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"Madam President, I represent in this House the population that makes proportionally the highest net contribution of taxpayers’ money to the European Union. Each Fleming makes a net contribution of approximately EUR 290 per annum to safeguard the functioning of the European institutions. We Flemings are the champions among European taxpayers.
Therefore, I consider it particularly unacceptable that, as early as the first paragraphs, the present report wags a finger at people who dare to ask questions – justified questions – about the magnitude of the European Union’s contribution and about the benefit of much of the European Union’s expenditure. It is anything but certain that taxpayers’ money is spent any more efficiently at European level than at levels closer to the taxpayer; indeed, the reverse is true.
The way in which the EU administrative colossus is still being enlarged is also unacceptable as far as I am concerned, particularly now that princely salaries and allowances are being paid in all those European institutions. This is not to mention the European subsidies; for example EUR 1 billion per annum for NGOs, to whom scarcely any efficiency criteria apply.
All the EU Member States face having to make huge fiscal efforts and economies. We might expect much greater efforts on the part of the European Union, but evidently we consider ourselves a cut above the riffraff. This is yet another missed opportunity for Parliament and the European Union."@en1
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