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"Mr President, I, too, regret that such scant attention is being paid to what is on the table here, but presumably for different reasons from most of you. You should actually rejoice that so few people are being made aware of what is being served up here once again. I am convinced that there is nowhere else in the world where people are so highly rewarded for such scant output as here in the European Parliament, whether they be Members or officials.
If you look more closely at the wasteful items, you will see a 60% growth in unforeseen expenditure and a cost explosion under the heading of fitting-out work on buildings from 17 million to 27 million, chiefly for architects’ and engineers’ fees. I am convinced that the rapporteur, who just nodded to me, is trying in good faith to keep the lid on this expenditure, but the large political groups and the majority in this House simply will not let him.
I do not know where you come from, nor do I know whether I shall succeed one day in rekindling the sentiments with which you perhaps first entered politics, that idealism which I would never question in anyone. But what are we doing here with one and a half billion? Every one of us surely knows that we would get by on half that amount. There is no desire to save money, however, but only to waste it. Then we have Mrs Gräßle saying that there should be more staff. The one who is probably the only severe critic of such profligacy here is not even given a single assistant! I tell you, if the public really knew what was going on here, they would not describe this as a democratic parliament but as a den of despotism and wastage."@en1
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