European Parliament
Fatuzzo (PPE-DE ).
(IT)
Mr President, what an honour! I have had the pleasure of Your Excellency also hearing my explanations of vote. In addition, I have discovered that, in today’s explanations of vote concerning Iraq, I will be heard by another great leader, who will be giving an oral explanation of vote. I therefore welcome Mr Marco Pannella, who will be speaking about Iraq. A great leader listening to Mr Fatuzzo: naturally, I am pleased about this.
With regard to the Mulder report, I would like to explain what ‘
liquidazione dei conti’
[clearance of accounts] means in Italian: ‘
liquidazione
’ means ‘dissipate, remove, liquidise; ‘
conti’
is a title held by the nobility; therefore, ‘
liquidare i conti
’ means ‘to get rid of the aristocrats’. So might this be a report against the monarchy? While I was daydreaming about this over a coffee this morning, I spilt my drink on my trousers. Might this report – which, in reality, seeks to recover EUR 2.245 million defrauded from Europe – also just be a dream?

