Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-14-Speech-2-059"
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"Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating the rapporteur on his work. I would then like to stress the importance of item 20, which calls for the broadcasting on the Internet of audiovisual recordings of Parliament’s plenary sittings and for the creation of archives.
Unlike Mr Gill, I believe that the principle of publicising our work is very important. There will be meetings which will have a large audience and meetings which attract less attention, but I still feel that the Internet represents a very inexpensive opportunity to retrieve the fundamental democratic principle of publicising meetings, which, as we know, are only public in theory, on paper. Indeed, we know that European citizens cannot attend these events: irrespective of whether they interest thousands or dozens of people, the fact is that the public cannot have access to them without an invitation.
The costs might be much less than those currently sustained for the various publicity materials or for reported information; this would be live information, not reported information, which would bring the European Parliament’s activities back into line with the principle of publicising our work."@en1
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