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the solutions we are putting into practice are not ideal and will not end our work. also the deal with turkey is not perfect and we are fully aware of its risks and weaknesses.
of openness. today we are finally building a synthesis of those two great needs the need for security at our borders and the need for openness
while taking into account all the above mentioned doubts and even sharing some of them i would like to recall that the main goal we decided on was to stem irregular migration to europe. as i have frequently said without this and without restoring control over european migration
further actions. let us not be afraid
this included the respect for the principle of non refoulement and excluded any kind of collective expulsions.
policy we would be unable to prevent political catastrophes.
we did everything we could to ensure that the agreement respects human dignity but i am conscious of the fact that everything depends on how it will be implemented.
and tolerance. this is perhaps the biggest success
problems. this crisis has eventually shown that we must regain our feeling of responsibility for ourselves before we turn to repairing the world
the only one and that other countries will also expect our cooperation and solidarity not only greece
in the future. for far too long europe was divided into advocates of security and advocates
today everyone has finally understood how high the stakes were and how high they still continue
it. convenient and easy solutions are hard to find in politics and in this case they are virtually impossible.
temporary closure of the borders inside
this is what has begun to happen.
the loss of control over our external borders with all its implications for our security; political chaos in
perspective. obviously no one has the right to ignore the root causes of migration as it is a challenge not only for europe but also for the whole global community. therefore we will work hard on our plan to address the migration crisis which we are going to present at the g seven summit in japan and the g twenty summit in china. our aim should be to increase the socioeconomic development of the affected
and effective. tensions are something natural and the european phenomenon was the ability to transform them into positive energy. this phenomenon needs to be preserved.
of this tension. in the critical moments of its history europe was victorious only when it coped with those two challenges
those migrants who are not in need of international protection.
this decision was based on the assumption that a european solution without respect for european law and above all without respect for the schengen borders code is not possible.
it is true you say the deal is working.
and if this is true can we continue with a deal that is against international law and against our obligations?
and i do not say that in a light way i have to tell you. first proof of that in turkey that was part of the deal mr juncker and it is not being complied with by the turks they need to change their legislation to lift all the territorial restrictions on the geneva convention
that is the priority now and in my opinion that means three things.
do you know what the reality
first of all the european border and coast guard.
so it is clear that we have put ourselves in the hands of erdoan and in fact of his government.
well they are the figures from one seven hundred to fifty and from fifty
how many have been
i think we will vote for brexit and the reason is we will vote to put our own safety first.
it is going to be as it was in the netherlands last week a battle of people versus the politicians.
this ladies and gentlemen is the new politics.
they have now managed to put five zero of their operatives into the european continent according to the boss of europol something that should send a shiver down our collective spines.
i think the will of the people is changing politics in a way that makes all of you in this room deeply fearful and so you should be.
three hundred it does not sound like it is going very well to me.
in the end the people's will is going to prevail. this place will not survive.
it was a victory for democracy but in particular it was a victory for a little organisation called geenstijl a group of young bloggers who managed to get together four hundred and twenty seven zero signatures.
so what we are seeing is the big battalions of vested self interest doing their best to completely ignore the will of the dutch people.
mr president i am very surprised. we are here in what i have been told repeatedly is the home of european democracy so surely we could have taken the opportunity this morning to celebrate the dutch referendum last week in which the people said no' to eu enlargement no' to the deal with the ukraine and no doubt had it been turkey an even bigger number of people would have said no' to turkish accession.
i do not believe these institutions can survive twenty first century technology.
one. eight million people have come to the eu in the last eighteen months and we have sent back.
the one group that will be pleased though are isis.
as we in the united kingdom enter the final countdown of our referendum all eyes are on this turkish deal.
i have to say that in the end i think it is what the british referendum will turn on.
you may have the big money the big businesses and goldman sachs but we have got our armies of bloggers.
none of us wants to see another summer like the last wondering if the public support for the schengen area or the public's confidence in our institutions or the public sympathy can last another summer like the last.
the international organisation for migration has estimated that eight times more people crossed the seas to come to eu countries in the first three months of two thousand and sixteen compared to the first three months of.
tusk admits that not all agreements are perfect i have to say that much has come out of the council and the commission to tackle the crisis which my political group has called for and supports measures to better guard the external border;
this summer is a chance to show that we have learned the lessons of failure from.
mr president last september frans timmermans stood before the plenary to talk about the immigration and refugee crisis and dramatically announced that winter was coming.
we do not have time to reinvent the wheel but we do have time to fix it.
i suspect the general public would prefer that we choose pragmatism over idealism.
let us put our efforts and our money into controlling our borders;
building a more efficient returns and readmission programme and taking on the human traffickers. however other decisions have been made which may make some of us feel better but may store up more problems for the future.
one option that reinvents the wheel and centralises asylum applications and distribution. the other which seeks to make the wheel that we have turn better offers some improvements to help states on the front line.
we live in an age of instant messaging and social media and we have to realise that as one entry point becomes less accessible messages will be sent back telling others to try alternative routes via italy spain or malta to name a just few.
but let us show anyone looking to come to eu countries that we have asylum systems which are firm but fair based on compassion and pragmatism.
providing dignified detention conditions;
speeding up asylum procedures and getting meaningful and voluntary commitment from member states about helping refugees closer to their homes or directly resettling the most vulnerable from conflict regions.
returning those who are not fleeing persecution or war or disaster of course understandably coming for a better economic life but allowing them to apply through existing legal migration channels;
time will tell if those concerns are allayed. but even as the german chancellor and the european commission hailed the deal with turkey questions are being asked in other countries.
moving on to last week's communication from the commission on the review of the dublin system we saw a mixed bag two very different options for reform.
and while i have huge admiration for the way that the turkish nation has received administered and housed over.
so my message to this house to the commission and to member states over the next few weeks is a simple one summer is coming.
let us enhance and improve the laws and agencies already in place not scrap and replace them through desperation.
well as the days get longer and the blossom and leaves appear on the trees we can now see that summer is coming.
and whilst the challenge may not change what does need to change is our attitude and our response.
it does not provide basic guarantees of the status of refugees.
the union should have proposed an ambitious and united approach in asylum matters based on solidarity and fair sharing of responsibilities.
last but not least the deal is illegal.
by framing it as a statement of the heads of state and government the eu side is trying to avoid the obligations under eu law including the charter of fundamental rights.
the turkish government should put an end to censorship and respect freedom of expression.
it also circumvents the prerogatives of this parliament to co decide on asylum and migration matters. we expect parliament to take all necessary steps to evaluate the legality of this agreement together with the decisions based on it and contest it
second turkey is not a safe country for refugees.
i heard you speaking about the fact that mr erdoan must respect human rights and all the rest of it but i really wonder what kind of leverage you and your chancellor have on this guy when you are forced to accept anything from him just for him to keep the refugees to the point that when a humourist in germany
finally we need to build up a real european border system.
this is not a line this is not a wall this is a border network which should enable our system of relocation and resettlement to work properly managed by european authorities.
this is a powerful concept and most citizens do understand that we need to move to this new phase of building the means to have sovereignty over our resources our territory and our standards.
i believe this should be envisaged also as a big investment so let us prepare for this new stage.
do you agree with him that it is selfish of nation states to decide how many refugees they take?
do you join with me in condemning the lack of respect that a leader of a group which includes the british labour party shows to independent nation states as a disgrace? would you agree?
madam president it says in the council conclusions that i quote several elements of our common european response to the migrant crisis are in place today and are yielding results'.
this is a very optimistic statement as our common measures such as the relocation scheme do not work at all.
it is rather the unilateral decisions taken by individual member states that have reduced the flow of migrants or at least directed it elsewhere.
i refer in particular to the re establishment of internal border controls and the reduction of unhealthy pull factors at national level.
i have a one point plan which is large scale resettlement from third countries giving people legal access to the european union.
it is all very well you coming up and saying to me that we need some grand plan and we must impose solutions on member states but you have seen the reactions in member states. mr sulk from my group asked a very pertinent question when he asked what do politicians do when the vast majority of the voters in their member states do not want a solution imposed by the eu?
i am afraid that is not the way forward.
the way forward is to sit down with all the member states and ask what they can all meaningfully do.
madam president two conclusions about those who would like to split the european union and fragment europe. the migration challenge is a long term challenge and we can have different views on how to deal with it.
but what is very clear is that if we do not do it together we will not be able to do it at all.
second ukraine if we turn our back on ukraine we are creating an opening for the forces of darkness undermining european stability.
we encouraged the overthrow of a corrupt but democratically elected leader in ukraine.
we should not be. i think we should all have our own individual nation state democracies and i want a europe mr eriksson where we trade together cooperate together work together are friends and good neighbours with each other.
i do not want political union.
i want genuine european friendship.
before i give the floor to our next speaker mr lundgren for one minute can i say that because of time constraints i will no longer be able to accept blue cards.
anti dumping measures are vital and we stand ready in the ecr and in the uk to make them effective.
on migration there is no easy solution.
the turkey deal is not perfect but it may help.
those in the schengen zone especially need long term plans to break the link abused by people traffickers and to have proper border management systems.
but the eu cannot afford to throw endless money or dangle promises of visa free travel to third countries as some sort of reward for cooperation. the uk is not in the schengen zone and people should stop scaremongering the people of britain about the impact of the negotiations with turkey.
migrants are not criminals but chaos on borders can be exploited by terrorists.
we will also look into national developments and national case law.
we therefore expect further guidance in the future. a biotechnological patent is granted in order to promote innovation. under the breeders' exemption principle it should however not keep breeders from innovating further by using protected material to create new plant varieties.
in some member states though germany and france for example such an explicit provision exists in national patent legislation.
essentially biological processes for the production of plants may not be patented.
to be patentable an invention must have a technical character be new and inventive and must not be exempted from patentability.
breeding techniques have however substantially evolved in the past years. modern so called smart' techniques make breeding more efficient;
similar provisions also exist in the european patents convention let.
but the issue arises where the invention can be applied to different plant varieties.
as already mentioned in our replies to written questions by honourable members the commission will indeed publish a new report under article sixteen of the biotech directive covering breeders' relevant issues national developments and the relevant case law.
however some grey areas remain in particular as to whether a new plant which is a product of conventional breeding may itself be patentable.
they use markers which allow for the targeted selection of existing plant material genes for further breeding.
the directive on biotechnological inventions or biotech directive' for short sets limits on the patentability of biotechnological inventions.
in conclusion let me assure you that the commission is taking the concerns raised especially those related to blend breeding very seriously.
such essentially biological processes consist purely of crossing and selection.
therefore biotechnology offers a great potential to assist us all in our daily lives and in life saving circumstances. it is a hallmark of the european capacity for innovation.
producers universities and enthusiastic gardeners and breeders must not be vulnerable to multinational industrial giants who are monopolising designs for naturally rendered new species.
cultural discrepancies and the social and moral implications of genetic modification and manipulation and the propagation of new life forms for scientific investigation or commercial or agricultural purposes must be heeded and should remain the sovereign prerogative of nation states.
mr president in recent years there has been a growth in the number of applications to the european patent office for patents on plants and animals derived from conventional breeding.
without doubt the most difficult determinations involved when creating a potential trail of case law for patenting essentially biological processes is where to draw the line between a method rendered entirely in a laboratory and the extent to which natural viable processes will then be governed by law.
mr president the patentability of smart breeding techniques raises very important issues for the research and development involved in the seed industry and is a very complicated issue.
the processes in these breeding techniques introduce additional steps beyond those contained in conventional breeding practices. these steps and processes require considerable research and development and therefore entail costs.
we must be mindful of the need to protect those investments in order to provide appropriate incentives for future innovation.
whilst it is right to consider the need to facilitate access to genetic materials we also need innovation to address the huge challenge that we have with food security in the future.
this parliament should not direct unilaterally the decisions of the european patent office and should definitely not do so by means of a backdoor resolution without proper stakeholder input.
so we need to do something about it.
they need to be recyclable they need to be reusable and above all we must ensure that we eliminate plastic pollution by.
children's toys insulation medical devices plastics.
why would the chair of a media company order such a data interrogation why were those specific individuals singled out and why was the tab for that interrogation picked up by a company which is based in wales?
the protection of privacy for journalists is not just fundamental to how they do their work but it is also critical to their safety and the safety of their sources.
i would hazard a guess that if you draw a line between all these questions you will find one single common denominator denis o'brien.
included on that list were investigative journalists and lawyers who worked on one of the biggest tribunals in the history of the state.
madam president media freedom is essential to democracy but since two thousand and nine the iranian authorities have systematically targeted bbc persian service journalists based in london and their families in iran.
arrests and detention of family members in iran and ongoing surveillance and harassment including threats to the children of journalists in london continue as does the spread of fake news designed to discredit female journalists especially.
this was accompanied by an asset freezing injunction preventing over one hundred current and former journalists from buying or selling property inside iran.
i am urging high representative mogherini to raise this matter urgently with the iranian authorities because we must stand against these attempts to silence journalists in europe.
at the same time the education act preserves the possibility of teaching in the official languages of the european union.
behind this controversial reform is the latvian unity party this is a shameless election campaign.
graduates of russian schools have no problems with the latvian language.
i pay tribute to the nhs staff who have worked tirelessly for him and who care for little boys and girls like alfie every day but tom and kay are being denied the right to keep their child alive with the help of doctors in italy who stand ready to help.
they want to care for him in the best way they know how.
they don't want his life to be a matter of legal dispute;
it is not clear to me why his parents are being denied the right to decide the most dignified outcome for their own child.
madam president today the court ruled that twenty three month old alfie evans should not be allowed further treatment for his condition.
madam president as a representative of a large kashmiri diaspora in the north west of england and as a human rights campaigner i have always stood in solidarity with the people in indian occupied kashmir who are fighting against military occupation.
these terrible deaths provoked further violence between protesters who had gathered.
this incident occurred in a context of growing human rights violations particularly against women.
these terrible attacks deny women of their dignity and are extremely worrying.
the indian state enjoys complete impunity for these human rights violations and this is unacceptable.
i therefore call on the high representative to strongly condemn the use of force against civilians and to use all diplomatic means in her power to deescalate the situation.
hence we need a holistic approach to ensure that we encourage people to take care of their own development needs and to ensure food security at local level.
we need to reform the common agricultural policy and the common fisheries policy so that there are no direct or indirect negative impacts on the developing and developed countries.
madam president let me make it absolutely clear that i speak on behalf of those in the developing world and not in defence of the common agricultural policy.
we need to act now and build a new agricultural model.
too much food was thought to be the problem.
one of the reasons is that the massive volatility that we are witnessing today in food prices has at long last acted as a wake up call to politicians across europe.
we have come to expect our supermarket shelves to be overloaded and groaning with food twenty four hours a day.
a rising population to nine billion growing demand from developing countries and the impact of climate change.
that dominated the debate up until two thousand and seven rather than the problem being too little. the recent price spikes are a turning point a sign that the days of plenty may be drawing to a close. our current agricultural production model has been based on cheap energy an abundance of land and plentiful supplies of water.
as professor john beddington the uk's chief scientific officer recently predicted unless we take action we face a perfect storm of scarce energy supplies scarcity of water and food shortages.
that is why the eu is committed to stepping up the development of second generation biofuels made of non food crops.
i believe that the high level of political attention afforded by parliament to this issue provides a helping hand to the presidency to fulfil its agenda with regard to the rising food prices. as has also been highlighted in this debate due to the extent and depth of this issue
it is worth remembering that the uprising in tunisia which set off the domino effect across the entire middle east began with the self immolation of a poor street food trader.
it is time we grasped the opportunities provided by biotechnology to help us meet growing demand for quality food products.
wake up and smell the coffee europe before we have food riots on our streets!
europe's farmers can make a positive intervention in helping to resolve this crisis if they are provided with the appropriate tools.
more than one hundred and twenty five million hectares of gm crops are being grown commercially worldwide by more than thirteen million farmers and yet we do not mention biotechnology in this resolution.
madam president the relentless increase in the price of oil and its consequent upward pressure on fertiliser prices together with swingeing increases in the price of wheat maize and other cereals is creating a crisis in our farm sector as well as a growing global crisis.
a strong pillar of direct payments is vital for the world and to meet food demands.
now they are all gone and we are not producing enough food fast enough to feed ourselves.
in actual fact what we are doing is to encourage them to go even faster and we have no young farmers coming into the industry.
i have to say that talking is no longer enough it is action we need on global stocks and volatility in the market and until you start to tackle that problem you will not solve the problem.
we have a situation in the european union where farmers are leaving the industry hand over fist in every member state.