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"en.20161026.15.3-163-250"2
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"This vote was a series of budgetary amendments to set the spending limits for the EU budget for 2017. The Commission had proposed an original budget of EUR 157 billion, the Council amended that to EUR 156 billion, and the Parliament was proposing to not only reverse the Council cuts, but to increase the budget significantly.
UKIP and the EFDD Group submitted 33 cost-saving amendments to the EU budget, as well as voting in favour of cost-saving measures proposed by others. Our amendments, which would have saved in total over EUR 3 billion of taxpayers’ money, related to the cutting of bureaucracy. These proposals were for ‘victimless cuts’ which impact only upon the inner workings of the European Union and luxuries for officials.
UKIP voted against any measures which would increase the EU budget, because it would be contrary to the decision of the British people on Brexit. In some cases the additions would have duplicated funding streams already in place in the UK.
Exceptionally, we abstained rather than vote against where a new budget line was proposed to help Member States leave the euro. There was no actual funding proposed for this, and we support the principle of Member States leaving the euro."@en1
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