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the purpose of business is to benefit the people who have worked and invested in companies not to provide a pool of money for the excessive eu salaries and madcap social job creation schemes which do not work.
money laundering is of course a very bad thing but the use of terrorism money laundering linked with terrorism is just an excuse that is always used.
in the next legislative period we must elaborate a system of direct eu financial support for several categories of highly skilled professionals in new member states in order to motivate them to continue working at home.
we can all agree on that.
we are negotiating it at this moment. at this moment compromises are circling.
we are having shadows' meetings.
so maybe i won't but you will all get a chance to debate this at length next month.
that is the proper parliamentary process and we should follow it.
it is not right for the commission to be able to give a statement to us on their proposal while we are in the midst of negotiating it in committee here.
before i comment further please allow me to clarify one very important point.
it is a national prerogative to decide on the time zone today already it exists.
as it was pointed out today we have three times already in the eu and this does not represent any disturbance to the internal market.
i would very much appreciate it if you take this into consideration when you are commenting on this topic.
while i am still noticing some resistance in your comments i see that after a long and thorough examination you are ready to adopt your final position in line with the original proposal that was made last year. this is a very important message to european citizens
because the response to the questionnaire about the time change was almost ten times bigger than the response to any other questionnaire and any other any other consultation we ever had at eu level.
so people do care.
this issue can be seen as more complicated than one would expect at first sight.
this is mainly due to the division of competences between member states and the union and that is today.
it is really important to recognise this division and respect it while making decisions.
as i already said the commission will ensure within its powers a close monitoring of the implementation of this directive and we will work together to avoid any transitional disruptions for european citizens and economic operators.
i am personally very confident that each of the member states is equally aware of this and they will make well considered and coordinated choices in the months to come.
but it is their choice.
all the commission has in its power is to make sure that we all make decisions at the same time.
this is something we will exercise.
i even encourage member states in order to be sure which time to choose to do the national consultations and i believe that the time that you envisioned will be sufficient time to carry them out in a democratic open and transparent way.
at the end let me thank you one more time all of you rapporteur and members that you dedicated your time to this file and by adopting your position this house will be ready to start the negotiations with the council
it's necessary to return to diplomacy as an instrument for resolving problems in relations between countries.
all the necessary legislation to deliver it.
i think we can be very proud of that. secondly connectivity is absolutely vital in this whole area especially if we want to make greater use of renewables.
so to maximise it connectivity is absolutely important.
i'm not asking the commissioner to respond to that immediately but maybe you can as president ask the commission to come back to that in writing as soon as possible preferably still this week so that we can take action.
commission in brussels.
in today's report mr kari addresses fundamental issues such as the intermittency of renewable energy and the collateral effects of the eu energy subsidies.
i sincerely hope that the uk will exit the eu repealing all parts of the eu energy and climate policy which is failing.
the uk has a chance to get back in the real world and invest in reliable energy sources such as nuclear and coal while also exploring national indigenous energy resources such as the local undiscovered shale gas.
obviously they don't agree with what you're saying and quite frankly it's not so much the rich who are getting away with lots of money its that there's too much money being spent by the state on crazy schemes and the working classes are not getting a fair deal and they're not getting jobs.
mr president the ppe group would like to request a commission statement on the security threats arising from the rapid dissemination of terrorist content online.
as you mr president outlined earlier the horrific scenes in new zealand and utrecht and the fact that they had an immediate global reach only reinforces the urgency of the situation.
we know only too tragically that our space online is being abused to recruit extremists and fuel hate.
our online space must be made more secure.
the eu is facing a range of terrorist attacks and threats of a violent nature from both network groups and lone actors all of whom use the internet as a means to communicate disseminate and recruit.
while i know that legislative processes are ongoing this week must be about sending a strong political signal.
this report highlights the scale and the international dimension of the problem.
it's disappointing therefore to see theresa may otherwise engaged with tory brexit at a time when the european union is showing leadership in tackling financial crime.
my constituents are tired of abusive business practices.
they've left our public purse depleted and pushed our public services to breaking point.
as with austerity measures the effects of financial crime are felt most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. but the conservative party have always looked out for their own the bankers big business those who already have and want more.
we should therefore see brexit for what it is a project by the right for the right.
it undermines public services fuels rising inequality and undermines the social contract so why are we failing to make faster progress?
one important reason is that we have our own european tax havens such as the uk the netherlands malta luxembourg and ireland whose governments talk tough but block the european cooperation we need to make progress.
i am proud that we now have consensus across this house to ban letterbox companies from our continent and to end the outrageous scam of buying citizenship via golden visas but the greens would go further.
we would push for minimum tax rates across the union prevent tax avoiders from having access to public contracts and stop individual member states from having a veto to block tax progress.
as we come to the end of this parliament we can feel pleased with our progress on tax.
but we need the next parliament to transfer the pressure to member states.
the commission welcomes the swift progress on this file and hopes that parliament will adopt its first reading position tomorrow. we can all agree that consumers across the eu should be able to enforce their rights effectively in mass harm' situations and that is why the commission proposed this directive.
via the representative actions for the protection of the collective interest of consumers qualified entities such as consumer associations or independent public bodies will be able to act.
they will be able to stop infringements of consumer law and help obtain redress for those consumers who have been harmed.
this will especially help vulnerable consumers in situations where they shy away from defending their rights individually. the proposal responds to the need for strong public and private enforcement of eu consumer rights.
in line with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality the proposal gives member states considerable room for manoeuvre on key procedural points. our aim is to find solutions that safeguard consumer rights and ensure that traders are also treated fairly. from the beginning we made it very clear that the commission does not want to create a litigation culture in europe and the proposal on representative actions
in no way lends itself to such an interpretation. we define a clearly european way of collective redress that is fair for consumers and businesses that does not contain punitive damages and is not bringing usstyle class actions to the
eu. in particular we set strict standards for qualified entities which want to act on behalf of consumers.
i welcome that the report is pursuing the same objective.
in particular i note the proposed strengthening of the criteria for qualified entities and the preservation of member states' discretion as to the precise procedural modalities.
member states share the objective of ensuring clear and effective rules for an efficient and proportionate collective redress system suitable for the european model. i am convinced that with the new deal for consumers and in particular with the collective redress initiative we are sending a clear message to european consumers that the eu cares about them.
the eu after all is a peace project isn't it? it seems that clock change is the last remnant of the second world war so let's do away with it.
we should not give the council and colleagues who think like you more extra time to sort out all sorts of obscure objections even if governments cannot make reasonable decisions and threaten our logistical systems and common markets with patchworks and chaos.
we should call their bluff.
please mr president think about the small countries who are supporting the european course and who are fighting for the european course.
since i was mentioned in an incoherent speech which i couldn't even follow i would like my colleague to kindly specify more clearly if you are against these reforms because that is what i am understanding from you.
reforms that can indeed ensure the separation of powers and the rule of law.
that's exactly the reason why they are not there.
the european parliament should make a statement for soviet memorabilia to disappear from amazon; for soviet repression to be respected as nazi repression.
it's time to wake up.
yes we did receive a response from commissioner biekowska but that was only on the recommendations not the conclusions.
that's a bit weird if we consider the commission a college.
so this goes beyond air quality.
this is also a matter of democratic accountability and i certainly demand from the commission before the end of this mandate a full and proper response to our inquiry conclusions and recommendations.
the second point i would like to make is that we never cleaned up the mess of dieselgate.
we did come up with new legislation but there are still millions of fraudulent diesel cars being driven around european cities and what we need is a very strong coordinated european approach. at the moment it is left to the member states and what we see happening is that individual member states take measures in such a way
that they might get rid of those cars in their own country but they will be exported to other european countries.
so please commissioner take this seriously and organise a huge summit with all member states to get these cars off the road and force european car manufacturers to take back these cars and make them comply with european legislation through both software and hardware
i have to agree with the house of commons submission of its reasoned opinion in relation to this subject which noted the lack of sufficient evidence to justify the discontinuation of seasonal time changes. this plan is yet another example of harmonisation for harmonisation's sake.
so much for the idea of subsidiarity.
again we see your philosophy of ever closer union selfishly being put ahead of the rights of national governments. mr president it should be for an individual member state to enact seasonal clock changes as their economy or indeed geography deem it necessary not the eu institutions.
this is not the way for a serious parliamentarian to move forward.
so we have enough problems and we don't want to go down that road.
what my colleague gerben jan gerbrandy said that there are still cars running on the streets heavily polluting knowing that they are just dieselgate cars and that the commission is not even taking action in getting member states together on that is really concerning.
we know that there are a couple of infringement cases by the way commissioner biekowska always promised there will be more infringement cases that was in the heat of the debate. was that just to calm parliament down?
was that just not telling the truth?
and the last point.
we have cases with the ombudsman.
we want more transparency also on the technical working groups.
also here the commission is refusing to give the minutes of technical meetings.
we furthermore agree to temporary relaxation of the oecd rules on medium to long term credit insurance.
where commercial parties were no longer willing or able to provide export finance insurance member states have stepped in via the export credit agencies.
the recent meeting in new delhi which i attended has provided new political momentum and together with the upcoming g twenty summit in pittsburgh it will hopefully enable us to conclude the deal in. two thousand and ten we are calling for real engagement with key world trade organisation partners in the months ahead in order to move the negotiations forward on the basis of the package which has been tentatively negotiated up until this point.
honourable members know that the priority on the multilateral front is and remains an ambitious balanced and comprehensive conclusion to the doha round which would reap great benefits for the world and of course for the european economy.
to make available new trade financing facilities or increase the envelopes of existing ones.
at the multilateral level we strongly endorse the commitments made in the g twenty context for national export credit agencies to make available sufficient government export credit insurance capacity where this is needed and we also support the efforts by multilateral financing organisations
as members know we are pursuing a range of bilateral agreements in conjunction with this.
to make sure we consolidate and increase exports we are continuing to pursue the various trade negotiations we have engaged in.
with regard to short term insurance this has been facilitated by the commission decision to temporarily relax the conditions to offer such support.
together with member states we have taken a number of important steps to increase the availability of trade finance.
in these difficult economic times we have a particular responsibility towards the world's poor to make sure our development assistance is being channelled effectively.
the prime responsibility for delivering on the oda commitments lies with the member states themselves.
eur eighty million has also been mobilised for the funding under the existing edf flex mechanism for countries that suffered significant export losses in.
two thousand and eight in addition the mid term review of cooperation strategies for countries funded from the ec budget is currently under way and the mid term review for acp countries funded from the edf has been accelerated in order to re define and adjust the national strategies and allocations in early.
has so far responded rapidly to help prevent disastrous social consequences in developing countries in particular in the least developed countries most of which are acp states.
it represents additional financing for these highly vulnerable countries.
stimulating trade and private investment working together for economic governance and stability and protecting the most vulnerable in developing countries.
on the basis of the information gathered from member states we foresee the eu collective oda increasing from eur forty nine billion in two thousand and eight to eur. fifty three four billion in two thousand and nine and eur.
i strongly believe that the crisis should not be an excuse for our member states to water down donors' aid and promises and i will insist on remaining committed to delivering the promised aid levels both for eu member states as well as for other donors.
two thousand and ten this also means that without additional steps by member states to fulfil their individual targets the collective targets for two thousand and ten will not be achieved.
indeed its fertility rate is expected to decline even below.
two thousand and fifty in urban parts of the continent an emergent middle class is having fewer children at rates comparable with europeans.
the development trajectory of the african continent. fertility rates tell an important part of the story;
aware of these challenges the european commission has a development policy geared to fight poverty promote sustainable development and tackle political challenges in order to help foster stability.
two thousand and seven two thousand and thirteen more generally we are firmly engaged in increasing the level and effectiveness of the collective eu aid to health systems delivering universal coverage of basic services including reproductive health.
it emphasises human rights the empowerment of women the importance of investing in health and education and the provision of comprehensive reproductive health services to all those who need them.
the commission together with the eu member states is working on an environmental integration strategy to ensure that development cooperation efforts contribute to these objectives.
in order to address environmental pressure it is of key importance to ensure that local livelihoods are sustainable.
across all of its programmes the commission expects to commit around eur.
many studies have found a strong correlation between education and fertility;
one seven billion to education for the years;
our preparations for the copenhagen climate change summit are to be seen in this light. at present the eu is working with the african union and other regional organisations to strengthen their capacity to address environment and climate change issues.
and finally ensuring that climate change remains within certain limits and assisting african populations to adapt to climate change.
in particular the education of women has an impact on their reproductive behaviour.
in this field the commission is also bound by the strategy endorsed by the one thousand nine hundred and ninety four international conference on population and development further reviewed in.
the commission shares the concern of the honourable member that population growth in africa and the long term impact of high fertility rates could contribute significantly to increased pressure on africa's natural resources and determining
this story is one of promise of the countries which have attained political stability and achieved impressive economic growth.
the sector has lived up to the challenge of liberalisation and has undertaken a process of restructuring and modernisation which has not been easy. the sector has reduced mass production and concentrated on products with higher value added and technological content.
the textile and clothing sector comes from decades of managed trade.
and of course in our trade negotiations such as the free trade agreement with korea or the multilateral trade talks we do take into account the sensitivities of the different industrial sectors including the textile sector and we aim for balanced deals.
the sector has been evolving successfully and has maintained a world class export performance.
we reacted to this crisis by setting up the european recovery plan complemented by the european globalisation adjustment fund and the temporary community framework for state aid matters.
today european textiles are known in the world for their innovation and technical performance.
we follow very closely the effects of the financial crisis on our industrial sectors including of course the textile and clothing sector an important and strong industry in the european union.
market access issues are therefore a priority for it and i am happy that our renewed market access strategy has been taken up by this industry with positive results.
since early two thousand and nine trade in this sector has been fully liberalised.
these measures have also been relevant for the textile and clothing industry for instance the globalisation fund support has been used to reintegrate workers laid off in mostly small and medium sized enterprises of the sector in italy malta spain portugal lithuania and belgium.
we have asked eu beef businesses to come forward with their specific concerns and to make suggestions on how we might tackle barriers in key markets.
for example we managed to confine a few countries and lift the ban on eu exports of meat due to the dioxin and pcbs contamination incident in ireland in december two thousand and eight and recently we were successful in opening saudi arabia jordan and the philippines to the import of eu beef and to treat certain sps issues in a more trade friendly manner with egypt and israel.
that means using multilateral and bilateral channels and complementing the more formal medium to long term policy instruments with political contacts and with joint trade diplomacy.
the market access strategy sets up a stronger partnership between the commission member states and business to enhance the work of detecting analysing prioritising and removing barriers.
our efforts in relation to this market access have been stepped up considerably in recent years and we have several success stories to show we are going in the right direction.
we keep insisting on the different levels with countries such as indonesia malaysia and korea to bring some of their legislation fully in line with the requirements of the sps agreement and of the international standards of the world organisation for animal health.
the market access strategy and particularly the market access partnership launched in two thousand and seven is the centrepiece of the commission's work in that respect.
it has recently had very positive feedback and a presentation made by an irish business association will help us in setting priorities and continuing our work.
i have indeed been discussing with the united states and with china from which i came last week buy american' and buy chinese' two very different programmes;
i am concerned much more about the implementation by individual states in the united states than i am by what it actually said.
i am reassured to some extent by what both the trade minister chen deming and the vice premier tang jiaxuan said to me last week about the objective and the way in which european businesses would be treated but i remain vigilant to make sure that neither directly nor indirectly does european business
in terms of the current position on tyres which i think the honourable member is referring to we are just watching that at the moment to see exactly what will happen. the honourable member is right to point to it as an important area that we need to keep an eye on and see what happens and obviously i am happy to keep in touch on that.
will the commission in the light of this firstly suspend their gsp agreement with colombia and secondly suspend our negotiations for a free trade agreement until we get the assurances from the colombian government that trade unionists human rights activists and others can go about their business safely in that country?
what i think we have to do is to continue the dialogue continue working to include in our discussions and more importantly in our agreements an absolute guarantee along the lines that both honourable members are looking for.
it does not mean i hasten to add that i have not invited those who have already talked to me to continue with their contribution to making sure that we are on the right lines and of course i keep it under review but at the present time that is the course of action i have decided upon.
what measures is the commission taking if any to encourage or demand that similar standards apply to trading partners particularly in brazil?
i understand very well the strength of feeling.