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We must be clear on this as there are many numbers:
1. This proposal means that, since 1999, Portugal has firstly gone from 25 to 24 Members and will now be reduced to 22, whereas Germany kept its 99 Members, which will now be reduced to 96. In other words, Portugal has lost 12% and Germany has lost 3%.
2. The six most populous countries currently hold around 56% of the seats in the European Parliament. With this proposal their control is fully maintained at 56%. In other words, they have given nothing.
Therefore, through the current reform of the Treaties, the major powers are reasserting their control over the Council, by applying the demographic criterion without any weighting, and are maintaining their full control over the EP. Portugal is losing out! If some are in control, others must be...
In order to conceal their connivance with such an unacceptable situation, some are saying that it could be worse. Others think that it is natural that only some countries should be able to defend their interests..., at the expense of the interests of others.
Finally, but without forgetting other important aspects – such as the rejection of the creation of a supranational electoral body or the fact that the fewer Members Portugal has, the less they will represent the political plurality existing in our country – we reiterate that a fair solution at institutional level must without question respect the principle of cooperation between sovereign states with equal rights."@en1
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