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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to raise an issue that has come up before, pursuant to Rule 143 of the Rules of Procedure. In other words, I wish to question the admissibility for debate and voting of the report and regulation which we were about to debate. I wish to contest their admissibility on a purely legal basis. I should simply like to quote from another report by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, which is currently under consideration, which will reach the plenary at the end of the month, and which, and I quote from the text in English, “welcomes the fact that the Treaty incorporates a legal basis that will enable a statute for European political parties and rules governing their funding to be adopted under the codecision procedure”. In other words, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs itself is aware that only after the Treaty of Nice, at the earliest, could there be a legal basis that would cover this matter. This, however, is not enough and is even questionable from a legal point of view. The Treaties make no mention of European political parties. The Treaties talk about political parties at European level and consider all political parties acting at European level to be of equal standing. This is clearly what Article 191 of the Treaties says, before Nice and following Nice, and this is also stated in Declaration 11 annexed to the Treaty.
Now, establishing a legal framework, as well as funding, for a tiny category of parties, the so-called “European political parties” and others which fall within its definition, would lead to discrimination, which is unacceptable in the light of fundamental rights and in the light of the Treaties. This discrimination would not only affect certain political parties, but also, in particular, the European public, since it is the voters, in accordance with electoral law and procedures, who determine the power and the representativeness of the parties. I therefore call on the House to declare this report and this regulation inadmissible."@en1
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