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"en.20061114.5.2-020"2
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"Madam President, all of us in this House are saying that the Court of Auditors has produced a good report – it is informative and clearer than it usually is. What does the report tell us? Well, it tells us that anomalies are continuing to occur just as much as before, and we have to ask ourselves whether we are to continue living with such anomalies. What we have here is, of course, an entirely unreasonable approach to the problems. What is needed is an examination of how and why things have got into this state and clear proposals from the Commission concerning what is to be done. Any examination of this nature would necessarily lead one to observe that most of what goes wrong has to do with the agricultural policy. There are, besides this, very many other reasons to change the agricultural policy, in fact to do away with it all together. If that happened, a very large proportion of the problems that we see in this context would simply disappear.
I would nonetheless still like to remind the House that it bears a very great part of the blame for the EU losing its good reputation among the peoples of Europe. This House always votes to back everyone up but in practice never insists on responsibility. It was pathetic to see the leaders of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats standing here in Parliament, practically in tears, telling us that they felt compelled to postpone the granting of discharge to Parliament itself as a result of the scandal relating to the buildings here in Strasbourg. Despite the fact that I pointed out that discharge should not be granted to the Committee of the Regions, it was granted anyway. We cannot go on like this."@en1
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