Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-082-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparations for the European Council meeting (22-23 November 2012) with particular reference to the Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121121.4.3-082-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-21-Speech-3-083-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrew Henry William Brons2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President … austerity programmes do anything but aggravate a country’s problems of unemployment and debt. However, if people in various Member States are suffering because of those programmes, it seems a contradiction that a supranational body of which their country is a member should be asking for an increase in spending. It seems a contradiction, that is, if the country is a net contributor. Perhaps net recipients are less worried by that contradiction. Britain has always been a net contributor, which is why a previous prime minister negotiated the British rebate. Those who are now seeking to reduce our rebate by recalculating it want us to be even more of a net contributor. The UK might achieve a freeze on spending but still increase its net contribution. The British rebate is not money paid into a begging bowl held by a richer-than-average – and therefore undeserving – country; it represents the return of part of an excess of contributions over receipts."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-06-30)3 unknown; - (2012-10-17--2013-02-08)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(inaudible)"1 "Andrew Henry William Brons (NI )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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