Triples with object This report is all about the preparations for the 2017 EU Budget. Since there is no fundamental prospect of cutting the huge amounts of taxpayers’ money sent to Brussels, we would vote against it on principle anyway. But the report is also highly critical, stating that ‘the Union budget has in recent years been a collateral victim of Member States’ duplicitous behaviour’. We do not believe that the Union should lecture Member States when the Member States are already providing too much finance to the European Union.