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The resolution on the Commission’s work programme for 2004 has very severe things to say about the Eurostat affair and its consequences, and these I entirely endorse, but the fact is that nobody is explaining why there was no response from the Commission for such a long period of time. Not only is it necessary to lance the boil of Eurostat; it will also be necessary, in future, to make OLAF more independent and more capable of functioning, to improve the transmission of internal information, to treat as a matter of urgency the reform of the Commission’s accounting system, and to put an end to both the culture of secrecy and the negligent attitude to financial control.
These requirements are made all the more urgent by the constant revelations of other frauds, for example, the price-fixing by insiders in agricultural management committees, or, more recently, the ‘Blue Dragon 2000’ affair in relation to the use of Community funds in Catalonia.
Aberrations of this sort are not unconnected with the Commission’s generally arrogant attitude towards the Member States. One single cause underlies all this behaviour, namely, the Commission’s belief in itself as the sole possessor of a superior truth. It is regrettable that the draft European constitution encourages it in this belief, whereas it ought to have been made into a subordinate body."@en1
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