Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-362"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2007 discharge: EU general budget - Council (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091124.34.2-362"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-24-Speech-2-3632
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-29--2012-02-12)3 vice-chair; CONT (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Groen (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2012-02-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Let us be honest, this remains a difficult exercise, and I am delighted that the President-in-Office of the Council is present. This represents a breakthrough. Indeed, it is the first time that the Presidency has attended this kind of debate, and I welcome this. Yet we must admit that this remains a difficult exercise. The Council is actually continuing to hide behind a kind of gentlemen’s agreement concluded at some point in the early 1970s – forty years ago – whereby Parliament and the Council agreed not to interfere in each other’s budgets, not to look into each other’s books and to let everything pass, like respectable gentlemen. This is a thing of the past, as the Council budget has changed fundamentally. Forty years ago, it consisted of nothing but administrative expenditure, whereas now operational expenditure has been added. Therefore, we must strive towards a breakthrough. We have broken the deadlock provisionally. We are prepared to grant discharge, but now we really must go a step further. After all, the problems have not been solved. We have the task of ensuring that transparency and democratic control apply to the Council’s budget and also to the budget of our own Parliament. Therefore, I agree with all those – speakers, rapporteur, speakers from the political groups – who have said clearly: look, this is a warning shot, we must go a step further in the next Council discharge exercise. The Annual Report of the Court of Auditors contains suggestions in this regard, and once again mentions matters concerning the SESAME Programme. Mrs Malmström, you may soon no longer be involved, but we are going to continue pushing for transparency."@en1
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