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"Mr President, some here have said that we are now in the midst of reorganising what is a healthy system. In that respect I agree with them that we could have made many good and necessary improvements to this House’s procedures even based on the current Rules of Procedure, but these are not the only improvements we are making. I have reached the conclusion that is better to change this system in such a democratic process as this, which the reports of both Mr Corbett and Lord Inglewood symbolise. It is the only way of bringing some sparkle and life to the procedures of this House, which have definitely been fossilising over the years.
These reformed procedures, including the ‘catch-the-eye’ system, appear to have worked extremely well – for example, for all the Members at open meetings of the Conference of Presidents – so I do not understand why they could not also be tried out more generally in plenary. If such trials show there are shortcomings in the system, we can always return to the old system. This is a matter of political choices, although we are also speaking about jurisprudence and rules.
In a way Members are always the children of their own parliamentary culture. They all have experience gained in their own national parliaments, and it is perhaps difficult to find a European view in matters such as these. However, this report contains a very subtle element of balance that meets demands for greater efficiency and the requirements of democracy. Perhaps the fact that there will now be fewer amendments to discuss in plenary means that debates will be more political in nature and in that sense more interesting. Perhaps we will really have arguments now here in favour of or against the amendments tabled and the debates will also have more substance to them.
As images of the European Parliament start to be transmitted everywhere in Europe over the Internet I hope the picture will be a little more colourful than the television test card, and that there will be colourful speeches and argument, and real debate here."@en1
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