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  European Community Documents - Funding of political parties
  
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  The majority Aye voters successfully carried the motion[1] that the Government should support the adoption of a European draft regulation:
  
  :'governing political parties at European level and the rules regarding their funding[2].'
  
  These regulations are symbolic in that they legitimise the idea of pan-European political parties and that a European body is needed to set rules on how they operate.
  
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  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-12-12b.426.4 Liz Blackman MP], House of Commons, 12 December 2007
  * [2] [http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/institutional_affairs/institutions_bodies_and_agencies/l33315_en.htm The regulations governing political parties and rules regarding their funding at European level], Europa summaries of EU legislation
  
  
  
  
  
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