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with the modernised treaty we could offer private investors protection and the stable investment environment that is needed to increase investments in renewables. it will not be easy to find an ambitious modernised treaty unanimity is required among fifty four parties to the agreement but we have to push this and we have to convince our partners that all
a third round is scheduled for three until six november another round is already planned for the end of february or march.
for this reason we will proceed with a pragmatic and realistic approach to ensure successful outcomes.
two thousand and twenty one based on the negotiating directives adopted by the council in july two thousand and nineteen the commission submitted in advance of the first round of negotiations a proposal addressing specifically investment protection and dispute settlement.
the complex negotiations ahead of us involve a variety of factors and require increased cooperation and accelerated efforts in order to achieve the necessary consensus among all contracting parties some of which are at different stages of development of their energy and climate policies.
it is our political aim to ensure that the energy charter treaty only protects those investments that support transition to a climate neutral energy system.
the voting session will be open from.
the same voting method will be used as during the previous voting sessions.
i declare the first voting session open.
' because besides bringing equality it improves the health of families and economic well being.
studies show that our contribution to peace negotiations has led to longlasting peace agreements and improved human security.
we can see some progress as almost all eu delegations have carried out a detailed gender analysis and the number of women deployed to security and defence missions and operations has increased but we are still far from reaching a real balance.
to conclude i would like to call on the high representative and the commission to intensify their actions to reach our ambition of a gender balance by the end of the mandate.
it's not adapted to the current reality and not to our climate ambitions.
as has been stated also in the former debate there's a fundamental reform necessary in our energy system and we will not succeed doing that if the ect continues to protect fossil fuel investments.
moreover and that is very interesting and very frightening to see that it is expected that more cases targeting climate policies will arise once member states start to implement the commitments that they have made in line with the green deal and the paris agreement and that is unacceptable.
so we need a fundamental reform of the ect.
this will not be easy as for instance japan already stated that it is not in favour of a fundamental reform.
i want to be also crystal clear on what the next step should be that if it is not possible to have a fundamental reform i think it's absolutely necessary that the eu prepares itself to withdraw from the ect.
i do not doubt the good intentions that the commissioner has and the commission overall but i do doubt that we have the good partners in place to make that reform possible will you be able and ready to withdraw from the treaty the moment that you see there is no possibility for a good reform?
mr president our passports are not for sale. i come from a country where hundreds of thousands of people have died because of their right to be a citizen of their country and today a citizen of the eu.
it is about the security of our people about our defence.
it is about the duties of citizens. we must stop money launderers and other criminals that abuse the existing system.
therefore all eu member states must end all existing citizenship by investment' or residency by investment' schemes as soon as possible.
i would also like to use the opportunity and to draw the commission's attention to a security loophole in the european visa issuance system which enables third country nationals with hostile intentions to enter the eu.
and it deserves attention because as they say houston we have a problem'.
to put it simple we cannot and should not protect investments into fossil fuels.
now this is where you might expect me to tell you the solution but i will not.
you want to renegotiate that's good to hear but what do you do if the negotiations fail?
we will ask for more transparency and we will do it in the months approaching the final vote on the budget in october.
has it been transparent or should it be transparent?
there are a lot of structural problems no differentiation between investments and current expenditure no detailed information about how extraordinary expenditure is used in reality and no control on how different budget lines are used outside the original intention of the budget.
we will not be part of a crew on board a ship that does not know how a ship should be navigated in dangerous waters.
i will see how to remedy that injury and i do hope sincerely that i am not forced to add insult to it.
the second aspect is that there are lots of regulations interinstitutional agreements gentlemen's agreements inflation estimations by the commission etc.
the generally contradicting wishes the need to make savings corresponding to the economic dire straits outside the european institutions and on the other hand to manage the needs of a properly functioning house have been tackled at the sometimes quite heated debates and consultations.
that is not in accordance to the agreement of conciliation;
these really affect the outcome of our budgetary negotiations because you can neither go higher than that nor reduce the amount of money than that even in cases when it seems necessary. from a personal point of view that has been for me the most difficult aspect of preparing this report.
we are here.
i also hear that they are also very eager to optimise taxes so my proposal is to ask them to make a voluntary contribution to the budget of our institution perhaps then they will understand the nexus between paying maximum taxes and keeping middleclass jobs. that will also be a step towards the
which have been decided on and agreed by the generations before us.
moreover this is in my opinion against the very same rules of procedure.
they develop their product google translate very much based on the european parliament's translations into twenty eight languages and earn quite good money.
the commission is particularly attentive to sme participation.
economy. european companies have the know how and the competitiveness capabilities to remain leaders in the world
through the european semester the commission pushes for structural reforms in member states to improve the business environment.
however at the same time we see that european rail supply companies face a critical challenge to their global market leadership with industrial competition from asia and especially china becoming increasingly fierce and problematically unfair.
furthermore i am happy to say that studies have shown that rail markets will continue to grow on all continents and there are therefore great business opportunities to seize for european rail suppliers.
but whereas the uk rail supply industry has taken a market approach it has had a battering as others have not taken that same approach.
i would also say that we need to develop a more skilled workforce in the uk where we need to do better in terms of technology in terms of research and development as we move towards the future. indeed just one in six people working in this sector at present have level four qualifications in a relevant area.
we urgently need a modern industrial policy and we urgently need a european commissioner who gets it.
all credit to the local community our local unions county durham's investment team and the local mp phil wilson who worked together to attract rail production back to the very place that the very first passenger trains were built in the world i should stress.
a real success story of what we should be promoting in the north east of england in terms of inward investment and local job creation.
for the european rail supply industry today's report sets out clearly the challenges for the sector and i congratulate my colleague martina on the report.
on monday this week the chairman of hitachi made it clear that while respecting the democratic rights of uk citizens brexit would force hitachi and similar companies to re think because they still have a european vision and would be disadvantaged in pursuing it from the uk meaning less investment in my region and fewer good local jobs.
but as far as i know bombardier is providing a very high number of good european jobs in the rail sector.
so are you advocating that we now turn different european rail companies against each other instead of combining efforts?
an example of this is the mounting annual running costs they currently stand at eur. thirteen five million.
when i had suggested that the cost would be eur ten million a faceless parliamentary official accused me of lying in the press by saying my estimates were i quote excessive'.
this is not the way a member of this house should be treated. what is worst of all mr president is the clear conflict of interests in having the chairman of the budgets committee sitting on the board of trustees of the house of european history even if he is not remunerated.
it is necessary for us to have an urgent resolution on this as fast as possible so that we can increase pressure on the chinese authorities to release mr ai weiwei.
the creative europe programme will help artists professionals and organisations to work cross border to reach the widest audience possible. it is crucial that the cultural community and the regional and local authorities continue to make the most of the cohesion policy funds.
they have an important role to play in the strategy for growth and jobs and that is why the commission has called on the member states to develop multi layered strategies in order to boost the potential of culture and creativity;
the strategies proposed by the communication and the eu's new creative europe programme are two important vehicles for this ambition.
for example developing creative skills an appropriate regulatory framework accessing funding the challenges of digitisation and globalisation and the need to improve access to international markets.
it will be pursued in a coordinated action in the coming years.
the commission of course has laid down a long term strategic vision but it has also established a short term practical agenda with forty different actions throughout.
mr president the commission warmly welcomes support for an integrated approach towards the european union's cultural and creative sectors.
the commission notes with satisfaction that the report prepared by ms sanchez schmid addresses all the challenges identified in the commission's communication.
these sectors are among the most promising in europe today.
they should put those strategies high on their national development agenda.
the commission therefore welcomes the report's focus on the contribution that the cultural and creative sectors can make to local and regional development.
the new generation of eu funding for the year two thousand and fourteen two thousand and twenty will provide many opportunities for creative sectors.
insecurity is bad for business for growth and for job creation.
such unilateral measures are not helpful to a flourishing business environment and they risk creating wider difficulties in the relationship between the eu and argentina.
however the danish presidency and i expect this will also be the position of the council once we have had the opportunity to discuss the matter in the foreign affairs council next monday shares those concerns and regards the intentions of the argentinian government as unacceptable and damaging.
legal certainty is essential in our globalised economic environment.
i would therefore like to make it crystal clear that we fully understand the particular concerns in this case of the spanish government and that the danish presidency strongly supports spain in this matter. i have also noted that both the president of the commission and the high representative have expressed similar concerns.
the most recent announcement concerning ypf is only the latest in a number of decisions taken by argentina in the areas of import restriction and investment policy.
it is likely to discourage further investment and therefore risk damaging the future development of the argentinian economy.
we will need to look closely at what next steps might need to be taken.
the eu has also formally expressed its concerns on this matter to its delegation in buenos aires and the issue is due to be raised at next monday's meeting of the foreign affairs council.
in the ypf energy company.
it means being sure that third countries comply with their international commitments including in the areas of the treatment and protection of inward investments.
the recent announcement by president kirchner threatens to undermine the confidence of the international business community and the security of its investments in the country.
we have followed these announcements with growing concern.
ultimately that creates problems for those countries which depend on inward investment.
before going any further let me stress that the matter has not yet been discussed in the council.
more generally the business community within the eu needs security if it is to continue to invest internationally.
i hope that the argentine government will listen because this is not only an issue implicating a firm or a country it is an issue between argentina and the eu and it is therefore important that we see it that way.
we in the eu claim to be a union of values based on democracy and the rule of law yet we ignore democracy. we ride roughshod over the wishes of voters.
we treat the aspirations of our electorates with outright contempt.
we will deliver a referendum and we will kill this wretched and shameful treaty stone dead.
mr pttering says that a million irish voters cannot stand in the way of four hundred and fifty million europeans.
let me give colleagues due notice.
so let the four hundred and fifty million vote on the treaty.
in all probability france and germany will vote no' but you dare not let the people vote on the treaty because you know their answer already.
i am delighted that my conservative colleagues will all be leaving the epp group shortly an objective which i have worked towards for ten years.
we are no better on the rule of law.
mr president i had been hoping that mr pttering might perhaps be in the chair tonight as i wanted to thank him publicly for giving me the opportunity of leaving the epp group a few years ago.
so much for democracy!
in britain all but eight of our six hundred and forty six mps were elected on a commitment to a referendum yet our discredited labour government has scandalously broken its promise.
we are implementing plans and spending based on the lisbon treaty ahead of ratification.
he is right.
we in the british conservative party will make a lisbon referendum a key plank of our european election platform.
we are here to debate the lisbon treaty so i would have reminded mr pttering that his own country germany has not yet ratified.
we rejected the results of referenda in denmark on maastricht in ireland on nice in france and holland on the constitution and now on lisbon in ireland again.
we even see old men of arms now talking about putting down your guns and speaking for peace.
when we started with the constitution the rules were that every country had to ratify it or it fell.
when we started with the lisbon treaty the rules were the same every country had to ratify it or it fell.
yes in the one thousand nine hundred and fifty s that was a post war solution to what had gone on before but we must keep moving with the world. when you talk about democratic accountability let us not forget one thing.
there have been lots of references to old men and old fossils but let me talk about it from the perspective where i sit.
no doubt future parliaments and indeed future councils will identify and agree further reforms.
nowhere else do independent states submit their collective decisions for approval and amendment to a directly elected multinational parliament.
it seemed for a while that it might not happen.
we must i believe try and reinfuse the dream of europe with our people.
that the decision of one member state representing less than one of the population of the union could stop it in its tracks is a sign of how delicate our construction is.
the european union is where we settle the disputes where young men previously resolved them by killing each other in trenches.
it needs to reassert its commitment to the social well being of our peoples and to rebalance the almost exclusive obsession with market liberalisation that we have had for the past decade.
it must be borne in mind that the political and social and economic orientation of this union is driven by the choices made by the electorates in general elections in european elections and by the commissions that we collectively select and put in place.
i am glad it is happening and it is thanks to the persistence of my colleagues that it is taking place.
it is a great honour for me to participate in this parliament where we have replaced the force of arms with the force of argument.
but it is also a sign of the strength of the union that we can survive and allow the peoples of europe to independently make these decisions.
we have to avoid getting dragged down into the gutter by the angry old men who stand up at the backbenches up there on the far right and who scream at us and tell us how undemocratic we are when in fact this is the parliament elected by the people of europe to make decisions for the people of europe.
it needs reform and indeed the reforms in the treaty of lisbon are the reforms on which we can agree at this point in time.
nowhere else in the world outside of europe do we have twenty seven sovereign member states sharing decision making on a cross border basis in the common interests of their people.
i sincerely hope the promise of an early autumn referendum will mean early october at the very latest.
at the spring european council our taoiseach informed partners that in accordance with the timeline agreed in december detailed work is now under way to give effect to these commitments and should be finished by mid.
technically that is true but my congratulations this evening to the czech republic to the czech senate particularly for their parliament's complete approval to allow hopefully their president to ratify the treaty on behalf of the czech people.
and given the increase in the european parliament's powers envisaged in the treaty of lisbon it is understandable that its members should consider the institutional and procedural implications of the treaty hence tonight's debate on the five reports.
the european parliament's consideration of these issues tonight takes place at a time when my script for tonight said four member states ireland the czech republic germany and poland had yet to complete their ratification process.
may i thank you as this is my last contribution in parliament and all the presidency of parliament the commission the czech presidency and all colleagues for what has been an extremely rewarding ten years for me as a member of the european parliament.
i look forward to a yes' vote from the irish people in our second referendum in october.
i trust he will accept the will of their parliament.
i hope that is only a technical delay. for the treaty to enter into force of course all countries must ratify the treaty and yes it is correct to say that twenty six european parliaments twenty six member state parliaments have said yes' and so far the irish are the only ones yet to do so.
could i thank first of all all the rapporteurs of the five reports. i am delighted that we have the opportunity to discuss them and like other irish colleagues i have been requesting through my political group that we arrive at the situation we have here tonight where we can discuss five most important reports.
it would not be appropriate nor is it intended to anticipate in any way or take for granted the decision of the irish people in the forthcoming second referendum on the lisbon treaty which was announced only earlier this week by our taoiseach brian cowan td. the conclusions of last december's european council
two thousand and nine this package includes the retention of the principle of one commissioner per member state confirmation of the importance the union attaches to workers' rights and other social issues and a series of legal guarantees on taxation neutrality and the provisions of the irish constitution in relation to the right to life education and the family.
two thousand and nine if our government is fully satisfied with the outcome the taoiseach has agreed to seek ratification of the treaty by the end of the term of the current commission which is expected to leave office i understand at the end of october.
it is really about tackling these problems which today are not national. they are european and international and we have to have a modern rule book.
this is the first time i have heard about totalitarian systems that allow referendum after referendum in a number of member states and why some referenda results are forgotten or do not count mainly those that
that is why we are here and that is how we gain democratic legitimacy if we show that we can act and that we can act swiftly.
any european citizen listening to this debate would wish us to go back to these reports which actually reflect some serious concerns about the way we take decisions about the rule book about how to strengthen the democratic functioning of this european union and about how to use the budget
people expect us to take action to ensure jobs and growth to deal with climate change and the energy crisis and to tackle the problems that come with immigration and security all of those things.
this is also about how to take decisions in an effective and hopefully more rapid way.
the issue of the legal guarantees is of course essential here and both content and timing is very important.
i still find it strange and i have said this before that a parliament like this one should say that a decision by a national parliament is anti democratic or does not count or is not legitimate.
we have to have a more democratic union which allows citizens to take the initiative.
we never hear anything about that from those that are against.
like mushrooms the british people are left in the dark and fed manure. the conservatives through the epp group gave their allowances to the yes' campaign in ireland then deviously promised to allow a referendum but only if ireland votes no' again.
never before in the field of human politics have so many been conned by so few.
i find nothing wrong in democratic terms with that with building up gradually step by step slowly by means of consensus of all the member states this union that we have worked on over half a century this union that we should be proud of with the fact that we have twenty seven countries working together in a continent which our history shows has all too often
but i think it is quite reasonable that they themselves in ireland have come to the conclusion that they might be willing to reconsider if certain conditions are met.
my group will support all these resolutions and we are proud to do so i would just say with one particular reservation and that is on the kaufmann report which we see as a first step putting on the table a first reflection on how that might operate in the future.
mr president this package of reports shows that if the lisbon treaty comes into force and this is without prejudice of course to the decision of the irish people then we will have a union that offers more opportunities for participation more accountability more democracy and more checks and balances.
it shows that those that claim that we are running roughshod over democratic accountability and ignoring the views of the people have got it completely the wrong way around.
they also quote referendums that have given a no' result.