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"Reliable, quality statistics are, without doubt, vital to the Member States and the EU when planning economic and fiscal policy. I abstained because, although it clearly refers to eliminating political interventions in statistics, the Scicluna report opts for an approach which, at certain points, leaves the door wide open to central political intervention by Eurostat and the Commission. In fact, it adopts a proposal for a systemic approach to the quality of statistics, by which I mean a philosophy of pre-agreed results. The pre-agreed results in today’s EU can very well be translated into austerity policies and drastic cutbacks to labour and social rights. Moreover, the Commission’s reports and the rapporteur are absolutely in line with the agreement on an Enhanced Economic Union that removes the tool of economic and fiscal policy from the Member States. Finally, the report erroneously concludes that the dangers of statistical fraud came to light with the debt crisis, overlooking the fact that, in numerous cases, statistics have long been manipulated and used arbitrarily, for which both the authorities of the Member State and Eurostat, in accepting them, have been to blame."@en1
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