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Now that we have completed the revision of the Rules of Procedure, which entailed extensive and protracted work, there is paradoxically now a feeling of great frustration that amendments to the most negative aspects of the functioning of this institution, which do serious damage to the genuine and full role of the democratic mandate of its Members have not been tabled. We are left feeling that an opportunity has been missed and we will almost certainly end up with an excessively weighty institution which holds too many votes. I am afraid that we will still have a European Parliament that is difficult for most of the European public to understand and which will still suffer from the unacceptable lack of transparency which is the indirect consequence of working at a break-neck pace, however widespread and common this practice is here. Instead of attacking these genuinely serious aspects in a House that claims to be the seat of European democracy, the majority has preferred instead to join forces and fight to restrict the rights of the smaller political groups, which in terms of democracy and of basic respect for the principle of equality, is quite intolerable."@en1
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