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apply to ensure their independence and loyalty to the european union. national diplomats will have contracts which can last up to a maximum of ten years. in addition member states will provide national diplomats with a guarantee of immediate reinstatement after their service in the european external action service.
finally member states are making deep cuts in public spending.
mr president the set up of the hybrid eeas has been characterised by much debate but high representative ashton deserves some credit for crafting a consensus on the way forward at a time when european leaders have been distracted by the eurozone crisis.
the eu must be sensitive to the need for austerity particularly when it comes to the budget of the eeas.
now that the service is a political reality we will engage with it constructively in order to ensure that british interests are indeed promoted and protected.
while the new service needs to be representative of the eu's twenty seven member states it must be built first and foremost on merit.
half a year ago geographical balance was not an issue.
i know too that members have been concerned to ensure that we have proper training facilities and capacity.
i wish to see europe reflected in the staff that we have in the ambassadors that we appoint in the people at the centre.
i believe that the outcome that we have before us is a good one and genuinely reflects the lisbon treaty in implementation with parliament playing a substantive and important role for the future. this has been a joint and collaborative exercise and i am extraordinarily grateful to all of you for the work that has gone on.
most importantly i believe we have set the foundations for the service in a way that will engage parliament properly in the future and i have already made my commitments to transparency and the approach that i wish to take in working with parliament.
every citizen of the european union is affected by what we do in foreign policy in trade and development and in counter terrorism.
it is a service that i wish every member of this house every member state and every member of the commission to be really proud of.
i know that there is much more we need to discuss and i look forward to doing so with you and with others over the coming weeks and months but you have my full commitment to ensuring that training is part of how we approach the building of the service.
we do have the legal basis for this and i want to reassure this house that we will make sure that those who come from different traditions from different sources will be brought together to create a truly european service that again will reflect all that has been said in the process of building up to this moment.
second we have to enhance crisis management and conflict prevention.
first of all it will require effective coordination across policy areas.
we have laid the ground for an inclusive service that is based on equality and an.
but have we created a modern service that is more than a twenty eighth national diplomatic service? what is the added value of the european external action service?
i think that will bring us all forward.
i hope your establishment plan and your staffing priorities will reflect the priorities as promised and will make the service really deliver added value something that not every national diplomatic service has and can do.
that will depend on the implementation of the appropriate structure' and it will depend on how we use new posts and posts created through synergies across the council and the commission.
create a mediation cell for example.
in that respect i think it would be a good idea to have an overview and review of the existing csdp missions that have been completed to learn from the past for the future of your service mrs ashton.
for us there are two priorities conflict prevention and civilian crisis management.
along these lines do we need more deputy ambassadors?
we have enhanced democratic scrutiny especially on cfsp lines.
i think the game is still open.
i still want to see the structures in place to achieve that.
i take away with me the strength of feeling on geographical and gender balance within the context of a service that is truly european appointed on merit.
i take away with me the need for people to see our working crisis management enhanced and to see it properly reflected in the european service.
i take away with me what i have described as a silver thread' of human rights that must run through everything that we do in the service;
and i take away again the reminder of the economic backdrop against which i am pulling this service together and the desire that honourable members have to see an efficient service that uses resources properly and effectively.
most of all after what has been a long journey of many months i take away the desire of this house to see the service come into being to reflect the needs of the constituents you represent and to be a service that will serve them well.
i believe most of us can agree on these principles.
nevertheless the triumph of communautarianism' requires that each and every national of each and every member state feels fairly treated on the basis of their merits.
the triumph of the merit criterion must be tested by the equilibrium of the results of the selection since god i believe distributed merits and sins in a balanced way to men and women old and young small and big weak and powerful westerners and easterners etc.
it is not the criteria which are being questioned but the insufficiency of guarantees that they will be properly enhanced and of corrective measures to be applied when imbalances are obvious.
i want crisis management fully in i want human rights mainstreamed and linked to trade and i have sympathy with what many of our eastern european colleagues say but do i have absolute confidence that you are creating this service fully in the spirit of the treaty?
do i have confidence that you will continue to bring together and to speak for all of the different interests in this european union?
do i have absolute confidence of your lifelong commitment to the principles of equality and representatives?
his emphasis on jobs and growth is vital to us all as we come out of the financial downturn and i very much look forward to working with a fellow socialist government.
the next six months are crucial for the eu's economic and environmental future and we look forward to the february council for ambitious leadership in reforming the financial sector.
it has already been mentioned but i urge finally that during your presidency prime minister you will take the opportunity to resolve the issue of land grab and other issues which cause such distress and heartache to tens of thousands of law abiding property owners across southern spain.
agenda two thousand and twenty means introducing information and communication technologies into everyday practice making use of the best practices of member states that have already made progress in this field.
i support your commitment to the creation of a common energy market interconnecting energy grids all around europe.
last but not least i suggest that you remain committed to the eu's common position on cuba until real changes there can be confirmed.
to stimulate economic recovery and the creation of new jobs your challenge is to bring about the completion of the eu's internal market including opening up services markets in areas that are still treated as exceptions. until this has been achieved the success of any eu strategy will have a limited effect.
what i would like to tell you is that this agenda is not working.
forty the spanish people can speak for themselves.
here we have a country which is in military occupation of another people's territory which infringes human rights which maintains the blockade of gaza and applies collective punishment to one and a half million people and yet we regard it as a normal trading partner. our principles and our policies are clear they were restated by foreign ministers just last month but our words do not seem to be backed up by any deeds.
i think the true test of this presidency over the next few months will be whether we start to apply some independence in our relations with israel and whether we start to demonstrate that our principles mean something and that we will apply them.
now working alongside national authorities and international partners across the
we were fully alert and pro active from the very beginning of these disasters.
many more injured.
the european commission is accelerating its support to affected countries and territories under ongoing development aid
we mobilised all our response tools in order to help the people there.
six five of global gdp supporting the dirty economy of the past when we should be investing it in the clean green economy of the future.
indeed when my colleague caroline lucas mp made the link between hurricane irma and climate change to uk minister alan duncan he said she lacked humanity.
after all caroline lucas was simply respecting the science that a warmer world with warmer oceans leads to greater evaporation which in turn fuels more destructive storms.
yet as the eye of the storm moved through the caribbean and florida politicians the media and others closed their eyes in order to protect their interests.
i say it is politicians who defend the interests of fossil fuel industries who lack humanity.
as well as millions of others across the globe especially those from the poorest communities.
equally inhumane is the fact that five trillion dollars is thrown at the fossil fuel industry each year in subsidies;
mr president first it was harvey the wettest hurricane ever recorded that flooded houston in hours then irma with record breaking winds of one hundred and eighty five mph.
that's no more than others have done from gaston brown leader of the devastated antigua and barbuda through to president macron of france and pope francis.
their priority maintaining the status quo of turbo capitalism a system that requires perpetual growth and in varying degrees climate change denial.
when we learned that mr duncan had previously pocketed thousands of pounds working for an oil company it all of a sudden became clear why he had made such an absurd snipe.
the humane thing to do is to act in the interests of those whose lives are now being torn apart by climate breakdown especially those living in low lying territories and in the path of storms;
this does not mean of course that less importance should be given to other intellectual property rights the infringement of which is very harmful to the eu economy.
clarifying the role of intermediaries especially in the digital environment;
we are faced with a very difficult and complex reality commercial scale ipr infringing activities have become more frequent and therefore very harmful to the eu economy and in particular to the individuals and companies who are supposed to benefit from these rights. commercial scale
the action plan adopted by the commission in july two thousand and fourteen comprises various non legislative measures all of which aim to boost and secure european businesses' innovation and creativity in order to preserve their competitiveness in trade at global level.
promoting the implementation of due diligence mechanisms in global supply chains and so on.
stronger support for smes;
i speak to further my previous point about remembering the interests of small business.
particularly in fields like software development small business can be squashed by the legal teams of big business.
brussels has more lobbyists than washington dc.
mr president by my count there are now just five meps out of seven hundred and fifty left in the chamber for the second debate on intellectual property rights this evening.
the people i want to be lobbied by are not the large corporations.
the bilateral track which still exists between the us and individual member states was used to satisfy the united states' requirement for cooperation on counter terrorism initiatives and information sharing.
finally in the negotiations on the eu us agreement there was an exchange of letters to record that the us legal requirements for continued participation in the vwp were satisfied for matters which fall under eu competence. in this context the commission made clear that this exchange of letters which is part of ongoing
they provide that in order for a country to enter or to continue to be in the visa waiver programme it would need to agree to cooperate with the united states on law enforcement issues.
the commission understands that the memoranda of understanding were not intended to be in themselves the legal basis for the exchange of data between the united states and the relevant member states.
therefore if the european parliament wants to seek additional information you have to seek it from the member states concerned.
we have to take care of this.
according to information the commission gathered from the member states this is the only way to deal with the issue.
for member states not yet in the visa waiver programme concluding agreements on these issues is a pre condition to be designated as a visa waiver programme country.
under the eu track negotiations started between the eu and the united states regarding certain conditions for access to the us visa waiver programme which fall under eu competence.
this is what we have done.
you perhaps know that this is not a new issue.
in this way these eight member states were able to join the visa waiver programme which is why they did it.
these issues fall under our competence.
eight member states signed memoranda of understanding with the united states stating that they agreed to cooperate with the united states on such matters.
this parliament has decided to postpone the vote on two pnr agreements because we felt that we could trust the commission to be equally responsible as an eu institution as we are at the european parliament.
does that indicate that the commission itself does not even know what is going on?
the commission has prepared three draft mandates for negotiations with the united states canada and australia. in the meantime however the member states are negotiating bilaterally with the united states about the transfer of personal data or rather giving the united states access to european databases
including passenger data.
before this house can take a position on any pnr proposal or any pnr agreement we need to know what the situation is.
if the member states are agreeing bilaterally with the united states to transfer pnr data then i wonder what we are doing in this house.
i have also been told but there is no way of verifying this because the bilateral agreements and the bilateral negotiations are secret that it may concern pnr data of non eu citizens or eu citizens on flights with destinations other than the united states and therefore they are not covered by a possible eu us
finally commissioner last weekend i stumbled over another item that we have not been informed about and that might be relevant for this debate.
it is a programme called one stop security' which the commission is apparently currently negotiating with the united states transport security authority.
for example if every member state were to give to a third country the data that it places in european databases let us say schengen you might end up having the third country collecting all the data in the schengen database. although it does not get it from schengen it gets it individually from each member state.
what we can say is that we are going to negotiate and afterwards try to bind them to our track.
any data protection process or any procedure violating fundamental data protection interests must be related to a clearly identifiable aim and should have the ability to achieve that justifiable aim. what exactly according to
why would a hungarian citizen be more dangerous from the point of view of terrorism than any citizen from the older' member states?
this needs to stop.
the government of myanmar is well aware of the gravity of the situation and we will make sure that they stay committed to their intention to improve the situation there.
as you mentioned we have an historic opportunity with the new government and we do work with them in many different fields from poverty reduction to migration to obviously the situation of the rohingya minority.
as you know we have also tabled a number of resolutions on the human rights situation in myanmar in the un general assembly and in the un human rights council with a strong focus on that.
i would like to thank colleagues who mentioned the fact that the european union has been not only a key political interlocutor on this issue but also a key donor of humanitarian assistance for the rohingya.
a citizenship verification process started in early june to address the statelessness of rohingya and other minorities but obviously this work needs time and especially this work needs our continuous support.
we are encouraging the government to launch a credible action plan to abolish all discrimination and displacement and to move towards truly inclusive development.
we are working on development cooperation activities benefiting rohingya communities providing support especially to education assistance for children but also poverty eradication in that part of the country.
it is ominous and unacceptable that the whole ethnic group is not officially recognised in the country where a majority of them is living.
over past years we have seen waves of refugees and internally displaced people from the rohingya community as well as numerous persecutions violations of their rights and discrimination.
i want to say to them that david cameron has to go back to his tory party and tell them that he has done a deal on workers' rights when those people in the tory party know what we do here on workers' rights.
they know what we have been doing for decades in giving rights to people at work which british governments like the major government in the one thousand nine hundred and ninety s would never otherwise give if they did not have to.
legal highs are cheap readily available and on the rise as a convenient high street alternative to illegal street drugs.
labelled as not for human consumption' these new psychoactive substances have effects that are wholly unpredictable and increasingly deadly.
leading charities in regions like my own of north east england charities such as changing lives have called for legislation to close legal loopholes and take on the vendors and the organised crime groups that exploit them.
as long as the council continues to stall on this desperatelyneeded regulation the death toll in regions like my own will continue to climb.
the crisis has been exacerbated by cynical political opportunism on the part of unionist political parties.
the only way through this is all party talks and extensive discussions.
the british government has not taken an even handed nor an impartial approach and as for the irish government it has detached itself almost entirely.
recently this parliament endorsed a resolution supporting the irish peace and political processes processes which are now under attack.
we in sinn fin are calling on the president of parliament martin schulz to apply positive pressure on the coguarantors of the good friday agreement the british and irish governments to press for inclusive all party talks to commence without precondition and without delay.
in the past outside help has assisted us in breaking deadlocks.
the revised e signature directive and regulation on mutual recognition of eid;
is quite involved in that agreeing with the radio spectrum policy programme.
what is the commission's reaction to the recent ruling of the european court of justice that patents for the use of stem cells are not possible?
what is its reaction and what is it going to do to stop medicinal research in europe being blocked with the result that it all goes to asia and the united states where you can patent such therapeutic inventions which are of course essential not only for research and innovation and jobs but also for
i have to say that as a layman i have struggled to understand the ruling but what does the commission make of this?
how are they going to engage with member states and what advice would they give to us about how to get these growth deploying measures out there and really working over the next twelve months?
as commissioner barnier pointed out it has been something that this parliament has been closely associated with but it is absolutely a collective enterprise.
the question i would like to pose to our distinguished panel of commissioners is how are we going to get the member states to engage with us and understand the importance of driving growth for implementing single market measures?
what are our commission team going to do with member states?
my aim is to offer all european consumers and businesses a simple and accessible way of solving their problems without going to court no matter what where and how they buy in the european union whether online or in a shop.
this will help to increase consumers' confidence in the single market and to free up resources that can be reinvested in the economy. i do not want to create new structures and costs but to improve the efficiency of the systems which already exist and to introduce effective and simple tools to solve consumer disputes where they do not yet exist.
the proposal for a directive on adr will build on what already exists in member states.
it will leave it to the member states to decide how they achieve the aim of full adr coverage. those member states with adr schemes covering specific sectors can keep them provided that those schemes respect the quality principles.
we are aware of the lack of competition in the roaming market so our new proposal is focused on a structural remedy facilitating entry of new players and increasing consumer choice.
we are running out of time.
we are here for exercise of rights. in this context we already have organisations within the european union.
we have the consumer protection centres;
we have the european consumer centres that are organised in all member states to give advice to consumers on their rights and also to assist them even today to exercise their rights even for redress across borders.
this is a function that we can consider expanding the scope to maybe develop it into being the advocates of consumers when it comes to exercising their right of redress.
i wish to come back to the issue of alternative dispute resolution to which commissioner dalli just made a passing reference.
i would like the commission to tell us a little bit more about its plans for adr and whether it feels that this will indeed be a tool that will help and empower eu consumers to resolve their disputes including online and real offline disputes in an accessible and cost effective manner.
i agree that at the moment there is no harmonisation of the notifying bodies across europe.
in quality across the various notifying bodies and this is why some coordination of standards and operations is important.
over the past months we have been involved in consultation on both the issue of adr on which we are progressing very fast and we should be coming up with some type of proposal at the end of this year and also on collective redress which as you know has also been through a consultation
i do not think we can afford to wait long before we hear a very positive message from the commission about how we are going to go forward on this question.
i would like to thank our commissioners.
in the commission we exercise all the powers that we have to make member states adhere to the directives that are on our statute book.
all these work but we are constantly monitoring what is happening.
whatever products we roll out in the market have to be accepted by the consumer who has to feel comfortable in the market to participate.
there is an ongoing military campaign in cabinda which is seeking self determination as a territory but this must not be an excuse for the crackdown now by the authorities which we are currently witnessing in that vast country.