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"Madam President, I wonder whether in the middle of the fifth century, Roman philosophers and governors debated whether the solution to their problems was not more government, and more rapacious provincial governors, and higher taxes, and more uniformity and harmonisation, and, if necessary, the importation of Goths to do the work which it was no longer profitable for Romans to do. If they did, the evidence has been lost, but perhaps one day, scavenging over the remains of western civilisation, some future archaeologist might stumble upon the speech which the President of the European Commission gave yesterday, where he decided that the solution to Europe’s debt problems was more of what had caused it: more debt, more centralisation, higher taxes.
Given the magnitude of events that we are debating, all of these further agglomerations of power by central government do seem extraordinary. We are consigning this part of the world to utter economic irrelevance while on our borders, more virile nations are growing and taking up the slack. Altogether elsewhere, vast herds of reindeer move across miles and miles of golden moss, silently and very fast."@en1
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