Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-103"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Membership of Parliament2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071010.17.3-103"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-10-Speech-3-1042
lpv:speaker	lp:Stavros Lambrinidis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; LIBE (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, it is widely accepted that the current distribution of seats in the European Parliament does not properly represent the demographic realities in the Member States and that the correlations are unfavourable for certain medium-sized and smaller countries. The fact that the report does not reduce the number of seats laid down in the Treaty of Nice is certainly a positive one. I must also stress, however, that in the case of Greece an increase in the number of seats provided for, from 22 to 23, would be absolutely fair, since the country’s population exceeds by 10% that of other countries with the same number parliamentary seats. I should like today, however, to focus mainly on the various amendments that have been tabled and which relate to the method of calculating the number of MEPs. One issue is failing to assess the entire population of a country, but only its citizens. I am in favour of the concept of the European citizen, but I disagree completely with its application here. As an MEP, I feel that I represent those in the section of the population of my country: without necessarily being citizens of Greece or of Europe, they are bringing up our children, looking after our elderly people, building our houses, staffing our universities, contributing to the insurance system and sending their children to our schools. Our decisions on the environment, services, immigration and insurance issues, and dozens of others, also in reality affect the lives of these fellow citizens of ours, who are, of course, often the least privileged. I therefore believe it to be democratically imperative that the number of MEPs ought to be based on the total number of residents of a country."@en1

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