Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Given that under the Lisbon treaty both the national parliaments and the European Parliament have gained more power and influence, how does Dr. Piedrafita anticipate the evolution of European-wide parliamentary parties being affected by what I consider to be an imbalance whereby the larger countries in the European Union will inevitably have much more influence than the smaller countries, notwithstanding the built-in provisions in respect of weighted voting?