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"en.20161026.25.3-449-000"2
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"Mr President, for over two decades, the Court of Auditors has refused to give the European Union accounts a clean bill of health. If this was a business it would bring remorse and resignations, in the heart of a national government it would bring independent inquiries, but for the European Commission it is a cause for quiet satisfaction.
A 3.8% error rate may seem small to some, but it in fact equates to billions of euro. Money taken from families and households and spent without sufficient accountability. I listened very carefully to Mr de Jong, who talked quite frankly about the effect that this has on the citizen and surely we must agree that, at the core of any effective government, should be trust between citizens and political institutions. Taxpayers should have confidence that their hard-earned money will make a difference and not be misspent. These are not small matters and as some colleagues have indicated today, they are not matters of form or process.
I think that for too long these institutions have actually turned a deaf ear to this and I hope that our former colleague, now the President of the Court of Auditors, will take a very strong view on these types of things."@en1
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