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Mr President, the political Europe that we want to build requires a new institutional and legal order, covering the statutory rules for Members of the European Parliament.
Every Parliament has a Special Statute for Members detailing the values of autonomy and representation, yet the Special Statute for Members of the European Parliament goes further. It helps us to understand Parliament's significance in the development of the political European Union.
A single Members’ statute, with an appropriate privileges and immunity regime, is an essential prerequisite for an increasingly well-integrated political Union, whose system of large-scale representation is based on principles of democracy. The System of Members’ privileges and immunities is an integral part of the fabric of the Statute. It is separate from the context of the privileges and immunities of other servants of the Union, and must not be allowed to fragment into the preferences of each Member State.
The question that Parliament is asking the Council today is not merely formal in nature. Its purpose is to highlight the difference between a concept of Europe as an integrated democratic structure with Parliament at its centre and a concept of Europe as a fragmented structure.
Furthermore, the review of the system of privileges and immunities forms part of a commitment made by the Council. The possibility of holding an intergovernmental conference, now or at some point in the future, could be discussed. It is clear that there is a need to match the desired adjustment to the Statute of the Privileges and Immunities Regime. We are also sure that the Intergovernmental Conference must hear Parliament’s voice, both now and in the future."@en1
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