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"Ladies and gentlemen, we have already tolerated a highly alarming and unacceptable situation for 13 years. The Commission and the Member States manage taxpayers’ money badly and illegally. The European Court of Auditors’ Report clearly shows that the Commission and the Member States proceed negligently and are not thoroughly familiar with the rules of budgetary expenditure.
Now there are also suspicions of attempts to misuse money from the Union’s budget. Completely contrary to Commission regulations and the laws of individual states, public tender procedures are not carried out, claims are made for payment of ineligible expenditure, recipients are unable to support the legitimacy of overheads or staff costs, while controls are also faltering.
Ladies and gentlemen, if the citizens whose money we are so shamelessly squandering managed their own firms and households like this, the European Union would be full of socially excluded, homeless people. Now I am asking the Commission and the Council to pull themselves together and start to regard taxpayers’ money as if it were their own. This is the only way we can strengthen trust in the European integration process."@en1
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