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"Mr President, I warmly recommend voting in favour of the excellent Leinen report. In his report, Mr Leinen explores the history of the institution of political parties. We owe him our thanks. With this proposal for a vote in favour tomorrow, the European political parties will acquire a legal basis and will strengthen the democratic character of the European Union. Again, my warmest thanks to Mr Leinen, as well as to Mrs Schleicher and Mr Corbett for their courteous reference to my somewhat older contributions. I will not conceal my personal satisfaction. I must also praise the work carried out by Mrs Schleicher during the previous stage. The European Parliament should be satisfied with the Council of Ministers' wording on both the questions at issue, both on the minimum number of Member States in which the party is active and on the sensitive issue of funding. Besides, the compromise amendments submitted resolve any problems there may be.
The democratic benefits of giving European political parties a legal status are many. I would refer to the following: there will be a deepening of the legitimacy of the European institutions. Giving the European political parties a legal status is a valuable complement to the constitutionalisation of the Treaties. In the field of the European political parties, the principle of solidarity between peoples at social level will be implemented via the substantial political rally of the national parties of the Member States. The role of the European citizen will no longer finish when he votes in elections to the European Parliament; it will extend to his mobilisation within the framework of the European political parties. The European citizen will turn from a citizen into an active citizen. On the question of funding, it brings transparency and protection of the party institution from unknown or questionable financial sources. Only with the institution of the European political parties can the process of unification in Europe finally become our affair, by which I mean the affair of the European citizens.
I would like to finish by congratulating the Greek Presidency, the excellent diplomats Messrs Mathioudakis and Venizelos, and also by informing the House of the personal interest of President Kostas Simitis who, both as a politician and as a specialist, had paid a great deal of attention to the institution of political parties. It was his particular wish to be able to count this law among the successes and work of the Greek Presidency."@en1
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