AfD Kompakt, March 7, 2022.
These alarming numbers show especially that the EU budget is
much too large. It is obviously impossible to accomplish all expenditures and activities
to the extent planned within a fiscal period.
With the not yet expended money, the EU behaves like a city
council which in December with the still remaining balances of its budgetary
positions quickly, and in any way for the most part unnecessarily, places
orders so that its budget in the following year will not be cut. In any event
in regards the EU, these still not paid out means will be accounted for in a
great heap with the designation “reste à liquider”
(commitments to be liquidated). Here thus will be parked around 300 billion
euros.
These giant, non-expended sums show that the EU budget’s
present apportion and implementation model is very much based on bureaucratic
and unrealistic guidelines.
If such prodigious sums are not expended on time, then they
obviously are also not needed. The planning was false and must be adapted to
the realities. The budget thus needs to be cut by this sum of 300 billion
euros, or by some 30 percent!
For the citizens of the EU, it would be a great relief if
the EU budget were smaller, more intelligent, better apportioned and
concentrated on the really sensible areas, as for example the common space
program, atomic energy and research, as well as securing the EU’s external
borders. In consideration, the citizens then need be burdened with clearly less
taxation. As your member, I will commit myself with all power for a distinctly more
frugal EU budget.
[trans: tem]
