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This report is worthy of our full attention and represents a serious breach of the law, as I made clear at the end of the vote in the parliamentary committee and in plenary when I tabled motions of inadmissibility and for the matter to be referred back to the committee.
Because I was shocked by the flagrant violation of European law, imposed by the left-wing ‘dictatorship of the majority’, I did not take part in the vote, in line with the outcome of discussions between the Union for a Europe of the Nations Group and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats.
This situation has had a genuinely tortuous history, which began last summer. Since last summer, the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, claims to have used the procedure laid down in Article 7(1) of the Treaty as a means of demonstrating supposed violations of freedom of expression and of information in Italy. They did no such thing, however, and, in any event, such an attitude is disgraceful.
What this amounts to is a purely political attack on the Italian Government and, as such, it is appalling that Parliament has been hijacked for this purpose.
Furthermore, the subsidiarity principle has clearly been violated.
We cannot allow Parliament to be used to mount purely political attacks or to impose its will on the sovereignty of States."@en1
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