Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-07-Speech-1-212"
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"Mr President, I should like to dispute a most fundamental premise, namely the premise that dividing ourselves into fewer groups gives us more political coherence. I could go and join the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, but that would not increase the group’s political coherence. Equally, I could join the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, but I can guarantee that it would not increase that group’s political coherence – by no means. This proposal is not about political coherence, therefore. It is about creating large numbers of independents who do not wish to belong to any of the groups that have a sufficient mandate to become established. This, in turn, will mean millions of Europeans not being represented by a political group in the European Parliament. I do not regard that as a good development. Above all, I do not regard it as a democratic development. Lastly, I should like to ask Mr Corbett – now we are on the subject of political coherence – whether the proposal he is presenting here has the unanimous support of the PSE Group, or whether there is in fact deep disagreement on the proposal within the group."@en1
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