Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-25-Speech-1-051"
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"Mr President, I want to highlight what happened last week during the visit of the Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, to the constituency I represent in the European Parliament.
I was not aware that the Commissioner was there on Thursday, but I heard of her visit Friday morning on local radio. Immediately I contacted the Commission Office in Dublin asking for some information about her itinerary. I thought that a bit of joined-up thinking and working at European level would be beneficial, naive as I was. The Commission Office in Dublin said that it could give me no information. After five phone calls to the Commissioner’s own office, I was told on Friday afternoon that even though this was a public visit, the information was private and unavailable. I had to wait until Saturday to read details of her visit in a national newspaper. So what was private on Friday was public on Saturday.
I was astounded. I could not believe that the public itinerary of a European Commissioner on a visit to Ireland could be classified as private. Is that what Plan D is about? Is that dialogue? Is this the same Commission that encourages us to inform citizens about the proposed Constitution?
Finally, as a first-time MEP, maybe I have it wrong. Maybe that is how the EU does its business. If it is, it is no wonder that citizens say no. If it is not, I would ask you to use your good offices to find out why a Commissioner has effectively cut the lines of communication with individual MEPs."@en1
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