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As might have been expected, the Commission has just expressed a favourable opinion of the draft Statute for Members of the European Parliament, approved yesterday. It even proposed taking one point further, demanding that all honourable Members be subject to a single Community rate of tax, in accordance with a principle of equal pay which is irrelevant in this situation. On the contrary, the honourable Members are representatives of their respective countries. Our position is that they should be subject to the same taxes as their fellow countrymen.
I have thus voted against this proposal being passed on to the Council. I would argue that the Statute for Members of the European Parliament should take account of disparities between countries. That rule should apply even if it means that each country delegates to the European Parliament decisions on certain well-defined matters which may arise in relation to the internal workings of the Assembly.
Thus far, the French Government has not responded to us. We hope that it may yet react, in order to avoid another Nice scenario. At Nice, despite our warnings, the previous government accepted a dramatic reduction in the number of French Members of this Parliament, a decision decried by all today. It would have been better to have foreseen this problem."@en1
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