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"Mr President, the Swedish June List believes that Members of the European Parliament should receive their salaries from their respective national parliaments and receive uniform remuneration from the European Parliament. The principle of subsidiarity must be our guide. It is up to individual Member States to decide the salaries to be paid to their parliamentarians. The national salaries paid to Members of the European Parliament are adjusted in accordance with the actual salaries and costs that prevail in the respective Member States. Members should have their salaries paid by their own countries and pay tax there too. From the point of view purely of principle, we believe that the EU should not fix the salaries of MEPs elected by people in each of the EU countries.
It would not be fair if a Member of the European Parliament from a country in which salaries are low were to receive a salary several times higher than that received by someone with a similar or more senior post in his or her own country. One consequence of a common Statute for Members of the European Parliament might, for example, be that one country’s MEPs received salaries several times higher than those of their own country’s Head of State or Government. It is important for Members of the European Parliament not to be regarded as a privileged elite by voters in their own countries, but for salary conditions to be reasonably in keeping with the national salary situation for equivalent positions.
The present system of travel expenses, which does not take account of actual costs and which is based on standard payments, is quite unfair in our view. Members should only be refunded the actual costs that arise in connection with travel. The travel expenses system can be reformed without a common Members’ Statute being adopted. For the reasons given, the June List has chosen to vote against the motion.
In conclusion, I would point out that, in the statutes, Members of the European Parliament are called just that – Members or ‘
’. It seems odd, therefore, that, in certain countries, MEPs refer to themselves as ‘honourable’. Such expressions are antiquated in a democratic EU."@en1
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