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they will no longer need to spend time and money to have their public documents rubber stamped by a second authority in their member state before they can show them to the authorities of another member state.
i can only confirm that i also understand this as a first step on a long distance run.
so i confirm that this is also my understanding and we will use the review of this regulation for further work.
mr president the purported aim of this legislation is to promote the free movement of citizens and businesses by simplifying the acceptance of certain public documents in the european union.
so today we have the latest gift to those that threaten us whose activities will directly benefit from this proposal and a proposal that will only further undermine national security and create further pressures on our security resources.
the civil status documents to be harmonised' via this proposal are the very ones that preserve distinctiveness and act as barriers two aspects that should be safeguarded and left in the domain of national governments precisely to thwart the intent of those who will benefit from a onesizefitsall approach.
we all know about the cheapness of fraudulent eu passports we know about the extent of stolen eu passports and other identifications so why add to the plethora of stuff out there that only helps people who actually threaten us?
its timing is ill judged its purpose is ill judged and it benefits people who actually want to hurt and threaten us. so i strongly recommend you to put it back on the shelf if you can't abandon it completely and stop gifting things like this to people who will harm us.
as the documents affected by this regulation primarily concern family and marriage citizens are concerned that ease of document flow should not impose new terms definitions and laws on other member states.
for example the term parenthood' dilutes the more precise terms father and mother'.
a child's birth certificate is fundamental to their very identity and the names of father and mother' are sacrosanct.
these irreplaceable roles must be respected as all of us were born of a father and a mother forming a family unit which has greater importance even than democratic government in the establishment of other societies.
i have nothing against the search for better cooperation with turkey to manage the refugee crisis but at least have the honesty and the courage to talk about the problems in turkey.
not outsourcing our problems but solving our problems means that we have to fix our external borders our european border and coastguard. what i see is that we are not capable of doing
talk to them try it! these are nice people educated people; these are people who can tell you a story.
now let me insist on some of the push factors because it is important for the agreement we have reached with turkey.
we are talking about human beings.
away. then about the chapters. i really do not understand some here like ms keller who just now said we do not want to talk we have given up on human rights we accept everything'.
rights. opening chapters twenty three and twenty four is the best possible way of forcing the turks to account for what they are doing and to try and help them reform the system so that they move away from the mistakes they
these eur three billion will be used to improve living conditions and to improve medical
this is exactly what we are going to do we are going to use the eur three billion to make sure that there are more facilities for education for children where they are now in turkey.
it takes the danger out of the equation for people having to cross the mediterranean in very difficult conditions. so when we have these agreements on these projects it is to take away some of the push factors.
do? we agreed with the turks that they would allow syrians to start working in turkey very soon. that is part of what we have discussed.
protection. of course we are doing that but it is in our interest to do so it is in the interests of the refugees to do so and it is in the interest of turkey
turks? because if we aligned our visa policies it would be easier for the turks to act at their external borders when people come from pakistan bangladesh or other countries who do not have the right to international protection and should then be stopped at the
borders. visa liberalisation also means that we can create the right conditions for turkey to have the right kind of passports biometric passports. it would make it much easier for us to control our borders. these are positive measures for the european
think so. i think this engaging with them will yield results. and yes of course we are engaging with them because we need to stem the flow of those coming to europe who do not have the right to international
care. it is not just the right thing to do it is the smart thing to do because keeping people there and offering them help there is much cheaper for the european taxpayer and is much cheaper in moral terms because it takes the smugglers out of the equation.
so what did we
they say we are leaving because our living conditions are horrible and we do not have access to medical care'.
they say i am leaving because there is no education for my children'.
benchmarking chapter twenty three and twenty four is the best possible way of engaging turkey in a debate on human
make today. so do you really think that we will improve the situation in turkey by turning our backs on the turks and saying oh
we are not talking about fortune seekers invited by mrs merkel.
we would have less trouble in europe if every single leader of europe had done the same when it was necessary at the time.
they want to come to europe because after years of an atrocious war they have nowhere else to go if they want their children to have an education if they want to have healthcare if they want a future that every single one of you wants for yourself and your children as well.
as i said before why are some people leaving from turkey or through turkey to europe?
they will tell you i have left because after two years i am finished all my savings are gone and i am not allowed to work in turkey'.
and the boats stopped coming.
let us work together to build long term solutions not offer short term promises that will never be fulfilled.
so instead the leader of a large member state sends a signal that the eu is open to everyone whether or not they are refugees and then when other eu countries struggle and erect borders between each other eu leaders ask turkey to play host instead on top of the millions that they already host.
let us not pretend that eu membership is on the horizon.
we feel under a humanitarian and moral obligation to help refugees from syria who settle in neighbouring countries and whatever we do will cost money but we also need to be clear about the signal that we are going to send to those who want to come to the eu whether they are coming as refugees or coming for economic reasons.
and effective external border controls.
and let us finally get to grips with some of the basics a thorough registration process;
is mad. it is the most dangerous decision the european union has yet
europe. it is a country that appears to be keener on bombing the kurds than it is on taking on
back. and they have managed to persuade you whatever the commissioner says into offering them by october next year visa free access for seventy five million people whose average gdp income is half that of the poorest eu member state. i guess what you are doing is this you are saying the way we will stop illegal immigration is to make it all legal immigration
and if that does not take the biscuit now you are going to fast track turkey to be an eu member
that. a country ninety seven of whose land mass is in asia apparently you want to join
isis. it is a country directly and closely linked with buying isis oil and we will finish up bordering syria iraq and
you. not only do they want eur three billion from you this year they are going to want eur three billion from you every single year. and in return they have given absolutely no guarantees whatsoever that they will stop people from coming or indeed take people
taken. i am sure the british prime minister will be delighted. he has campaigned for this since. two thousand and five to me without any of the other debates if there was one single reason why britain should in this referendum vote to leave the european union it is the folly of political integration with
since april the eu has held four meetings at heads of state and government level to discuss the migration crisis.
to name one example the recent and atrocious attacks in paris and ankara including a bomb again last night showed how europe and turkey are confronted by the same security threats and they reinforced our resolve to step up counter terrorism cooperation which should be a strong focus of this dialogue.
it identifies a series of actions for both the european union and the republic of turkey. the aim is twofold this is about confronting common challenges in a concerted manner and supplementing turkey's efforts in managing the large number of people in need of international protection in the country.
let me finish on the question of resettlement.
it is clear that we need to cooperate to secure our borders jointly to bring order into migratory flows and to stem irregular migration. but the focus of the summit went far beyond the current refugee crisis.
to go more specifically into what was agreed firstly re energising the eu turkey relationship must also mean putting new energy into the ongoing accession negotiations.
the eu has committed to providing immediate and ongoing humanitarian assistance in turkey including through its overall financial support.
you take the criminal networks out of the equation with all the risks that people take to come to europe and you introduce fair burden sharing by the international community.
moreover the visa liberalisation process can only go hand in hand with substantial progress on the eu turkey readmission agreement notably on the obligation to take back third country nationals.
secondly turkey has committed to accelerating the fulfilment of the visa liberalisation benchmarks and we welcome
in a letter sent by president juncker to prime minister davutolu the commission reiterated its commitment to complete the preparatory work for the opening in the first quarter of two thousand and sixteen of chapters fifteen on energy; twenty three on judiciary and fundamental rights; twenty four on justice freedom and security;
the details will be worked out with the eu member states by the next european council. however let me be crystal clear about the destination for these funds this is not money for turkey it is money to provide help to refugees in
the next steps on resettlement were discussed on the margins of the
then. we want to accelerate the process but we do not want to change the requirements.
we hope that the meeting created a new partnership both on refugee related matters and beyond.
we agreed to activate the joint action plan that was agreed ad referenda on fifteen october and welcomed by heads of state and government of the eu's twenty eight member states at the european council held the same
turkey. i hope this house will not question the importance of burden sharing not only within the eu but also with all our neighbours.
decision making.
week. on sunday there was consensus among leaders that the eu is committed to providing an initial eur three billion of additional resources.
europe. resettlement is part of the overall partnership with turkey set out on
we agreed on the need for a structured frequent and more dynamic high level dialogue.
the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
day. this is a joint action plan to step up cooperation on migration management in a coordinated effort to tackle the refugee crisis.
we have put in place several instruments for that the syrian trust fund the african trust fund and the turkey refugee facility.
the commission will prepare a report on the state of play for the fifteen december european council.
the need for and nature of this funding will be reviewed in the light of the developing situation.
turkey is a strategic partner for europe in many areas trade the economy foreign policy energy and customs. at the summit we reached agreement on how to move forward in all key areas of our cooperation.
turkey. this is money to provide for medical care for syrians for schooling and for better living conditions for syrian refugees in
summit. the commission will prepare a framework for such a voluntary scheme by fifteen december.
that. the commission will assist turkey in this endeavour and strive to achieve visa liberalisation for turkish citizens in the schengen area by october two thousand and sixteen provided of course that all requirements have been met by
we decided to have summits twice a year to discuss mutual relations and international issues.
progress needs to be made on the management of borders asylum and migration quality of travel documents and respect for minorities' rights.
and thirty one on foreign security and defence policy.
i want to repeat what president juncker has said this will be an open and voluntary
twenty six on education and culture;
this new chapter of our relationship and now our partnership will not lead to a situation in which we forget the remaining divergences and differences we may have with turkey on human rights and freedom of the press. all of these will be matters to which we will come back again and again.
on sunday turkey committed to implementing immediately the elements agreed on in the action plan notably immediate action to stem the flow of irregular migrants to the eu and to improve the socio economic situation of syrians under temporary protection in turkey. both sides reaffirmed their shared commitment to step up the fight against smugglers.
i have repeatedly stressed including before you that you take a lot of human misery out of the equation if you have resettlement.
at each of these meetings we said it was necessary to engage with turkey and this is what we did on sunday.
the summit declaration jointly welcomes the decision to hold the intergovernmental conference on fourteen december for the opening of chapter seventeen on economic and monetary union.
the commission has put forward its decision the turkey refugee facility was adopted last
and by the way you can identify precisely who you invite to come to
the commission is also conscious of the impact that airline bankruptcy has on flight only passengers.
finally the issue of price transparency in aviation is addressed in several pieces of legislation most notably the air services regulation. i would like to inform the honourable members that this legislation is currently undergoing a fitness check to establish
this protection will give great reassurance to people whose lives are threatened by violence.
the regulation covers all threats to people's physical and moral integrity including threats to dignity security personal freedom and sexual integrity. over one hundred zero women across the eu and including approximately one zero in my own country ireland benefit from protection orders in their home country but not in other countries.
it will give them the freedom to travel abroad for holidays or work or indeed for longer periods without fear.
it is vitally important that victims are supported wherever they are in europe and that this protection remains in place when people move.
under this regulation which will take effect from january two thousand and fifteen people who were granted civil law protection in one eu country will be fully protected in another on completion of a short form. it will ensure that they are able to move freely across europe with the same level of protection they have in their home country.
we have a lot of financial legislation.
we have built a whole european supervisory architecture including the european banking authority yet the problem remains. if a bank went bust tomorrow it would still want taxpayers' money to bail it out.
so while we have focused on structures and legislation in other areas we have not tackled the fundamental problem of banks being too big to fail' which frankly means they should be too big to exist. let me offer the three points that i think we should be focusing on.
secondly making sure that directors who preside over failing banks pay the price for failure either through director liability or some form of being paid in bonds.
thirdly sorting out our accounting standards so that if you put a financial instrument on your balance sheet you do not book your profit up front and you make sure you put enough money aside if there is a loss.
madam president completing the single market and promoting free trade is exactly what the eu should be doing.
we spend far too much time in this place passing new laws which increase costs destroy jobs and make people's lives more difficult.
we have a working time directive which tells people when they can and cannot work.
and this week we learn in the middle of an economic crisis that the eu wants to regulate the dipping of bread in olive oil.
if the eu concentrated on making its citizens' lives more prosperous instead of intruding into every aspect of national life it would be a great deal more popular.
i want the eu to do less.
indeed i am a strong supporter of tax justice but the real question is how do we achieve the best outcomes?
i certainly agree with a lot in this report such as the strengthening of european and international commitment to transparency and a system whereby we would not grant eu aid or member states would not grant state aid or indeed allow access to public procurement for companies that breach tax standards.
however in our rush to close up tax loopholes and ensure that multinational corporations pay their fair share of tax we need to use the most effective and appropriate mechanisms and not be drawn into a false battle between member states which look at tax rates elsewhere rather than looking at the cross border element of all of this that is the interaction of tax regimes across countries in which global companies operate rather than the law or practice in any individual country.
indeed it is clear from the us senate debate at the moment that if the us wants to stem the rising tide of profits shifted overseas and consequent loss of tax revenues it needs to look at closing loopholes in its own tax system.
madam president i supported the mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters because together with the adoption of the european protection order it will strengthen the protection of victims of crimes and violence in the eu.
women children and all those who suffer from domestic violence stalking and harassment in europe will be able to receive the same protection that they receive in their own member state if they move to another one with simplified procedures and without waiting to go through another court procedure. mutual recognition in civil matters will help the judiciary and the police
i think today we can reassure many of the victims who live in fear that they will finally be able to move freely through the member states.
this report is really a request for the eu to start controlling tax policy over which it has no competence. tax is the competence of national governments in the eu and elsewhere.
the truth is that clamping down on tax havens requires agreement between all the governments involved;
otherwise it is a pointless exercise.
in any case we already have the oecd's financial action task force working on this. europe just wants to get its hands on what is at present a sovereign matter for the nations of europe. one cannot help thinking that this is exactly what they wanted in the first place.
you can disguise it as stimulus spending and a reaction to the credit crunch and all the rest of it but you know that is not true. what we are actually doing is taking money out of people's private pockets or purses and spending it on their behalf through bureaucracies.
in my own nation for example our budget contributions will rise by sixty over the next twelve months. to put that in context my last party conference saw our party pledging to make annual savings of gbp seven billion a year across the whole of government spending.
we now see the truth which is that the core function of the eu is the employment of its own employees which is why its budget always rises.
mr president at a time when the national governments are having to trim their budgets and when all our constituents are having to make savings in their household budgets how typical that the european union uniquely should presume to be substantially increasing its budget.
this is going to have immediate and tangible fiscal consequences in the member states.
if that had been the more efficient way of allocating resources we would have lost the cold war.
we are spending twice that simply on this one item of our gross contributions to the eu budget.
sometimes when i listen to these reports i get the impression that we are inhabiting that cartesian universe a world in which the european union stands only for the values of democracy and freedom and justice and extends its values through trade accords rather than war. and then back in the real world what is the european union doing?
it is cosying up to the tyrants in beijing and isolating taiwan.
it is the chief paymaster of hamas controlled palestine.
there is no connection between this report about spreading democracy and the actual behaviour of our institutions.
i do not say that the european union is hypocritical because of course we apply the same standards within our own borders happily swatting aside referendum results when we deem them to have gone the wrong way.
externally as well as domestically we disdain representative government and we are contemptuous of the democratic will.
let me repeat that the lisbon treaty should be put to a referendum.
we all agree on the importance of the eu us relationship and i think we all welcome the summits and discussions at the tec level and the various other transatlantic dialogues.
but it really is important that we recognise that the whole world looks at these summits and looks at the moral leadership that we can offer not only at eu level but also the us administration.
surely one of the best ways of stimulating our economies particularly in this time of crisis is to make sure that we really live the word when we talk about open trade.
also if you look at the obama administration and its recent tariffs on chinese tyres we are descending into a spiral of protectionism.
it is about time we went back to our principle of open trade to stimulate the world economy.
but progress proved very elusive and at the trade negotiations committee at the end of july the wto director general had to conclude that the package was not taking shape.
the eu has played a proactive and constructive role in the negotiations throughout two thousand and eleven including by developing a solid compromise proposal in the key area of tariffs on industrial goods and by consistently calling for deliverables to least developed countries without payment.
the eu has always been a staunch defender of multilateralism.
although the eu compromise proposal got large support from the industries concerned there was unfortunately not enough traction around the negotiating table to negotiate further on the basis of this i believe good proposal.
two thousand and eleven prospects for reaching concrete negotiating results in the short term look rather bleak.
twenty the objective was to reach outlines of a comprehensive package by the summer and to finalise the agreement by the end of the year.
therefore the commission welcomes the strong support that the motion for a resolution expresses for the wto as the guarantor of a rules based trade system and as a key instrument of global economic governance.
the cause for this is fundamentally divergent expectations regarding the reciprocity of commitments that developed and emerging countries should make in opening their markets one side asked for almost full harmonisation of commitments while others insisted on far reaching special and differential treatment.