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"Madam President, firstly, I want to say that the Commission is to be congratulated on rejecting a recent proposal by the WHO that we should ban the sale of duty-free alcohol and spirits. If this was accepted, it would have cost EUR 2 billion to the European economy and hundreds of jobs across the Union. It was a notion based on moralistic preaching rather than on scientific evidence by the WHO and, thankfully, it was rejected by the Commission. The second point I want to make is that the banks were primarily responsible for many of the ills which we are seeing nowadays, but what happened? A new theory came into being – they were too big to fail. I think, rather than be too big to fail, many of them are too big for their own boots. That is seen in the immoral salaries that some of them are getting and the grotesque bonuses they are also getting. No banker should be getting more than the Prime Minister of his country, and we should work towards…"@en1
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