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"Who are they trying to kid with this budget? The people, clearly. All week, in the different debates, we would appear to have been dealing with necessary budgetary austerity, the reduction of sovereign debt, the contribution to be made by Member States, or rather their people, as they will pay increased taxes to benefit from reduced public services. Savings, and yet more savings. Except for the European Union, which wants a budget increase of 4.9%, and the European Parliament, which wants one of 5.2%. What do they want it for? Are they thinking of slashing the staffing of national civil services and then employing European civil servants? Or sprinkling some funds here and there to pretend to support employment, while pursuing policies that systematically destroy it? Or spending increasing amounts of money on communication to let it be known what a good idea Europe is, without ever advancing any serious explanation why? Why should they bother? The Member States are the ones who have to put their hands in their pockets. If this budget were to be adopted, the French contribution to the European budget would increase by EUR 1.3 billion. Where is this money going to come from? From the markets? You must be joking."@en1

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