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"Madam President, in over 20 years of elected public office service this must be amongst the most gerrymandered of political processes I have witnessed to date.
I do not make these comments lightly. I have been involved in the Legal Affairs Committee in trying to work with colleagues, including the rapporteur, on trying to reach a proper solution to the problem that was presented to us. But yet again, though there is a genuine case for reform we have made a choice to actually surrender that genuine opportunity and sacrifice it on the altar of political expediency, to arrive at a solution which is actually a non-solution. When our citizens from right across the European Union are demanding genuine reforms that reflect actual service to them, we have chosen to come forward once again with a compromise solution that actually adds to the burdens of those citizens but does nothing about providing a solution to the problem that was presented to us.
We are about to spend EUR 20 million a year extra where there was absolutely no need for us to add even one single euro cent to the burden for European taxpayers. We are failing each of our citizens by pushing this through and that is why I have taken the step, without any small measure of burden being attached, of moving an amendment to the resolution that rejects the Council position. I call upon colleagues – and I know many of them have stated to me in private how they know and they recognise that in years to come we will come to regret this decision – to support my move."@en1
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