Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-07-21-Speech-3-130"
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"(FI) He was a determined and skilful Member of the Commission, a bit like a steam train, and occasionally in debates he would slap us MEPs like cod on a jetty, but what of that? What is most important is that this sort of thing does not spread to the civil service or gain popularity there. The impartial nature of our administration is the most important issue for all of us here and in the Commission. There is a real need to reform the bureaucratic machinery of the European institutions, and an end must be made to these sorts of cliques. This is what the public hates most about the European Union. That was seen in the elections and in the campaigning. Our citizens do not understand an administration that works along such lines, and we should not wonder. Mr Prodi"s Commission is off to a good start, and I congratulate him on that, but it must continue as it has begun. I thank the Council for taking a swift decision to bring this case to the European Court of Justice, but as we have to be the pioneers in an administration which is open and efficient, so Mr Prodi"s Commission should get ready for the test in September. I believe that by the start of next year, we will see, on the basis of the study by the five experts, what the Commission has achieved with regard to its own administrative reforms and those of its body of civil servants. Therefore, we shall meet up here once more at the end of the year."@en1
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