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"Mr President, in my one minute of speaking time I shall focus on regional policy and specifically the risk that there may not be a regional policy for some states after the conclusion of the negotiations on the financial perspectives.
Commissioner, I welcome your commitment to the original Commission proposals, although we have heard from other sources that the Commission – somewhere – is preparing for alternative outcomes. I would ask you to consider publishing what analysis you have carried out of alternative outcomes of the financial perspectives. That would be particularly helpful to the debate within our own nation-states.
My own country, the UK – as opposed to my own nation, Scotland – is putting forward a position that is as unconstructive as it is unclear. An objective analysis of what the UK position would mean in terms of numbers and political ramifications would be a hugely helpful contribution to the debate. The UK contribution to the debate thus far, with its position on the UK rebate, the statistical effect, the nationalisation of structural funds and the limiting of the EU budget to one per cent of GNI is nothing less than a cumulative act of vandalism. An objective analysis of this contribution from the Commission would be a very helpful debating tool for us in the United Kingdom."@en1
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