Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-062"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection under criminal law of the Union's financial interests2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.3.2-062"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-0632
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating Mrs Theato on her report. I think it is a first-class report which will, for the most part, be supported by my group. I just have the distinct feeling that she would have preferred to take it a little further at this stage. Judging from the discussions held over the past five or six months, this could well be the case. We all know that, in 1995, it was agreed that the Union’s financial interests should be given better protection under criminal law. But the Member States failed to cooperate. This is just a political fact about which little can be done at present, I think. It is now possible, on the basis of Article 280 of the Treaty, that the Commission will take new initiatives, and I would like to suggest to the Commission that it do this at the earliest opportunity. Unlike the previous speaker, who has now disappeared, my group is strongly in favour of a European Public Prosecutor. My colleague Jan-Kees Wiebenga, will undoubtedly take this point further because he has already published a report on the same subject matter. I think what we need is, at European level, to come up with exact definitions of fraud and irregularity as quickly as possible. I myself have been involved in the committee of inquiry on transit traffic. One of the major problems in this area was that if you do something wrong, especially when it comes to revenue of the European Union, then this will be termed an irregularity in one country and a crime in another. This, I thought, is no longer permissible, certainly not at the moment. I would like to make one general point on politics. Whatever we may say about the European elections, the low turnout is a fact. We can improve on this by punishing crime in Europe quickly, and this must be done at European level."@en1

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