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"Mr President, all that I can say about the proposed reform is that I will maintain a sceptical attitude to it for the following reasons. I am sorry, but appointing additional temporary judges because the permanent team of judges fall ill too often reeks to me of malingering and an abuse of rights. Why do these principal judges fall ill so often that additional judges need to be appointed? While on the subject of expanding the General Court, let us not forget, colleagues, that the judges in the Court of Justice of the European Union are the highest paid officials in the whole European Union. In addition, every Member State has one judge each, which is not because of any misguided nationalism, but is down to the need to have an expert familiar with the relevant national law. Increasing the number by 12 means that the burden on some of the judges will increase (those who are still the only judge from a Member State), unlike for the rest. Concluding what I said about judges being the highest paid officials, I feel that an increase can only be made in this crisis situation in connection with an overall reduction in the salaries in the Court so that the final bill is the same."@en1
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