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"Mr President, we can all recall the pompous presentation made by the Spanish Prime Minister earlier this year. However, Spain is now following Greece with a deficit of 11% in GDP. The EU bureaucracy immediately looks around to find someone to blame, but the fact is that it is this bureaucracy that is responsible for the crisis because it brought countries into the eurozone in the knowledge that their economies were not up to speed – or do we employ 1 000 people in Eurostat just to be a data collector? The hedge funds may be taking advantage of the situation, but they did not cause the crisis. The EU now demands cost reductions, but is it realistic to expect the cost of the public sector in Greece to be reduced if 20% of the working population is employed by the state and 50% of SMEs have the state as its only client? Now, a rescue package has been put forward but the reality is that most of the countries supposed to contribute to it do not have money to do so, such as is the case of the UK. In any case, the EU always takes the opportunity ... ("@en1
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