Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 - Strasbourg

6.4. Multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 (A7-0313/2012 - Reimer Böge, Ivailo Kalfin) (vote)

After the vote on Amendment 20:

  Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (ALDE). – (DE) Mr President, we are voting on quite a large number of amendments tabled by one particular group that usually attaches great importance to strict compliance with the Rules of Procedure. In this House, roll-call votes are generally reserved for issues of particular and major importance. It would therefore be sensible for the EP’s Services to contact the group concerned to establish whether each of these roll-call votes is, in fact, necessary. In my view, what the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group is inflicting on us here is completely unnecessary.

(Applause)