Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-038"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I in turn congratulate the two rapporteurs, Mr Färm and Mr Stenmarck, on their work. I also think that these are two good documents that will enable the budgetary procedure to run smoothly and that constitute a good working plan for Parliament, the Commission and the Council.
In particular, I would like to say a few words about the Stenmarck report, first of all to congratulate the rapporteur, and also to express my pleasure in seeing my idea accepted, that of increasing our use of the Internet and making this institution truly transparent by eventually broadcasting our debates, and even debates in our committees, in full on the Internet. The Secretary-General, who is present today, is familiar with this document. I think this is a step forward that we must follow through. Parliament is an institution which, let us say, is a symbol. It runs the risk of not being very visible, as, for security reasons, a subject we are very familiar with, access to our work itself is somewhat restricted, although we maintain the principle of public meetings. I therefore think it is important to use the Internet.
However, let us say that I am a little surprised to see an amendment by the PPE-DE, I think, which is the new version of paragraph 15 stating that the administration of Parliament would be held in greater esteem if it were efficient, coherent and politically balanced. I find the concept of political balance very interesting as this basically means that employees must be chosen so as to maintain a balance between the groups. However, to my knowledge, for the past 20 years or so, the only transfers that have taken place have been between the two main groups and, as a result of this, at least one third of the Members of Parliament did not benefit from this. I think that the administration is fine as it is and that it does not need to be rebalanced by means of a system that, in Italy, we call the ‘Cencelli’ system, which, moreover, worked very well at the time of the last nominations.
Ladies and gentlemen of the PPE-DE, I think that that is sufficient and that we are balanced enough as we are."@en1
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