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"Mr President, I can remember the births of Thalidomide children when I was a boy and the appalling devastation this wreaked on those families. I have been hugely impressed with what those thalidomide victims who have not been so badly affected have been doing in this Parliament: going into every single MEP’s office, thrusting out their deformed limbs, shock-and-awe tactics that have really woken this place up. But actually, if the EU is to be any use at all it should have got hold of this subject years ago, because this must be the
of the EU. This is a problem that cuts across different countries.
They could have lent on Germany to oblige the German Government to ask every German taxpayer to contribute 50 cents per year and that would have put this right; or they could have used their own funds rather than wasting them on projects like building administrative centres in Hungary for stray dogs, or funding studies in South America for flatulence in cattle. My point to German politicians is: if you change places with a Thalidomide victim for 12 hours, you would change your tune. You know what to do – just to do it."@en1
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