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"Mr President, I am sorry that I could not be here for the whole debate. I am very happy that the Danish Presidency is here – they are in other places as well having trialogues – but I have followed the debate extensively. The problem here is shared management, and shared management is exactly the same as it was when I was a kid and my sister and I had the shared responsibility of cleaning the house. Nobody cleaned the house and then we stood there blaming each other. The problem is not all over the place. It is in Structural Funds and in all Member States. 60% of the errors come from three Member States: 31% from Spain, 18% from Italy and 10% from the UK. 58% of the errors could have been corrected by Member States, according to the Court of Auditors. I think it is high time that the Council debates this amongst themselves; it is your taxpayers, it is your money. That does not mean that the Commission is without responsibility. They have the responsibility to control and sanction those who do not play by the rules. I ask myself: does the Commission not have the tools to do that? Or do you not use the tools that you have? My response has been that it is a combination. You lack some tools, but you do not use the tools which you have effectively enough. Therefore, we have a responsibility in the upcoming programming period to give you the tools which you need now when we are colegislators. That goes for the Council as well. But we demand of you, as a part of this discharge procedure, to use the tools you have more effectively. The reason that I decided to propose to grant discharge is because I heard your sincere wish to change the way you work with sanctions, suspensions and interruptions, and that is the reason we give you discharge. If, next year, we do not see any change, then it is a whole new deal. However, I think that we are on the right track and I am happy that you have been listening to the recommendations we have given in our resolution. I think that it is a good basis for improving the situation for next year."@en1
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