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"Mr President, as a former occasional legal prosecutor myself, I find that the case for the European Public Prosecutor has been made far from effectively. As a member of the European Convention, I think our job is to look for ways in which we do not add to institutional bureaucracy, but we try to simplify things so that the citizens of Europe are both protected and more in touch with those who represent them.
I cannot see the advantages of having this particular office even if, as one of my colleagues has just said, it is embedded in another institution. There are difficulties in relation to cost and bureaucracy. There are difficulties, as has been suggested, in relation to the fitting of this particular role into the legal systems of Europe, which are very different in their effect, in the evidence they collect and the nature of the prosecution process itself. In my view, there is also a difficulty on the legal base. In addition, if we are to allow the organisations presently in place to reform, this would not be helpful to them in the process.
What we need is more cooperation between States and the Commission – between authorities. We need to clarify internal accounting arrangements and to give greater penalties to States which take inadequate approaches to fraud. We need to encourage greater action by States and improve the role of the Court of Auditors. We need more internal reforms. The reform strategy of the EU has, in my view, stalled at the present time – it needs to be revived. Frankly, there is no point in treating Member States of the EU as naughty children, taking their toys away from them and giving them to some over-worked and inadequate new minder.
If we respect our membership to the EU, we ought also to respect our ability to prosecute effectively and to deal with fraud and reform as necessary."@en1
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