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dcterms:Date	"2011-06-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110608.3.3-020-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-06-08-Speech-3-021-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Marta Andreasen2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this House will, yet again, be accused of being out of touch with reality if it votes for a budget increase for the period 2014-2020. The reason given for this increase is the funding of the 2020 strategy, the one it is said will take us out of the crisis. Let us recall what happened with the Lisbon strategy; it was an epic failure. Taxpayers’ money was wasted and we should not repeat this mistake. The European Court of Auditors reports a significant percentage of irregularities affecting different policy areas, averaging 2.8% of the budget year after year, and we continue to flow funds to these regions. Projects have seen costs grow by up to three times their original estimates; others suffer delays while being superseded by better technology. Such is the case with Galileo, which has gone from a EUR 7.7 billion budget to a EUR 22.6 billion budget. More than 40% of the budget continues to be invested in the common agricultural policy, while only 4.7% of the workforce in Europe is engaged in this. The common fisheries policy – deemed a failure by Commissioner Damanaki – requires taxpayers to send EUR 1 billion to Brussels every year. The European External Action Service costs an extra 500 million each year and has not yet demonstrated its . All these examples should certainly justify not a budget increase but a budget reduction. I would like to think that the UK Government will take a stand, will say enough is enough, and call for a reduction. However it seems its coalition MEPs here favour a freeze. Taxpayers in the UK will not be thanking them."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 unknown; United Kingdom Independence Party (2009-07-14--2013-02-25)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; ECON (2009-10-07--2012-01-18)3 member; CONT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; BUDG (2009-10-07--2012-01-18)3 substitute; PETI (2010-03-08--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair_member_of_the_bureau; EFD (2011-05-23--2013-02-26)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Marta Andreasen,"1 "on behalf of the EFD Group."1 "raison d’être"1
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