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"Mr President, one in five people in the world has no access to basic social provisions. Europe is a super power in economic terms and so it is absolutely right that we should be having this discussion subsequent to the debate on the White Paper. It was an excellent idea of Mrs Sauquillo’s to include the part on external relations in the section on internal training, thereby making it an item on the agenda.
We have big problems. The Commissioner has also referred to this in his texts: a huge backlog, lack of objectives, a culture of fear in the departments dealing with payments, and at the same time, far too low a level of project proposals, a great deal of time wasted and little in the way of efficient spending. We want to work towards a culture of greater accountability. We want to see ex-post control. We want to see increased accountability for the public service and we want to see decentralisation. We want to see a European development fund become integral to Parliament. We want clearer objectives.
Parliament foresaw all this in terms of its role in the draft budget for 2001. We will come back to that later because that in itself constitutes a sound framework. We have our doubts about the technical mould in which the reforms are now being cast. We think it is more important to have a clear distribution of political tasks: a Parliament with clear objectives, a Commission with a clear idea of what it wants, a Commissioner – and I fully support Mrs Sauquillo in this – who has hundred per cent responsibility for the whole world when it comes to development policy, and who is given full responsibility for this within the Commission, and also the human resources they need, because without these human resources it is of course absolutely impossible to implement this policy.
To briefly sum up: let us put an end to this culture of fear, also amongst the officials. Let us build trust between our Parliament, the departments and the Commissioner so that Europe can deliver a different kind of message in a world of poverty. Feyenoord was known as the football club of ‘deeds, not words’. May the Commissioner take this motto to heart."@en1
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