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"Every year, the European Parliament evaluates the regularity of the European Union’s revenues and expenditure. Unfortunately, the report for 2010 shows that the situation has worsened. In 2010, the total financial impact of irregularities was EUR 2 193 million, compared with EUR 1 757 million in the previous year. A worrying trend is the reduction in revenues, especially due to VAT losses, which account, on average, for 12% of the losses, and lost customs duties. In my opinion, we must introduce effective countermeasures, as this reduces the actual amount of funds available for Member States to spend. I am in favour of an increase in the EU budget, and expenditure should be directed mainly at achieving greater equality in standards of living. This is particularly important for countries such as Poland, which, admittedly, is developing ever faster, but which still needs enormous efforts and resources to reach the EU average. I would therefore like to emphasise that any irregularities tolerated in the generation of the EU’s joint revenues are, in fact, to the detriment of those countries that entered the Union in recent years."@en1
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