Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-23-Speech-3-118"
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"Mr President, when the Galileo project was conceived, President Chirac described it as necessary to combat US technical imperialism. That, in truth, is the only possible argument for it. I have no intention of reprising the arguments we have just heard from my three honourable friends: it makes no economic sense; it makes no technical sense; we are getting free use of the American GPS.
The point I really want to make – and I would appeal to my integrationist colleagues in this House, because I do not think you have to be a Eurosceptic to be worried about this – is this: look at what happened in yesterday’s debate, when my honourable friend, Mr Heaton-Harris, asked us what we were voting on and nobody in the Chamber was able to name the agency to which we had just voted through supply.
You are doing yourselves no favours, even as supporters of the European project, if you hand your taxpayers’ money to these schemes with a ‘Europe right or wrong’ attitude, without stopping to look at whether it is being efficaciously spent or whether it is being lost or stolen. I would appeal to all my colleagues to try and give their taxpayers some value for money from their own point of view."@en1
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