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we have computer systems now learning languages to communicate with each other creating their own languages in ways that humans don't even understand.
but real life military situations are not games of complete information like chess they are games of incomplete information based on a fog of war more like stratega.
if we cannot understand how machines are making decisions then there are serious future questions especially when it comes to matters of life and death.
so although i disagree with aspects of this report the debate certainly matters not just in the uk not just in europe but throughout the whole world and through the united nations.
i can't help noticing that since the brexit vote a number of large tech companies have been relocating their european headquarters to london google apple snapchat ali baba.
is it possible that they think there will be a friendlier and looser regulatory climate there than with this kind of restrictive nonsense on the continent?
if you want to picture today's vote in the form of one of the memes before they are banned then think of it as the distracted boyfriend the woman in the foreground labelled post brexit britain' the ogling man labelled tech companies' and the angry girlfriend labelled eu institutions'.
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we need a plan of our own to uphold social standards to re regulate globalisation and invigorate our economy.
however we must be rather cautious and think how to counter balance this influence in order to preserve our democracy and not to be indebted to chinese banks.
i wish to highlight that the european union also should continue to speak up for press freedom human rights and other fundamental liberties in this country.
i agree with this report's conclusions and the relationship with china if pursued with cautious diplomacy can be a great opportunity not only for the european union and china but for global stability too although it is crucial that we remain very loyal to our values and to democracy and human rights.
with this proposal we have a real opportunity to make the single market work a little bit better both for our citizens and for our companies.
i therefore hope that you will endorse the regulation tomorrow.
yesterday we saw the face of the anti democrats and we all know that sort of extremism in europe is based on raising inequalities and the fact that our citizens fear for the future for themselves and their children.
and you said you would tackle migration and make sure that we have good answers to that and now everything is based on the fact that we need to defend our borders.
a crisis and we need a real comprehensive reform of anti money laundering systems regulations and authorities.
it's corruption it's terrorist finance.
it's already too rich and too powerful swindling the tax coffers of our countries and this must be stopped now.
it is because these banks are so called too big to fail'.
they have failed their responsibility to society and we need to hold them accountable.
in the danske bank case alone transactions worth more than the entire state budget of denmark are now under suspicion of money laundering.
in the troubled and challenging times in which we live with so many different crises facing the european union on different fronts i believe that it is our duty to communicate to our citizens the positive elements that the eu brings us.
as we have seen in today's debate the regulation is a perfect example of how the eu can work and how it can change our lives for the better.
it will pool together national and european information procedures and problem solving services into a single entry point of the your europe portal through which citizens can easily find and access what they need.
such a service is of paramount importance when starting a business accessing finances taxation rules accessing pensions rights and social benefits as well as other information which citizens may require for their cross border activities.
we have a lot of challenges.
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;
but there are also some less obvious the decision makers who actually don't take decisions and want to keep the status quo who just want to keep their own privileges and who are just closing their eyes at what is at stake.
but a europe united a europe that knows what it stands for can face all external problems and can be a front runner and a shining example in the world.
we can be strong if we don't make ourselves weak.
and europe has promised its citizens to bring peace prosperity and democracy and those promises are still very relevant but we need to renew them and we need to bring them to fulfilment.
on peace we have major achievements to show but we cannot rest on laurels and norwegian medals there are new global challenges ahead that threaten our future and our security and the biggest one of them is climate change.
we have seen this summer that climate change is happening it's happening now and it's happening everywhere from disastrous harvests to forest fires.
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.
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 budget.
it should also be a priority in the agricultural reform.
agriculture is both a victim as well as a culprit in climate change but farmers can also be part of the solution.
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.
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 medical care.
a framework directive on adequate minimum income schemes can create such a safety net as well and here it would be very interesting to see a proposal by the commission so that we can ensure that safety net for everyone and not just for a lucky few.
and europe has promised democracy rule of law and civil liberties to all its citizens and that was a very strong call for all the countries that wanted to join for all the people living under dictatorships who were being deprived of freedoms like the country where i myself was born.
our 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 responsibilities.
we have responsibilities you as president of the commission we all as members of the european parliament and all europeans from north to south 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.
it states that euchina cooperation should be more people oriented.
i fully agree with this but in order to benefit the people our cooperation should be dominated by human rights issues and social standards.
it shows clearly that the proposal is important and that the compromise text strikes an important balance.
mr president and honourable members this is a really great moment and i would like to thank you for this very constructive and positive debate.
we need to make that a reality so customers can be confident the connections can work.
if we want to improve railways we need to focus on what passengers want.
for example why can't i get a train directly from birmingham to frankfurt?
railways in europe are still a restricted marketplace especially in comparison with many other transport sectors.
it's technically possible to have one ticket for your bus train and plane.
and in the twenty first century they want more options more flexibility and less hassle.
mr president i can't support all of this package but i do welcome those bits which will make it easier to do cross border operations and those which will improve interoperability.
interoperability of a rail system will not benefit the uk so why do we need it?
a hidden cost like so many which are never included in their cost of membership unless we vote to leave on twenty three june then we can do what is right for britain is instead of what is demanded by the european union.
we have some of the best technical standards built for safety over many years like hs two which is another eu project.
we do not but as members of the european union we will have to adopt it anyway and at great cost to the british taxpayer.
all these points lead to a greater competitiveness global lead and of course to improved services for passengers.
this will allow the agency to manage the evolution of ertms and ensure a harmonised implementation of ertms throughout the european union.
this will encourage staff to report occurrences under condition of confidentiality and enable the railway industry to learn lessons and improve work practice. era is already getting prepared.
this brings me to the second point.
three hundred second era has also started preparing a new tool for occurrence reporting a tool already widely used in aviation.
according to the calculations of the commission services the new system will allow a twenty reduction in the time to market for new operators;
this was a really constructive and effective approach during the long and complex legislative process.
overall these different benefits should lead to a saving to the rail sector of eur five hundred million by. two thousand and twenty five this will improve the sector's competitiveness in the eu vis vis other modes of transport but also in international competition where european companies are fighting to maintain their global lead.
a twenty reduction in the cost of the authorisation of rolling stock for manufacturers and another additional twenty reduction in the duration of such procedures.
it will simplify procedures and eliminate the need for multiple applications in different member states thereby reducing costs and speeding up the procedures. after aviation this is the second transport mode with a one stop shop solution.
these national rules create a risk of insufficient transparency and discrimination against new operators especially the smaller ones.
another important element of the package discussed today is the new task of the european railway agency as the system authority for the european railway traffic management system better known as ertms.
era has prepared an action plan to reduce the large number of redundant or absolute national rules that still exist.
they are preparing the implementation of the new rules which will become fully applicable three years after the final adoption working in two crucial areas.
this tool will facilitate the exchange of information among actors about safety risk and incidents.
the new system will be subject also to a pragmatic three year implementation period and i'm glad to say also one year possibility of extension if necessary.
overall it's very good news that as a result of this legislation operators and manufacturers will find it easier to run trains across europe and the safety of passengers and workers on cross border services will be protected more effectively.
technological development in railways is increasing internationally and this must be recognised and supported in the right way.
we also need to encourage a shift to rail travel away from more environmentally damaging modes of travel and all of this development assistance in this.
the countries of europe can only compete with the goods services and employees of the third world and emerging economies if our wage rates fall to their level and do not think innovations in capital and techniques will save us.
if you believe that our problems will pass with the current crisis think again.
as they admit competition from emerging economies is intensifying.
madam president the agenda talks of a new strategy for jobs and growth by which they mean loss of jobs and negative growth!
more globalisation open the door to more goods from the emerging third world economies export jobs by off shore employment.
that is not what the people of europe want and we ask the european council not to use this crisis to deconstruct systems of social protection or undermine our future competitiveness by cutting public spending in vital areas like research and education.
that will not reassure markets at a time when the us administration is considering a new recovery plan to secure economic growth and job creation.
we hope that these calls will be heeded mr president and that this week's european council will not become just another missed opportunity.
some priorities such as research will not be achieved because of accelerated fiscal consolidation.
there is a more socially just and economically intelligent way to bring finances under control which requires much closer cooperation between our nations within a framework of reformed economic governance and greater solidarity.
mr president this week the european council will need to provide answers to the political economic environmental and social challenges we are facing at the moment both now and over the next ten years.
on immediate challenges the council seems likely to support the idea of accelerated fiscal consolidation and excessive tightening of the stability and growth pact as called for by mrs merkel and mr sarkozy.
we are facing historic levels of unemployment yet the strategy does not make explicit high quality full employment as a core target; it must.
should the eu leaders provide the green light tomorrow i know that the negotiations will be tough.
as a result of its eea membership iceland has already completed twenty two of the thirty five accession chapters of negotiations.
i am hopeful of a positive outcome and that member states will not allow the icesave issue to delay the beginning of the process.
finally on the council you need to cooperate and come forward with proposals and put the citizens first and it is not ugly or insulting to ask about your neighbour's economy when the economy affects five hundred million people and taxpayers.
only neelie kroes has provided in the digital agenda the background that we need.
mr president today we will be voting on two historic resolutions in this chamber one dealing with the necessity of strengthened economic governance and a second one which is needed to make the eu two thousand and twenty resolution more ambitious a strategy for sustainable growth and jobs.
the large majority is clear proof of the urgency of the situation and of the leadership that can be shown in this parliament.
the blueprint for economic governance should be drawn up by the commission and directed and conducted by the same institution and the resolutions provide full support for the proposals from olli rehn.
what is clear is that the g twenty must maintain their commitments on financing the.
that is why at the g twenty there must be absolute determination to address the issue of poverty torture and the denial of basic rights such as the right to food the right to water the right to education and the right to sanitation.
there needs to be an international financial tax to bring additionality to deal with the whole issue of mitigating the effects of climate change which have enormous impacts on migratory flows on food security issues.
madam president can i just say in relation to migration flows that you will never solve the problem of migration flows or have a strong enough border unless you deal with the causes why people feel they have no option but to leave the countries in which they live often in the most appalling circumstances.
this whole project was based of course on a lie as mr van rompuy has admitted. it is perfectly clear that economically it does not work but interestingly politically it cannot work either.
there is clearly no such thing as a european identity' and why should the germans work hard to pay for the greeks?
they want to compound these errors.
the difference of course is that i am going to get better and looking at the faces in this parliament today and hearing the tone of voice i suspect that the euro's problems now may well be terminal!
mr barroso the whole thing is headed in the wrong direction. greece spain portugal they do not fit inside this economic and monetary union and what they actually need is help help to break free from this economic prison of nations before we create something truly catastrophic.
yet what is on the table tomorrow is the proposal for yet more centralised power! the very people that have put europe in the mess that it is in want more power for themselves.
the folly of your policies has already blighted the lives of tens of millions of people in europe and it now threatens to blight hundreds of millions of people.
nobody ever gave consent for this project.
we need to turn back.
if you go on down this route you threaten not just the economies of southern europe but you threaten democracy and peace itself.
roles. the european union will do it in full respect of the community method and reinforcing a european response.
this was a major effort accomplished in a very short time and unmatched anywhere in the world.
this is the important point.
we cannot be seen to be stepping back from reforms or from ensuring that the financial sector and those who work in it are playing their full part in these efforts.
they do not want more divisive discussions about institutions or processes.
in fact the potential growth of the european union has been severely affected by the last financial crisis so the most important priority now is growth.
solutions that seemed out of reach only a few years or even months ago are now possible.
the commission which is fully accountable to the european parliament exercises this role in cooperation with the european council and the council of ministers in respect of their competences.
i want to underline this last point inclusive growth because i think it would not be fair that the most vulnerable in our societies those who were not the cause of this crisis will be those who have to pay much more during this crisis.
coordination at global level is critical for optimising growth prospects.
we sometimes have the reflex to look for new institutions and structures when a problem emerges but the reality is the community method has stood the test of time because it is more adaptable than some might think.
with this european mechanism and this european facility that together amount to eur five hundred billion supplemented by eur two hundred and fifty billion from the imf we have ensured that we can face any further difficulty should such a difficulty arise. this was uncharted territory but the european union has been doing what is necessary to address the risks to financial stability.
this parliament has given the commission full support for an ambitious european approach.
as i have said before i am personally convinced that we will also need to work on a financial transaction tax or a financial activities tax.
we are doing our
it is only fair that the financial sector where irresponsible behaviour triggered this crisis makes a contribution to solving the crisis.
so we were able to bring support to our fellow europeans in greece in the framework of a mechanism that contains the necessary rules and obligations. it took some time but the system is now in place. both the system itself and the european union have proved equal to the task.
in other words we are adding dynamism to the economy for instance through the digital agenda in addition to the stabilisation and consolidation efforts.
tomorrow's european council should signal to people that we have a new perspective for growth with the europe two thousand and twenty strategy.
it was the eu that pushed for the g twenty to become the global forum for economic recovery.
we are facing a very difficult moment in fact one of the most difficult moments in recent history but by tackling these difficulties we are laying the foundations for a better future.
this house has repeatedly emphasised the central role of the commission.
in the last few months we have taken decisions which would have been difficult to imagine just a few months ago.
moreover we have not stopped at short term stabilisation.
two thousand and eleven it is important not to lose momentum on financial reform.
wages are being cut.
through minister lpez garrido i want to convey to the spanish government my sincere thanks for all the relevant contributions he has been making especially during this six months for our common european project.
where we really need to invest and work together is on the delivery year after year.
that does not mean that we all face the same challenges or must respond in the same way but what we all know is that none of those problems can be effectively tackled at home without a collective response at international level. i have explained in my letter to the european council what should be the three key areas in toronto.
the pressure on people especially the most vulnerable is intense.
two thousand and ten is the crucial year for implementing what the g twenty has already agreed and for keeping the momentum for further reforms.
this is also what the rest of the world is expecting from us. in fact we are at a specific moment in time where europeans the markets and the global community are asking europe to be better coordinated and better organised to achieve greater levels of convergence and coherence.
it is obvious that without serious efforts in these areas confidence will not come back and without confidence we cannot have growth.
a strong message here would be a big boost to confidence globally namely i think we should keep in mind that trade can be and should be one of the elements to spur new sources of growth.
so if we keep our commitment to give the facts to our citizens to work with our member states and to explain that we need europe more than ever i think this crisis can be a platform for a common european response and for a stronger europe. of course the game is not over.
people also need to see that financial markets are actually being repaired and that promises are kept.
we have already done this at european level but a global approach would help the many economies around the world facing the same challenge.