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"Mr President, the Dutch have long been the largest net contributors to the EU and are now the second largest contributors to paying off the Greek debt. Pensions in the Netherlands are falling, as is, once again, the purchasing power of the Dutch. The Dutch are fed up with it.
The euro is a failed project, and those responsible for it are the people sitting in this room. It is the old elite parties – the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and the Liberals – who now have egg on their face. Messrs Verhofstadt, Schulz, Daul and your clapping machines in this room – you are all jointly responsible for the stupid choices you made concerning this impossible eurozone. You did it without asking the Europeans or the Dutch if they wanted it. No referendum was ever held. Yet ordinary citizens now have to foot the bill. The Dutch have already paid over EUR 10 000 per family towards this debt crisis, and that amount is going to rise dramatically if Mr Barroso has anything to do with it. The Greek and Italian debt mountain is being shared out between ‘Jan Modaal’, ‘Joe Average’ and ‘Otto Normalverbraucher’. Once again this is taking place without a referendum, and that is a scandal.
Yesterday it was decided that the banks must be recapitalised and, at the same time, write off Greek bonds. That is impossible, at least for the Greek banks. In everyday language, this means that the banks, which speculated with savings and paid top salaries, will now receive Dutch taxpayers’ money. Yes – Dutch and German taxpayers will have to pay to keep the Greek banks on their feet. That is the only outcome of this summit.
Most of the Members in this Chamber think this is all well and good. Yes, the MEPs and leaders sitting in this Chamber have no problem paying, but it is not so easy for ‘Jan Modaal’, ‘Joe Average’ and ‘Otto Normalverbraucher’. They are not getting a 5% pay rise, like the one Parliament awarded itself yesterday. To increase its own budget by 5% in times such as these, as Parliament did yesterday, is quite simply shameless. I would also ask all my fellow Members, do you have no shame, or do you hope that your electors will not see what you have done and that you will be able to get away with it like a thief in the night? Increasing your own budget while at the same time saddling taxpayers with other people’s debts is typical of this sham parliament and of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats). At the same time, however, I was also proud to be able to defend the interests of hard-working Dutch taxpayers yesterday."@en1
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