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"The European institutions are all the more costly because they are harmful and generate unwarranted and excessive spending in an effort to justify their existence and increase their own powers and visibility.
In that context, this penny-pinching approach and the hypocritical calls to curb budgetary increases which appear in the report, and which are addressed to all the institutions except the Commission, come across as hypocritical and derisory, particularly when we know that the EU, paradoxically, employs fewer officials than the city of Paris alone, and that MEPs have systematically, and often opaquely, been opposed to making cutbacks to their own lifestyle.
We eagerly await the report on the Commission’s budget, management and policies, to see if, by any chance, and for once, this House will have the courage to slash unnecessary spending on advertising and clientelism."@en1
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