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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful for the report that we shall be voting on tomorrow, but I am struck by how far removed debate within the European institutions is from the daily life of nearly 500 million European citizens. Yes, there are 500 million European citizens and last year there were 1 600 petitions, of which more than 1 000 were filed. This demonstrates just how well-known, how useful and how effective these petitions are, without even bothering to count the hundreds of petitions from recent years that still await attention. I saw that the Committee on Petitions visited Naples last year, but to resolve the situation there, they need a miracle rather than a committee.
On the plus side, we are here talking about the right of initiative of a million European citizens who are entitled to start a petition. Great, but it is a shame that even if 400 million Europeans all signed on what Parliament has already debated and voted on – such as the incredible matter of Parliament’s dual seat in Brussels and Strasbourg – there is no petition and no popular will that could put a stop to all this. Indeed, meeting here in Strasbourg once a month results in EUR 400 million of excess spending and demonstrates just how detached from reality the European institutions are at a time of economic crisis, cuts and savings in Italy, Spain and Greece. I therefore wish the committee all the best, while recognising the fact that this is probably not the way that the institutions will manage to provide a response to citizens."@en1
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