This is the attitude of those who are our real rulers [not that lot
at Westminster!] to those whom they rule.
It’s contempt for the peoples of Europe.
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bureaucrats for squandering billions of EU taxpayers money on red
tape and subsidies.
The report “Food for Thought” by Dr Lee Rotherham , said the current
Common Agriculture (CAP) budget cost £66bn in increased red tape over
the past 10 years and called for it to be scrapped. It also showed
that corporate firms like Tate & Lyle and Nestle were benefiting from
millions in subsidies (£357m and £38m respectively) as well as bodies
that have little to do with agriculture such as Belfast International
Airport and the Cambridge Pet Crematorium, while small farmers got
nothing.
The total CAP budget is now £42bn, which includes £72m paid for civil
servants, and the European commission wants to increase the entire
budget by another £400m next year.
Eu agriculture minister Mariann Fischer Boel recently responded to
outrage over commissioners’ inflated pensions with the boast; “I’m
worth the millions.” EU taxpayers and farmers may not agree.
Commission spokesperson, Johannes Laitenberger explained meanwhile
that their world “had nothing to do with the economic crisis of the
world outside” and that payments to Commissioners were just a way to
preserve their independence.
The Commission has also refused to modify the EU’s multi-billion
budget, despite the recession and its own profligate spending sprees,
while EU budget commissioner Daloia Grybaiskaite said all 27 EU
countries would just have [to] make up any shortfall themselves.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
PRIVATE EYE 1234 17-30.4.09
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