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Reducing the financial programming period to five years, as also recommended in the Böge report – and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Böge for his particular contribution to this report – would provide concrete proof of the European institutions’ maturity and an indication of cutting red tape.
At the same time, we must be realistic and consider how feasible such a measure is so that we do not end up in extreme situations where it will take us two years to adopt a five-year budget. The key question is how we should go about simplifying the procedures so that European money is used within a reasonable period of time.
There are incidents which have already become legend involving European money which has failed to arrive months, if not years, after the time it was really needed. Just allow me to give you an example involving money from the Solidarity Fund. As you are aware, Romania is going to receive EUR 12 million for the five counties hit by flooding. The floods took place in the summer of last year, we voted on the issue this month, but it is likely that the money will not arrive until roughly a year after the floods took place. Romanians who receive this money will not be aware that they are being helped by the European Union."@en1
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