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"Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, your Commission was not formed out of the blue. It succeeded the Santer Commission, which had to go precisely because nobody took responsibility. You stated that you were going to apply zero tolerance, and we took you seriously. At the moment, however, we are utterly disappointed. After all, it has taken a thousand press articles before Parliament was informed about the Eurostat fraud, and today, you are bringing us a fine story, showing, in fact, that you are evaluating OLAF rather than Eurostat and your own responsibility.
You stated that the Commission should take the political responsibility for OLAF's actions without having the means to do this. I find this incredible and
I would follow this up by saying that the Commission is also politically responsible for Eurostat. In its defence, the Commission states that is does not have the means for that either. The gospel contains a fine fable which states: Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. I would like us to ..."@en1
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