Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-011"
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"Mr President, my dear Margot, underlying your fine words is the fact that the EU’s propaganda department would like to have more money for additional propaganda. More journalists are to be employed to tout their own virtues, and a fresh news agency is to be set up so that you can decide what the media are to write about the EU and so that you can provide each new item of news with an easily understood message, extolling the EU. The Commission does not need a communication policy. What it needs is transparency and democracy.
It should start by opening the accounts to parliamentary scrutiny. Give the EU’s auditors access to all expenditure so that they can monitor this. Publish the names of those who are paid to give good advice in the Commission’s secret working parties. Open the drawer containing letters of formal notice, so that voters and elected representatives can see which aspects of our laws the Commission does not like. Tell us who in the Commission is voting for what. Are there, for example, Commissioners who have opposed Mrs Wallström’s communication plan or Mr Kallas’s Transparency Initiative. It is better to have transparency, democracy and proximity to the people than to have more money for public relations."@en1
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