Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-26-Speech-4-015"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091126.3.4-015"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Søren Bo Søndergaard2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-02-04)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-02-04)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (2009-07-14--2014-02-04)3 member; CONT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to begin by expressing my satisfaction that there appears to have been progress in respect of irregular payments from the EU budget. This is a good thing, of course. However, it has also been observed, at the same time, that there are enormous problems when it comes to cohesion – and cohesion is the second largest area of the budget, totalling EUR 36.6 billion in 2008. It is a massive problem for the ordinary taxpayers of the EU that at least 11% of the total approved amount should not have been paid out. This is a huge problem. How are we supposed to explain that, year after year – and it really is year after year in this area – billions of kroner are paid out in contravention of the rules or perhaps even in a directly fraudulent way? In its recommendations, the Court of Auditors focuses on improving control mechanisms and simplifying the rules, and that is a good thing. The question is, however, whether this waste on a massive scale really can be reduced just through monitoring and simplifying the rules, or whether what we are dealing with is fundamental structural failings. Our group believes in solidarity. We support the redistribution of money from the richest to the poorest regions and countries both inside and outside the EU, but, if you read the report, the question is whether the EU has found the right way of doing this. Is it an effective way of working for every country to pay into a system that then grants subsidies to the remotest elements in the individual countries, including the fact that these are paid by the very richest? Everyone knows that the longer a line, the greater the risk of loss somewhere along the way. There is therefore a need for us to have a fundamental debate about the whole issue of cash flows in the EU."@en1
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