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"Mr President, what is cohesion policy? In simple terms, cohesion policy is a way of ensuring transfers of taxpayers’ money from richer countries to poorer countries or from richer regions to poorer regions. Some see it in more political terms and some see it as a sort of socialistic utopia of redistribution of wealth but, whatever happens or however you view cohesion policy, you have to accept that the money comes from somewhere and that money comes from the taxpayer.
That is why, at a time when countries across the EU and across the world are having to tighten their belts and cut spending, it is ridiculous to suggest that the cohesion budget for 2014-2020 should be maintained at current levels. As my colleague Julie Girling said earlier, it is quite right that they should focus spending on those areas of most urgent need. We should all tighten our belts and we should focus on those areas that really need the money because, at the end of the day, the money comes from somewhere and we have to ensure that we encourage wealth creation to create those taxes that people can spend to create those services that we want to see. But the best way to do it is for less government spending and to make sure that there is good use of government spending when there is."@en1
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