Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-191-000"
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"en.20121121.20.3-191-000"2
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"Madam President, one of the issues which came before the Committee on Petitions, which I think has exercised Members from across the Chamber and from all Member States, was the abuses of Spanish property law, particularly in the Comunidad Valenciana. I cannot be alone in having had so much traffic from constituents who had had property expropriated or threatened. It was actually easier in the end for me to go to Valencia, rather than trying to pursue them all individually from my end. It was a good example – let me fair about this – of the European Union tackling a real problem in a practical way, drawing to the attention of a member government that it could do something better without any coercion. Although we did not solve that issue a hundred percent, I think we got much of what we wanted.
It would be nice if we extended a similar readiness to listen to petitions to other issues. You will have heard this morning, one after another, my colleagues standing up and saying that we need bigger and bigger budgets and then the Commissioner responding and saying that he had listened to the debate and that it showed how much we were all in touch with the citizens of Europe. I would suggest that it shows precisely the opposite. I hope that we will be able to use this petitions procedure for people to be able to ask for less Europe, rather than just for the existing institutions to do other things."@en1
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