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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, you now have five years in which to make Europe into the world’s most competitive economy. In the EU, we have the wrong approach to regulation. We send officials to Brussels to set prices for products for which there is no lack of suppliers and for which there is plenty of demand. So much for the market economy. In that way, we overcharge, levy taxes and duties and prevent developing countries from selling food to us, and then hand the money out again, as subsidies tailored to the owners’ assets. A landowner with a thousand hectares receives hundreds of times more in subsidies than a farmer with ten hectares. There is no ceiling on subsidies; 20% of farmers take 80% of the subsidies. The farmers’ income is only a fraction of the subsidies for the common agricultural policy. We thus discriminate against the new Member States. We have also created a subsidy industry and an army of lobbyists who travel to Brussels to get some of our own money back again.
Now, the Commission wants more money for more plans, and the opportunity to levy new taxes itself. My advice is to try having less money, less tax, fewer subsidies and greater freedom for the Member States, and reimburse those who cannot cope successfully in the market place.
There must also be some natural energy and raw materials left for our descendants. It must be possible to be a pioneering country in environmental terms. We must give the poorest countries the opportunity to increase their demand by allowing them to pay less in EU subscriptions and by giving Structural Fund resources to the poorest areas in the poorest countries. Millions of citizens receive no wages because the labour market is not available to them. We have a Central Bank that gives more consideration to the price of money than to families. The EU has a common currency and a shared reticence about investment. Why not, rather, agree an across-the-board boost to investment whereby countries with balance of payments deficits increase investment by 5%, those with surpluses increase it by 7% and those with neither deficits nor surpluses increase it by 6%. In that way, everyone would sell more and obtain increased employment without anyone’s being given a black mark for their balance of payments. Economic coordination can provide much more growth and employment than the artificial jobs created through bureaucratic incentives.
Being new, you do not need, Mr Barroso, to get caught up in the mountain of detailed regulation in Brussels. Instead, you should give freedom full rein."@en1
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