Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-05-21-Speech-2-256-000"
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"Mr President, the idea of these regional and solidarity payments is to level everybody up to the same degree. Of course, if we look around Europe we find it has had precisely the opposite effect. The areas which have had the biggest per-capita-GDP handouts have remained stuck in the squalor of dependency. Like individuals, entire nations can begin to arrange their affairs around qualifying for subsidies.
The great fallacy behind the European project is the idea that you should be part of a big, uniform unit. It sounds plausible but it turns out not to be true. If it were true then China would be wealthier than Hong Kong and Indonesia would be wealthier than Singapore, and the EU, for that matter, would be wealthier than Switzerland. The truth is that we should be lithe and subtle, agile and small: that is what the world today rewards. Instead, the European Union is bloated and obese, its arteries are furred and its heart is on the point of giving out."@en1
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