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but we should realise also in this european parliament that a certain number of european requirements have been decided internally that are the result of a political process in which the european parliament was very heavily involved and that we cannot impose through the wto.
we indicated that these measures no matter whether they are based on legal written grounds or not go against the spirit of negotiating an fta with the eu and risk having a clear negative impact on the negotiating process.
we will insist that we have this meeting as soon as possible.
this applies to all areas to be covered by the agreement including agriculture'.
we will continue monitoring this issue very attentively and if these measures and practices were to be maintained carefully analyse them before deciding on the best possible solution to address this problem. it remains the position of the commission that protectionist measures should be avoided particularly in the current global economic context and one of the elements that was mentioned the
recent research has shown that brazilian emissions are between three and eight times higher than the irish equivalent.
are you doing any assessment on issues such as carbon leakage deforestation loss of biodiversity in the context of further imports of agricultural products from mercosur countries?
already we are talking about possible concessions on agriculture and i would like you to clarify this.
during that meeting you said that if there was to be an ambitious deal it was likely there would have to be concessions on agriculture. that is why i am extremely concerned.
in your response you spoke about forthcoming summits on climate change.
mr president i think we are in trouble here this morning because of a lack of consultation.
i know the conference of presidents is the be all and the end all but mr president you are a very distinguished member of the bureau of this parliament and i hope you will take back to the bureau the message that when agriculture is debated in this parliament you have to give enough time for it.
is it not unfair that our farmers have to compete with countries whose producers do not have to meet the same quality safety and traceability benchmarks as farmers within the european union? a commission that claims to act in the best interests of the citizens must do so. we must end these talks and look after our farmers.
the beef industry in the united kingdom is currently experiencing a fall in farm gate prices. if there is a rise in imports due to these talks i believe we will see an exodus of farmers from the industry.
how is europe going to provide for these people?
how many tonnes of beef?
two other points.
at the very least we should know what the impact is before we sign up to something especially at a time when we are renegotiating the cap and we are deciding how future farm support is decided.
the two are completely linked and therefore we need to understand what the impact will be. finally what involvement does the agriculture commissioner have on this issue? to date we have heard very little as to what his role will be in this negotiation and whether he is responsible for setting the mandate for your negotiators.
mr president i think many were taken by surprise at the recent decision by the commission to reopen the negotiations with mercosur on a free trade agreement.
while i accept that the commission services are within their rights to reopen discussions they would have been much better advised to inform parliament of their intentions.
this issue has the possibility to open pandora's box in many sectors of europe's agriculture industry and i therefore seriously question the wisdom of embarking upon any future deal.
there are serious ongoing problems in brazil and argentina with regard to animal traceability and other health and safety issues.
the most recent report by the fao mission in the state of santa catarina concluded that there were very few controls on cattle passing from argentina to brazil or indeed between the different states in brazil.
i must tell the commissioner very straightforwardly that if he persists down this route he will be opposed every step of the way. i can to some extent understand why this may seem like an attractive option as wto discussions do not progress with any speed but i really do believe that this has the potential to destroy the wto.
if mercosur succeeds in achieving a deal with the eu why should these countries continue to participate in wto negotiations?
consumers and producers in the european union must be protected and i do not think that a trade deal with mercosur will achieve this.
mr president thank you for your clarification on the one minute but can i just take this opportunity a point of order.
i was one of the authors of the first oral question. i am not at all happy that we now have a joint debate with two questions merging.
i have tried since may to get the mercosur question on the agenda.
i do not believe it should be a joint question and i want to make my opposition to what has happened this morning absolutely fulsome.
i do not know how this happened or why this happened.
therefore i believe that it would be useful for the croatian people and for the croatian government to have a monitoring mechanism after accession in order to continue the reforms.
this is the only proof that the fight against political corruption is working.
can i remind this institution that the cypriots held the presidency in the latter part of two thousand and twelve and turkey point blank refused to actually have anything to do with them although they were a candidate country.
that seems to be the eu's relationship with turkey. it seems to give give give.
paragraph twenty line three should read reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation'.
can i now ask you madam president to write a formal invitation to the czech presidency as well as the incoming swedish presidency to open a formal dialogue with the european parliament as soon as possible?
to re order recitals and definitions accordingly and to produce and publish parliament's position as a consolidated text as soon as possible.
madam president this again is a fairly standard amendment with reference to the role of these consultations of the social partners.
i would therefore like to request that the plenary vote to refer the report back to committee which would give the committee the flexibility to enter into negotiations with both the council and the commission. i therefore ask for the house's support for a referral back to committee.
they will lead to fewer choices for consumers less innovation and also fewer opportunities.
it is therefore very unfortunate that today we have to discuss these zero rating practices. zero rating practices do eventually lead to a closed internet.
if we have made the choice that we want an open internet we should stick to that choice and make the rules and regulations fit for that choice.
mr president every person in europe has the right to access the online content they want and use the applications they wish without discrimination or interference and all internet traffic must be treated equally.
we have just agreed new rules across europe that enshrine these principles into our law.
but now the left wants to go further and to start picking and choosing what commercial offers individual companies can make.
if a mobile phone company wants to offer free access to certain content some consumers might want to choose that offer consumers should have that choice.
and in the traditional world this is totally acceptable.
every time i leave my home to do my food shopping i can choose do i go to the supermarket that charges me more but gives me a free newspaper or do i go to the supermarket with a lower price but no free newspaper?
of course we need a fair marketplace and we must make sure our competition laws are upheld.
but this is why we have just empowered our national regulators to deal with anti competitive behaviour.
while enjoying free access to some sites they do not fully realise that they are being led down the path to a habit of spending all their money and data in that one place.
they have existed in the marketing world since the start of advertising.
but if they cannot prevent abuse this should be part of any review of telecoms regulation.
in essence in relation to competitors this may be seen as discrimination.
we will make a very clear deal legally binding and everything but i hope that this will not happen again in the future.
we are the same political groups the same parties but we have managed to find an agreement in the european parliament on the dublin reform and on the future asylum system.
on northern ireland as colleagues have mentioned this is of course a crucial issue that really goes into the question of peace and living together.
this is something that urgently needs to be addressed.
what about the member states who have been calling for many years for more solidarity? what about italy?
but there is no solution yet.
this is something that will remain as the main concern of our group but i am sure for other colleagues as well.
there is no guarantee that any member state will be spared so to say.
on the eurozone there was some movement and even on migration there were some steps in the right direction looking at the commission for example and ecj court cases.
i would also say this especially concerns the future relationship because you cannot trust one another if you are not sure that whatever you agree is actually going to hold so this is going to put a major strain on any future relations.
i would like to remind all of us here that europe is suffering at least as much as britain is.
we have to stop two trains running on the same track against each other because this is going to be a real catastrophe.
it is my strong opinion that europe will never be a complete europe will never be a competitive europe without great britain.
it. that we will not allow.
all rights are protected now.
i mean a european border and coastguard to manage the outside borders a european asylum package and not the dublin approach with the negation in fact of such a european approach and also a european economic migration
all benefits also.
union. there will be no solution for the migration crisis if it is not a european solution.
there has to be a proportionate approach in
i spoke to him yesterday on the phone and he assured me that it is absolutely not his intention nor the intention of the uk government to backtrack on their commitments.
there is no reason why future partners of european citizens should not have the same rights as the rights that we have defined here.
policy. let us make the european blue card the sole system of economic migration inside the european
he is misleading the house by suggesting that scots do not want to be in britain or do not want to leave the european union.
i was in latvia a few weeks ago as they celebrated the ninety eighth anniversary of the british navy helping the latvians to defeat the bermont west russian army.
but you must not confuse that with europe being synonymous with christendom. when i see the lack of diversity in european institutions you have a long way to go to make those who are not standard white christian european feel comfortable in europe.
i am aware that within this house there were a large number of people that hoped for a different result to the june two thousand and sixteen referendum in the united kingdom including from my own political group and from my own country of great britain and northern ireland.
i hope that last week the british prime minister and donald tusk laid the first foundations for the journey ahead.
but for so many of us in this chamber who know the everyday realities of trying to find a deal we know that where there is compromise there are concessions.
i just wonder whether i could end on a personal note in response to manfred's comments.
i know that there will be people on both sides of the english channel who may not have got everything that they wanted.
a future which reduces the burdens on businesses allowing them to create jobs growth and prosperity in all our countries.
i believe that the important progress that we saw last week was made when both sides sought to avoid a no deal situation when both sides understood the need for flexibility and when both sides focused on building a better future rather than looking back at the past.
a future where both the eu and the uk cooperate where we have common challenges to build a better future for all our citizens.
for some what was agreed was too much. for others it will never be enough.
a future where the eu signs a mutually beneficial trade agreement with the uk as one of the world's largest economies but where we both make the case for open and free trade.
manfred as a muslim i fully understand the christian roots of europe.
amongst those people are friendships i value and opinions i greatly respect but my message to them is simple brexit will not change our common interests in trading with each other and with the rest of the world in sharing intelligence to tackle terrorism and crime in cooperating on security issues to keep our citizens safe.
personal responsibility and greater democratic accountability a voice for those who believe in respect and equitable treatment for all eu countries new and old large and small.
the latvian politicians i spoke to stressed the importance of looking to the future and continued military cooperation with the uk through nato a future where the uk continues to work with individual european nations as well as continuing to work with the european union as a whole. a future where the ecr group and the members sat behind me will continue to be a voice for a reformed europe a voice for those who believe in free enterprise free and fair trade and competition a voice for those who believe in the freedom of the individual
but also economically as the bbc reported that this same christmas lunch will this year be twenty more expensive due to brexit induced inflation and price volatility.
finally now that i am in the christmas spirit anyway let me warn this house against false prophets like the brexit prophet nigel farage who through nonsense lies and videotape got his brexit and then ran away.
he talks about unelected bureaucrats but he betrayed his voters and indeed now he is absent.
first and foremost for european citizens and their families and indeed as many colleagues have said more guarantees are needed here.
but let us promise our voters and our citizens one thing the work in this house will have to be done by serious and maybe less flamboyant politicians and that is us.
yes let us talk about trade as that is also in the interests of our producers our farmers and our fishermen.
it is clear to everybody that solutions to the migration crisis can only be comprehensive. there can only be european solutions and this is the spirit of leaders' discussions this week as is clear from the letter of president tusk if you read it in full.
so let us not let this one line in president tusk's letter overshadow the wide content of leaders' discussions or prejudge its results. let it not overshadow all the union's achievements in the field of defence social education culture digital
we should not miss the opportunity for a new relationship based on shared democratic values trade and security.
northern ireland's businesses will have unfettered access to the united kingdom single market;
we share the goal of ensuring that there is no hard border between the united kingdom and the republic of ireland.
as a result of the strengthening of the text there are clear statements that northern ireland will leave the single market and customs union along with the rest of the united kingdom.
however the union that matters economically to northern ireland is the union of great britain and northern ireland where trade is worth six times more than trade with the irish republic.
mr president the phase one agreement reached between the united kingdom and the european union is another step forward in the process of exiting the european union.
it is our view that these issues can only be fully resolved in phase two of the negotiations.
let us be absolutely clear northern ireland's constitutional and economic stability will not be damaged by eu bullying in the brexit negotiations.
this would be for the betterment of all those we represent in this house.
there will be no internal trade borders within the united kingdom.
instead the government is at the mercy of the dup at home and of trade partners abroad.
i am saddened that the british people have fallen victim to political crooks and that the result is a divided and weakened uk.
instead they got a lonely britain.
madam president after eighteen months of political denial the uk has finally accepted the three divorce conditions and now everybody knows what brexit really means.
fortunately the european family is united after the brexit wake up call and fortunately the citizens' problems found a positive solution in the first part of these negotiations.
they promised global britain;
they promised to take back control;
it will be important to look at what has and what has not worked over the past two years and draw the necessary lessons for establishing an effective and sustainable migration policy.
this however does not mean that we have finished with phase one issues.
two thousand and eighteen on friday morning the heads of the twenty five member states who have ratified the treaty on stability coordination and governance joined by the czech republic and croatia as observers will discuss the future of the economic and monetary union and the banking union. the presidents of the eurogroup the commission and the european central bank will take part as well. the aim of the leaders' discussion will be to scope the priority issues on which work should proceed rapidly and to give a tasking to the eurogroup and ecofin to follow this up.
to facilitate an open and political exchange of views there will be no written statement afterwards. now i turn to the state of play of negotiations with the uk. after breakfast on friday the european council will meet in its article fifty format that is at.
in keeping with the spirit of the leaders' agenda presented by president tusk they are determined to engage more directly on politically sensitive issues.
this is a significant move from the uk which i expect the eu twenty seven leaders to welcome.
at the october european council our assessment was that sufficient progress had not been achieved and it was too early to move to phase.
the uk's new improved offer which prime minister may presented last week looks like a solid agreement and accordingly our chief negotiator michel barnier has presented a positive assessment for friday's european council.
leaders will adopt forward looking conclusions in all three topics building on last month's fruitful discussions in gothenburg.
it is fair to say that we have made more progress in the last twelve months than in the last ten years.
two now i believe that we are there.
honourable members tomorrow and on friday leaders will meet in brussels for a series of key debates in four different forms.
i would like to use this opportunity to thank the european parliament for your work that has helped us to reach this point.
there will be no written output from the debate because the aim of the discussion is first and foremost to foster a shared understanding of the main issues ahead as a basis for further work in the first half of.
as you know leaders keep a close eye on developments in the field of defence to make sure that political ambition is turned into concrete action.
twenty seven we are getting very close to sufficient progress on the three phase one issues thanks to intensive work in the past month.
brexit discussions will undoubtedly get the most visibility and i will get to that in a moment but there will be other important discussions for future work at the eu level that i will start with.
on friday the european council at twenty seven will adopt the guidelines with a view to possible transitional arrangements and on the framework for the future relationship.
president tusk considers that a serious political discussion is needed to pave the way forward on the external and the internal dimension of migration.
they will also use the occasion to review other work strands including the european defence fund and its european defence industrial development programme.
we represent their interests as well and we have to secure their future too.
first of all it must be clear that citizens in the uk do not have to apply for a status but must register or declare that is key.
i would like to thank mr barnier for his efforts and indeed progress has been made but in my view not sufficient progress and that is why i will not support paragraph two of the resolution.
over five zero europeans have been deported from the uk this year;
we need to develop new trade relations in order to support not only economic development but also strengthen a liberal world order.
second when the eu gets smaller we need to get taller;
at a time when we should be valuing our friendship with the us above all friendships you are taking the poison pill. philip hammond the chancellor instead of looking forward to a low tax low regulation economy co signed a letter with other eu finance ministers to denounce mr trump's tax reforms. how dare he?
as the eu moves to a united states of europe we should be looking to our oldest friend our ally the united states of america.
against the democrats.
i was in washington last week and i spoke personally to wilbur ross the secretary of state for trade who said to me don't take the poison pill that brussels will offer you if you want to deal with us'. i agreed with him.
this deal doesn't do
it isn't about dependence it is about co dependence.
i think it is love for ireland that should drive it instead because this is very important to us.
but there is one thing that will drive this back and that is triumphalism on either side.
we work together.
we need each other.
manfred remember that with your triumphalism.
we depend on each other.
in particular for people like manfred weber i fear that his dislike of the uk is what drives him rather than his love for ireland.
when we talk about ties with great britain i don't think people understand here how important it is.
or to delay the whole leaving process until the next general election when the referendum result can be set aside.
that decision was not conditional on any withdrawal agreement or any other factor.
what mrs may and the european union intend is one of two outcomes either to achieve a deal whereby we leave in name but not in reality;
she leads a party and a parliament that sadly is made up of a majority of remainers.
but we do need and i say it through gritted teeth to move onto phase two of the negotiations because for too many people in the uk brexit remains white noise a false equivalence aided by an industrialscale spin machine telling us that somehow we will have our cake and eat it;
this is the end of the beginning of this brexit negotiation.
madam president i will be supporting the resolution this afternoon in the votes and i do so with a sense of real sadness and more than a little anger both personally and on behalf of the people that i represent.
people need to see the detail the linebyline the policybypolicy the nittygritty. people need to see what they're going to lose for a brexit to become real.
and in phase two the promises of the shysters and charlatans who have so disgraced themselves even in their conduct today in this debate will be shown for what they are a cruel deception of the people they claim to serve.
the eu objectives throughout the negotiations have been very clear first make the united kingdom look as weak as possible internationally and second extract as much money as you possibly can from us.
but the big fudge this morning the stuff that you don't want to hear the emperor's new clothes if you like is the fact that the migration story is not a positive one.