Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-22-Speech-2-066"
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"Mr President, the European Parliament is a political body and I think we ought to consider the issues we are debating in a political manner. The measure which ought to link our activities, in my view, tells us two things. Let me take two examples from our discussions. The first is the matter of independent authorities or agencies. Of course, there is the question of major expansion of all these agencies, but it is impossible to say that the decentralisation of the independent agencies is not particularly useful. As there is a problem with great expansion, we will say no to all the independent agencies? Naturally this would not be possible.
The second relates to the infamous issue of our colleagues’ salaries. This certainly is a problem, and we said so in committee. There is a vast difference, however, between saying that there is a problem and not giving exemption to Parliament for an entire year, and also between making very populist remarks, such as that we are all responsible and that claiming that there is no transparency. How can there be no transparency? We, the members of the committee, have seen the report."@en1
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