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secondly the fight against unemployment especially youth unemployment.
it is not your direct business but now it is your business.
area. this is not acceptable
of the rights of
you mentioned the two pack for more economic governance.
tax. i know you do not want it not yet at least but we need your help to come to a clear decision.
is. and of course we need your help on the financial transaction
this is the remedy for other countries as well.
my group believes that there is one small but important change that you could make and that is to the council meetings themselves by creating a dedicated single market council meeting rather than lumping this important policy area into other configurations.
my group has long argued that it is time for the single market to move into the digital age and there is much in the single market two act which delivers on this important agenda and we will work with you in attempting to deliver it.
naturally in particular we welcome your emphasis on growth on jobs and on stability.
i also unlike mr cohn bendit welcome your very sensible opposition to a financial transaction tax.
ireland should be an example to the rest of europe.
what they do not want to see is more institutional navel gazing or theological blueprints for deepening economic and monetary union.
the benefits of reducing tariffs are incalculable both to our economies and across the atlantic and indeed it will help to build further on the transatlantic partnership.
eight i really hope that both presidencies can work hard on such an agreement to get it off the ground. it seems to have gone from a pie in the sky notion to a distinct possibility in a matter of months.
ireland in my view is a fundamentally competitive economy compared to many other european countries.
it will be extremely damaging for many of the member states that have introduced it but there again that is their problem.
like much of europe your country was hit hard by the crisis but you have made great progress as many have said in your fight back.
i believe that our people in europe want to see the eu making a difference in those areas where it can genuinely add value.
as you also said in your remarks we have a unique opportunity in the next few months to make substantial progress on an eu usa free trade agreement. the first half of two thousand and thirteen not only sees ireland hold the presidency of the eu but it sees my own country hold the presidency of the g.
we all know of course that there is little willingness by any member state to shift from their entrenched positions on the eurozone crisis whether in the north or in the south so in my view it is important not to waste time and divert scarce resources trying to pretend otherwise. taoiseach my hope is that you will be able to return here in the summer saying that you have laid the groundwork for a more open and competitive market for a more complete digital single market and for freer trade with our major economic partners.
i am thinking particularly of the socialists and president hollande here showing that low tax rates do lead to a more competitive economy generating growth and creating wealth.
in particular i congratulate you in having rightly fought to preserve your low corporate tax rates;
now of course it will not surprise you that my group does not agree with everything that either you have said today or that is included in your presidency priorities but there is a substantial amount on which we can agree.
we agree with you that developing the single market as a drive of economic growth has to be a key priority.
i have every confidence that your presidency will in fact turn out to be a success because ireland has such a distinguished track record during previous presidencies.
in your priorities you also talk about improving access to finance and to quote public procurement for small businesses'. we of course welcome that although we will wait to see whether any concrete action actually flows from that statement.
it is of course as i have said many times essential that we reprioritise europe's competitiveness.
he also added that there cannot be flexibility on the core conditions. you cannot have a european union if you end up with twenty seven different forms of membership he added.
it is widely reported that he will be aiming to repatriate powers to the uk.
if you agree with your deputy prime minister what advice will you give to our prime minister david cameron who will be making his big europe speech on friday?
do you think that david cameron's plan to repatriate powers is possible or impossible?
taoiseach do you agree with your deputy prime minister mr eamon gilmore when he said that there could not be different forms of membership in the eu?
we need a budget that is flexible enough not just to meet present needs but also the need for the future up to two thousand and twenty including a binding mid term revision.
it is the first time in history that a long term budget will be dealt with under the rules of the lisbon treaty and at the same time in an economic crisis the deepest since the birth of this union.
if member states cut their budgets so should the eu but that logic is simplified and false. first of all not all member states have cut their budgets and no member state has decided to cut their national budget up until two thousand and twenty so why should the european union?
secondly the main priority in this situation when the role of the eu is more difficult and more important than ever should be to safeguard the functioning the unity and the future of the union even if it comes at a cost.
everyone should understand that the consent procedure gives parliament the right of veto. we do not need any major increase but we do need a budget strong enough to match crucial priorities investments in sustainability growth and jobs particularly youth unemployment and infrastructure
as well as to play a major role in the world.
i am thinking particularly of the financial framework negotiations.
parliament has been quite clear about what we need in order to grant consent to the new financial framework.
we should hopefully be out of the crisis by then.
we need a process towards more own resources stable enough to reduce the national direct contributions so controversial and detrimental to eu solidarity.
the eu has still a role to play and your government has a very key role to play so therefore i urge you to take your responsibilities under the good friday agreement particularly with regard to rights supplementary to the european convention on human rights and therefore the need for a bill of rights
respect for identity and culture is important in northern ireland as it is in the rest of europe.
i would urge the taoiseach to emphasise this to nationalist politicians from my constituency whom i know that he meets on a frequent and regular basis.
the aims of the irish presidency are right and laudable.
stability jobs and growth are essential for all of our constituents. in northern ireland we are heartened that the economy in the irish republic is showing signs of recovery.
despite repeated conversations within these institutions i do not believe that many here actually recognise how difficult it has been for firms and small businesses and in my part of northern ireland the impact that the crisis in the irish republic's economy has had on them.
however over the next number of months of the irish presidency northern ireland requires changes to its regional aid guidelines.
we have high hopes for your presidency across a whole range of policy areas.
subject to an agreement by this house in the plenary at the beginning of march. but one of the big stumbling blocks to progress is the lack of agreement between farm ministers.
it is vital that your presidency gets a grip of the council and pushes them hard to reach an agreement by mid march otherwise your timetable will be blown off course.
the greatest presidencies were those which touched on exactly those issues where their own interests were also involved and used the presidency to find fair balances and solutions for problems which concern all of us despite their own interests also
madam president one of the great successes of this irish presidency could be the successful negotiation of a reform of the common fisheries policy putting in place a policy which will allow fish stocks to recover ending the nonsense of discarding perfectly edible fish and giving hope for the future.
taoiseach if you are able to do that then i think your success will be rightly heralded but one of the subtexts of the debate which will not get so much publicity is the two year long dispute which has existed between the council and this parliament over the long term management plans for fisheries.
this issue has to be resolved if we are to ensure the success of a common fisheries policy reform.
at the moment we have not even publicly identified the reasons for the dispute.
but i would ask you to take a personal interest in making sure that this longstanding dispute is once and for all resolved.
i think that they are wrong and that we need structural solutions and that you mr kenny as the leader of a country that has suffered strongly because of the crisis must remind your colleagues in the council of the importance of establishing permanent solutions structural solutions a more integrated europe a fiscal union a banking union an economic union and finally also a political union. so i think that would be an enormous achievement
we have to be sure at the end that it is a genuinely european mechanism and not an amalgamation of national supervisors and also in that area mr kenny i think that you can show with the irish experience how a good european single supervisor should have solved
i have to tell you that we will have no banking union if we do not have a serious resolution fund;
ft is not a real european mechanism.
you used one word which i think needs repeating and it is the word respect'. i think that is a word which is in short supply within our member states sometimes within politics itself but i do want to thank you for the respect you have shown to this parliament.
because very often we have a sense in which we the directly elected people who represent the people of europe are not given the right status by the council.
i think you are now in a position to enlighten other council members on the importance of this parliament and what codecision actually means.
i noted very carefully your comments about a fair and balanced agreement on the mff even if it is imperfect being better than no agreement.
how confident are you that we will have an agreement and how important is an agreement on the mff for delivery of your work programme?
mr president ireland suffered much at the beginning of the financial crisis but it is a shining example of how a society can renew itself if there is political consensus on what needs to be done.
the other indispensable component is the restoration of international competitiveness which has been achieved by ireland.
this trend has reached dangerous levels and become part of the mainstream.
ireland has so far managed to escape the emergence of racism. it has the moral authority and obligation to uphold human rights before fascist parties gain respectability and power.
that is one of the most important challenges you have.
focus on the reforms that can unite us and make the european economy stronger not on the very many institutional changes that can divide us.
thirdly the european budget focus on the spending and the powers of the budget that can make europe a strong knowledge economy.
agriculture is important but even more important are research science and securing the leadership regarding modern society's infrastructure.
we do not see today any opportunities to stimulate our economies by deficits and spending and we have seen that they do not help but we can ensure that we attract all the private investments which can make the european economy strong and prosperous. ensure that we carry out the reforms regarding telecoms regarding the energy market regarding the digital economy which can give us the leadership.
in the cases of the kyrgyz republic and of georgia on which the plenary will vote tomorrow as well the long delays in the decision making process have put the european union in a difficult position.
what is more the issue risks blocking any forthcoming mfa proposal. this could lead to political fallout for the union in our relations with egypt jordan and armenia which have submitted or are about to submit requests for mfa.
the commission therefore urges parliament to continue its dialogue with the council and to consider all ways possible to overcome the impasse and unblock the mfa instrument.
the commission believes that it is crucial to find a solution to whether the advisory or examination procedure should be applied in the adoption of the memorandum of understanding.
at the moment however macro financial assistance is blocked.
given the negative impact of the euro debt crisis on our neighbourhood the union should complement the imf in stabilising countries which are close to the european union.
secondly there is an urgent need to contribute to maintaining economic stability in the country during this critical period to help the pro democratic authorities prevent the recurrence of inter ethnic violence which has negative spillover effects on the neighbouring countries.
we accommodated that game because willingly or not we lost sight of the big picture in an attempt to salvage a very lucrative relationship with a key commercial partner ignoring the fact that putin's russia long since ceased to see us similarly.
now just to continue with that today we are rushing through at undue speed an association agreement with the ukraine and as we speak there are nato soldiers engaged in military exercises in the ukraine.
the recent beheadings of the british and american hostages graphically illustrates the problem and we have our citizens from our own countries engaged in that struggle too. in the war against islamic extremism vladimir putin whatever we may think of him as a human being is actually on our side.
because if we do we are certainly going about it the right way.
let us not go on provoking putin whether we like him or.
i suggest we grow up.
i suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries communities and societies stop playing war games in the ukraine and start to prepare a plan to help countries like syria iraq kenya and indeed nigeria to try and help them to deal with the real threat that faces us.
have we taken leave of our senses? do we actually want to have a war with putin?
perhaps we ought to recognise that the west now faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life that we have seen for over seventy years.
and the moral of the story is if you poke the russian bear with a stick do not be surprised when he reacts.
we directly encouraged the uprising in the ukraine that led to the toppling of president yanukovych;
what is it really about?
and i have to say that i am very surprised that you are surprised about this process because it started on eleven july when there was a first trilateral meeting asked for not by us but by the two other parties concerned and the russians put on the table a number of remarks and questions and observations with respect to the
if you want to strengthen the position of the ukrainian people that is what you need economic growth and we continue that.
that does not concern only ukraine it concerns the whole eastern neighbourhood.
on the one hand it says that we are going to prolong the autonomous trade measures which means that the advantages that we grant to ukraine can continue.
you could have that.
because it would mean that you would have to change the treaty with ukraine before you can change anything in it.
agreements or proposal for an agreement on friday with respect to delaying the provisional application.
if you really want to put yourself in a difficult position with russia if you really want to give them the upper hand then you have to follow the line you have been voicing here that this is a bad agreement that in fact we should delay ratification of the agreement.
that is why we have been doing this and when you look closely at the agreement that we reached on friday what does it really say?
it means that you have an agreement that you have a treaty and that you can only change it by a new treaty.
what we have been doing is creating the conditions for ratification of this very very important treaty.
it is about whether or not we are in a position to continue this policy and make it a success.
it is not that we are doing anything against them but that is what they want to do.
i always thought it was when someone starts to violate the rule of law and international law because those are the bases of our wellbeing.
the economy and financial system of ukraine face a huge test because of the events in the east not to mention the impact of the illegal annexation of crimea. they expressed the wish to have more time to prepare for accepting
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we have agreed that our commitments to law and to order will determine not only the way we treat each other but also how we treat our neighbours.
years. we will have the provisional application of the political
agreement will
what is a real threat?
they will respect each other's right to define and conduct.
our work. the european agenda for reform as agreed with the ukrainians is very much about the implementation of the association agreement and it will
the reasoning was logical and understandable.
relations with other states in accordance with international law and in the spirit of the present declaration'.
it is for this reason that member states within the eu and nato should begin to take proactive rather than reactive steps in this conflict sending a message to president putin that there is hard power substance behind our rhetoric.
the refusal of russia to accept this and to work within this internationally accepted legal paradigm should concern us all as democrats.
it is clear also to my group the ecr that in response to ukraine's ambitions to move in a westward democratic euro atlantic direction russia is revisiting its imperial past refusing to accept that its large neighbour in the twenty first century is an independent sovereign nation that has the right to take charge of its own destiny.
it has been suggested that one member state of nato is already arming the ukrainian army in anticipation of this further act of aggression.
freed but unfortunately incidences of shelling and shooting continue.
we have already expressed our strong support for the peace deal agreed in minsk; its implementation is a key to success.
we must also reflect on how we can jointly work on a vision of cooperation on the european continent where all countries can take advantage of economic opportunities from lisbon to vladivostok.
russia should prove in deeds its respect for international law and for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of its neighbours.
this was done in response to the increased inflow of fighters and weapons from the territory of the russian federation into eastern ukraine and the aggression by the russian armed forces on ukrainian soil over the past weeks and in order to reinforce the effectiveness of existing measures.
and in responding to global challenges. in any case the solution to the conflict in ukraine will be the litmus test for launching a dialogue on the development of the huge untapped potential of the european union's future relations with russia.
i will discuss this further in the next debate this morning.
we have always stressed that our restrictive measures are reversible and scalable;
we have also engaged with russia to discuss the effects on the russian economy of the implementation of the association agreement including the dcfta with a view to clarifying concerns and where appropriate identifying solutions.
secondly we are maintaining pressure on russia through a gradual increase of individual and economic sanctions to try to make it alter its course of action and move towards a solution.
we call on the russian government to pass from verbal pledges to the implementation of commitments this time around and to ensure a genuine and a comprehensive implementation of the peace plan.
the time has come to rebuild it with all european partners involved not leaving anyone outside of this process.
today it is difficult to see if and how successfully european union relations with russia can continue under the label of the so called strategic partnership.
they have paid a high price in the process since last november and i am proud to be here today so that we can together take a historic step in ukraine's political association and economic integration with the european union.
these achievements which we tend to take for granted are the long standing aspirations of the people of ukraine.
on the contrary it has further united the ukrainian people behind the aspiration for a better future for their country.
for many they correspond with a future based on european values which as europeans themselves they share.
therefore by the end of september the member states will carry out a comprehensive review of the implementation of the peace plan and in the light of the review and if the situation on the ground so warrants the sanctions may be amended suspended
the fragile ceasefire will need to be turned into a genuine peace. the courageous move by president poroshenko offers a real opportunity for lasting peace but there are many challenges. direct fighting on the ground has become sporadic and prisoners are being
as i have said the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the road map will be important for all further decisions on sanctions.
the relationship between the eu and russia played a central role;
our approach is threefold. firstly we continue to give our full and active support for a sustainable political solution.
in the short term much more effort is needed to reach a comprehensive conflict resolution in ukraine and russia must show that it takes its commitments seriously.
the new package includes firstly more individuals who are responsible for undermining the territorial integrity of ukraine and secondly economic and financial sanctions with regard to access to capital markets defence dual use goods and sensitive technologies.
my colleague commissioner oettinger is sparing no efforts to facilitate an agreement between russia and ukraine ensuring a fair price for gas deliveries and security of supply to the european union.
you are aware that the european union adopted a new package of restrictive measures with regard to russia last week on the basis of the mandate of the european council of thirty august.
we must avoid creating a lasting rift on our continent.
the deal reached on friday by my colleague commissioner karel de gucht is good news for de escalation and it has the potential to be a game changer in the ongoing crisis.
russian troops are still in ukraine;
we need to learn from recent experience from the failed attempts in geneva and berlin earlier this year to pass from words to deeds in reaching a political solution and to respect the ceasefire agreed in june.
and large parts of the border remain outside of the control of the authorities allowing a continuous flow of militants arms and equipment into ukraine from russia.
as for the medium and long term the european union and russia will need to further build their relations on shared interests with a view to engaging in dialogue particularly in the fields of trade and investment energy science cooperation in solving international crises
it is a sign of our absolute unity.
it is the democratic mark of the right of sovereign countries and of their peoples to decide their own futures.
we saw western ukrainians waving european flags rioting setting fire to things and effectively staging a coup d'tat which brought down the ukrainian president leading to this instability.
yes you are the guilty people and you refuse to accept it.