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"Mr President, we are now talking about the budget for 2010, its surveillance and the granting of discharge.
The general public has a right to know what their taxes are being spent on. The use of public funds must be transparent and open.
I speak on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and I would like to raise one issue in connection with the future. It is important that we know how the external relations budget is being used. The Commission and the Council could consider making it possible, even on a daily and weekly basis, to follow online the movement of development cooperation funds and all money in the external relations budget. That is the modern approach, and a way for people to be able to see what good comes of the use of the taxes that they pay, in the poor regions of Africa, for example.
I would also like to mention a problem, which does not concern the external relations budget, it is true, but is a problem, nevertheless. It is quite incredible how, over the last six years, the Commission has disregarded commonly agreed rules and kept Parliament in the dark about the use of Council funds."@en1
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