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"Mr President, like my fellow Members, I am going to insist on what has been said in relation to the work carried out on the reports this year. And I would therefore also like to congratulate the main rapporteur, Mr Casaca, as well as the other rapporteurs, Mr Blak, Mr Sørensen, Mr Staes and Mrs Langenhagen, who have done excellent work, each within the field corresponding to them.
I have personally been able to observe how we rapporteurs, who are obliged to carry out the discharge of the various fields, are subject to external pressure, are put under pressure from the political groups to work in a particular direction. We have to see past this pressure in order to do rigorous and objective work, and I believe the various rapporteurs have achieved this this year.
Very serious problems have arisen, particularly in Mr Casaca’s report with regard to accounting, the Sapard programme and Eurostat. The rapporteur has therefore had to make a special effort to ensure that solutions are found which, while granting discharge to the Commission, lead to effective solutions in the future. I believe this has required important work which Mr Casaca has done excellently and I would therefore insist that we must congratulate him on it.
The other rapporteurs have also suffered external pressures. During this year we have been subjected to pressure from the press with articles, sometimes true and sometimes manipulated, which have attempted to influence our work. Commissioner, I do not like this work to be influenced, I like to have my own criteria, to make my own studies, to analyse what is happening properly and I must therefore thank the Commission for having cooperated enormously in order to clarify all these issues, so that the opinion issued by Parliament is really its own.
This is the approach I have taken in my work and my group is therefore going to grant discharge to the Commission this year. In the various reports we have followed the same criterion because this work requires a high degree of responsibility from Parliament and must include a very rigorous analysis. We defend the interests of the European citizens but, above all, we must bear in mind the consequences of what is decided in this Parliament. Responsibility and rigour when it comes to carrying out the work must therefore be imposed. This is how I have worked, and I believe the other rapporteurs have done the same and therefore, although it has been a particularly complicated and difficult year – as all we members of the committee know – we have been lucky enough to have the leadership of our President, who has shown great responsibility at all times, and I believe that the final result will be satisfactory."@en1
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