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it calls for the general prosecutor in the personage of ivan geshev which has been described as neither politically nor legally binding to be dealt with it condemns the abuse of eu funds the staggering revelations of the prime minister conniving with former prosecutors to tell judges what to do the bullying of judges the suppression of the media and on and on it goes!
the bulgarian citizens will deal with their government.
i'm very confident of that.
they're not asking us to do that.
but they do need us to stop feeding the vampires who are sucking the life blood out of the wonderful people and country.
pauperising your people driving your young people away!
i emphasise that very strongly because this is clearly an attack on the fundamental principles of the internal market. i am pleased that all colleagues here have spoken in support of the decisions that the commissioner will make.
i would say from a practical point of view first of all that it is a remarkable coincidence that both those trademark offices are operating in the country of the current presidency and the next presidency.
because it is a fundamental attack on the basic principle of the internal market that there should be no discrimination of any kind on companies wherever they operate in a single uniform unitary market.
in this case it is even worse because this proposal or proposed actions if they were to be upheld actually discriminates against small enterprises as opposed to larger enterprises.
it is small enterprises that will be most affected by this because they may register a new trademark for a product across the european union taking advantage by the way of a fantastic internal market revolution and a very cost effective way of protecting their intellectual property.
it may take them more than five years to get that product into the marketplace and what would they find?
this is absolutely not acceptable.
of course these two trademark offices in trying to sustain these objections to allowing people to register trademarks will be requiring the companies concerned to register in their own jurisdictions.
it cannot be allowed to stand.
it is fundamentally against the principles of the european union and by the way it also undermines as the commissioner rightly says a major priority for this commission which is innovation getting new products into the market and making the internal market work better.
it is just simply to adjust the order slightly on thursday afternoon in the human rights debate so that zimbabwe comes first then venezuela and then north korea.
so i would call on our colleagues on the left here not to vote against this amendment because that would only demonstrate and make clear that your activity is nothing but a show a show bullying the prime minister of a country
whereas this has resulted in an atmosphere where the press is under political pressure in hungary'.
i ask you to support this amendment in order to keep your credibility.
mr president i fully agree with the idea of discussing the situation but first who is to blame?
madam president the legal act that we are adopting today deals with questions of life and death for the most vulnerable population in the world refugees. i should be happy but i am not because it has taken us two years to reach this compromise.
this is both right and proper and of course i do recognise the european union's support for victims in northern ireland through the peace programmes that have been funded there.
the commission should be aware that northern ireland is facing once again a growing terrorist threat from dissident republican organisations.
that threat has been described by the police service of northern ireland as critical' and by the international monitoring commission as very serious'.
in its initial funding to victims of terrorism the commission identified the key objective to mobilise the public against terrorism in all its forms.
however i feel with the transition to the broader cips programme this objective seems to have been lost.
i am grateful for your proposed work on a victims' charter and i would urge that this starts off by making a very clear distinction between the victims of terrorism and the perpetrators of terrorism.
mr president it reflects no credit on this house that the whole of our agenda today the whole of our vote should have been taken up with a matter that ought never to have come to the floor.
it lies beyond the purview of this parliament and is within the prerogatives of one of our member states.
i hold no particular brief for silvio berlusconi. i am delighted that the british conservatives no longer sit with his party in the european people's party but i cannot have been alone in being put off by the pharisaical self righteousness that we have heard from the other side during this debate.
they complained about mr berlusconi having immunity from prosecution without mentioning that they as meps have a similar immunity.
they complain about his domination of the media without mentioning the tens of millions of euros of public money that this parliament spends on promoting itself. this resolution and the fact that it came before us at all today reflects no credit on anyone no credit on the italians who took to this chamber an argument that they had lost in their own nation state and no credit on the rest of us for presuming to get involved.
such issues ought to be properly determined through the national democratic mechanisms and procedures of the italian republic.
mr president i think all of us in this chamber are concerned about media pluralism.
we all want to see greater media pluralism right across the eu.
i have concerns about media pluralism in a number of member states.
i have concerns about media pluralism in a number of countries outside the eu but about which the socialists often never raise this issue for example cuba and north korea.
but there is a very important principle here. the rolling stones once said you can't always get what you want' and when you can't get what you what what you do is rely on the democratic process in your country to persuade the people to remove the government you do not support.
you do not decide to go to the european parliament and try to get democratic decisions overturned there.
mr president the european union claims to embrace fine principles about freedom and democracy and they are all restated and reinforced in the lisbon treaty but time and again we turn a blind eye to blatant transgressions taking place in one member state or another.
we do not like to rock the boat but we had the chance today to take a stand and to say that control of the press by the italian prime minister is a clear abuse.
thanks to the votes of the uk independence party and the british conservatives we lost today by one vote there was one vote in it.
they do not say that they also want to prevent the european union having any role whatsoever in standing up for the basic freedoms that support democracy across europe.
firstly today i read a report issued by eu citizens in the united kingdom highlighting the discrimination that they are now beginning to face in a variety of forms.
this has been taken up by the british government minister. may i ask you through your office to provide the necessary assistance that the british government may need in order to make sure that this matter is stamped out immediately and that such discrimination cannot be tolerated?
certainly it reminded me of a bygone era when adverts would be placed stating no blacks and no dogs'.
we will not tolerate any such discrimination.
secondly what powers do you have in your office mr president in terms of the award of a sakharov prize when the holder of such a prize is then blatantly conducting activities speaking words and carrying out actions which go against the very spirit on which such awards are given?
how can we revisit the awards that have previously been given in such circumstances?
he is a russian speaker who is successful in business and in politics. other political parties who are threatened by his success have started a case against him which to me looks like persecution.
they are using the state to turn a civil offence about his party's accounts into a criminal prosecution.
however since viktor's appeal new evidence has come to light;
not just the wikileaks cables that mr rapkay mentioned which show former prime minister brazauskas admitting that high powered people falsely accuse our colleagues but also now the memoirs of president adamkus confirming what many claimed all along that five years ago the security services pressed the president to pervert the course of justice against our colleague.
that is why this time in committee five members voted to support mr uspaskich's appeal and only nine voted to reject.
i contend that viktor uspaskich is the target of a politically motivated campaign to force him and his party out of frontline politics and i call on colleagues to vote today to restore his immunity.
that was our original request but for some reason it was decided to have it this week.
so i would like to return to our original proposal.
however i should also note that a few of the proposed amendments require further elaboration and discussion. as an example i could mention the time limitation for voluntary data exchange or free of charge data transmission but i am confident that these issues can be successfully addressed during the trilogues.
this is evidenced in several own initiative reports that have been very helpful to the commission in the preparation of the consumer agenda our new consumer strategy which we are presenting tomorrow.
your input will contribute towards developing further actions for protecting and strengthening the rights of vulnerable consumers.
the commission wholeheartedly agrees that it is important to address the vulnerability of consumers and this will be reflected in the consumer agenda.
this initiative will present a coherent strategic vision for consumer policy for the years to come focusing on concrete measures that put consumers at the centre of the single market.
this includes financial services energy transport telecommunications and the digital market.
instead we need to identify the various factors that can contribute to consumer vulnerability in specific markets or in particular circumstances.
we are fully committed to mainstreaming the issue of vulnerability into market surveys and consumer studies including consumer behaviour studies.
however we already have in place provisions that safeguard the interests and rights of groups of consumers that can be considered more vulnerable in a structural sense children elderly people and people with disabilities.
i can assure you that the commission is constantly looking to improve these measures.
i fully acknowledge that we also need to anticipate market developments and innovation to make sure that these also deliver benefits for vulnerable consumers.
let me briefly outline just some of the initiatives that the commission has already brought forward and which focus on the specific areas highlighted by the report.
and assessing the functioning of the unfair commercial practices directive especially in the digital and financial markets.
we will also further monitor and assess the application of the rules of the audiovisual media services directive in order to strengthen their effectiveness in particular with regard to the protection of minors across different audiovisual media environments.
finally the commission is launching guidelines on the application of the regulation on the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air.
we must collectively remain constantly vigilant to market and societal changes that increase the risk of exclusion for certain groups or individuals.
voting in favour of the report means giving consent to the extension of the protocol while voting against means not giving consent.
mr president my understanding is that respect for human rights is now included in every fisheries partnership agreement and in every trade agreement that this parliament creates.
can we be absolutely certain that what mr milana is asking for is accurate?
clearly pays special attention to the problems of small farmers.
first let me speak about the first pillar.
to cross compliance and to controls.
additionally member states may also tilt payments towards smaller holdings with the new redistributive payment' which gives a supplementary payment for the first hectares of the holdings.
with the new cap we are also encouraging cooperation among farmers with a new legal framework to facilitate the recognition of producer organisations and support financially their creation.
certainly farmers should work and sell together and thereby gain scale reduce costs and access the market.
cooperation amongst them will be a key step in adapting to the changing economic environment.
furthermore small farmers can benefit from the support for investment in the creation and development of non agricultural activities investment in physical assets participation in quality schemes and many other actions under rural development.
finally the new rural development policy will also offer many possibilities for helping farmers to sell their products directly to consumers or at least to become involved in short supply chains and local' markets.
it is a very good means of promoting europe of promoting our common culture and history.
i am sure it will be a huge success and we have put in place various ways of making sure it is successful.
the final sites will be chosen by a panel of experts who will have specialist knowledge in this area and as i have said before we will particularly be looking at cross border sites to promote the idea of europe.
there are also particular criteria that we ask the successful candidates to meet we want to raise the european significance of the sites chosen; the successful candidates will be expected to organise education events especially for young people;
there will be an exchange of ideas on initiating common projects with other sites awarded the label;
there will be artistic and cultural activities which will foster dialogue;
and there will be access of course for the widest numbers of the public to visit these sites. so i think the sites when they are up and running will have a huge benefit for europe and will be something that people will be able to come to and enjoy and will promote the idea of europe and what we in parliament and the eu are doing.
i am sure when the scheme is set up and running it will be a huge success and i have been very proud to be part of this initiative.
mr president the promotion and development of heritage sites in europe is a necessary and welcome project which deserves our full attention.
our rich and diverse cultural heritage is something that the citizens of europe should be proud of and indeed is one of the primary reasons why millions of people from around the world visit europe every year.
the project has the potential to deliver for historical sites the possibility to access additional funding and to preserve and develop their facilities which is a much needed asset during these tough economic times but where we raise expectations for citizens we have the responsibility to deliver.
in addition attempts by myself and others to ensure that the focus of the label remained on heritage and not on political integration were rejected.
funding for this programme also raised serious concerns especially given the austerity measures currently afflicting culture departments across europe.
i hope that we were able to contain this going forward.
the central goals of this label should have been to preserve and celebrate our shared and diverse heritage but unfortunately we have not guaranteed that we will add value.
this is something that we need to be mindful of.
i would like to make it clear that the experts who are going to be appointed for the decisions on this important initiative will certainly have the highest professional credentials to make sure that they choose not only the best and highest value
i also want to clarify that our purpose is indeed to have a simplified procedure quality but simplification is important.
i would like to finish by saying that in these times of economic crisis which create divisions between the peoples of europe politically socially and economically we need initiatives like this which will bring the people of europe together.
able to support the agreement in trialogue and i think it has found a good compromise.
the economic crisis and the crisis in the dairy sector have affected these regions disproportionately in relation to most of the rest of europe and that is why these regions deserve some special attention.
i also want to add my voice to those who expressed concern about the mercosur proposals. these could do enormous damage to the outermost regions and indeed every region.
we were never meant to be the policeman for the farmers within the union and the fairy godmother for the farmers in the rest of the world.
the adoption is important because it is the first text adopted in the ordinary legislative procedure concerning agriculture and rural development following the entry into force of the lisbon treaty.
a very good cooperation has been established between parliament the council and the commission during these months and that has created the conditions for a fast adoption in first reading of this proposal.
with this first experience of the ordinary legislative procedure my colleague commissioner ciolo and his services have learned a lot and this has set an excellent precedent for future work. the adoption of this regulation is very important for the outermost regions as it imposes technical simplifications and it also imposes derogations to the benefit of several sectors the milk sector in the canary islands madeira and runion the sugar
concerning the azores i consider that the current circumstances justify an additional and joint effort from all of us the public regional governments national governments and the european union in order to facilitate a diversification of the agricultural activities in this region.
the diversification must indeed be one of the major priorities of the outermost regions to which the treaty has acknowledged a particular status due to their specific handicaps.
the diversification must allow an indigenous development that would create stability and well being in these regions.
price volatility has been very significant and had a detrimental and indeed destabilising effect on farming not only in the outermost regions but in all areas of europe. however i just want to address one very particular point to the commission today and that is that the commission must be careful in its own actions
not to disadvantage the european farmer and the european agricultural industry.
in northern ireland the dairy and beef industry has been greatly affected by imports.
this has resulted in price volatility and great financial losses for farmers.
last week i attended the royal agricultural show in northern ireland.
we of course have some understanding for his decision given the special circumstances in ukraine and the right of the legitimate authorities of that country to defend the integrity and sovereignty of ukraine.
there. after the vilnius summit last year our resolve and our partners' resolve is to move closer together in terms of our joint agenda on prosperity peace and shared
and one that improves our energy infrastructure our interconnectivity and establishes a genuine energy single market by the end of
ago; recognition that they want to share the same vision for a prosperous democratic model and that they want to live by the european spirit and values namely the sacred principle of freedom.
that was a way of showing that history cannot be stopped.
regrettably peace is not the case in all parts of the world and also it is not happening in all parts of europe.
for this we expect russia to fully exercise its influence on the separatists in order that they lay down their weapons. we have discussed not only the political and security situation but also our economic and political support for ukraine.
avoid that. i believe now we have a basis to go forward during this legislature to make europe strong namely to focus with more attention on growth
process. they are clearly based on important work and results achieved during the past
of decision. sometimes there was lack of implementation.
of presenting our democratic states we continue to build our european democracy.
this is the house of european democracy;
you are members of an institution that illustrates perfectly the very special nature of the european union as a community of values for peace democracy tolerance freedom justice the rule of law and solidarity. as we have seen over the past mandate with your election comes a responsibility to listen to cooperate and ultimately to take the necessary decisions for the benefit of the citizens of our continent.
fundamental to the democratic nature of the european union; a unique institution directly elected from across an entire continent.
that is why we are going to host next week in brussels on eight july a high level meeting to coordinate international assistance to the country.
we praised his determination and commitment to de escalating the crisis with his fifteen point peace plan. but this ambition must be shared by all sides. that was the reason why in the european council we welcomed the positive first step made by russia in repealing the law on the use of force in ukraine.
one that improves the efficiency of our energy consumption;
and jobs. last but not least the priorities show the respect for the division of labour as laid down in the treaties with the european council setting a strategic agenda with the european commission assuming its right of initiative and of course with parliament having the basic democratic responsibility preserving the possibility to reach an inter institutional
peace cannot be taken for granted.
and on the other side to show our determination to do everything that is in our capacity to support an independent sovereign and hopefully democratic and prosperous ukraine.
we have been working together in different capacities at a national and european level for around twenty five
representing citizens from twenty eight different member states with twenty four official languages coming from one hundred and eighty six national parties reunited in seven european groups;
years. his european credentials and experience his commitment to our union and its values are beyond
and why peace on our continent is our first and greatest common achievement.
with sixty five years separating the oldest and youngest member of this house and with more women than ever as part of the parliament i believe you are in a great position to give concrete expression to what europe is a europe united in diversity.
also agreed conclusions of the european semester showing that we have more enforced economic governance and co operation at an
when i was standing at the ceremony in ypres i could not resist thinking that whereas one hundred years ago young soldiers from our countries and many other countries all over the world were killing each other in the flemish fields
now when? in this field the european council has endorsed the commission's proposal for an ambitious energy security strategy and has asked for more work to be done on both energy security and the climate agenda ahead of the october european
must we. that is why the european council has welcomed the review of our energy efficiency directive on which the commission will make further proposals in this month
crisis. we are leading globally the debate on climate and energy and we are developing our vision for freedom security
union. when many people were predicting the end of the euro even the disintegration of the european union it was possible in very difficult circumstances to
to end total free movement we are going to need the support of the european parliament.