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"We voted against the Leinen report on the statute and financing of European political parties because we believe it is indecent to take money from taxpayers in order to preserve these artificial bodies, the main object of which is to make people believe that there is a real European political scene, participating in European democracy.
In reality, this is to a large extent an illusion. If the would-be European political parties really possessed the solid base that they claim to have, then let them be funded by that base, in other words by the national citizens and political parties.
Moreover, the proposed ‘statute’ system may lead to political control of the parties, legal references for which are extremely vague, and which would be unworthy of a free society.
This is so true that even the instigators and beneficiaries of the proposed scheme are reticent about having their names attached to it. The Commission would like Parliament to operate the scheme, because it is obviously political in nature. Parliament, which does not want to see its image tarnished, would like it to be run by the Commission. How would it be if, in order to simplify things, we just abandoned this ill-conceived proposal?"@en1
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