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"Mr President, after the Council’s failure to achieve unanimity in 2001, new perspectives opened up at Nice. A new legal basis was created and qualified majority voting came into force. This is the background to our current debate on the new proposal for a Regulation.
This proposal does in fact signal some progress in Europe, but I cannot forbear registering my disapproval – consternation, even – on noticing that the recognition of European political parties as legal persons has not yet been confirmed. Furthermore, we have only just reached the stage of dealing with their funding … These are the reasons why this report, and the perseverance and tenacity it reveals on the part of the rapporteur, Mr Leinen, has earned my full support for the clarity and even-handedness with which the original proposal is explored. I am referring particularly to the report’s discussion of recognition of the parties’ legal personality, clarification of the scale of the resources available to them, and openness regarding their Community funding, which should be subject to normal audit inspections. The report holds the Commission responsible for administering financial resources, relieving the European Parliament of that burden in order to avoid giving rise to unnecessary suspicions. Unlike the proposed Regulation, the report permits European political parties to use their funds to subsidise the activities of national parties and conduct European election campaigns.
The approval of this Regulation will be the first great achievement of the institutional framework on which European democracy rests. It paves the way for the urgent completion of the Statute for Members and the essential uniform electoral law for the European Parliament. I hope that the institutions involved in the legislative process will now assume responsibility for their actions. Mr President, a statute for European political parties, with transparency of financing as its principal theme, is urgent and essential."@en1
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