Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-30-Speech-3-187"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financial Regulation applicable to the EC general budget2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010530.11.3-187"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-30-Speech-3-1882
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to follow Mr Dell'Alba and particularly Mr van Hulten; while I do not share his political aspirations, I recognise his ability as a young person who one day will probably lead the European Union to great heights. I also recognise that budgetary discipline is based on certain principles: unity, annuality, equilibrium, unit of account, universality, and specification. However the external budget also requires transparency, because our external budget is constantly exposed to corruption. There are many practical problems which we have to look at in the external budget. First, development cooperation is better served by multi-annual programmes rather annual programmes but in the EU this is not so. We have an annual programme which does not work consistently in terms of output targets. Second, output targets are not measured in terms of external budgets so that we do not finally know what we have done with our taxpayers' money. We can never come back to Parliament and report on what has happened with our taxpayers' money. Third, the external budget is constantly underspent while those in need suffer poverty, malnutrition, hunger, disease, underdevelopment and loss of education and life-quality opportunities. Yet, rather than return the funds which are predicted at the beginning of the budget to be unspent – which could then be returned back to Member States who could spend that money more effectively – we keep this money for more than three years and then overspend it. I want to be proud of what we do. I want the world to recognise that we make a substantial contribution. I want our development assistance programme to be the best in the world. We have a long way to go before we achieve that."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)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 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Deva (PPE-DE )."1

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