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This week, it became public knowledge that in all likelihood, the European Parliament has, for 25 years, been wrongly required to pay an excessive rent for the use of the buildings in Strasbourg. That was reason enough for putting off approval of the annual accounts until such time as this matter has been fully investigated. That, to my mind, is only fair.
At the same time, a similar scenario is being played out in the Committee of the Regions. Here too, there have been financial irregularities and an inquiry is underway. It is therefore beyond me that a majority now appears prepared to approve these annual accounts, even though inquiry into fraud is still running, and so nothing like all the facts are known. The fact that a majority of the Committee on Budgetary Control has rejected a planned hearing about the irregularities in the Committee on the Regions strikes me as very worrying.
It now looks like Parliament only objects to financial irregularities if its own money is involved. This is about funds that all Europeans together have to raise for fulfilling useful tasks, and those funds should not be wasted. I will therefore vote against approval of the Committee of the Regions’ annual accounts."@en1
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