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"Mr President, it is the Member States that have the responsibility to collect taxes and fight fraud, yet here the EU is trying to extend its legislative competence.
It is obviously true that fraud is often committed across international borders, often by the multinationals that are so beloved by the EU’s neo-liberal policies. But ‘borders’ means all borders, and not just the borders of Member States. Action needs to be by extensive international agreement and not confined to the EU.
On another subject, to talk about growth, jobs and competitiveness in the context of the EU’s energy policy is wildly optimistic. Renewable energy might well be a desirable ideal, but it is inefficient and expensive. High energy costs will not create growth, jobs and competitiveness, they will destroy them.
Suppliers of energy wishing to use fossil fuels are penalised financially, and those plants will eventually be closed down. To make matters worse, emergent countries seem to be immune from strictures against the use of fossil fuels.
In the UK we have vast quantities of oil locked in the ground as the result of Mrs Thatcher’s policies in the 1980s. We must discard our prejudices against fossil fuels and against nuclear energy. They will be the key to growth and jobs.
The difficulty facing the eurozone will doubtless come up. Perhaps they might heed the words of Oscar Lafontaine and begin an orderly dismantling of the eurozone. Only escape from the eurozone will rescue the troubled economies of the South from permanent stagnation."@en1
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