Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-16-Speech-2-114"
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"Mr President, I have taken the floor for the last time to declare, once again, that it was with no reservations that I voted against the Bösch report on the 1998 report on the fight against fraud. This is not because I do not approve of fighting all types of fraud – of course I do! Naturally I support this fight. However, I feel that in order to genuinely fight fraud in the European Union we need to change Europe’s expenditure system. The same report states that these EUR 1 019 million which have disappeared as a result of fraud are only the tip of the iceberg. Now, we know that 10% of an iceberg is visible but the other 90% is underwater and therefore hidden. Therefore, the European Union is being defrauded of something in the region of EUR 10 000 million. It is absolutely essential that we change the way we spend our money."@en1
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