Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-10-23-Speech-2-176-000"
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"Mr President, the medium-term financial framework will set the parameters for the next seven years of EU budgets and could not come at a more sensitive time. Every single Member State is making cuts in local and national spending and European public spending must be subject to the same discipline.
We have limited money. Every euro, every pound, every kroner, even every zloty needs to get to the front line with a minimum of waste. In my own region, EU-funded projects often sound attractive for jobs and skills, infrastructure and research, but the red tape reality is that running those projects often has huge costs and wastes, and these schemes could be better funded through national programmes or local grants.
I do not just want to tinker with EU funding, I want a fundamental review on how to reduce waste and excess, starting with getting rid of this Chamber but moving on to look at our staffing costs and benefits, so that there is not one set of rules for EU institutions and another for those who work locally. Then I want a root and branch review of every project so that the EU only funds projects where there is added value at international level in areas like our world-class science, where investment genuinely will boost growth and jobs."@en1
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