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"Mr Prodi, you are able to represent the aspiration to carry out what this House has been demanding for a long time. I was captivated by your comments to this Parliament when you said that you were going to act, that you were not going to be afraid of making mistakes, that you would prefer to get things right but that, if by taking decisions, you make mistakes, you would run the risk of making those mistakes. Congratulations. These are good intentions which we hope to see shortly reflected in deeds.
In the Commission on Budgetary Control, the members of the Group of the European People’s Party are primarily concerned with the need to be honest. The Committee of Independent Experts says that OLAF must be given the necessary resources to put an end to this aura of corruption which brought about the downfall of the former Commission.
But I believe that we must go further. We must soon adopt a genuine personnel policy which will ensure that those who work in the Commission – on whose successes and failures we depend so much – may work with a personnel policy which values merit. I asked Mr Kinnock whether those 500 or so vacant posts in the Commission were going to be filled. If you lack resources, why do you not fill the posts which this Parliament has authorised?
We want to see action soon. In a month’s time, the Council on Home Affairs will take place. This could be the moment to introduce those measures which the Committee of Independent Experts proposes, and which on the whole are common sense measures which should have been carried out long ago. This Parliament demanded some of them a long time ago.
Are you, Mr Prodi, ready to include those measures which will be dealt with in Helsinki? We want to see facts because time is at a premium, Mr Prodi. If tomorrow you receive the approval of this House – and I hope this is the case – you have a huge job to do on behalf of all the citizens of Europe. Make haste, Mr Prodi."@en1
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