European Parliament
A7-0444/2011
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris  (PPE ).
(IT)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that everything that has come out of this debate might merit the Commission’s particular attention: the need to appraise the humanitarian fund, the need for the EU to strengthen this commitment and the need – as Ms Băsescu so opportunely mentioned just now – to separate the fund for financing measures to prevent humanitarian disasters from the emergency aid reserve.
However, I would like to emphasise the need, the cogent need, to ensure more transparent mechanisms for the management of funds. A few weeks ago, I submitted an oral question regarding a case which had arisen, and which appeared in all the newspapers in Italy, concerning an unemployed youth who was involved with an NGO in asking for money without a contract, without any form of coordination with this NGO. For some unemployed people, operating as go-betweens in procuring aid for non-governmental organisations becomes almost a recreational club activity. We need to ensure mechanisms for transparency in managing the fund and in the operation of these mechanisms and activities.

