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We Swedish Social Democrats have chosen to grant discharge to the European Parliament for the financial year 2009.
We would like to emphasise that, as a public institution, the European Parliament must strive to demonstrate as much openness and transparency as possible. We therefore chose to support paragraph 5, which calls for greater transparency with regard to Members’ expenditure allowance.
We also believe, particularly in view of the current economic situation, that Parliament must review its expenditure and identify savings and ways to increase efficiency. Parliament ought to have a more in-depth debate on these issues, which is why we would also like to provide more room for the discharge debate. We also have a positive view of the principle that the European Parliament should have a common air miles system to provide the benefit of cheaper air travel, even though we find it difficult to see how this could be implemented in practice.
Finally, we do not believe it is wrong for Parliament to award cultural prizes. However, we are highly critical of Parliament’s Prize for Journalism, and do not believe that it is appropriate for Parliament to award prizes to journalists whose task it is to critically examine the European Parliament. We therefore believe that this prize should be abolished."@en1
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