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National management declarations! Mr President, I would like to ask Mr Kallas, will these be like the EU’s own accounts, in which the directors-general of the Commission sign off their respective departments with reservations, because they have not got a clue where the money has gone? Because if it is so, it strikes me as a little like trying to repair a severed artery with a band aid: too little too late.
As everybody knows, I do not believe in the European Union; I regard it as an enemy of democracy, and I approach this from an opposite direction. No nation should be pouring taxpayers’ money into a corrupt system. After 11 long years in which the EU’s accounts have been rejected by its own auditors, this weak-kneed attempt to change the system seems to me like pouring huge amounts of gold dust through a sieve, thinking ‘oh, perhaps we better try and stuff up a few of the holes’. No one thinks about the wisdom of pouring the dust through the sieve in the first place and quite simply the way to stop the dust being lost is to stop pouring.
Therefore I call on the Members here present to go back to their various countries and make urgent representations to their own governments to pull the plug. Simply stop paying this monstrous bureaucratic dictatorship, which has no respect for either the governments or the people of Europe. We have a saying in my country: ‘charity begins at home’. Save the money you are currently wasting on the EU, a large part of which is lost simply by fraud and corruption anyway."@en1
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