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"Mr President, in the EUR 155 billion budget there are lots of budget lines that are worthy of discussion. For the moment I will leave aside the budget line relating to the 35 staff members, including an usher, that are allocated to the President of Parliament. These are the baubles, bangles and beads of that office, an office which itself is a form of political costume jewellery.
I am specifically going to address the budget line that relates to the instrument for pre-accession that is paid out to candidate countries. This was EUR 11.5 billion for the years 2007-2013 and another EUR 11.7 billion has already been allocated for 2014-2020. The context for candidate countries is, as Mr Juncker has stated, and I quote: ‘in the next five years no new members will be joining us in the European Union’. It is therefore very hard to understand why candidate countries will be receiving pre-accession funding at this level. Indeed, it is hard to understand why they are receiving pre-accession funding at all.
One egregious abnormality in this is the amount of pre-accession funding that is going to Turkey. Today’s Turkey systematically violates human rights and in a further outrage has yet to acknowledge what happened a hundred years ago."@en1
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