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"Mr President, I regard this a relatively important report, because it concerns a policy that accounts for a significant share of public expenditure, both at European Union level and at the level of its component Member States. Depending on the state concerned, it accounts for least 10%, approximately, of public expenditure. In addition, the report responds to what the EU Member States envisaged at the Lisbon Summit. Moreover, the text we will be voting on calls on the European Commission to draw up a Green Paper specifically on this question.
So we should now be voting on this highly important text in the presence of only 171 MEPs, which is the number just counted. Perhaps that is established practice here in Parliament, but I think it is very chancy to give the impression that the European Parliament as an institution is committing itself on a subject such as this one and considering entrusting the Commission with this kind of task, given the very low attendance here. So I wonder whether Parliament could not consider postponing the vote on this document."@en1
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