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"A local authority has the utmost political autonomy when it achieves total control on tax matters, and therefore has total economic and financial control over deciding its budget. Unfortunately, the serious delay in achieving this level of autonomy is particularly clear with regard to the agreement on the multiannual financial framework. During this very process, European and pro-European ambitions and responsibilities clash with the selfishness of the Member States, resulting in increased national and nationalist sentiment. It is regrettable that the political mentality that always made the common European interest a priority has been lost, replaced by an accountant’s mentality where what is given to the European budget and what is received nationally under ‘community’ policies are continually set off against one another. The EU will only reach its full political potential by boosting its powers on budgets and taxing genuine own resources, including through eurobonds and a financial transaction tax, and boosting its resources, so that they are suited to meet the challenges and political objectives that it aims to pursue and achieve. It seems to me that this joint resolution is heading in that direction."@en1
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