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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

I must pick up the hon. Gentleman on the pointmade by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) about the huge subsidies that the European Union uses to block free and fair trade with the rest of the world. My hon. Friend and I attended the World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong in December and, as a British delegate, I felt deeply embarrassed by the number of African and Asian delegates who came to see me who were absolutely appalled at the way in which the European Union was behaving. When is the European Union going to address that?