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"en.20011210.3.1-052"2
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"Madam President, are we, the Members of the European Parliament, all fraudsters? Are we all thieves? Are we all idlers? Are we timewasters who do nothing from morning to night and spend our time enjoying ourselves and getting rich? I do not think so. Yet that is what is stated in a book by an Italian journalist, Mario Giordano, entitled ‘L’Unione fa la truffa’ [The Union is a swindler]. The title says it all. This journalist is also, I regret to say, the director of a major Italian television company. The book, which I found in a bookshop in Rome – where I had gone to meet my mother and sister as I often do – filled me with horror and sent shivers down my spine, for it describes all of us Members of Parliament as idlers who do nothing but plot frauds and robberies. Madam President, please would you examine this book and instigate legal proceedings for libel against Mario Giordano, who, it pains me to admit, is Italian."@en1
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