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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to see the President-in-Office of the Council here today – my group is very pleased about this as we think it is important that there should be a mutual exchange between us here.
What we have here is what you could call the
. It consists of 34 questions about the implementation of the 2009 budget put to the Council by Parliament, or, more specifically, by the Committee on Budgetary Control and its members. I need hardly remind you that this House put forward over 200 questions in this connection. You had a little over 10% of those to answer. These included issues as important to us as the linking of potential external policy expenditure with administrative expenditure. You will be aware that this is always an issue for us. This issue will resolve itself over the next few years, however, as a result of the establishment of the European External Action Service.
In other words, we could approach a solution over the next few years so long as there is some goodwill. I am calling on the President-in-Office at this point because we believe that, since the Hungarian Presidency, as well as during the current Polish Presidency, we have been going backwards and not forwards. The greatest progress was made during the Spanish Presidency. We would thus like to encourage you to acknowledge the Treaty, which states that Parliament is the discharge authority. In other words, we cannot allow our rights to be ridden roughshod over. When it comes down to it, we do not have that many. We intend to insist that you give way to our power of discharge. There cannot be reciprocity until MEPs supervise fellow MEPs. I cannot accept officials hunkering down over a Parliamentary budget. For us as parliamentarians, that is unacceptable in itself. I will therefore close by saying that, while a solution is possible, it will require considerably more goodwill than has so far been the case."@en1
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