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"en.20120510.9.4-065-000"2
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"Mr President, I have lost count. Is this the 17th year in which the auditors have failed to give a positive declaration on the EU’s budget or, in other words, have we now reached 17 years in which taxpayers’ money has not been properly accounted for? I note the statement in the resolution on the discharge of the Commission budget that progress has been made since the resignation of the Santer Commission, but I have to ask: ‘Really?’
In 2008, Commissioner Mandelson was accused of a conflict of interest after holidaying with a Russian oligarch whose company subsequently benefited from his department’s decisions. In June 2011, Commission President Barroso ran up a EUR 25 000 hotel bill for a four-night luxury stay in New York. Then there was the Commission memo issued by DG Trade in 2009 which encouraged officials to conceal information from public scrutiny. The EU and its institutions have failed to practise what they preach and what places them above the citizens they purport to represent. It is time the UK left this mess."@en1
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