Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-29-Speech-4-226-000"
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"Madam President, nothing the European Parliament can say, no call we make for savings, no amount of tilting at windmills – nothing we might do to persuade the citizens to have greater faith in the European institutions – will be sincere or effective if we do not, once and for all, carry out effective reforms which result in a single seat for the European Parliament. I would not like to say which seat – Brussels or Strasbourg – should be chosen, but the European Parliament should have a single seat. I do think, however, that all the arguments which were originally used, which were used in the early days of our Union to justify having two seats, are no longer valid today. Today, the great objective of achieving reconciliation between Germany and France – a very important objective – has now been accomplished, but today the European Parliament’s two seats very clearly symbolise the way in which our institutions have become distanced from the aspirations of the European Union’s ordinary citizens."@en1
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