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"Mr President, firstly, I should like to thank Mr Fabra Vallés and the Court of Auditors. As a new MEP, I have to say that the report made very exciting reading. Even though the language of the Court of Auditors is polite, the criticism is devastating. I am amazed that the inadequacies were so great, and I think that ten years without a positive auditors’ report is unambiguous in its implications.
For me, the most notable inadequacies probably lie in what is most fundamental, specifically the accounting system. We cannot accept anything less than that these problems be tackled without delay.
I should like right now, however, to focus upon something really quite different. In recent days, two important issues have been debated here in plenary: this auditors’ report and the issue of the EU’s financial perspectives. I think it is high time that these two issues were linked together.
The auditors’ report contains important and fundamental criticism of which account must be taken in planning for the future. Having read the report, it is obvious that, in many areas, the EU does not have the opportunity to spend allocated money in a sensible way; yet, despite this, most people appear to argue in favour of more money. In the same way, the Court of Auditors shows that limited use is made of EU money in many areas; nonetheless, it is in precisely those areas that many wish to invest more money.
In those areas in which there is a great need for reforms and in which there are many problems, the latter are not solved through our appropriating more money. For precisely that reason, I should really like to address not merely the Commission but, specifically, the Members of this House and others, and call upon all those who wish seriously to debate the issue of the financial perspectives, or the EU’s economic future, actually to read this auditors’ report and to take its contents very seriously indeed. There is a very great deal that is of fundamental importance in the report and that will pass the EU by if no account is taken of it."@en1
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