Tal på European Agenda Award
Bryssel 2008-12-03
Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this award and thanks a lot to the members of the jury.
But thanks mostly to all the 1 point 3 million citizens of Europe that think that it’s a waste of money to spend more than 200 million euros a year on the travelling circus.
Thanks to all the citizens that believe that the climate issue is important. The travelling circus produces
more than 19 thousand tons of extra greenhouse gases. That's about as much as 13 thousand trans Atlantic flights. If the parliament wants to take climate change seriously, it has to clean up its own mess.
Thanks also to the citizens that think it’s a scandal of the council to send the parliament to Strasbourg for 3 and a half days a month and make it handicapped the rest of the time in Brussels.
After all President Sarkosy has during the French presidency focused on three things:
1 Solving the crisis in Georgia
2 Handling the financial crisis
3 Fixing the ceiling in the plenary in Strasbourg
Ladies and Gentlemen!
I can promise everyone that the Oneseatcampaign will keep working until the travelling circus is put to an end.
When the parliament administration is doing everything it can to stop our inititiatives and campaigns, we will only grow stronger and that is my message to you.
Thank you all once again!