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"Mr President, the Commission’s campaign is now beginning for transferring EU taxes and more funds from the taxpayers to the EU. Instead, the June Movement proposes a halt to European tax and expenditure. Not a single penny should be appropriated to Brussels until there is an accounting system through which we can see what the money is being used for.
For 25 years, I have tried to obtain detailed information about how the EU uses the money we pay in quotas. There has still, for example, been no success in tracking down the ‘skimmed milk supremo’ who, for many years, was the biggest recipient of EU subsidies in Denmark.
We have still not seen statements of account from the secret accounts in the Eurostat scandal. We know, however, that the chief accountant, Marta Andreasen, who insisted on correct accounts, has now been suspended for 17 months and is banned from showing herself in the Commission’s buildings, where those who have manifestly been responsible for the fraud can go about freely. This state of affairs does not provide the necessary permission for sending funds via Brussels. The June Movement instead proposes that the EU focus on the cross-border matters we cannot solve ourselves and keep away from everything else.
The subsidies to the present EU agricultural systems can be phased out by 20% per year over five years. The EU should completely cease giving structural aid to the rich Member States. The poor countries and the new Member States should be exempted from paying quotas so that there is real solidarity and not only a redistribution from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poorer countries.
With such a reform, the net payers will get away with paying less tax, at the same time as the net recipients will be in a significantly better position than at present. At the same time, allow details of each appropriation and item of expenditure to be accessible on the Internet. In that way, we can avoid waste, excess and fraud, and vigilant journalists and employees in companies and other institutions that receive subsidies will quickly be able to reveal if money is being misused, wasted or misappropriated.
Finally, just a few round figures. Last year, Denmark paid DKK 15 billion in EU quotas. Danish agriculture received agricultural subsidies of DKK 10 billion. The total net income received by Danish agriculture was only a fraction of the direct EC subsidy. Money is flooding out of EU coffers without ending up in the hands of the needy farmers, and this shows, more than any amount of words, the need for a halt to expenditure and tax, including in the EU."@en1
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