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"Mr President, as both a member of the Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats and representative of the Pensioners' Party, I feel that this is a major, necessary measure and that it has come at the right time. Not only does it, obviously, deal with accounts and allow Parliament to keep abreast of the Member States' accounts – which is very important, as we know – but it also puts paid to the habitual practice of various States of the Union, especially the State which I represent in this Parliament, namely Italy, whose accounting system is wont to resemble a conjuring trick, particularly where taxes and social contributions are concerned – social contributions which are extremely important for pensioners. Conjuring tricks are performed: money appears and disappears at the drop of a hat. For example, we are told that the contributions paid in by workers are not sufficient for the State to be able to give them a large enough pension. Very often this is untrue, and there must have been some real conjuring tricks going on if a State is able to tell workers who have worked all their lives and have finally reached the point where they are entitled to their hard-earned, longed for pensions that there is no money left to pay them. This is a lie: the accounts have been fiddled. So roll on the adoption of the Knörr Borràs report!"@en1
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