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"Madam President, yesterday I made a request, on behalf of my Group and the Liberal Group, and with the express support in the Assembly of the PPE-DE Group, for an urgent debate and the approval of the interinstitutional agreement on OLAF, an agreement which was ratified during the last legislature, which was on the agenda for October and with regard to which my Group and, I believe, the other groups have tried to dispel the legitimate doubts which some of our colleagues may have. It is now time to assume our responsibilities once Parliament has signed, ratified, supported and negotiated this agreement. I made my request on the basis of Rule 112(2) and in relation to Rule 60(1), because it is not a legislative question. It is a constitutional question insofar as it is an interinstitutional agreement.
Madam President, I would ask you to permit me a moment longer since I have not requested the floor for personal reasons. Yesterday I suffered aggression on the part of a Member, Mr Dupuis, who described the signatories of this request as “the accomplices of Mr Barón Crespo”. He then did me the honour of comparing me to one of his favourite heroes. He said that I was a Stalinist. Madam President, I believe that we should show each other respect and consideration in this Assembly, and that we should not confuse freedom of expression with systematic insults and political bullying.
And I, who try to respect my colleagues, would like to receive the same treatment. Mr Dupuis did not quite go as far as describing us as a revisionist clique, in the best Stalinist tradition. That would have been the last straw."@en1
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