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"Mr President, it will not surprise you, I’m sure, to learn there is much that I disagree with when it comes to the proposals for the 2018 budget.
Firstly, using our taxpayers’ money for projects which are broadly political in nature, whether so-called information campaigns or pre-accession funding given to third countries. And secondly, there are projects which would be better funded, better achieved, by Member States themselves. Rather than sending money across to the European Union for it to come back, it is sometimes better to simply cut out the middleman.
Thirdly, there is the waste, mismanagement and fraud within the EU budget – and we still do not really know, with EU funded projects, whether they have actually added enough value to be worth the money that has been spent on them. Fourthly, there is a failure to respect subsidiarity: doing things at EU level when there is no actual need to do so. And fifthly, of course, the waste in administration, which is so well known anyway.
There is much more that I could say on this, but what it all leads to is a budget that is perpetually too high, and it leads every year to the EU scrambling around to find ways to increase funding.
In the UK in 2010, when Labour was voted out of office, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury famously left his successor a note saying ‘There’s no more money left’, and this seems to happen here every year. If you tried to do less but better you would not find these issues coming up so often. Remember: a spending cap is meant to be a cap, not a target."@en1
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