Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-17-Speech-3-084"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031217.4.3-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-17-Speech-3-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Evelyne Gebhardt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". It was almost twenty-five years ago now that the Members of the European Parliament were, for the first time, directly elected by the people. That was a milestone. To this day, though, there is no Act on Members’ Legal Status to regulate on one single basis the rights and duties of MEPs, and that is a disgrace, but not, admittedly, one of which this House should be ashamed. If anyone should be ashamed, it is the Council. I was first elected to this Parliament in 1994. Since then, I have had, time and again, the experience of seeing how the Council, when it came to the issue of a Members’ Statute, allowed us to run round in circles. The second attempt at one that I have experienced was this summer, and when we had at last adopted a Statute full of concessions and willingness to compromise, I thought that we were out of the woods. All that was needed was the Council’s approval, but the Council adopts its customary stance of nose in the air and absolute immobility. Shame on them! I have voted against the resolution, because I cannot see why we should now throw away the Statute we have adopted and present the Council not with a law on the legal position of MEPs, but with mere pay scales, of which we cannot be other than ashamed and for which the public will laugh us to scorn."@en1

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