Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-043"
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"Mr President, the Member States are in reality the EU’s paymasters without discretion. Whatever the arguments about the budgets, they pay and then argue about how it is all to be spent, which is not real budgeting in any sense that I understand. That is why the argument about the British rebate is about politics and not proper financial management. It is a continuing running sore, only because Mrs Thatcher was foolish enough to agree that it should be paid back by the Member States to what is now the fourth largest economy in the world and, since enlargement, it comes from some of the smallest and poorest in Europe. Had that been a deduction made in London and a net sum paid over, the argument would never have arisen.
Whatever the budget, the European project is stuttering, unsure what to do about the faltering eurozone and unable to come to terms with Anglo-Saxon enterprise that the countries of Asia have made their own. You have big problems and many of them are of your own design."@en1
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