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"Mr President, the agencies have indeed been a very controversial topic in this debate, and therefore I would like to use my second lot of speaking time to talk about these agencies very briefly.
Ms Haug is right to say that the agencies have been very strongly criticised over the last seven years or more. In my opinion, however, this criticism has been justified. There is duplication of work, there are questionable decisions with regard to locations, there are questions in relation to the legal basis in primary law, there are oversized management boards, and many more issues besides. Thus, there are some very urgent questions that need to be raised here. These are clearly horizontal questions, I realise that.
However, new questions have now arisen with regard to three specific agencies. These relate to conflicts of interest – not just one conflict of interest, but several. There are also unresolved questions relating to tendering procedures, and there are questions concerning the squandering of taxpayers’ money.
Of course, it is up to each individual Member to decide whether or not to grant discharge. However, I would like to remind the House that we recently had some very serious cases of corruption here in this House, and that is precisely why this House has an obligation here – it really has an obligation – to deal adequately with conflicts of interests. I would also like to recall – and I should perhaps direct this comment to Mr Geier – that the decision we are to take today is not whether to refuse discharge.
We are deciding today whether to postpone discharge. In other words, it is a question of whether we have a bit more time, or whether the agency has a bit more time to answer the questions that are still outstanding. For this reason, I very much believe that every Member has an obligation here to allow this extra time, and I would therefore also like to ask for support for Ms Macovei’s proposal. I think she has done an excellent job and, in this regard, I would also like to compliment her on her work."@en1
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