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We are firmly opposed to the idea of one constituency across the entire EU with perhaps 10% of the European Parliament’s seats. Creating a separate EU constituency is an artificial way to try to create a European demos. There is no common political arena in Europe with media or debate covering all the Member States. Each country has its own political agenda. An attempt to break barriers of language and tradition by creating EU parties, entirely dependent on EU contributions, is doomed to failure.
We recall that 54.4% of voters stayed at home in the 2004 European Parliament elections. The ‘stay-at-home party’ is the biggest party in the European Parliament elections. There is no enthusiasm for European Parliament elections in the new Member States either. In Slovakia the turn-out was 16.96% in 2004.
With any enlargement of the EU to countries such as Ukraine and Turkey the present Member States will have their delegations cut back. This affects the smaller groups and reduces political diversity. There will be no place for regional parties or minority parties in the European Parliament.
Both the Christian Democrats/Conservatives (PPE-DE) and the Socialists (PSE) would seem to have a hidden agenda of trying to create a two-party system in the European Parliament.
We are voting in favour of the report, not because it is excellent, but because it represents an improvement."@en1
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