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firstly that we all stand together for the european union principles and interests and that includes the irish interests.
madam president the european council meetings have indeed become a festival of postponement. instead of taking any decisions things always get to be postponed;
that's why the european parliament has already agreed on a dublin proposal both in two thousand and thirteen first and now again in.
another cross cutting issue on which we are very much in agreement is the need for member states to deliver on what has been collectively agreed.
indeed this brings me to the second point i want to highlight on prevention we are reinforcing our efforts to tackle radicalisation both online and offline.
issues. there's still a lot of work ahead
at the same time we need to make progress on prevention.
indeed our latest security union progress report published earlier today gives a full update on all of the ongoing work we are pursuing.
i'd like to thank ms metsola for her commitment on this issue. strong and reliable protection of the external borders is a precondition for ensuring security in our shared space. that said we should be clear about the need to avoid conflating the challenges of migration on the one
i'd like to echo strongly the urgency expressed in the report.
we have collectively done a lot in this respect and i'd like to congratulate the co legislators and in particular the rapporteur ms niebler for the agreement on the cybersecurity act that was reached yesterday an important milestone.
field. third the committee has devoted a lot of attention as we've just heard to the victims of terrorism.
second we need to ensure that we enforce measures which have already been agreed for example on passenger name records and on the counter terrorism directive.
year. fourth to close down the space in which terrorists operate the report calls for the swift adoption of the commission proposals aimed at improving cross border access to electronic evidence.
i'm looking forward to the speedy adoption of the negotiating mandate so that we can start trilogues as soon as possible.
i'm looking forward to the third trilogue later this week and i'm confident that with the help of the two excellent rapporteurs mr lenaers and mr melo a political agreement is within reach.
fifth i welcome the importance that the report attaches to fighting terrorist financing.
as discussed in this chamber on a number of occasions these threats can be particularly damaging for european democracy in the context of upcoming elections including of course next spring's elections to this parliament.
to the key issues considered in detail in the committee's report.
in addition the commission will support the setting up of a new coordination centre for victims of terrorism an initiative that originated in this
with. sixth on building resilience the report is ambitious in its recommendations on explosives precursors.
area and i take due note of calls for the establishment of a european union terrorist finance tracking
i'm very happy that the report reiterates the paramount importance of respect for fundamental rights in all of our security policies.
work. i very much agree we should provide a clear harmonised framework prevent the misuse of hosting service providers for the dissemination of terrorist content while at the same time ensuring the full protection of fundamental rights.
term. let me once again thank the special committee for its properly impressive
i'm sure that parliament will respond to this by adopting its position so that negotiations can start as soon as possible.
i am happy that parliament has adopted its negotiating mandate on the proposals to facilitate the use of financial information and that the colegislators will start talks this week. i also share the concerns expressed in the report about an increase in large scale money laundering as a source for terrorism financing through certain banking institutions in the euro
that's why on five december the commission together with the high representative presented an action plan with proposals for a coordinated eu response to the challenge of disinformation.
these are indeed a vital part a foundation of any effective counterterrorism action.
so i'm happy to report that the justice and home affairs council last thursday adopted a negotiating mandate and is ready to start discussions with this house.
the report once adopted will help shape the future framework for our collective counterterrorism efforts for the years to come.
first i welcome the emphasis the committee has put on protecting the external borders and the need for efficient information exchange including maximising the use of existing information systems. this translates directly into the energy this parliament has been putting into the ongoing negotiations on the interoperability proposals.
we need progress in order better to support the investigation and prosecution of cross border crime including terrorism and cybercrime.
lastly allow me to touch on hybrid threats including disinformation.
and third we need to continue to build our resilience on issues such as protecting our elections and tackling disinformation on which we've called on the big internet platforms to live up to their commitments as well as practical issues such as better protecting our public spaces. given that ensuring security requires international cooperation the report also outlines the progress we're making in various negotiations and dialogues with third countries. let me come now
that's why the commission is committed to making sure that member states fully implement the directive on combating terrorism which significantly reinforces victims' rights.
system. personally i think this is something we need to be pressing ahead
it focuses on three areas where we need to maintain momentum.
i know parliament is also working very hard on the commission's proposal to strengthen the european border and coastguard agency.
the jha council adopted a general approach on this proposal last week and is ready to launch interinstitutional negotiations.
the report is also clear that europe needs to do more to tackle cyber threats particularly cyber terrorism.
i fully agree and i recognise that victims need special attention and support.
first we need as a priority to deliver on the outstanding security proposals for example on interoperability before the end of this parliament's current term.
house. this hub of expertise guidance and support will be up and running next
the report underlines the need to achieve automatic detection and full fast systematic and permanent removal of terrorist content online and calls on the co legislators to proceed urgently with their
of us. i welcome the fact that we share similar visions of future priorities and on what we need to accomplish in the short
hand with those of fighting terrorism on the other.
more than does justice to these high standards and to its ambitious task.
term. the commission also continues to support work being done by member states on the prevention of radicalisation offline and welcomes the committee report's concrete recommendations on thematic priorities including work on education tackling radicalisation in prisons and the role of local actors. these recommendations will feed into our ongoing work in this crucial
we see this reckless attitude too frequently from the eu and not just with the uk.
the issue can be solved by modern technology and goodwill. wto rules allow at least ten years to find solutions while negotiating free trade.
pause to consider whether your repeated actions against democracy across the continent make the eu like napoleon bonaparte a danger to european peace and stability.
noone is going to build a border in northern ireland.
i'll tell you why because the eu dishes out punishment beatings with the sole aim of humiliating democracy.
we all agree that no single european country can respond effectively to any of the challenges of our times and that we the european union have a responsibility to embrace our role as a global power working together for peace security and human development worldwide and in some cases even filling a gap.
david i couldn't agree more with the report.
let me add that this is not an investment done at the expense of civilian projects but on the contrary a clear dual use investment.
word. rather than discussing whether we have to choose between strategic autonomy or cooperation i would say that we have chosen the path of cooperative autonomy and we've taken this path together joining forces among the council the commission all our agencies and of course the european parliament which has accompanied this process from the very beginning.
when we invest in military capabilities it is to defend our citizens from attacks or to put the best technologies to the service of peace.
on the military side our command centre should also be ready by two thousand and twenty to run smallscale executive operations so going beyond what it is doing now which is commanding training and advisory missions.
let me say this very clearly i believe there is no contradiction at all between european interests and national interests in particular in this field. the european union is the most powerful instrument we have as europeans to serve our national interests on the global scene.
let me mention two other priorities ukraine we will have a specific debate on this later this evening so i will keep it for later.
it is not up to the european union to define how much of the national budget is spent on defence but we can help member states invest more efficiently and better.
we are the first economic contributor to the un system and we support guterres' work to reform the un system and make it more effective.
we have somehow the responsibility of exercising this special european way to peace and security.
i totally agree with this and it is one of the goals that we want to achieve with the civilian compact and with the reform of our command structures in brussels.
the facility would fully respect the legal parameters provided by the treaty and it would avoid duplications with its existing instruments as called for in your report.
on the contrary we are exerting our sovereignty more fully and more powerfully on the global stage.
our work on security and defence is not a separate chapter from this but it has constantly been part of this broader engagement for peace security and human development.
this is why it is so important to strengthen it at this time.
i am particularly glad that the pacu report supports my proposal to establish a european peace facility.
our foreign policy is cooperative by definition.
our work on defence stays true to this approach.
we now want to expand our civilian action even more with new capacities and shorter reaction time.
we couldn't do this without them in our multipolar disordered world.
our work on security and defence is not a way to militarise our union and will never be.
finally in support of this work we have proposed a very substantive defence package for the next multiannual financial framework
in these years we have invested to strengthen and to multiply these tools.
year. this will help coordinate defence planning among national governments to find new opportunities for cooperation and joint investments.
we need multilateral institutions to promote rights to protect the environment and to govern globalisation.
in spite of substantial disagreements with the current administration on certain issues we continue to work together on the great majority of issues from ukraine to afghanistan and from the balkans to north korea.
it is about our own capabilities but it also requires us to work to strengthen our partners and their capabilities around the world.
our work on climate change or the work to preserve the nuclear deal with iran are both examples of our readiness to engage selectively and with ad hoc coalitions.
by investing together we will invest our resources more efficiently and we will make it easier for national defence forces to work together.
an end. we still have a few months of common work ahead
it might be in their interest but never in ours.
i believe the european union has had and continues to have a unique even though difficult role to play but i am sure that we will continue to work together to support a sustainable political solution to each one of these crises.
that is to say that with the same investment we will be able to achieve more for our citizens' security.
in these years we have also deepened our cooperation with other traditional partners the african union our cooperation with them is now closer than ever and the same can be said about a great number of partners from our eastern partners to asean and from canada to japan or central asia.
i believe the two reports we are discussing today highlight this very well. there is no contradiction between investing in europe's strategic autonomy and cooperating even more closely with our partners. on the contrary we europeans are taking more responsibility for our own security and for the world around
let me start by thanking david mcallister and ioan mircea pacu for their excellent work. looking at your reports i see very clearly a shared understanding of our world and of our joint place in this world as europeans.
i also very much agree with your idea to work on issuesbased coalitions of likeminded countries and regional organisations but also with other global powers. this idea has already driven our foreign policy in these years successfully i believe.
the new projects cover many capabilities that we collectively need from drones to a european school of intelligence from cybersecurity to aerospace.
likewise there is no contradiction between our support for multilateralism and the work to advance our european and national interests. we know from experience that our national and collective interests are best served through multilateral institutions and the european union is in itself the most successful multilateral institution that was ever built.
the third priority i would mention is the conflicts in the mediterranean and in particular syria yemen the beginning of a dialogue on yemen and with the yemeni parties in sweden is also part of the diplomatic work we have done to bring some of these parties to the table but also libya and the conflict in israel and palestine.
we can have an impact on the output of the investments.
of us. they will be important months for many of the issues we have discussed so my appeal to you is that we can still continue our fruitful cooperation and make the most of these few months ahead
the mcallister report rightly points out that the transatlantic partnership remains indispensable for europe for america and for the rest of the world.
there is a unique european way to security and defence a way that is very much needed in the world of today that is very much appreciated and for which i see a lot of demand.
the pacu report calls for closer cooperation between our civilian and military initiatives.
it is about defence but also about development artificial intelligence climate change crisis management and also reconciliation.
when we join forces as europeans and take part in global negotiations we are not giving up on our sovereignty.
the civilian dimension of our international missions is already a source of european pride today from mali to ukraine from iraq to somalia.
we. want to address the fragmentation that has hampered europe's defence sector for decades again to make national defence investments more effective and efficient than they are today.
this is also the objective of the coordinated annual review of national defence budgets. we have concluded its trial run and the review will become a standing activity as of next
we need multilateral institutions to build peace and security worldwide.
we are also exploring new ways of working together for instance by ensuring full complementarity and compatibility between all our new projects on the ground.
when we send a military mission abroad it is to save lives to protect peace or to help rebuild a country.
we all acknowledge the fact that security today is much more complex than it ever
this is why we have chosen the united nations as our fundamental partner.
it is also for this reason that i wanted a new compact on civilian missions to be an integral part of our work on a europe of defence.
our goal is to be more strategic in how we plan our missions and to work more closely with our partners to prevent new crises or to stabilise a country after a conflict.
and yet we also have an interest in doing so because together we have unparalleled leverage in shaping global rules peace processes or trade agreements.
i will not go through all the geographical priorities and the current conflicts but let me just mention three points as a matter of priority first the western balkans.
in the coming weeks we will also finalise the general conditions for third states to be exceptionally invited to join pesco projects. the pacu report also asks to move forward on military mobility and as you know work is going well on a project within the permanent structured cooperation as well as at the european defence agency and in full coordination with nato.
us and we are doing this together together with the united nations together with nato together with the african union and with all our partners around the
yes we are investing in europe's hard power finally and we would all prefer that we lived in a world where this was not necessary but our work on defence is always and will always be at the service of peace.
last month together with member states we also decided to double the number of cooperation projects in the framework of the permanent structured cooperation on defence from seventeen to thirty four.
none of our member states is big enough in the world of today to pursue their own national interests all alone and this is why some in the world might cherish divisions among us.
our common goal is to bring all the balkans inside the european union and we have two urgent tasks ahead of us now to continue to work tirelessly with our friends in belgrade and pristina so that they can reach a legally binding comprehensive agreement to fully normalise their relations and finally to open accession negotiations with tirana and skopje.
one of the main goals of all our work on security and defence is to help member states spend their resources more effectively.
we have made available detailed reports of each negotiating round.
there are also many memos and fact sheets including on a regional basis and sometimes online in which you can look at the content of this agreement.
so stick to the truth.
over the past two years there have been forty meetings with eu governments and fifteen meetings with members of this house including the monitoring group.
this is an agreement with a friend and an ally.
so i hope all of you will feel or at least most of you will feel that you can vote in favour of this tomorrow so that it can enter into force early next year.
i have learned during these negotiations that we have much more in common with our japanese friends than maybe we thought a few years ago.
i am confident that the trade agreement and the strategic partnership agreement will give us a framework for developing areas of cooperation that are already ongoing and many others as well and that we will set a high standard for the world.
we have launched the process to adopt the final decision involving the opinion of our independent data protection authorities and once that is finalised which will be very soon the eu japan mutual adequacy decision would confirm our global lead in setting high standards for the benefit of our citizens.
japan is a strong democracy that shares our values and together we stand for fair trade free trade and sustainable trade based on multilateral rules and you all know that they are under question today.
we have published negotiating texts.
so please stick to the truth.
nor is there anything hindering any country of the european union or japan from taking back privatised services and renationalising them as long as this is done in a non discriminatory way.
we have had a lot of public meetings i have attended several of them and we put the whole text online in july two thousand and seventeen when it was finalised.
what is not there is the definition of climate proofing we are asking the commission to look into the methodology and of course we will explore it.
this means that the parameters for the negotiation are now established.
as requested by the june european council the council set out in july to examine the proposals in a comprehensive manner and without delay. that is what the austrian presidency has done.
be. any agreement will be a complex balancing act between very different views around the table.
it will also help our romanian colleagues to build the space for compromises during the next semester.
here i don't need to recall the importance of preserving our democratic processes and protecting our citizens from massive exposure to fake news or deliberately misleading information.
the recent agreement on a civilian compact will help strengthen the eu's capacity to deploy civilian crisis management missions to reinforce the police the rule of law and the civil administration in fragile and conflict settings.
the austrian presidency has worked intensively on all three dimensions of migration policy including in bilateral meetings during the summer and later in a tour des capitales chancellor kurz will inform leaders of the progress achieved. following the council conclusions in june and october this meeting will be an opportunity for leaders to review the progress on the different tracks and provide additional guidance where needed. the future of our single market will also be on the
the fight against climate change is one of those major challenges.
year. at the same time we also need to recognise that this is a long term effort.
the progress we have made in the last couple of years is substantive.
in addition to the many initiatives to enhance our strategic autonomy and our capacity to act as a security provider deepening at the same time our cooperation with nato the european council will also refer to the civilian aspects of our common security and defence policy.
throughout this process we will continue to cooperate closely with parliament keeping in mind the special nature of this procedure.
while cop twenty four is in full swing leaders will return to this matter this
the european council will also return to the implementation of its comprehensive approach to migration combining effective control of the eu's external borders increased external action and an internal dimension.
table. in the current global context we need to invest in this key asset of our union make sure the single market delivers on its potential make it fit for today's world and equip it to meet the challenges of tomorrow from digital transformation to the transition to a greener economy as well as the application of better regulation and the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
urgent action is needed to tackle this evolving threat in all its dimensions ahead of the european elections of course but also in the light of many elections in member states next
the european council will also address this information.
we will listen carefully to what heads of state or government will say this thursday when they discuss the mff including its timeline. this political guidance will help the council determine the next steps.
of course the draft negotiating box contains no figures and a range of options. delegations still have diverging views on many issues. this is not a surprise at this stage in the negotiations. we all know how difficult the final agreement will
as a result today in the general affairs council ministers are discussing a draft negotiating box that presents a comprehensive picture of all the components of the future mff.
much has been achieved in the last few months.
a strong eu japan partnership is more important than ever in an international context in which these values and principles are as you know being challenged.