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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

I can do so by saying that enlargement should have been funded by radical reform of the common agricultural policy. Other whistleblowers have received the same shabby treatment as Marta Andreasen. When her colleague, Mr. Jules Muis, spoke our about the ““chronically sordid”” state of the EU’s accounts, he was told by a Commission official: ““We have ways of breaking people like you.”” By contrast, no action whatever was taken against the people in charge of Eurostat, where more than £3 million went missing, squandered on staff perks including a riding club and a volleyball team and siphoned off into front companies producing bogus research. They were simply shuffled sideways and continue to this day to collect big salaries or fat pensions. Despite a report from the Commission that admitted that there was a ““vast enterprise of looting”” at the EU’s statistics agency, the only person who was raided by the police over Eurostat was the journalist investigating the scandal. I urge the House to vote against the motion, because when the Prime Minister agreed the new EU budget in the early hours of Saturday 17 December last year, he betrayed the British taxpayer, betrayed the British consumer, and betrayed millions of the poorest people on the planet.