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"Mr President, the EU budget for developing countries has a deficit in the order of EUR 50 billion. At the same time, however, financing for development is considered to be insufficiently effective, especially in light of the fact that millions of European citizens are living below the poverty line, even though numerous areas of the European Union have exited the economic crisis.
Therefore, we are forced to raise the basic issue of more intensive management and efficacy controls of European taxpayers’ money, especially now, at a time of severe economic crisis and serious effort to rescue the euro and the euro area. I have always ardently supported the need for bold support for underdeveloped and developing countries, because it benefits the people of Europe in the medium term. However, this is not possible without adequate and strict controls, so that the European taxpayers’ money is not lost in the black hole of corruption and unaccountability.
I will go even further, beyond financing for development: it is not right that Greek citizens, for example, should be subjected to humiliating terms and degradation in order to save a Member State of the euro area while, at the same time, millions are being lost left, right and centre due to the lack of controls. Not a single cent of European taxpayers’ money should be handed over without controls and accountability.
To go even further still, pre-accession aid should also be subject to controls. I was recently in Turkey, which boasts that it is spending millions to become the leading country in the area, in Gaza, in Libya and in the Horn of Africa, while, at the same time, complaining that it is receiving crumbs from the European Union.
We do not want the European taxpayers’ money to be used for weapons and nuclear programmes and multidimensional national policies; we want it to be used for development projects."@en1
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