Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-121"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.3.3-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". The European Union collects and distributes funding. It is predictable that such a large-scale and centralised distribution circuit will attract the attention of fraudsters. If money is doled out, people try to be one of the recipients. Some businessmen assume that they are entitled to subsidies from a government which is ostensibly overflowing with funding. That notion is reinforced by stories about enormous unsalable supplies for which there is seemingly no market which have been doing the rounds for decades. These stockpiles are partly the result of subsidies. It started 40 years ago with the scrap fraud and continues until this day. In the case of the strong growth of the flax production in Spain and the subsequent burning of superfluous supplies, even the name of the then Agricultural Minister, now a member of the European Commission, has been quoted in connection with this case. Only by halting the unnecessary flow of money can such frauds be brought to an end. National and regional governments can make more accurate assessments and manage that money far more effectively than the European Union, which is too remote from everyone and which gives the impression that it has too much money anyway."@en1

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