Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-08-Speech-3-086-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
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 (continuation of debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110608.5.3-086-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-06-08-Speech-3-087-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Engel2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Parti chrétien social luxembourgeois (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2011-12-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the 500 million citizens of the European Union currently make up over 8% of the world’s population. By 2050, that figure will be 5% or 6%. In 2100, we will make up 3% of that population. This throng of Europeans continues to maintain, largely through national budgets, 2 000 embassies, 27 armies, 50 joint forces and more. I believe China is currently employing extra deputy ministers just to receive all the mighty European ministers who arrive to petition Beijing for favours and bilateral agreements. All of this is starting to look ridiculous on the world stage. Dividing up 8% of the world’s population between 30 sovereign budgetary policies is madness. Essentially, that sovereignty remains absolute. Europe manages 2.5% or one-fortieth of total budgetary expenditure in Europe. The Member States’ contributions make up one-fortieth of their national spending. Yet apparently, even that is too much. Let us now consider the question of own resources or maybe another time. Let us stop carping about the 2.5% of public spending with which we are supposed to maintain the whole apparatus required to implement the 2020 strategy and to fulfil all the responsibilities accorded to us under the Treaty of Lisbon. We did not devise the strategy and competences: it was the Member States who did that. In view of these realities, Mr Garriga Polledo’s report is modest. Yet there are those who want to restrict us yet further and who would deem the report ambitious. That is why this House should adopt the report."@en1
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