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Wednesday, 15 January 2020 - Strasbourg Revised edition

The reopening of the prosecution against the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on the misuse of EU funds and potential conflicts of interest (debate)
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  Luke Ming Flanagan (GUE/NGL). – Mr President, it was said earlier by one Member here, I think it was Ms Charanzová, that there are prejudices at play here. There are no prejudices from me, I can guarantee you.

All I want, if money has gone astray, is that the money is returned. It has nothing to do with prejudice at all. People scrimp and scrape money together to pay their taxes, and it ends up coming here. We’ve got to make sure that that money goes back to the right people.

I believe the proposed cuts in the MFF to agriculture and rural development were made possible because European citizens don’t believe the money is going to the right people. This just adds to that. We cannot monitor every last cent of CAP money once it ends up in the nation state. However, we can create the architecture under the current review process to make sure that it is as difficult as possible for the money to go astray – whether that be legitimately or illegitimately – because currently there’s money going astray, and it’s actually legal to do it. We’ve got to nail that too – big subsidies to people who should not get it.

 
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