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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by thanking Mr Rocard, who is now absent, for raising this issue in the plenary of the European Parliament.
Commissioner, it often happens, as Mr Perry has already said, that the wrong people get criticised. So, there is no legal basis; I do not believe there is any political will either, or, if there is, it is at least deficient. And if the political will is lacking, then what happens – as it has done in this case – is that people try a partial solution of the problem for a short transitional period, without coming up with a proper arrangement for the future.
We, as politicians whose business is with Europe, know for a fact that national politicians have a very pronounced tendency to project their own defects, errors and inabilities onto Brussels and to heap curses upon it. That is easily done, it goes down well, and there is as a rule no risk of them being put straight. I believe that information agencies on the European Union counteract this sort of tendency.
They know how the media report things, and not only in their own country. Reporting of the European Union is deficient in other countries too; there too, it needs to be counteracted, and those Info-Points and offices, which are in a position to supply objective information, are the offices that are working for Europe.
If Info-Points and likewise Carrefours are to be phased out and we now hear that there is the possibility of a transitional period of a year or perhaps even longer, that does nothing to counteract this tendency. It is not that we need another year or two because we have elections next year; it is that we need a solution for the future! Commissioner, it is for me a matter of profound conviction that if we talk in terms – as we have done several times today – of pooling strengths, then we must also consider the need to link up the offices of Parliament and the Commission in the Member States with the Info-Points and Carrefours, in order to build up our presence in the territory in question. We have to embark on a general expansion of the information services, and we have to change our priorities. It is a matter of absolute necessity that we involve the Member States’ voluntary sectors in these information offices and strive towards improving cooperation with local organisations and bodies, making for greater efficiency and better financial conditions."@en1
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