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"There are 90 of us who, as MEPs, have signed a motion of censure on the Commission, because it was the only way we had of getting the President of the Commission to come here to Parliament and explain the connection between a gift of a holiday worth between EUR 20 000 and EUR 25 000 and a subsequent decision to provide EUR 10 million in regional aid to his friend Spyros Latsis, 54th on the list of the world’s richest people.
We wrote in our motion of censure that we would withdraw said motion if we were given a reasonable explanation.
We were given an explanation, but Parliament’s President has in the meantime decided that, contrary to our wishes, we must vote on the motion.
We are satisfied that, in future, motions of censure are to be accepted from the moment they are submitted with 74 signatures, whereupon they shall automatically be put to the vote.
The motion was submitted under the old rules, however. Some of us will therefore choose to abstain from voting when the motion is put to the vote.
That does not mean that we are satisfied with the Commission’s answer, but we are pleased about the undertakings given during the debate, and we shall pursue the matter in the Committee on Budgetary Control and go on fighting for complete openness about gifts and about membership of the Commission’s 3 000 secret working parties."@en1
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