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"I have to express my disquiet about the principle embodied in the very notion of presenting this report to plenary. Having a Parliament determine the basis of its own composition seems to me to be fundamentally flawed. As one of my Irish colleagues said in the debate, ‘Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas’.
I have been a Member of this House since 1984, when we had 434 Members, and now we have 785 Members. With each successive growth in numbers of parliamentarians, working groups, committees and plenaries have become unwieldy and increasingly ineffective. This is to be institutionalised here with a supposed ‘reduction’ to 750 Members, a size 30-40% too large to be effective, unless we want to model ourselves on China’s largely ornamental 3 000-strong National People’s Congress.
The other anomaly that strikes me is that, while we are allowed to select our composition, a vitally important institutional decision for the whole of the European institutions and the Union itself, we are not allowed to choose our own meeting place because of the recalcitrance of one Member State and instead are ‘sold a pup’ by the City of Strasbourg that is riddled with asbestos."@en1
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