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"Mr President, let us be honest. Negotiations on next year’s budget collapsed due to this Parliament’s ambition to acquire more power over the financing of the European Union, even though those powers are not provided for in the Lisbon Treaty. Such a demand – which translates into the proposal for a European tax – is, and has always been, unacceptable to us.
There have been threats to block funding to the Member States which refuse to agree to Parliament’s demands. Believe me, this would be the best news we could give to British and all European taxpayers – those who eventually fund both national contributions and a European tax. The auditors have refused to clear 92% of the European Union’s expenditure for 2009, and they estimate that at least GBP 6 billion should not have been paid out – a similar amount to that of last year, which has not yet been recovered. Blocking funding for those who used EU money irregularly would give the European Union enough resources to cover the noble causes that it claims it wants to support. At the same time, it would also give the European bureaucracy a certain degree of credibility. But this, I fear, will never happen."@en1
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