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therefore they must function and operate in the most efficient and effective manner possible. unfortunately recent evaluations have shown that these initiatives have not been performing to the standards that we expected.
these data raise several questions.
whether the resources were allocated effectively;
whether there has been enough transparency in these initiatives and whether they are already able to continue to function partly on their own revenue.
i am aware that setting up new business centres is a long term project and that they have to overcome initial challenges.
business centres in india china and thailand already achieve measurable success and i believe they have a potential to reinforce common eu interests. however we must hold the commission accountable to ensure that the business centres are efficient in aiding european businesses.
no'. europe is not ready for the next crisis that may overcome
i call it a small problem and from another perspective mr tsipras you naturally call it a very big problem but let's face the reality the accumulated debt of three decades was eur three hundred billion. you know what that is it is two of the yearly european wealth that we create eur fifteen trillion a
choice. well i think that greece italy and the whole eurozone will remain under threat if we do not make a choice in the coming months and years at this moment of the end of the greek crisis to bring about the re foundation of our union and reform of the monetary union. if we were not to do so it would be a scandal
what didn't happen were deep reforms in the greek economy and in greek society and that has been and still is my problem with what happened in greece.
here. this time i will keep it moderate because i have to save my energy for mr orbn this afternoon so please be aware of that but you will certainly remember that i asked you a question at the end how do you want to be remembered in history as an electoral accident or as a revolutionary reformer?
us. greece was in fact a small problem let's be honest.
the end of the economic cycle is there and the question is are we ready for that? well my answer in this debate is
a tragedy not only for greece but for
economy. but the same is true not only for greece the old system of the eurozone is also still in
the transatlantic relationship is evolving.
i also see the opportunity to find new synergies on our energy policies in particular after our recent energy council with the usa in brussels in july at the very same time by the way as the nato summit.
europe and the usa have a clear interest in diversifying our energy supplies and this is just one of the many issues where our interests converge. i believe another such issue is trade particularly in relation to china and world trade organisation reform.
that is a task of the commission.
that's the coward's way out.
they are issues we have with the hungarian government on the basis of in our view rules that are not being respected. we will pursue this in a dialogue with the hungarian government and we will take the hungarian government to court if we believe that they violate the rules that were agreed at european level.
what will this lead to? filtering where errorprone and hypersensitive algorithms will remove anything that could pose a risk. this includes legal content. if this is not censorship then i don't know what
the president needed to intervene in these demonstrations and had to ask the police to be more careful.
we could choose a conflictual approach going for trade wars that would hurt everyone or we can work together with china to make the global economic system more just and
on trade but on all issues when we disagree with
issues. it is also very clear that we will not sacrifice our values in the name of real politics' we are always very clear
years. of course the most outstanding disagreement we have with china concerns the human rights situation in china as underlined in your
if we want to preserve the multilateral system and make it more effective engagement with china is an absolute must. and i have to say i've seen in the past six or seven months very strong engagement from the chinese side and also from the european side which i have been able to channel
we raised our position against the death penalty as we always do with all countries that still have that penalty and we discussed the impartiality of the justice
report. during the last eu china human rights dialogue we spoke up against the recent restrictions on freedom of religion on minorities' rights and on freedom of association and expression.
system. we also focused on the situation in xinjiang especially the expansion of political re education camps and we discussed the detention of human rights defenders including particular cases. we know that the chinese government does not share all our principles and values and they know that we are in different places in some
on that. on the contrary we will continue to engage with china precisely to advance our values and our interests because europe and china recognise and understand each other's importance in shaping a more cooperative global
i believe we share the same approach here with china now on the need to find or to build cooperative winwin solutions and approaches rather than entering on or fuelling the conflictual trends we are seeing. dialogue and engagement are the best way forward for us not just
let them go on doing that;
under the current rules.
moreover french customs authorities found non declared cash and gold worth eur.
trump with his simple answer to complex problems his protectionist and antimultilateralist america first instincts is of course very concerning to all of us.
more specifically rest assured that article eleven will not limit access to information.
as for article thirteen i think we are only aiming at a targeted and balanced intervention to make sure that the european creative industry can get a fair share of the value generated by its content which is nowadays mainly used online.
by harmonising the definition of what constitutes a criminal offence we facilitate the possibility for financial intelligence units to exchange information regarding criminal investigation of money laundering or terrorist financing. i believe we did it right and i am convinced that the trilogue outcome will gain overwhelming support in the house.
any day now the israeli authorities could start demolishing this community and evict the residents from their homes including parents and children.
this is why last week i called once again on the israeli authorities to reconsider this decision.
we very much welcome and support the new directive. we think that the rules on the definition of criminal offences and sanctions are an important step forward. we think the establishment of corporate liability for money laundering in certain circumstances and the specific sanctions are a key strengthening of our panoply of instruments for fighting this challenge.
we welcome the fact that we have been able to find various compromises in discussion. i think the compromise on the issue of double criminality follows a clear logic and will make the eu more robust against money laundering.
we look forward to a positive outcome to tomorrow's vote.
it is a product of europe's recipe for success which combines solidarity with responsibility.
and greece can continue to rely on the solidarity of its european partners.
do more. together it is time that member states agreed on a long term solution covering all elements of migration to help us balance solidarity and responsibility.
this is what being part of the union means working together to address the issues affecting us
all. managing migration is one such common european challenge it is not the responsibility of only one member state or another. that is why we stood side by side with greece when it mattered
he taught that virtue is the middle between extremes; that understanding and compassion are central to the way a society
in our union responsibility and solidarity go hand in
there would be no stronger or more tangible proof to europeans that the union will deliver on its promises and stay united on the things that matter
weakness in the banking system to launder vast amounts of cash. ten years after the beginning of the financial crisis whilst we have strengthened the capital requirements of major banks and they are supervised by the ecb the policing of anti money laundering rules is not covered under this system. instead the responsibility for making sure that the banks carry out customer checks is down to national watchdogs which leads to patchy implementation.
madam president i promise to be brief. i will do so also because i want to stress once again what i said in the beginning my full appreciation for an excellent very balanced report which as i said reflects perfectly well the state of play the strategy and the policy we have with china regardless of some interpretations of something i did or did not say
in this chamber.
you have reacted to the situation in foreign relations;
i can only praise what you did with prime minister zaev.
you could say look i have an idea.
you could also go to italy.
never far from the news it is a practice which undermines trust in financial institutions and entire economies. dirty money is unfortunately also a key security concern because laundering is instrumental to the operations of criminal and even terrorist groups.
terrorist organisations and organised crime need financing to maintain their criminal networks to recruit and supply and to commit terrorist acts themselves.
information exchange becomes difficult and criminals slip through the cracks left by divergent national systems.
we could build a strategic partnership with that country only if we are united in our policy towards it.
we need to be realistic about relations with china.
we have a responsibility to call for peace and stability in cross trade relations.
so we need to be clear and consistent on what unites us and the united states and on the eu positions and policies on all the issues where these positions diverge with the united states in a very clear realistic manner. i think this is a good basis for having what some of you called a principled and pragmatic approach' to keeping a strong partnership
with the united states.
really what i want to ask you is what do we do now?
how are we criminalising ngos what do we do about the libyan coastguard?
mr president recognising that fully autonomous lethal weapons are not fully operational yet however the use of artificial intelligence is already playing an important role for military around the world. that is why i welcome that we are debating how we can shape international law and policies in this field because far too often we are behind the curve. given the eu's ambition to be a global actor for international peace
and security my questions to the high representative are how does the commission and the eeas define meaningful human control' over autonomous weapons systems and what type and what degree of human control?
so i suspect the same will happen in hungary. so prime minister orbn it may very well be that the authors of this resolution are your unwitting or perhaps clandestine supporters.
i know that's not always easy to do.
we all know them adenauer schuman monnet de gasperi.
we could lead the field by introducing horizontal mandatory due diligence to clean up all of our global supply chains guaranteeing that european consumers and businesses are not inadvertently supporting human rights violations here or elsewhere.
by putting sustainable development at the core of the eu's trade strategy in two thousand and fifteen the commission created high expectations but what we've seen is the eu working actively for global rights for investors but dragging its heels on binding human rights rules on multinationals.
within this un initiative lies an opportunity to deliver a real trade policy for all but why wait for global rules?
according to estimates from the charity save the children cases of cholera have increased by one hundred and seventy since june which in a country that has seen its public health facilities largely as a result of bombing of hospitals decimated poses the real threat of a worse and more deadly epidemic.
in this regard it is of paramount importance that the houthi faction engages in the unled process in geneva. i will also reecho my previous concerns regarding the conduct of the saudiled coalition in its air campaign offensive and also the use by houthis of human shields claiming so many lives of civilians.
two thousand and fifteen furthermore it is estimated that a staggering twenty two million seventy five of the population are in urgent need of humanitarian aid often encompassing the most basic of needs such as access to food water and medicine.
these are the words of the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths to the security council last month.
the level of confidence is at its lowest and human and humanitarian cost is ever rising'.
the council has become the bottleneck for mainly all policies but in particular migration because the european commission has made proposals for a common policy the european parliament has managed to agree across the political groups on a policy.
i'm glad that the council has at least twice discussed the situation in poland but i think you should take your responsibility and discuss the situation in other countries where there are reasons for concern such as romania hungary slovakia and malta but also finally agree to a broader mechanism that will treat all member states equally and gives an annual assessment of the health of democracy the rule of law and fundamental rights throughout the european union and not dither any longer.
local authorities are taking a different attitude.
opinion polls show that the vast majority of europeans are very pragmatic and they expect us to act when it comes to migration.
there are twenty eight individuals national government leaders blocking any kind of decent and efficient asylum and migration policy.
he is literally playing russian roulette with his russian friends with the wellbeing of the british people and now by criticising mrs may he is trying to dodge responsibility for the mess that he has created and for which the british people are going to pay the price.
we had the opportunity to talk to mothers and fathers of the school children in the only school to be found in the neighbourhood.
they all implored us to keep unrwa alive.
without unrwa support these people who are the last of the last in lebanon would be totally abandoned and left homeless. let's not follow the argument of the trump administration; unrwa has no ideology other than human dignity and human rights and takes no sides in the conflict between israel and palestine.
do you not get paid enough to do your damn job?
on the commission blurb they talk about this process and they said it would help decide on a course of action to be rolled out in time for the ep elections in.
we were meant to have a discussion about this a debate something that i think would have helped a couple of years ago in britain and would have actually headed off brexit.
we also had a series of reflection papers which we were meant to discuss.
two thousand and twenty five he spoke about five options and basically the options were full fiscal economic monetary or military union on one end of the rainbow and on the other end of the rainbow we go back to being a group of trading nations.
two thousand and nineteen i now ask the question where is this white paper on the future of europe? how is it sitting with the various parties here?
we are stressed by terrorist attacks we have a lot of uncertainty in our society due to something which sounds positive but which can have negative consequences on many people and that is the technological revolution.
ladies and gentlemen thank you very much once again for this debate.
in the many other fora where people are still able to speak to each other.
i think that we should not only deal with the consequences and this was the debate about the consequences here in parliament but we should speak more about the sources about the breeding ground.
this is one of our problems that people are more and more divided into bubbles and this is also due to the digital development in our communication.
i think that we should ask ourselves these questions and ask ourselves what are the most efficient instruments how to address the majority of people the honest people who need to have the option for their electoral preferences to vote for the people who offer something other than aggression and violence.
mr president the fundamental right to be able to vote in elections is the most important of political participation rights. democratic participation at elections confers legitimacy to those exercising public power and their decisions affecting citizens.
democratic participation is also linked to the right of free movement in the european project.
however the founding premise of union citizenship is that it is additional to national citizenship and is meant to give additional rights.
the commission has kept the situation under observation for a number of years and the commission therefore issued a recommendation in two thousand and fourteen in which member states were asked that their nationals might apply to remain registered on the electoral roll and therefore retain their right to vote.
the commission recognises that member states are solely competent to determine who can benefit from the right to vote in national elections.
let me assure you that the commission continues to monitor developments and initiate specific actions within its competence.
it noted that sixty seven of respondents to the two thousand and fifteen eurobarometer on eu citizenship felt it was unjustified that citizens should lose their right to vote in national elections in their country of origin.
in april this year the commission included this issue in the discussion paper transmitted to member states ahead of an exchange between national election authorities organised following the commission recommendation of february two thousand and eighteen on the efficient conduct of the european elections.
the colloquium will include a session focused on the exercise of the right to vote when moving to another member state.
while most member states allow their citizens to vote in national elections and referenda in their home countries a few enumerated by madam wikstrm today set considerable restrictions on this right when citizens move to another eu member state. since no eu country currently awards foreign nationals the right to vote in national elections and referenda it means that some eu citizens cannot vote in such elections in any of the eu member states.
the eu treaties only guarantee eu citizens the right to vote in their state of residence in municipal and european elections.
already in the two thousand and thirteen citizenship report the commission underlined that full participation of union citizens in the democratic life of the union at all levels is the very essence of union citizenship.
the fact that the exercise of the right to free movement may lead to losing the right of political participation is at odds with that principle.
to come up with a new trade deal with one country is one thing but to disentangle the relationships of thousands of companies which have grown over forty years is quite another. mr juncker had you at the time offered britain a special deal on freedom of movement
he never says anything about the economic impact on europe.
in order to end the confusion in london we must end the ignorance here in brussels.
brexit would not have happened.
britain leaving the common market is equivalent to nineteen small and mediumsized countries leaving the common market at the same time.
we are also working on the other files to find a solution to the whole package.
to promote innovation and digitalisation as important enablers for our development and also for the future development of africa.
chancellor kurz and the president of the republic of rwanda mr kagame will host this high level forum which will bring together european and african heads of state and government accompanied by relevant ministers and ceos of highly innovative european and african companies
to make progress in finding a compromise the presidency in particular chancellor kurz has conducted bilateral talks with all member states over the summer in order to find a possible middleground.
we can only achieve results through a comprehensive approach and cooperation at the european level. one of your main criticisms was on dublin.
we aim to present the outcome of our efforts to heads of state and government at the european council later this month.
finally we need to work more closely with countries of origin and transit by building new partnerships.
protecting our external borders and facilitating returns are of course key.
in the past few years we have achieved much collectively including through important legislation agreed with this parliament from the passenger name record to the fight against terrorism financing as well as better police judicial and intelligence cooperation.
we need to continue this work while focusing on effective implementation.
the european council in october will look into all these issues and the chancellor will report on the reform of the common european asylum system and on the prospect of progress on its various elements.
safeguarding our security also means being prepared for new types of threats whether they take to form of cybercrime disinformation or any type of manipulation.
the european council will address these issues in october but the leaders' reflections on the longer term aspects will also feed into the preparation of the next strategic agenda.
one thing is clear ahead of the next european elections we need to protect our democratic processes.
this means in particular reaching out to african countries to expand and deepen our cooperation.
forest fires this summer demonstrated the importance of european cooperation in that field.
in the light of events the european council may also discuss international developments but strengthening security is also about building up resilience to any kind of risks and being prepared when crises strike be it as a result of hybrid attacks or natural disasters.
in the coming weeks chancellor kurz president tusk the commission and a group of member states will continue reaching out to other african partners.
second the european council will agree on immediate priorities to strengthen our internal security.
we have certainly made headway.
fostering a strong sense of security in europe is our collective responsibility and indeed a priority of the presidency.
to start with we must do better in taking the fight to people smuggling networks from monitoring and disrupting their communications online to supporting cooperation between our police forces.
finally on brexit the european council will need an article fifty format to review the state of negotiations with the united kingdom.
see what is happening in japan see what is happening in china see what our cities are doing and see what our governments are doing.
it means that there will be a large share of efficient internal combustion engines and a large share of plug in hybrids which are labourintensive and which require more employees across the european union.
it is not true.
why are car manufacturers telling their workers' councils that they cannot invest in battery production in the eu because of high salary costs but then chinese companies open battery production sites in the eu paying eu salaries.
that together with the welltowheels approach can really promote cleaner technology and cleaner fuels. we agreed that investment in recharging infrastructure is to be promoted and battery and battery cell manufacturing close to vehicle manufacturing sites should be supported. i am for more ambition than what the european commission is proposing.