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"en.20130207.21.4-214-000"2
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"Mr President, economic times are difficult and our people deserve politicians who tell them the truth, not just play party politics. I am very pleased to have voted with the centre-right majority on a proposal for growth-friendly fiscal consolidation.
The left have stripped their names off this report, saying it is about cuts, cuts, cuts. It is not. This report actually calls for intensifying investment in areas such as research and innovation. It is also not about spend, spend, spend and going back to the policies of the past that the left wanted to take us to. We refused their demands to give Parliament a say over how national governments make their budgets. I am pleased with that. They wanted us not only to work on tax evasion together, but to go towards tax harmonisation and we said ‘no’. They wanted us to condemn our national leaders, who are going into today’s budget negotiations looking for the same care in how money is spent at home as in Europe. I actually say ‘Well done’ to those leaders. It is public money, we are in difficult times and we need to be careful with it. So ‘no’ to the left and ‘yes’ to the right."@en1
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