A TRANSPARENT AND
ACCOUNTABLE EUROPE
THAT COSTS LESS
Our achievements
• Unlike Labour and the Liberal Democrats,
campaigned for a referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty, having been elected on a
pledge to oppose the original EU
Constitution – a commitment we have
pursued energetically.
• Spoken in every major constitutional and
institutional debate, consistently arguing
that the Constitution should be rejected.
• Refused to approve the EU accounts each
and every year since 1998.
• Sought to cut the EU budget, especially on
wasteful spending like tobacco subsidies
and holding sessions in Strasbourg.
• Introduced the most far-reaching rules on
transparency on MEPs’ expenses of any
British political party. Conservative MEPs
detail how they use their expenses in a
‘right to know’ form that is published on
our website twice a year – the only British
political party in the European Parliament
to publish this information.
• Consistently voted for greater transparency
on the auditing of MEPs’ expenses and for
reform of MEPs’ expenses.
Our aims
• Press on with the campaign for a
referendum on the renamed EU
Constitution.
• Resist the extension of EU power over our
criminal justice system.
• Address the lack of trust in the EU – for
example, by working for a greater link
between MEPs and their constituencies
and by pushing for greater scrutiny of EU
legislation at home.
• Work for a firm cap on the EU budget,
saving €1 billion a year.
• Defend the UK’s rebate – the UK should
not pay more than its fair share.
• Continue to vote against the EU accounts
until they are cleared by auditors.
• Force a vote in the European Parliament on
scrapping meetings in Strasbourg, which
waste around £150 million each year.
• Push for other parties to follow our lead on
expenses and sign up to our ‘right to know’
regime.
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