Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-24-Speech-3-215"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in times of economic stringency, faced with cuts in public spending right across European countries, all the EU’s institutions should be looking at how to cut costs and waste. Parliament should be taking a lead. Instead, it continues in a self-indulgent manner, with its costs and staff numbers constantly increasing with no thought of constraint. In any other organisation, new priorities would be met by compensating reductions elsewhere, but not in this House it seems. MEPs bear the brunt of public blame, but it is the overinflated bureaucracy, needless excesses and the redundant buildings which cost the money. How can you continue to justify Parliament’s GBP 94 million annual self-promotion budget with eight million spent on the superfluous Europarl TV and this bizarre scheme for a GBP 2 million House of European History? It is ridiculous that you maintain so-called information offices in every Member State, at an annual cost of 40 million, when it is the job of 736 MEPs to answer any questions their constituents may have. It is a continuing scandal that this Parliament has not demanded that Member State governments stop the Strasbourg circus once and for all. We need to send a clear message to our governments on this and save 200 million a year."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Geoffrey Van Orden (ECR )."1
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