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if this comes under criminal law the great danger is that alleged transgressors could be extradited on european arrest warrants to the four corners of the european union to face months or years in prison.
i and my colleagues in the uk independence party are once again the voice of the people in this place.
uk independence party meps oppose acta and we will vote against it when the time comes.
it is anticipated that this will increase significantly along with growing levels of road transport in the coming years unfortunately.
as part of this mandatory system the findings would be cross checked against new vehicle registration data as provided by member states.
we depend heavily on innovation to sufficiently reduce our transport emissions and i am certain there is a great potential to make significant strides forward in this regard.
these are all important inclusions and i think they will certainly help the situation.
i am encouraged by this proposal and the opportunities it will create as well as enabling fleet buyers to make more informed purchase decisions in order to boost competition between manufacturers and stimulate fuel efficiency and lower emissions in the freight sector.
on transparency of data the agreed text strikes the right balance between the need for increased transparency in the heavy duty vehicle market and the need to protect commercially sensitive information.
so the projects are now in the deployment phase.
while the proposal will speed up the market uptake of zero and low emission vehicles accelerating innovation and reaching economies of scale the change in the fleet composition will be gradual.
and fifth we will fight against climate change and improve the air we breathe in particular in eu cities.
third we will invest and innovate here in europe.
on alternative fuels the commission issued in its second mobility package last november a detailed action plan to accelerate the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure throughout the eu.
so i do hope that additional innovation will be introduced for use in combustion engines to qualify for at least low emission vehicles. on imported vehicles there is no doubt that all vehicles placed on the european market are subject to the same standards either being manufactured here in europe or
it is expected that at least eighty of new car fleets in two thousand and thirty will contain an internal combustion engine.
second we will keep and create new jobs here in europe up to twenty five zero more jobs in two thousand and twenty five are estimated.
fourth we will use and import less oil.
on diesel cars the commission sees a need for accelerating the uptake of zero and low emission vehicles in an effort to improve air quality and lower co two emissions while following an approach of technological neutrality.
this approached agreed for the publication does strike such a balance considering the high influence of this parameter to the fuel consumption performance and hence co two emissions of vehicles.
but before i conclude allow me to respond to some of your comments.
on in service conformity tests this provision has the objective of ensuring that consumers get what they pay for and that the cars that are produced are as clean as the ones that are tested.
sunspot activity has been decreasing since one thousand nine hundred and ninety six with the sun being completely blank for twenty five of last year and to date two thousand and eighteen appears to be no different. in fact solar scientists are predicting another maunder minimum.
i would like to thank the rapporteur mr zoffoli and his team and congratulate them on the quick result. this regulation is a crucial instrument to close the current knowledge gap on the co two emissions and fuel consumption from heavy duty vehicles put on the european union market.
a swift agreement on this regulation has been possible thanks to the constructive efforts and spirit of compromise of the negotiators from both institutions.
the support and steering of the rapporteur mr zoffoli as well as the active engagement of all shadow rapporteurs really paved the way to this good result.
i would like to offer you two major examples the introduction of administrative fines if manufacturers do not report the data or if the data reported deviates from their type approval values and the extension of the monitoring system to the results of future on road verification tests.
the commission invites you to support this motion and continue the work with a swift negotiation of the co two emissions standards for lorries already on the table at both the european parliament and the council.
the european parliament has strongly contributed to the final shape of the legal text.
this is the first piece of legislation on co two emissions from lorries buses and coaches.
the information made available with the publication of the reported data will be especially important for transport operators. in addition the regulation paves the way for the co two emissions standards for lorries proposed by the commission last month which will need to rely on the data reported for its compliance processes.
the agreement strikes a good balance between the need for transparency and the need to protect commercially sensitive data ensuring a robust and reliable monitoring and reporting system.
the onus is on the united kingdom to come up with something substantive and workable that does not put a hard border back on the island of ireland.
the united kingdom made a decision to leave;
his continued detention is a breach of human rights and an affront to justice.
the refusal to release him raises serious concerns about political interference in the criminal justice system in the north.
is still wrong this is tony taylor.
if evidence exists it should be presented to the courts.
he should be immediately released.
this is why sinn fin has been calling for his immediate release from maghaberry prison and why i along with the newly elected mp for the north elisha mccallion will visit tony taylor on friday.
this parliament offers a powerful platform and we should be mindful to draw attention to ethnic minorities and indigenous people whose rights are trampled over by voracious global interests or who are marginalised by poor public policy and a lack of investment.
whether it is the xikrin people of amazonia whom i visited last month whose lives are unsustainable because of mineral extraction deforestation land grabs and political corruption or the roma population of europe who were victims of the nazi holocaust and who continue to suffer terrible discrimination we should remember them in our political discourse cherish their cultural distinctiveness and speak out against those who abuse them.
meanwhile the xikrin have won an important injunction to halt the onca puma mining project and will receive full compensation for its poisonous effects.
madam president it is not the first time that crimes against humanity have taken place against the rohingya community. this parliament has previously passed two resolutions on myanmar last year and yet the brutality and even atrocities continue against the rohingya muslims.
how many more women will be raped?
how many more children will be tortured?
how many more villages will be burnt?
what will it take for this genocide and ethnic cleansing to be stopped?
the resolution on thursday needs to go further than any previous resolution including economic and political sanctions against the myanmar government.
the international community needs to move faster. we need urgent action and impact now.
we will need to recognise the rohingya muslims and support humanitarian efforts not just now immediately but in the long term.
this institution the eu is based on the values of peace and cooperation.
it is only right that we show solidarity and play our part in bringing peace justice and prosperity in burma.
i remember watching my two little girls building a sand castle oblivious to the incoming tide so captivated were they with the shells and twigs with which they were decorating their work.
fifteen while we are worrying about early years learning putting out all our propaganda about drawing europe together and producing the raspberry ice cream war and while our children are being encouraged to read the unintentionally hilarious captain euro' our part of the world is being overtaken by more virile countries that have learned the benefits of decentralisation and the dispersal of power.
surely the time is coming when all our pomp of yesterday will be one with nineveh and tyre?
i had not the heart to point out to them that the tide was coming in and today i felt rather the same way as i read through our voting list.
when the bail out was agreed a year ago the idea was that it would be an immediate stop gap that it would be a short term contingent measure and that by now greece would be borrowing cheaply again as the crisis would have passed.
what a high price we expect our constituents to pay for our conceit!
madam president across europe we are condemning generations of young people to emigration and poverty.
to the irish economy and to the european economy.
however we do not see the case for including reference to the ccctb in this report.
we voted against ccctb but we did not vote against the entire report because we did not want to retard the sort of support that is needed for smes and i am glad of the opportunity to put that on record.
we will not be told what to do by any representatives of any other member state. we are not obliged in this country to do what is liked in other member states.
the case for it has not been proven.
there is a case for and against this and we should not be bludgeoned into this by any flavour of the day political correctness.
clearly the health and safety of consumers as well as the competitiveness of eu businesses are our common priorities.
however i believe we have carefully examined it and set out a solid course of action so as to reassure our stakeholders.
we cannot find answers to all the questions today.
this of course leads to problems in particular for generic medicines.
we must be mindful however that the enforcement of intellectual property rights is not an end in itself. in order for us to effectively protect consumers' legitimate business interests and stimulate innovation we need to take a broad approach to ipr.
eu. i am well aware of the constraints expressed on medicines in transit.
plainly speaking there was a problem and we have dealt with it by involving stakeholders engaging constructively with international partners and proposing revised legislation.
this leads me to my third message namely that we need to follow a practical and reasonable approach.
to deal effectively with massive flows of small consignments we need a definition and procedure that works in practice.
mayor of chiinu and the vice president of the liberal party of moldova;
i would like the commission to confirm whether moldova's expulsion of romania's ambassador and demand for visas from travellers breaks the agreements our union has with that country.
if there is real evidence that the romanian security service has stoked violence then that should be subject to scrutiny by the international community.
our union while mindful of the geopolitics must understand the politics of moldova a people keen to exercise democracy and freedom of choice a country trading overwhelmingly with the countries to its west a land linked to member states of the union through geography history and culture.
we must show sensitivity to bilateral relations but nonetheless insist agreements are honoured.
our moldovan visitors today describe a country where in so many ways freedom and democracy are denied where the internet mysteriously malfunctions where television channels vanish from the airwaves where state tv broadcasts belly dancing rather than reporting violence on the streets.
next month as our leaders gather for the eastern partnership summit they should make sure they build partnership on the basis of democracy and human rights.
no more obstacles to lawyers or ngos no more withholding the names and numbers of those detained.
this parliament's mission next week must seek evidence regarding reports of two hundred zero additional ballots printed allegations that four hundred zero voters registered on election day with inadequate id and claims that voters in transnistria were disenfranchised en masse.
i can defend her and the commission's position first by saying that in fact the commission position is very realistic and balanced. secondly you have to be a professional optimist to be a european commissioner at least if you are responsible for eu enlargement and relations for south eastern europe.
while these missions cannot substitute for the responsibility of the state to investigate and prosecute human rights violations they should help to shed light on the latest elections and their aftermath.
the key to future stability and prosperity for moldova is in the deepening of its relationship with the european union.
on the eve of the launch of the eastern partnership we need to demonstrate that we are indeed ready to assist moldova in overcoming the current difficulties in particular by defusing tensions promoting dialogue and strengthening links between
where allegations are substantiated the authorities must act to ensure that those responsible for such abuses are indeed brought to justice.
they should also go some way towards facilitating political dialogue in order to restore public confidence.
respect for human rights remains a key condition for the further development of our relationship with moldova.
it is not a mere internal or a single member state problem. however the solution to that problem must not be retaliation but the multiplication of efforts for engaging moldova on a european way.
the osce troika which included our own ep delegation basically endorsed his victory so we just have to accept this fact even though we must strongly protest the repressive crackdown against the opposition demonstrators who accused the government of monopolising the media during the campaign using an outdated and unreliable electoral register including many people who are supposed to be dead and the disenfranchisement of the large diaspora abroad who were not able to vote.
right now we must concentrate on the human rights violations which must be fully investigated by a mission of the european union if moldova wants to continue to receive our support in its eu atlantic aspirations.
the same can be said about some of the other issues brought up in the report. for the proposals that would require amendments to the financial regulation the commission also sees the need for a wider reflection on legislative solutions and the timing of the possible changes.
should parliament come to the conclusion that the relevant existing legislation requires modifications or that new legislation is required the commission will seriously examine these conclusions and if it agrees will take the necessary initiatives.
on the specific issue of a legal statute for european political parties i am aware that this is not the first time that parliament has called for such a statute.
the matter therefore requires a very careful and detailed analysis indeed.
the commission will also reflect on how regulation two thousand and four two thousand and three could be further improved in the longer term in order to support the development of stronger and genuinely transnational political parties and foundations at european level with a view to developing a truly political european public space.
and the activities funded. the report shall indicate where appropriate possible amendments to be made to the funding system.
of course parliament is a legislator and is free to raise this issue in the current ongoing interinstitutional process if it so wishes.
well the answer to that is quite simply that any funds we do not accept are distributed among the foundations of the other political groups;
by two thousand and twelve this will have doubled to eur.
some might say that if you object to this why does your foundation accept funding?
i speak mr president in my capacity as president of new direction the foundation for european reform.
to my mind it is unacceptable that the costs of political foundations should be increasing at a rate of over thirty year on year.
this parliament now wants to spend even more public money when our national governments are having to make reductions in public expenditure.
for support for ideas and for candidates.
the development of european political parties is a critical link for the success of the transnational list proposal that this house is to be considering next month.
mr president this debate tonight is symptomatic of all that is wrong with the more europe' agenda.
it is simply staggering for me to have listened and to see how greatly removed the debate is from the agenda of ordinary citizens.
that is absolutely right but that gap will not be filled by developing european parties and as another contributor to the debate has said giving those parties the resources to match their ambitions.
i would challenge mr duff to go to his constituency at the weekend and try to sell those views to local community groups that have had their funding cut because of austerity measures imposed by his coalition government in the united kingdom.
the gap will be filled however by giving people their say on lisbon on increasing federalism and on the litany of red tape that comes from these institutions.
mr president this legislation will allow the eu to throw money at referendum campaigns to ensure that it purchases the right result first time for a change!
the uk will in future be holding a referendum each time the eu proposes to remove power from its electorate.
so it intends to remove money from uk taxpayers to indoctrinate them into its version of the path of true righteousness.
mr president earlier today i spoke in this chamber about my constituency the west midlands and the economic hardships it is going through.
mr president democracy is not just a periodic right to put a cross on a ballot paper.
democracy depends also on a connection between government and governed an affinity.
to have a functioning democracy you need a ' you need a unit with which we identify when we use the word we'.
if you take the ' out of democracy you are left only with the ' with the power of a system that must compel by force of law what it may not ask in the name of civic patriotism.
you cannot create the institutions of functioning representative government by bureaucratic fiat.
we have created all the attributes and trappings the european parliament the political parties the elections and so on but you cannot make people feel european in the same sense that somebody might feel norwegian japanese french portuguese or whatever it is.
a party should grow organically because its members recognise a community of identity and common interests. it is not something that we can do with public funding or at the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen.
so to be clear the ecr opposes this legislation we oppose the concept of having transnational parties.
we form some of our constituent members into an alliance of parties but we oppose the single statute.
we oppose the increases in the budget which seems to me an extraordinary allocation of resources in the present economic climate and i oppose my compatriot and my friend andrew duff's idea that these transnational parties should be allowed to spend effectively eu money in national referendum campaigns.
you will not create europeans by spending public money. not all the gold in all our national treasuries put together can serve to convince people of a false idea.
are we really in a process of creating a european demos as my honourable colleague mr hannan just told us? i do not know i am not venturing that far.
i think what we want to do at this particular moment is to strengthen the nascent european public space and basically invigorate the debate on european issues.
i mean the idea in this house is to bring european citizens closer to what we are discussing here and what could be simpler then basically starting to discuss european issues with them. by the way i can only speak for myself but i am no bureaucrat i am a directly elected member
of this house.
the debate is actually to increase the visibility of european political parties to which we all belong regardless of whether we are sitting on the left in the centre or on the right of this house.
to bring them out of the shade because at the moment no one really knows what they do what is their status whether they produce any added value and we in the epp believe that they do. that is the possibility to actually have some programme presentation and in the future hopefully to fight european elections on european issues
first of all it brings a certain balance between operational authority within the parliamentary groups and a clear link with what we do in this house linking funding to presence in this house in the european parliament.
my time is running out but i would really like to call on the council particularly but also the commission and the parliament to make sure that in the next seven year period there will be enough financing for the enlargement process and that we make sure that this process can continue successfully
and all this must be very irritating sometimes;
we ask the commission and council to start developing an arbitration mechanism to resolve bilateral and multilateral disputes.
enlargement needs many things.
i can just mention a few.
we welcome the acknowledgment in the report that the copenhagen criteria continue to be the fundamental basis and should remain at the heart of enlargement policy.
the commission always keeps policies under review taking account of developments and lessons learned and we are open to discussing further refinements.
we agree on the need for a focus on social challenges' at times when this dimension is of the utmost importance in both the enlargement countries and the eu.
i agree with these comments and largely thanks to the lessons learned from the current ipa instrument and feedback from the various stakeholders our ipa ii proposal addresses this need.
this is all in line with the commission's policy as reflected in this year's enlargement strategy communication. let me turn now to some of the issues raised in the report starting with the methodology.
the report is largely in line with and supportive of the commission's approach in particular on the balance between conditionality integration capacity on the one hand and maintaining the momentum of the enlargement process on the other.
this will allow the accession countries sufficient time to develop solid and sustainable track records.
as you know the commission is actively engaged in the process of constantly improving the enlargement methodology.
let me conclude by thanking you honourable members for your continued support for our enlargement policy.
the commission considers that the existing basis remains relevant and adequate.
other general issues such as corruption and organised crime must also be tackled in the western balkans but we can look forward to good news stories as well.
an economic block of over thirty countries in the future with more than five hundred million people would be a serious force to be reckoned with in the world.
mr president the ecr group is of the view that eu enlargement is a success story but we also support a more flexible variable eu geometry in any new proposed future european union treaty allowing some countries to integrate further than others.
other countries such as serbia and macedonia are also making great progress and deserve to be included in our club although a solution must clearly be found for the greek veto on macedonia's name question.
croatia's entry next year is to be welcomed and if little iceland's electorate votes to join the eu then we will be happy to see them in the eu fold as well.
deal more tricky for full membership to be attained.
this is an absolutely unique instrument we have in our hands.
we need to use it wisely throughout our neighbourhood.
that leads me to the important contributions in this debate.
i see six of them.