SIR – It is now up to the MEPs to pass the EU budget cuts decided at the summit in Brussels last week, with many fearing a majority of MEPs would oppose a cut to the EU budget.
They have even decided to vote in secret so that the electorate will not know how they voted.
The socialist leader of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz, who has openly opposed the conclusions from the EU council summit of European leaders, even threatening to veto the final decision, announced the plan with Joseph Daul, leader of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament.
If this comes to pass, then it is a dark, dark day for democracy, voting down the plans to cut the EU budget, despite the widely held belief that cuts to EU spending are essential. A secret vote flies in the face of political liberty and once again shows the EU up to be the biased and corrupt anti-democratic organisation that it is.
Most people in the UK fail to understand the fanaticism of the European institutions for creating a federal union, whatever the process.
For people like Schulz, the means justify the end.
M DALEBO
Worcester
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