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"Like so much that we see in this Chamber, the objectives of this programme are well-meant.
Yet I doubt that it will achieve much practical effect. The proposed budget of EUR 650 million is both too much and too little: too much because such a sum, wisely used, could potentially achieve some good; too little because at about EUR 1.50 for each EU citizen, it cannot make the broad-scale changes that are envisaged. Most of the money will go into administration, allocation and assessment, and precious little to getting results.
When will we ever learn? Over and over again we see well-meaning programmes like this that fail to deliver. Yet we keep trying again. It is a triumph of hope over experience.
Yet here we are, with yet another centralised attempt to set the world to rights. Let’s be brutally honest. The main effect of this measure will be to make us in this House feel that we have ‘done Something’. It will give us a glow of self-righteousness. But it will pass unnoticed amongst those it is intended to help.
We are fiddling while Rome burns. Or perhaps I should say fiddling while the Treaty of Rome burns."@en1
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