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dcterms:Date	"2011-12-01"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111201.4.4-080-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, Parliament seems reluctantly to have accepted a 2012 budget with an increase below 2%, effectively less than 2011 in real terms, but what an opportunity has been missed for Parliament to show that it is in the real world and getting to grips with economic reality. Do we honestly think that funds have been well spent in the past by the European Union or that they will be well spent in the future? Across Europe, governments are having to cut their budgets to overcome massive deficits while desperately trying to induce economic growth. Meanwhile, the European Union’s appetite just seems to grow. This budget should have seen major substantive cuts, with funds returned to the treasuries of our countries. All the EU’s efforts should be focused on economic growth, on competition, and indeed on areas such as research and development. Instead, over the years, it has accrued more and more areas of competence where frankly it has no business. There are whole swathes of activity that the European Union could cut. We could have set an example with Parliament’s own budget, admittedly only a small part of the overall budget but nevertheless significant, costing some EUR 1.6 billion a year. New Direction, the think-tank, has identified cuts that could easily have been made – a quarter of the budget could be cut, some EUR 400 million could be saved by this Parliament without affecting the core roles of this House. The driving force in Parliament’s costs has been the massive inflation of Parliament’s bureaucracy, out of all proportion to the number of MEPs. Parliament owns or rents some 62 buildings. We see no way at the moment in which they seem to be cutting back. It is time for the European Union to end excess."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Geoffrey Van Orden,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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