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"Mr President, this is the tenth year that the European Court of Auditors has not given a positive Statement of Assurance – DAS – on the Commission’s accounts. We have recently seen whistleblowers hounded out of their jobs, and the charter that Mr Kinnock set out for whistleblowers is simply not working. We have no decent benchmarks from the Court of Auditors, so Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control cannot judge whether things are improving within the Commission’s accounts. And the buck does not seem to stop with the Commission, even though the Treaties say that it does: the Commission is always pointing the finger at the Member States saying that is where the money goes missing and it is not its problem.
Finally, the European Parliament is blinkered. It does not want to cause any trouble for the Commission, whilst all the time people in my constituency – in Leicester, in Lincoln, in Louth, in Rushcliffe in Nottingham – write to me asking what we are doing to sort out the Commission’s accounting problems. Parliament has chosen to do nothing. That is why I voted against the discharges."@en1
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