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"Madam President, I welcome the commitment to use this budget to create jobs, growth and competitiveness, and I am particularly pleased to see the plans to invest in the single market, research and development and the environment. In that respect, the Commission is absolutely right, but in demanding a bigger budget to do so, it is absolutely wrong.
Mr Barroso, you chose to ignore the advice of five Heads of Government to freeze the budget, and you have declined to take those tough spending choices. You could have started by looking to impose the kind of austerity that every other national government is having to introduce at this time. You could have looked to cut waste. You could have been prepared to reassess and reform traditional priorities such as the common agricultural policy, and you might even have shown a willingness to tackle the issues raised by the Court of Auditors. You could have, but you did not. Instead, you are asking for a bigger budget and more tax-raising powers.
Mr Barroso, your instincts are right, but your actions are wrong. At this time of crisis you should have been setting an example for the rest of Europe, but by demanding a bigger budget you are demonstrating yet again that you are out of touch with the real economy, and out of touch with the real people."@en1
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