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"Madam President, Ms Vassiliou, there are some documents which present my political group and me personally with a certain difficulty. This document is not a bad one, it is not something to which we are strongly opposed or which we reject as a matter of policy. However, it is one of those documents which was not really necessary. I think that with regard to such documents, one could follow the advice of a certain philosopher which says that we should eliminate unnecessary entities – and I have the feeling that this document is just such an unnecessary entity and that perhaps, in our capacity as politicians or as the European Union, we ought not to be working on it.
I am not fully convinced, as the Commissioner and Ms Neveďalová are, that introducing the European Heritage Label will, in fact, stimulate the economy and tourism. I do not see such a direct connection and I fear that the money which will be invested in this project – all those panel members of whom the rapporteur spoke, all the experts who will have to be used for this – will be financed from the budget, from the taxpayer’s pocket, but that this will not necessarily make things better for the taxpayer.
I can see Mr Borys in the Chamber, I can see Mr Scurria, I can see Mr Tőkés and Ms Neveďalová – and I value their work in the Committee on Culture and Education – and I think that in this vote, you are going to be able to get by without the votes of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. The ECR Group will abstain from voting on this precisely because we do not want to be hypocritical in supporting something which we think is unnecessary, which will be costly to taxpayers, and which, in my opinion, will not necessarily help – as it is supposed to do – enhance a sense of shared European identity. Let that European identity be built, but not necessarily with the help of politicians, not necessarily with the help of the European Union institutions. Let it build itself."@en1
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