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"en.20100225.15.4-241"2
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"Yesterday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Athens, and Greece was paralysed by a general strike in protest against the austerity plan imposed by the EU, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and the IMF. It is true to say that Greece has not always been as rigorous as it should have been in the management of its public accounts and EU funds. However, it is scandalous that the main virtue of this austerity plan should be that it reassures the markets, these same markets that are currently speculating on the Greek debt and which caused this turmoil. These same markets from which the States, thanks to your ultra-liberal laws, have to borrow at high rates of interest. At the same time, under the pretext of an alleged increase in workload due to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and of Parliament’s supposed concern about the quality of its legislative texts, the MEPs are awarding themselves a ‘small’ budget increase to the tune of a few million euros so that staff can be recruited for the political groups! Therefore, apply your nit-picking checks to your own expenditure and be as rigorous as you insist the Member States must be! We will be voting against this text."@en1
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