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Today, I, along with the eurosceptic part of my group, voted in favour of the Buitenweg report on equal treatment. We very much agree with the content of her proposals and therefore regret the many ‘no’ votes from Members who actually want to see more Europe. It is unfortunate that other parties were suggesting before the vote that our decision to vote ‘yes’ was perhaps somewhat out of character.
In the national parliaments and national governments of the EU Member States, a question that is often raised is whether the EU should reel in further competences. This increase in competences is often at the expense of decision-making at a lower level, where those affected are guaranteed maximum influence. In such cases my party, the Dutch Socialist Party, objects. In the European Parliament, however, the emphasis is more on how the EU implements its competences, or on content, in other words. Then, we always vote in favour of what we consider to be an improvement and against what we consider to be a change for the worse. Choosing to act in this way does not mean that we would not prefer to leave areas of this kind to the Council, which has noted a European average that is worse than what we have since reached in the Netherlands and in a number of other Member States."@en1
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