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At a time when the peoples of Europe are facing so many difficulties (unemployment, social breakdown, insecurity, etc.), I am not convinced that they will truly appreciate Parliament’s determination to get its uniform statute for Members of the European Parliament adopted.
I believe it to be an entirely secondary concern and that it is being pursued for material and ideological reasons.
So far as the material aspect is concerned, there is no point in going on about it at length, but I think it is obscene to take advantage of the occasion to give MEPs a whole series of excessive sinecures and privileges.
Regarding the ideological aspect, no one is taken in: this statute’s primary objective is to detach the elected representative from his State of origin completely. Even though, in legal terms, we sit in this Parliament as the representatives of our respective peoples, they want to make us out to be the representatives of some mythical European people, in other words rootless. It all follows on logically from Parliament’s earlier vote in favour of a uniform electoral procedure, the principle of transnational constituencies or European political parties.
This report proves once again that Eurofederalism is divorced from the reality of the man in the street."@en1
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