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"Mr Kinnock, two years ago, in September 1996, Parliament conferred upon the Prodi/Kinnock Commission a very clear mandate: reform. Two years have passed since then, Mr Kinnock, and – as far as I am aware – the only reform which you have implemented is to take the gold medal for 20 years of service away from civil servants, which, in all sincerity, does not seem to amount to much. In Italy, there was a Ministry of Public Administration Reform for 20 years, and then they removed the word ‘reform’ because it was becoming rather ridiculous that reforms were taking 20 years and it became the Ministry of Public Administration, full stop. It would appear that this reform – and it is not by chance that Mr Pomés Ruiz mentioned the Financial Regulation – is, so to speak, just a castle in the air: we have been talking about it for two years but I feel that all the proposals are raising difficulties and a whole range of problems. Therefore, I wonder when this reform will come to an end, when there will be an end to this discontent. I am sure you are not unaware of the fact that the European officials are not too happy with the way things are going. I am not going to defend them as a corporation, but I will say that this matter is serious because it was the task of this Commission to reinvigorate the European public administration. In my opinion, rather than reinvigorating it, the Commission is scouring it out."@en1
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