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"There are two sides to this issue. On the one hand, I recognise that the Fund is doing fantastic work, reaching those most in need. There is no question about that.
But, on the other hand, they are public funds. Public funds are taxpayers’ money and one misappropriation or one fraud case could destroy the work of hundreds of thousands of people. So we need to find a solution very rapidly. My objective is to have the additional measures in place by the summer so that we can resume payments in the autumn. I believe that is doable.
We have identified the areas where we need this: at national level. The Central Office is being well audited, and when we transfer money, everything is in order, but when it comes down to implementation in a given country, there are too many risk elements. If you saw which countries were involved and the size of the specific budgetary envelopes for them, you would realise that the sums involved would be too huge to suspend payments, and we need the reforms to work very rapidly.
If it is discovered next year that there are misappropriations, you would be the first to tell me that I knew about the cases and asking why I did not take action. Then I would say that I was thinking only of sick people. That would not be a sufficient answer.
If we sort this issue out in half a year, by the summer, then we will not have made any substantial impact on the functioning of the Fund, but we will have lent greater credibility both to the fund and to the way EU taxpayers’ money is spent."@en1
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