"hacer cuentas" in English

The Commission should do its sums again in view of the fact that this ceiling is not exceeded.

We are always being told that the Court of Auditors wants more audits.

If it was not a democratic state, we would not be trying to hold it accountable to the rule of law.

I suggest that Parliament does a few sums one day to work out how much fisheries monitoring costs us.

let's call it fifteen to make it a round number

We are all aware of the miracles some countries admitted to EMU have had to perform to present their accounts.

In this case, the Committee on Civil Liberties, like the Court of Auditors, wishes to make two serious complaints.

What, however, is, in the end, required to get the Committee on Agriculture to act in a less self-centred way?

It is nothing less than appalling that the proposal concerning aid in connection with oil can reach plenary at all.

The task, after all, is to do something for consumers, and to make the law simpler, clearer and more comprehensible.

It also allows interested parties to find out about the assets and liabilities or financial situation of a business.

Thirdly, when we travel somewhere, we then have all the accounting to do, which has recently become very bureaucratic.

The historic nature of this task calls on us, I think, to refrain from taking a grocer-shop approach to the cost of that enlargement.

I would ask it to think again, and to remember that - thanks to Amsterdam - Parliament really does have a say on some appointments.

We must avoid breaking the camel's back by imposing unrealistic preconditions on the applicant countries, or indulging in petty accounting.

What do you and what do we intend to do to call to account those countries which lied and which could start again tomorrow with Yemen or any other nation?

This requires a Court of Auditors that can actually audit the multiple action of expenditure rather than merely looking at whether the rules are satisfied.

All of Europe is involved; but the various Member States, the main players and the principal advocates of the priority projects, need to do their sums.

The Commission can no longer be allowed to put unverifiable political considerations before legal arguments behind closed doors and without being answerable to anyone.

You must also heed the report of the Court of Auditors and tackle the failure in our Member States to put adequate controls in place on the spending of European Union money.