Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-135"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021205.3.4-135"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-1362
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of an alliance of opportunists and hypocrites. On behalf of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, I wish to say that we are strong supporters of a Member Statute being introduced before the 2004 European Parliamentary elections. Because of that, the British Labour delegation voted for the ELDR/Green/GUE/NGL resolution. It bests reflects the entire delegation's desire for transparency and the renumeration of MEPs' salaries and expenses, as did the separate motions by those groups for which we also voted. The PPE-DE/PSE resolution supports the existing text from the Legal Affairs Committee and that involves contentious primary legislation which is not acceptable to Council and therefore almost certain to fail. The text does not make clear the requirement for there to be complete and transparent reform of all Members' expenses. This is not a position, in all friendship to our colleagues in the PSE, which we are able to accept. The PPE-DE/PSE resolution also calls on the Commission to give an opinion on the text of the Legal Affairs Committee before it has been discussed by us in plenary. This seems to the British Labour delegation a recipe for further delay. It will be fundamentally our problem and our responsibility."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE )."1

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