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we all know that local and regional authorities play a key part in ensuring the reception of asylum seekers' access to services and longterm integration into host communities.
mr president honourable members thank you for the opportunity to participate in this debate on the situation in the mediterranean and the role of local and regional authorities in receiving and supporting migrants and refugees at local level.
mandatory allocation which is at the heart of parliament's mandate continues to be the main stumbling block in the negotiations in the council and this divides not only the member states but also the populations of the member states.
on this occasion member states recognised the important role of regional and local authorities civil society and social partners as well as local partners and communities in the integration process.
as i already mentioned yesterday morning during more than two years the commission proposal on the dublin reform has been on the table.
two thousand and twenty thank you very much for raising theses important questions and for your attention. i would be happy if needed to complement these introductory elements at the close of the debate.
in order to achieve the greatest added value amif pursues strategies designed to promote the integration of third country nationals at national local and or regional level where appropriate.
this fund should focus on integration in the labour market leaving early integration measures to the new asylum and migration fund the.
i would also like to mention that in december two thousand and sixteen the council adopted conclusions on the integration of third country nationals.
based on the work of the bulgarian presidency and previous presidencies the austrian presidency has continued to work with you to find a consensus to reform it based on a balance of responsibility and solidarity.
member states were notably invited to focus their efforts on early integration measures in order to enable early access to education vocational training and to the labour market.
indeed many actors at local level have made great efforts to welcome and ensure access to services such as housing healthcare and education and enabling longterm integration of migrants and refugees.
we conducted bilateral talks with all member states in august in order to find possible middle ground.
local and regional authorities are eligible entities the funds being channelled through the respective administrations of member states.
in general the amf should promote early integration measures for the social and economic inclusion of third country nationals preparing their active participation in and their acceptance by the receiving society in particular with the involvement of local or regional authorities
the essential point is that if we don't tackle this it is another potential undermining of financial stability in the european union. we've got to move quickly.
can they be resolved by a new super agency?
we need to recognise that we have a policing regime which in some member states is not fit for purpose when it comes to investigating and resolving all these issues.
we have existing law let's implement it.
we have a huge difference when it comes to the reporting of information by banks to member states and on to europe wide authorities.
i commend the fact that the commission is taking action against some member states little known action that i think will make a difference.
so when we're looking at questions about minimum income adequacy is a key point.
they have harsh criteria in many cases and they certainly have an increasingly harsh public perception of people who are on these schemes.
they don't keep up with the rising cost of living;
we should also be aware in this that we're not talking here about unemployment benefit because not everybody is in a position to be able to work.
even in my own region london which is just about the richest region in the european union we have over oneinthree children who are living below the poverty line.
this is as people have said an ongoing problem for the european union.
many of our member states' systems don't ensure adequacy;
the commission wants to use the city of london as its own personal wild west financial centre.
we've all read with concern the substantial allegations against danske bank the long term largescale laundering of russian funny money billions of it apparently.
they want a lawless european investment bank in order to pursue and finance their foreign policy in particular busting american sanctions against the totalitarian theocratic regime in tehran.
the european investment bank will be operating large parts of its eur five hundred billion of assets in a postbrexit london out of sight and out of mind.
maybe we should criminalise them for a criminal failure to act at great human cost.
that is not because of the massive influx because there are not millions of people arriving it is because national governments have completely failed time and time again to take decisions to adopt a proper asylum and migration policy.
we are the richest continent in the world and we pretend that we are not able to welcome these people;
you know what i think colleagues?
i don't need to speak about all the shameful and despicable situations that we are facing not just on eu territory but also outside the eu's borders.
courageous local and regional politicians get punished like a mayor in italy who has been put under house arrest for helping refugees.
now i expect the council next week at the jha council to show the same responsibility and finally agree on the asylum package because that is what it has to do.
local and regional authorities unlike the council cannot afford the luxury to fail to dither hesitate postpone turn a blind eye play to the gallery play into the long grass so local and regional authorities do what government leaders fail to do they act.
i think it is deeply deeply shameful.
your government will allow convicted criminals to get away with their stolen money and not have it confiscated.
corruption makes people lose trust in the state and in democracy.
even further your government is now planning to reduce the freedom of assembly making it obligatory to have an authorisation.
they took to the streets to ask for democracy for good governance from you prime minister as is their right as is the right of any european citizen.
that freedom democracy and civil liberties are being called into question in more and more member states.
europe is built on that freedom.
freedom from corruption freedom of assembly freedom from discrimination.
let's not wait until we have to start yet another article seven procedure.
do you really want to go that low?
romania would be the first european union member state to require an authorisation.
as someone who grew up in the eastern bloc i can testify to how important that freedom is.
colleagues commissioner romanian citizens are asking for freedom nothing else.
as european institutions as european deputies we have to defend the rights of romanian citizens as well as the rights of every european citizen be it in hungary be it in poland be it in austria be it anywhere.
let's not wait until it's too late.
but instead of listening to them you actually sent the police in to attack them tear gassing an entire public square.
you are de facto legalising corruption with that reform.
with the reforms of the romanian criminal code your government is making it legal for officials to abuse their power.
the efforts to move towards democracy and civil liberties cannot be overestimated.
up. improving the digital infrastructure in the european union is a key issue for keeping europe together.
of us. let me underline one important point
reforms. investing in innovation and digital infrastructure to ultimately improve european citizens' quality of life is what matters
it was one of several victims of nationalism and brutalism. the hitlerstalin pact meant oppression for more than fifty years.
because technology does not shape the people it is the people who shape technology our european way of life has all the ingredients for us to succeed firm values a fair social market economy creative capacities lively regions and stable democracies.
estonia is a small innovative and courageous country.
europe can learn a lot from the estonians' spirit.
estonia was reborn from the ashes.
if there is no europe which cares about the small member states there is no europe at all.
for estonia a united europe means first of all freedom and security.
economy. how we organise this is one of the big challenges ahead
for us. we don't think that creating legislation on copyright or data protection means creating a burden for the innovative
and that is a key pillar and foundation of nation sovereignty.
therefore when it comes to the vote tomorrow i will be absolutely astounded if any mep here in this chamber feels they have have been given a mandate to sacrifice their national judicial control in the manner that this report sets out away to the european union.
i only hope that everyone who opposes brexit in the united kingdom will watch this debate to see what european union judicial control means.
eurojust has a presence in every member state with an unprecedented concentration of judicial and police powers and with no separation of powers between judges prosecutors and police.
it has enormous power and enormous potential for the abuse of power.
eurojust is just one element of the eu's own evolving system of criminal law which is superseding the legal systems of member states.
this legislation will enhance its powers to incorporate cooperation with the european public prosecutor's office.
it will permit eurojust to exercise its powers not only at the request of the socalled competent authorities' but on its own initiative and at the request of the prosecutor's office.
this legislation is a step on the way to absorbing eurojust into the european public prosecutor's office.
the uk is a participant in eurojust but has supposedly opted out of the jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office.
the european public prosecutor can easily circumvent that optout in the uk by using the other legal institutions and instruments to achieve its objectives.
the evolving eu system of criminal law may not be alien to some member states but it is completely alien to the english legal system.
our freedoms and liberties under our constitution the common law and statute law have evolved over centuries.
it has not been possible to ascertain her majesty's government's position on this legislation but ukip has proposed a rejection amendment and we urge every uk mep to vote for it if they have any desire to protect the freedoms and liberties of british citizens.
unemployment support in housing or indeed schooling and education;
however those on minimum wage are most likely to lose their jobs;
i hope we see progress through this parliament.
european citizens in their millions wish to protect their social and cultural values and their stable communities yet the ideology of the eu treats human beings as just another factor of production.
hence the unlimited commitment to free movement as part of the single market.
eu leaders are also insensitive to the way that allowing millions of young men from africa and asia to migrate under the guise of refugees is putting those values and those communities under strain.
this may not affect you much in tallinn but it does affect people in toulon turin and many other cities and towns across europe.
if the eu is to convince populations that it will protect their communities and their way of life it will have to place strict limits both on internal migration between member states and migration from outside the bloc.
in turn that makes the kind of technologies possible which bring new jobs and improve our environment and daily lives the internet of things' artificial intelligence fintech smart cities' and electronic health systems to mention just a few.
this regulation does not cover personal data but it does for nonpersonal data what the general data protection regulation has already done for personal data namely free movement across the european union.
it has three important elements.
firstly it prohibits unjustified requirements about where data should be localised. these restrictions are only allowed in exceptional circumstances where this is justified by public security.
secondly there will be a mechanism to make sure that regulatory authorities still have access to data stored in another member state.
they may also impose penalties on users that do not provide access to data but they may not deviate from the free flow principle by relocalising the data for a long period without the commission first giving its permission.
thirdly the regulation will make the eu market for cloud services more fluid.
this should be done within the next two years.
the regulation on the free flow of nonpersonal data has gone through the legislative process at record speed.
the commission only proposed it last september so the time taken to reach this point of conclusion has been a little more than a year.
we have been helped enormously by the political will to conclude quickly both in parliament and the council which have been calling for this initiative since the beginning of this commission's mandate in office.
you should also realise that we have to do business with russia.
if we don't do business with russia there will be enormous trouble.
with this in mind just a few weeks ago the uk government issued a notice to companies to start drawing up standard contractual clauses for data transfers in the case of a nodeal brexit.
just hours ago at the conservative party conference the british prime minister is still talking of a no deal.
i think this is irresponsible.
uk companies doing business in europe in the new data economy we want to encourage would be the hardest hit with a no deal because data from the eu would not be able to flow into the uk until adequacy arrangements were put in place.
i don't want my country to leave the eu but if it does it needs to remain part of the single market and customs union for certainty stability and security.
madam president coming from sweden i can only reassure my colleagues that i am very committed to keeping a strong safety net that can alleviate the impacts of poverty and social exclusion. however listening to this debate i have a feeling that some of you are proposing the basic income guarantee which is a completely different thing.
there i have to say the basic income guarantee undermines the incentive to participate in society.
the help and minimum income connected to it should be designed to help overcome unemployment and find work for those able to work.
help can never be an unconditional free ride for healthy adult people to live off other people's incomes.
on the contrary if you design it that way you are likely to lead to high rates of inequality and poverty.
reallocating welfare payments from targeted transfers those for unemployment housing disability etc.
do we really want less for everybody?
do we really want less for those who need more?
from the right and from the left right wing governments have been criticised and now left wing governments are being criticised. surely it is an indication that my country has made the right choice seeing what is happening in hungary in poland and in romania and seeing how the european union does not like what is happening?
mr president i would like to thank the prime minister for the remarks he made with regard to our foreign and security policy. i was very happy to hear what i considered an extremely realistic approach. i have two questions on the basis of what you said prime minister. number one when you emphasise
the necessity for europeans to take a shared initiative to carry a bigger part of the burden of making sure that we can contribute to our own security then we should also look to the fact
that we're not spending too little at the moment but we are spending in a very ineffective way.
we're duplicating triplicating and quadruplicating all our defence expenditure.
the focus should be on making effective measures our number one priority and not just raising expenditure without being more effective.
mr president i am touched and grateful for the amazing support that i received from colleagues cross political groups.
let me tell you vice president ansip how much i truly appreciate your commitment and cooperation together with commissioner gabriel and director general viola.
they want the next generation to live in the past instead of the future.
i am proud that we have succeeded in overcoming the member states' concerns that data process outside of the territory would be less safe and accessible. tell us please dear colleagues from the extreme right how would data be safer in a box in a cellar within a national border instead of in the cloud with the most efficient and safe cloud service providers?
wake up to the digital realities.
many sectors directly benefit from the free data flows.
the transport sector is a good example.
the truck industry from scania to volvo are depending on the free flow of data to deliver environmentally friendly and innovative solutions and to speed up maintenance at a distance.
a warm thank you to all the shadows christian daniel dita julie and marco the commission mark from the enca secretariat silva from the epp the legal and policy department and stakeholders for their invaluable contribution.
no i profoundly disagree with you.
the european investment bank is the bank of the european union.
that's the reality of the european investment bank and it has a very strict mandate in terms of what it can and cannot do.
it is a regulation that i personally fought for sending a letter with my colleagues to the president of the commission asking the commission to act and make a proposal.
i am happy today to see the result that we can confirm the new fifth freedom in the european union the free movement of data.
the free flow of data is vital to the digital economy and the single market as a whole. the free flow of data is what makes cloud computing services work.
everything from email to accountancy software needs the free flow of data to work.
everything from traffic to weather information needs the free flow of data to work.
it was clear that at the european level we needed to prevent actions which would have put our digital future at risk including illadvised national measures restricting this free flow.
this regulation is an example of what the european union is all about.
it is about removing barriers and preventing new ones from arising.
it is about making the single market work for everyone businesses and citizens alike.
it is about agreeing common european rules and then treating every member state equally rules that allow data to be stored anywhere in europe without discrimination.
it is about adopting simple rules and simple legislation that solve real life problems so consumers and taxpayers can get the best value for their money while facing less red tape and pointless barriers in their daily lives.
that's what i'm concerned about.
so may i give you one piece of advice prime minister?
don't follow the bad hungarian and polish examples. embrace fully the remarks and recommendations of the venice commission and let them systematically review your legislative proposals because the fight against corruption must be strengthened and not weakened and the independence of the courts must be guaranteed and not undermined.
we believe that in order to find sustainable solutions to all pending questions we need to continue our work on the basis of such a comprehensive approach.
i can assure you that the austrian presidency is working hard on all strands of the migration agenda external borders as well as internal and external policies in parallel and will do its utmost to achieve progress on all these strands.
thank you very much mr brok for explaining very clearly yourself to our ukip colleague the true role and function of the eib.
i'm hoping we will be able to follow your example of public banks and i absolutely agree that we could do with a national public investment bank and that is indeed green party policy.
i hope you will take them into your campaigning platform and i can guarantee with those proposals you can win the elections.
we have to combat poverty we have to leave no one behind but i think next time it would be helpful to clarify in advance what we are talking about.
in my opening speech i was talking about minimum income as a social system to bridge difficult times.
this is one of a series of debates that have been taking place in here concerning the rule of law in a particular eu member state.
is it not an indication of the increasing authoritarian approach across the european union and of the fact that the uk which has always been a bastion of free speech and democracy has made the correct choice by voting to leave this increasingly federalist and undemocratic organisation?
one message that we need to send out from here is that no individual should be too big to jail no bank too big to fail and no member state too big to nail.
if we do that we will make a good effort at solving this ridiculous situation that is denying citizens so much in terms of jobs and wealth.
this was critical in ensuring that we reached a swift agreement.
ensuring the free flow of data is vital to create a competitive data economy.
without genuine competition in the data processing market we will all continue to pay more than we should do for slower quality services.
a healthy data market is the first requirement for a successful digital single market. at the moment the free flow of data is hindered by a series of obstacles.
many public authorities and branches of government have unjustifiable data localisation requirements.
their data sets were huge parts of the market and we need them to lead by example.
there's also a lot of legal uncertainty about what laws apply in storing data across borders.
we know that many customers have difficulties in switching providers for cloud storage and that there are some questionable practices in that market.
underpinning all of these obstacles to free flow of data is a lack of trust a fear that if you store your data across borders you may have difficulties getting it when you need it.
this regulation should be a game changer for the economy.
it creates a clear and unambiguous legal regime for the storage of data across borders.
it prohibits data localisation except in specific justified cases of a risk to national security and it gives legal certainty that data can be accessed across borders.
it also fosters a cloud market where switching is easy encouraging competitiveness of cloud service providers.
let's make no mistake this is the biggest success in the digital single market so far and i very much hope that we can use this as a benchmark also for agreements on the free flow of data in future with third countries.
i heard the socialists and democrats s d group applaud the extremes up here when defending corruption in romania and the question i would like to raise is aren't you concerned about a government that is not just not sufficiently fighting corruption but is fighting those who are fighting corruption?
i have followed members' valuable contributions with great interest.
i have also heard the input from the commission.
there is definitely a problem with money laundering that we need to understand and that we have to solve.
the various investigations taking place will add much needed clarity.
it is indeed very damaging if the information on money laundering and financing of terrorism does not flow where it should and if no action is taken in good time to remedy the situation.
as already mentioned the council will also set out comprehensive and long term measures in this area by december.
the presidency will remain available for exchanges on the subject as needed.
the first vicepresident made the situation and the necessity for a dialogue very clear.
let me assure you once again that the austrian presidency and the council as a whole attaches great importance to upholding the rule of law and fundamental values within the european union.