Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-15-Speech-3-526-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Lucas Hartong2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2010-06-22--2014-06-30)3,3 member; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2010-06-22--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2010-06-23--2012-09-09)3,3 unknown; Partij voor de Vrijheid (2010-06-22--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we have a saying in the Netherlands: ‘No words please, just deeds!’ The report by Mr Vaughan, who is a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, is the very opposite of this: all words and no deeds. He proposes to freeze the budget of the EU institutions, but then he contradicts himself, in the very next sentence, when he says that the budget will have to be increased to meet requirements. While an increase in the budget is allegedly not allowed, Croatia’s accession to the EU alone has so far cost our citizens around EUR 1 billion, and it will end up costing a whole lot more. Mr Vaughan proposes that we continue with structural and organisational reforms, but the Committee of the Regions, which was tasked with doing exactly has, to this day, done absolutely nothing about it, as was shown by the recent budgetary audit. While institutions are being called upon to make cuts, the European Court of Justice is continuing its expansion regardless. That is not sending out the right message to our citizens. The budget for travel and personal reimbursements has temporarily been frozen and that sounds good, but it is major savings that we really need to be making. Meanwhile, the House of European History is being constructed at a cost of at least EUR 75 million. That is the kind of thing that causes the budget to increase year upon year. What does Mr Vaughan propose, however? That we appoint a working group. What a joke! Our citizens demand action, not empty words. It is high time that the European Union stopped hanging on every word of the smooth talk trotted out by the S&D Group and started listening for once to the voters who are footing the actual bill. Do you know what those voters are saying? They are saying: ‘Those people at the EU really have gone mad’!"@en1
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