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"Just five years ago, the EU set out to make itself a rival to the United States of America within ten years. Now we hear the half-time whistle, but I suspect Mr Barroso is not a man to listen to whistle-blowers.
We are asked to consider a mid-term review, but there seems little to review. The unemployment rate is high and rising and 101 000 regulations and directives are bleeding the life out of the wealth creators. Growth is worse. Mrs Figueiredo said in her report yesterday that 22 million jobs need to be created in the EU in the next five years. You do not have to be Hayek to know that cannot be done. It is interesting to see the panic setting in amongst the federalists at last; the cracks are really showing. Mr Barroso is a rampant free marketeer, according to the people over there, while his ideas went out with the Ark according to Mr Mandelson, from the right.
In Britain, at least, people are waking up. I quote from this morning’s
: ‘Peers tell Brussels to give back cash from EU budget’. We have paid in GBP 180 billion and got back GBP 105 billion. Where has the GBP 75 billion gone?
Mr Barroso, you try and keep bleeding the British taxpayer at this rate, because worse is better and on that basis this corrupt institution is doing very well indeed."@en1
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