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"Mr President, since I oppose virtually everything that the European Union proposes to spend money on during the budget year of 2006, I cannot be expected to support this report or its motion for a resolution.
The European Union is a self-perpetuating mega-bureaucracy that has carte blanche to finance its own programmes. I particularly oppose the allocation of funds for the brainwashing of young people, referred to in this report as being used for advancing the idea of Europe. I believe that even the most backward of students will be aware that the continent of Europe has been around for quite some time and is a bit more than an idea.
Bringing secondary school pupils to this institution for all-expenses-paid visits, during which they will be given disingenuous one-sided briefings about the wonders of the European Union, is a crude brainwashing exercise, as is the flooding of educational establishments with equally one-sided literature.
The report’s repeated references to the now almost wholly discredited Lisbon Strategy hardly add to its credibility. I would urge any Member of this institution who generally believes in democracy and accountability to the electorate to vote against this budget and any other documents that purport to legitimise it."@en1
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