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we expect europe to increase its ambition to at least fifty five next year before paris starts.
otherwise the people on the streets will again be disappointed by the lack of action by the world and certainly also by europe.
i think there you have an important role because if i talk to the people of your dg i don't feel that there is this urgency.
there will maybe be a climate law and then there will be a long set of deliberations on what to do after that.
the science is very clear we have ten years.
i don't think this is the speech that people are asking for.
the indian supreme court has upheld this principle in previous judgments and it's interesting that opposition politician shashi tharoor has today described the actions of the indian government as unconstitutional.
in geneva last week i took the trouble to discuss this with pakistani foreign minister shah mahmood qureshi and i asked him that pakistan do more to clamp down on insurgents.
others have described the situation on the ground and i think it's important to know that i've been discussing this with people who were in srinagar at the time.
well the curfew should be lifted the kashmiri regional government reinstated and political prisoners released and un observers should be allowed access.
next week high representative mogherini will have the opportunity to share these achievements in the margins of the un general assembly during a special event on mali and sahel.
the eu has built a very high profile in the sahel where we have really succeeded to implement an integrated approach as an illustration of how global strategy.
as coordination remains an important challenge i will take this opportunity to welcome the recent g seven partnership on security and stability in sahel initiative as a contribution to support an integrated approach based on long term vision and to avoid overlap.
would ms phillips please comment on the secret campaign work she did for the disgraced data mining and campaigns consultancy cambridge analytica during the kenyan presidential election in two thousand and seventeen for which i was an election observer for this parliament and also comment on the subsequent lies she told about her involvement in that?
cambridge analytica was hired by president kenyatta's governing jubilee party prior to the campaign which reignited tribal divisions in the country resulting in dozens of politically motivated killings and the mysterious torture and murder of chris msando the head of iebc the independent electoral and boundaries commission.
what actions and financial support can be offered to stop and control these fires?
are we just going to sit and watch in horror while our planet burns?
we need to act and the need to act was yesterday.
there are no ordinary fires; the destruction of the amazon will rapidly accelerate global warming increase the overall temperature of the planet and destroy biodiversity and indigenous life within the forest.
i want to ask the commission what is the strategy here?
more than a million indigenous lives are currently in danger.
it will be important for both of our institutions to have an honest debate on the agreement based on facts.
on the contrary it should promote sustainable development.
we need to protect our forests in the amazon and elsewhere because we need to protect our lives.
the trade agreement with mercosur contains a robust trade and sustainable development chapter which lives up to the highest standards comparable to those in other modern agreements.
we need to improve the eu's action on this matter and continue working towards honouring our international commitments.
thank you very much once again for your active participation and for your attention.
many of you also referred to the urgency of climate action.
we believe that the eu can have an effect on others by setting an example.
i would also like to note that open ambitious and rules based trade policy which is value based sustainable and inclusive is a priority for the finnish presidency.
the time to act on climate change is now not later.
the basic premise is that increased trade should not come at the expense of the environment or labour conditions;
huge damage has been done so far which i deplore but we need to focus on preventing further deterioration.
we all share the view that we need to do our utmost to protect our forests.
there can never ever be any excuse for killing maiming and blinding small children.
despite denials by the indian government medical records released by the hospital present clear evidence that he died as a result of a shotgun pellet to the head.
we hear continually of violations of human rights including the use of shotguns against civilians.
i really cannot understand why a great nation like india which prides itself on the strength of its democracy behaves in this way.
we've seen a huge surge in the number of troops deployed there a total communications blackout curfews and house arrests.
businesses including western ones move out i just spoke to a business leader yesterday in brussels.
we need less meetings and more actions and results for the girl i just told you about.
in the meantime there are plenty of meetings but isn't it about time for more action and concrete results? the impact of the growing insecurity is a very concrete fact in the daily lives of people like that girl.
as the world looks away burkina faso my country of birth where i played and ran barefoot in the then safe fields is sinking far away in jihadist violence today after so many other places.
health centres are closed. freedom of the press was also affected by a legal ban on reporting on military operations.
the council is working to provide some feedback to the commission's communication in the form of council conclusions that we hope to adopt in december.
we will examine in detail the list of priority actions proposed in this report and we look forward to your ideas on this matter.
i strongly appeal to the countries in the amazon basin and their leaders for urgent action.
the agriculture and fisheries council will hold a debate next month on the need for a new strategy beyond two thousand and twenty building on the same principles but also considering the new policy developments at member state eu and international level.
the eu is ready to support but we need action now.
we depend on forests to preserve biodiversity to limit global warming and to provide people with jobs and livelihoods.
two thousand and fifty this house discussed the preparations for the un climate action summit this morning and our debate this afternoon is very relevant to this indeed.
we look forward to your reactions to this communication too and trust that they will make a valuable contribution to the future course of action.
close cooperation with the countries of the amazon region is crucial.
the amazon rainforest is also uniquely rich and diverse.
deforestation mainly caused by human action and climate change is a serious threat.
the eu's leadership in global climate action and the protection of forests are among the priorities of the finnish presidency.
the fires are a tragedy not only for the people directly affected but also more broadly for our planet and the climate.
these fires are severely polluting the air they are killing many species of rainforest plants and animals and they are expelling indigenous people out of their territories.
these countries such as brazil have the full right to lead the response but they need to live up to their commitments.
despite the actions taken so far at eu level and the commitments undertaken at international level deforestation and forest degradation remain on the rise. the devastating fires in the amazon region have made the need to step up this effort even more pressing.
forests will also make an essential contribution to the eu's aspirations of achieving climate neutrality by.
on finland's initiative the eu foreign ministers discussed the issue at their informal meeting in helsinki at the end of the august. the foreign ministers agreed on the gravity of the situation and stressed the need for a coordinated and comprehensive eu approach to address the crisis.
on that occasion the council stressed the importance of the strategy to ensure the coherence and coordination of the eu and member states' policies affecting forests and to promote further the sustainable management of forests.
forest fires have devastating consequences for human and animal life.
two thousand and nineteen given that drivers of deforestation go beyond the forestry sector our intention is to involve in this exercise policy experts from connected areas such as environment agriculture and trade.
the council and parliament have recently received a longawaited communication from the commission on stepping up eu action to protect and restore the world's forests.
we are ready to work together with mr bolsonaro and others.
with her appointment we now have women as presidents of two of the most important institutions in europe the ecb and the commission.
in ireland our population went through enormous pain during the crisis and legacy issues remain.
recently at the committee on economic and monetary affairs ms lagarde made a very important point the ecb needs to understand and explain itself to people not only to the markets. that should be a critical and crucial guiding principle for the ecb listening to our citizens. trust in the eu institutions has been below fifty since two thousand and eight a clear sign that the union was still suffering from the after effects of the financial crisis.
irish variable mortgage rates are double the eurozone average rates our banking system is highly concentrated with little outside competition and we face the challenges of brexit.
mr president kashmir is one of the most beautiful areas of india and with security and stability could be so enormously prosperous but for over seventy years it has had an unsettled status and has been under threat afflicted by externally sponsored terrorism and extremism and at last there is an opportunity to rectify the situation.
now the changes brought in by prime minister modi will give the same rights to the people of kashmir as those in the rest of india and we should look at what's happening in pakistan if we really want to see abuse of rights women religious minorities and transgender people and all the difficulties that they face in that country.
legally the whole territory should have been part of india from the start but instead it was invaded and partly occupied by pakistan which then allowed its special services to support subversion and terrorism costing thousands of lives across the line of control into india.
the european union needs to agree on a climate plan that provides an overall level of ambition ensuring that the required transition takes place and providing the necessary financial means together with the horizontal policies that need to be set.
we need collective action and as part of parliament's delegation to the summit i want to hear a strong european voice that is not afraid of putting forward ambitious programmes because weak commitments would undermine our communities our industries our economies our youth and our children.
we require clear decarbonisation strategies by different sectors.
they will require changes in sectors like transport building industry agriculture and forestry.
as things stand today even if all the two thousand and thirty pledges were to be fully implemented we would not be on track to achieve the paris agreement targets. the european union has the potential and the duty to act ambitiously before two thousand and thirty and to adopt and implement a vision for a future climate neutral and fossil fuel free environment.
we require action plans that clearly show how these strategies will be achieved and how they will be financed.
climate change is a global challenge and solutions need to be global too as the commissioner himself indicated. but the european union needs to continue in its leadership role whilst providing support to the most vulnerable countries that are mostly affected by climate change.
it is only through eu leadership that we can speed up global action on the sustainable development goals and climate change goals and the eu should not shy away from its responsibilities.
mr president today we call for tougher action at european level to defend our elections against foreign interference and manipulation and to win the fight against offline and online disinformation.
we are doing so because the facts indicate that it is actually happening.
and i should indicate to everyone in the house including new members that we have been doing this for some months now.
the commissioner indicated that action is already being taken the presidency is joining us and what we in our group want to happen today is a call for a special committee to deepen this action. we are doing this because our member states are not resilient enough.
we have two big problems which in the next few seconds i will explain.
our citizens are voting in elections where we have farright parties i see it in my own country who are being funded and receiving loans from foreign state actors.
secondly we have deep electoral interference.
offline electoral safeguards are needed and the banning of profiling for electoral purposes social media platforms shared by bots need to be removed and fake accounts need to be removed.
madam president for a moment i invite you to imagine the european union which is known for setting global standards of quality of life in democracy falling into the following situation less independent and no investigative media our citizens living in a posttruth society and dangerously exposed to outside manipulation and national populists are generously financed by foreign subjects.
as a result we're living according to the national interest of such countries as russia china or probably any extremist group.
i am convinced that none of us wants this and it is high time to review the eu and national legislation in regard to foreign financing of political parties campaigning or individual candidates and also to install screening mechanisms for strategic foreign investments.
still we have one great risk ahead of us it seems to me that many ministers and politicians believe that some mysterious magic monetary policy can serve as a replacement for necessary badly needed economic reforms.
i'm not going to do order order!
' because i'm not in the house of commons although i would love to have that same voice and influence.
commissioner dombrovskis is responding to our debate.
mr president i really welcome the words of the minister in her introductory remarks.
we know we have a divided house but i think the position taken by the high representative in expressing concern for human rights is the right balance.
india is a great country a great democracy but you can't ignore the fact that kashmir is a disputed territory recognised as such by the united nations.
and communication bans loss of any sort of sense of selfdetermination must feed a sense of injustice in kashmir.
it is because we are friends of india that we have to ask this great democracy which we know where prime minister modi has the support of his country;
he knows there is majority support for the actions he's taken but we have to question whether this is the right course of action and whether it will result in positive benefits.
so i have to ask the minister words have been very good will there be any actions to follow them up?
despite our explicit formal responsibilities in the peace agreement our trade relations with colombia run contrary to that peace.
title ix of that agreement is supposed to protect those rights but there are no legal mechanisms to enforce them so they are being ignored by the government.
we've got to act and use our leverage.
mr president with due respect to all measures taken within the portfolios of commissioner jourov and commissioner king i would like to stress that we discuss the external aspect of eu relations namely foreign interference into our democratic processes.
i think this is a matter that is too complicated to be reduced to a yes or no question or a single letter;
mr president we are here today united from the left to the right to condemn the dramatic fires happening as we speak in the amazon rainforest.
the eu has just signed the mercosur deal and insists that the deal does not lower environmental standards and that the precautionary principle ensures that the eu and the mercosur countries can continue to protect the environment.
the eu says it is legally committed to respecting the environment and biodiversity.
if the burning of the largest rainforest in the world is not serious enough what does it take for the eu to suspend this trade deal and respect the sustainable chapter of it?
mr president while i think it is important that we hold this debate today i believe that this alone is not sufficient given the magnitude of the challenge.
therefore i strongly support the proposal to set up a special committee tasked with looking into external interference in our democratic processes and elections.
the accounts of raids arrests clashes and unlawful detentions are truly appalling and all of this while mobile phone networks are still largely under lockdown.
we uk green meps demand that these human rights violations stop not only for the sake of the population of kashmir but also for the hundreds of thousands of british citizens who are of kashmiri origin. no peaceful resolution to the kashmir conflict is conceivable
while these abuses continue.
we need free and fair elections just like we need free and fair referendums and since the bulk of political campaigns has moved to social media we have to ensure that the internet is able to face up to the spread of disinformation timely and effectively.
as just the most recent hybrid hacker attack on austria illustrates smaller european democracies are especially vulnerable to foreign interference in national elections and i should add the subsequent spread of disinformation as we see it in austria today.
at the same time smaller european democracies possess more limited resources to communicate effectively with global internet platforms about how best to fight against disinformation attacks.
therefore in order to protect democracy across europe we need a strong and common european political approach in managing our communication and cooperation with social media in our struggle against disinformation campaigns.
i therefore urge the commission and also the finnish council presidency to take up this issue seriously.
yes there are restrictions on soy production expansion in the amazon but this has only served to increase pressure from cattle farming.
pasture land in the savannah has been replaced with soya bean plantations and because of this these beef farmers have moved to the amazon.
it is estimated that nearly a quarter of total annual amazon deforestation in recent years has been caused by these displaced beef farmers so how in the name of god did the commission come to the conclusion in march in its sustainability criteria for biofuels that soya bean production should not be designated a high risk
integrity of our democratic institutions.
i don't think that we can accept this as a new normal.
we must be ready to do more to counter it.
part of the problem comes from outside of the eu.
let me be clear there is a team it's been referred to in the institutions whose job it is to monitor pro kremlin disinformation campaigns and they report this is publicly available that over a recent period when they checked
the amount of pro kremlin coordinated disinformation across our member states had doubled compared with a year ago.
so this is a real problem and we should not duck that.
let me also be clear that others have learned from the russian playbook so we have to build our resilience we have to build our counter measures to resist and counter disinformation wherever it comes from.
that's why we've put in place from the commission's side working with the member states and with civil society a series of measures.
we need to do more on tackling online disinformation and we need to do more on reinforcing the resilience of our elections.
in the coming weeks and months we will review the code of practice on disinformation to ensure that we can do better to protect the integrity of our democratic societies and we will report to you on this by the end of october.
let me just say in response to one or two of the comments that this code of practice on disinformation which we are pursuing with the social media platforms has absolutely nothing to do with censorship.
it has absolutely nothing to do with the idea of a ministry of truth.
it is not about determining that a particular political comment is good or bad true or false.
it is about shining a light on the provenance of political debate. it is about transparency so that our citizens know when they see information where it comes from who's paying for it and whether it's a human or an artificial machine that is circulating that information.
i think that is essential if we're going to be able to equip our citizens to make good choices.
we will also come back to you to report on the conduct of the european parliament elections and the implementation of the election package of measures on free and fair elections.
again we will work on a european democracy action plan to build the resilience of our democratic systems and we expect to put forward subject to confirmation legislative proposals to ensure greater transparency on paid political advertising and clearer rules on the financing of european political parties.
global demand for unsustainability cheap and destructive beef production has driven the land clearance that is at the heart of the massive destruction.
i endorse the resolution that has been put forward in response to this situation and i am happy that it is not shrinking from the issue of trade and the policies and politics that have led to the increase in deforestation recently.
trade deals with governments that violate the rule of law that punish ngos while encouraging illegal activities and that breach international agreements cannot be allowed to pass this house.
these need to be rejected for the distraction that they are.
we all know there are no jobs on a dead planet but there are also few jobs on massive plantations many under foreign ownership designed to produce maximum shortterm profit at the cost of the longterm health and wellbeing for the people of brazil.
i hope the chamber will reject them and endorse the resolution in front of us.
this summer we saw forests burning from siberia to alaska destroying precious habitats and effectively the earth's lungs. we have to be clear forest destruction is a global problem. but it is also time for us to admit that we are part of the problem that not only our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions but also our own policies our own trade and our own law enforcement are to blame.
it is time to change that.
it is time for this house to act.
we need to say that the mercosur agreement is a bit problematic as it stands but it would be very cheap to say let's just shoot down the mercosur agreement and everything is solved'.
it should not be only about europe; it needs to go beyond that. it needs to impact the entire world.
if we are serious about saving our planet and indeed our civilisation we need to ensure that our agriculture policies do not contribute to deforestation because right now they do also in the amazon.
we need to ensure that our trade policies don't contribute to deforestation because right now they
kashmir is in crisis an international and human rights crisis. the people of kashmir have suffered and continue to suffer.
the ongoing crisis in kashmir threatens the peace and security of the wider region one of the most volatile in the world.
it's our responsibility to do something.
we must support them and implement the findings of their reports which they published last year in june and this year in july.
the people of kashmir should be the ones who decide their fate and their future.
i think it's very important that this parliament after this debate comes together with a very strong resolution.