Member States must come clean on use of taxpayers' money
10/05/2012
After six years of political pressure by the Group of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) the European Commission today finally showed some willingness towards ensuring more transparency and better accountability of the management of...
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Liberals say EU funds must be better managed by Member States
26/03/2012
Liberal and Democrat MEPs today reiterated their demand for more political accountability in the Member States for money spent by their own authorities. Jan Mulder (Netherlands, VVD), ALDE coordinator of the Budgetary Control...
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The Council can not escape parliamentary scrutiny for the proper management of its budget
25/10/2011
Liberals and Democrats supported the refusal to discharge the Council for the implementation of its budget in 2009 as decided in today's European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)...
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Discharge: Parliament grants conditional discharge to Commission for 2009 budget
10/05/2011
Today's debate and vote on discharge reports for the 2009 financial year took place in the Parliament's Strasbourg plenary session in a very particular political context with negotiations on the post-2013 multiannual financial...
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Member States are preventing the efficient use of EU funds
25/01/2011
The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is in the final stages of drafting its report on the 2009 discharge procedure into sound financial management under the leadership of Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (FDP, Germany),...
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Discharge to the Council: ALDE welcomes the little revolution.
19/05/2010
We are at a crucial stage that could redefine Parliament and Council relations, now prepared to agree to a new procedure to exchange information during the discharge process.
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2009 Discharge: European Commission and Member States under scrutiny
06/04/2010
The European Parliament's budgetary control committee will adopt its draft report today by Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (FDP, Germany) proposing to grant discharge to the European Commission for the 2009 budgetary year. Nevertheless the...
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