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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say a few words on the discharge to be granted to two European bodies: the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee.
Quite apart from some serious errors of management, especially as far as the Economic and Social Committee is concerned, I am puzzled by the very nature of their budgets, which are purely administrative. For both, in fact, we have 70% of expenditure on staff and the remaining 30% on buildings. I wonder what real added value these institutions can give to Europe. I am definitely in favour of a Europe of the regions, but the way the body supposed to represent them here is structured seems to me to make it pretty useless.
Over EUR 200 million is spent on these two institutions each year with no concrete return. In their current form, these two consultative committees, which are effectively powerless, represent what Europe should not be; that is to say, a collection of bureaucratic structures existing solely for their own sake."@en1
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