45% of Community resources and in fact boils down to classic contributions by governments to finance an international organisation. We have thus arrived at the astonishing situation where the European Commission, the beating heart of federal integration, has pursued a world customs policy which has reduced the Union to financing itself like any other intergovernmental organisation under entirely intergovernmental international law."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker was cut off pursuant to Rule 137 of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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