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"Madam President, I also wish to thank Mr Häfner and the other shadow rapporteurs for their excellent levels of cooperation. We are, in fact, of exactly the same opinion: we support openness and the notion that citizens have a right of access to information. However, Parliament also has a right of access to information; otherwise, we cannot monitor events or influence matters.
It is good that Parliament and the Council have at last reached agreement on this question of mutual public access. Unfortunately, of course, it has to be said that there is barely any progress being made in this area: it is just that current practices are being recorded.
It is regrettable, as was said here previously, that this agreement does not cover foreign and security policy issues. We can no longer have a situation today where foreign and security policy is the sole right of a certain elite and not even Members of Parliament or Members of the Committee are given the information that they need to take decisions.
We need to look ahead, however, and, hopefully, the next agreement will be common to all institutions, so that the same rules on public access to documents apply to Parliament, the Council and the Commission."@en1
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