Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-10-23-Speech-2-223-312"
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"We have already seen how the economic crisis has helped to accelerate the process of European integration. I agree with Mr Dehaene’s report, which touches on a cornerstone of European integration, in other words, a genuine own resource system and responsibility for taxation. I have no doubt that the current system of contributions by the national governments is an out-dated concept given the sort of integration taking place in the areas of tax regulation and general policies. This sort of asymmetry points to an anachronism, and the report provides useful proposals for overcoming it. In particular, increased transparency and reduced burdens on the Member States may well make up for the apparent loss of sovereignty in the performance of activities that are in fact more statistical than administrative. Following this logic, the assumption of a greater burden by the Commission seems justified. If the provisions of the report are adopted they will help to create a widespread European awareness of a common future, making many of the questions that are today the object of heated debate on sovereignty and governance a thing of the past."@en1
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