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"Mr President, I should like firstly to commend the rapporteur, and also Mr Sjöstedt for his opinion on this report. I have had the satisfaction of working on EIB matters for many years, and I often say that it is more difficult getting into the EIB than into Fort Knox. It is still a hard fight to obtain greater transparency and supervision where the EIB is concerned. The bank is still very unwilling to open its accounts and projects up to external supervision. It is almost impossible for the Court of Auditors to obtain access to documents. The bank always refers to banking secrecy or to the fact that the money does not come from the EU budget but from its own resources.
In March 1999, the EIB, the Commission and the Court of Auditors signed an agreement concerning the Court of Auditors’ being able to supervise the EIB, but I firmly believe that the agreement must be altered so that it gives the Court of Auditors the same right to supervise the EIB as it has to supervise the ECB. I am extremely pleased, moreover, that Parliament is now making this demand. Why should the EIB have special status? That is something I absolutely cannot accept. I would compare the EIB with the goblins’ bank in the Harry Potter books, namely a totally closed institution in which no one must interfere."@en1
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