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"en.20120510.69.4-263-312"2
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"The report attached to the discharge of the European Parliament’s budget highlights the failure of the EuroparlTV project and, in view of the low number of direct users, calls on the Secretary-General to present proposals to the competent committee for the closure of the operation. The report also quantifies the enormous waste related to maintaining Parliament’s seat in Strasbourg, which cost in excess of EUR 50 million in 2010, while it is estimated that establishing a single seat would deliver savings of approximately EUR 180 million. In addition, the report underlines the fact that Parliament has already expressed its view on this, declaring itself in favour of closing the Strasbourg seat. Wasting public money is never acceptable, but it is even more heinous in times of recession like the present, as Member States are being forced to ask sacrifices of their taxpayers. In the hope that the competent institutions will make an effort to reduce or eliminate these and other sources of waste, I voted in favour of the report on the discharge of the budget of the European Parliament for 2010."@en1
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