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it seems to be a good idea to have a democratic process during this.
in december the lower chamber of the parliament adopted a bill which opens the way to punishing the judges who implement the verdicts of the court of justice of the eu.
if that happens judiciary independence will become non existent. the speaker of the senate who came to brussels to discuss the issue with ms vra jourov was officially accused by the government of damaging the basic interests of poland and the attorneygeneral publicly commented on the possibility of accusing the speaker of unconstitutional activity.
at risk is not only the rule of law but later on also democratic rights and freedoms.
the situation requires urgent and decisive action by this parliament the commission and the council.
just briefly when people are speaking really fast i get a flashing light from the interpreters so say less rather than more and then you'll be within your time.
i have listened carefully to today's points and taken note of your views.
we will need the cooperation of the commission representation offices and the european parliament liaison offices in the member states who already do tremendous work to bring the european union closer to its citizens. we need them now more than ever to lead our efforts.
we want to hear from all people of all ages and of course from the young.
these views will feed into my work on demography.
our democracy is in need of creative and innovative solutions.
the results of this process whatever they are must be tangible must be implemented and must be based on the feedback we receive from our citizens. as i already said this is no longer business as usual.
we must be brave and embrace the innovative nature of this process. not everything needs to be known in advance but we are providing the solid structure necessary for full citizen participation both online and in person.
i want to ensure that every voice is heard and listened to and that we follow up on it accordingly. it is vital that this process remains open and transparent.
i do not want to preempt what the citizens have to say on the contrary i want to be surprised by them.
i'm sure that together we can also surprise the citizens. but we the european parliament the european commission and the european council we can do this only by working closely together as real partners.
i want to thank you once again for this fruitful debate.
this process which requires long term vision should focus on the topics and policies that will continue to be at the forefront of our citizens' preoccupations in the years to come especially of the youth.
as stated by president sassoli and vicepresident uica cooperation among other institutions will be key to making the most of this idea.
i am confident that i can count on your cooperation to find together the right formula so that this initiative can be launched on a shared basis to deliver results for our citizens.
however this election has shown that there are some procedural problems.
it will be our task in the committee on petitions to change or clarify the election procedure for the next term.
there are still things which have to be done regarding good administration in eu institutions and the procedure behind commission responses is one of them.
when we send citizens' complaints about member states and possible infringements to the commission the commission asks the national authorities about this.
what is interesting is that the commission is normally satisfied with this answer and we receive answers from the commission saying that there is no problem and no infringement.
this needs to be changed.
whilst i welcome that we passed this resolution these rights should never have been put at risk by the british government because of brexit.
the very first thing that theresa may should ever have done was to guarantee the rights of european citizens living in britain.
it would have been a strong negotiating position and taken away years of unnecessary stress and uncertainty.
a pdf we all know can be doctored easily so employers and landlords are justifiably perhaps concerned about forgery which once again will lead to unfair discrimination.
i hope that the british government will listen to people's worries about this as well as concerns passed in the resolution today.
but british citizens are also worrying about their right to stay in european countries where they have made their homes.
i would like to thank those member states who are already offering generous terms of settlement to those uk citizens who have taken residence in their country.
the problem is that it's not so much in europe.
so lions and tigers because they are living in underdeveloped countries they have the problems while the wolf in northern countries including europe is now protected and extending its range expanding its numbers.
do we want less europe or more? the far right have so far expressed their vision of this but we with a big majority of people who said we want more europe have won this election.
so therefore we now need to decide how much more europe do we want?
and i think this question should be answered by the public by everyone by sitting together and answering this question.
and yes the answer to this question can be that we want less that the people want less europe.
but i say let us take the risk because so far i know that we have the better arguments.
we know that europe has brought unity of east and west that it has brought freedom that it has brought peace and prosperity.
and so i see all the good arguments on our side and i know that we will win this debate.
mr szjer do you not agree that if member states and indeed the parliament have conferred the power on the commission to take a decision when the member states cannot agree remember to implement legislation that we have adopted but council is unable to agree one way or another that it is not unreasonable that the commission should take its responsibilities and take a decision. and after all the commission is an executive that is responsible to this parliament.
it's accountable to us.
so it should take the decision and not actually try to divest itself of political responsibility through this proposal.
this house voted on this and nothing is happening so far. how can we guarantee that this resolution we are voting on will not lead to a similar talking shop that we can finally achieve results and that this parliament actually stands up for what has been voted on?
the european green deal is a major policy tool to help us finally address inequalities across europe through the transition to a zero carbon continent.
this is why i'm so proud of the important role that we greens have played.
the european parliament is finally addressing the need to respect our planetary boundaries to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and to ensure that women are at the heart of any green deal.
but the work on the green deal is far from over.
madam president i strongly support the european green deal. the scale of the challenge is such that we need wholesale revolution not just in what governments do but it is also very important what we get citizens to do.
the burden and the cost must not fall on those with the least resources or least income. we need to ensure that the populists do not exploit the fear that people have around the change and the onus is on us to make sure that the people understand the importance not only of their work continuing but also the sustainability of the planet.
mr dzhambazki do you agree with me that it is more the way that autocratic or totalitarian dictators work to try to get all the institutions in one country under your control to have no one who is of a different opinion to yourself?
do you know the concept of a fundamental treaty of society as laid out by mr rousseau the idea that citizens will agree on the kind of government that they want. and do you think that this idea is a threat to representative institutions or would you rather agree that
it really ought to be the future of the european union' not the future of europe'.
and would you also agree with me that the conference could actually be dispensed with because the future of the european union is actually quite dire and will dissolve quite soon?
that's why you took out the roma parts from it because you realised that it was all lies.
these media are giving you wrong information.
but of course we do have another system for delegating powers to the commission which is delegated acts where it is clear and simple.
we delegate powers to the commission but we can block their decision if we don't like it and we can even retrieve the powers that we have delegated if we wish to do so. this can be done unilaterally as parliament even though it was a joint decision with the council to delegate the powers.
is that not an argument to make much greater use of delegated powers rather than implementing acts?
if you don't listen to the judges who have who have sworn loyalty to the polish constitution you might actually listen to the impartial opinion of the european court of justice.
if you don't recognise the european court of justice you cannot be a member of the european union.
mr verhofstadt you said that you want to enable a bottomup approach. so there are some rumours going on that certain parties already agreed on who should be leading the conference and your name was mentioned on that as well so i wanted to know from you presented right now here that those rumours are not true and that the conference itself should decide on who leads the conference.
i am aware of allegations including in the media against the czech prime minister regarding a possible conflict of interest in respect of eu subsidies from the european structural and investment funds. i also understand that the czech authorities are further investigating the case.
you will understand that it is not for the council to comment on ongoing national investigations.
i'm also aware that the commission as they indicated in the plenary in december has conducted an audit and i will listen to what the commission will tell us today.
let me assure you that we agree that it is of the utmost importance that strong mechanisms are applied to protect the union's financial interests and to make sure that the money is spent in an appropriate and lawful way.
the council has therefore strongly supported different initiatives that strengthen the protection of the union's financial interests such as the creation of the european public prosecutor's office which will become operational later this year or the directive on the fight against fraud to the union's financial interests by means of criminal law. while i cannot provide any council views on specific cases of fraud or corruption allegations i will carefully listen to your debate.
for a perpetual peace we have to learn from our own misdoings look critically into our own history and struggle against nationalism racism and antisemitism. the construction of a common european identity should not be based on otherisation of any kind. we cannot demonise others in order to construct our own identity.
what we need is to struggle against nationalism and we need to be self aware about our own dark pages.
i think the place is going to be poorer for all of their absence.
but i supported this motion simply from the point of view of protecting the provisions and the citizens' rights enshrined in the good friday agreement.
i suppose the point i want to make is that if the good friday agreement is working then what that means is that all of the people of northern ireland have to continue to have a birth right to identify themselves to be accepted as irish or british or both as they choose and as set out in that good friday agreement.
madam president human rights are supposed to be universal and indivisible. they're not supposed to be instrumentalised.
but that's exactly what we have in the european union instrumentalising human rights to advance foreign policy issues;
to give out about the countries we don't like or more particularly the ones that the united states don't like.
this was summed up graphically by the brazen illegal extradition assassination of major general qasem soleimani and former parliamentarian iraqi general abu omar mahdi almohandes and the absolute silence of the european union in the face of that made me ashamed that we would have the audacity to talk about human rights anywhere else.
these were army officers with a record against isis executed in the sovereign territory of iraq in a civilian airport in which i have been.
can you imagine what we would have been saying if the united states' chief of staff had been assassinated in heathrow airport by the russians?
i can tell you we'd have been saying quite a lot and this is the problem with this report.
we talk to talk we condemn the people we don't like and we say nothing about human rights violations at home.
elements of these are against eu law as confirmed by the european court of justice such as the disciplinary courts.
i'm just enjoying the way this debate is going at the moment really.
i'm enjoying the blue cards because for the first time i feel like we're having an actual debate here and i think that's very very necessary when we're talking about the future of europe.
i just thought i would take the opportunity to give some of my time back to my colleague from the s d who very importantly talked about the involvement of citizens and of ngos in the future of europe and the conference on that.
mr president i think comitology is one of the amazing things about the european union that no one understands and we all talk about.
we also talk about transparency and accountability and this is something that this procedure is utterly lacking.
pesticides have been one of the hallmarks of the problems related to comitology. people don't know how the governments voted and what it ends up with is the general blame brussels decided it's a brussels diktat but at the end of the day it's the civil servants of the very member states of the very governments who are there taking the decisions without public scrutiny. i think this is something where we really need to change. i'm very happy to see that the commission proposal is still on the table but what we need now is really to start to get some movement in this house but also with a renewed initiative from the commission so i hope that it's going to end up on the work plan
but above all from the council and maybe citizens need to step up their pressure.
in the last quarter of a century the world has changed significantly. the economy technology communications and the share of power in global relations all that is new.
dangerous climate change and the demographic explosion in many regions create an urgent need to act.
europe must adapt itself to the new reality and europeans have to understand this situation.
the conference can and should diagnose the problems and prescribe the remedies.
conferences agoras consultations all that is necessary but it is not sufficient.
we should make full use of communication online.
i believe that the best way is to have pan european consultative referenda with the participation of millions of people.
i love the blue card system and i think it works.
maybe you and your groups would take on board how good this debate has been and how interactive and talk afterwards about how we might continue the process.
but for now i do not have one hour's flexibility i wish i did but i don't.
so please accept my ruling and we will proceed with the debate and take on board my comments about perhaps reform for the future.
this is why it is our duty as members of the european parliament to defend it to spend it with care and to make sure that it is well spent.
any conflict of interests or misuse of eu funds is unacceptable even more so if it is done by a prime minister.
the first thing is that we have to recover the money and make sure that all amounts under investigation are returned to the eu budget.
it is important that the companies of mr babi and i underline this return those amounts and not the citizens of the czech republic as a whole.
if there was any criminal offence we must make sure that it is duly investigated.
however if we are to leave it is absolutely essential that the rights of eu citizens are protected both those living in the uk and uk citizens living in other countries.
today's resolution on citizens' rights and the overwhelming support of the european parliament was a clear message to the uk government that their current approach is simply not good enough.
there is nothing to be gained by treating people as bargaining chips.
i am personally heartbroken and heartbroken for our country that we will leave the eu but i was pleased to vote for a resolution that safeguards the rights of citizens in this process.
that is one thing we can do relatively soon internally in europe. at the same time as i mentioned there are a number of international initiatives where we could try to mutually support one another and try to push forward this agenda at international level too.
i would very much like to thank you for the draft resolution and i will be looking forward also to working with the european parliament when we come with this review and the suggestions as to how to follow up on the f gas regulation.
this is because everything in the international negotiations is measured in co equivalents but that of course means that other kinds of emissions are being translated so to speak into the currency of co.
so thank you very much for this initiative.
i remember arguing that i did not have an air conditioning system in my car but my greek colleagues assured me that these things were essential so i lost the argument.
air conditioning systems in cars.
this is going to become the standard from one four hundred times co two to just four times co. two the message of this story is very simple. regulations much derided though they may be by businessmen can push forward the pace of innovation and the commissioner should be aware that even though her staff may say there is no alternative to what we do at the moment if she pushes the boat out it is amazing what industry can achieve.
eventually after years of argument we eventually resolved that from two thousand and eleven all new models of car should be fitted with an air conditioning system which used a gas with a global warming potential no greater than one hundred and fifty times co.
non co two gases are a significant contributor to climate change.
i fully agree with your motion for a resolution on this point. the recent roadmap for moving to a low carbon economy by two thousand and fifty explores cost efficient pathways for key economic sectors in order to meet the two thousand and fifty eu objectives for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
the commission will adopt a report reviewing the regulation in the coming weeks which will show that the regulation has already contributed to the eu commitments under the kyoto protocol.
the commission is also fully aware of the short term climate implications of black carbon and tropospheric ozone particularly as i think mr seeber mentioned in the arctic area and in the alpine regions.
the review will be concluded in two thousand and thirteen and will address air quality matters and their interlinkages with climate change policy.
within the eu the commission is preparing a review of the thematic strategy on air pollution.
finally in an international context the eu is addressing pollutants like black carbon and tropospheric ozone under the convention on long range transboundary air pollution.
together with other european and north american countries we are presently negotiating binding emission targets for ozone creating pollutants.
black carbon and tropospheric ozone issues will be considered as part of that review.
we already address hfc emissions through the regulation on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases and the directive on fluorinated emissions from mobile air conditioning.
if we wish to cut our greenhouse gas emissions substantially we must address emissions from non co two gases in an effective way.
the annual binding greenhouse gas emission targets for member states will deliver a ten reduction of emissions from the covered sectors in two thousand and twenty compared with two thousand and five levels.
this means that eurosur can become operational in december two thousand and thirteen as planned once the regulation has been formally adopted by the european parliament and the council.
i think eurosur can be a very important tool when it comes to inter agency cooperation near real time information exchange and solidarity.
i am confident that croatia will also establish its coordination centre in the coming weeks.
your amendments have significantly improved the text. you have provided the integrated border system with a very strong emphasis on saving lives and given it a human touch.
i would like to thank you for this.
as you know frontex has also connected these national coordination centres to the eurosur communication network on a pilot basis.
i do not think politicians should hide behind technological solutions instead of developing a common refugee policy.
a further aspect is that this is supposed to be applied on all external borders.
thanks to the european parliament the amendments to the eurosur regulation will require national coordination centres to ensure timely and exact information sharing with search and rescue authorities and to report to frontex any incidents relating to a risk to the lives of migrants. also thanks to your amendments the eurosur regulation will require that frontex cooperates not only with the european external action service
it will help to identify hotspots at our external borders and to provide support to the relevant authorities much faster.
frontex is currently testing with the member states the eurosur communication network and the european situational picture.
this has confirmed the approach chosen.
as you know the use of these types of vessel is the main reason why so many people die at sea.
the main challenges in detecting small boats are the lack of coordination between different national authorities and a lack of proper communication channels among them.
this will be done by dividing the external land and sea borders into border sections and by attributing an impact level' or risk level' to each section.
but also with eu delegations abroad in order to collect information on migration routes. another very important characteristic of eurosur is information exchange'.
you talk here about border controls but you have no intention whatsoever of actually trying to control immigration.
madam president this proposal is very important for europe for the security of its borders and for the prevention of unnecessary and tragic loss of life at sea. the uk has massive experience and expertise in naval activity and in intelligence sharing.
it is therefore rather disappointing to me that my spanish friends in the ppe group are attempting to exclude the uk from this measure in order to make a territorial point.
that implies automatically that i reject all the amendments even the amendments from the greens.
i do not think that they will improve the text;
that is unfortunate but surely the answer is not to break the law.
madam president i just wondered if it was actually in order for mr kamall to urge the european parliament to ignore the treaties and ignore its legal obligations and indeed to increase the powers of the european parliament in addressing the issue of the buildings in three different locations.
he knows perfectly well that unfortunately it is the governments of the member states who decide on the seats of the institutions and unfortunately under the chairmanship of the former leader of his party john major at the edinburgh summit in one thousand nine hundred and ninety two they imposed a legal obligation on the european parliament to have twelve part sessions a year in strasbourg.
surely the answer is to ask the governments to revise that unfortunate decision that was taken under the leadership of the former leader of his party.
like everybody and you all know this as a member of the european parliament they immediately think a number of things.