Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-24-Speech-4-106"
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"en.20070524.19.4-106"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall limit myself to pointing out the regrettable fact that the vote that has been taken in favour of our colleague will easily be overturned by the European Communities’ Court of Justice, and the reason why this is so is that you have variable-geometry case law.
When the scandalous attempt was made to deprive Mr Le Pen of his mandate, you had recourse to national competence and were unwilling to confirm for yourselves that the French authorities were interfering with his rights. You saw fit to act similarly when it came to the verification of the credentials of another Member of this House, Mr Ruiz-Mateos, when, again, you had recourse to national law.
Yet now you want to defend the prerogatives of this House, and why ever not? In any case, the end product of your attitude was a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Communities which, unfortunately for you, found against you, thus confirming the truth of the Latin dictum, ‘
my turn today and yours tomorrow. This House’s acting as judge is defensible only if the House judges all its Members equally."@en1
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"Hodie mihi, cras tibi’ –"1
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