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"Madam President, the usual thing to do when we have such a report before our hands is to argue what one country should get and what another should lose, which only proves that European solidarity is a myth and national egoism always triumphs.
In light of the recent German aggression by Mr Schulz against the President of the European Commission, let us look at a good method of winning at the zero-sum game.
In paragraph 8, we witness a lamentation that Germany will lose seats. We hear more and more of this lamentation: that more EU documents should be translated into German, that Germany is the biggest net contributor to the EU budget, that it should have its own seat on the UN Security Council and so on. We could make a whole list of such complaints.
At the same time, Mr Severin is trying to convince us, through his undefined degressive proportionality – which, coincidentally does not affect his own Romania – that when Poland loses three seats, it actually gains one. I only wish that his concept would work this well in the casino.
But let us get things clear. Only a socialist from Yorkshire could accept that two plus two is five."@en1
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