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"Madam President, we are once again in the paradoxical situation of having succeeded, on the one hand, in monitoring and keeping free from error 96 % of the EU budget, in one of the most complex financial years from the point of view of the allocation, implementation and amount of funding, while that budget continues, on the other hand, to remain below 1 % of the European Union’s gross domestic product. In spite, then, of having managed to operate one of the most complex, refined and advanced control systems, thanks to the fruitful dialogue between the Court of Auditors, Commission and Parliament, the results of which will be seen, moreover, in the discharge exercise overseen by my colleague Jens Geier, we are again complaining about not having broken free of a sort of cycle of victimisation. Nevertheless, I think that, this year, the focus of our concerns should be far more tangible issues, namely the errors made by Member States, for instance, with regard to rural development. We knew that, by abandoning direct assistance for rural development under the common agricultural policy, we would increase the risk of errors in the Member States. However, we also know, from our experience with regional development, that when we exercise firm control and step up our demands, as has been the case with cohesion policy, the Member States react. We therefore need to refine and develop this control further in respect of the Member States; one day, perhaps, we will also have to scrutinise what their audit authorities are doing. Ms Sinclaire should take note: there will surely be some interesting surprises in store for us. As regards the Commission – and Mr Šemeta has a certain responsibility in this respect – we are greatly concerned by the errors affecting research policy. As this very policy is one of our weapons for defeating this crisis, he needs to explain to us how we can go about rectifying these errors."@en1
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