Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-13-Speech-1-093"
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"Mr President, President of the Court of Auditors, apparently your presentation is not well starred. Last month, your speech was cut off, and now you are suffering a power cut. I hope that in the end we shall be able to see our way clearly here. In any case, you should not worry too much, because we have just adopted an urgent motion since it seems that the President of the Nicaraguan Court of Auditors has been imprisoned. You see, all we did to you was to prevent you taking part in a sitting. I regret this just as much as Mr Staes. I hope that light will be shed both on European accounts and on this Chamber.
Puns apart, I would like to congratulate you on your report, which is always significant for the European Union. You may gauge the extent to which this report and your comments have been significant for the European Union in the crisis which shook it last year. I think we must go ahead.
Well, there you are, this is the effect my words can have:
let there be light!
Mr President, I wished to tell you how significant your role was and how well the message has been received, I imagine, within the institutions of the Community, properly speaking, i.e. the Commission and Parliament. It has perhaps been less well received by the Member States who continue to be the parties chiefly involved in the deficits and frauds affecting the Union budget, simply due to the fact that they administer the majority of the funds. The wish I would express is that next year, which is a key year, since 1999 was the year when a number of Structural Fund programmes were concluded, your action should be more concerned with the Member States, in order to get the idea across to the public that the administration of Community funds is an important issue about which we feel very strongly, and one which is of concern also – I shall not say primarily, but also to our national administrations, our Member States. Next year, then, an even greater effort could be made on this chapter, in my opinion, in closer cooperation with the national audit authorities."@en1
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"(Lights in the chamber came on again)"1
"(Lights in the chamber were malfunctioning)"1
"fiat lux,"1
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