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"Mr President, if pushing for greater political and economic integration and harmonisation were a criminal offence, the EU would be pulled in as the first and only suspect. Its fingerprints would be all over the scene of the crime. However, more charitably, we can see it as a repeated nervous tic or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A demand for a common consolidated tax base can be seen simply as a different example of the same tic, another obsessive desire for greater political integration. This morning, it was integration by coordination of the social security system; in the early evening, it is integration by a common corporate tax base; later this evening, the target for integration will be taxation on electricity and energy products.
Do these people dream about greater political and economic integration? When they are invited to parties –if they are – and see an attractive member of the opposite sex – or the same sex, if you prefer – do they try to sweep them off their feet with coded references to political and economic integration, possibly coupled with an unpleasant leer? I only ask out of curiosity."@en1
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