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"en.20120329.36.4-224-000"2
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"Madam President, in 2012, the UK contribution to the EU budget will be just over EUR 19 billion according to the Treasury’s Pink Book. To put that figure in context, all of the savings that we have made in our domestic spending – changes in child benefit, changes in housing benefit, the cut in local government grants – all of those things put together come to 8.6 billion. In other words, all of our austerity measures have saved only a third of our contributions to the EU budget. And where is that money going? If anyone is watching me on EuroparlTV at the moment, they may be the single most subsidised square yard in discovered space. EuroparlTV costs EUR 67 000 per hour of emission and attracts at peak 900 viewers. Or maybe some of the money is going to the House of European History at the cost of GBP 131 million. Maybe it is going on the 6.6 million of entertainment allowances that the Commission had last year.
It cannot be morally right, and it is surely economically indefensible at a time when all 27 Member States are struggling to make administrative savings, that every euro they spend is sent here to be squandered by the Brussels authorities."@en1
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