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"Mr President, just yesterday the French President flaunted his deep contempt for MEPs when he said ‘France will never authorise any modification of Parliament’s seat’. It seems therefore that the wasteful EU baggage train will roll in and out of Strasbourg just about forever, and this waste would seem to be a suitable subject for the proposed prosecutor to address. But of course it will not happen. The President of France can go on being as contemptuous as ever.
This report is also contemptuous of democracy. Those who drafted the Lisbon Treaty knew perfectly well that a proposal for a European Public Prosecutor would be unacceptable to national governments and, indeed, 14 national parliaments have signified their veto. But a clause was inserted – disgracefully – so that Member States could, via enhanced cooperation, proceed with a European Public Prosecutor. This is deplorable. However, the report does remind us of the corruption and fraud relating to EU funds: apparently more than EUR 3 billion a year. What this demonstrates is that the EU is analogous to a species of parasite: the EU feeds off the taxpayer and, as the report says, EU money funds the costs of the EU’s own internal corruption.
This proposal is a Trojan horse: it would solve nothing and it destroys yet more national sovereignty."@en1
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