Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-18-Speech-3-121"
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"Mr President, as I said in my minority opinion attached to the Leinen report, the action of political parties at European level ought to be fed from the base, that is by the national political parties and the citizens, and not from the top by the European institutions. That is the first condition for encouraging a living democracy instead of creating an artificial democracy from scratch. The second condition would be to reject the idea of a statute for political parties, which was introduced by the Treaty of Nice; it seems to have more to do with bureaucracy than with a free society. Apart from this objection of principle, we also have a strong objection concerning the details, because the Commission’s proposal does not seem to us to be in conformity with the treaties. It wants in fact to finance European political parties, whereas the treaty uses a much broader expression, ‘political parties at European level’, which includes action at European level by national political parties. In our opinion, that constitutes real discrimination.
Finally, Mr President, I support Mr Ribeiro e Castro’s request that this text be referred back to the committee pursuant to Rule 130a of the Rules of Procedure, since 75 amendments have been tabled, which is far more than the limit of 50. I have heard Mr Leinen’s reply that some of those amendments are compromise amendments, but that concept does not in fact exist in the Rules of Procedure. Whether they are simple or compromise amendments, the text must be referred back to the committee if there are more than 50 amendments."@en1
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