Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-10-08-Speech-2-451-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Sinclaire2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, well, here we go again. Squirm time for the European bureaucrats. They must really hate this, having to answer and put forward their figures because, seriously, they do not like scrutiny and they do not like transparency. This whole report lacks scrutiny, and it lacks transparency in the withholding of documents relating to significant expenditure – namely the purchase of the Residence Palace in Brussels, as previously mentioned – and in the refusal of the Council to address questions raised by a democratically-elected Parliament. A democratically elected Parliament! Her Majesty’s Government has drawn attention in the last few days to a cosy agreement in place since the 1970s, that two institutions would not scrutinise each other’s spending. Why are you so afraid of democratic scrutiny? You control Europe, you spend taxpayers’ money, your accounts for the whole of this institution have not been audited for 18 years and you do not care about democracy. I told my constituents in the West Midlands, the industrial heartland of the United Kingdom about this. I am not sure that they actually believed me. Incidentally, we British have a name for opaque and cosy arrangements such as these. We call them Spanish practices. I am very pleased that the rapporteur advocates voting against discharge of the 2011 budget. Of course, any agreement for scrutiny of another institution should be mutual. I would welcome scrutiny of this institution’s spending by the Council and I think the people of Great Britain would also welcome it."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Nicole Sinclaire (NI ). -"1
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