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the presidency proposal provides clear criteria defining levels of pressure and lays down measures aimed at establishing a proportionate response in each phase allowing for timely mitigation based on common action of the challenges faced in addressing the root causes of the pressure at the very beginning thus preventing escalation of the situation.
it is up to him and the leaders to look for compromises and propose a way ahead.
any solution that will be found should take account of the interests of all member states the frontline member states and also the member states that have been destination countries for asylum seekers.
mr president i just heard the council saying that they are concerned to see the same scene over and over again of flimsy dinghies with people on board.
and i would like to refer to something else that was mentioned in this chamber.
malta has always respected and adhered to its obligations.
with all due respect by pointing fingers at one member state or another we are not going to solve this issue because we are in this together and only if we act as one can we truly make a difference and solve the problem. so let this parliament come together and stand up stand up to the council because we have the solution for a centralised system and if the council doesn't want to hear that then something needs to be done asap.
this is not a structural solution to this crisis and it is a mistake to think in this house that if the ecb comes in then our problems are over.
i find it unthinkable that we are still waiting to come forward with proposals and what are we doing in
the future. so i conclude mr president but i have a little more time as you interrupted me in the beginning of my speech with good news so there is no criticism from
bank. i have to tell you mr barroso i think it is a good idea that we have that because we need a single
last week said and he is the former minister of finance in bavaria a good member of the csu that it is absolutely necessary that we have a redemption fund if we want to solve this
i see a problem between the ecb and
the other. i cannot understand why we cannot merge the three institutions that we have today into what we call a financial supervisory agency or authority so that we do not mix a financial supervision task with a monetary
to do that. we are still
fact? waiting for the outcome of the german elections or something like that because that is the political reality for the
no our problems are only over if we have the courage to create the federal union that is so desperately needed.
the reactions from the different political groups within this house.
ultimately all our decisions have to be about making europe a better place for its citizens.
we must also create a place where everyone in society is included where our environment is allowed to flourish without the threat of pollution and climate change where agriculture is the friend of the land and where human activity in all its expressions is allowed to flourish.
we must firstly secure an agreement on the mff our main investment tool not any agreement but an agreement which shows that the union's resources are being invested for the benefit of its citizens and in particular for its younger generation.
we must seize the initiative presented by this report and take the opportunity to create a stronger and more mature economic and monetary union making institutional changes if needed and at the appropriate moment in order to be better able to withstand the challenges from both within and outside.
we have to use the opportunities presented by the current difficulties to realise the true potential of the eu.
schuman's words remain particularly relevant to us today.
that is something which we should be proud of and protect.
it must focus on innovation and competitiveness so providing the momentum for increased growth and the creation of jobs.
it is a privilege for all of us to be able to debate these issues and discuss the challenges which we face in europe today.
europe has never simply been about economic growth and indicators.
if we really do believe in democracy let us put the results of any constitutional convention of proposals for more europe to the people of europe in referenda and see if they agree.
if they say yes i will happily accept that result.
the people will say that they do not want any more europe.
that is what real genuine parliamentary democracy is about and you seem to actually despise that and everything that those of us that stand for national democracy believe in.
it is a pretty obscene definition of democracy to decry those of us that believe in national democracy and european cooperation.
you listen to what the other person has to say you put it to the public and you accept the result.
it is a very twisted form of democracy when he says that all of those political parties that get votes with which you do not agree are not relevant.
and to tell me that you are in this position because this parliament voted for you!
maybe the finns will say they have had enough.
today you announced that there is going to be a banking union yet more centralised control yet more regulation.
but i now have to accept that i have been wrong about that because i had totally underestimated the complete fanaticism of you mr barroso your college of commissioners and the european central bank.
the demand for a referendum is stronger than it has ever been where our conservative prime minister is in very deep trouble.
i think today mr barroso the british people hearing you calling for the european union to become a global power making it absolutely clear that member states must obey what you tell them whether they are in the relatively wealthy north or the poorer south i think those comments this emerging creeping euro dictatorship is something that will repulse millions of british people.
he upped the stakes and he told us and to me it is an odd concept that he had unlimited money. now i do not think money grows on trees and i think that money is limited to what the german dutch and finnish taxpayers are prepared to put in but he has made clear his intention he will fight to the last german taxpayer to keep the mediterranean countries that should never have joined the euro in there.
all democracy is to be vested here under what you call the community method' which of course means that your unelected commission has the sole right to present that legislation so i do not believe you when you say that and i find the tone of much of what has been said and done over the last few days really very worrying.
i wonder where the hope comes for those who believe in nation state democracy.
sadly the same is not true for much of the rest of europe.
i have to accept that you now have the whip hand over the citizens of europe and i now think that this euro crisis will go on for a whole miserable decade.
you make it clear that whilst you think the nation state should continue to exist it must not have any democratic powers.
in the end you will have to face the reality that even france and germany cannot survive together in the same economic and monetary union and certainly with president hollande reducing retirement ages upping minimum wages and bringing in a hate tax for the successful which will see all the entrepreneurs leave france i am afraid that gap will get bigger.
mr president i begin today on a happy note remembering that it is twenty years ago this very week since the united kingdom having been signed up by the conservative government to the exchange rate mechanism broke out of the erm. it was a great liberation for us and of course once having been bitten we did not join the euro project thank goodness.
maybe the germans as a country will say they are no longer going to go on feeling ashamed and guilty for what their grandparents' generation did and will start to stand up for their own economic interest. i do not know but i suspect that the best hope we have actually comes from the united kingdom where
the only good news i take from today is that you have helped to bring that referendum just a little bit closer.
we have heard that the german court this morning has decided that the esm is ok.
you have come out fighting on all fronts.
and now you have of course the prime minister of italy perhaps we ought to call him monstrous mario who made it clear last week that he feared that nation state democracy could bring down the european union and therefore we have to by pass nation state democracy and pass all the powers here.
i thought through the last eighteen months or so that the economic logic of why britain left the erm would apply particularly to those mediterranean countries and i foresaw that actually those countries would leave the euro zone probably with greece leaving this year.
mr president i naturally greatly welcome the commitment to a federal europe.
the crisis in the euro area has shown that the credibility of the euro as a single currency is also dependent on the coherence and integration of the decisions taken for the euro area.
i believe in national democracy but also in european democracy.
so that is why we have to be absolutely sincere and frank. yes i say those words once again.
this is critically important not only because it is just but because we need a social dimension at european level so that we can keep support for our social market economy and for our european project.
the reality is that we are doing what we can at european level but there are differences here between the instruments available at national and european level.
who may feel the impact and be considered redundant because of some structural transformations in europe and even the solidarity fund because there are some governments that are simply proposing the elimination of this fund.
that of course does not mean that we do not have the right to act when we believe decisions taken by any of our member states may call into question some of the principles of the rule of law that all member states accepted.
as you may be aware one of the concerns we now have in terms of the discussion for the next mff is the opposition that some of our governments are signalling not only about the reinforcement of the social fund but also the globalisation adjustment fund which is so important for workers
some of you insisted on the issue of social cohesion. indeed it is a very important matter.
when we speak about more europe it is not just more europe for the sake of europe or for the european institutions.
i want to reiterate that today in the twenty one st century with national democracy alone our citizens will not be able to control their future and their countries will become irrelevant.
i believe in democracy.
that is why we need to complete our national democracies with a strong european democracy.
i would like to confirm that the commission will put forward a proposal for a new programme to help poor people in europe because there is now rising poverty in europe.
when people ask me why we need more europe we need more europe if we want to keep and sustain a common currency.
in fact our recovery began the day we left and carried on for fifteen years before gordon brown came along to mess it up but that is another story.
we were told that if they voted not to join the euro inflation would go up interest rates would go up.
to price their way into the markets to start exporting their way back to growth. it would not solve everything but it would be an alternative to this downward spiral of deflation poverty and emigration and that is really what you are afraid of.
i suspect that even you in your bones know that the best option now for the peripheral countries is to default devalue decouple.
we heard it twenty years ago in my home country over the erm.
the copenhagen stock exchange enjoyed its greatest twenty four hour rise in history. inflation and interest rates fell.
mr president mr barroso we keep hearing these terrifying biblical predictions of what would happen in the event of a euro break up. we have heard the same thing over and over again.
in fact precisely the opposite happened.
the same thing in sweden.
we were told that it would be inflationary and that unemployment would rise.
we had the same thing in denmark.
their economies would recover;
the ecb will apply the single rule book the substantive rules on bank capital requirements and so on which are agreed by all twenty seven member states.
this shows that what is not agreed to today will become a consensus tomorrow and our duty here as european institutions is precisely to build on this consensus to show ambition but at the same time to do so with realism. this is the way to achieve those steps.
some of our countries in fact are making impressive impressive efforts of adjustment.
the single supervisory mechanism will strengthen the single market.
rejected; that is why you
this is the message i brought you today and this is the only way to go forward if we want to achieve results.
here. we came to this situation because the financial markets did not behave properly and that was the responsibility not of the european union but of the national supervisors.
and anger; they can offer a very simple
we are now creating we are now establishing the first elements of this european supervision. the problems of the debt were also created because some member states did not respect the stability and growth pact which they themselves had
we have gone as far as possible within of course the current treaty legal limits and there are lots of other safeguards.
at that time we proposed eur four hundred and forty billion.
first of all growth.
today. but now of course we have to see how to get out of this situation and to get out of this situation requires proper financial supervision and regulation.
not against our countries because our countries are still the most important political reference for most of our citizens but what can we do with our countries to show that they will only count in the world if they accept a much stronger union;
our model offers all the guarantees that one could ask for the independence of monetary policy but what we need is a credible supervisor that can break free from the national capture of national supervisors and do so quickly.
the non euro area member states should be able to take part.
of europe. a future that yes is to keep the social market
that is why one of the most important messages that i believe i brought you today was how can we complete european democracy?
fourteen out of the seventeen national supervisors in the euro area today are already the central banks and the uk is now in fact moving to place these tasks with the bank of england so there is not one single model in the european union and the euro area.
solution; it will require time determination persistence
so this is our way and this is the way the commission will pursue with determination.
this is why we need to have this vision the vision of a medium term longer term european union that is a federal path and i hope that we will not engage now in semantic discussions about how exactly to qualify it.
ambitions without results are simply good intentions and sometimes i have the impression that in europe we are full of good intentions but with not enough results.
more effective and consistent application is good for the stability and safety of all.
it was the irresponsible behaviour of the financial sectors in many areas of the world including the united states.
is important. there are some people who say democracy cannot be transnational and can only be national because it is based on national
one was about doing this or not with the central bank.
the proposal is as open as possible. those outside the euro area can take part through a close cooperation arrangement.
full. that is why we need to see how we came
democracy. and i am giving the signal for the next european elections because i believe in
we have to be very honest about this.
the european union at that time had no responsibility at all in terms of national supervision.
well. but this was not the whole cause of the problem.
people. every time you have tried to be elected in britain you were
the defensive. i think this is what we can do for the next european elections and that is why the european commission will come with proposals which will enable us to leave our comfort zone and sometimes see some of the governments of europe giving up to those extremist forces because they believe that in that way they will keep some
debate. today we adopted formally a new regulation for european political parties and i am calling not only on citizens not only on you but also on the best forces in europe to engage in this debate on what
that on their own they will not have the leverage or the capacity to talk on an equal footing with the americans or the chinese or other powers;
we continue to see some intolerable practices in the financial sector.
what matters is the quality and credibility of the supervision.
an impressive adjustment but what is their problem?
came here. it shows that the british people know that it is much better to keep you away from your
you cannot go against the cultural beliefs of the people and the forces of history' and i think he was right in what he said there.
let us have that debate let us reach the conclusions and then let us ask the people in our member states in referenda what they think of the solutions offered.
table your proposals.
you really offered us nothing new today did you? you offered us the same old tired solutions that the answer to all of our problems is more europe.
i wonder if anybody can guess what the winning line was.
that was the winning line. well let us be frank with you.
not better europe not more efficient europe just more europe. and i say that i welcome the debate.
let us have the debate about whether we want more europe or whether we want less europe whether we want more power to the centre or more back to member states.
and i will tell you something even more radical.
he said that a united states of europe is an impossible idea. it is a very serious mistake to try to destroy nation states.
and then let us do something even more radical and let us take notice this time of what they say if in fact they reject your solutions.
rather than seeing european renewal as you yet again promised last year all we have seen is the same old tired approach more europe rather than better europe.
in some areas such as international trade or the single market your commission has made some progress which we welcome and we welcome your further announcements today of progress on the single market.
this year we have a banking union we have more treaty change the knee jerk reflex of the european elite to every crisis.
i well remember the many debates in this house we had about it where the political symbolism was much more important than the economic reality.
we wish to maintain the integrity of the single market and ensure that your proposals do not damage that market.
the euro area needs to be restructured and i do not say that with delight mr barroso. i say it because i think it is the only realistic course of action that will deliver for people who are desperate for a solution.
in america governor romney has set out a plan for how he would renew america by returning it to a land of personal ambition enterprise and freedom.
and so far the response to the euro zone crisis has been characterised by seeking short term sticking plaster solutions and long term institutional navel gazing.
and to illustrate how urgent the problem is i agree with mr swoboda a new report from the ilo shows that spain now has the highest documented unemployment rate in the world.
mr barroso told us so himself last year in the state of the union address and i agree with him in that particular case.
bail outs ecb ponzi schemes have enabled you to kick the infamous can even further down the road and last week's ecb decision to buy up bonds may be as some members have said a useful stop gap but it is in no sense a solution.
this is misery on an epic scale in those countries and we really should do something about it.
it needs a leadership that faces the economic reality of the euro crisis and does not keep avoiding the problem.
for them the euro is acting like a straitjacket preventing the currency devaluation that would give them time to put in place longer term reforms.
if you remember greece had to repay a eur five billion loan to the ecb so to do this they issued new short term bonds.
let us be honest with ourselves.
we take away people's right to control their destiny through the ballot box at our peril.
well president we are now in an economic crisis and it will be solved with economic solutions by confronting some fairly stark economic truths.
mr president this is exactly the kind of financial chicanery which caused the economic crisis in the first place and now you want us to have another long drawn out academic debate about more treaty change about a banking union.
i bet many of you are regretting that now.
so where did they get the money from?
they borrowed it from the ecb to pay the greek state who then gave it back to the ecb again.
mr barroso i still hope that as you prepare your work programme for next year it is not too late for you to shake off the policies of the past and to champion genuine reform of the eu so that it can become relevant to today's reality and help us to succeed in facing the difficult years ahead.
mr barroso can i suggest that first of all you concentrate on solving the problems of europe before you worry about shaping the rest of the world?
so let us be honest about it.
we need new leadership that respects our nation states as building blocks of democracy which should be supported and not undermined.
it is a reality and members have referred to this mr barroso referred to this that some euro zone countries are less competitive than others.
all of these bonds were bought by greek banks.
the only way that the euro can be made to work with seventeen members is if the people of germany the people of the netherlands the people of finland are prepared to transfer cash not loans cash from their taxpayers' pockets in order to bridge the competitiveness gap. now i do not think that is ever going to happen and
already frustrated angry and fearful people are toying with extremist forces and the alarm bells should be ringing.
listening to you today it looks as though that is going to continue.
greece unfortunately comes second.
the eu does face a crisis of leadership.
risks have simply been transferred from one balance sheet to another. the essential nonsense of this current approach was for me brilliantly illustrated over the summer.
so surely the only other alternative is for some countries to leave the euro to devalue their currencies and for us to support them as they find the right policies that will return them to sustainable public spending and growth in the long term.
we need a new leadership which will tackle europe's fundamental competitiveness crisis in the wider global economy and which will pursue a new direction to relaunch growth along the lines outlined by twelve eu prime ministers in their letter in february.
the euro was of course a political project from the start.
we will scrutinise your proposals very carefully to make sure that they respect the rights of those member states that thankfully chose not to join the euro.
in the eu we come from the same traditions and we are at our best when government is small when markets are free and when the people exercise control over their government.
last year your big idea was an eu wide financial transactions tax and today thankfully that idea is dead in the water.
exactly two years ago the main initiative to emerge from your state of the union speech was project bonds.
mr president two weeks ago i was privileged to be with mr daul and others from this house in tampa where mitt romney told the republican national convention i wish president obama had succeeded because i want america to succeed but his promises gave way to disappointment and division'.
we wanted you to succeed in shaping a positive agenda for reform of the eu.
you can write poems about it i am sad about it i understand that the earl is sad about it but it is the cruel reality of the modern world.