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"en.20050623.30.4-120"2
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"Today, Parliament has voted on the long-debated Members’ Statute. There are some doubtful features, but it overwhelmingly constitutes an improvement on current rules applicable to, for example, travel expenses, taxes and pensions. Actual travel costs will be reimbursed, rather than a standard payment being made. The Statute also means that all MEPs will receive the same level of salary from 2009. That is especially important if our fellow MEPs from the new Member States are to receive reasonable salaries and if the earnings gap is to be reduced between those who earn least and those who earn most. Quite a few constructive amendments were tabled before the vote, demanding, for example, a common statute for MEPs’ assistants and the opportunity for those MEPs who wish to do so to receive back only their actual expenses from as early as 2007. We have for a long time supported developments towards a statute for assistants and the reimbursement of actual expenses. That is something we shall continue to do in the future too. In order to ensure that the Statute arrived at by compromise with the Council goes through, we have, however, chosen to vote today against all the amendments tabled in plenary and have voted in favour of the committee’s report. Any change to the compromise would jeopardise the unity in the Council and, thus, the possibility of being able to agree at all on the Members’ Statute."@en1
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