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". – Madam President, may I say in response to Mr Swoboda’s first question that he may have had some unfortunate encounters but they would certainly have been with a minority of staff. I will not go into great length but just repeat the point that I made earlier that the willingness to adapt, under extreme pressure with heavy workloads and two very innovatory proposals, demonstrated by the vast majority of Commission staff in the last year is entirely to their credit. That does not signify a reluctance to make change. They need clear guidance. They deserve to have transparent decisions to work on, but nevertheless they have demonstrated in the context of extremely difficult circumstances sometimes that they are willing positively to engage.
There are people who, like in other administration in any democracy will spend time seeking opportunities to be pessimistic, sowing the seeds of doubt and harvesting bitterness. Such people are found in all walks of life – with the single exception of course of the European Parliament, I understand that.
This means, although I know Mr Swoboda is not doing this, that the willing, highly professional, dedicated and, as President Prodi earlier said, highly-motivated civil service of the European Union can be misrepresented infamously in the press and elsewhere by a very small minority who are externally but not internally regarded as representative. I hope honourable Members will always try, even if sometimes it is difficult, to make a distinction between those people.
Finally, the externalisation and the approach that we are advocating in company with several honourable Members from all parts of this House – and I pay them tribute – is certainly not a departure from the concept or practice of a permanent, independent and competent European public service. On the contrary, by defining our management roles effectively and by externalising the obligations to execute already determined policies in a highly accountable way, we are securing the permanence and competence of the European civil service and giving the European taxpayers the benefit of maximum flexibility in conditions of assured security. I hope that the House will continue to give its support to this process of externalisation."@en1
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