Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-04-Speech-3-075"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-04-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010404.3.3-075"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-04-Speech-3-0762
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr Blak’s report contains many points of criticism with regard to the European Union’s expenditure and the responsibility for this. According to his recommendations, a great deal needs to change yet. Further to this justified criticism, the logical conclusion would be for Parliament once again to vote against the discharge of the previous budget year. Voting against is Parliament’s only means of exercising power in order to bring about change and to challenge the Council’s and the Commission’s arrogance. Voting in favour, following a series of pleas, is not such a powerful weapon. That would be a mere signal that everything can simply stay the same, even if there is little or no change ultimately. Does approval mean that, after a few demands and critical remarks, we will turn a blind eye to a number of fraud cases, such as the fraud case in Spain on which an OLAF report has been published recently? I will not grant approval until these instances of fraud have been resolved, the perpetrators penalised and the money concerned paid back. Until such time, it is not wise to trust to the good intentions of the new European Commission which took up office in the autumn of 1999. To my great surprise, the otherwise so critical rapporteur now proposes to grant approval. I do not share his view on this."@en1

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