Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-05-22-Speech-3-059-000"
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"Mr President, my group will vote against this motion. Not all members of the European Union are in the euro area and in my own country it is very clear that we will not be joining the euro.
I do believe in national sovereignty, therefore I do not think it is my place to tell euro area countries what to do. But there are moments in the euro area debates when the interests of non-euro area states are affected, and therefore speaking up becomes necessary.
The motion calls for a convergence and competitiveness instrument, which sounds innocent but could lead to large transfers of taxpayers’ money from one country to another and establishing a totally new part of the EU budget. Personally I cannot see why the citizens of the euro area would want to do this (and I wonder if they have even been asked), but I am concerned about the impact and the precedents this sets outside the euro area.
Under the MFF process, unanimous consent is needed from all 27 national parliaments on EU budget setting every seven years. Personally I think the EU budget is too large – and this Parliament thinks it should get even bigger. So I am very glad that national parliaments have that opportunity every seven years to rein the big spenders back in.
The resolution says in one place that it respects national sovereignty but then calls for a new budgetary mechanism under the Community method and outside the MFF ceilings, specifically to allow the European Parliament budgetary authority.
In layman’s terms I think this sets us on a slippery slope. It gives more powers to the European Parliament to overrule national governments on EU spending and it is clear from current polling across the EU that citizens, and particularly those within the euro area, already feel they have lost control of their destiny. I think it is for national parliaments to decide on budgetary matters and the role of the European Parliament must not be inflated."@en1
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