Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-10-18-Speech-1-193"
Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
---|---|
rdf:type | |
dcterms:Date | |
dcterms:Is Part Of | |
dcterms:Language | |
lpv:document identification number |
"en.20101018.17.1-193"2
|
lpv:hasSubsequent | |
lpv:speaker | |
lpv:spokenAs | |
lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, Jean-Claude Juncker said yesterday that we have been putting pressure on the Greek Government to take appropriate action since 2008, but that we have not gone public with the problems, because Eurogroup is an unofficial body. The Commission has intimated that the Greek deficit for 2009 will be over 15%, compared with the forecast of 5% in May 2009.
What I ask myself is this: how can 10 percentage points of GDP be overlooked? Surely the Ministers for Finance were aware of this when they met in Ecofin, which was institutionally competent, instead of Eurogroup? The problem, therefore, was not so much the inability to make a forecast as compliance with political criteria. However, surely Greek citizens, as European taxpayers, were entitled to know? What we ultimately need is more independent authorities monitoring financial criteria and, above all, fair and automatic application of the rules to everyone."@en1
|
lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples