Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-10-23-Speech-2-402-000"
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"Madam President, I voted in favour of this report. I think it is very good that the concept of European citizenship is being raised again. As has been mentioned today, it is 20 years since the concept of European citizenship was launched. It is not enough for this sort of concept to exist; the biggest problem in the European Union right now is the fact that citizens do not feel that the Union is theirs. Citizens feel that the Union is more a Union of the elite, a Union of hard cores. It is therefore good that next year there will be a focus on what the European Union actually means to citizens.
The European Parliament is currently also look at the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme, for which I am the rapporteur. Under this programme, which will take place during the next programming period, we will invest a sum of approximately 10 cents a year for every citizen of the European Union. This means that we are currently observing citizens within the Union using economic and other indicators at quite a low cost. It is therefore very important that citizenship and people’s participation in Union decision-making be reinforced."@en1
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