European Parliament
Marina Yannakoudakis  (ECR ).
– Mr President, I voted against this report because I do not believe in granting any discharge for any part of the budget until the budget as a whole has been signed off by the Court of Auditors. The Parliament is squandering money on propaganda.
The Visitors’ Centre costs EUR 20 million; it is neither on budget nor on time. We have set aside EUR 5 million for the House of European History. Let us make history today by putting a stop to this travesty. We have reduced the budget of the European Parliament by 14%, and yet it still costs us EUR 8 million a year. All this without mentioning the white elephant in the room: we must scrap Strasbourg. We are living in an age of austerity. It is our duty to tighten our belts and lead by example.

