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"Mr President, we were treated to a little theatrical gesture earlier when the President of Parliament with a great flourish pulled out his pen and signed the 2013 budget, boasting that it represented a substantial increase: an increase of 2.9 % or as Marta Andreasen said in the debate yesterday, of course an increase on top of the previous increase which makes it closer to an increase of 9 %.
While the media of Europe have been focused on the 2014-2020 financial perspectives, the actual budget keeps rising as it does year after year. It only ever goes in one direction. We are all familiar with the bicycle metaphor where the EU has to keep moving forward otherwise it falls over. I have always thought that a ravening shark that has to keep swimming would make a better simile. But the reason that metaphor is so apt is because it has to keep purchasing the loyalty of client groups around the place. I am not really talking about the people who work directly for the Brussels institutions but the armies of consultants and contractors all over Europe who have turned the Brussels system into their livelihood, and if the money ran out for them the system would be finished the next day."@en1
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