Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-04-24-Speech-2-040"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-04-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Discharge for the financial year 2005 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070424.4.2-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-04-24-Speech-2-0412
lpv:speaker	lp:John Whittaker2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, time and again we hear the plea from the Commission, ‘It’s not our fault! How can we police our Community money?’ That is, Member States’ taxpayers’ money is spent by the Member States. Indeed, we have the remarkable event last year of the Commission castigating the Court of Auditors for picking on them. But perhaps the Commission has a point and this line of thinking has persuaded the governments of the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands to agree to declarations about the future management of EU funds – for what that is worth. More deeply, the Commission’s point shows up the essential weakness of the system. The agencies in Member States that spend EU money have little incentive to worry about the taxpayers in some other Member State who provided it. So what do we do about this? Well, I shall continue to tell the people of my country that waste and financial irregularity are an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of the system – a flawed system in which the disconnection between the taxpayers who provide the funds and those who spend them becomes ever wider."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-02-01)3 unknown; UK Independence Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Whittaker (IND/DEM ). –"1

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