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"Mr President, Commissioner, I arrived in Strasbourg yesterday, so in the afternoon I saw quite a few older men playing bowls and children skateboarding and playing football in the sun. I cannot help thinking of them today, when we are debating the 2013 budget. How do I explain to them that the Commission wants a 6.8 % increase in the 2013 budget? I can certainly tell them that subsequently the Council of national Ministers was angry about the increase and was not willing to approve it.
If I have to tell them, though, that the European Parliament wants an even bigger increase, as much as 7 %, that is impossible for me to explain! Mr President, I cannot explain that, nor do I wish to. We cannot saddle our parents, who have built our countries up, and our children, who should be able to go on living in hope in the future, with such a terrible proposal by the Commission and this Parliament. So the most sensible thing we can do today is to throw the Commission proposal straight in the wastepaper bin and ask for a different budget proposal, this time with substantial savings and a sizeable reduction in the 2013 budget. The PVV cannot settle for less, nor, I hope, can any other sensible Members of this Parliament.
The budget proposed for 2013 is a disgrace and I absolutely reject it on behalf of the people of the Netherlands, whom Mr Schulz accuses of navel-gazing."@en1
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