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"Candidate countries are keen to call attention to the way in which the city of Brussels treats its urban effluent and thereby conclude that environmental rules only apply on paper and not in practice. Of the 527 agglomerations comprising more than 150 000 inhabitants, 94 discharge their effluent unprocessed into the environment and 134 others provide insufficient information. More than 43% are therefore in default. The data for the reference date in 1998 is not yet available, and it is even unknown how many infringement procedures are pending at the European Court of Justice. All of this confirms that the EU is mainly an economic community which sets large multinational companies free from national rules that hinder their operations. Other matters receive far less attention, and useful rules remain hollow phrases. In this case, it is not irresponsible companies that are to blame but failing government. It is important, however, to identify the cause of this failure.
Large cities have many problems and receive far too little funding from their national governments, which economise with a view to reducing taxes and enhancing the profitability of industry and the stability of the euro. This is why these cities fall into disrepair and are unable to carry out the necessary renovation works. This too could be clarified if we were to back the rapporteur in her just endeavours to secure openness."@en1
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