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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2000 budget (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991214.9.2-212"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-14-Speech-2-2132
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Claude Martinez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Front national (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office, between the first and second readings of the draft budget for the year 2000 we have added EUR 3.5 billion, in other words another three and a half billion in taxes. This would not be much if the money were not squandered in and, above all, outside Europe. In Europe, appropriations for the reconstruction of Kosovo would have been saved had we not destroyed Kosovo on the basis of alleged massacres ascribed to the Serbs as the OSCE has now admitted. Especially as we are redirecting EUR 110 billion allocated to rural development in order to finance Kosovo. In other words, we are robbing our own farmers in order to pay the Albanians in the name of the principle of “you first”. It is as unhealthy as the fact that half our debates here this afternoon have been devoted to a province of the Serbian State which is not even a member of the European Union. It is true that, as far as the European budget is concerned, the worst offences are committed when we pour money outside the continent of Europe: EUR 10 million for Central Asia, EUR 14.5 million for the displaced people of Latin America, EUR 4 million for human rights in South Africa and Timor etc., etc. That would be all well and good if, at the same time, we were not planning to cut EUR 5 million from appropriations for our beekeepers who face competition from adulterated honey from abroad. While we are spending money here, social austerity is being imposed in our 15 countries. Doctors and nurses in French hospitals, who are among the most qualified in the world, are today on strike because budgetary austerity has just cut back hospital expenditure and health expenditure. This situation is all the more disgusting in that, at the same time, we are paying EUR 45 million to ACP banana producers, some of which are American multinationals established in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast and which are being paid EUR 45 million under this European budget. This, then, is stupid spending on top of customer spending on top of ideological spending. It all adds up to a lot, it adds up to much too much and that is reason enough to vote against it."@en1

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