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two thousand and eleven the most recent report states that member states' efforts to enhance conservation and to rebuild fish stocks are insufficient and that little progress has been made on the reduction of fleet capacity.
mr president since two thousand and two the commission has been obliged under a council regulation to report on the conservation and sustainable exportation of marine i.
i am in favour of this report as it states that in order to improve the system of fishing restrictions in the twelve nautical mile waters a concrete definition of over capacity must be established at eu level regional definitions must be accommodated and finally efficient data collection mechanisms with long term management plans for all eu fisheries must be enforced rigorously.
hopefully this will also ensure socio economic sustainability which is in keeping with our commitment to build a more responsible economic model and to improve job prospects in the fisheries and aquaculture industries and strengthen regionalisation.
this is in harmony with our national aim in the united kingdom to create a fairer and more balanced economy where new businesses and economic opportunities are more evenly shared between regions and industries.
mr president common fisheries policy reform as a package will now hopefully mean the commission will be encouraged in a non binding way to strengthen measures for the conservation of marine biological resources. this is very much in line with my party's ambitious ten year biodiversity strategy.
the system of fishing restrictions in the twelve nautical mile waters was working well and i think it could potentially be extended to a regime of ten to twenty miles to more effectively achieve the objectives.
we need to interact with racs and other relevant stakeholders for effective conservation.
it is clear that member states' efforts to enhance conservation and to rebuild fish stocks have been insufficient and that there is equally little progress on the reduction of fleet capacity.
our fishermen need to be better informed as to why certain restrictions might be put in place as very often self policing is the only realistic option; overfishing will not be addressed in a proper manner otherwise.
mr president i also voted for this report even though i am always very wary when i hear the word conservation' as we have a tendency to think of the environment without the needs of the fishing community.
a kidnapper who holds us to ransom expects a long prison sentence;
the story of democracy the story of human progress is holding to account those who govern us and preventing that systemic looting but now at european level our looters have escaped the bounds of public opinion and so particularly in the peripheral states we see generational poverty being inflicted without any recourse from the victims.
on the twenty th anniversary of my own country's escape from the erm let me assure the peoples of european that there is an alternative there is a way out running your own affairs in your own interest and growing your own way back to growth.
mr president a single thief acting alone is an outlaw but a gang of thieves who manage to control the institutions of the state find that they can compel the law to their service.
a central banker who debauches the currency is rewarded with a knighthood.
a taxman who does the same thing is supported by the taxpayers whom he is fleecing.
we need to ensure cooperation between eu states in order to establish truly sustainable fishing practices which conserve fish stocks and ensure their optimal use.
we need to be able to impose sanctions on non eu states which are responsible for measures and practices that lead to over exploitation of stocks or which do not cooperate in good faith by taking agreed management measures.
that message is that we will no longer accept or do business with countries which continue to allow unsustainable fisheries.
from now on women suffering domestic violence children trapped in trafficking innocent victims of terrorism and victims of all crimes will be able to have the same rights regardless of the member state where the crime has been committed and their nationality.
we have set up clear common standards to ensure that each victim is treated with respect dignity and without discrimination across the european union.
i welcome in particular the attention given to children and to people with special needs and that there will be an individual assessment of their vulnerability so as not to create first or second class victims.
this is a significant step in that direction and i look forward to continuing to work with colleagues to make it a reality.
mr president i voted with my group in favour of the report which reforms the common fisheries policy with regard to the organisation of the markets.
the first positive change is that discards will be reduced by stipulating that producer organisations should actively promote discard avoidance.
another merit is the modified objectives of producer organisations which now include promoting the creation of jobs in coastal and rural areas as well as providing vocational training to motivate young people to enter the sector. crucially another amended objective of producer organisations is the assurance that a fair standard of living will be implemented for those in the fisheries sector.
finally the amended report also ensures that clearer information should be given to the consumer on the origin of the fisheries products.
mr president i believe that victims should be able to benefit from minimum levels of rights without discrimination across the eu.
the stockholm programme states that a more integrated and coordinated approach to victims is needed.
surely as member states we are in a position where these basic rights will be afforded our citizens without that sort of compulsion.
mr president being the victim of a crime can be a very horrendous experience but for many reporting a crime and dealing with the authorities after the experience can be equally and often more traumatic.
so i very much welcome this directive which will put in place minimum standards and protect the rights of victims of crime across the eu.
the particular circumstances need to be taken into consideration.
the directive will help victims of crime feel safer not just in their own country but throughout the eu. importantly this directive will help citizens of the eu gain trust in policing systems and judicial systems across the european union.
this is in keeping with my party's environmental policy to encourage sustainable food production and enhance the resilience of the whole food chain namely the fish industry in so doing.
this proposal also sees associated stocks' being redefined for the first time as a new umbrella term to encompass any fish belonging to the same ecosystem that prey upon that stock or that are preyed upon by the common stock in question.
with regard to the imposing of these restrictions or actions i also agree strongly with the obligation to consider and evaluate the environmental trade economic and social effects of the measures in order to ensure that they are reasonable just and proportionate and that they are fully compatible with the eu's wto international trade obligations.
i support the general thrust of the measures for conservation in marine biology.
but this own initiative report has given us just a little peek into how the arguments are going to be played out in the coming months.
there will be the liberal use of euphemisms such as renewal' when what we are really talking about is giving public money to replace boats making them bigger with higher capacity and not necessarily doing anything for the conservation of fish stocks. i am committed to
working on common fisheries policy reform towards sustainability but unfortunately due to the amendments i was not able to support this report.
it gives victims of crime access to information as well as practical and emotional support.
these minimum standards will make it easier for victims to receive help and more importantly access to justice.
basic procedural minimums are a more effective way of securing victims' rights than a set of rigid regulations.
this is a well balanced approach to dealing with a problem which affects so many people in all member states.
let me repeat that this house voted by a majority of just five for a ppe amendment signed by jim higgins and others which says we shall not attempt to rebuild our fish stocks.
i am sure they did that for the best possible reasons give the fishing industry another year do not make it too difficult by cutting the quotas but only when you rebuild fish stocks give a bit of room for the fish to breathe and to grow and to multiply that is the only way in which the fishing industry is going to have a secure future.
mr president i voted in favour of this proposal because it will strengthen and give more substance to the rights of the victims in the european union and will improve their protection throughout the union.
we have finally set minimum standards for handling the victims of crimes irrespective of their nationality or the place where the crime was perpetrated. this directive provides for the first time a unified definition of a victim to be used in all eu countries.
i call on the member states to develop greater cooperation and coordination to protect and provide support for the victims of crime.
mr president i am pleased that this motion for a resolution was adopted by the house.
it is important that we have a coherent and clear strategy going forward so that fishermen can plan with better certainty for the investment that they put in. the eu's aquaculture sector if properly managed on the basis of global sustainability could as the motion says make a greater contribution to the needs of european society in terms of food security and quality
employment environmental protection and the maintenance of dynamic and varied fishing and coastal communities.
that explains why my group abstained and could not support all aspects of the brok report.
we have as a group engaged constructively with the external action service though not uncritically particularly over their unreasonable demand for a budget increase in this climate of austerity.
the eeas must however in this climate of austerity prove its value added both in savings to the member states particularly the smaller ones with lower bilateral representations and show that states such as my own the united kingdom which are major international players can see their national interests both protected and better projected through using the new eeas service.
one good example of this is the new european compound in juba south sudan where all eu member states are signing up to using this as a joined up operation.
the ecr was also pleased to note a positive reference to taiwan in the report and in particular taiwan's commitment to peace and security in the east asia region.
this commitment has been further reinforced by president ma's east china sea peace initiative a courageous and commendable effort to resolve the long standing territorial dispute between taiwan china and japan over the diaoyu islands senkaku islands.
the role of producer organisations pos cannot be underestimated in this equation and i welcome the introduction of clear objectives for them to ensure that they promote profitable fishing and reject profligate fishing. i was very pleased to see the requirements that pos promote the avoidance of by catch and the handling of remaining unwanted catch in a responsible way
i supported this proposal enthusiastically because it enables the european union to take action against those countries that fish unsustainably.
i very much support measures in the text whereby we will be able to impose quantitative restrictions on imports of fish into the union from third countries.
but i want to make a particular point.
one of the reasons why i was so enthusiastic to support this is that it is time that we called on the commission to take note of parliament's will.
they must take note of parliament's will on this issue and they must make sure that they find a way of making sure that we are compatible with our international obligations not finding lots of reasons to tell us why we will not be.
the rapporteur and the work he has done on this issue deserve that kind of respect.
mr president i fully support establishing minimum eu standards on the rights support and protection of victims of crime.
an example would be the right to receive a copy of your police report at a police station in your native language.
the definition of a victim will also be broadened to encompass the family of a person who is murdered or who dies in a terrorist attack.
in the event of a court case the directive also encourages member states to allow families for the first time to speak in court even if they are not a witness if their statement does not interfere directly with the proceedings.
i am particularly drawn to the directive's proposal for a children's rights package. this will establish a set of minimum standards for child victims an example of which is the right to be interviewed by a video link and not in the court room.
that requires a combination of national efforts with solidarity.
what specific combinations of internal and external factors resulted in the debt crisis in various member states of course requires a country by country analysis.
however the deepening of emu is most likely to be a gradual process.
the commission clearly favours the community method in this context.
this delay only served to increase the costs of the crisis response and resulted in much greater sums being necessary to provide support to greece.
i believe that there will be many opportunities again to reflect on history on why this crisis emerged and on why europe was not better protected against such a deep and severe financial crisis.
in this regard the mous clearly state that reforms to labour and social security legislation should be implemented after consultation with social partners taking into account possible constitutional implications and non compliance with eu laws and ilo core labour standards.
the reconstruction of the european economic and monetary union must be a priority.
we have to continue analysing the situation and develop further policy options.
the implementation of the banking union is indeed a matter of urgency but surely the banking union will not be the last building block of this new architecture.
i believe you all agree that the democratic accountability of our crisis resolution strategy is crucial for the wide acceptance of reforms in the beneficiary member states.
recession.
this already resulted in two thousand and twelve in the stabilisation of the financial markets in the first half of two thousand and thirteen in the stabilisation of the real economy and in the second half of last year in the stabilisation of the labour markets.
we have to continue mobilising the european structural and investment funds because these are the most important expressions of concrete eu solidarity to help those who fell victim to the crisis and need support for job creation investment in skills deepening social cohesion and boosting enterprise.
we also remember that not everybody was feeling this time pressure. you may recall that the first greek programme was held back because of a regional election in one specific eu member state.
for the commission the guiding principle is that stronger solidarity has to go hand in hand with stronger responsibility.
major reforms with a view to improving the functioning of labour markets and promoting job creation can only be successful and sustainable if broadly supported.
i believe that the blame game which we have also witnessed in this house is not really productive in that context.
as emphasised by many of you when discussing the debt crisis in the european union as a whole we need to recall that the roots of the crisis lie in serious macro economic imbalances which built up over the previous decade and in the imperfect architecture of the economic and monetary union.
for a fair resolution both sides have to absorb a part of the costs in order to find the fastest way back to economic growth.
it is not sufficient to talk about it and make a commitment;
there has to be a follow through.
in conclusion i hope that the adoption of this report will help the irish government to put pressure on the union and on the commission to expedite a solution to this critically important economic matter.
the lack of transparency and the imposition of several cuts to vital services affecting the most vulnerable including the elderly the sick and the young have left a long lasting mark on the fabric of irish society.
for instance tax reforms can be designed in a progressive or a regressive way and the commission has shown on various occasions that these choices have differed across the programme countries.
as commissioner responsible for employment and social affairs i am particularly concerned about the economic and social hardship felt by the programme countries four years after the first bail out. i am equally concerned about the employment and social prospects in these countries in the years ahead given the still very low level of economic growth in europe as a whole.
madam president the commission has analysed employment and social developments in programme countries in a number of its publications and in the joint employment report as well as in regular reports on the implementation of the adjustment programmes following each review.
we have made some progress in integrating the social dimension into the economic governance of the emu and have strengthened european instruments for macroeconomic stabilisation social investment and solidarity between countries and social groups.
in this continued effort we need to build on the blueprint for a deep and genuine emu'.
the two thousand and thirteen industrial relations in europe report included a specific analysis of social dialogue developments in the programme countries. the commission is also committed to the treaty objectives of balanced economic growth and it recognises the crucial importance of reinforcing socio economic convergence within the euro area.
we need more economic political and fiscal integration in order to complete the emu and achieve better economic and social outcomes for all member states.
at the same time it is for democratically elected national governments to make the specific choices necessary to help correct the accumulated imbalances in line with programme targets.
therefore we continue to promote the completion of the emu based on further economic fiscal and political integration with strong attention to the employment and social dimension.
in all of this i am pro european but we need recognition of the fact that our common currency was not fit for purpose and contributed to the crisis and also of the fact that we are not moving quickly enough to build the necessary infrastructure to sustain the currency.
our debt to gdp ratio was thirty; now it is one hundred and twenty and rising deficits falling and debt rising. yes we had lax regulation in ireland and yes in ireland the tax base was much too narrow and there was a property bubble but equally when money flowed from the periphery fuelled by low interest rates to suit some economies and not others there was lax regulation at eu level.
there were irresponsible lenders as well as irresponsible borrowers and when we discovered that the euro was more of a straitjacket than a security net we had to pay unsecured bondholders under threat from the ecb and the troika decided to charge us.
commissioner that was our first message from the troika and i wonder if you had to do it again would you charge us the same interest rate?
and finally we need to question the procyclical nature of policy and to treat excessive surpluses with the same urgency as we treat excessive deficits.
thirdly we have a globalisation crisis hitting those sectors which are very low in the value chain.
and in greece both the conservatives and the social democrats.
i think we have one main problem.
but we should also see that we had different layers of what is called the constitutionalisation of eu law.
for instance during the pre crisis era both portugal and greece lost fifty of their textile exports due to globalisation.
now that the fire fighting is over we can go on to building architecture.
mr president i come from ireland the first country to have a visit from the troika and i must say that when i heard that the troika was coming i was actually happy because i said number one we will get the emergency finance that we need because we were bankrupt at the time and number two they will point out to us necessary reforms which many governments were afraid to implement. thankfully when we had a change of government some of the measures which the troika introduced were renegotiated like the rate and the promissory note and so forth and that was important.
it is young people who are suffering the highest levels of unemployment;
to you that may be just a statistic but to two hundred and twenty thousand of my constituents and their families people with a traditionally strong work ethic it is a tragedy. it spells frustration;
as he points out the eu institutions are responsible for the conditions of the economic adjustment programmes that are bringing hardship and despair to so many people.
it is a shame;
my constituency the west midlands has always been an industrial powerhouse a centre of innovation and manufacturing excellence but the eurozone crisis burdensome eu red tape and the relocation of traditional industries to other eu member states have left us in a situation where unemployment currently stands at.
there has been much prevarication on this and it is time that the european parliament stated where it stands because taking note is not good enough.
it was a political choice made by the troika yes but also made by the establishment parties across europe to burn irish working class people instead of hitting the bondholders and speculators.
her speech could be summed up with the phrase the troika told us to do it.
on planet earth the irish people with the treacherous connivance of two governments were bullied threatened and coerced in order to bail out billionaire bankers and bondholders by the very people he described as heroes.
we need to refuse to pay the debt that is not our debt.
confronted by the humanitarian catastrophe created by the troika policies we need more than criticisms of the legal basis of the troika.
in an irish context these reports means fianna fil the greens fine gael and labour being able to wash their hands and say and i quote from the report the bail in of senior bondholders was not an option available to the irish authorities'.
did the labour party have nothing to do with the cuts to health education and social welfare?
did they have nothing to do with the household tax the property tax the water tax?
is that really the best excuse that the labour party and the others here can come up with? did the dog also eat your election manifestos?
we need a rejection of authoritarian neo liberalism.
these reports accept the very same logic. it is the same logic of bono patronisingly telling us that the irish people bailed out the irish people. no mr hewson.
we need public investment to create jobs and we need to build a europe for the millions not the millionaires.
the only problem is it is just not true.
madam president the real purpose of these reports was made clear in emer costello's speech earlier. what we have here is an act of misdirection by the troika inside this parliament the epp the social democrats and the liberals to absolve themselves of all responsibility.
there is a call here for the full implementation of the june two thousand and twelve commitment to break the vicious circle between bank debt and sovereign debt.
indeed the irish government that took office in two thousand and eleven came up against enormous resistance from the troika in trying to maintain a threshold of decency in social services and to reverse the cut in the minimum wage.