Article: BUDGET: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTES THROUGH DISCHARGE OF 1999 BUDGET.(Brief Article)

The last discharge procedure to have been achieved with a similar degree of fluidity dates back to 1997 for the Budget for 1995. Since then, things have not run as smoothly. The 1996 Budget discharge led to the resignation of the Santer Commission. The European Parliament voted through the report by Freddy Blak (see European Report No 2581) by 455 to 51 with 23 abstentions. Michaele Schreyer welcomed the European Parliament's vote, adding that Mr Blak had the reputation of taking no prisoners with respect to bad management and he had lived up to his reputation. She said that the Commission felt that it was following in the right track by tightening up its monitoring of the ...

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