Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-22-Speech-4-032-000"
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"en.20121122.7.4-032-000"2
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"Madam President, this is now shamefully the 18th year in a row that the auditors cannot clear the EU budget. Worse, 50 % of the samples taken by the auditors show irregularities. The excuses the Commission puts forward are always the same: it is the fault of the Member States: they commit the irregularities. But taxpayers entrust their monies to the European Commission, which abjectly fails to perform essential controls before it hands the cash over to the Member States.
This House is also to blame by continually rubber-stamping the EU budget on the basis that ‘error’ does not necessarily mean ‘fraud’. Well, if a farmer gets money for the welfare of his 150 sheep and the auditors find that he does not have any, in the real world this would be considered fraud. The point is that if the Commission refuses to take responsibility for taxpayers’ money and blames Member States, why does it ask for more money to fund those same Member States? This is yet another reason why the EU budget should be cut. What are we waiting for?"@en1
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