Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-28-Speech-3-133-000"
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"en.20110928.19.3-133-000"2
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"Mr President, since the financial crisis hit, the EU has responded with more spending and more debt. It has emptied the treasuries, it has exhausted its credit, it has turned the ECB into a bad bank and now where does it go for funds? Well, the financial transaction tax.
Let us leave aside for a second the idea that we can impose such a tax in isolation in Europe; let us leave aside the bankers having to pass on the cost to their customers. Ask ourselves and say where do most financial transactions in the EU take place? They take place in the city of London. In other words, yet again Britain is being sent the bill in order to prop up a currency which we declined to join. This has been the unhappy story of our association with the EU these past four decades. It is just like the common fisheries policy. We are expected to put more into the common pot from which others will be drawing and those are the two bookends. This has a somewhat manic fin-de-siècle feel about it, these unconstrained ambitions of so many European leaders expecting the peoples to pay, again and again. ‘There be many Caesars, ere such another Julius’ wrote Shakespeare in
‘Britain is a world by itself and we will nothing pay for wearing our own noses’."@en1
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