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that tax as a minimum would have to be global to avoid tax evasion. furthermore a tax on all transactions might not only be technically infeasible but would also risk making the markets more volatile and less liquid.
i have some questions on taxes.
if the purpose is to generate money for global causes which money pots does the revenue go into and who has the responsibility for distributing the money?
for a tax for a specific purpose when do we ever know when enough is enough?
finally the key question is who will collect the tax the member states or the eu?
if it is the eu far away from its citizens how do we prevent constant rising taxes?
in the real world enough never seems to be enough when it comes to politicians' need for additional money.
i trust that will be the case.
there are many positives which have been pointed out already today and many negatives but i would like to agree with the progress that has already been made and what we should aim for.
europe though and not just the eurozone it has to be said needs performance enhancing regulations as well as safeguards.
i have the feeling that nations are being made to feel like outcasts and this must be stopped.
it is self destructive for the eu as a whole.
the international agenda is key.
the european union has got to play a significant and crucial role in creating global standards.
the problem is that if we believe that creating standards in europe alone is enough we will make a grave error. that is why i welcome commissioner barnier's remarks about table for the european union and the usa of comparative regulatory achievement.
my office has already drawn up such a table.
i would be very happy to share the contents of that with you commissioner.
i hope it will be useful.
finally i might ask where are we in dealing with the transatlantic economic council the higher level regulatory dialogue?
where do we expect to go in the future?
and elmar brok andrew who is no longer here and elmar who will always be here in my opinion.
that we need. you feel that when you see a number of people they are lost in europe because the vision is no longer there.
do it because your commission is ready to do it has the courage to do it and not because there is a decision of the european council. and do not listen only to the european council.
and if you are doing that i can tell you that you will find us by your side all the way.
on the other hand we know also that if we want to have growth we have to go beyond the fiscal discipline and we have to have a growth package as has been proposed now in your programme.
not because of all the rhetoric we have heard this morning but because we stand here to elect the president of the commission and not as was the case until now by mainly rubber stamping the choice of the council.
however i have to contradict you on one thing and that is whatever the diversity of our constitutional systems or our cultural traditions fundamental rights are fundamental.
it was a forbidden area in the european union until now and also about values and that you will entrust a commissioner with specific responsibility for the rule of law.
create the vision that it is only by more integration of the european union that we can emerge from the crisis like we did in the eighty s.
because we all know that without fiscal discipline without respect for the stability pact there is no growth possible in the medium term and we have to accept that.
listen to the european parliament too because we are equal as an institution. and finally create again a vision for europe.
three things first of all return you have said it yourself to the community method because all the intergovernmental arrangements we have made in the last five years were not an example of good governance for europe.
you talked about the need for a common foreign policy and security policy.
hard on the heels of european elections our voters are not going to know how any of us have voted.
after these elections the eurosceptic may not yet have a majority in this house but please do not think we are over because the vast majority of european people do not want a european state do not want a european commission to be the executive do not want that flag and do not want that anthem.
the whole point of being publicly elected representatives is that we should be held accountable for our actions to our own voters.
you said at the end of your speech that this is not the time for a revolution. i put it to you that there has already been a revolution.
we do not want business as usual.
what is clear is that you are going to carry on with the process of the centralisation of powers which is not surprising because for twenty years you have been a key player in this whole process which frankly has treated democracy with deliberate contempt.
the whole thing has been the most extraordinary stitch up.
of course i will be told ah yes but hang on a second the european parliament the elected bit of the european institutions did actually have a say and did decide whether mr juncker was to become commission president or not'. well let us just have a think about the process we are about to engage in.
well i can tell you that absolutely nobody in the united kingdom knew that when they voted in the european elections it had anything to do with the next nominee.
on the plus side mr juncker you are a sociable cove with a very much better sense of humour than most people i have met in brussels and there is no question that you are a political operator.
you have even managed over the last couple of weeks as you have gone round the political groups to change the mood music a bit. you have said that you do not believe in a united states of europe and that you do not believe in a common european identity but i have to say i did not believe a word of it.
you talked about the need for a common energy policy.
there has effectively been a coup d'tat on nation state democracies without people realising without people realising what was being done to them.
surely democracy means you get rather more of a choice than one.
we want real change.
i think the best example is your quote about the french referendum on the constitution where you said if it is a yes' we will say on we go' and if it is a no' we will say we continue'.
so in many ways you are the perfect candidate for a lot of people in this house and i have no doubt that you will get the nomination but we are being asked to vote for the ultimate brussels insider somebody who has always operated with dark backroom deals and stitch ups and i have to say that our group overwhelmingly will vote no'.
i would have thought a wartime collaborator and somebody who left german politics under a huge cloud of a massive party funding scandal should not be the kind of people that we should stand up as great models of virtue in modern europe today.
leadership that looks forward not back;
instead let us have a better budget to invest and facilitate investment in infrastructure technology and research.
future. sadly mr juncker members of my group do not feel able to vote for you
the deal has been done;
us; leadership to address the fears and suspicions of our voters towards the eu's direction;
we need leadership on immigration in order to restore people's faith in both the principle of free movement of those workers who wish to work and contribute to their new host countries as well as in controlled migration which respects the rights of all member states both those welcoming new workers and those member states who are losing their youngest and brightest talents to other countries.
era. yet eight years since the services directive a single market in services is still far from reality.
but in reality you know and we know that none of this really matters.
europe. now with the euro many member states have lost the instrument of exchange rates to address these
all. let us look at the energy market and together identify and remove blockages
we need leadership to deliver trade and international development policies fit for a new era more open and yet more transparent trade agreements with fast growing economies but also international development programmes to promote property rights legal and financial systems support for entrepreneurs in poorer countries to create wealth and jobs for local people in their countries. we need leadership to promote better regulations that are fit for a new
the question i want to put to you is this do you want your commission to be the last of an old era or the first of a new era? that is the crux of the leadership we would like to
but if you espouse an old tired backward looking agenda we will simply offer constructive positive alternatives.
secondly members of my group are not yet convinced that you are the right man to lead the charge for european reform.
see. we need leadership to reform the budget for a new era moving away from the idea that a bigger budget means a better budget.
if you put forward an agenda that opens markets tears down barriers and decentralises power then we will stand with you.
i hope that over the next few years you will prove us wrong.
new era; to build an eu fit for the century ahead of us not the century behind
in it; create incentives for consumers to promote energy efficiency and ensure investment in energy security new energy sources and more interconnectors to reduce our dependence on regimes in the middle east and russia.
instead of focusing on how to raise money from our own resources let us lead a debate towards how we spend taxpayers' money better.
that is why my group would like to see a dedicated commissioner for budgetary control. we need leadership to build a single market fit for the new
we need the real mr junker to stand up and tell us what you really believe.
era; talk to businesses of all sizes directly and ask them what stops them from creating extra jobs what stops them from creating that growth. we need leadership to address the underlying weaknesses in the eurozone; the significant productivity gaps that are inflicting job losses and crippling levels of youth unemployment in southern
let our children inherit a vibrant economy built for their future.
today. but where you put forward an agenda which leads the eu towards the future to the challenges of a new era then you will be able to look to us for support in the future.
the spoils have been shared out. the election which was supposed to end all backroom deals has resulted in the mother of all backroom deals. you know and we know that you are likely to be the next president of the commission. mr juncker we wish you well but members of my political group will not be able to vote for your today for two reasons firstly we do not subscribe to the process that brought you here; we do not believe that you have an eu wide mandate that stretches across all twenty eight member states.
leadership which seeks to fulfil people's hopes and aspirations for the
problems. as a result we have seen burdens passed from banks to taxpayers treaties broken and untold state intervention.
decades later these women are still experiencing chronic pain and traumatic flashbacks from these procedures.
whilst this may sound like a form of torture straight out of the dark ages this was the method used in ireland to deliver babies in the twentieth century as an alternative to caesarean sections.
mr president a week ago we lost a great political figure a woman who achieved the highest office in the land from humble beginnings in fact the first elected woman in the western world.
i was ten when she was elected and i met her just three months before i was elected and when i told her that i was coming here to fight for british independence from the european union she told me never to give up never to give up and i can assure you i will never give up fighting for my country's independence.
she did believe in the membership of the european community and she signed the single european act but when she realised it was getting into a federal europe and a single currency she said no no no' and that is why the cowards stabbed her in the back.
from a personal point of view she inspired me into politics.
does he give up on seeing his child?
as uk citizens are also eu citizens and as this bedroom tax affects families and more importantly children and their rights to have a relationship with both parents is the uk government breaking article three of the consolidated eu treaties given that article.
does he fall into debt?
when i ask them what further steps they want ninety nine say more marine conservation zones around our coasts.
we need a partnership between fishermen scientists and conservationists to do this and if we add it to the opportunity for investment in renewable energy generation we can do much to protect our aquaculture.
one such area is lyme bay in my constituency.
a number of europe's marine areas are protected through sites of community importance to protect specific species and sub sea geology.
early findings from research in these areas including by the excellent marine institute of plymouth university indicate that sub sea aquaculture is beginning to recover.
the twenty seven member states are to coin a phrase a coalition of the unwilling' and sometimes less than that.
mr president the eeas is the eu's foreign service. an eu foreign service is based on the assumption that there is a communality of interest among the twenty seven member states. this is a fallacy.
the financial climate has the consequence that the uk is closing down embassies and consulates.
in libya only eight european countries took part not twenty seven and one of them was not a member of the eu.
nonetheless we are made to contribute and to contribute very substantially to the eu's foreign service in order to advance a foreign policy that is not i repeat not ours.
there is also the sheer wasteful cost of the eu's foreign service.
indeed up to one hundred officials enjoy take home pay that is more than that of britain's foreign secretary.
i do not believe he is a structure he is a person and he lacks the structure behind him.
another point you mentioned is the gender balance and you had promised an action plan addressing the structural obstacles to women because there are many structural obstacles to women when it comes to diplomacy.
i believe though that to be even better at this you should take your role as vice president of the commission even more seriously.
every presidency i meet with representatives from each of the twenty seven member state parliaments.
there are different structures;
to happen. it is going to happen because we make
to come in. i have tried to get more women into the service i have been very pleased at the number of women who have come in bearing in mind that in national diplomatic systems as well there are not so many women involved in foreign
and do that. we are both the president and i committed to trying to make that work more effectively. thank you again for this debate. i have often said that setting up the service was like trying fly a plane or get it off the ground while you are still putting the wings on bringing staff in from different places who arrived from different institutions seven different locations
eu. it is a very good use of the resources that we have and one i commend to you. it does not take away from the broader debate which you do need to have about how in the future this role is going to be performed if it is one person and if you are going to keep the number of demands that you have on the individual concerned. i also believe that the whole question of how we work in conflict prevention and crisis management
process. the process is far too long winded takes too many different committees to make decisions and
time. william hague is extremely proud of that so i should tell you on his behalf that they are opening not
need to do. i also agree by the way on holidays and all the other regulations but i cannot do it unless we can change those
our neighbourhood.
develop that. i have pointed out in my opening remarks some really good examples of how we work together with different commissioners on different
more to do. remember most of the staff came in from the other institutions so their gender and their background were inherited and changing and
themselves. i asked them through their representative bureau to give us their ideas on what we should do and to act
structure is. of course people in hardship posts and very difficult places need more
the service. it is an important element that we have available to tackle sometimes very difficult crisis situations where you need somebody who is not based in one place but can span across and sometimes it is about moving forward on issues where you need the combination of a head of delegation and that broader special representation places like
countries. rather than having ten different places with ten bureaucracies we have put it all into one but there are only three eeas staff there the rest are delivering development
in myanmar; we have tried to respond to dramatic changes by putting people on the ground who can be there and stay there but that of itself is
level posts. the creation of the service at the very beginning was a structure that we needed to get the thing off
issue i agree. i have been talking with president barroso about this over
it is impossible to achieve everything without using the incredibly valuable support of the rotating presidency.
up like that. but to change it i need to change the regulation so i need you and that is true of other things
aid hub. there are forty four staff of whom three are from the external action service six are from the commission and thirty five are local
more fully. nobody is more committed to trying to do that than i
i can assure you that the way in which all twenty seven interact with each other is an extremely valuable discussion and debate seeking solutions.
for next year. i have proposed to member states most recently a suggestion of what we should do on special representatives;
across brussels; asking them to create
me; a chance for a long debate and discussion.
needs to be under this umbrella of the comprehensive approach;
of work; we have to look at some of the regulations that we have and i need your help because some of it requires quite a lot of change. it cannot be done except by the institutions agreeing to do it and if necessary by changing the rules or sometimes the legislation
we will of course return to this and to these issues as we publish the review.
partnership links. we have. and to build the beginnings of a service that you can all own and i hope you
i am not trying to take them away from member states but i think we do not have to go through all of these procedures.
not a lowest common denominator but a highest common factor even where this is difficult and even where we do not have agreement.
something new; and then asking delegations on the ground to take on completely new responsibilities without the resources that would give them that additional help. remember in places like new york when the rotating presidency came in they put more than twenty additional staff on the ground. we could not do that and so we have tried to make it as efficient
it may not be enough but it is certainly an important part of the work that i
how we use our mediation skills and rule of law skills and so on. it is extremely important that we do that effectively and it does need looking at to make sure that it fits together.
to do it. but we have to get quicker and it is not going to happen just by wishing it
can all be proud of. there is an awful lot more to do and with your support i will finish my mandate and hand over to someone the beginnings of something that can be incredibly important for europe.
on merit. every single person who is a head of delegation knows they got the job because we think that they were the best person to represent the union in the work that we
that is also true of the twelve hours we spent in debate on the issues of syria and the embargo.
when all of this was put together all of the statutory meetings which existed before continued to exist all of the association councils.
important. we have opened in libya; we have opened
i can remember a very sad day when i had been to five countries in a day and was criticised for not being in the sixth.
regulations. they have just grown
important. we depend on the commission as well for this type
these months. we agree that we need to do more to
handling too. so all of our proposals on how we change things like that have been brought forward from the delegations
they collaborate in trips;
time off. i do not think anybody disputes that but i do not see why we have different
looking at their mandates looking at the numbers and looking eventually at how they can be more integrated into
as well. i am not against making these changes but you know and i know it requires others to put forward proposals and for it to be agreed that this should
they come together for the presidency and the opening session of their conference is always with
again inherited structures which i do not necessarily have the power to change but that i can with the support of you and with the member states. in a similar vein when we think about the work we do on defence on csdp missions i could not agree more we need to speed up the
policy. but we have to solve some of the obstacles that as i have said are
issues. just as we met last week to talk with commissioners about syria and we met with commissioners to talk about defence so too there are many more occasions when we should try
it is not unusual to find that a foreign minister in making a statement at a conference on behalf of their own country will also make a statement on behalf of the
the foundations. i said there were three priorities to be more relevant in
if we are asked to help we
so on. these are important decisions.
regulations. it does not make any sense to me the way the holiday
and here she is in fact really wanting more power.
the merger of three different jobs makes the eu a unique foreign policy partner because we can combine the different instruments that we have our support for the rule of law our civilian and military operations our development aid our diplomacy;
i am glad they regularly participate in your meetings and events more than one hundred events in two thousand and twelve alone.
year. staffing issues of course draw attention both in your report and in the contributions from member states. the quality of our people is what will determine our success and i have been very lucky in the quality of the people not least in the man sitting next to me here and in the people behind
given us. you know that the bulk of staff and other resources were inherited from the commission from the council and we still largely rely on the commission for its corporate
i still believe we have unparalleled influence and leverage to promote and to deliver change in our neighbourhood and we should use it.
one of the key tasks is not only to act as our institutional memory on foreign policy and the home of our global network but to provide when we can a clear authoritative lead in building consensus between member states on strategies and priorities working closely with you and with the commission.
a number of questions have been raised about cooperation between the eeas and the commission and have been referred to in the opening statements.
i also agree we need to look at the internal structure and to clarify reporting lines particularly given the budgetary situation.
our strength lies in our ability to respond to a crisis in a much more widely ranging way short and long term humanitarian development security and political as well as deploying military and civilian missions to achieve lasting security and prosperity.
similarly i am encouraged by the positive input to the review from member states which goes mainly in the same direction and our eeas success rests on our capacity to bring together the institutions and contributions to maximise influence and at the same time to reduce costs to our citizens and member states.
honourable members will have seen groups of foreign ministers travelling together to deliver messages as a team on behalf of the european union and on behalf of their own countries