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"Mr President, as spokesperson for the majority French party, the UMP, I congratulate the Portuguese Presidency and I am delighted with this agreement on the text of the Treaty. It gives the enlarged Europe the rules it needs to function effectively and democratically.
As co-rapporteur on the new composition of the European Parliament, I am also pleased about the Council’s agreement with the motion for a resolution voted for by Parliament on 11 October. The Council has thereby approved the definition we gave for degressive proportionality, the translation of this principle into figures, the use of Eurostat figures to evaluate the populations to be taken into account and the desire to find a more stable system after 2009.
The Council’s agreement is more than a 100% agreement; it is a 101% agreement, since the Council adds a seat to be given to Italy, without explaining why. This leads me to make two comments.
The first comment is, as you said, Mr President, that all the Members of Parliament will keep the right to vote – even the President, and even the 73rd Italian – contrary to a persistent rumour spread by some of the press.
My second comment is that the 73rd seat granted to Italy departs from the principle of degressive proportionality written into the Treaty, proposed by Parliament and accepted by the Council. We must therefore make sure that the decision to apply Article 9 a is unassailable before the European Court of Justice and for this reason the rapporteurs will be proposing a revised draft to Parliament taking into account the European Council’s wishes."@en1
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