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"Mr President, it is important for the European Parliament to obtain a Statute governing MEPs’ conditions. It is also important for us to obtain a system that is transparent and that our electorate can scrutinise. What, above all, have been stumbling blocks for us, as Swedish Social Democrats, are the cut-and-dried travel allowances, the salary level, the Community tax and the lack of transparency. We have set down a number of absolute requirements as conditions of our supporting a new Statute for Members: firstly, that we can continue to pay tax in Sweden; secondly, that there be reformed travel allowance systems based upon actual expenses; and, thirdly, that we obtain a system that is open, that can be monitored and that our electorate can scrutinise.
The proposal now before us contains a great deal of what we wished for, but it departs from what we want on one crucial point, namely when it comes to the possibility of paying national tax. In the vote, we shall support an amendment aimed precisely at retaining the right to pay national tax. If this proposal is rejected, we shall unfortunately be forced to vote against the whole proposal."@en1
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