European Parliament
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (Verts/ALE ). –
(FR)
Mr President, please forgive me, but I must be a bit simple-minded. The Conference of Presidents is composed of elected representatives, the chairmen of the groups, who can make decisions: that is all well and good. As far as I am aware, apart from the Conference of Presidents, it is the plenary that can make a decision. The secretaries-general of the political groups, for their part, can voice their opinions but, given that they are not elected representatives and are not able to represent a group, they cannot make decisions. That is the simple way I see things.
(Applause)
They can obviously submit proposals, but they cannot make decisions.

