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12th April 2005 : Speech in the European Parliament : Another whistle Blower Sacked
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Mr President, let me endorse the previous speaker.
This Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee has attempted, not only to brush under the carpet serious allegations of financial discrepancies at the Committee of the Regions, but also to wash its hands, like Pontius Pilate, over yet another whistleblower left to face appalling and unjust treatment for being brave enough to tell the truth.
It beggars belief that Mr Stubb could have compiled any report, let alone one of such a sensitive nature, without making sure he interviewed all the key players. Yet it seems he could not or would not see the Committee of the Regions’ former internal auditor.
On the back of this shocking disregard, it is little surprise that Mr Stubb’s report contains so many howlers.
The original draft claimed that the then internal auditor had not been subject to an internal inquiry, when the Committee of the Regions’ Secretary-General had admitted in writing that he had been.
Mr Stubb claims that “none of the officials who were the subject of the administrative inquiry has been promoted since the completion of this report”, but omits to mention that several of them were allegedly put forward for promotion.
Most nauseatingly, the report says the former Internal Auditor was assured that he had “the full support and cooperation of both CoR members and staff.” Mr President, that man has since been locked out of his office and hounded out of his job – for telling the truth.
Mr Stubb’s report is rotten to the core, just like the EU institutions it represents. |
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