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"Mr President, I am grateful to Mrs Yade for being present at this debate on a subject that causes citizens so much concern. This Parliament is coming to the end of a term in which we have tried to tell the taxpayer that we check the accounts here and that we do so as well as possible. We admit that mistakes are made and things are not always done correctly but, above all, we have calculated the amount of fraud and we are doing everything we can. That is why we set up OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, ten years ago. It is now in urgent need of an appropriate legal framework. Mrs Yade, if you say that we should wait for the Commission to produce its report and only then begin to negotiate what may be the definitive statute for OLAF, we will be wasting time. The elections are coming and we will then be in another parliamentary term. The message that we want to put out to Europe’s citizens is that everyone here – the Council, the French and Czech Presidencies, this Parliament and the Commission – is committed to putting an end to the kind of fraud that exists in developing countries and even in highly developed countries. Thank you, Mrs Yade, for being present at this debate, and I regret that the Commission is not here too."@en1
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