European Parliament
Luís Paulo Alves  (S&D ),
in writing.
(PT)
I am voting for this report, since I believe the main concern should be for the European Development Funds (EDFs) to come under the European Union budget because, as they are not included, it is not possible to analyse them in exactly the same way as other expenditure. The message should be to call on the European Commission to include the EDFs in the discharge report. The principle of transparency should never be called into question in the European Union, which aims to be a political bloc promoting a very high level of democracy and to set an example to the world.

