Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-10-Speech-4-200-000"
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"Mr President, my group is deeply concerned by the ever-growing size of the EU’s budget and its lack of efficiency and accountability. We are thus reluctant for discharge to be granted for any part of the European Union’s budget until the budget in its entirety is approved by the Court of Auditors.
Given that this report proposes the granting of discharge, I voted against. Though the report calls for follow-ups of past audits to be included in the Court of Auditors’ future work programmes as a means of assessing progress – a proposal that my group backs – I cannot vote in favour of any discharge being granted until the budget as a whole has received a positive statement of assurance from the Court of Auditors.
I thus generally voted in favour of the reports proposing postponement of discharge and against those that proposed the granting of discharge. A few exceptions included the Environment Agency, the Food Safety Authority and the European Medicines Agency, which is located in my London constituency. However, in general, I am extremely sceptical about the whole discharge process for the EU budget."@en1
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