Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-10-25-Speech-2-424-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2016-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fight against corruption and follow-up of the CRIM resolution (A8-0284/2016 - Laura Ferrara)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20161025.40.2-424-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-10-25-Speech-2-425-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Hannan2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, man is fallen. Some people in every society and every system will give into temptation. Corruption is, if you like, not a product of politics, it is the normal state of affairs. The amazing thing is that in Western, democratic societies we have found ways to constrain it and to incentivise people not just systematically to loot the state. But one thing we know is that you diminish the capacity for corruption when you take decisions as closely as possible to the people that they affect. This is the fundamental problem with our structures here and in Brussels. It is not that the European Union attracts bad people – of course, it attracts some bad people like everywhere else. It is that there is such a distance between people and decision-makers; there is such a tenuous link between taxation representation and expenditure that the system encourages, at best, negligent spending and, at worst, straightforward graft. The solution of course is to push powers downwards and outwards to national or local authorities, or better yet to individual citizens."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3,3 member; PETI (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Daniel Hannan (ECR )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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