Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-05-Speech-2-597-000"
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"Madam President, at a time of austerity across the EU, the Commission should be talking of cutting, not just freezing, the EU budget, thereby relieving the burden on hard pressed taxpayers in Member States. My country, the United Kingdom, is a large net contributor and in my view should withdraw from the EU altogether.
However, in the meanwhile we are being told that we must relinquish what remains of our rebate and make an even larger net contribution. This will be to finance regional policy that should be carried out by Member States which know best how to spend their own money; to carry out unnecessary social engineering with their absurd politically correct social targets; to put sticking plasters over the fragmentation of our national societies caused by third world immigration experiments; to pay for propaganda in Member States and candidate states to carry out the impossible task of making the EU even less repellent; to provide bribes to so-called neighbourhood countries to seduce them into the web of EU membership; and lastly the ludicrous claim that the new budget will strengthen the management of our borders and tackle serious crime and terrorism.
It would do so only if the EU had the will to stop what Mr Berlusconi has called the human tsunami into Europe. It is proposed that the EU should be given the right to levy a tax, so-called own resources, on taxpayers in Member States. Only sovereign states have the right to levy taxation; this will be the first fiscal step towards full EU statehood."@en1
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