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"Madam President, the Duff Report on the European elections has not, in the end, appeared on the agenda for this part-session.
Let us use this time to consider it and then reject it next month. The idea of a transnational list is absurd. I have several questions: Why would Slovak, German or Italian electors vote for people they cannot understand without an interpreter? How will their elected MEPs then represent them if they cannot even read letters sent to them by their constituents? How many times is a Greek MEP going to meet his Slovak voters? What are they going to discuss? Besides, only large Member States will benefit from a pan-European list. Approval of this report would vindicate all the Eurosceptics’ claims that the European Union harbours ambitions to become a multinational state. It will call into question the democratic legitimacy of this Parliament and alienate citizens from the European project even more."@en1
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