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"Madam President, there were moments today during the debate when one felt as if one was in an Ionesco play. All these wonderful speeches about how we needed more money to stimulate the economy and get people working again. Of course, where it is all going is higher entertainment allowances, protected pensions, higher salaries. Even if we though that it was a good idea for the EU to have a redistributory role in finance, do you know which Member State of all the Member States is the biggest per capita net recipient from the EU budget? Luxembourg!
Although of course common humanity bids us recognise an obligation to the poorest people on the planet, no one has ever explained to me why it is right to give four times as much support to wealthy French farmers as to poor African farmers. But the delicious moment of irony came right at the end. After all the speeches about how we needed more money to make us more efficient and we were cutting out all the waste and we were really focusing on growth, the EU spent EUR 600 000 awarding its own film prize."@en1
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