Empowerment to non-accountable institutions

Quotes from Marta's speech:

"On the basis of my experience I believe we are at great risk if we vote for a constitution that increases the powers of institutions which have proved up until now to be totally unaccountable and non-transparent. European citizens deserve better, and if we let go of this opportunity to express our dissent, there will not be another opportunity again"

"I was judged and removed from office by commissioners who have been managing the EU funds on a system that they knew was open to fraud."

"The current chief accountant - my successer so to say - had stated that he is not responsible for the amounts stated in the EU accounts nor responsible for the correctness of the payments made in the EU budget."

And on Eurostat: "This fraud consisted in the discovery of slush funds belonging to the European Commission that were being channelled to unofficial bank accounts and used for unauthorised purposes. Nobody was held responsible. The Commissioners claimed ignorance."