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"Mr President, the subject of public procurement brings to mind the problems with the Brussels hemicycle. The hemicycle was, of course, closed in September 2012 because cracks were discovered in three of the beams holding up the roof. In December 2012 we were told that Parliament was having difficulty in finding a builder to do the repair work. This was, apparently, because they were concerned about the ten-year guarantee required.
If the Chamber is reopened in April, as promised, it will have been closed for 18 months. Surely Parliament’s public procurement procedures should have been able to find a builder willing to do the work, given that money is no problem? Some might suspect that the long delay was deliberate, in order to prevent the Brussels Chamber being used as the sole meeting place of this Parliament, thereby ending the monthly and expensively monstrous trek to Strasbourg. If Parliament cannot organise its own public procedure policies, how can it possibly hope to organise everybody else’s?"@en1
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