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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the report is aimed at reforming European electoral law, moving us towards the creation of a European federal state.
There are plans to add a transnational college, elected using the proportional method and regulated by an appropriate EU electoral authority. We are very much opposed to this choice: firstly, it does not respect the political groups that have their roots in their own countries rather than at European level, and secondly, huge costs would be incurred in setting it up. What is more, we would have two different types of MEP, because it would be unthinkable for MEPs who have to travel round 27 and subsequently 28 Member States to be treated in the same way as the others – what funds would they have to be able to look after their own region?
Another point that we oppose is the creation of an EU electoral roll, because its management in terms of the deletions, insertions, amendments and checks required for hundreds of millions of voters would incur unnecessary additional costs for the EU budget. The creation of a single European political space would limit the Member States’ sovereignty.
We believe in a Europe of the peoples that respects the situation in the regions and represents and empowers them, not a Europe that imposes itself as a bureaucratic ‘superstate’ and master."@en1
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