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"Mr President, Commissioner, it is absolutely undeniable that, when criminal fraud is being perpetrated and when the national authorities are failing to address the problems, the protection of the Community’s financial interests is not working or is working poorly, and that the present situation is unsustainable, as Mr Bösch recalled a short while ago with regard to the situation in Luxembourg.
Our rapporteur, Diemut Theato, has been tireless in calling for a European Public Prosecutor to be established in order to address this situation. Commissioner Schreyer has also given her unrelenting support to this initiative, and I therefore wish to congratulate both of them on their hard work and dedication. Nevertheless, and with all the friendship, consideration and respect that I have for them, I must highlight two aspects of this matter that I believe are crucial.
I believe that European citizens would not understand our institutions resolving once again to consider only economic issues, ignoring the concept of citizenship. I do not think it is acceptable to establish a European Prosecutor who looks after our financial interests but who ignores, for example, crimes involving the trafficking of human beings, particularly of children.
Furthermore, the number of European bodies working in the field of preventing, fighting and prosecuting crime, Europol, Eurojust and OLAF, and the complexity of defining the scope of each of these counsel caution in this field. The worst situation we could face would be to increase the entropy of the system, with the various bodies being concerned only with their own competences, without the fight against economic crime on a European scale being pursued more effectively.
I wish to say a final word to express my reservations about the principles of the secrecy of justice and of the independence of the prosecutor’s office when adopted as absolute principles, as has happened, in the latter case, with the Commission Green Paper. One only has to bear in mind the disappointing results achieved in my country in this field to understand the need not to make the same mistakes."@en1
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