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we need a first assessment at external borders to determine who is likely to get asylum and who is not.
unfortunately the council is not joining us today in this important debate. my question would be when will the german presidency start negotiations on the proposals that will be presented next week? there is no time to lose.
i think being a human being is having the ability to look another person in his or her eyes and understand some of the conditions that they are living under.
moria does not exist anymore and there should be no more morias no more camps like moria.
of course moria should not be restored.
we need proper reception facilities efficient and fair processes.
there will be a clear child perspective in the pact that i will present next week.
i must say that of course not all migrants have the right to stay in the european union.
those that are not eligible to stay have to be returned but all migrants have dignity and rights.
asylum applicants have the right to a proper process and we have to make sure that they have that. of course we also have to make a distinction between those who have the right to stay and those who have not and have to be returned but in a proper and dignified way.
she encouraged us not to be afraid.
we should be proud europeans.
we should act in line with our values.
we should act as global leaders.
migration is normal.
of course it has to be managed and to be able to do so we need to agree on a common european migration policy.
to be able to agree on a common migration policy we need to de dramatise migration policy.
one reason that we lack this common policy is this dramatisation of the issue.
one reason for this failure for many years to agree on a proper compromise is that migration policy has been dramatised and seen as something very special.
to be able to do that we need to be calm and pragmatic.
i count on your support for the process of the proposal that i will put forward next week.
thank you for the debate.
however i am terrified that the commission is presenting a derogation from the eprivacy directive a derogation that not only approves automated filters but also creates a blanket authorisation to use them for private communication.
this is a clear threat to encryption and distraction from more serious issues such as first the lack of national implementation of the child sexual abuse directive nine whole years have passed since the adoption of this european legislation second the financial difficulties of many hotlines which form the basic infrastructure of handling the analysis and reporting of child abuse material;
and third the need to increase the capacities of the judicial system and law enforcement to make sure that they have the resources to follow up on investigations.
i support the commission's action on tackling these serious issues but i urge you focus on protecting children instead of playing whackamole with criminals online and violating the privacy of innocent people.
we know that conflict has horrible consequences for the countries concerned for the many women victimised.
therefore it is important that people like dr mukwege can continue their important work work that not only helps the victims but also advocates for women's rights.
she had just lost a made up case and i was so worried about the human rights situation in the philippines.
i said maria what can we do as the international community?
but duterte the president of the philippines who is encouraging his own services to kill tens of thousands of people still enjoys eu trade privileges the under the gsp plus scheme that are supposedly linked to improvements in human rights.
the situation is just getting worse and that's why i'm so happy that across all political parties in this resolution we call on the commission to start the procedure to revoke these privileges immediately and to be frank by immediately we mean by monday.
in these five years the european parliament has written four declarations concerning the state of the human rights in the philippines but the situation has not improved whatsoever.
on the contrary since last year the country has actually withdrawn from the international criminal court jurisdiction and recently there has been a resurgence of extra judicial killings assassinations of human rights activists and intimidation and prosecutions of journalists.
the most notorious is the former cnn journalist maria ressa who is now exposed to one hundred years in prison as a result of all the charges against her. the philippines should adopt and implement the recommendations from the un report and without substantial improvement
there must be a mistake but if the author gets the first word that should be me.
today northern mozambique faces another threat an outbreak of armed violence with a dangerous regional dimension.
i would first like to reiterate our solidarity with the people of mozambique.
we have strong political and developmental relations with mozambique and we are ready to discuss options for assistance.
i am also glad to inform you that the government and the eu have opened a policy dialogue with a focus on humanitarian development and security issues in cabo delgado.
in the april council conclusions the eu emphasised that regardless of the urgency any response to the violence in the north must ensure full respect for human rights.
the recent amnesty report is extremely shocking. all its allegations including those concerning members of the mozambique armed defence forces and the police must be investigated transparently and effectively with full respect for the legal rights of both the victims and the accused.
the eu advocates an integrated and coordinated approach to development promoting democracy human rights and the rule of law.
this encompasses also freedom of the media and civil society and i recall here the memory of the activist and electoral observer anastcio matavele.
let me also underline our commitment to following african processes working with the african union peace and security architecture and especially sadc.
i think this is the way to ensure the regional drivers and impacts of this crisis are properly addressed.
so we need definitely to introduce a new control of european funding to governments and ngos with quality standards.
we need to provide legal and safe ways in eu consulates and embassies for example even in turkey which is a safe country to receive refugees and make sure they can approach the eu. third strong conditionality for european member states that share the burden in solidarity but also to make sure that we will use economic leverage for those eu member states that do not share the burden. and fourth i do welcome the commitment to abolish the dublin regulation by ursula von der leyen but still there is a contradiction since the epp encompasses parties from member states
in debate yesterday and in written statements and letters to me suitable assurances have been given and these will all be published.
the majority recommendation of the committee now is to approve all the candidates with which i personally agree.
that means voting against all the resolutions.
there were four areas in which we sought assurances.
concerning the independence of the authorities both the commission and the presidency have reaffirmed respect for the provisions of independence of the authorities their chairs executives and board members.
concerning board representation the commission is being vigilant concerning the designations by the heads of the supervisory authority to the boards of supervisors as required by the regulation and the presidency supported the commission statement.
concerning adequate budgetary resources the commission has recognised the need to provide adequate budgetary and human resources to the authorities with which the presidency has agreed and further stated the importance of fulfilment by member states of their obligations.
concerning the appointment procedure we have all discovered we are bound by regulations in ways that all sides realise is inappropriate such as the retirement age criteria projected to the end of the term of office and also on the gender issue.
these will be addressed in the review with which the commission and the presidency also both agree.
the committee continues to insist on a role in the ongoing and future shortlisting procedures for all positions such as that of executive director. for democratic purposes members wish to be able to express a preference on individual candidates and so the resolutions have been kept on the agenda for voting.
mr sonik has quite reasonably asked for the names of the successful candidates for these positions.
none of the others have made any material difference so why we ask ourselves should this one?
the working time directive actually stops people from working.
the reform that the eu needs will not come about from one additional dinner but tomorrow's meeting can make an important start.
take for example the agency workers directive.
it contains some things to appeal to a liberal conservative like me it has parts to appeal to socialists like mr swoboda and even parts to appeal to a social democrat like mr verhofstadt.
unless we resolve our competitiveness crisis we will never resolve the many other crises facing the eu.
it should tell the commission to go away and rethink the next seven year budget so that every euro focuses on added value outputs rather than simply increasing national contribution inputs.
it can survive a few but eventually it will be killed by a thousand pinpricks.
we also need as others have said a bonfire of red tape.
i fundamentally disagree.
eu leaders should ask which employment directive they can repeal immediately.
we risk having the best protected workforce in the world but no workers.
at the moment the commission is effectively rudderless.
economic growth does not need state intervention.
we all of course want the old mantra of growth and jobs yet we have very different views on how that should be achieved. for the socialists across several groups in this house only more government spending can create growth.
in a crisis it is utterly immoral. so called social protection legislation in the eu is failing to protect us from the worst social injustice of all which is unemployment.
my message to the commission is this we need a strong free trade pro competition agenda from you.
i make it the twenty two that we have had in the last two and a half years.
as my favourite politician margaret thatcher once said the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of everybody else's money. we cannot afford a return to the discredited socialist growth agenda of keynesianism dressed up as more investment.
each piece of additional legislation acts like a pin in the body of our economy.
the socialist vision of growth is an illusion created at the expense of borrowing and tax rises and it is totally irresponsible in the current climate.
more flexible labour markets are the way forward.
they sent you a clear set of ideas for extending the single market for pursing free trade agreements for a european research area and no end of good proposals.
it should give the commission a clear message that it wants to see a free trade deregulatory and pro market agenda.
i have talked about what we can do less of.
the reason that they have all so far failed is that none of them has addressed the real problem which of course is the collapse of european competitiveness.
this well meaning piece of legislation introduced through this house has resulted in a fall in the number of temporary workers being employed in france.
the letter showed you the way forward and yet you disregarded it.
in fact very often state intervention actually restricts growth.
that agenda is lacking because it tries to be all things to all men.
most importantly it should place the single market at the heart of our economic recovery.
there has been much talk about an austerity strategy versus a growth strategy. i would like to make it very clear that this is a false distinction. what we in the danish presidency have been working on throughout our period in office is a dual approach
we cannot create growth if we do not have economic stability.
i believe that there is a wide agreement among member states on this dual approach.
the aim is to inject further momentum into that process.
but further efforts are needed in particular to help boost employment and particular attention is also needed to tackle youth unemployment.
let me underline that the danish presidency has from the very first day consistently stressed the overriding priority which is attached to putting europe back on the growth track.
a further key element to the growth agenda is the external economic policy.
it is also important that agreement be reached on the project bonds pilot phase which we hope to achieve at our negotiations with parliament today.
firstly the eib could be better mobilised to support smes and help finance key infrastructure projects.
for the current funds this means reallocation with an emphasis on smes youth training and employment.
that means reducing debt and deficits but in a way which allows scope for continuing to invest for the future.
finally on financing the economy we must continue to pursue an approach based on smart fiscal consolidation.
obvious examples are the single market act and the patent.
we have been working hard to ensure rapid adaption of relevant legislation.
secondly gearing member states' policies to growth it is essential that we continue with the reform agenda which remains crucial to ensuring job creating growth.
but now we need to take the next steps and that is the task ahead for the council for this parliament and for the commission.
there will be no preparatory discussions in the council and no formal conclusions.
the meeting will be a stepping stone towards the european council in june where the heads of state and government can be expected to task further work grouped under the following headings firstly mobilising new policies to fully support growth the informal meeting will be an opportunity to highlight the rapid progress which needs to be made in the council and in the european parliament on a number of proposals which have the potential to boost growth.
here again the presidency together with the commission is preparing for a discussion in june on how to make better use of strategic partnerships in support of our trade and economic interests.
we are grateful that this objective is shared by parliament and that we have enjoyed constructive cooperation.
we shall make sure that the eu's future budget including cohesion is targeted to sustain and develop growth and employment.
there are a number of specific initiatives which are likely to be raised at this week's meeting and which will certainly need to be developed further.
this will be dealt with in more detail in june when we will bring the european semester to a close and endorse country specific recommendations to guide member states in their structural reforms and employment policies.
secondly the structural funds should be better focused on competitiveness and convergence.
heads may be invited to agree to the principle of increasing the banks' capital and of strengthening existing joint instruments.
the danish presidency has been particularly committed to making progress on these issues.
the purpose will be to agree on principles and ideas for generating growth in europe.
the presidency therefore warmly welcomes the commission's employment package.
the danish presidency warmly welcomes this increased momentum.
there has not been a discussion in the council of the informal european council so i will use this opportunity to provide you with the presidency's expectations.
this informal european council meeting on twenty three may will provide an opportunity to focus on the various measures that form part of the eu's growth agenda.
where we pursue fiscal discipline and growth at the same time.
economic growth will contribute to public finances and structural reforms will contribute both to consolidation efforts and to increasing growth and competitiveness.
gdp into a crisis of unforeseen magnitude today.
use the unspent money of the european funds;
it; we are waiting for
it. what are you waiting for?
my proposal is double.
first of all we need a real economic and fiscal union.
that is my question today.
it is simply a political crisis that we face today in europe because our leaders today are unable to take the right decision at the right time.
on the table. now is the moment to go further with our actions for growth and to get them working at the service of europe's
meeting its climate and energy targets alone could create up to five million new jobs in europe putting almost a quarter of our unemployed people into work.
with the right political pressure we can start to make a difference today.
that combines both stability and growth.
direction. therefore we need to reflect on what kind of european union would be required to deepen economic and political integration for instance so that joint issuance of debt would make sense for all member states sharing the single currency. last
on greece. the commission's message to the greek people is this we want greece to remain part of the european family and of
levels. in january the president announced the creation of action teams to mobilise efforts in the eight member states with the highest proportion of young people out
the commission will present this in more detail before the june european council.
of reform. we want to stand
either. that is why it is so important to stay the course on sustainable and sound public
economy. the single market for goods has opened up vast opportunities for economic dynamism but we must be blunt and honest here it is incomplete and unbalanced.
this will be the key message president barroso will bring to tomorrow's informal european council.
overnight. it happened over many years and the rebalancing we are now going through will not be concluded overnight
from the outset we have combined concrete proposals for stability with concrete proposals for growth. the commission is grateful that this house has supported those ideas since very early on.
bank. this could unleash many times that amount in new investment.
the euro. after living beyond its means for too long the journey greece is now undertaking is difficult and demanding but it is a journey we are taking together in a pact of
i see tomorrow's dinner of heads of state and government as an opportunity to seize the moment for growth and as a major stepping stone to the european council at the end of june.
promoting public and private investment is a cornerstone of our growth initiative.
finances. at the same time the commission strongly supports the renewed drive for growth that is now sweeping across europe. we are confident that there is now the political will and determination to move forward starting with many of the proposals for sustainable growth that the commission has already put
far worse. so let me take this opportunity to call on all responsible forces in greece to use these few precious weeks to get the facts across so that the greek people can make a fully informed and responsible choice.
stimulate public and private investment that will give the needed extra fuel to our economic engine.
the risk of course is that the cost of imports would rise which is why i said that what it would also lead to is innovation in greece as people started to make products to undercut the price of foreign imports. but i tell you what it would give it would give greece a chance because stuck inside the euro you are going to be literally destroyed.
clearly i am not advocating that we move to a new fixed peg i am advocating floating currency rates because history shows us that every time we try to fix currency pegs we get it wrong.
growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an austerity treaty because austerity kills growth.
people in ireland on thirty one may will have an opportunity to join with millions of others across europe in saying no' to austerity and saying no' to the austerity treaty.
mr president listening to the speeches here it seems clear that the significance of what has happened across europe in the past weeks has been lost on the leaders of the eu;
that they are attempting to say that this is some sort of appeal by people to add a sprinkling of growth rhetoric to the reality of policies of austerity when in reality what has happened across europe is a rejection of your failed austerity policies your policies that have created mass unemployment that have returned economies across europe to recession and a demand for a fundamental change of policy.
the result is that the british taxpayer was taxed to the tune of several hundreds of billions of pounds to rescue a financial sector gone adrift through your deregulation.
this is the result of deregulation and basically of the recipes that you are lecturing all of us to adopt.
the previous assistance package to greece was described as a marshall plan and today you also described the next multiannual financial framework as a marshall plan.
what you can do is rethink what structural reform would mean if you were to take account of the true causes of sovereign debt in light of the huge crisis we experienced in two thousand and eight and the economic policy thinking that led to it.
but when the commission comes in with initiatives what it delivers best are overstatements.
i believe in the need for a plan and i do not blame you for your inability to deliver on one but we are far from achieving one.
mr president we are in the midst of an economic and increasingly humanitarian crisis and yet commission president barroso is not here.
do not listen to those who will tell you that the only alternative is for greece to stay in the euro.
innovation will start to come back into greece as people start making products to beat expensive imports.
we must ignore messrs barroso and van rompuy. they have been proved to be wrong.
we have got to restore democracy.
you can do something about this. you can rise up and say and i know from my conversations with you that many of you agree with me that i am right.
there have been huge increases in suicides in italy and in greece particularly by people running small businesses who cannot see a way out of the problem.
elected meps representatives of the people of europe from left and right we have heard it all before. remember the euro itself was supposed to create growth and jobs and yet it is actively destroying both of those things.
we must resolve to put it right. we have got to give people hope because out there now is absolute despair.
there will be a few difficult weeks and then things will settle down.
the remedy we are being offered is more of the same. i would suggest that the medicine is killing the patient and to increase the dosage is madness.
we all remember dimitris christoulas the seventy seven year old former pharmacist who shot himself dead outside the greek parliament but he is just one of a growing humanitarian disaster.
we must provide people with hope.
our leaders are too callous to listen and care.
children are being left in increasing numbers outside the doors of churches because their parents cannot afford to feed them.
we have got to restore human dignity.
if she leaves the sky will fall in.
we have got to break up the euro.
investment will start to come back into greece.
everyone is pushing this.
indeed greece outside the eurozone may well prove to be an inspiration for spain for portugal and for many other countries. we need to recognise that a terrible mistake has been made.
sometimes the solutions to these problems are contradictory and controversial so there should be a single and coherent policy.
what happened with the final fiscal compact?
what happened with the euro plus pact?
mr president what i like most about the french president is his name.
i am going to read it i hope so will you.
growth is generated by competitiveness by entrepreneurship by risk capital and by a low tax burden.
they suffer deterioration of skills and future job instability.