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"Mr President, I, like my other Irish colleagues, cannot support this report which proposes to reduce the number of seats for Ireland and Croatia. The report, in my opinion, runs completely contrary to the principle of digressive proportionality. Small and medium-sized countries are suffering at the expense of the larger countries. The key principle of digressive proportionality is that countries with smaller populations should have a more favourable ratio of population to seats than the larger Member States.
The current proposal does not achieve this. Italy has a far more favourable ratio than Spain. Under the current proposal, Ireland, with the fastest-growing population in the EU, would lose a seat and would have a worse population ratio than Finland or Slovakia, which have almost a million more people. Ireland and Croatia would see a more radical change in their ratio of population than any of the other countries which will lose a seat under the current proposals. This has considerable implications for the effective representation of Ireland, particularly across the 22 committees. Ireland is a peripheral country…"@en1
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