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"en.20020612.3.3-136"2
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On account of the guarded resistance to the forming of small groups, there are fewer groups in the European Parliament than in some national parliaments. The advantage is that international groups combine adherents of more or less the same political persuasion, instead of 150 groups of individual national parties. But it also has disadvantages, such as the position of individual Members who do not belong to any groups or who switch groups from time to time. In the Netherlands, I am used to a system where parliamentary groups are formed on the basis of the election result. Every list that obtains seats, even if this is only one, is recognised as a group. In the European Parliament, on the other hand, groups are not formed until after the elections, and the switching of individual Members to another group is not considered as theft of seats. Since a large number of Members from different Member States are needed in order to be recognised as a group, there will be political movements left over that are too small for this. This leads not only to the setting up of ideologically-connected groups, within which, based on differences of national public opinions, Members do not always see eye to eye on practical choices, but also to artificial, technical groups, in which parties work together that do not know each other. In my view, an obligation for all Members who cannot find any groups to join, to take part in a mixed group based on a Spanish model, is complete madness."@en1
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