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we also need a better coordination on issues under national competence. it is in such a spirit of cooperation that we can help the member states to chart the way forward.
so in fact we now have the opportunity to go further in our economic policy efforts.
we also need to drive forward the global agenda for financial reform and repair.
they want results.
let me be clear this is not about a brussels power
we need both the supply and demand side worldwide to spur productivity and unleash the potential for growth.
the reality is that member states are now ready to accept some proposals that some years ago or even some months ago were simply not acceptable and i can give you a lot of concrete examples.
we need agreement on financial supervision before the summer to back up our intentions with action and we need a clear signal from the european council that the commission's forthcoming proposals on financial market regulation will be adopted by the end of.
second the world needs to be working on developing new sources for growth as we are advocating internally.
this is why i think we need to work through the institutions that we have and use them to their full potential.
we must also show that the crisis has not dimmed our commitment to the millennium development goals or our determination to lead on climate change.
unemployment remains very high.
first to agree common principles for exit strategies in terms of fiscal consolidation.
at the european council and the g twenty summit we must show that europe is part of the solution.
you can count on the commission to fully assume its responsibilities.
we need a real effort for an economic union in europe.
this is why i will continue to call for a common framework for a bank levy at global level.
we succeeded in reinventing our economic response to meet urgent needs in a way that respects our most cherished principles solidarity and responsibility.
now we need the summit in toronto to reinforce the message that the g twenty remains committed.
once again we can see that a crisis can accelerate decision making when it crystallises political will.
powers. today's task is to add value european value through the vigorous responsible and complementary exercise of our respective
moreover we are also succeeding in designing a crisis response for the euro.
this means improving both the quantity and quality of bank capital and discouraging excessive leverage improving supervisory and crisis management processes ensuring convergent international accounting standards and increasing the transparency of derivative markets.
i believe that europeans want us to concentrate on substance.
growth is the answer but not any kind of growth.
yes the commission in the areas in which the treaties give it the competence is indeed the economic government of europe.
we need intelligent sustainable and inclusive growth.
all the major economies need to play their part to achieve the agreed objectives of strong balanced sustainable growth.
it is an extremely delicate moment and that is why i would like to thank parliament for its steadfast support for the strengthening of the community method at this point in time. i would like especially to thank the most important political forces in parliament that stood up and said that more than ever we need a european approach and the reinforcement of the community method.
after all there was insufficient will to enforce the rules that had been put in place in the first place.
our economic position has suffered three grievous blows in recent years.
he goes up to someone in the street and says where is the station?
the european union can help;
yet nothing can be more dangerous for the european union than to believe that the solutions to our problems involve more regulation further centralised control and greater burdens.
the centrepiece initiative of the commission is still work in progress but it needs to have full support not to see the mistakes of the lisbon strategy being repeated.
we must instead focus on the enormous programme of european reform which is needed to release the creative energy and talents of our people to develop their plans and businesses which alone can deliver the long term economic prosperity we seek in an increasingly competitive world.
we were becoming steadily less competitive in global markets jobs were being exported and markets undercut.
we have to start from where we are now.
secondly when the crisis came it rocked the western world and caused instability forcing governments to borrow even more and thirdly this excessive borrowing in a number of key members of the euro area brought it to the edge of disaster.
in all these lengthy discussions about how to avoid a future euro crisis we are diverting vital energy from the task at hand about how to get out of a current crisis.
firstly even before the current crisis we were actually growing more slowly than our major trading partners.
all this talk about european economic governance new rules and regulations and further sanctions misses the rather simple and fundamental point what about now?
we may have felt prosperous but it was a tragic illusion based largely on money borrowed both by the public sector and private households.
' to which the person replies the route is difficult the journey is long so i would not start from here if i were you'.
there was a failure by some member states to fulfil the commitments that they had undertaken.
avoiding the temptation to become distracted by theoretic debates about future economic governance.
that is why we must not let the europe two thousand and twenty strategy be overshadowed by more grand debates about economic governance.
we want the euro to continue to be a success especially for those who have chosen to be members but this requires action today and not grand schemes for the future. it is obviously true as is now recognised on all sides of this house that there were serious weaknesses in the design of the currency but the flaws in its design have been matched by even more serious weaknesses in implementation which may not be solved by just drawing up new rules.
we need to get back to the real concerns of our citizens above all how to rebuild europe's fragile economy.
our member states and our citizens are drenched in debt from which it will take years to recover and most of the difficult steps needed can only be taken by member states themselves.
this is the time to ask what can we do to strengthen europe?
i support this approach but we should be aware that it is the commission that has to perform economic governance not necessarily the council.
before starting new institutions we need first to strengthen the existing ones.
it should become an instrument to boost an efficiently functioning common digital market for products and services reducing horizontal obstacles of bureaucracy and communication.
force and the first set of orientations.
i would like to think bigger and i would like our leaders to think bigger when they attend the upcoming european council and g twenty meetings.
it seems that certain g twenty members are already actively pursuing market participants in the hope of exploiting regulatory arbitrage.
they are looking at ever more radical and innovative solutions some of which in fact we are more or less in line with.
these need to be incorporated into this parliament's legislative reports. the proposals on transparency for derivative instruments are compatible on both sides of the atlantic as are capital requirements.
with a few adjustments we could come together with the us and put together resolution mechanisms for a huge proportion of the world's largest banks. the us fed and the uk fsa are currently discussing cross border crisis amendment protocols and resolution mechanisms for the transatlantic financial service providers.
we need to encourage other financial market operators to move with us rather than compete on lower regulatory regimes for financial markets. the g twenty can and should work but i encourage our representatives at these meetings to be bold.
madam president in this chamber we are always talking about being ambitious about many things we would like europe to achieve.
therefore even bilateral agreements would be beneficial if we fail to persuade all g twenty participants to follow.
solidarity has to prevail and should not remain a vain word for member states in difficulties.
this is why we have to put in place efficient sanction mechanisms more scrutiny of national budgets by the eu and tighter rules for the stability and growth pact.
at a time when we want to relaunch the eu single market the ict could pave the way provided that we focus on encouraging competition by balanced regulation of the market.
the eu two thousand and twenty strategy should mark a turn in eu policy and cannot remain just another target or a future failure.
i believe that the ict sector contains massive economic potential and gains.
in the uk despite lower debt and growth forecasts the government is relishing the prospect of cuts in public spending and public services.
instead we should be planning for the future and planning for growth.
we need to ensure we have strong policies and adequate funding for research and development for education and training and of course for cohesion policy and structural funds which is so important to many regions right across the eu.
even though not only muslims are hit and even if it does not hit all muslims it is directed against people because of their religion.
mr president the forty fifth president of the united states of america is truly opening a new chapter in the history of the us and in the history of democracy as well.
do we stand on the side of hate and of walls or do we stand on the side of democracy and of building bridges?
and what are we doing about that?
all the rights the freedoms and the liberties that we take for granted are actually not for granted. they always have to be fought for.
let us be the ones who show justice and compassion.
let us be the europe that brings forward and champions those people who fight for their rights and the rights of others no matter what their nationality religion sex or sexual orientation and no matter where they come from. europe needs to be building bridges and not walls.
the statue of liberty was once given by france to the younger sister america sisters in freedom and rights.
let us make europe the countermodel to trump the light of liberty of human rights and the rule of law and also of generosity.
we need to put them in lesbos and lampedusa where people arrive full of hope and fear.
we need to coordinate our foreign policy and we need to be champions of international law because there are not many other people out there in the world who will do so.
i think we need to build our european union stronger and for that we need to get our act together when it comes to finally solving the economic crisis that is still leading to so much unemployment especially for young people.
we are proud to defend the idea of human rights in the world as well but do we really do enough to safeguard those values?
don't we also restrict access at our borders?
but that is also the point isn't it?
we need to step up our role in the un and also when it comes to climate change.
they are never guaranteed. you have to work for them.
we need to put them everywhere where people are standing up for their rights and also for their neighbour's rights.
they have to be fought for every single day.
no you have to defend it every single day.
every one of us including the governments of the member states need to be clear on which side we stand.
do we not also even in this chamber sometimes hear people who discriminate against other people based on where they come from and based on their religion?
the us built itself on religious freedom that was one of the key figures of its founding and on immigration. now what is left of this american dream?
who could have imagined that such a thing could happen?
we can only take one decision.
and that is the reason why we created the european union to overcome that to make a continent of peace.
he sees him on a regular basis to effect one thing which is to see how the european union can be destroyed in the coming years.
no it is not because he is elected that he can go against human values and the values of the united states of america.
we have president trump who has a populist nationalist view and wants to disintegrate us.
to get rid of the european union to get done with the european union and they are sitting here.
we can do one thing and that is unite fight back as the european union and i hope in valletta it will not only be the letter and i support the letter of president tusk on his behalf that will be the conclusion.
i hope for once that all european leaders have the courage to stand up together with the european parliament and fight back against this bunch of nationalists and populists who want to destroy us.
even an elected president with a majority and he has no majority of the popular vote in the us has to listen to the american constitution has to listen to the american judiciary.
in the meantime no matter how strongly we feel about the current policies of the us president let us all ask ourselves what is more effective?
and let us make it clear to our american allies that decisions of the new us administration in these executive orders which lacked the support of congress which are arbitrary which have been purely planned without preparation for the consequences will not make america great again.
it plays into their arms because they make exactly the same claim when they are recruiting disillusioned and disconnected young muslim men and women as terrorists. but whatever we in this chamber may think the fact is that americans voted for a candidate who said what he thought and now they find that they have a president who does what he promised to do.
electorates have lost faith in mainstream politicians on both sides of the atlantic;
so those of us who believe that law should be fair that there should be equality under the law that the primary functions of law should be enforcement of contracts and social order will rightly be concerned by this arbitrary ban which affects not only muslims but also affects christians fleeing persecution and war.
electorates attracted by simplistic solutions offered by politicians on the edges of the political spectrum.
while we express our concerns over president trump's executive orders we must also realise that as long as the gains from globalisation are seen only in the portfolios of company directors and not in the pay packets of workers as long as our migration and asylum policies are seen as more about compassion diversity and political correctness and less about ensuring integration we will find politicians pursuing similar policies
sending a message that there is some inherent contradiction between being a good muslim and being a good citizen of a western democracy simply plays into the arms of daesh and other extremists who make exactly the same claim.
we must accept that this president his priorities and these policies are the consequence of a growing tide of discontent to be found not only in middle america but also in many of our countries.
moreover they will not strengthen but only weaken our transatlantic relationship.
so every time a mainstream politician dismisses those who disagree with the current direction of political travel in europe and america every time you dismiss them as racist or populist this simply demonstrates an inability to offer a credible alternative.
and i call upon mr tusk and the commission to follow the example of president trump install national border control; keep jihadists out not just from the seven countries that president trump has singled out but from many more that are responsible for the wave of illegal migrants in the eu.
this argument to improve border controls before allowing people to enter is completely valid.
you should be ashamed for jeopardising the lives of eu citizens because of the failing border controls in the eu.
in the eu we are directly suffering from the consequences of failing border control.
you see what has happened here is somebody has stood on a manifesto for election got into office and within one week said that he will hold faith with his own electorate.
it is called genuine democracy unlike the system we have in the european union where the unelected commissioners like mogherini here have the sole right to propose legislation.
so i am sure that it's a great shock to you to see that a genuinelyelected democrat is doing what he was put in to do.
indeed if you want all member states to have a real opportunity to move in this direction to use this policy mix we need to complete and rebalance the economic and monetary union.
we can be sure that the critical factor to make a real change in the situation will be investment and investment paving the way for quality jobs.
that is why we need these smart rules creating room to invest.
that is why we need a much better policy mix. regarding reforms yes they are needed but these reforms should be focusing on growth potential on sustainability and also on reducing social inequalities.
we should use the eu budget to help countries implement those countryspecific recommendations as an incentive to those countries.
even though voters in my constituency do not stop me on the street and talk about macroeconomic imbalances growthfriendly fiscal consolidation or the european semester they do talk to me about this crash that they have gone through the biggest financial crash in the lifetime of the european union and we have to make sure that this crash never comes back.
this is a fundamental part of that process in making sure that we have economies that are fit for purpose.
i think as is said in the report we should have a longer period of time between the publication of the national plans and a debate in the member state parliament.
what is shown to be the case in ireland is that where you restructure radically where you go through an enormous crash you can come out the other side with substantially improved growth rates.
we have to make sure that the system we put in place for economic governance is strong and robust and i think it is crucially important that we take some ownership of the decisions that come from this process.
it is crucially important that member states take ownership of the countryspecific recommendations.
in those countries that have gone through the biggest shock we can come out the other side with much more enhanced and restructured economies and we can get more and more people back to work.
overrigid application of these rules has been counterproductive. let us hope that flexibility will be applied equally and fairly to all economies and not just the bigger ones.
therefore i am not too surprised that so many csrs are ignored by national parliaments and governments. in the absence of a central treasury to regulate transfers between centre and periphery much of the exercise that we are carrying out now could be compared to that of a circus performer on a high rope juggling with nineteen balls.
where structural reforms refer to elimination of monopolies freer access to the provision of services curtailment and digitalisation of government bureaucracy incentivising those who produce streamlining public procurement practices and the encouragement of public private partnerships such reforms should be given full support. yet it seems to me that we still do not have a viable approach to tackle regional and national divergences within the eurozone and they have been increasing.
yes we have jargon laden discourse to correct for so called macroeconomic imbalances but there is a vagueness about how to implement corrective action on this basis.
rightly much emphasis is being placed on the flexibility that is presently being read into sgp rules.
as of now we lack a real understanding as to why the economic performance of national economies has remained so dull indeed so stagnant.
i am uneasy because having a nineteen economy system working to the model of a quasibalance in all national budgets is not axiomatically the optimal way to run a currency area.
so let me repeat that structural reforms are necessary but as i said elsewhere they should not mean an erosion of the european social model.
the presidency will put all its energy in ensuring an effective european semester for. two thousand and fifteen the recommendations that will emerge this summer should reflect our common goals and the main challenges of each country. most importantly they should be owned' by the member states who will be responsible for putting them into effect.
i believe that the discussion is not over.
we have to keep improving its effectiveness as well as its accountability aspect while also acknowledging that these go further and that they go together.
we look forward to continuing the debate with parliament on how to improve this semester and the following ones.
let me also mention that the lessonslearned exercises that we have conducted on the council side on previous european semesters recommend further steppingup of the involvement of political level representatives including national parliaments in the european semester at the national level. i welcome the work you have done in intensifying the interparliamentary dialogue which facilitates the work of national parliaments in this regard.
also in order to improve labour market mobility across sectors investment must be made in continuous skills development and vocational training.
on the contrary we want to improve the quality and the impact of the reporting;
we also duly stated the conclusions of the parliamentary cost of noneurope report. the european parliament expressed regrets that the annual single market integration report was not published this year and there was no sign or single market topic in the annual growth survey.
that is why this debate today is so useful.
how do we tackle the remaining barriers in goods and services?
i can assure you that we will take the time to ask the right questions and to answer them properly.
it will allow us to unlock the investment potential in europe and hopefully create opportunities for our consumers and investors.
how can we get rid of the obstacles to crossborder ecommerce? how do we reduce the administrative burden on our companies to the minimum?
for example we are looking at streamlining the reports. we are looking at putting more focus on economic indicators because i deeply believe streamlining single market governance will help our wider efforts on the single market.
and we need to do it in partnership with you and the member states.
this includes implementation objectives for all legislation in particular there will be a zero tolerance approach to the service directive.
this year as was also mentioned we will launch two major initiatives centred on the single market.
these are only some of the questions we need to answer.
there will be an objective assessment of what works and what does not.
all the proposed actions will be based solid economic grounds and impact assessments.
but if we are to make the most of it we need to remove the remaining barriers and bottlenecks.
how do we get rid of discrimination over access to goods services and online content crossborder?
on the single market our first priority should be to make existing single market rules work to their full potential.
i can compare the single market to a launch pad to get europe out of the crisis;
can we improve or even extend the application of the mutual recognition principle in goods and services? how do we address the link between goods and services?
the commission has already set up a single market governance strategy to promote that.
union and the digital single market will follow soon.
as a first step this year we published the commission's country analyses much earlier in the semester cycle.
your support for the investment plan is highly welcome.
firstly we need a coordinated boost to investment.
the council agreed yesterday on a general approach on the european fund for strategic investments and we strongly hope that it will be possible to finalise a legislative act by june so that the efsi can be fully deployed from mid.