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"en.20101214.32.2-398"2
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"When we talk about cohesion in this Parliament, we talk about wish-lists. Our voters and we ourselves would like to live in a Europe where everyone is successful, no one is poor and there is no shortage of jobs. This report therefore rather resembles a list that a child might send to Father Christmas. The undisputable benefit of the report is that it includes perhaps everything we would like to see under the Christmas tree – if not this year then perhaps in 2020. There is only one problem here. All of these things cost money. Just as in a family with young children, we must decide on our priorities here as well. I cannot help thinking that this is the original role of this Parliament. The submitted report bears rather sad witness to the fact that not even the crisis will help us to perform this role any better.
We always have too many priorities. There is, however, only one budget in every family and gifts are purchased out of what remains once the family has been fed and clothed, and all of the housing and energy bills have been paid. The support we so magnanimously demand for this or that represents money taken from the pockets of taxpayers; mothers and fathers who decide every month what is their real priority and what will have to wait. We must not forget this."@en1
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