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Mr President, clearly this is a very idealistic wish, but in its work programme for 2013, the Commission should, first and foremost, have shown a great degree of modesty and here and there even thrown in a
. This is because the financial and economic crisis that is very specifically hitting our continent – harder than other continents – is a reality that consigns to the wastepaper bin all the fairy tales and self-congratulation about – and I quote – ‘organising the best performing economy in the world’, or the land of milk and honey, that the euro was supposed to create.
The fact that, in these circumstances, the Commission has let it be known that there will have to be a discernible increase in the EU budget in 2013 is unacceptable, in reality. All of us here know dozens or hundreds of examples of the total waste of taxpayers’ money by the European institutions themselves, quite apart from the fact that European money is, by definition, always less well spent. Examples include completely useless advisory bodies and agencies, policy areas where Europe actually offers no added value, a subsidy policy that is full of abuse, massive sums, crazy Europhile propaganda and, not to forget, the enormous amount of waste in European development aid policy.
Let the Commission at long last bring forward a work programme where we move towards the essence of things and where ballast is jettisoned, where we simply focus on creating circumstances that make possible economic growth and real competitiveness on the part of our European businesses."@en1
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