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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank Mr Caldeira and his staff at the Court of Auditors for this annual report. It is a very good starting point for Parliament to carry out the discharge procedure over the coming months.
Second, according to a well-known Hungarian saying, two people may be talking about the same thing but one says that the glass is half full and the other says that it is half empty. I fall into the camp that thinks that the glass in this case – rigorous implementation of the European Union’s budget – is half empty. It is unacceptable that not only has the downward trend in the error rate disappeared, the error rate has actually increased for the second year running. My voters would not accept that European money has been spent less optimally in recent years than before. They would not be able to support this report.
Third, allow me also to make the point that it is unacceptable that Council representatives are absent from Parliament when we discuss this issue. For nearly three years now the European Council has had a permanent President, but both he and his staff have been constantly absent. The European Council always has a President-in-Office, but the staff of the President-in-Office are also consistently absent. If 62 % of the errors identified for cohesion policy should have been detected by national governments, the Council should be present here in Parliament to represent those governments.
Last but not least, I agree that the trend is better as far as the use of cohesion resources is concerned. The error rate fell from 7.7 % in 2010 to 5.1 % in 2011. I think this is a good message to send to the European Council summit which gets under way today, and where the key issue is whether it will be possible to uphold one of the EU’s fundamental principles, that of solidarity, in the seven-year budgetary period by way of sustaining cohesion funding."@en1
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