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"The crisis must force each one of us to change our behaviour and thinking. Lithuanian, Latvian and Irish Members of Parliament have reduced their own salaries, which also means a trimming of the salaries of those countries’ MEPs. The incomes of Presidents, Ministers and other state officials are being cut, and this is right, as we need solidarity; the burden of the crisis must not be shouldered by those who are weakest. After the compromise, which took more than a decade to reach, it would be difficult to reduce MEPs’ salaries straight away; however, I would urge fellow Members of the European Parliament to donate part of their salaries to charity. During the crisis we should cut the allowances allocated to MEPs. I trust the majority of fellow Members would support a reduction in the number of translations into all 23 official languages, which would allow us to save hundreds of millions of Euro. Now journeys from Brussels to Strasbourg for plenary sessions, which cost EUR 200 million each year, seem particularly absurd. In order to economise and save the environment, we should stop wasting a thousand tonnes of paper and switch to using electronic documents in our meetings."@en1
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