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"en.20110608.20.3-520-000"2
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"I will be supporting an amendment in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) report which limits Member State EU contributions to the rate of inflation (currently 3.2%) or below, as suggested by the Heads of State of the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands and Finland. The MMF Garriga Report seeks to increase funding from Member States for the period 2014-2020 by 5%, and this I cannot support at a time when extreme adversity is being experienced in the UK from the government’s dangerous and socially divisive austerity measures. I do support many of the measures promoted in the report and in the Green’s amendments, particularly around the Green New Deal, the end of national rebates and Own Resources for the EU, and am mindful that part of the above-inflation increase is needed to meet obligations under the Lisbon Treaty. There are, however, many expensive budget lines remaining in the MFF that shouldn’t be supported, and I’m thinking of the EUR 6.6 billion to be spent on nuclear fusion as just one example. My argument is that if there isn’t enough funding after inflation-only increases in Member State contributions, ways should be found to re-allocate budget lines to meet any shortfalls."@en1
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