Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-11-Speech-4-136"
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"I voted for and welcome the Lamassoure-Severin Report on the composition of the European Parliament. However, I find it rather strange that Parliament has the right to decide on the distribution of its seats but not on where it sits. It is clear that the Council is incapable of sorting out the mess of Parliament having three locations and I call on it to follow the logic of giving Parliament the right to allocate its seats by giving it the right to decide where it meets.
This report recommends a new, fairer composition for the European Parliament to apply to the 2009-2014 Parliament. The report’s operating principle of degressive proportionality, which calls for bigger Member States to accept fewer MEPs than a strict proportional distribution would allow, is one I agree with. It will ensure that smaller Member States have viable parliamentary delegations, and that Parliament can return to a slightly more reasonable size of 750."@en1
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