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"Mr President, this report promotes the stupidity and falsity that is EU citizenship and proceeds to come up with suggestions as to how this ridiculous and failing notion can be promoted. The EU institutions show, with unwavering consistency, how totally out of touch they are with the sentiments and views of the public.
The Maastricht Treaty may have created citizenship in principle, but it is a classic example of theory being impossible to put into practice. For example, EU citizenship is impossible to renounce. I do not want it. I was not even asked before it was imposed upon me.
We now have clear proof of the desperation entering the thought processes of the federalists in this Parliament. It is their belief that ‘a direct link between some aspect of the tax system and the financing of the European Union’ would make EU citizenship more balanced. As any student of politics knows, linking something to a tax is the sure-fire way of condemning it to the dustbin of history.
I have said many times before that if the EU is the answer then the question must have been a stupid one. This report proves that beyond doubt."@en1
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