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lpv:speaker	lp:Ingeborg Grässle2
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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, President of the Court of Auditors, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I feel ashamed for others’ behaviour this morning. Firstly, I am ashamed that the Council is not here, despite claiming that it has a role to play in this discharge procedure and insisting that we must respond to its recommendation. Now it is conspicuous by its absence. Secondly, I must say that some of the comments made by fellow Members today are of lamentable quality. I do think that, for once, we should talk about the aspects where we have not voiced any criticism, at least so far, namely the 96 % that was executed without errors. We need to ask ourselves which policy goals we have achieved. We have mass demonstrations throughout Europe. What have we achieved in relation to youth unemployment with the money that we provided through the European Union? What have we achieved in relation to jobs with the funding for innovation and research? What have we achieved with everything that we are doing in the Member States? I would like to talk about that. I would like to hear more about that, quite frankly. In view of the present situation in the European Union, it could have been a positive moment, when we drew attention to the EU’s positive achievements. That is my first point. I think that we should focus on the discharge procedure and on what we have actually done and what the outcomes are, and what we have to show the EU’s citizens and taxpayers. The other aspect cannot be achieved without good administration in the Member States, and it cannot be achieved in the EU either. Commissioner Šemeta, what are we doing, if only one payment in every five in the context of the Cohesion Fund is now correct? Last year, it was one payment in four. In my view, we urgently need a report from you that offers an overview of how the financial crisis is impacting on public administration in the EU Member States, because we can see that this financial crisis is having an effect here. What should we do then? How should we react? How must we react? I would like us to give some consideration to this issue, and that means the Commission as well: it should consider how to influence the rules in future. After all, the rules determining the type of projects that are eligible for assistance from the Structural Funds are made by the Member States. If the Member States then opt for eligibility criteria that cannot be monitored by us later, we are shooting ourselves in the foot. This means that the Commission must work very closely with the Member States to avoid the minor disasters that we lament here in the House every year."@en1
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