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"Madam President, you might expect that I would, as a Eurosceptic, give the same speech as last year. You might expect me to make much of the continuing high error rate in the EU’s accounts or the auditor’s adverse opinion on the legality and regularity of payment underlying the accounts. But actually, Commissioner Georgieva is doing one thing right in talking about performance-based budgeting, as it is not just about the high error rate that we see, it is also about whether money spent actually provides value for money.
There is one example in the Court of Auditors’ report that I find particularly instructive, in which it describes a sewage system in Greece: they built the plant, they built the network, but nobody had connected the system to people’s homes, even though the project had been six years in the making from 2007 to 2013. EU funds – taxpayers’ money – achieve nothing if a system cannot actually be used.
At the confirmation hearing over a year ago, before Commissioner Georgieva took office, I asked whether they had introduced failure criteria so that we would know whether a project was a success or a failure, in other words what it looked like.
Well in my view it is 40 years too late, but the Commission is actually talking about doing something about the problem. Here is my question: is this actually going to be implemented in a way which will be critical when needed? Will we shine a light, not just on fraud or errors but on bad planning? And as the 4.4% error rate is a drop in the ocean, metaphorically as well as in reality, we need to clean out the sewer."@en1
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