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thank you to the new government and all those who support it.
no you cannot stay sleeping.
you gave grace to the european union again and what you did was marvellous.
this will not be the policy of my group the socialists and democrats and this will not be the policy of the european parliament dear friends.
i am not saying everyone who wants to come to europe should be welcomed but i am saying we need to put an end to the dying in the mediterranean.
so there is no state that can claim to be completely innocent in the situation we have found ourselves now.
according to your political preferences you have a preference for one or other of the solutions but none of you can close your eyes to the fact that you can only deal with it if all these solutions are part of our approach.
and then of course we arrived at a situation of waving through and this led to a lot of suspicion in other member states they're not doing their job;
an incredibly vast problem is now the integration of these refugees in many countries.
member states will not be able to do it on their own whatever their policies are.
don't you agree that by denying other people's humanity we take away part of our own humanity?
i think the answer lies in the concept of moral hazard.
and we will fail collectively.
and then for too long they got the answer that's dublin deal with it.
as long as member states just stick to their own solution and say we are the only ones who are right' and as long as the rest of the union does not do what we do we will not find a solution.
indeed italy and greece for a very long time complained and said you're leaving us alone;
do you really think that individually we can create a prospect for africa that will allow young africans to see a future in their own countries instead of feeling the need to come to europe?
please please stay away from that faustian deal because you will lose on all scores.
will that stop the pressure?
we were completely abandoned'.
if we finally have a realistic plan of investment in africa so that africa develops in a way that makes people want to stay in africa; and if we finally come to terms with the fact that in a time of crisis and one or two or three of our member states are overwhelmed they should be able to count on the solidarity of all member states.
i can guarantee you if respect for the rule of law and human rights is no longer a quintessential element of our union we will lose human rights the rule of law and the european union.
we are at a risk in this time of turbulence and huge challenges of falling into the trap of entering into faustian deals.
i also believe there is some criticism possible if people in italy keep saying we were left completely alone;
if we finally make headway in having agreements with the countries of origin so that they take back the citizens;
what is the price of unity of the european union? should the price of unity of the european union be let's not make a point of the rule of law and human rights just so we can have unity'?
yes for a long time that was true but i find it difficult to explain that when i go to germany.
let me end on one point.
there is a lack of confidence between the member states that the other state will do what they agreed to do to find a solution.
do you really think that if we take away a bit of the humanity of people on ships and say these are just migrants that we will continue our policy on the basis of our values and human rights?
to handle the migration issue perhaps we should not have as much of the rule of law or the respect for human rights as is good for us.
do you really think that if we do not stick together on this individual member states will be able to reach agreements with the states of origin to take back their migrants if they do not have the right to asylum?
doesn't that kill us morally if we continue like that?
mr president i have been listening very carefully to the debate on migration and having dealt with this issue over the last four years i try to formulate for myself why it has been impossible to find a solution so far at the european level.
given the size of the migration challenge the world faces not just europe given the developments in africa do you really think that building walls and fences and refusing to accept ships is going to bring a solution?
we're swamped; we're overwhelmed by the numbers of refugees arriving'.
this can only be done if europe collectively devises stronger protection of our external borders; if we finally devise a common european asylum policy;
they're waving through refugees in large numbers.
the only way we will find a sustainable solution for the migration issue which will not go away whatever we do is if we do all these things at the same time.
look at the number of refugees that were taken in in sweden.
and if we do not do this as europeans who else will?
progress on the banking package gives me reason to be optimistic that the leaders can later this month reach concrete results around the issue of the common backstop to the single resolution fund likely in the context of the broader and not yet finalised work on the european stability mechanism.
the council certainly looks forward to working with the parliament to bring this file to implementation hopefully still in the coming months.
we expect this to continue until the end of the negotiations.
it remains to ensure that this is implemented in a faithful and enforceable way.
we believe that the text of the dublin regulation resulting from the discussions led by our presidency in the last five months offers a good and fair basis for striking the requested balance between responsibility and solidarity.
resilience to future crises but also the results of the negotiations under the previous presidencies which called for a comprehensive approach to the whole area of asylum reform.
the process is now being led by the president of the european council and it will be up to him and the leaders to look for further compromises that will help reach a consensus in view of the meeting of the heads of state and government at the end of june.
the amended rules make the procedure more efficient so that pull factors and secondary movements are effectively prevented.
we attach the utmost importance to safeguarding the rights of european union citizens in the united kingdom and vice versa and to those citizens being able to effectively enforce their rights. the uk has given credible guarantees to this effect as now translated in the text of the withdrawal agreement.
in terms of the eurozone and the completion of the banking union we also cannot prejudge what the leaders will decide at the june euro summit but i would like to say that the presidency worked hard so that the council could finally agree on a general approach on the banking package last month.
in terms of the trade questions i would like to say that the european union is sending a strong message on its ambition for an open rule based trading system and all trade and external relations are on the agenda.
based on this we have built into the dublin regulation a new approach and a new crisis mechanism for managing the migration and asylum systems in the union when under pressure.
positive and constructive proposals accepted by the british government in december are rejected by them within days.
fantasy proposals are put in place instead.
perfidious albion.
and to buy a bit more time for the coalition agreement by the british government and their allies in the democratic unionist party the jurassic party agreements are torn up and rights are denied.
enough is enough.
the whole of the eu and europe knows what needs to be done and it is up to the dublin government and to all of the eu council member to stand up to perfidious albion in june and not to be persuaded by the disgraceful irish times editorial of yesterday or by the nonsense by diane dodds mep.
the dup do not speak for the people of the north on brexit.
the world is changing it is so clear and it is also clear that we need a strong europe a united europe to protect people.
when we organise the european border.
of course we need to ensure that we have a proper european asylum system to protect refugees who are looking for our help but when we negotiate trade agreements we need to ensure we are open to the world but we need to protect our people and our standards. if we want a europe that protects
the next european council must push the negotiations on the european budget also for a budget which will be there to protect people.
i am concerned on behalf of my group that the current proposal on the community budget does not ensure the proper level of economic and social vision of cohesion.
this is too weak to ensure our unity.
the same applies to the proposals to reform the eurozone because we don't have proposals to ensure strong investment to converge to ensure that the social pillar is really applied everywhere.
this is the solution the next european council should adopt without any kind of hesitation.
mr president the june european council should be an opportunity to make strides towards the united kingdom's amicable and orderly exit from the european union.
those who claim it is a last chance saloon for a deal on the border limit what can be achieved.
they fail to realise that agreeing future trade and avoiding friction on the border go hand in hand.
yet mr barnier continues to disrespect the integrity of the united kingdom.
the united kingdom government's proposal on the backstop would apply to the entire united kingdom.
the commission response has been to revert to the annexation of northern ireland as part of specific customs or regulatory arrangements. let me be clear once again in this house not only is this damaging to the economy of northern ireland it is a position that the prime minister has said
no british prime minister could ever agree to.
furthermore it is damaging to community relations in northern ireland.
if a brexit border solution is to succeed it must find peace with both communities and that includes the unionist community as well.
this reflects a practical reality and is in line with the consent principle of the belfast agreement.
we want to see a sensible solution without the infection of a political dogma but our relationship must be about respect and reflect the realities of open trade.
mr president there's a lot of talk about borders this morning in this debate and rightly so around migration.
i want to talk about a border that isn't a border much closer to my home in the republic of ireland as it borders invisibly with northern ireland.
i have to say that while i welcome a paper from the united kingdom on their proposals for a temporary customs arrangement it is to say the least of it insufficient and incomplete and i am really troubled that time is marching on.
but we have to have faith in politics and we will watch the uk house of commons with great interest this week.
i listened very carefully to the exchanges on ms dodds and can i say to her very directly there is no disrespect to her position;
and indeed to martina anderson both of whom have left this chamber could they please sit down in an assembly in northern ireland and properly represent the people of northern ireland so that their voices can be heard in this vital debate?
you should have to go home to speak because here you speak to the europeans you speak to all the european union countries and people.
two years after the referendum it does not even have a starting position for the negotiations as regards a key issue such as what kind of customs arrangements we might have for a future.
it has now promised a white paper to set out its vision for the future which will only be published after the european council well after two years after the referendum. only yesterday theresa may was forced to plead with her own conservative mps not to vote against her in the key votes that will take place today in the british house of commons and tomorrow.
she is desperately trying to avoid defeat at the hands of her own mps.
personally i hope enough of them will put country before career patriotism before party and britain before a bad brexit.
something is now clear and urgent. to talk about the future of europe means to talk about the europe of the future.
frustration is understandable and i place the blame on those member states who want to do nothing about the immigration issue. no member state except two malta and ireland fulfilled their allocation of quotas from italy and greece.
with all due respect where are the others?
what solidarity do you believe in?
i commend spain's decision to step in in the mv aquarius situation but that ended only this particular situation.
because boat crossings from libya will not stop particularly in the summer and they will most likely increase.
scotland would have to adopt the catastrophic euro and the consequent austerity max' greece has had to suffer.
it is not about resources it is about debt in the wrong currency.
a pensioner jumps from a high place faced with a winter without winter fuel.
so for now i thank you very much and i will listen with great attention to the interventions by the honourable members and by commissioner moscovici.
that is the commission the ecb the esm and imf are entrusted with the design and monitoring of adjustment programmes. this also includes negotiations of updated policy conditionality with the national authorities.
the second review of the greece programme is on the agenda of the next eurogroup meeting later this week on seven april.
the council is not intervening in ongoing programme reviews and i can confirm that it has not discussed the issue at hand either in march or at earlier meetings. the commission is also i think much better placed to provide you with the information on the subject than i am and i see that commissioner moscovici is here and he will address you just after
the eurogroup is regularly informed of the state of play of the adjustment programme by the institutions and also the authorities and on occasion the eurogroup provides political guidance on open issues.
the commission informing the european parliament is also in line with the eu provisions the two pack provisions on adjustment programmes.
i would even say that it would be shameful.
and sure to overcome the dogma of austerity to invest in a sustainable economy to carry out intelligent reforms and to get real on debt relief that might not be popular in every single member state.
they ask for further reductions in pensions saying that the greek pension system is too generous but actually the truth is that greek pensioners are much worse off than pensioners anywhere else in europe.
while we are saying the whole time that greece should follow european rules what we are actually telling them to do is abandon those very rules and that is just schizophrenic.
again and again it looks like there might not actually be real progress on the greek programme and the eurogroup as we know is led by a man who told us very clearly what he thinks about women and what he thinks about southern member states.
extreme poverty has increased by almost seven times in the last years in greece while state spending has been cut by more than thirty which is the biggest reduction per capita in the whole eurozone.
while he is a very big problem he is not our only problem in that matter.
to believe growth will come if households are shrinking if they have to be cut and also the state expenditure is being cut well that is not going to happen.
the whole future of europe is also being held hostage by some member states who think they can win elections by causing hardship elsewhere and that should not happen.
it actually takes courage to argue that we are all going to benefit from this in the long term that we should invest in our common good rather than cutting the ground from under our feet to show solidarity instead of contempt. but this courage is necessary if we want to build our common future.
by his absence today he shows us also what he thinks about the european parliament.
the whole eurozone and hence also the whole future of the european union is being held hostage by the dogma of austerity.
if we truly want recovery in greece if we truly want to work together for a common future we cannot allow greece to be made into an experimental ground for zero labour rights.
while all of that is happening the imf and also some member states are demanding more and more cuts.
labour rights social rights and eu law are applicable everywhere in the european union and by telling greece that it should not apply collective bargaining we are imposing an arbitrary deviation from that european social model.
these remarks ignore the fact that people have made sacrifices and the greeks especially have suffered and paid in terms of high unemployment and high income loss and still the prospects are uncertain. yet the adjustment programme for greece continues even if the results are not always encouraging. indeed the imf is right
that the required fiscal surplus is too high to be sustainable and that the debt is unsustainable undermining collective bargaining.
further flexibilisation of the labour market is not an answer to these problems. we need the second review to be completed but we need more.
they have committed to creating four deescalation zones and they have a special responsibility to work for an immediate ceasefire.
finally i will dare to look cautiously to the future.
as turkey continues its own offensive against afrin as a means to prevent any semblance of kurdish governance along its borders we now see the assad regime seek to defeat the remaining rebel strongholds across syria.
i too welcomed the recent un security council resolution imposing a ceasefire to allow for very short humanitarian aid to get through but it needs to be enforced.
it is those civilian including women and children who are being killed on a daily basis by bombings that we must keep upmost in our minds at this time.
the offensive in eastern ghouta on the outskirts of damascus home to some four hundred zero civilians is the latest target.
it is not a solution but it is a reality that cannot be denied.
it is an absolute scandal which we must seek an investigation into.
ghouta was a so called de escalation zone for those besieged in aleppo idlib and other areas of the country in the past but instead the moving of people into one area seems to have put a target on their head and the world the eu cannot stand by.
we must take a more active and stronger political role for the eu and prioritise peace accountability and safety for those on the run from the horrendous violence and sexual attacks that we are witnessing today.
but now first and foremost we have to actively push for guarantees that make sure humanitarian aid reaches those in need.
i ask these questions because you have highlighted the need for an imaginative new approach built on engagement responsibility and partnership.
in the sense of the marshall plan it will be seventy years next year since the speech of secretary marshall who launched the plan would you say that there is room for a mogherini plan of this same scale?
ideally these organisations are not distracted by the political and economic baggage that comes from european union membership.
such a mix already makes us incredibly interesting for our global partners.
let me mention the three principles guiding our external action in my view.
nature. we are seeing this every single
this includes your contacts with other parliaments and with civil society organisations worldwide.
we cannot build a new global order based on rules and cooperation if we do not fully engage with our partners far away in latin america or southeast asia.
strengthening our energy security cyber capacities and strategic communications; and preserving the schengen system with new asylum rules.
if you understand this we should also see that our european union can truly be a global power and i would say a superpower.
monitoring hybrid threats;
we need constantly to adapt the priorities we have set with the reality that surrounds us around the world in our region and also in terms of implementation.
borders. the only existential threat against the european union comes from our internal divisions the petty nationalisms the finger pointing and the lack of forward looking leadership.
this is not going to be a phd thesis or an academic dissertation.
instability in our neighbourhood can only bring instability here in europe so we need strong neighbours and strong cooperation with our partners in their neighbourhoods.
of that. a network of bilateral trilateral sub regional and regional organisations can be the best base for a more cooperative and more effective multilateral global order. so the last priority must be better global governance that is truly fit for
i believe the arab awakening should have told us something about this that security must be sustainable and sustainable security cannot be achieved through security and defence instruments alone. it requires development governance civil society support climate action and much more.
making our intelligence services work together;
to cop. twenty one we need to stick to this path and preserve a system based on rules but we need to work on how we can be imaginative.
looking at your report it is clear and i do not need to explain why we have opted for a global strategy and not simply a security strategy like the previous one.
engagement responsibility and partnership our engagement needs to be responsible and it needs to be cooperative.
formats. i think of the talks we have on syria that have somehow established a format that is what i call minilateral' and that is flexible enough to feed into a process like the complex one in the security council of the united nations managing to bring results in that multilateral
think of this simple fact.
still we all understand that this is not enough.
first the european union must strengthen itself.
i fully agree with the report when it says that there is no contradiction between our role in our neighbourhood and our global engagement.
it would make us more and not less vulnerable as we see when we underline the link between external and internal threats.
happen. third we must do all we can to put an end to the current crisis in which the state far from resilient is on the verge of collapse from syria to libya from somalia to south sudan and we must prevent the next crisis from addressing problems before they boil up and get out of control. these may not get us in the headlines but it is the most effective way to save human lives and increased collective security.
europe. i began by saying that our environment has never been so dangerous. i will add that perhaps for the first time in our history the european union faces an existential
obviously the european parliament and the national parliaments have a key role to play also because you represent directly our citizens and our citizens know today that foreign policy matters to their lives.
we hold in our hands a unique mix of hard and soft power that no other power in the world can use.
these are faraway places and yet so close to us. we need to be a global player because issues are global.
south. we need to support effective and democratic institutions protect the space of civil society and promote it address countries of transit and origin of migration promote socio economic development fight climate change and promote energy transitions. this is a complex priority which will need to be fleshed out country by country with a targeted approach.
our mistakes can be too costly as impulsive reactions can lead us to very dangerous places and we see this every single day.
you also know how much i care about the broad discussions we are having about this strategy.
all the member states in different formations of ministerial meetings have discussed their comments and proposals.
this has to be a strategy not for the european institutions but for our union and this means it can only be the result of a collective process.
in the report you ask for a review of the strategy every five years.
of course we need to prioritise and of course our neighbours are the top priority but let us not forget that our neighbourhood is expanding by the day.