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"Madam President, my colleague Herman Schmid will be making a contribution on behalf of my group in this debate. I would, however, like to make a preliminary comment and ask a very concrete question of Mr Kinnock.
Reading the second report of the Committee of Independent Experts shows how right we were to ask these five wise men to pursue their investigations and their thinking beyond the cases of the individual Commissioners and, in particular, to draw up a more general diagnosis of the institution as a whole. For this diagnosis is an edifying one. The title of the report alone represents strong condemnation of the outgoing Commission: tackling maladministration, irregularities and fraud. The former Commission must be reminded, 42 years after the creation of this institution, of the necessity of, I quote: “making Commissioners responsible from the initial drawing up of a proposal through to its implementation”. The matter is in fact one, as one can read in the conclusions of the Experts’ report, beyond the actual operational problems, of an attitude problem, one which implicates not the staff of the Commission, but the structural deficiencies of this institution, which are of a political rather than technical nature.
Another document had already been produced on this subject, proposing an analysis which was, in my view, lucid and pertinent. What is more, it had been commissioned by the Commission itself from its own Forward Studies Unit in preparation for the European Council of Pörtschach, and was subsequently classified as not to be followed up. It contained, for example, fundamental criticism of the propensity of the Commission – like other administrations – to, I quote: “deal with its own area according to a logic of its own, listening to a particular type of lobbying, and taking insufficient account of the consequences outside its own field of expertise”. This exposition of the internal workings of the crisis which the Commission is going through, and with which all the European institutions are faced, would contribute towards usefully placing the analyses of the Independent Experts in their global political context, which is characterised, in the terms of the Forward Studies Unit document in question, by the exhaustion of a certain manner of organising public action, by a crisis in governance which is clashing head-on with the European Union.
My question to Commissioner Kinnock is thus a simple one: do you agree to make public this document of the outgoing Commission, whose great topicality is shown by our debate?"@en1
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