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Yesterday, I was one of the signatories of the appeal to EP candidates for the term 2004–2009 to put an end to excessive expenses and to wasting money as a result of meeting in two different cities. Today, it is possible to gauge the level of support for this within the 1999–2004-term Parliament that is soon to retire. On a proposal from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, a majority of 31 voted against moving all sessions to Brussels. The costs of this refusal amount to EUR 185 million each year, rising to EUR 203 million after enlargement. The proposal to reimburse only the actual travel costs incurred was not included in the vote, as a much vaguer proposal was first adopted on a study into travel costs. My group presented two proposals to limit the period for which the attendance register can be signed. Limiting it to the fixed session times was rejected by 99 votes to 355, and abolishing the option of signing it on days on which there are no sessions was rejected by 151 votes to 320. Only the recently introduced option of additional taxi expenses has been abandoned, with 351 votes for and 146 against. That is an extremely poor yield for now in the fight to reduce this Parliament’s unnecessary costs. In these circumstances, in particular, it is a good thing that the Council did not allow the recent pay increase."@en1
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