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"Mr President, I welcome this report drawn up by my fellow Welsh colleague, Derek Vaughan, on the guidelines for the 2013 budget, which covers all EU institutions apart from the Commission. He has established in his own-initiative report the need for the EU to freeze these budgets. However, I would urge him and his colleagues on the Committee on Budgets to be bolder in order to seek a real-terms reduction in the overall EU budget.
With the number of EU Member States implementing harsh austerity measures and unemployment on the rise, standing at 8.9% in my own constituency of Wales, it is only fair that the EU institutions play their part in curbing expenditure. Unnecessary and wasteful excesses need to be identified and reduced and, where possible, eliminated, including addressing the politically taboo issue of a two-seat parliament. Strasbourg and Brussels symbolise the EU excesses which my constituents believe should stop and this question is covered by Amendment 2, which was carried today. I hope that the formal negotiations on the MFF are also able to be more bold in this regard."@en1
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