Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-05-Speech-3-118"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070905.18.3-118"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-05-Speech-3-1192
lpv:speaker	lp:Glyn Ford2
lpv:spoken text	"I support the Elles report on the draft amending budget No 5/2007. In doing so, I would like to point out a particular problem for my own country that might mitigate against support for additional spending. The problem Britain has is that Margaret Thatcher with the 1984 Fontainebleau Agreement left future British Governments with a poison pill. Fontainebleau gives Britain back a rebate of two-thirds the difference between our annual contributions and annual receipts from the EU. Thus any new expenditure programmes cost Britain twice; first we pay our 50% and then lose two thirds of the EU contribution, diminishing uniquely in our case the EU contribution from 50% to less than 17%. Allowing for the fact Britain’s contributions are just below 15% of the total budget, any new project for which Britain receives less than a third of the benefits leaves Britain out of pocket."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Labour and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (2004-11-08--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Glyn Ford (PSE ),"1 "in writing"1

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