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"Mr President, the large groups in this House must be feeling like the cat that got the cream, for there will now be millions pouring into their party coffers, and they will be able to afford fun and games throughout Europe. The result of our debates is, then, that the taxpayer will have to finance and pay for all manner of banquets held by European political parties. It is annoying, but there is no altering matters. It is therefore our most important task to ensure that the aid is transparent. It needs to be possible for any citizen to check all donations to the parties on the Internet and, in the same way, the European parties’ accounts must be accessible to anyone curious about them.
Matters are not very satisfactory at present. For example, the accounts of the three big political parties are closed and opaque affairs. This is something we need, of course, to sort out, and I should therefore like to call for detailed monitoring of, and clear rules governing, what the money is used for. Allow me therefore to call upon everyone to take a look at the parties’ accounts in order to see whether they can in actual fact deduce anything from them. I can tell you now that they will not be able to. All they will be able to do is hope that party members will have had some really good junkets and beanfeasts around Europe at the taxpayers’ expense."@en1
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