Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-22-Speech-1-067"
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"Mr President, during today’s discussions in the European Parliament we shall be considering the report by Richard Corbett on the amendment of Rule 173 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament concerning verbatim reports.
In my view, the committee is not going in the direction that it should. I feel I can say this because of Article 96, which states that ‘Parliament shall ensure the utmost transparency of its activities’, thus any attempts to restrict the provision of information to European Union States, as well as access to it, undermines this fundamental right and is contrary to the idea of the Union, to the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, to existing agreements and breaches fundamental human rights in the European Union.
Surely we are not constructing a European Union in order to have discrimination against smaller nations with less resilient cultures, or, if we are, this should have been stated prior to accession. It is no argument, either, to talk about costs, about financial resources. We spend so much on unnecessary facilities and on administration that we should be able to afford at least to communicate with society."@en1
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