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"Mr President, the Court of Auditors is a kind of great superintendent, we might say a policeman, a friendly policeman, although sometimes I have the impression that it turns a blind eye and is too good and too benevolent towards the institutions which it supervises. The conclusion of this report, the conclusion of the Court’s work is as follows: ‘good, but not perfect’. I have the impression that many people in Europe are more pessimistic than the Court of Auditors. The Court must have a greater role, the Court must be credible, so that the European institutions will be credible in the eyes of the taxpayers and voters. However, for the Court to be credible, it must really be very scrupulous, because the Court is saying, today, that it is glad the glass is 95% full, while I think many taxpayers will ask: ‘but why is it 5% empty?’ All the more so, because there is a widespread belief that it is more than just 5% empty. I do agree with one conclusion – supervision at European level is sometimes more detailed, perhaps, than in Member States, and I call on the Court to exercise greater supervision in the Member States, where the money is quite simply frequently disappearing down the drain."@en1
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