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"Mr President, one of the things that we are often told is that we need to be in the European Union in order to have a seat at the table. Something that struck me in the years that I have been doing this job is how many of these EU directives and regulations are there to give effect to guidelines or rules that come from an even higher, more international level, this one being a very good example. This report is about implementing an OECD agreement. It could have equally have been an International Labour Organization agreement or a UN convention. What happens in practice is that the European Union has one seat at the table and then Norway and Switzerland and the other independent countries have their own seats so in fact, far from getting a seat at the table, the Member States are surrendering their seat at the table where the law is actually made in exchange for a voice over how to implement it when it has come down.
Since we did not get an explanation of the vote I would like to use my last five seconds to say something about the Roth-Behrendt report. It is extraordinary when we are raising taxes and cutting civil service pay around Europe that our own employees are exempt from both of those things, that their salaries keep rising and that they pay no tax. We are in a pre-revolutionary, pre-1789 situation where decision-makers are immune from the consequences of their own decisions."@en1
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