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"Mr President, we tried to find ways of cutting the European Union budget, of understanding that, at a time such as this, taxpayers actually cannot support more and more money going from the people to the European Union. And so we, the EFDD, put in 142 amendments to the EU budget and we watched as every single one of those 142 attempts to save money for the taxpayer of the UK and the taxpayers in all of the Member States of the European Union was voted down. Not that we should be particularly surprised – just like the last 55 times the UK tried to oppose a measure in the Council of Ministers, when we were voted down 55 out of 55 times.
We put forward measures on issues like the coordination, surveillance of and communication on the EMU, including the euro. Do we really need to be spending more money on a propaganda campaign on the euro? A tenfold increase in the cost of the European Chemicals Agency – again, something we do not believe is needed. We believe that money could be cut from the European Union special representatives. The European Council, with this whole gentleman’s agreement that supposedly exists and yet, as we have seen even today as we have talked about the 2013 discharge, the Council just is not even answering Parliament’s questions. Well if they are not recognising a gentleman’s agreement then we should certainly not. The Committee of the Regions: again, a body which is getting far too much taxpayers’ money. And then we look at our own House. We should put our own house in order, see what we are spending that we do not need to be: cost of meetings and activities of former members, EUR 210 000 that, frankly, does not actually make a difference to anything whatsoever.
In the vast majority of these areas, we have talked about cutting rather than abolishing budget lines altogether. We have said we want to cut them – and some of them, personally, I would abolish altogether – but we see every single one voted down. That is what we get in this place. Sadly, that is how things work in this place, in the European Union."@en1
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