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We have today voted against the European Parliament’s report on a new Statute for Members, which was however approved by 294 votes, with 171 against and 59 abstentions.
Without a system of travel allowances in which refunds are made on the basis of actual costs instead of, at present, on a flat-rate basis, the new Statute will not lead to increased openness. Certainly, Parliament’s Praesidium determined on 29 May 2003 to investigate a new system of travel allowances, but that still does not solve the problems. A decision to refund actual costs should come into force automatically at the same time as a new Statute for Members is implemented.
In future, we should ideally like to see MEPs’ salary levels set in relation to salary levels in the national parliaments.
Because MEPs live in, and represent, their Member States, tax should, in the future too, be deducted on a national basis in order to take account of the cost of living and of social insurance systems in different countries."@en1
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