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"Mr President, we began today’s vote with a vote on repealing obsolete directives. The more I think about that, the more I realise how wide the scope of such a report is. Think of how much we could be repealing: starting with the common agricultural policy referred to in this report, the wonderful mid-20th century notion that you can manage agriculture through price support and price fixing; or the common fisheries policy, based on the Marxist principle of equal access to a common resource; or the wonderful ideas of export credits and regulated working hours; or indeed the idea that the European Union can be run by a 27-strong technocracy of unelected officials governing through a series of 5-year plans.
Look around you and you will see these anachronistic accoutrements of an earlier age, reflecting still the planning and statist assumptions of the EU’s earliest years. The very notion that big is beautiful has gone. If it were true, China would be wealthier than Hong Kong, Indonesia would be wealthier than Singapore, France would be wealthier than Monaco, and the EU would be wealthier than Switzerland. The truth is, my friends, that the project has been overtaken by technological change."@en1
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