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My colleagues and I from the
Group have signed the amendment removing the EUR 7 million appropriation for ‘European parties’ from the 2003 draft budget.
In effect, the Treaty of Nice, which provides for public financing for political parties ‘at European level’, has not yet come into force, and still less its essential implementing regulation. We are well aware that the existing ‘parties’ are in need of money, for the Court of Auditors has declared their funding by certain Parliamentary groups of this House to be illegal. We do not feel, however, that this is sufficient reason to disregard the fundamental provisions of the law.
Moreover, the implementing regulation drawn up last year in anticipation did not comply with the conditions of respect for national constitutional rules on neutrality in the funding of national politics and equal treatment of all the political groupings represented at the European Parliament, as they were defined by Declaration No 11 of the Treaty of Nice.
Basically, we can only reaffirm our rejection of this kind of funding, which will cost the taxpayer a lot of money and only provide minimal resources for European parties which have no real substance."@en1
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