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pillar of social rights principle fifteen highlights precisely this issue. it affirms the right of workers and the self employed in retirement to a pension which commensurate with their contributions and ensuring an adequate income. furthermore it highlights that women and men shall have equal opportunities to acquire pension
fellow citizens who have contributed to the betterment of our societies who were instrumental in the growth of our economies and who have shaped the europe that we live in today.
old age. more than twenty of old women aged sixty five and over are at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the eu. the council has not lost sight of this issue. most recently in march ministers have debated the implications of the gender pay gap on our societies and discussed ways forward on how to tackle it. the adequacy report's key messages focus in this regard on the following reducing the inequality requires equal
on the contrary in many cases it was the existence of legislation which complicated matters. it was therefore important to address issues such as lengthy or unclear administrative procedures complex and confusing information which is all over the place and difficulties in getting access to various public services. to make matters worse when information is available only in a single language it is not necessarily understood
citizens and for businesses looking to expand to new markets. therefore as the rapporteur on this legislation i needed to understand where the challenges lie in order to address the issues in the interests of our citizens. the paradox we discovered during our work was that the problem was not always
procedures needed to move freely in the european union.
the gateway will provide information on matters such as travelling working and retiring residing and having access to education and healthcare family residence and citizens and consumer rights in the eu. furthermore it is not only information that is important but also the quality of information and that is why we are introducing quality standards in member states to ensure high quality accurate and up to date information which will also be accessible to end users with disabilities. the gateway will also provide full online fair non discriminatory access to a list of twenty one key administrative procedures such as requesting birth certificates applying for study grants requesting social security benefits enrolling at universities requesting diplomas declaring income tax and so on and so
timetable but when there is a will a way will always be found to improve lives and to deliver tangible benefits to our citizens.
forth. another important milestone achieved with this legislation is the once only' principle which for the first time ever will be introduced at european level. this means that citizens will no longer have to submit the same documents over and over again but instead will submit them only once and they can then be reused while fully respecting the protection of personal
level. last but not least i would like to express my gratitude to the shadow rapporteurs to the commission and to the bulgarian presidency for their open and collaborative work on this report. we worked under extreme pressure and to a strict
data. and what is very important is that whatever information people need they will be able to obtain it in more than a single language. this effectively means no more wasting precious time and money; no more red tape and complex procedures; no more papers and hours of waiting in long queues in public places. therefore i urge all of you to support this regulation a new important step towards
to address the interface between chemical products and waste legislation.
products and waste legislation we very much appreciate the parliament's interest in this area. in two thousand and fifteen the commission made a commitment to assess the issues. this is exactly what we have done in the communication which we published in january. we identified four main issues and we set out a
been done so far? we published guidelines to promote a more coherent approach to waste classification. we launched a study to develop a specific decision making methodology to support the decision on the recyclability of waste containing substances
further studies. firstly the visibility study on the use of the information system to enable information on the presence of substances of concern in materials to be available
waste provisions. the interface communication is currently being considered by stakeholders and an open consultation is running until the
contents in new products. the goal is very simple to ensure that by two thousand and thirty all plastic packaging is reusable or recyclable;
to this end the wider plastics industry is currently working on voluntary commitments and a pledging campaign is ongoing to support objectives of this strategy by increasing the uptake of recycled
that more than half of eu plastics waste is recycled today it's only;
as you highlighted in your report in the proposal for the next long term budget the commission foresees a member state contribution based on the amount of non recycled plastics packaging waste. such a contribution putting for the very first time at the eu level the price of the negative externality of not recycling will help implement the waste package and the plastics strategy. the plastics strategy will also help deliver the eu's energy union vision for low carbon energy efficient economy.
point out that there have already been some spin off developments. we found that addressing chemicals of concern in food packaging is not sufficient because there is a risk of incidental contamination with substances that were not originally present in plastic materials but may
you know. besides the plastics strategy also features action to reduce pollution from microplastics the legislative proposal on port reception facilities to tackle sea based marine litter and the preparation of new labelling rules to ensure that consumers get clear information about biodegradable and compostable plastics. action is ongoing on all these fronts. regarding the second question the oral question submitted by the parliament in relation to the interface between chemical
to recyclers. secondly the study of member states' practices as regards implementation and verification of end of
applications related to around one hundred recycling processes to de contaminate recycled pet to make that material suitable for food packaging. on batteries we are going to monitor the coherence of different legislative instruments to ensure a smooth functioning of the internal market for batteries waste batteries and materials coming from recycled batteries. also following the recent adoption of the amendments to the waste framework directive the commission and the european chemicals agency are looking into establishing a database for the future collection of information on substances of very high concern in articles. such a database would also help to promote non toxic material recycling and improve the risk management of chemicals during repair and other forms of refuse and waste recovering process. with this summary i trust that you will agree with me that a significant amount of work is already under way
the council therefore underlined that further steps still need to be taken by member states.
fifty six i think there should be more eighteen year olds on the boards deciding about their own future.
our pension systems by private actors. i have not noticed that. i may not have read the newspapers properly but as far as i can see in those cases where there is an attack on pension systems it's twofold. one type of attack is by trade unions and left wing parties who are refusing reform
in countries where the state systems do not supply that. that is what we want to achieve. i hope those people will not be denied their rights.
something needs to be addressed because we cannot have poverty involved in the pension system. this is even more acute if we have in mind the future of younger generations because for the sake of fairness we need to make sure that young generations have the same chances to count on an
the twenty first century.
be available for everyone.
adequate pension when they need it.
to evaluate in the future whether to extend the scope of the regulation and to include all eu law enforcement agencies in order to increase the legal consistency of data transfers between eu bodies and agencies increase mutual trust and data exchange between data agencies as well as legal certainty for data subjects.
in the end a victory for the european parliament because for the first time we have ensured that the stand alone regimes cannot deviate from the principles of this regulation. the harmonised rules in the regulation will furthermore prevent data protection loopholes in the cooperation between the union institutions bodies offices and agencies. finally i call on the commission
it was really a pleasure to work with you and i think the results speak for themselves.
instead you're to carry on regardless. and i noted your continued use of the phrase sovereign europe'. what you're talking about is a deeper centralisation of power a centralisation of power in terms of europe's foreign policy; a centralisation of power as you first laid out last year in terms of building a european army; more power at the centre for taxation. all of this of course meaning less to be done at the nation state level. and now another ten zero european border guards paving the way for a federal border police in europe. well i'll tell you something if you've got problems with the italians now you ain't seen nothing yet when you put that proposal to them. but it's all about centralisation power power power. but here's the funny thing you appealed to our sense of european patriotism. so why is it that patriotism at the nation state level is considered to be insular bad nasty xenophobic probably racist into
for the birds. people do not have a profound sense of european identity. they have a sense of national identity and in a way that is the great dividing line between your vision of europe and that increasingly that is being said by the electors. we wish to live in nation states. now on brexit
well it's a very good advertising slogan but i tell you what surprised me. since your last state of the union speech there's been a seismic political event in europe perhaps one even on a par with brexit. italy a founding member of the union the third biggest economy in the euro area now has a coalition government between the five stars and the lega that is polling over sixty of the vote and is posing a direct challenge both in terms of the management
law and we manage. and if we can get to a free trade deal well of course there'll be no difficulties whatsoever. i thought you had some very positive things to say. you said our vote to leave was a vote to leave the single market and its associated parts. i agree with you. quite why ms may at chequers wants to opt back into much
now the time is right. the ground is prepared for a canadaplusstyle trade deal between you and between us. we leave political union but we carry on doing business on a tarifffree
basis. we want it. increasingly i think that you want it. let's get brexit sorted and mr verhofstadt you'll be happy you'll see the back of us.
of it i don't know. but you said twice that we need to come to a free trade deal. it's what european exporters want and it is absolutely and it's what we want. surely
mr juncker. on the irish border already there are huge differences between the north and the south. differences of politics of tax of currency and of
of the euro area and indeed how the migration crisis is handled. you made no acknowledgment of that at all. no acknowledgment of the populist revolt that is sweeping through virtually every single member state.
the bargain? and yet patriotism at a european level is a good and a virtuous thing. i'm afraid this idea of european patriotism this idea of putting that flag above their own nation state flag is
poverty misery and sadness covers europe like a dark mist of perpetual pain whilst in the mediterranean forty five zero bodies will have been buried there. you will have seen millions swarm into europe illegally and you have seen the deaths of four hundred in the terrorist attacks. whilst you and your fellow unelected colleagues raise a glass or two to the state of the union the rest of europe will be asking what
it a lot of bad blood was shed and the typical share of bullying and invectives were thrown around but the real question that you should ask yourself
because they do not know what will happen. they are afraid of a possible political earthquake and you cannot say that the european commission
i mean come on there is some relation between cause and effect. it's not the fact that there are so many people who have been antagonised made angry irritated marginalised bullied and rejected. the number is so high that you cannot neglect it
and you cannot decline any responsibility
somehow. when you mentioned that you wanted to have qualified majority votes in more areas of policy public life in europe you are in for more trouble because that will petrify this system in which some actors are equal and some are more equal than others and in which the decision making process is extremely obscure. nobody knows who makes the decisions and the division between north and south east and west are still
my god we are living in two different worlds'. i wonder which one is the true one.
we think about plastic bottles bags and straws floating around but i also want to remind colleagues of the damage done by ghost gear abandoned fishing nets trapping strangling and drowning untold numbers of marine mammals and birds as i highlighted by distributing netty the dolphin to many many members here and i hope he might have reached the
commission as well. my country the united kingdom has done a lot in the war against plastics and micro plastics in particular and since this is a problem that can only be tackled globally i can only hope that national governments across europe and european citizens continue to cooperate together.
the three pillars of government state and corporate and private pensions. public schemes must become investment based schemes not tax matched schemes and contributions must start much earlier. legislation should guarantee pension portability of corporate pension schemes to help those who move jobs regularly. the tax system must be used to incentivise the growth of private self managed pension schemes and the governments must use tax incentives to improve technological advances in administration and fund management. such practical improvements are the basis of improving pensions for the many not the few.
speech and development of smaller platforms. therefore i voted against the commission's proposal as i do not believe that it has achieved sufficient balance on those issues. my colleagues and i supported the amendments to the text we said no to filtering and sought to establish dispute settlement to ensure freedom of panorama and to protect press publications in respect of digital uses as well as users
other side.
within this chamber? we need to improve relations with the united states of america but let us start by taking a lead ourselves.
however i also share the concerns expressed in the report that president trump's administration has led to some set backs in very important fields of cooperation such as trade climate change or the united nations. having said this despite developing and deepening the partnership further wherever possible the european union should also be prepared to build its strategic powers
and if necessary lead by example when it comes to such issues as human rights or global warming.
both of those groups should be able to enjoy the opportunities that the single market offers them. also thanks to this new instrument small businesses let me underline this will save costs more easily innovate and more easily expand across europe. let me also mention one important thing with your help we can bring to reality another important promise of the digital single market strategy
it's terrorist finance.
in the danske bank case alone transactions worth more than the entire state budget of denmark are now under suspicion of money laundering. so president juncker and commission we need not only
we have problems to say the least in our transatlantic partnership we have china rising up there are so many challenges out there. but i would argue that more threatening than anything that the world can throw at us are actually the enemies from the inside and that they are the obvious ones the nationalists that bring hatred division;
is happening it's happening now and it's happening everywhere from disastrous harvests to forest fires. there is no way anyone could possibly deny that.
and the good news about climate change is that we know what to
do; and the bad news about climate change is that we don't do
it. but with trump leading the us into space rather than forwards we cannot wait as europeans for someone else to protect our planet. no we have to do it ourselves and there is no time to lose. and there the commission has been way too timid in the past five years i have to say. it is now that we need a very quick change to renewables and phasing out of the climate killer
coal. and if climate protection truly is a priority then it should also be a priority in the multiannual
and here is where the commission should have been more ambitious with the agricultural reform. the european union has also always promised prosperity but we are far away from the triple a rating that we should have i agree on social
policies. and the austerity imposed on member states in the past without regard to consequences and also without regard to whether this would actually help anything that has seriously undermined the european promise of increasing living standards. but increasing the quality of life is not just some minor thing that you can forget
about. it's an essence of policy making and we need to renew this promise and build a social europe and one not just of nice declarations like we've seen from gothenburg. we need not just nice intentions that's all very nice but we need a social europe with real facts and real figures. we need common minimum social standards in europe. all citizens must get full access to social protection to housing and to
continent has a long and bloody history of oppressions of tanks rolling against protesters of people suffering in prison camps and it's only thanks to those courageous people who were marching for freedom who were marching for democracy and who did not give up that today in the european union we have that democracy we have those civil liberties and we have freedom. but those very big successes are under threat. we need to fight for them
again every single day because inside europe today judges are being dismissed corruption is being legalised newspapers are closed universities harassed and civil society treated
as criminals. and this
is not a detail; this is a threat
to all of us. and again today as well courageous people are standing up marching for human rights their own rights and the rights of their neighbours and they are marching for freedom be it in sicily or romania be it in chiemnitz or be it in pirin. and they defend democracy they defend humanity and they defend europe and we see as well that if we stand up together then we really have power and we are really strong together. and i think more now than ever it is now the task and responsibility of all of us to take a stance and to take up all of our
from east to west. because if europe loses on democracy then it will lose itself. and this is about more than one country or another country this is about the achievements on this continent that so many people
have even died for. this is about our true self the true self of europe and it is time to take a stance.
i fully agree with this but in order to benefit the people our cooperation should be dominated by human rights issues and social standards. instead our cooperation is dominated by commercial interests. china is probably bigger and stronger than ever before but please remember that it was this big and strong china that put the nobel prize laureate for peace liu xiobo in laogai a detention camp supposed to re educate and reform through labour. the fact is that it is a prison where people are forced to work.
the second point is europe is not a cash machine for national budgets.
the epp promised a strong europe in the world and now defence africa neighbourhood are being
outcome. after the european council we have to work hard now for a good and quick
no link. that's why ursula we have to be clear on this. we need a roadmap we need a clear plan for implementing the principle no money without respecting the european rules and the european mechanisms.
you did a great job in holding europe together and the epp group supports the spirit of solidarity and togetherness. i'm happy about the agreement no doubt about that but i'm not happy about the deal.
that is now ahead of us.
solution. let's use now the time ahead of us to find a solution and to improve
while we welcome the outcome of the council meeting we are living in a parliamentary democracy and that means that the outcome is now arriving here in the european parliament.
and then we are ready i want to thank again for the
macron says that money will be only spent while respecting rule of law and others say there is
cut. that is the first point we have to talk about.
that is only possible with democratic control.
in the mff and it's easy to
in the plan it's foreseen for. two thousand and twenty three my proposal is to start
a dream that will never happen.
but there are also weaknesses in this plan let's be honest. and the most important weakness is due to what?
' well it is happening and so i'm pleased with the outcome of this summit and i think it's historic.
the third leap forward is the fact that europe will issue bonds for the first time and will increase its fiscal capacity in a dramatic way.
i. have. to tell you that we were with a few lone rangers that since the outbreak of the financial crisis started to say that eurobonds and new own resources were needed and everybody said impossible unrealistic
so i'm pleased and this is historic.
in. two thousand and twenty one and finally my last point madam president before you use your weapon again against me like every time.
do! the easy way to do it is to start with its own resources earlier than foreseen in the plan.
we are in europe.
this is where the praise stops though because i do believe that with the mff it's not a budget that is a budget for the challenges we are facing as europe right now.
so please for my party for my group and i hope for a majority in this parliament we have to have clear wording on rule of law before we can agree to this budget.
this is not something to be proud of this we didn't need fifteen years ago.
let me just give you one example.
when this crisis is leading to a global inequality what do we do?
the most important point because of money we can negotiate but we can't negotiate on our values and the fact in itself that we have law professors we have eu leaders we have journalists who are all having a different interpretation about what the european council has agreed on when it comes to the rule of law is a bad signal.
i hear some people saying it's very good that for the first time we mention the rule of law and the budget together.
now we have two countries in the european union who according to freedom house are a hybrid regime and no longer in the group of democracies.
it's not about money it's about principles.
so congratulations for that is forward looking.
two thousand and eight however when it comes to the mff which is supposed to make europe more resilient more social more modern and climate friendlier this is bad news for the next generation and not historic.
we cannot and will not accept the watering down of the rule of law and therefore it is good that in this resolution we added fundamental rights and democracy.