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"Mr President, the Committee on Budgetary Control is doing sterling work under Mrs Theato’s, Mrs Van der Laan’s, Mr Bösch’s and Mr Blak’s expert leadership. I should also like to complement Mrs Stauner on a good report. My group will not grant discharge in connection with an account which conceals more than it reveals and has been submitted by a Commission which despises openness, subsidiarity and democracy. How is it different from the Commission which was overturned? Are our rapporteurs now getting complete information and full answers in response to their questions? No. Have administrative procedures been instigated against those who had their hands in the till or covered up for those who had their hands in the till? No. Has Mr Paul van Buitenen been rewarded for his courageous efforts to turn the Commission into a responsible organisation? No. He has moved to Luxembourg and has had to agree to keep quiet. Moreover, any future van Buitens know that they will be fired if they behave as any person of integrity would expect of officials of the Commission. Mr Prodi’s Commission is not responsible for the sins of the past, but all 20 Commissioners are now responsible for the fact that procedures have not been cleaned up and put in order and a fresh start made. It is you 20 who are responsible for the fact that the Commission’s draft regulation on transparency will cause documents which are at present readily available to be locked away. It is you 20 who are responsible for the fact that we, as Members of Parliament, are still not receiving the information we request. You operate on the principles of absolute monarchy. Come out into the open and acknowledge that it is no longer possible to govern with old-fashioned secrecy. Admit that you will be replaced if you continue to sweep the dirt under the carpet. You will soon have been in office for a year, so we have to observe that you too will be accountable if you fail to meet your responsibilities. And we must apply the same critical standard against ourselves. We ought not to approve Parliament’s accounts for as long as we have assistants who do not pay tax and yet obtain social security and for as long as travel expenses not connected to actual costs are refunded."@en1
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