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"We Liberals have always stood up for efficient control and the fight against fraud, precisely in connection with irregularities in the EU budget. This is also the reason for our fundamental agreement with the Theato report. Nevertheless, we are highly aware of the problem of legal competence. In this context, the Member States are called upon to check, during discussions of the reform of the Treaties, if there is any sense or purpose in creating EU offences. It should be emphasised that the current legal situation does not, in our view, allow this. The role of a “European public prosecutor”, albeit under any other name, implies serious intervention of a sovereign nature and therefore needs fundamental discussion. The very fact that only a few Member States have ratified the convention on the protection of the financial interests of the Union again illustrates the limits on the potential for integration. However, we expressly emphasise that there can be no question of communitisation and that harmonisation of offences should be limited to the proposed areas. In all events, the creation of uniform European criminal law is not in keeping with our objectives."@en1
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