European Parliament
Bernié, Butel, Esclopé, Mathieu, Raymond and Saint-Josse (EDD )
in writing
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(FR)
We continue to object on principle to the idea of Community funds being used to finance European political parties.
Should the adoption of this draft still be imposed by the large groups, however, we consider that it would be vastly preferable for these appropriations to remain within the budget of the Commission, which would remain in charge of their implementation and would thus shoulder the responsibility for its initiative all the way, rather than offloading them onto Parliament’s budget and perpetuating the confusion between parliamentary groups and political parties.
We have therefore supported Amendment No 8, but purely on this principle of budgetary technique and with a view to the resulting responsibility, but we are still opposed to the proposal as a whole.

