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"Mr President, when we look at the number of funds which are available – the Cohesion Funds, the Globalisation Funds and other funds – there is quite clearly a level of scepticism in my country about these funds just being viewed as taking hard-working taxpayers’ money away to be spent elsewhere. However, I have to say in the case of the Solidarity Fund, there is some understanding of the need for such a fund because, of course, when there is a natural disaster or people are suffering it is quite right that other countries, neighbouring countries, seek to help those neighbours in a time of need by showing true solidarity.
I welcome the fact that, with some of the other reforms proposed for the Solidarity Fund, we are looking at proper reform; we are not looking to increase the budget line and we are making sure that it really is used for those cases when it needs to be used. If only we could apply the same principles to some of the other funds that we have discussed today and at other times. If only we applied the same principles to those funds to make sure that we are only spending taxpayers’ money where it is really needed – and not for political purposes, but to help those most in need – then perhaps some of those other funds would get the support of the British Conservatives, as happened today."@en1
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