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two thousand and twelve thanks to these favourable landing conditions greece saves money every year.
nine five billion will be dedicated to a cash buffer which should also reassure investors as it will act as greece's fiscal backstop.
i am well aware of today's time constraints so to borrow a reference from greece's history and cultural heritage i promise to be more spartan than delphic.
the country's competitiveness has been improving with a positive effect on the labour market.
so it is now up to greece to build on the programme's success and to consolidate its achievements.
this will require action on several fronts prudent fiscal policy based on primary surpluses and sound management of public finance financial sector governance and handling of nonperforming loans an efficient and effective social safety
back in two thousand and ten the country was facing formidable adjustment challenges which required a deep reform process.
this is what greece's postprogramme framework will be about.
it is very important that greece continues to take ownership and implement its ambitious longterm growth strategy.
we all would have liked a few things to have gone differently.
this includes an extension of the bulk of the loans by the european financial stability facility and a deferral of interest by an additional ten years.
that is indeed a good thing for democracy.
during the programme greece adopted over four hundred and fifty policy actions across a vast array of areas. of course implementation takes time and we need to be resilient.
for this purpose the greek government presented a growth model which is based on the continuation of reforms.
but let me be clear being out of the programme means greece being out of the programme.
all these are encouraging signs that will help greece to regain investor confidence.
this was a unique feature of the second assistance programme.
confidence in greece's future is the key message i wanted to convey to you.
market volatility some weeks ago has shown that greece remains vulnerable to risks.
the incomepassing agreement of euro area finance ministers of twenty two june will improve market sentiment even further as already seen on the secondary market.
the agreement reached at the june eurogroup is key for greece to achieve that goal.
greece's business cycle is now more aligned with the euro area economy and this is great news.
on the contrary we all gain from a stable and growing economy across our common currency area.
twenty four one billion which is a very large amount that covers greece's financing needs for around twenty two months after the exit from the programme on twenty august.
it is also an opportunity to cast a glance at the near future.
the positive results of the last programme are to their credit. these should now have a lasting effect on growth and would not have been possible without the extraordinary sacrifices made by the greek citizens without the country's tremendous efforts to rebalance and modernise its economy.
over the years greece's european partners have provided time and money.
is it a coincidence that a debt sustainability analysis has not been published?
the primary surplus needs to be.
mistakes have been made by greek politicians but also by our banks and pension funds.
in this respect i congratulate the greek people for what they have achieved during recent years.
if greece had been forced to follow the bad advice we heard from the left and the right the situation today would be even worse. so please use the mirror sometimes in future look to yourself and see what you have said.
rather than provide reasonable accommodation the eu prefers simply to use the tragedy of northern ireland as a battering ram to attack great britain for its democratic decision to leave the european union. it is our democratic right to leave the eu if we want to and it is not the eu's business to criticise.
he said that the appearance the appearance i say was given of them passing the stress tests but in truth the stress tests had simply been made easier.
we must remember that rules were bent if not completely rewritten to allow greece to enter the euro in the first place which clearly from recent history should never have happened.
it has meant mass unemployment tax rises collapsing public services rock bottom wages soaring child poverty and a huge rise in premature deaths.
with brexit the trade war with trump and the migration crisis the state of the greek economy has dropped down the pecking order of eu problems.
as a result human talent is wasted and human misery increased.
twenty one in my country that would equate to more than six million people out of work and yet this is greece's third adjustment programme.
the european union should drop the idiotic idea driven by integrationist ideology that it is sensible to lock greece and other southern members into a currency union with germany.
mr president reading the latest oecd summary of the greek economy yields a very telling sentence continuing high excess capacity will limit price and wage pressure'. what high excess capacity' really means is unemployment at.
that does not make it any prettier to watch.
economic activity in greece and in italy too is artificially depressed by an overvalued currency.
greek citizens will be forgiven for asking when the adjustment now rebadged as enhanced surveillance will be over because adjustment is of course another euphemism.
all because the high priests of european integration wish to keep greece locked into a currency the euro that is totally unsuited to its economic needs.
these are things that we have to observe not only in greece but also in many other member states but i think it's important that we draw this conclusion in the end.
they say one thing during the campaign and then we see that what they say during the campaign they either forget it afterwards or it does not work in practice.
over these eight years we have learned that populism is never a solution.
crisis brings misery to people it brings poverty it brings unemployment it brings bankruptcy to companies and we have to avoid this at any price.
madam president we are now discussing the conclusion of the third economic adjustment programme for greece.
we have to make sure that the country stays on the right track and for this reforms have to continue.
firstly we have to make sure that our economies reform that they become stronger they remain competitive they attract private investment that we support entrepreneurs smes and of course we have to keep to our budgets in order to make sure that we can react in a situation of crisis.
firstly we should do everything it takes to make sure that such a situation of crisis never ever occurs again in greece or in any other member state of the union.
crisis prevention is so important because if we do not prevent a crisis then if we enter into a crisis it's always more difficult.
what do we have to do for this?
we have to make sure that education is such that children in school are equipped with the right skills to be successful on the labour markets in greece and internationally.
the second message which i would like to give is that we have to make sure that the sacrifices made by the people of greece over the last eight years are not in vain.
it has been eight years and four hundred and fifty different reforms that were discussed between the troika and greece and what are the conclusions that we can draw now at the end of the process?
we have learned that populists don't have solutions;
and one more thing i want to say.
we have to make sure that the public administration is efficient and equipped populated with experts not politically driven.
had greece decided to leave the euro area the implications would have been truly catastrophic even deeper recession higher unemployment hyperinflation mass bankruptcies the collapse of the banking sector and of course not a single euro of assistance from the euro area.
thanks to that the greek drama is coming to an end hopefully although many doubts have been expressed including in this house as to whether this will indeed be the positive scenario.
that was the road map to austerity because if you spend more money than you have in the end you will have no money and you will have no one loaning you the money. what we see today is an achievement for the greek people who should be congratulated on that
but let's remember that it is because of the implemented reforms regarding budgets and structures that we can see these developments.
budget reforms and structural reforms that were rejected by successive governments in greece not least the present government which threw the country once again into a deeper crisis than it was in before in the belief that you could spend yourself out of the crisis. in the future it must be the main task of the commission
the way to deal with problems in the economy is about reforming and consolidating public spending.
it must be learned that we can never achieve anything without ensuring that we have the competitiveness the growth the entrepreneurship and the investments that are needed for growth.
madam president after listening to all your interesting and well placed comments concerns and questions i am even more convinced that given its diversity future success for greece depends
on the resilience that the current reform process can show across political and economic cycles.
let me stress that reforms take time to mature.
and this time that we need to provide this reform process with in a society is best given by its institutions.
we need to make our institutions stronger.
if we look back we can conclude that we have come a long way and indeed as many of you stressed not everything has been easy.
in the past eight years both greece and the euro area had to overcome hardship.
together however i think i can say today that we have learned a lot.
we all indeed paid a price for that yet we managed to overcome the obstacles on our way.
we have asked the institutions to monitor developments and report to us in the context of the postprogramme framework.
reforms are needed continuing the process of reform is needed and i am going to stress here a special role some of you also mentioned this for public administration reform and we deem public administration reform for tax collection.
over those concerns i must say in any case and this is my main message here today that we have many reasons to be proud.
greece is ready to turn over a new leaf and is well equipped for ensuring sustainable balanced and inclusive growth.
it is not just greece but also the euro that emerges stronger from this experience.
our single currency area has become more resilient and much wiser.
it has several tools and solutions to withstand the next crisis and we are working to strengthen it even more.
for those of you who expressed concerns over the success of the greek programmes ahead of us i would urge you to think of the portuguese experience and
the portuguese example is a good example for us to be aware of.
for the sake of transparency and clarity we should have as many rules in common between the member states as possible ideally with the common rules moving to a higher level of ambition.
this is not how we should treat people who can make important contributions to our innovative capacity competitiveness economy and society as a whole.
this is why a year ago we proposed an overhaul of the eu immigration rules for these groups.
there is growing international competition and we can no longer rely on automatically attracting the brightest.
the discussions in the council have not yet led to a common position between member states.
for the moment the eu accounts for the largest share of internationally mobile students we can be proud of this but it is in decline.
let us make sure that the eu stays an attractive place for young and talented third country nationals.
let me recall that our proposal makes it clear that this does not amount to a right to enter the labour market.
this concerns the so called more favourable conditions.
this is incentive enough for us to defend our level of ambition and i would like to thank you for that.
it is up to the member states to decide.
learning and volunteering should not be limited to one member state so we should indeed open up possibilities for these groups to move to other member states. i also support extending this possibility to job seeking and the setting up of businesses for students who finish their studies and researchers who finish their research.
this is also not in line with our ambition to increase possibilities for cultural exchanges learning and people to people contact.
let me mention a few of the most important amendments.
it also makes sense that students can benefit from the same equal treatment provisions as researchers in conjunction with family reunification provisions for students' family members. some member states already offer family reunification possibilities and i would like to support this being extended across the eu.
we are not against this at all in the area of equal treatment rights for instance but at the same time if the list of articles for which member states can have a more favourable provision becomes too long it risks ending up in a fragmented approach.
our target has been to have a directive which has the right balance between facilitating and simplifying and at the same time preventing abuse.
we have succeeded in overcoming fragmentation between member states in overcoming the cumbersome long procedures for admission and entry and now we have a common clear and easier rule that gives legal certainty and helps to prevent abuse. i would like to be clear here this partly in response to my colleague mrstoyanov that we need to attract talent competence and skills to europe.
they will also have to clearly show that they are able to support themselves and that they will not live on social benefits from member states.
we need to win the challenge of global competition and attractiveness is a global race. i have therefore been responsible within the ppe and i am proud and glad of this for trying to actively engage in finding a solution to attract train develop and keep talent in europe to match the needs of our companies.
so students and researchers would be granted the possibility to work but the rules of the labour market will remain national.
the pretext is europe's ageing population caused in part by women's enslavement to economic forces and subservience to anti family propaganda.
on what the migrants coming to our countries need to show and to do in order to be admitted.
of course many colleagues have talked about these being sensible measures and i think that is the case. we have dealt here with research studies people exchange voluntary service au pairing. what we are doing as we did with the directive on seasonal workers is to talk about managed migration sensible measures across the eu
dealt with by members of parliament understanding that these are very sensitive areas but understanding too that we should manage them well.
i think some of the sensitive and progressive measures that we have taken on board for example allowing people to work and pay taxes while they are also contributing to our member states are very sensible indeed but they need to be managed.
it is a very positive step forward that the european union is dealing with these matters rather than just talking about them and i think meps have done a good job here and it is a very positive step forward.
yes it is a paradox that we are facing huge youth unemployment in europe today.
it is a tragedy and we need to fight this but we need to be able to have two thoughts in our heads at the same time.
but it is actually a contribution because we are at the same time facing a lack of skills in certain environments where businesses and companies come daily to me and say we cannot find these people in europe so we need to be able to attract a few of them.
yes we do have an ageing population;
it will be difficult to supply for a generation that is getting older which is a good thing in a way but we need to be able to think on a long term basis as well.
mr president i should like to say on behalf of my group that we very much welcome the proposals in parliament's response on this particular issue. i think a number of us will have met or heard from students from researchers who have been hit by the current difficulties
it is also a problem of course for the research institutes the research bodies that thought this was the best person to come in and help their research.
we also very much welcome the introduction of the cross border element in this.
it seems only right that those people conducting that research should also be able to move in order to make the most of the possibilities of what it is they have come to do.
we were concerned that we did not in this proposal go back over some of the rights which are already there for example in terms of family reunification for researchers and we very much welcome the extension of this to students.
we are also pleased to see the increased possibilities for volunteering.
i think we need to see this as part of a lifelong learning experience an experience in terms of capacity building and indeed in terms of learning from those coming to us for those opportunities; the greater clarity and protection for au pairs is something we also welcome in this proposal.
so in other words it goes well beyond the bounds of this report.
it is simply looking for an excuse to bring more and more immigrants into europe.
so i am sure that mr brons will inform us as to which of the countries are sending the largest number of students and researchers at the moment.
i did not quite understand from your speech is it your view that all researchers should thereby have a right of permanent settlement?
those two sentences have been taken out of context because in what he said he makes reference to what the president of lithuania had said about the justice system in the country.
we need to help counter this.
i hope that the london conference will encourage other countries to do more including the european union and i agree other regional states.
i doubt that the eu is motivated properly on this so each of our own countries needs to put its house in order.
conflict lawlessness and corruption are deeply embedded. it is worth recalling by the way that the reason that british troops intervened in yemen in the early nineteenth century was to put an end to piracy in the gulf of aden and they were very successful for over a century.
of course we cannot hope to snuff out terrorism wherever it breeds and that means we must improve the security of our own countries and have more effective controls on our own borders.
terrorist groups are adept at exploiting the possibilities provided by failed states.
at the moment the uk is disproportionately providing assistance.
it is international engagement which now must take place.
that europe should cooperate in finding lasting solutions for yemeni prisoners the largest contingent left in guantnamo bay.
our attention may have been generated by the attempted airline bomber.
i welcome the high representative's announcement today on aid and ask her to ensure that next week's meetings address actual commitments of aid money to yemen from all participants at a time when the un's consolidated appeal for the country has generated less than one of the funds needed. like mrs brantner that the meetings pursue a ceasefire and perhaps a peace conference on the latest round of fighting with the houthis in the north and to ensure humanitarian access to the region.
and five other european hostages who worked at a local hospital in yemen and who remain kidnapped since last june. but our future work should recognise internal not just external needs in relation to yemen. to combat levels of malnutrition that exceed some sub saharan african countries such as niger and violations of human rights as mrs andrikien has just said in a country which inflicts the eleventh highest number of executions in the world including children.
so that as an international community we do not wait for the terrorists to move in before we begin to address issues of capacity governance and development in fragile states in our world.
to ensure the country's oil revenue should be invested in economic and social development for the country's people.
but i do hope the high representative will explore the potential for a joint eu gulf cooperation council csdp project on security sector training in yemen in which our efforts are critically important in so many countries. finally the bin ladens may come from the village of al rubat in yemen but it is the absence of international engagement which has allowed too many of the country's young people to be radicalised in his name.
a significant package is now being prepared to help boost government efforts training and equipment for law enforcement a better legal framework and criminal justice system work on anti radicalisation and conflict prevention.
i look forward to our debates.
it is also vital that the yemeni state boosts its capacity to meet the needs of people throughout the country.
the linkage between economic political social and security challenges are crucial. this is why we need a comprehensive approach.
it is the only sustainable way forward. last but certainly not least key regional players need to be engaged in the common effort to work with yemen chief amongst these is saudi arabia.
two thousand and eleven thirteen humanitarian aid from echo will continue in.
president saleh's stated commitment to national dialogue amongst all relevant actors has the potential to build a new national consensus if all actors are included and their interests are taken into account.
the uk initiative to organise a high level meeting with and on yemen next week could therefore not be more timely.
yemen has substantial population growth and an increasingly discontented young population.
thus we were reminded once again that our own security is at risk if we do not help countries like yemen who are struggling to meet multiple challenges at the same time.
there is conflict over land and water rights and longstanding tensions with the southern region which has felt marginalised since unification in.
an inclusive internal political consensus on the way forward remains elusive.
to this we can add piracy in the gulf of aden smuggling migration and people trafficking from the horn of africa and now a rise in jihadist terrorism.
we are now seeking to rally all our key players around the strategy.
over the last eighteen months the european union has highlighted yemen as a priority case in its counter terrorism strategy and its comprehensive approach to state building and development.
the international community should lend sustained support to this dialogue.
the eu will propose to increase by one third its development funds foreseen for the period.
this will come on top of eur eleven million allocated in the commission's development programme to police training and juvenile justice in the last two years. the establishment of al qaeda in yemen is a symptom of deeper problems.
the london meeting offers an invaluable chance to include the saudis the united states and others in a meaningful international dialogue on and with yemen.
a key focus of the meeting will be security.
amidst all this one thing is clear none of us can afford a zone of near lawlessness stretching from the horn of africa to afghanistan.
i agree a very significant part of how we try and address this area is to work collaboratively with the neighbours around the region and again the london meeting will i hope bring together the key member states from around the area who can help us.
we are engaging with the united states.
so for me this has been a very useful debate i am very grateful because again it helps me in my mind to set the agenda of the issues that i will take to the foreign affairs council as we debate this and then on to london engaging as i have indicated with the government on all the elements where we can provide continuing support to develop the country economically to deal with counter terrorism to deal with the issues of support from the neighbourhood too.