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"Mr President, thank you for allowing me to speak for a second time in this debate. The Member States have a great deal of responsibility. That is why, for the first time, we have invited the Member States to meet with the committee in order to be involved in the hearing and debate on discharge, because we have some important questions. Why do we have the same problems in the same Member States, often with regard to the same programmes? What can we do about them? Shared responsibility must not mean no responsibility. The EU, too, has a responsibility. Even we have a responsibility. Our most important responsibility right now – now that we also have the power of codecision – is probably to learn from the problems, particularly now that we are, in principle, reviewing all sections of the policy areas where we have problems. Will we have to put an end to certain programmes? Will we have to review certain programmes in certain regions? It is not acceptable to simply hide behind the Member States, even if that is where the problems are greatest. The Commission has the right to discontinue certain payments. However, if it is the case that we have the same problems year after year – that is something we talked about a lot last year – then perhaps we should talk more about the grounds on which these payments are resumed if the problems in certain Member States and certain contexts have not been resolved. I therefore think it is important in our ongoing work for us to emphasise that we have a shared responsibility – a shared responsibility for the budget and for budgetary problems, which means that we also have a shared responsibility for finding solutions. We need to take the lessons learned from this year’s discharge procedure and use them in the designing of the new programmes that we are working on right now."@en1
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