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"With its ‘six-pack’, ‘two-pack’ and budget treaty, the Commission is seeking to impose on the Member States not only the reduction of their budgets, but also the way in which they use their taxpayers’ money, yet it makes sure that it does not have to lose anything itself. For next year, it is demanding a 7% increase in its own spending. Easy enough for the Commission: the money it spends comes from the coffers of the Member States and the pockets of European citizens. The European budget cannot be in deficit: if it ever were, the governments would have to pay for the incompetence of Brussels. What is this increase supposed to finance? The same old ineffective, damaging policies: a common agricultural policy that ruins farmers, pandering, disjointed Structural Funds, systematically under-used and not just because of the crisis, an active immigration policy in a Union that already has 25 million people out of work, a Lady Bountiful foreign policy, and so on. That Europe does not have any added value, and it is increasingly a handicap for the Member States."@en1
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