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"Mr President, after a long and arduous process, after delays on one side and then another, the British Parliament has finally voted to give the green light to the Prime Minister to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Even if perhaps many of those here today may not join me in celebrating this momentous decision of the British people, I hope that all will recognise the exercise of democracy. There are two ways of doing a divorce. It can either be a mutual recognition that paths are leading in different directions; to still be friends and neighbours while recognising that both parties can thrive separately, but that that relationship is not working – or it can be negative and acrimonious. I certainly prefer the former.
Today we are discussing the guidelines for the 2018 EU budget, and the report makes all the usual calls: more resources, more EU action, more taxpayers’ money to be spent. There has always been a disconnect between the structure of the European Union and the British people. This report typifies, in a lot of ways, that disconnect: strong support for common EU initiatives in defence and defence research, the Interrail tickets, the fact that the Court of Auditors’ reports are giving such a high error rate, and the adverse opinion on the legality of the payments underlying the accounts. Again, those things are put to one side.
We see political groups in this Parliament not only exempt from the staff reduction target, but getting 76 more posts offset by the staff reduction target for the general administration. All of these things go fundamentally against the way that the British people would see these things, but ultimately the elephant in the room is how we proceed following Brexit. The UK must make sure that it is protected, and as Brexit approaches, the relevance of all of the items of spending to the UK will diminish month on month. But according to the multiannual financial framework regulation, by the end of this year the Commission has to put forward a proposal for the next multiannual financial framework. So in the spirit of this truth we must tell the Commission, first of all, that it should of course not include the UK in its proposal for the next multiannual financial framework period, and that is an important and necessary first step for accepting Brexit and moving on.
There needs to be a credible long-term plan from the EU’s perspective on what happens post-Brexit. The amendments that we have tabled will help protect the UK from a never-ending EU bill. They also call for cuts in the EU budget, demand further reductions in EU staff and bureaucracy, and reject expansionist EU defence initiatives."@en1
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