Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-06-Speech-3-249"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do believe that this parliamentary debate serves a very useful purpose. The fact is that those who bear responsibility are sitting here. I think it is important to be master in one’s own house, and that means having proper working conditions.
When I consider that the meeting documents we are given here in the House have to be taken into the Chamber in paper form, I must conclude that our working methods are not up to date. It really goes without saying that the necessary computer equipment and Internet access should be available to us here at our workplaces so that we can perform our work properly and thoroughly here in the Chamber too.
Other facilities are lacking in the House, such as suitable consultation rooms. When we receive groups of our constituents these days and try to hold proper discussions with them, we do not really have the sort of premises we need to accommodate seven, eight, nine or ten people. One of our tasks here is to make the requisite improvements to our own working conditions.
It would also be useful if the public could see how individual Members of this House operate here. It would do no harm if we had a Web-TV transmission now and the next day were given the viewing figures for the various debates we had held. It would emerge very clearly that the citizens of Europe certainly do take an interest in what happens here in Parliament.
For the same reason it is also important to appeal to a wider range of journalists. I rate our Brussels correspondents very highly, but a great deal more must be done, including contributions to education and training programmes for journalists in Europe, to nurture a more objective understanding and assessment of the European Union."@en1
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