Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-20-Speech-2-689-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Ryszard Czarnecki2
lpv:spokenAs	member; REGI (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; SEDE (2012-05-09--2014-06-30)3,3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; PETI (2012-05-09--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Chair of the Committee on Petitions, ladies and gentlemen, right now in the House we have an assembly of the Visegrád Group, as the President is from the Czech Republic, the Commissioner is from Slovakia and I am from Poland. To go back to the main topic of our meeting, though, I would like to stress the importance of the Committee on Petitions. It is often the last resort for desperate citizens, taxpayers and voters in our Member States. These people often have the feeling that the European Parliament is sometimes no more than the Committee on Petitions, as it is the address for so many complaints, woes and problems of ordinary people, who are left cold by major-league politics, but who are interested in specific problems. My fellow Members who have spoken before me in this House have already said wise things about those problems. I would like to say that the Committee on Petitions does also get involved in what we might call megapolitical problems; I might remind you that during the last term of Parliament the Committee on Petitions showed the entire European Parliament the way as far as the Nord Stream gas pipeline was concerned. Following the issue of the decision of the Committee on Petitions on this matter, the European Parliament took a sceptical decision. Unfortunately Member State governments, or some of them at any rate, saw things differently, but the Committee on Petitions behaved with unprecedented decency in this matter, and in line with the intentions of the citizens of Member States who had contacted them. I would also remind you, although there may be some in this House who will not like to be reminded, of the case of Spain, which we are discussing here – and rightly so – or of another famous case: Cadena Cope, a Catalan radio station, which was refused a concession, and which, thanks to the debates and the pressure brought about by the Committee on Petitions, won its battle with the President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell, with the result that this concession was awarded to that station. I am talking now about specific cases in which the Committee on Petitions was very influential and effective. There have been other very minor matters, though. I can speak specifically about my own country, Poland, where citizens have complained to the Committee on Petitions about the importation of vehicles from abroad, when they have had to pay duty twice. The Committee on Petitions got involved in that matter too. These are extremely important, albeit trivial, but specific matters, which help to build the authority of the European Parliament. This is extremely important, and the Committee on Petitions is due a vote of thanks for what they do."@en1
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