Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-02-Speech-3-073"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Request for the waiver of Johannes Voggenhuber's immunity2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010502.5.3-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-02-Speech-3-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Stefano Zappala'2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, to continue what I was saying earlier, in actual fact, as we have seen in this Chamber, we very often find ourselves talking about immunity or about requests for waiver of immunity, according to procedures, application methods and characteristics which differ according to the origins or allegiance, whether national or political – more national than political if the truth be known, of each of us. Today, someone has raised this issue, which seemed to me, in the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, never to have been analysed before. I feel that Parliament and the Presidency must make further endeavours – and we are doing – and reach a speedy conclusion on the matter for the difficulties that arise from the different laws of the nations to which we belong do not, when it comes down to it, make all the Members subject to the same conditions. In the case in point – as Mr Zimeray very rightly said – the Committee on Legal Affairs expressed a unanimous vote on the matter. It is true that, in politics, there is sometimes exaggeration, very often personal comments are made, and we have witnessed precisely that in this Chamber today. However, we remain democratically of the opinion that, however strong the expressions used by each Member of Parliament, each politician, may be, they must be considered to be political actions – although I do not mean that Parliament must not cover up for individuals – and therefore, in order to protect Parliament, immunity must not be waived. On behalf of the PPE, I therefore endorse the proposal of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, while making it clear that, if comments on the personal affairs and private, personal lives of all of us – which, I regret to say, are often made, as the international press is doing at present – could be avoided, it would be much better and would certainly be an indication of more democratic, more correct political behaviour."@en1

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