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"Mr President, I voted against the Fourtou report on intellectual property. In my opinion, the European Parliament has made a serious error of ethical judgment when voting on this report today.
The votes of the conservative, socialist and liberal Members produced a majority for a position on the issue of intellectual property that, in my view, gives too much weight to the interests of large multinationals as against the interests of citizens. Intellectual property tends not to be an easy issue to deal with. The credibility of the European Parliament is at stake here.
How are we going to explain to the citizens of Europe that Parliament’s rapporteur, the person with the highest profile in relation to this dossier, is married to Mr Fourtou, who is none other than the chairman of Vivendi Universal? How can Parliament explain its policy to the thousands of European citizens, especially young people who learn about European policy on this issue by email, while the question of the existence of a personal interest overshadows a text such as this? I think Parliament has made a very serious mistake today."@en1
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