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"Mr President, I should like to speak about those paragraphs which refer to Parliament’s organisation and its seat.
Paragraph 86 [
: 87] states that Parliament believes that, like every directly elected parliament, the European Parliament should have the right to decide on its own seat. This statement is an error, Mr President, and I should like to request that, in accordance with the appropriate procedures, this error should be removed.
Admittedly, the German Parliament, the Bundestag, decided, on its own account, to transfer its seat from Bonn to Berlin, but constitutional and political practices differ widely from one Member State to another. In the Member State to which I belong, the seats of the National Assembly and the Senate are determined by statute.
Then there are the paragraphs which call for studies regarding the savings to be made. From the carbon-footprint point of view, a seat in Strasbourg is exactly the same as a seat in Brussels. As for savings, I believe that it is necessary to include a study of all EU seats: the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, the European Medicines Agency in London, the European Banking Authority in London, the European Patent Office in Munich, etc.
If we are going to carry out a study, let us do it covering all the seats of the European Union rather than, as it were, deliberately singling out the European Parliament."@en1
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