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"Mr President, I voted against Mr Juncker’s appointment and I voted against his Commission. I was unusual, I think, only in being open in voting against him; you could not find anyone who was privately in favour of him. His views are out of step with Europe. It was like a shade, a spectre from the 1950s rattling its chain, still talking about the harmonisation of minimum wages and fiscal policy and all the rest of it.
Nonetheless he is entitled, as anyone else, to the presumption of innocence. An investigation has just been launched and has not concluded. This motion is badly timed, badly conceived, and badly drafted. I was not able to support it because, of all the reasons that I could give for wanting to get rid of Mr Juncker, the fact that he presided over a low tax regime is not one of them, unless he has been found to have done something illegal.
And this is a point that my colleagues on the left seem to have missed completely. It is not a crime to cut your taxes, and the solution to a country having lower taxes than yours is not to try and legislate, to export your costs to them – it is to cut your own taxes."@en1
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