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Under the aegis of the new Article 190(5) of the EC Treaty, introduced by the Treaty of Nice, this House has just drawn up a draft unified Statute for Members of the European Parliament, which should be submitted to the Council for its decision – no longer to be reached unanimously, but by a qualified majority.
The text addresses a number of technical issues that needed to be resolved in any case within the context of the recognised autonomy of the European Parliament to organise its correct internal functioning. It also goes much further, however, by presenting a statute that standardises at European level all aspects of the situation of members of parliament and cuts essential links with their countries of origin, in particular remuneration.
As we have said a hundred times, Members of the European Parliament need to be paid – as they are today – by the citizens of their country, who elected them and whom they are supposed to represent.
Parliament’s current actions correspond implicitly to the objective of establishing a super-State, where Members would represent the Union as a whole, rather than the country that elected them. This is a fundamental, if surreptitious, change, of which, once again, our voters are unaware. Out of honesty towards them, we refused to vote for this draft."@en1
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