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"We have completed our discussion of the European Parliament’s budget for 2013. Parliament’s expenditure is expected to be EUR 1.759 billion, which will mean a rise of 1.9% in comparison to 2012. By far the largest part of this expenditure is related to Parliament’s staff, of whom there are going to be 6 713 employees, and the maintenance of Parliament’s buildings in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. In my opinion, there are ways of reducing this budget and of being more radical in the search for savings.
Firstly, the appropriate authorities of Parliament and the Council should cut the number of places where Parliament meets so that it has a single seat, not just for the Members of Parliament, but also for Parliament’s officials. The current situation generates additional costs of several hundred million annually, and this cannot continue.
Secondly, I cannot understand why, with the present scale of movement of parliamentarians and officials – tens of thousands of flights are made in any one year – Parliament is not able to negotiate reductions on air tickets with Europe’s largest carriers. We pay more for our tickets than tickets bought on an individual basis, using the Internet, for example. I think radical change is needed here."@en1
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