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or strengthens an eligible project from the public welfare perspective in a way that the market alone would not deliver at least not to the same extent or in the same timeframe. the eib is at the forefront among ifis in measuring additionality and we are always looking to improve. the eib services have begun to recalibrate our current three pillar assessment. ladies and gentlemen as the eu bank we look at structural investment needs and continue to support the eu's transition to sustainable finance and sustainable climate. therefore our ambition to enhance growth support employment and act as a catalyst for increased public and private sector investment remains key. we recognise that supporting innovation on the one hand and deepening integration and cohesion on the other are not a contradiction as they must be undertaken at the same time. only an integrated and inclusive financial and economic area can offer the required market dimensions to support innovation across europe and only an innovative and competitive europe can provide the economic and political foundations
the total number of victims of the soviet regime is estimated at over sixty million.
i was surprised about the reactions of some of my fellow meps.
some of them didn't see what the issue is about the others weren't aware about the horrors of the soviet regime.
the rest of the world knew very little of these crimes as they happened behind the iron curtain.
why have you made speaking up for the populace somehow a bad thing always when they say what you do not want to hear?
i am concerned that the eu will use this as a way to further propagandise its existence and further make patriotic citizens of nation states into villains.
communication cooperation and learning off each other often have helped but do not write out the role of nato of the americans of the un and yes of nuclear weapons the threat of which have made war impossible.
if you must dabble in education please trust the member states to decide what is best for their children.
i believe strongly in education but know that education can be and is used to further propaganda.
i am also very concerned about the oft repeated line that the eu has been the source of seventy five years of peace in europe.
i know the often used term populist. let us not forget that the opposite of populist is un populist.
jeremy corbyn has failed in his constitutional duty of opposing brexit leaving half the country in frustration and despair.
now that the complexity and the cost of brexit are clear we have a democratic right to say whether it is still what we want for our country.
so many have had their hearts broken and their lives turned upside down by this process.
many still hope that we will find a way to stay with you all.
with westminster in gridlock it is only right that the decision goes back to the people.
too many british people have forgotten about other eu citizens who are a vital part of our communities or their fellow citizens who live elsewhere in the eu.
theresa may has failed to lead the country and instead has responded only to the needs of her own party.
i would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support.
those two steps might be a start to plot a way out of this impasse.
those provisions must be spun out into a ring fenced agreement now so as to give those people clarity and certainty over their day to day lives.
and i'm very proud that there are so many uk colleagues here working across party lines to bring sense to this process.
secondly citizens too many people the length and breadth of our european continent are feeling too anxious right now uk nationals across the eu and eu nationals within the uk.
but scotland's position on this is clear.
firstly we need more time.
my job is not to mitigate brexit it's to stop it.
there is no good brexit.
i apologise for that but that's the reality of where we are.
a referendum may well be a way out of this process we need more time to put that case together and to make that case now that the united kingdom government might just possibly be starting to listen to voices other than its own.
colleagues you have to deal with the united kingdom as you find it and you have to respect the united kingdom's constitutional order. i respect that.
so two points to close.
our commission has done a great deal of work to try to guarantee those rights but in the absence of complete buy in from the united kingdom government we must act and unilaterally guarantee those citizens' rights now.
they feel prisoners of a process they do not control and that is not good enough. we in this house the people's house of europe have a duty to our citizens.
last year's european year of cultural heritage promoted positive intercultural dialogue and involved more than six million people taking part in nearly twelve zero events organised across thirty seven countries.
i wish to state that there are still many difficult moments from our past which must be recognised and taught in schools for example the genocide against roma and the shocking holodomor or terror famine in ukraine which caused the death of.
now more than ever in times of political instability we must bring together the people of europe to learn the mistakes of the past and work together.
we must continue to celebrate our diversity and common bonds working in formal and informal education across all age ranges teaching our difficult history as well as extraordinary achievements.
mr president the european union was founded as a peace project following the atrocities resulting from totalitarianism and dangerous nationalism.
and we have other elements in mind for example the idea of avoiding a hard border in northern ireland or the question of keeping the rights of citizens strong and alive.
that's good.
it's much better to reform the european union than to leave or even destroy the european union.
that's why our main message in the election campaign ahead of us is don't follow the nationalists don't follow the egoists they are liars.
that's why i must say that i don't see any room for manoeuvre if our british friends want to have renegotiations and if they have further requests in the negotiations then we have also the right to ask further questions and then we open the whole box not only the british questions would be on the table if there were to be any kind of renegotiation.
for example for me the idea of the single market and especially the idea of freedom of movement that europeans on this continent can freely decide where they want to live is a great achievement of this european union and i did and i will defend this principle whatever the outcome of a british vote is and what will be.
three institutions at european level said yes' that's a good treaty and now one parliament has said no' with a clear majority.
in latvia the russian speaking minority accounting for twenty four of the population is not allowed to pursue higher education in the russian language and according to the new school reform our children will not be able to study in their native language from september.
listening then to the debate in this house in this european parliament what i hear from colleagues is please let's sit down and look at what we can agree in terms of creating a majority and finding a solution.
why doesn't anyone put forward an amendment in the house of commons that actually says that and see how far we can get?
we went into politics colleagues here and in westminster not only to give speeches but to sit down create majorities and find solutions.
' mr corbyn says he would prefer a customs union.
that is what he always does.
what he wants is the hardest no deal brexit possible only for his buddies then afterwards to dismantle the nhs to destroy ordinary people's jobs and to create a bankers' paradise uncontrolled.
i think it's very important that we would continue to support the esf the european social fund plus as it benefits citizens directly in their communities.
it focuses on unemployment improving the employability of individuals addressing poverty issues and focusing on social exclusion with a particular emphasis on young people and on children.
i welcome this report.
so the value of this fund it is targeted directly at individuals enabling them in developing skills for a modern economic era where we have automation as we have spoken of already and globalisation and it will equip them with lifelong learning which is becoming very important
the focusing on those that are most disadvantaged the eu health programme and the european social initiative.
it does harm to the united kingdom it does harm to the european union and we are under an obligation as politicians to limit the harm to the absolute minimum possible and we do believe the withdrawal agreement delivered on that obligation.
we will now have to wait for what's going to happen in the house of commons in the united kingdom for the position of the british government and the british parliament and we will have to take it from there but we're also under an obligation to make sure that we are prepared for any possible outcome including a disorganised no deal brexit which would have far reaching consequences both for the united kingdom and for the european union but the commission will be well prepared to make sure that we react to any
the commission regrets the rejection of the withdrawal agreement as the representative of the council has said because we do believe this was the best possible outcome in a situation where two parties were negotiating each looking after its own interest. the commission negotiator michel barnier did a remarkable job negotiating on behalf of the twenty seven the british government negotiated on behalf of the united kingdom and we do believe the outcome of that negotiation led to a withdrawal agreement which did as little harm as possible.
as the representative of the council said we will continue our process of ratification of the withdrawal agreement since it was agreed with the united kingdom government.
mr president the vote last night in the house of commons was crystal clear the withdrawal agreement has been rejected and now we will have to look for a way forward.
nobody should be under any illusion brexit does harm.
i think it's not for us to speculate on what sort of brexit we will have.
we can't go back and change the beginning but can start where are and change the ending'.
the european values that we hear about all the time are suppressed and one wonders why.
the likely reason is that spanish governments support the eu project and somehow that makes it okay to have political prisoners.
i suggest that you people should look at yourselves in the mirror and start campaigning for these political prisoners to be freed.
mr president i would like to address the prime minister. you mentioned the need for new legitimacy for democracy in europe and you appealed for more european democracy. don't you feel that people feel deprived of their sovereignty of the right to decide their own future?
the people working there feel they have no say as to how their lives will develop.
what would you say about the notion of sovereign democracy which in a new way matches the will of the people to have a say in their future and join this with the understanding that europe has to have a new beginning.
this parliament has been voting across political and national boundaries constantly regularly for a single seat of the european parliament.
are you as pro european willing to take a stand to put it on the agenda of the council to talk to the people of europe and of spain during the election campaign about that and to engage in a constructive dialogue a pro european pro democracy dialogue or are you going to ignore it and risk letting a symbol of peace a reconciliation in europe which is so dear to us all to become a symbol of waste?
mr president the last time i checked there was not a shortage of food in the european union. the shelves of our supermarkets and our markets tend to be well stocked but there is a food poverty emergency across this europe in every member state.
one thing we can do to prevent that food poverty emergency becoming even worse in my own member state would be to rule out right now a no deal brexit because it will not be the millionaires on the back benches of the conservative party in the house of commons that will pay the highest price of a no deal brexit it will be the people queuing at food banks who will pay the highest
costs of the economic catastrophe that no deal' will bring about the higher food prices that will lead to higher queues at our food banks.
that's one reason why no deal' must be taken off the table immediately.
colleague i just heard you speak of militant atheists i'm not really sure what that is and how they are making the lives of christian people in europe impossible but okay.
i mean i respect your christian roots but if you do not respect the fact that other people are atheists then how can we live together?
so yes we will for example continue the youth guarantee cohesion policy etc. but let's be clear responsibility for a social europe starts at home so calling for a european unemployment scheme to take attention away from the work you have to do at home is i think a dangerous strategy.
economically we're lucky.
spain is standing on the shoulders of giants.
it has a good economic situation thanks to the work of previous governments.
so let's continue that work let's not burden future generations with unsustainable levels of debt.
i think that's where social policy starts.
it tolls for you' should be in front of our eyes while debating today.
madam president first of all regarding our ukip colleagues as far as i understand they don't have a single seat in westminster not one of them has been elected by the british people to westminster
applause secondly regarding our british friends and those who are dealing with these issues in westminster.
if they want prolongation if they want time for reflection if they want to return to the european union let us tell them you are very welcome.
we need education research and remembrance to build immunity and resilience in our societies against every temptation of undemocratic solutions.
whereas central and eastern european countries have experienced both communism and nazism.
as well as educational programmes and cultural projects.
we also need the full opening up of historical archives to verify the historical lies.
we have not spoken too much about the shrinking space of civil society.
in bringing forward funds such as the transition fund and the globalisation adjustment fund i would urge colleagues across the european union to be mindful not just of creating jobs but to be mindful of the types of jobs we are creating as well.
we want good well paid jobs with dignity.
parliament can be sure that the council will keep this issue high on its political agenda in the future.
governing in the interests of the conservative party and the conservative party alone and not even being very good at that has got us to this situation and we very firmly believe that this government has had its day.
whichever party is in power they will find themselves when it comes to brexit faced with this choice.
you either move away from the eu structures and destroy jobs destroy life chances reduce workers' rights and environmental protections or you stay within the structures of the eu and lose all say and power over what those structures are.
that is the fundamental and unavoidable choice when it comes to brexit.
neither of those things is right for any country and certainly not the united kingdom.
but i want to give you here a message of hope in britain thanks to the people opposite and their ludicrosity we have now got the biggest proeuropean movement on the continent.
we have millions and millions of people who are prepared now to go out there and defend the values of this place to talk about in open terms about why we are proud of what the european union has achieved and will achieve.
we will defend free movement we will defend what the structures of this place have given not just the current generation but generations to come.
the nonsense and fantasies of the people opposite have been found out.
there is no majority in the british parliament for no deal but whether there is a new government whether there is a new referendum or whether or not parliament has a majority for some other way forward we must recognise that we might need more time.
please do not let the logistics of this defeat the politics of this.
we have a chance to turn this around and we need your support and your friendship.