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"Mr President, I am a strong supporter of cooperation between peoples. Many problems can only be solved jointly. Global problems must be solved in the UN. The court here in Strasbourg can support us in connection with human rights. In Brussels, we have close economic cooperation between the EU and the EEA in connection with a common market. Would we obtain better solutions, however, if decision-making were, in every conceivable case, to be centralised in Brussels? Would we obtain better democracy by downgrading the national parties and raising the profile of common supranational parties? Would more people join, become active members and take part in debates in connection with elections and decision-making? Supranational EU parties are an artificial product which will never be financed through voluntary subscriptions but only by siphoning off EU funds. We are familiar with the pattern from many national parties which have distanced themselves from the electorate and instead allow themselves to be financed by the State, business and the unions. It is quite right that the State should support parliamentary work and provide citizens with information. It must not, however, be a propaganda machine for the view of the majority. To quote Grundtvig, doyen of the public education movement in Denmark, there must be ‘freedom for Loki as well as for Thor’. The supranational EU parties will never win the hearts and minds of ordinary people. They will instead be populated by highly paid officials bound to no country in particular – bureaucrats without roots in local political associations. Manifestos will be written by small groups of experts out of touch with the lives of real people. An artificial product of that kind does not deserve financial support from the EU. My group will vote against subsidies for supranational EU parties and against bending the Treaty by using flexible clauses for that purpose."@en1
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