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would we dream of turning to other european workers and asking them to give their work for free?
mr president colleagues the essence of the vote tomorrow is to ensure creative workers get fairly paid for their work and are not exploited by large online platforms.
we must vote tomorrow on our european values pay creators properly for their work protect them against exploitation and end the unfair monopoly of a few big platforms.
we have to close the value gap have money to reinvest in content and create new work.
this is not about making individuals liable for their everyday use of the internet despite the myths.
thank you again for the contribution of all those involved in this work in particular the rapporteur and his shadows.
key strengthening of our panoply of instruments for fighting this challenge. we welcome the fact that we have been able to find various compromises in discussion.
likewise the agreement on aggravating circumstances proposed by this house for example cases concerning property of significant value or that relate to certain serious crimes which are now going to be punished more severely.
overall the new directive is an important part of our comprehensive approach to tackling money laundering and terrorist financing.
it hasn't quite struck midnight yet. preventing terrorists gaining access to funding is as has been said a key security consideration but more widely the strengthened criminal response to money laundering helps counter the financial incentives that drive a whole range of serious criminal activity. it goes along with the proposal on controls on cash entering or leaving the eu that you were discussing just before this item.
ultimately the agreed text ensures that the laundering of proceeds of tax crimes will be criminalised in each member state.
the potential risks posed by virtual currencies and politically exposed people have been properly highlighted and the commission will continue to play close attention to those risks.
moreover as has already been stressed it ensures that differences in the definition of tax crimes from member state to member state will not be allowed to hamper cooperation between national authorities.
we very much welcome and support the new directive. we think that the rules on the definition of criminal offences and sanctions are an important step forward. we think the establishment of corporate liability for money laundering in certain circumstances and the specific sanctions are a
we will now consider the impact of the measures introduced under the two thousand and sixteen action plan on terrorist financing and based on the assessment the commission will make further proposals as necessary.
i think that the right approach here is to first of all focus on the content of what we need to achieve and then i believe the forum and the consensus on the instrument i hope will come.
mr president first of all let me thank you as i said at the beginning for putting this issue on the agenda but also for the clear indication of all of you to the need to continue this work and to engage in this dialogue we have started already in particular with industry and researchers but also civil society organisations
so when we talk about nonproliferation and arms control as i said this is the new frontier you can count on my full commitment to make sure the european union together with the member states all of them works on this in a united meaningful and substantial manner and obviously in doing that we will take into full consideration the positions expressed by this parliament.
sound technical work here is key to getting the political decisions right also because we are discussing a new frontier so at the time we are discussing the norms and the regulations and the legal framework for all of this we need to be sure that we are discussing the right things that will come. this discussion is i believe crucial even if at the moment there is no agreement at this stage
on regulatory measures which could include a legallybinding instrument or a political declaration.
the very definition of lethal autonomous weapons is not fully clear yet and this is why we should define the key element of human control.
if the discussion on the forum takes the lead we might end up with an empty instrument that is not supported by the most relevant actors and that in itself would be a problem.
to first and foremost better understand what we're talking about because i think we all have more questions than answers in discussing issues that can have very complicated technical implications that can themselves have very complicated impacts on the political decisions that need to be taken.
this debate is not about condemning sanctioning and accusing. it is to reach out to the hungarian people to engage in an open dialogue and to uphold our shared values and their rights as europeans based on facts and rules.
christianity is about respecting human dignity and helping the most vulnerable in need not sabotaging any european solution on migration.
everything else is regimes.
now you want to export your model spreading the acute salvinitis virus that is affecting italy lining up with populists in france poland the swedish democrats and even putin.
rest assured we in the ppe group are not going to give up our identity nor lose our compass.
citizens are watching.
bad company!
democracy is more than winning elections. our union is founded on human rights civil liberties and freedoms.
there is no illiberal democracy.
madam president i promise to be brief.
i will do so also because i want to stress once again what i said in the beginning my full appreciation for an excellent very balanced report which as i said reflects perfectly well the state of play the strategy and the policy we have with china regardless of some interpretations of something i did or did not say in this chamber.
it is obviously a complex partnership a complex relationship where neither of the two sides hides or intends to hide the differences and the disagreements even the profound disagreements we have.
we have two completely different institutional and political systems based on two completely different sets of priorities and values.
the point is that in the current geopolitical context of today we are finding out more and more that on some issues that are of strategic relevance and priority for us the european union autonomously determined and for china we have convergent views on some issues or
possibly a convergence of interests that we can explore together obviously in a very realistic way.
we are not shy in pointing out not only the differences but also the problems when we see them starting with the regional ones from the south china sea to others but we also see the potential for cooperation in some other areas. let me tell you for instance that the work that we do with china on afghanistan has an added value that is real.
obviously we have different viewpoints but there is common ground and a common interest in trying to move forward a policy that is compatible.
the same goes for connectivity.
i do not know if i can announce this but i think that i can.
next week we will present a communication in the commission on connectivity between europe and asia based on our european approach where we will see very clearly the differences we have and i mentioned some of them.
coming from different points of view we can on certain issues find common ground for work.
i think this is exactly the spirit of the report which highlights the differences clearly with no mystery and in a very candid manner but also the potential areas for cooperation.
as the presidency we will act as an honest broker and i can assure you that the presidency will closely follow the vote and will pay particular attention to all views expressed today.
i rise as one of the four members of the european parliament who are from the roma minority and could i honourably remind members that lvia jrka one of the fidesz meps is one of the other four roma meps. she sits on the right of politics and not all roma are necessarily on the left of politics just like all people within society
orbn has a roma mep who sits as a vice president of the european parliament.
mr president the barbaric and insidious israeli occupation of palestine is the problem. all other catastrophes are the symptoms. not content with stealing palestinian land and building their own illegal settlements the state of israel continues to destroy people's homes on an industrial scale. khan alahmar is the most recent in a series of planned village destruction.
the bedouin residents who valiantly fought the planned destruction for years have suffered disproportionately because of this apartheid policy. to add insult to injury the israeli state plans to forcibly relocate the inhabitants to a site right next to a public rubbish dump.
this house likes to think it stands up for political freedom and democracy. you would imagine then that all here would condemn without reservation or equivocation illegal occupation illegal settlement construction and illegal destruction of property.
recently we heard that israel has prevented ahed tamimi from leaving palestine.
where else would a state restricting the movement of a political opponent be tolerated?
you would imagine that the eu high representative would act decisively and go beyond fluffy words.
i won't hold my breath.
now more than ever palestine needs our support.
with the trump administration actively undermining the two state solution the eu more than ever has a role to play in advancing peace and justice in the region.
mere rhetoric with no followup in these cases of supreme human rights violation means only one charge is viable rank hypocrisy.
mr president i welcome this report and the specific reference to the tuc's dying to work charter.
the charter already covers three quarters of a million workers and has been signed by many leading businesses and organisations such as e.
the campaign is about protecting workers if they get a terminal diagnosis.
with the terrible news from the doctor a person's world is turned upside down.
some want to stop working others to carry on but nobody wants to face the sack.
then there is the question of stressful hr procedures reduced financial security and loss of death in service payments.
the majority of employers want to do the right thing not to penalise a worker with incurable cancer and that is why in the absence of legislation i am urging more companies across the east of england large and small to adopt the dying to work charter.
if it doesn't affect you today it could do tomorrow so please sign up.
here my dear friends from the ppe will disagree but it is your austerity that caused this it is not our austerity and it was the representatives of your family in athens offering the greek people to leave the eurozone with an unforeseeable impact on the eurozone with an unforeseeable impact on the greek nation and all over europe.
and that we have not only to talk about the past but also about the future and that we have to shape the future the european future.
if you would like to do that we need a new vision a new objective a new dream a new policy and also our institutions have to be prepared for that.
this is the topic of today.
but let me also be clear that if we would like to have this new vision in europe all revolutions start at home and each and every country has to contribute to this new endeavour.
you found a lot of problems in front of you when you took over in government and we have to be blunt on that.
our societies cannot be misled by greedy elites.
our societies cannot be fooled by those rich people who do not like to pay taxes and our societies cannot be irritated by public administrations working according to nepotistic politics and not according to the rule of law. here everybody has to do his and her homework but especially
you have reacted to the situation in foreign relations; i can only praise what you did with prime minister zaev.
you are solving problems in the balkans for the future of europe for peace in the balkans.
my group is going to fullheartedly support you on that because this is a good step forward a cornerstone for the new europe.
i can only encourage you not to stop domestic reforms but rather to continue with the domestic reforms which are necessary on the public administration on the functioning of the rule of law on striving towards a more fair and equal
society. let me tell you the following my group started two years ago to renew our own programme.
we decided that we cannot talk anymore about the economy without talking about the environment.
we cannot talk anymore about the environment without talking about the social dimension.
we are suggesting for the new programme for this european union to strive towards the united nations sustainable development goals because we think this is the correct compass for the future.
i do not have to give advice to you prime minister but only one idea.
what if you go to portugal? the newlyreshaped society of greece goes to portugal talks to antnio costa. you go to spain and talk to pedro snchez.
you could say look i have an
idea. you could also go to italy.
salvini will perhaps not listen to you but italian society i am pretty sure would listen to you and you could say look this mediterranean area has a great heritage but it could also have a great future.
what about developing a master plan for safe and sustainable energy?
a master plan for better logistics on land as well as on the sea for fair and smart mobility.
a master plan for high quality services in tourism as well as in agriculture for better products for a better future of the european union for a better world.
you can say this master plan will be put up together as the region as the societies as the countries of the south.
once we have this master plan for the mediterranean we say look european commission we need your support and you could support us on that because this is the future of our region this is the future of the european union and this is the future of the mediterranean.
then you could say look political parties if you come up with the lead candidates if you would like to form the new mandate the new governance we will only vote for somebody who is fullheartedly supporting us on this master plan because the whole european union needs a master plan like this for the sake of the next generation.
if you go that path we will be with you we will support you and that would be the best for our children and grandchildren.
i wish you luck.
undoubtedly china is one of the most important and valuable strategic partners of the eu.
i warmly welcome the good progress which has been made by deepening the eu china comprehensive strategic partnership. i believe that the strengthening of this partnership will create many opportunities and will have a significant global impact when it comes to addressing global challenges common security threats
and in our societies.
never far from the news it is a practice which undermines trust in financial institutions and entire economies.
dirty money is unfortunately also a key security concern because laundering is instrumental to the operations of criminal and even terrorist groups.
our existing criminal law framework against money laundering in the european union suffers from gaps and loopholes.
all member states criminalise money laundering but the differences in how they do this in the scope and sanctions for money laundering offences affect in a negative way cross border police and judicial cooperation.
first they will provide minimum common rules on the definition of criminal offences and sanctions relating to money laundering including profits from all offences defined in eu criminal law. second they will also provide
fourth liability and punishment for both natural and legal persons involved in money laundering and fifth maximum sanctions for those convicted of money laundering of at least four years imprisonment.
the country needs to go back as soon as possible to a strong and stable governance that will maintain national coherence to the libyan borders while taking into account the expectations of the different forces present this by bringing as many of them as possible to participate in running the country.
the coming elections should be a crucial step in approaching this state of affairs which is why it is important to ensure not necessarily that elections are held as soon as possible but that they are run transparently with the widest possible agreement with libya as to their relevance.
i am sure that we can benefit from such relations but we cannot afford to be divided by a particular interest.
china is already inside the eu.
its soft power has impact on many countries in the eu in our close neighbourhood.
that on all the issues that we are confronted with we clearly make visible to our citizens and everybody else that we will do that according to our own principles and that is why we need a ban
on killer robots.
we believe that the use of these kinds of weapons which select and attack a target without meaningful human control would dramatically change the world we live in and it is quite obvious that the use of such weapons if they existed could most probably not be limited just to state actors.
not enough money finds its way to the creators while someone else is cashing in on their work. creators need fair remuneration for their work but making platforms liable will not solve this problem.
neither will the creation of the publishers' right but it will have an impact on the users.
what we need is a balanced approach between the creator's right and the right of users.
we have introduced compromises because the rapporteur failed to do so.
there are reasonable amendments on the table supported by academics from the field of intellectual property law and information law.
they strengthen the position of creators and introduce exceptions for users.
the language that the report speaks is completely different from the language you spoke ms mogherini.
i see an overbearing china. you say the taiwan dialogue has been frozen. i see the efforts from the chinese side to strangle taiwan.
you say china does not share all our principles.
in reality china rejects completely all of our sacred principles.
you say we share the same approach and china is not fuelling conflictual trends.
i do not know which china you are talking about.
i think we should be speaking clearly and it would be nice to do so by starting to demand from china that they start pursuing a one eu' policy.
i did not see you joining the march mr orbn.
i did not see you standing shoulder to shoulder with the hungarian people of all ages the families with their children who came out in force to stand up for gender equality and non discrimination.
on that day we had to march with police protection because there was a fascist counter march.
you have created this state of xenophobia and creeping fascism.
fear of the other stalks your land.
the racists the misogynists and the homophobes are emboldened by your illiberal anti european regressive values. i love hungary mr orbn i love its people and its culture and it's not hungary which is the problem it's you who have forgotten what it means to be both european and a christian.
many of those problems are inherited from the past and they are in no way unique to hungary.
these shortcomings are not the reason why hungary has become the prime target of the commission and this parliament.
the real sin of the hungarian government is that it wants to protect the country from damaging mass immigration from the third world.
the hungarian government and the majority of hungarian voters do not wish to repeat the catastrophic mistakes we have made in western europe.
almost anything else can be forgiven but not questioning that value.
madam president i agree with most of you and i will try to summarise in three or four points what seem to me to be the guidelines of our common work in our partnership with the united states.
first of all the need from our side to be clear and consistent and i would say simple on what unites us across the atlantic. actually no i think we should even rethink the way in which we call this because across the atlantic' also covers partners that
so we need to be clear and consistent on what unites us and the united states and on the eu positions and policies on all the issues where these positions diverge with the united states in a very clear realistic manner. i think this is a good basis for having what some of you called a principled and pragmatic approach' to keeping a strong partnership with the united states.
secondly i very much agree with all of you who said that our relationship with the united states can only benefit from a strong investment in a stronger european union.
a bolder stronger european union is good for itself it is good for building other kinds of partnerships and i very much agree that this is what we need to focus on now.
as we keep working on the partnership with the united states we also need to differentiate and become a strong point of reference for all those around the world that are still looking for a strong partner on multilateralism and other things free and fair trade human rights the list could continue.
but i think that history tells us that we need to be extremely serious as regards ourselves the european union and how to strengthen our own means be it on defence be it on trade be it on foreign policy and the list can continue.
this is an opportunity for us somehow.
i do not want to comment on the issue of america first'.
america first can mean america first but not alone.
it can also mean america alone.
this is subject to different interpretations even within the administration or within the political debate in what is a very rich and lively democracy but i think what we should focus upon is not so much america first' as strong europe'.
this is what is required from us and especially from decision makers in the european union today.
how do we make our european union stronger in this kind of context?
i think that it is important for us to be extremely clear and bold within the european union too about our principles values and interests and be consistent on the way to uphold them.
last but not least let me thank all the house and in particular those of you who have been working intensely over these years on your constant contacts with your us counterparts in congress.
this will continue to be essential in the last months of your mandate so i would like to ask you to keep this work going even if most of you will be engaged in the electoral campaign.
these months are crucial for parliamentary work to be continued between you and your colleagues in the us congress and i can only hope that the next parliament will be as engaged as you have been in this fight.
i would like to finish by thanking once again elmar brok for an excellent report.
of course what we saw was that the vast majority of people currently in those detention centres have actually been intercepted at sea and returned to libya.
so here is the paradox because this is who we are dealing with.
they are now trapped and arbitrarily held in these closed centres throughout the detention matrix.
we are in a very difficult position in our discussions with the iom and unhcr.
last week we had a very difficult discussion because on the one hand we're discussing disembarkation platforms for the future and now the unhcr has issued an updated position saying migrants rescued or intercepted at sea should not be returned to libya.
really what i want to ask you is what do we do now? how are we criminalising ngos what do we do about the libyan coastguard?
i only have one minute but i really have to ask you to go into more depth on these very difficult questions for the immediate future because without doing this we stay in this very difficult situation.
no one is saying that you are not making progress on the tough questions but we really need the answers on these more difficult immediate questions.
why would the us want to include the european union when this place constantly sets out to disparage the american administration?