Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-125"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-06-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030603.5.2-125"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-03-Speech-2-1262
lpv:speaker	lp:Andersen, Bonde, Frahm, Krarup, Sandbæk, Schmid, Herman, Seppänen and Sjöstedt (GUE/NGL )2
lpv:spoken text	". Members of the European Parliament are elected as representatives of the Member States and they should receive salaries and pay taxes similar to members of the national parliaments (MNP). Attempts to differentiate between MEPs and MNPs will not strengthen any links between the two and extreme salary increases combined with EU taxation will alienate voters further. We strongly support any efforts to make the remuneration and allowance system more transparent and in accordance with prudent accounting standards. At the same time, we believe it is hypocritical to legislate on corporate governance while not being able to apply the same standards to an institution ultimately funded by taxpayers' money. We have voted against the Rothley report as a consequence of the attempt to establish the idea of MEPs simply being 'European' and completely removed from their national settings as well as increase salaries substantially, but without a thorough 'cleaning-up' of the allowance system, cf. Article 27."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Andersen, Bonde, Frahm, Krarup, Sandbæk, Schmid, Herman, Seppänen and Sjöstedt (GUE/NGL ),"1 "in writing"1

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