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lpv:speaker	lp:Seixas da Costa2
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, as the honourable Member’s question states, it is true that Article 191 of the Treaty does not constitute a legal basis for the funding of European political parties. This issue was studied at the Intergovernmental Conference that established the Treaty of Amsterdam, and it was considered at the time – and I say this as someone who was there representing the Portuguese Government – that there was not a majority, let alone unanimity, among the Member States in favour of creating a specific legal basis in this area. As regards the Intergovernmental Conference, and particularly bearing in mind the speech made by the President of the European Parliament, Mrs Fontaine, at the IGC ministerial meeting on 10 April, this is an issue that the IGC will consider again. I myself, as Chair of the preparatory group, intend to have this issue put on the IGC agenda once again by the end of the Portuguese Presidency. In any event, I think that, at the moment, as there is no legal basis, all we can do is try to discover, through the various Member States participating in the IGC, whether or not there is a will to work towards funding for European political parties."@en1

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