Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-12-Speech-3-051-000"
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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, I am one of those who understand the efforts being made by the Commission to smooth out developments in the European Union and I commend you on them. We must praise as well as criticise. Allow me to develop my train of thought: I came across a statistic that said that the current European Union accounts for 4% of the world’s population and 30% of global GDP. Does that perhaps mean that we have become rich through wastage? That method also exists: richness through wastage, through consumption. However, under the budgetary discipline now being imposed, GDP has fallen, we are becoming poorer and unemployment is rising, exacerbated by technological progress. The parity of the Swiss franc should also worry us, because it is a sign of massive tax evasion. Are there any immediate plans to address unemployment and tax evasion?"@en1
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