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"Every year, the European Parliament adopts a report on the European agencies to accompany the debates on budgetary discharge. And every year it is the same finding: waste, shortcomings in recruitment and public procurement procedures, carryovers and cancellations of too numerous appropriations … It is not necessary to uncover fraud, as at the European Economic and Social Committee, to reach a verdict of mismanagement.
Every time, however, Parliament pretends to see progress, and grants discharge. What is worse, it never calls into question the Commission’s policy of outsourcing to these agencies, which appears to be aimed less at effectively implementing the European Union’s policies than at providing every major city in the Union with its own small share of European institutions. The nagging question of whether these agencies are effective and useful unfortunately remains unanswered, year after year.
The few agencies that analyse their performance do so in accordance with the procedures and processes that are imposed on them and not in relation to concrete results. The agencies are useful above all … to the agencies. That is why we refused to grant discharge to a number of them and abstained on the resolutions that accompanied them."@en1
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