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"Today, Parliament voted on candidates to the Court of Auditors (CoA). If this body is to be an independent scrutiniser, we should not be casting such votes. Independence from the political process is key.
However, the reality is very different. The EU budget has not been signed off by the CoA for 17 years, yet the institutions’ budgetary processes carry on as normal. What is the point of the CoA if they are ignored? This week, the CoA lambasted the fishing industry. The problem with these reports is that they apply to all 27 EU Member States. Therefore, those doing a good job get swamped by those not.
Where the Northern Ireland/UL fleet is concerned: Unlike the Republic of Ireland and other countries, it is more than 20 years since EU funds were used to finance new fishing vessels. In NI, the whitefish fleet, which comprised over 40 trawlers in 1999, is now numbered at four. At the end of the 1990s, the NI over 10m fleet was comprised of 240 vessels, today, 140 are in the same size category. Even the EC’s own figures confirm that the total fishing effort in the Irish Sea dropped by 50% between 2004 and 2009."@en1
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