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"Mr President, a US presidential candidate once declared that a hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. What we have seen here today is comparable behaviour in my opinion. It is not long ago that Commission President Barroso declared that austerity had reached its limits, but today we have the Commission saying that a seven-year savage cuts budget will better respond to the needs of Europe.
Does that include the needs of the 27 million unemployed people in Europe? The Council today told us this is an investment budget. What investment, when we have cuts to the Structural Funds and cuts to the Cohesion Fund? The MEPs from the big groups are the biggest hypocrites here. They posture opposition for months, then declare this is the best possible budget deal and that they have no alternative but to vote in favour of it.
Let the facts show very clearly: all of the talk of ending austerity from all sides of the European establishment, from the PPE to the Social Democrats, is empty rhetoric when it continues to shove austerity down working people’s throats."@en1
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