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"On the face of it, what we are debating today is the next European Union framework budget, but in fact much more is at stake, namely Europe’s future. We speak of Europe wanting to recover from the crisis and develop, and Member States are being called upon to implement sustainable structural reforms. Meanwhile, however, we are ignoring the fact that withdrawn resources are not much use either for building from scratch or for catching up. To some extent it is understandable that the net contributors have a touch of solidarity fatigue, but all the same it is not acceptable. Cohesion policy is one of the genuine success stories in the history of the EU, but you will destroy it if you continue down this path. However, I also agree with Mr Farage that the previous Hungarian Socialist government’s use of Community funds to support canine fitness programmes is unacceptable. As Commission President Barroso said, waving a magic wand will achieve little. Speaking as an economist, I would say that now is not the time to scrutinise the budget line by line, but to make clear policy decisions."@en1
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