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"Mr President, I would like to thank the Court of Auditors for an excellent report. Unfortunately, I cannot be as positive about the EU’s accounts for 2010. As we have already heard, the payments that form the basis of the accounts are seriously defective. That is not all, however. It is also going in the wrong direction. Year after year, we in Parliament have been critical of the far too high error rate in the EU’s management of taxpayers’ money. Every year, however, we have been reassured by the Commission that it is going in the right direction.
Last year, the Commission was particularly proud, as I remember. We were told that the overall reduction in errors was due simply to the Commission’s sterling efforts. I recall that I commented on this in my speech on 11 November here in Parliament. I said, and I quote: ‘I am happy to give the Commission the credit, but it is also clear who will be responsible if the error rate increases next year’. Here we now are, a year later, and the error rate has increased. It is now no longer enough to ask who is responsible. We now also need to ask who will take responsibility. I look forward to the Commission’s response."@en1
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