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"Mr President, we already know that billions in taxpayers’ money was wasted in financing the failed Lisbon Agenda, but the EU institutions will never admit their responsibility for helping to create this crisis. Instead, they are asking for more money from EU citizens to finance another failure to come: the 2020 Agenda. This is treating EU citizens as fools. When will this Parliament realise that stimulating growth and jobs requires much less red tape and much less pointless legislation? Why can this Parliament not admit that growth-targeted spending would be best directed at Member State level?
Year after year, this Parliament is happy to put more taxpayers’ money in the hands of the Commission, an institution which – as the auditors tell us – is unable to ensure the proper use of EU funding. Of course, the Commission never runs a deficit, and it never will, because it can always go back to the Member States and tax them more to balance its books.
If this House refuses to show common sense and responsibility, it will be the architect of its own downfall. I, for one, am calling on the British Government to reduce its contribution to the 2013 EU budget by 10% in comparison with this year’s contribution. However, when it comes to the UK coalition government, I will not be holding my breath."@en1
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