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"Madam President, the issue of requests for the quorum to be tested does not have anything to do with whether we work in Strasbourg rather than in Brussels. Personally, I would prefer to work in Strasbourg, but I consider that if we have decided to work on Fridays – and this seems to me to be the issue here – then on Fridays the quorum needs to be present. I do not feel that it is right to vote in favour of working on Fridays and then be absent. With regard to whether requests for the quorum to be tested are intended to sabotage proceedings, I would refer you to events in the Italian Parliament. I myself have requested that the quorum be checked many, many times, and, on most of those occasions, the quorum was not present. Yet I have never been accused of sabotaging proceedings and I doubt that the war which has broken out between Ethiopia and Eritrea was caused by the fact that, last time, the quorum was not present."@en1

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