Ausführliche Sitzungsberichte

Donnerstag, 29. April 2021 - Brüssel

4. Bekanntgabe der Abstimmungsergebnisse

  Presidente. – (Após o anúncio dos resultados da votação) Vamos então prosseguir com a nossa ordem do dia e, antes de passarmos aos debates, e antes ainda do anúncio do primeiro período de votação de hoje, gostaria de dar a palavra ao Deputado Boeselager, que pediu para intervir relativamente ao seu relatório sobre a previsão de receitas e despesas do Parlamento para o exercício de 2022. Tem então a palavra o nosso colega Boeselager.

  Damian Boeselager (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, by now I have spent more time as a remote Parliamentarian than as under normal circumstances. I have learned to negotiate laws via Webex, I engage with citizens over Zoom, and I plead with the Commission via Teams. My team at home is constantly working remotely and my office is as empty as the plenary in Strasbourg. Even though I’m proud to say that this institution has weathered the circumstances really well, I can’t wait to go back to normality.

But what will the new normality look like? What can be learned from these times? And what do we really want to return? We don’t have these answers yet but the discussions over the 2022 budget were very much marked by these questions. And so I want to thank the shadow rapporteurs, but also the Bureau and especially the EP administration for finding good solutions and for really engaging in this debate and scrutinising the budget in the best way we can to find answers and to create space for these answers.

Together we agreed to strengthen the legislative capacity of this House. We agreed to find ways to travel less, to be more efficient and to be greener and more transparent. We agreed to pay more attention to gender—related budgeting and – and that’s very important for me as well – we created space for the Conference on the Future of Europe to work. So, because of all of these reasons and also because it was my first rapporteurship, I would like you to vote in favour and I ask you for that.

  President. – Thank you very much, colleague Boeselager, and thank you also for all your work on this very important file.