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and if there is a problem in politics in europe colleagues it is that people do not listen to each other.
if there is a problem in politics in europe it is because people do not listen to each other.
how open and honest you are as a leader of your country about the situation and about the difficulties that you have gone through and continue to manage.
as i stressed yesterday in this house completing the european banking union is not just one of our main deliverables but also our primary duty before the elections.
it will be important and will take effort to deliver a balanced and successful european semester in the current context.
ireland is now able to issue long term debt at rates of only about three which is less than some other countries that did not need to ask for adjustment programmes and assistance.
like you the commission would have strongly preferred a system fully based on the community approach and we have been defending this.
free movement is the result of decades of negotiations and agreements between the member states and also this parliament. it is in our law and we should respect our common
making more use of the european social fund to promote social inclusion and fight poverty;
we expect positive growth throughout this year in greece.
we still have a fragmented financial market where companies are paying interest rates not because of their intrinsic quality but because of the country in which they are located.
we cannot lose a whole generation.
these rules offer guarantees to citizens and they also offer possibilities to the member states to deal with
myths. let us have a rational and reasonable
we need structural reforms so that we can address the real problems of competitiveness in many of our countries if we do not want to be losers of globalisation.
on the rule of law where this spring the commission will present a more robust mechanism to counter systemic threats that may arise in any one of our member states;
we are seeing the rise of extremism from the extreme right and the extreme left.
we need to keep up the investment measures necessary to make the reforms work to the benefit of jobs and growth.
one issue in particular is already in danger of being subject to all kinds of populist rhetoric rather than objective assessment the free movement of people in general and of workers in particular in the european union.
of course as is the case in our democracies with national rules under national law the implementation of european union law must be subject to appropriate procedures and where necessary to appropriate procedures of review and redress.
the greek presidency has rightly stressed the social dimension of economic governance since no one knows better how important openness and legitimacy are to the eventual outcome of a process of profound reform.
spain is exiting its specific programme for banks and is once again showing its remarkable dynamism and attracting new investors.
mr president prime minister honourable members first of all let me very sincerely congratulate you prime minister for your very inspiring words.
greece's own experiences since the beginning of the crisis make it even more determined to make a success of this presidency.
it is i believe a fitting coincidence that we end this parliamentary term under the presidency of greece a country that has been the focus of so much political energy and public attention during this mandate and that in the end has emboldened us to do all we can to fight
both the root causes and the social consequences of the crisis.
the commission and the greek presidency are united in not being distracted from the real agenda we have in front of us.
the resilience and determination of the greek people are far far greater than the scaremongers were ready to foresee.
improving the framework for human mobility and addressing the real problem of illegal migration;
we will need to work together in a constructive spirit to make sure the process runs as smoothly and transparently as possible as was by the way the case last year.
without the free movement of people it would not make sense to have a single market based only on the free movement of goods or capital.
bringing local authorities together to help them learn from one another;
as parliament and the commission we should now work together to ensure that the intergovernmental dimension is kept to the absolute minimum of what is politically necessary and we should be vigilant in ensuring that the outcome remains fully compatible with and upholds the primacy of european union law. the european commission will contribute actively to finding an agreement before the elections as we believe this is indispensable not only for the banking union but also for deepening economic and monetary union.
let us be clear about free movement.
this is why we need to resume investment in the economy.
we must however make sure this campaign is an opportunity for more genuine debate about europe not a festival of unfounded reproaches against europe.
greece has embarked on a very painful but necessary adjustment process and some impressive results are already appearing a government deficit that has been cut from nearly fifteen in two thousand and nine to an expected primary surplus in two thousand and thirteen;
our number one aim is to restore employment this is the biggest drama of today's europe.
in. two thousand and nine at the same time we need to continue working in areas that go beyond our efforts to remedy the economic crisis but are equally vital to demonstrate that the european union is capable of delivering the results our citizens expect on data protection which is so important for upholding our values and the way we want our society to function;
ground. so let us work together in a constructive and objective fashion.
portugal has seen positive growth since the second quarter of last year and its unemployment rate and interest spreads are consistently going down.
accelerate the economic momentum of today with investments for growth under our new multiannual financial framework;
so let us make this vote for the european parliament another important moment to reinforce a true european
to. from the european wars of the past one hundred years to a european unification that has continued spectacularly with the enlargements of the last ten years with all those memories in mind i hope we will have a more profound european debate and that the european project will be more strongly defended than
the courage of the greek people in the face of great hardship is bearing fruit and as you well know prime minister the european commission has always stood by greece and the greek people. i thank you for your kind words recognising that.
this is an issue which i am sure deserves the attention of the european central bank.
debate. let us not give in to scaremongering and obfuscation. let us together preserve a precious good for the sake of all
ancestors. let us remember what is at stake what the real foundations of european integration are and what the dangers of disintegration could be. on that basis let us work together to deliver the results that really matter with
we need to ensure that the new multiannual financial framework will deliver through the sectoral programmes which will firm up the economic recovery.
the focus of the presidency strongly shared by the commission and the greek government for the time left before the end of this legislative term is clear we need to finish what we started and to deliver as much of our growth and jobs agenda as we possibly can.
the timing of the elections means that there will be very tight deadlines between the publication of the country specific recommendations by the commission and the european council at the end of june.
this is why the commission supports national regional and local authorities in managing this principle correctly in particular in order to fight abuses when and where they
whereas only a year ago commentators and not only commentators but some politicians too were predicting that countries would exit the euro area around the turn of the year we started to see programme countries exiting their respective support schemes.
parliament and the council now need to do everything they can to reach a final agreement on the single resolution mechanism.
applying social security rules correctly;
economy. you will not restore that transfer mechanism if we do not establish a real banking union with a single resolution mechanism based not on national resolutions but on the proposal from the commission.
to be lower. he wants to block labour
a significant number of these people have plenty of time to go to the polling station as they are unemployed a core failure of the eu project.
your people and people across europe came out onto the streets to show their displeasure at the medication for the eurocrats' mental illness.
in may's elections we will let the people decide. we will put the option on the ballot paper in britain for the people to demand a referendum now.
in the uk we also have a leader who lives in make believe land and who believes that he can renegotiate serious powers from the eu before a referendum. but we have heard this con trick before.
are you not learning from the lessons of history? are you not condemned to relive them? you cannot play political make believe with people's lives.
greece is the birthplace of democracy and this year people across europe will have the chance to put a dagger in the heart of the european union.
we want a just and viable solution as soon as possible but i cannot make any public comments today regarding the on going negotiations.
i enjoy a good joke but i do not take it seriously.
we see it easing liquidity for europe's smes especially at the periphery and including young innovative companies will help to boost employment for our youth and to create the conditions for sustainable and competitive growth.
your own country's geography versus my country's geography.
despite many differences both governments are trying to keep bilateral relations as calm as possible.
i am here to work for europe not against it.
naturally we follow the developments in that country very closely.
we have improved our relationship in terms of combating terrorism.
we know the community approach.
we must explore ways to restore normal lending to the real economy that is among the most ambitious priorities of our presidency.
some may not be happy that greece did not give in to the exit scenario that greece indeed delivered.
on growth jobs and cohesion everybody understands that the current level of unemployment in europe is politically unsustainable.
we have already taken care of them. we are trying to conclude all these efforts in my country successfully but please there should be no ex post political debate that makes our life more difficult.
finally i was asked about turkey.
i would like to thank mr farage for all the lessons about what democracy is and what democracy is not.
again let me thank everybody for their presence here today.
we are trying to improve our cooperation on some neutral economic areas such as trade and tourism.
we do not forget that the real target is to expose them not to victimise them.
as i said at the beginning we are implementing what we have undertaken to implement and we are honouring our signature. we are delivering fruitful results and we hope that greece together with all the other european nations will enter the next phase which will be a phase not simply of recovery but of real growth so that unemployment our biggest concern
now we are becoming aware of the humorist approach.
until now everybody has thought much as they may not like the development of the european union that it was inevitable.
no do not worry about all that because the trialogue on mifid has been a success and in many ways it sums up the two europes the europe that is talked about in here by the dreamers who want to impose a united states of europe with an identity and currency and the real world out there.
you cannot make any decisions you have been bailed out and you have surrendered. democracy the thing your country invented in the first place and you cannot admit that joining the euro was a mistake because of course mr papandreou did that didn't
he? he even said there should be a referendum in greece and within forty eight hours the unholy trinity that now run this european union had him removed and replaced by an ex goldman sachs employee puppet.
it is going to be a battle of national democracy versus eu state democracy. whatever you may say in this chamber the people out there do not want a united states of europe they want a europe of sovereign states trading and working together and i believe the european elections are going to mark a watershed.
madam president prime minister two thousand and fourteen is supposed to be the year of democracy in europe but what kind of democracy tears up its own constitution bans demonstrations to prove the people are happy sends machine gun toting storm troopers to arrest democratically elected mps and imprisons opponents without trial when they cannot disprove hearsay allegations made against them by police informers?
totalitarians like you always justify such attacks on freedom with propaganda lies about criminal association but mr samaras your bankers' occupation government now busy helping your masters loot greece are the real criminals.
let me turn to the situation in europe.
they are coming to work and they are doing that.
you need to take the lead in defending this core of european integration and fighting the delusions of those who say that this is a problem.
the challenges for greece are not only in the area of getting the economy back on track but as guy verhofstadt said also of cleaning up the political culture and ensuring that there is a free and pluriform press which is essential for a democracy.
with regard to the greek presidency i would like to know what the greek presidency will do finally after so many months of deafening silence from the council to get a serious response from the council to the revelations of massive spying and mass surveillance by the us.
this experience should help make the greek presidency a success but it will not be easy.
we all want the banking union up and running as soon as possible.
this is crucial in order to speed up economic recovery but the council created major obstacles on the last legislative file in the single resolution mechanism.
what started as a legal concern of one member state has now resulted in splitting the fund and in a complete overturn of the governance of the resolution mechanism into an overly complex system leaving crucial decisions up to the member states.
it will also not assure equal treatment of banks irrespective of the member states in which they operate including equal treatment with regard to the resolution fund.
prime minister samaras you know the clear position of this parliament and if you also want the file to be concluded before the european elections you have to wake up the council.
you have to get an ambitious mandate for the negotiation and you have to get it soon in order to get it completed before the european elections.
the presidency of the country which came back which demonstrated enormous courage and whose people are working hard to return to economic prosperity. the greek presidency is symbolic proof of european resilience political determination and strong european solidarity.
we must work hard to get this done before the european elections because we need to complete the banking union.
we have of course very often called for improving information sharing feeding and using the databases in the way that i just mentioned.
therefore information exchange and the feeding of the databases have been a major priority for the presidency in the justice and home affairs field.
i will not go into the techniques of it but obviously it has to do with very important issues like sharing biometric matching services a common repository of data for different information systems and the like.
i am convinced that trust and recognition of the operational added value of sharing information between member states and with europol or eurojust are fundamental factors for success.
on twenty eight april the european union data protection package was formally adopted by the co legislators and now it has to be implemented and will require measures to ensure clarity guidance and workable solutions for the day to day work of what i just mentioned the practitioners and the interoperability.
it is also key that we think through what it means if you have such a system and you believe in fundamental rights and privacy.
yes to a certain extent that is technical work but technical work that cannot function without political leadership and trust.
therefore full compliance with fundamental rights and data protection rules is a precondition for the way we manage and share that information for law enforcement.
that has to become in reality more and more constraining for the member states. we do this through the different parameters that have been mentioned.
this can be improved immediately without any legislative change.
two thousand and fifteen fortunately and also importantly we have made significant progress in recent years in terms of feeding and consulting databases as is for example shown by the latest report from eu lisa for.
figures are available for instance in the eu ctc's latest report.
it is also the effective and legitimate use of bytes and data that allows us to identify terrorist networks to detect their plans and to uproot them at an early stage. so that information is vital to protect our societies and citizens.
as i mentioned in the first round that is not so easy because you have to do it on the basis of trust interoperability and also filling the databases in a way that is immediately concrete for the people who work in law enforcement and intelligence agencies who are in border control and who are related to crime and therefore often the relationships that we see between crime and terror. terrorism is not primarily defeated by bombs and bullets.
other more thematic systems such as the visa information system would be connected to it with all necessary safeguards for the protection of personal data. all this is not to say that information sharing should improve at the expense of fundamental rights
that is why we presented our vision on stronger and smarter information systems for borders and security already in april because we saw these problems and we saw the need to bring change both practically and structurally.
the schengen information system contains only names not fingerprints.
information sharing is our only effective weapon against asymmetric and unpredictable threats and limiting information in our national boxes does not provide security.
the entry exit system we proposed in april is interconnected and interoperable with the visa information system.
it is not about reinventing the wheel either.
third our information landscape is complex and fragmented.
we are now in the final stages of establishing an expert group to look at different options on interoperability.
this is the crucial challenge facing all of us because our most important duty is to ensure the security of our citizens.
this is potentially a powerful tool against crime because it automatically compares dna fingerprints and vehicle data.
this fragmentation makes us vulnerable.
let me close by saying that it will be our clear priority in the next twelve months.
we have third country nationals who do not need visas.
the architecture of our systems for borders and security needs to improve.
not all member states are connected to all systems.
implementation in practice remains poor.
it is only as helpful as the number of member states connected to it.
a fingerprint functionality will be developed urgently in the coming months.
we are using our powers under the treaties to get better results but we all need to understand the importance of implementing what we agree without going to the courts.
second there are information gaps which are not covered by any system.
in today's security environment strength equals information and knowledge. in fact the capacity to both share and make smart use of information.
the prm framework.
information is stored separately in various unconnected systems.
when not traveling by air there is no information about them before they arrive.
border guards and police officers cannot consult multiple eu systems at the same time.
the group will meet this month for the first time and we will work to give us policy input for decisions next year.
it is exactly the opposite.
plenty of tools to exchange information effectively are already in place.
to be useful our data systems must be interoperable and interconnected.
here is what we needed to look for in the union in our union.
sharing information is the strongest example of trust between us.
an eu travel information and authorisation system will be proposed to close this gap.
freedom and security are two sides of the same coin. you cannot have freedom without security.
what we want for the future is to have a common repository of data for different information systems which will contain all the basic data.
first among them our information sharing.
first it is clear that some systems do not work as well as they should.
we all know more by sharing more.
we are moving from rhetoric and political statements to concrete actions on improving our information management.
our information cannot be locked up in silos.
based on this input we may need to modify our legal instruments or even propose new ones.
information sharing is key to fighting terrorists.
it must be interconnected in order to be useful.
ms fajon ms in't veld implementation of these existing instruments is our priority.
our expert group on interoperability of systems will deliver tangible policy input twelve months from now.
to discuss this three weeks ago. as many of you stressed ms metsola and others and as i said in my opening remarks respect for fundamental rights and in particular data protection will be integral to our future information architecture.
our commitment to this priority is a given.
we are being told by the remain campaign that somehow britain would not be secure if we were to leave the european union.
thank you very much madam president.
rather we want to be a united kingdom that takes its place in the wider world but continues to be good friends and good neighbours with europe.
of course we get most of our information on international terrorism in the uk from the five eyes alliance which doesn't require political union or the handingover of sovereignty.
but having said all of that of course we in the uk want to continue to work together with our neighbours and friends across europe. this is not a debate about brexit in the uk or to say that the uk wants to be some kind of little england' separated from the continent;
the quality of information is as important as the quantity.
the high level expert group which the commission announced in this communication will play an important role in developing a more long term view for the future of the information systems and databases of the european union.
they can do their work best when they have access to high quality systems with high quality information that can facilitate their task.
citizens have to be confident that this information is used and shared on the basis of proportionality and only for well described limited purposes. we need to protect our societies but we need to do so without becoming big brother.
the roadmap contains practical short and medium term points with which action can be undertaken quickly as well as long term orientations to enhance information management and information exchange in three domains first law enforcement including judicial cooperation in criminal matters;
and third border management and migration.
that is the big challenge.
it lists a number of key challenges in information exchange as well as principles and guidelines to be followed.
i think this is a very important point.
there has been very substantial progress over the past year and we will continue to strive for further improvement as soon as possible.