Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-14-Speech-2-230"
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"Question No. 35 by Anna Hedh ()
It is a major expense to move a parliament with 732 members at least once a month. Papers, office supplies, vehicles and people have to be transported, resulting in inefficiency and unnecessary bureaucracy. The low turnout in the European Parliament elections this spring shows that people do not care enough about the European Union, which is a serious political problem. However, the solution to this problem is not to move the institutions between two European countries, which only prompts more people to turn their backs on the EU. We politicians must be close to the citizens we represent and take their daily problems seriously, which we could do even if the European Parliament had its seat in one country.
It cannot be justified in the eyes of European citizens to spend such large sums on moving back and forth. Can the Commission say what it costs the Union to have two seats for the European Parliament and is it possible to justify the logic of these arrangements to European citizens?"@en1
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"Subject: Cost of travelling to Strasbourg"1
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