Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-28-Speech-3-151"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Follow-up to 2001 discharges (Commission)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040128.12.3-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-28-Speech-3-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--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) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, today, we know a lot more about what happened in Eurostat than we did when the decision was taken to grant discharge for 2001. It is very possible that the decision would have been otherwise if we had known what we know today. There is no doubt that what took place that year were serious offences against the Financial Regulation: secret accounts, embezzlement and obvious conflicts of interest. Mr Casaca’s report is not bad. It is critical, but what is missing is a conclusion. We think it fair that the Commissioner responsible for Eurostat should have taken the political consequences and resigned. In many ways, this scandal resembles those that caused the Santer Commission to resign. A systematic and organised misuse of EU funds has taken place, and there has been a failure to intervene in time. Mr Solbes Mira says that he was not informed until April 2003, but we all know that there had been many warning signs before that date in auditors’ reports and in the press, as well as warnings by Parliament. When Mr Prodi began his term of office, he was very clear about political responsibility. The Commissioners were responsible for what happened within their Directorates-General. That proud watchword, issued at the beginning of the term of office, proved to have little substance when it came to the Eurostat affair."@en1

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