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I cannot vote in favour of the report by the Committee on Budgetary Control, full as it is of unreasonable assertions, misrepresentations and false suppositions as regards Members’ remuneration, the reimbursement of their travelling and general expenses, and the rules on voluntary pension arrangements. It is positively repugnant how individual Members attempt to make a name for themselves using disinformation and defamation in some of the media, all of which ends up doing harm to the good name of this House and of the EU as a whole.
The irresponsible attempt by various self-appointed clean-up operators to depict as fiddlers the generality of MEPs who keep to the rules and are guilty of not one single breach of them can no longer be tolerated. My abstention from voting on this report – even though I voted in favour of the considerable improvements made to it – is intended to make that a matter of record.
Another reason why I am unable to vote in favour of this report is that its statements concerning Parliament’s seat in Strasbourg and its places of work in Luxembourg and Brussels quite simply go against the Treaty currently in force and the decisions that have been taken on where Parliament should sit. The additional costs that it denounces as a consequence of our working in three places are largely the result of a wildly inaccurate calculation which takes no account of the advantages of these decentralised arrangements, and behind which – I would add – lies the unwarranted egoism of the Brussels lobby."@en1
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