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"The draft Council decision on the organisation of European elections makes provision for the possibility of regional constituencies, on the initiative and at the discretion of each country. To the extent that this is a simple option, which in any case is already in use in a minority of countries, this provision may be accepted.
As far as France is concerned, however, we are opposed to such a reform, which would encourage the fragmentation of the country with regard to Brussels. That was the meaning of the amendment which I had proposed, and which I spoke about during the debate.
The Council has explained that the creation of territorial constituencies within a country should not, overall, undermine the proportional nature of the voting (Article 2). Parliament has clarified this ‘overall’ by explaining that it must not “undermine the proportional representation of political families at Member State level” (Recital C). We conclude from this that, when territorial constituencies are created, the effects of thresholds must be avoided, for example by introducing a system of ‘recovering the residues’ at national level. However, all that would be very complicated. The current system is simpler, clearer and more effective for the purposes of representing France."@en1
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