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however commissioner for many citizens that is simply not enough.
her solution to this particular problem is to call for closer political ties and tougher budget rules. in purely economic terms this may be a possible solution in that it will help to balance the books.
we need that support so that citizens can see that the eu is working for them not just to satisfy the markets or recapitalise the banks.
it cannot be just about economics because if it is then it will not be possible to win the confidence of the citizens you spoke of.
and commissioner those numbers are growing.
it is not enough that that message is implicit.
we need to articulate a vision for europe that citizens can believe in balance the economic with the social and i think then we might just get their attention.
our work programme must ensure that inclusive growth and employment generating projects are at its core. that message needs to be delivered loud and clear to citizens. europe will succeed if its citizens are confident that they are its real concern.
it must be explicit.
this morning we had a debate on the european platform against poverty and social exclusion looking at how the commission the parliament and the member states can take concrete actions to assist the eighty million europeans that are at risk of poverty.
and we need to win that confidence.
balancing the books on its own is not an adequate response.
i am extremely pleased to see that the commission has promised to keep up pressure for a financial transaction tax.
two thousand and twelve the ambitions in it are both welcome and late.
an ftt will prove vital in providing a fair share of the finance we need to help developing countries escape the devastating cycle of poverty.
however it is unacceptable that we betray long term development programmes in one part of the world in order to fund short term foreign policy gains in another.
europe is a magnet that attracts countries towards democracy and an open society.
as the sd spokesperson on development i am much more positive about the commission proposals for the external action by the eu in our relations with the rest of the world.
europe is only five of the world's population if we want to be heard on the world stage we have to join forces.
finally the upcoming review of the many different financial envelopes in external relations should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen the european external policy.
it takes time to realise the need to tackle financial markets and to limit our risks if you have ideological spectacles that prevent you from seeing the obvious.
i am glad to see the commission making a case for a common european approach at the wto g twenty g eight this should be a key part of our external relations next year.
i appreciate that we must respond quickly and flexibly to changing situations outside europe as we did in the case of the arab spring slowly in the case of tunisia but increasingly effective afterwards.
following our insistence council finally approved this scheme for the most deprived persons yesterday.
partners. more than ever social dialogue is necessary both at european and at national
the political consensus that we are shaping together to tackle the crisis is the springboard for this action.
is up to date. modernisation and the use of new technology will ensure that the system encourages cross border activity while providing the necessary
we should see implementation starting to bite and have a real impact and we will have further measures proposed by the commission.
market. we will address the risks of electronic services being hampered by incompatible national copyright regimes with a proposal on rules for the cross border licensing of online
mediterranean. i believe we have a responsibility to do everything we can to help the post transition societies there to develop successfully and the commission is determined to support
our common messages were heard.
next year we will press on with measures on investor protection critical to deepening confidence in the
sustainable. next year will be a key moment of transition to the revised emissions trading
move card. we also want to look again at the handling of supplementary pension rights of people who change jobs this must not be allowed to remain an obstacle. i am also determined that we do not lose sight of our longer term need to build an economic recovery that is
this was done as a matter of urgency to allow vice president rehn to appear before this parliament's committee on economic and monetary affairs on twenty three november also as vice president for the euro. for next week we have accelerated the annual growth survey. we will also present new proposals on further deepening european union and euro area economic governance to provide further stability discipline and convergence and to complement the reforms agreed through the so called six pack'.
we have to be coherent and consistent in implementation.
the events of the last weeks only confirm that we are at a key moment in the history of our union. to secure the reforms that europe needs to transform itself we have to win the confidence of our citizens and also of investors.
it. one thing should be clear the commission does not give up on having this kind of programme after. two thousand and thirteen the commission has focused its work programme for two thousand and twelve on reinforcing stability and responsibility while at the same time stimulating growth doing everything we can to counter the very negative
strategy. new proposals on emissions for passenger cars and vans will spur innovation and give manufacturers the necessary regulatory
we are constantly being called upon to take swift decisions.
it is extremely important to follow on. europe two thousand and twenty can be the spark to a virtuous circle of growth and i can count on your support to help give this process the political momentum it needs. the work of the european semester will be critical over the next year to drill down action into member states and ensure that all parts of europe help each other to
economy. we need to further develop it and bring it into the twenty first century so that it can continue to generate growth. twenty years on from its inception we can show that the single market remains a key motor for sustainable growth
against this background it is more essential than ever that our institutions strengthen our cooperation and show common resolve to deliver rapid and effective responses to the crisis. the basis for a successful response is to have a clear consensus about where europe is heading.
demand. a comprehensive consumer agenda will provide a secure foundation for consumer transactions in the single market while revised rules on general product safety will offer a clear framework both for consumers and manufacturers.
europe and also from other parts of the world is not always the best. that makes us need more than ever this spirit of responsibility and solidarity among the member states and among the european
the commission work programme is a key building block to achieving this vision. it is therefore particularly important that it rests on a series of intensive exchanges between our two institutions.
we must bring public finances back on track;
we cannot do this by turning our backs on ways to improve revenues.
act. we have accelerated our work on these proposals and we are asking the legislators to work to see these in law by the end of next year. there is a wide range of proposals now on the table. if we want to have a real impact on growth and quickly we need to adopt them and see them
we must restore confidence in our european union's ability to get out of the economic crisis. over the next year we can show that the european union has what we need to overcome the crisis and restore growth.
on the table. the measures on economic governance on the single market on financial services not to mention the multi annual financial framework will make huge demands on us all over the coming year and we know that we are also going to deal with these very important initiatives against a backdrop of economic financial instability where the news coming from
this intensive dialogue has been decisive in determining the focus of the programme for.
music. a pan european framework for electronic identification and signatures will give the confidence needed to boost electronic transactions across the european
global stage. this is key
that is why we need to keep up the pressure for a financial transaction tax and why we will be looking at new measures to tackle tax havens and counter vat fraud. we will also make a focused proposal on protecting the financial interests of the european union including by criminal
implemented. the european patent roaming charges the energy savings directive these are all examples where early adoption would also show a european union determined to do everything possible to boost
institutions. i believe that confidence comes through showing that the european union has the determination to act. i believe that in the past we have seen that sometimes it is under conditions of huge pressure and precisely when we are resisting or reacting to crises that the european union is able to show how important it is for the prosperity
we need a european renewal and regaining confidence requires swift and decisive action.
reform. key proposals will be on the table by the end of this year including ones on bank resolution.
last week we reshaped the commission's rules to give a special role to the new task of vice president for economic and monetary affairs.
in europe. this is why we have proposed fast tracking the priority proposals set out in the single market
many of them are indeed reflected in the recent european council conclusions and they provide the backbone of the programme.
we now have to keep up the momentum and agree and implement changes that bring real benefit.
sector. institutions for occupational retirement provision are also a sector to work on next
system. the rio summit will remind us of our global obligations for sustainability and green growth looking in particular at a new water
level. we will help young people to move around europe with a youth on the
we cannot just approve measures and then afterwards forget about their implementation.
big challenge. for an open europe to work we need to make sure that its border regime
it should have the tools we need with the transparent and democratic approach enshrined in the community method and it has the collective determination we need to carry through ideas into action. our joint determination has also managed to move opposition in council to the programme of aid to the most deprived persons.
that process. i believe that longer term stability and prosperity in our close neighbours is also apart from our commitment to important values in our very urgent
the state of the union debate was at the core of this work.
by the end of two thousand and twelve we should see the ambitious measures we are putting forward today being passed into national law.
growth. the modern european economy also rests heavily on the digital single
and the g. eight at the same time we must continue to respond to the dramatic changes in the southern
he says there are opportunities globally yet when he speaks about those opportunities and bilateral agreements he makes no mention at all of the most advanced of those negotiations on the eu india free trade agreement. does he not mention it because he knows it is locked'? it is an agreement which requires political pragmatism; it needs him to go forth and deliver that
i do not see that in this action plan.
today that agreement has become a test case to demonstrate the future way in which we are to progress.
the pressures in our nation states are there for all to see and our citizens are beginning to turn increasingly to the extremes.
jobs growth and confidence are not going to be delivered by the financial transactions tax or criminal law proposals but by going ahead and being brave on behalf of europe and reaching out to the world.
if the commission knows that it can get around the veto with a clever legal manoeuvre regarding the legal basis of such attacks then let us hear about it.
but if as i suspect the commission knows that it cannot why does it waste time with this posturing?
is it because attacking the city of london wins some cheap popularity on the benches opposite?
instead of proposing new regulation you should be repealing it.
you should help our businesses create jobs.
the commission should start by scrapping the working time directive.
you always tell the same story which is more of the same more europe not less europe. albert einstein's definition of insanity was to keep on doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
you propose yet more swathes of legislation and yet more power to the eu.
where has all this centralisation of power actually got you?
the eu underperforms economically with the rest of the world mainly because of the burden of job destroying and prosperity restricting legislation.
the crises in greece and italy have been in part caused by their membership of the european single currency.
instead of organising an orderly exit they have had to sacrifice democratic government and have it replaced by rule by economists and technocrats.
you propose yet more of the same thing and expect different results.
are we really going to see economic growth or an increase in the proportion of the working population that is employed with current eu policies?
the infatuation with globalism and with continued and ever greater access of emerging economies to the markets of europe will continue to destroy industries and jobs.
the common currency with its single external value and its common interest rate has condemned the countries for which that value is too high to stagnation and unemployment.
mr president i think it should trouble this house that the only round of applause from our citizens i think the group have left the chamber was when a uk colleague who equally has left the house belittled the european union and the work it has done to date.
populist messages sell and i am afraid that i would echo the words of president von rompuy when he said that time is the cement of politics'.
but it seems that time is something that is in short supply.
on the specifics of the work programme i think we do need to look at legislation and implementation.
we have had failure to implement which has led us to this crisis because we have turned a blind eye in the past particularly on the economic issues.
but for example this morning colleagues met with commissioner dalli on a small issue of electronic identification of sheep legislation that we passed which we now believe to be defective and needs to be changed.
it will be the year when we have to change direction from seeking multilateral agreements on trade to a series of bilateral agreements with our principal
how are we going to explain this to the fishermen?
at the same time i want to dispel some doubts.
these figures are advised after careful analysis of all available data and applying scientifically reviewed and tested models. some may say that the values of those ranges provided by the commission were not in line with the reformed common fisheries policy frankly.
it is probable that future plans will be modelled on the baltic plan but only in terms of structure.
finally i would also like to underline that i am against including seabirds and sea mammals in the text of the fisheries management plan because we have different legislation for that.
it aims to take account of interspecies interactions such as the influence of the cod stock on herring and sprat stocks and the other way around.
we are not scientists. we should not play around with arbitrary formulas.
and the broader the range the more flexibility for the sector from one year to another.
at the same time it should guarantee that management is based on the most up to date scientific advice regarding the status of the stocks covered interactions between species and other aspects related to the ecosystem and fisheries.
five to explain to our non fisheries members those ranges will indicate how much fish fishermen will be allowed to fish.
' so we have five years to fulfil the obligation of the reform of the cfp.
however on the contrary accepting arbitrary formulas would create a very dangerous precedent.
therefore what we adopt for the baltic cannot be copied for the mediterranean or the north sea.
this also includes the targets.
the plan should provide for a balanced sustainable exploitation of these stocks and for the stability of fishing opportunities and thereby the livelihoods of fishers.
the basic regulation says in order to reach the objective of.
the most controversial part of this dossier concerns the scientific advice namely target fishing mortality ranges as set out in article four and article.
and maintaining populations of fish stocks above biomass levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield the maximum sustainable yield exploitation rate shall be achieved by two thousand and fifteen where possible and on a progressive incremental basis at the latest by two thousand and twenty for all stocks.
while setting fishing mortality targets we should also take into account the most recent scientific advice. let us not forget that we are politicians;
obviously the smaller the range of values the smaller the amount of fish;
many amendments have been tabled asking to follow the most scientific advice and this is exactly what i try to do. i want to use the fmsy figures advised by the scientific body ices wisely.
we should listen to the scientists and wisely use their advice.
in terms of content the principle of regionalisation will be applied.
i would like to remind you of a very important point.
i believe that by tabling certain amendments we are trying to achieve something right now this year which is going against the word we have given to the fishermen.
it we understood and we agreed that we should reach certain levels levels of fmsy levels above msy and those levels should be reached by the year two thousand and twenty starting.
please support me tomorrow and once again thank you very much for your help.
first of all i totally agree with the statement that we are politicians and we should listen we should rely more on scientific advice for guidance and this is exactly what we are doing in this plan.
the commission together with the member states used to establish fishing opportunities delivering high biomass levels.
one member said that hopefully this will become a reality.
it is important now that this plan is implemented so that it becomes a reality but to become a reality implementation is of the utmost importance.
i do have faith however in the stakeholders in this region.
this is one of the strengths of the multiannual plans.
with regard to the long term approach ices stated that the ranges are considered applicable for at least the next five years.
this would then allow us formally to adopt the plan this year which would be an important political signal for the upcoming future regional management plans.
with your vote this week we will come one step closer to a modern fisheries policy that our citizens and the fishing sector can understand and support.
last monday it adopted its general approach on the commission's proposal.
i believe that by maintaining this momentum we can finalise the plan by the end of this year.
we have to make this plan work to prove that the reform as intended can bring benefits to our fishermen increase their income and provide for the sustainability of the fish resources.
those benefits include regional decision making by those who know the regions best.
they include more flexibility in setting fishing opportunities and they include sustainability of the fish stocks on which local stakeholders rely.
allow me now to make a few comments on the report that you will adopt this week.
as a commissioner not only for fisheries but also for the environment i welcome the amendments to include references to the union environmental legislation.
i believe this will strengthen the coherence between our two policies.
this is something that we must base our decisions upon when we manage our fisheries.
the commission has always followed the most recent and the most up to date scientific advice as has already been mentioned by the rapporteur mr wasa and i can assure you it will continue to do so.
i am certain we will have an interesting lively and constructive debate and hopefully we can make good progress very soon after this week's vote but let me say one more thing.
this plan is not only very important for the baltic region and the countries that are directly concerned but it will also be a positive precedent for other management plans to be adopted in the future.
madam president the common fisheries policy is a bad policy. it is impractical and unsustainable and that is as true in the baltic as anywhere else.
this new law shows us the future as the eu sees it a regional management plan for a virtually closed body of water.
so we must ask whether it will work.
it is treated as a common resource;
it retains the concept of a maximum sustainable yield taking little or no account of subsidy or illegality or the simple fact that if you try to operate at the limit of its sustainability you have no margin of error.
what is needed is restoration of national property rights so countries can move to a maximum economic yield a topic where the australians are pioneering some new sensible thinking.
with fishing as with immigration the australians are showing us the way and there is probably much that we can learn from them.
if we get it wrong on one side it has disastrous consequences. if we get it wrong on the other side it still gives us the possibility to come back beneficially. that is why we must always ensure in these plans that we have maximum sustainable yield calculated at a level that is sustainable even if we get it wrong.
an extra safety margin keeping stocks above msy level is essential in this and in all aspects of implementing the reform of the common fisheries policy.
here we have all the fighters from the reform of the common fisheries policy with mrs rodust and gabriel mato and mr grbarczyk. i think this is a great step forward because we know that the plan for the baltic will be a blueprint for the rest of the multi species plans to be made.
they should be independent of russia and of the west but whether zelensky has the power to bring that about we only have to wait and see.
it was a coup. it was organised by the us as exposed by the taped phone conversations of victoria nuland obama's central agent there at the time.
people who are highlighting or voicing resistance to the deal made with russia should ask what do the ukrainian people want?
this plan will aim to make europe the first climate neutral continent in two thousand and fifty and will broaden our strategic environmental agenda beyond climate.
furthermore the two eu ets funds the innovation fund and the modernisation fund will also contribute to the much needed mobilisation of climate investments.
i'm saying that de facto mr president you are the european union's climate bank.
so we will continue doing it with the future investeu programme maintaining our crucial partnership with the european investment bank.
during the past years the commission has interacted a lot with the eib notably in the context of the investment plan for europe and in particular in the context of the european fund for strategic investments as a core part of the plan.
therefore the eib is instrumental in mobilising financing for our common political priorities.
in particular i'm so happy to see that twenty five of the projects funded are related to research and innovation.
the commission welcomes the eib announcement to achieve full alignment with the paris agreement by.
those investments are to a large extent of private nature and we need to mobilise private finance for those investments.
two thousand and fifty our investments in climate and environmental projects in the next decade will need to grow considerably.