Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-15-Speech-4-023"
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"en.20060615.4.4-023"2
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"Mr President, a bit less fraud here, a bit more fraud there. This report is a sad catalogue of failure – failure to direct enormous amounts of EU funds to where they were intended. But this is just one of the ways in which EU funds are wasted. Despite all the apparent good intentions, a large proportion of the cash is spent on daft projects that advertise the EU or support the disgraceful common agricultural policy; and all this has spawned a whole industry of bureaucrats who exist merely to produce the relevant paperwork for applying for and dealing with the grants. Another huge waste.
EU money is easy money – provided you fill in the forms nicely, or forge them. The whole system has fallen into contempt. Where is the incentive for Member States to use their own resources to police the use of the funds? Let us stop fussing about how we achieve marginal reductions in what we call fraud, and instead think more deeply about the true value that is added by all this misuse of EU taxpayers’ cash."@en1
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