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"At a time when all the Member States are undertaking austerity measures, of which their citizens are the main victims, being hit with higher taxes and seeing beneficial public spending cut, the budget guidelines in Mr La Via’s report are heartbreaking.
For Europe, there is no question of a reduction in spending! There is no question of an end to spreading resources thinly or clientelism or the many useless and costly agencies. No examination of conscience over the usefulness, relevance or effectiveness of spending. No cost-effectiveness analysis. No decrease in budget lines, even those that have been under-utilised for several years.
Rigour seems not to feature in the programming of appropriations. When the whole world is treading water and tightening its belt, the European Union seems financially at ease over its own priorities and programmes due to the fact that it is unable to fall into deficit and has the right to draw to a limited but very real extent on national budgets. In other words, Europe has the right to put its hands into our pockets. In France, each year, this little game costs us a staggering EUR 7 billion. That is more than the social security pension fund deficit."@en1
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