Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-302"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Response to Second Report of Committee of Independent Experts2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.10.2-302"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-3032
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrietus van den Berg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, firstly I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to my colleague, Mr van Hulten. It is a good feeling to be able to say that he is from our delegation and I am, I think, entitled to feel a little proud of him. I would in any case like to congratulate him on his report. Mr President, the Commission’s resignation has also created a culture of fear amongst many officials within the hierarchy and large bureaucracy. The call to make a cultural U-turn and embrace a culture of responsibility seems to me a very fundamental one. I have witnessed from close up within the Development Committee how thousands of projects stagnate and how sometimes up to 80% of the money is not spent. Sometimes, an enormous reservoir of money is created, not because it is not desperately needed, not because there are no sound proposals, but because the whole system has collapsed. A lack of responsibility, too much not enough and, as a result, far too little in the way of a culture of real effective spending. It would be marvellous if this report were to give the green light to result-oriented spending of this kind, with all the work organised on that basis. When the Commission’s first draft report soon becomes the official report on 1 March, I very much hope that our input here will help ensure that we will actually witness this change. Without any doubt, this will then be a service, Mr President, to the European public and, by means of the results we produce, we will also regain and re-acquire something which we have ostensibly lost over the past couple of years. This is the best support we can give to European democracy. If, in this way, we can move away from the culture of the fifties and cross over into the next century, we are witnessing a very special moment indeed."@en1
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