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"Mr President, do you know, I have never had any sort of power in this place before! I think I would like to opt for ‘Great British’ – but no, we will go for ‘global’. I am pretty sure it is ‘global’. I was going to mention that in my Agency explanation of vote.
I shall now talk on the Commission’s discharge for just one minute. As I have done every time since I entered this place, I voted against the discharge for the European Commission. I recognise that a lot of work has been going on within the Commission to try and sort out its own accounts. However, the work has been going on in systems, it has not been going on within the culture that operates within the European Commission. There is still to this day a culture of ‘let’s keep our heads down and not report wrongdoings’ in the European Commission. Occasionally we all meet people working within the Commission who are able to tell us off-the-record things that should not be happening there, but will not go on the record and report it to the heads of their DGs.
I know this place does not like turning down discharges. It is a great shame because there is no political consequence. We had a legal opinion on that seven years ago. As I say, I voted against and I shall continue to do so in my time in this place."@en1
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