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ireland's economic recovery is very much challenged by the fact that one quarter of our debt was placed on the shoulders of irish taxpayers in order to safeguard the euro.
two thousand and twelve the srm regulation introduces a coordinated european approach for failed banks.
in agreeing in june two thousand and twelve to break once and for all the link between bank debt and sovereign debt eu government leaders accepted the principle of the recapitalisation of irish banks.
it is a situation where a revolving door exists between politicians and careers as a corporate lobbyist as we have seen with many former irish ministers.
it is a situation where it is completely acceptable to have breakfast at breakfast events with big arms dealers.
mr president in my three years in this parliament i have seen clearly what david cronin in his book corporate europe' meant when he said that the majority of meps behave like ventriloquist dummies for big business.
it sums up the reality of two europes one europe of the one with instant access to well paid politicians and another of the ninety nine who get to vote once every five years and then for the rest of the time are told simply to accept the attacks on their living standards that are imposed.
given the seriousness of the alleged flaws in the investigations and the court trial we call on kazakhstan which is the incoming chair of the osce to ensure that the appeal is handled with full respect for national law and international standards.
i am utterly astonished that in front of the whole parliament here in strasbourg we are having an urgent debate on a traffic accident in kazakhstan albeit an accident where somebody was tragically killed and where the driver of the car happens to a human rights activist who has been duly sentenced in a court of law to four years in prison but even in a low security prison which has suddenly become in the terms of the
i am afraid that bringing this kind of matter before this house really brings the reputation of this house into disrepute and it means that the good work that we try to do in human rights is devalued when we start talking about traffic accidents.
are we seriously suggesting that the sentence is too harsh for somebody who was convicted of manslaughter?
we cannot go on traducing a country like kazakhstan simply because of political motivation to try and bring down their reputation before they chair the osce next year. this is politically motivated and it is a disgrace that it is on the agenda.
i hope the house will throw out these resolutions and support the amendments.
energy efficiency and renewables are a key means of ensuring that energy poverty is reduced long term.
the market alone cannot deliver this crucial investment particularly for those living in social housing and the private rental sector.
for many people this brings the added dread of extra energy costs.
twenty five six billion for the uk economy and support over eight zero fulltime skilled jobs a vital investment in our future putting money into local communities like my own.
while much progress has been made on improving efficiency and reducing their cost government support schemes remain crucial.
that is why the recent decision by the tories to slash support for solar and onshore wind is such a deplorable act.
violent attacks on gay men and women are a serious concern and totally unacceptable. east london in particular is a dangerous place for gay men.
the silence of so many lgbt groups on this issue is puzzling.
we have seen ancient churches and monasteries looted and converted to mosques. in isis territory christian women and girls are sold in sex slave markets whilst male christians are forced to sign contracts that officially relegate them to secondclass status.
for centuries christians have lived worked and prayed in the middle east. indeed that region was the birthplace of christianity.
we also see the grotesque scenes of gay men and women being thrown off rooftops and kicked to death if they survive the fall.
yet since the collapse of secular leaders in the region islamists like isis have filled the vacuum with a toxic and intolerant campaign against christians.
this hatred of gay men that is common in isis style islamic extremism is now spreading to my country where gay men and women are frequently demonised in radical sermons.
over ninety countries ban or restrict christian belief many of them in the middle east.
i hope whoever wins the london mayoral race hopefully peter whittle himself a gay man will make tackling this problem a top priority.
domestic violence has traditionally been viewed as something that goes on behind closed doors and should stay there.
twelve to fifteen per cent of women in europe face violence every day in their home.
mr president last week saw a significant agreement made by the two largest political parties in the north of ireland and with the irish and british governments. the six counties' institutions are the only viable platform to give protection to the working poor and those on benefits.
the british government has covered up for state actors their agents the british army police and the political institutions which colluded in countless murders and to this day the british government continues to exercise a national security veto to conceal the role it played in collusion in ireland.
the resolution we are going to vote on this week will provide the guiding line for upcoming negotiations on the next generation development instrument.
in particular for the middle income countries the mobilisation of domestic revenue is crucial for reducing poverty and aid dependency.
therefore the committee on development has taken the initiative to analyse the lessons learnt with the dci and to define our expectations for the future instrument.
the future instrument must ensure better integration of environmental and climate change issues in developing cooperation.
parliament has closely followed the functioning and impact of the instrument to ensure that the money is spent in accordance with these objectives.
we need a financing instrument which is exclusively targeted at the objectives of poverty eradication as defined in the lisbon treaty and which only covers developing countries.
the eu development budget in the next financial framework should increase in real terms and thus contribute to reaching the collective target of spending.
funding to improve people's access to basic health and education must be ring fenced by including a clear benchmark.
the oda quota must be even stricter than in the current dci.
the scarce development resources must be used in the most effective and efficient manner.
let me be clear that we do not question the importance of non oda cooperation with developing countries in particular the emerging markets and strategic middle income countries but this form of cooperation should be channelled through separate instruments to enhance transparency and protect the specific nature of development cooperation.
closer coordination between the commission and member states is needed and parliament therefore supports the development of joint strategy papers.
i hope that this house will give broad support to the proposals from the committee on development which have been carried out in quiet disquisition but based on our experience of the negotiations we went into and i remind the house that we merged fourteen regulations into one in the dci.
covering the period between two thousand and seven and two thousand and thirteen the eu has at its disposal a budget of almost eur seventeen billion to combat poverty to help achieve the millennium development goals and to promote democratic governance in developing countries.
at least twenty of funding under the geographical programmes should go into these life saving sectors of basic health and basic education.
the new instrument must be sufficiently funded.
assisting developing countries in setting up fair and effective tax systems is another issue to be strengthened.
at the end of this year the commission is going to present its proposals for the next generation of financing instruments for external action to cover the post two thousand and thirteen multiannual financial framework.
one important element will be flexibility in the programming process so that funding and priorities can adapt to today's rapidly changing world.
i am pleased to see that we agree on the majority of issues.
most of all the commission appreciates that the continuing dialogue in the context of democratic scrutiny has produced very good results. we only regret that parliament does not feel that some of its resolutions on programming were respected in every detail although the commission has taken full account of parliament's view wherever possible.
a separate partnership instrument will concentrate on cooperation of eu interest and will be complemented by a thematic programme addressing civil society organisations and local authorities.
this could be done by the introduction of significant elements of the delegated acts procedure fully respecting the criteria established in article.
this runs in parallel with two other consultations in the area of the media freedom and pluralism.
the scope of the green paper is broader than tv sets with added internet connectivity and aims to address the progressive merging of traditional broadcast services and the internet in a more holistic way.
this green paper launches a consultation process which questions all stakeholders on how to achieve this goal.
even if many of the new functionalities are not being used yet they are just one example of converging experience.
we want to see economic growth and at the same time protect values.
with regard to the implementation of the current avmsd the commission will launch a study on the exposure of minors to alcohol advertising.
two thousand and fourteen as regards future policies the commission has published a green paper on convergence and would like to give an opportunity to all interested stakeholders to make their voices heard in the debate.
on the basis of the results of this process we will decide on the necessity for potential follow up steps. the consultation process will run until the end of august.
i have already mentioned the others as you will certainly remember.
topics such as accessibility access to and financing of european content advertising regulation and the protection of minors are addressed in the green paper. looking at growth and values topics also include market considerations financing models interoperability and infrastructure.
we have free trade agreements where article two the human rights clause has never actually been enforced.
they are not respected and indeed even within the cotonou agreement there is a question as to whether there should be respect for the rights of lgbt people.
the toolkit enables the eu's external action service to work for the fundamental rights of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people.
so we look to you to give a very strong lead in defending human rights with all those countries that we have relations with.
yet the universality of that respect is failing across the world. we have agreements with countries such as the african caribbean and pacific countries where the rights of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people are criminalised.
baroness ashton i am extremely glad that you are now in office because your record has shown that you have absolutely no hesitation in standing up for people who have no voice and whose rights are taken away.
this is why we need a strong human rights directorate within the external action service to ensure this policy coherence across development trade and foreign affairs as you said in your statement.
i wish you well i trust you and this house has every confidence in you.
i want to pay tribute to dr andrikien for bringing together more than four hundred amendments in this impressive informative and extremely useful report.
this year's theme highlighted the work of individuals and organisations worldwide who fight human rights violations specifically discrimination.
today i want to set out how work has been proceeding since then and how i see the way ahead now with the support of the european external action service.
as i have expressed previously i fully expect my colleagues in brussels and the heads of our eu delegations to do the same.
that means working human rights into the activities of all parts of the external action service as well as the whole range of eu external action trade development csdp and so on and at all levels.
that means establishing local human rights strategies for each country reviewing our priorities and the most effective use of our assorted tools for example by sharing experiences on child protection on the internet or how best to tackle child labour.
at the general assembly third committee the eu also achieved its chief objectives resolutions on burma dprk and the death penalty were all passed with increased majorities as was the canadian resolution on iran and the eu resolution on eliminating religious intolerance again met with consensus.
funding specific human rights projects in over one hundred countries.
i will be asking the service and my senior team in the months ahead to consider the key themes arising from these consultations and how best we can put them into practice.
the report covers a lot of ground and i want to pick up three important developments of recent months. first and foremost the eu has been working hard to advance the cause of human rights on the multilateral stage.
that is why i particularly welcome today the contribution in this report and i would also end by congratulating guillermo farias on the award of the sakharov prize for freedom of thought.
in the multilateral context and through support for civil society;
third work has begun on streamlining the patchwork of policies which have grown up over the past ten years and which make up the eu's human rights policy guidelines toolkits other instruments the guidelines we have got for promoting and protecting human rights.
human rights are the core of our eu identity and they go to the heart of what we do around the world.
first of all the need for europe to continue to speak up for human rights on the global stage.
we are also investing to ensure that our own record stands up to scrutiny.
that will be built into the structure at headquarters as well as throughout our delegations in order to be able to monitor the human rights situation and promote an effective realisation of eu human rights policy goals.
we are working to strengthen our action at the united nations and to resist attempts to dilute universal standards the basis of our action.
we need to find innovative ways of working with third country partners to promote our shared values as we have done successfully in the un general assembly vote on the death penalty resolution.
in a successful session of the un human rights council the european union held a common position on potentially divisive resolutions concerning the gaza flotilla and the goldstone report.
we have developed strong sets of mechanisms for promoting these values in different contexts with different partners;
there are good reasons why policy has grown in such an organic way but it seems like a good time to take stock and to move on and for that ongoing work on the review i see three lines of action.
nearly ten years on from the very first eu communication on human rights and with the establishment of the new service i want to ensure our human rights policy is effective innovative and targeted the silver thread that runs through all of our external action and a gold standard for our foreign policy.
third and finally human rights should be visibly at the centre of eu external action.
second we need to tailor our approach to individual situations.
six months ago i stood before you to present a first vision of how the european union should conduct its policy on human rights.
over this past year i have met nobel prize winner shirin ebadi on iran and frontline award winner afghanistan's human rights commissioner for women dr soria sabhrang and other human rights defenders across the world and i will continue to do so.
but first of all i am very grateful to dr andrikien for her report which responds to the eu's annual report on human rights and sets out the european parliament's vision for how we can make our approach to human rights in the european union more effective.
the range of eu action and challenges we face are well reflected in the report before the house today attacks on human rights defenders sexual violence use of new technologies to curb freedom of expression to name but a few.
words are very fine but action might be more helpful to the oppressed and suffering peoples of the world.
it appears that european school children will grow up learning that the eu is a defender of human rights but what have you actually done beyond rhetoric?
what about the forced deportations of roma from france this year?
they belong to everybody.
we will pick that point up in that conversation. finally on structures we have already done the training programme for new heads of delegations and one session was about human rights.
the second point was about the breadth of the issues.
i am not suggesting that is what the eu has done before.
it will take time and there will be things we cannot do as well as i would wish but we will absolutely do our best.
it is about finding ways in which we can do as much as possible to address the concerns.
part. this is particularly true on some of the work that we are doing internationally.
i will begin with the issue which ms hautala raised right at the end and which a number of colleagues have mentioned.
i think this is a core and fundamental part of the work that we should
as you will see in the structure when we finalise it and we have not yet done so human rights will be fully recognised in the structure and we are going to make sure we have the expertise that colleagues here have asked for within the structure.
yes it should be monitored; yes we need expertise;
i want us to be really creative in working with people on the ground in different countries where we meet human rights defenders and i do wherever
it is the responsibility of everybody.
i read into all that was said about the different people and the different countries the fundamental point about human rights which is this for them to apply to you you simply need to be human and
that is what i want to achieve in my time in office and i feel one hundred committed to trying to achieve that.
and thirdly ways in which we can make a difference.
well. colleagues have also mentioned the need to address the rights of women of children and of lesbian gay transgender and bisexual people.
but i do not want it to sit in a corner. i want it to be part of everything that we do a silver thread not a filigree thread a silver thread that is strong but that shines and is there for everyone to witness.
i recognise what a number of people have said about religious faith and i accept that this is an important issue.
the final point i want to make is how i think that more than anything we have to look within the review for practical and innovative ways of getting our messages across.
i am suggesting that i am determined to make sure it cannot happen again.
but it is not down to just a few people within the eas.
that is very important because we played a part i personally wrote to the ministers in every country that had not yet ratified asking them to do
i go. i want us to be innovative and creative in finding new ways of raising these issues of human rights new ways beyond what is so important in any event the statements that i make the statements that we make as twenty seven member states and the statements that we make as the institutions of the european union.
do; secondly ensuring that we cover everyone in the work we do on human rights;
let me start by being absolutely clear i talk about mainstreaming because i have seen too often in my life human rights relegated to the corner of an organisation and done as an afterthought in a way that is not going to make any kind of difference.
it matters to me however that this parliament understands what i am trying to do and that i am trying to make sure that it is everybody's responsibility.
it is about individuals organisations and the collective will to be able to make a real difference.
the third thing i wanted to say was just a bit about some of the things we are beginning to see happen and in which we are playing a
it is there for you all to witness as part of what we will be doing. on the working group chairs we are going to put forward our proposals for appointments. i will be appointing the working group chair who will be responsible for human rights and that will enable them to pick up the point that was made about whether capitals should have people gathered from the capitals or whether it should be based in brussels.
do. it is universal it is something we all believe in and it is the way forward that we should be practical in what we
here. those are the criteria for human rights and that is again how we will approach this within the external action service.
so please accept that it is part and a fundamental core of the structure but i will be determined to make it everybody's responsibility.
his tragedy represents a great number of similar cases that have not come to our attention yet.
we should bear in mind the international commitments of the russian federation.
it is essential to make it very clear to the russian authorities that such incidents must be investigated in compliance with the principle of the rule of law. instead the investigators and prosecutors involved in the death of sergei magnitsky have been promoted and rewarded.
madam president i congratulate the rapporteur laima andrikien for her balanced and sensible approach to this report.
my group the ecr is fully committed to promoting fundamental human rights throughout the world.
why else would the eu be developing a strategic partnership with china whose government shows scant regard for freedoms we consider to be essential?
equally the eu has a moral duty to provide development and humanitarian aid to developing countries even those with a lamentable human rights record such as pakistan where women and religious minorities in particular suffer from institutionalised discrimination.
i am nevertheless pleased that this report highlights countries that have been of particular concern to me during my career vietnam cuba venezuela iran zimbabwe and north korea.
the issue of impunity in russia for human rights offenders is rightly also raised.
the central theme running through this report is that democracy human rights and economic freedom go hand in hand.
madam president whilst we all unite in condemning flagrant human rights abuses in countries such as iran and china we must start distinguishing these from the grossly over the top eu inspired human rights industry.
there are excessive eu employment rights and american style rights too for damages and national legislation such as the uk's disastrous human rights act which allows foreign terrorists and criminals to stay in britain because their rights are now seen to be more important than those of the decent citizens they threaten.
the truth is the noble cause of human rights has too often descended into a deep trough with millionaire lawyers growing rich defending the spurious rights of terrorists criminals and the greedy. this has to stop.
madam president when we heard the recording from mr farias from cuba this morning i was impressed by the fact that he identified himself and his colleagues as a non violent' opposition to the cuban regime.
or heretical opinions of academic subjects without a hint of encouragement of violence.
moreover a political party without any violent connections has been banned in belgium.
an attempt to ban a party in germany failed in the constitutional court only because it was revealed that the evidence had been fabricated by state agents.
for this reason we need to have the proper structures in place.
we know that you the high representative are committed to human rights and democratic structures at headquarters.