kfajdsl/voxpopuli huggingface dataset:
and my second question to her is why would you like to deprive the people who can least afford it the opportunity of a cheap holiday with lowcost airlines?
can i ask ms rowett what empirical proof she has that low cost airlines in particular affect the climate.
if the applications are submitted within the deadline and their assessment by the commission reveals that the conditions for activating the solidarity fund are met then the commission will move rapidly to propose an amount of aid to be approved by this house and by the council.
provides for restoring agricultural production potential damaged by natural disasters and catastrophic events and introduction of appropriate preventive actions so it too could provide support to help farmers cope with the impact of natural disasters. and
the commission is currently exploring with the spanish and with the portuguese authorities the best ways to support the recovery from the damage caused.
so in these different ways that i have just set out we stand ready to help those affected by these severe weather events.
the commission services in fact have already had meetings with the authorities of the valencia region and with the authorities of the azores to explain the conditions and the procedures that activate the solidarity fund.
the eu solidarity fund provides member states and regions affected by serious natural disasters with financial assistance for emergency and recovery operations.
the spanish government in a recent letter to the commission have announced their intention to apply for solidarity fund assistance once they've completed the ongoing damage assessment.
violent weather events who've lost their livelihoods and suffered damage.
to compensate for damage caused to primary producers by heavy rains and floods member states can as i'm sure you know also consider granting state aid.
in addition the european structural and investment funds can intervene to help with certain recovery operations and again as some of the damage concerned affects the agricultural sector the eu rural development policy
article one whoever publicly promotes or approves paedophiles' behaviour shall be subject to a fine the penalty of restriction of liberty or the penalty of deprivation of liberty for up to two years'.
you are disseminating some fake information.
the commission welcomes the initiative that the presidency has taken to focus on this area and indeed this was reflected in a discussion in the justice and home affairs council on eight october which endorsed a set of suggestions from the presidency.
the threat posed by violent rightwing extremism has featured prominently in the discussions on the two thousand and twenty strategic orientations for a coordinated eu approach to the prevention of radicalisation.
for me that's one of the reasons why it's crucial that together as co legislators we advance swiftly in the negotiations on the proposal for a regulation countering terrorist content online.
the commission will also continue to support local authorities and cities in their efforts to tackle radicalisation.
it's vital that we fully recognise this threat and work together at eu level as well as in each of our member states stepping up our efforts urgently to address this particular challenge.
in addition it's important to ensure that europol's internet referral unit has sufficient resources and capacity to monitor and refer rightwing violent extremist content and i know that this house will support that.
but while the code of conduct has proved a very useful tool the fight against illegal hate speech online is far from over.
the platforms were able to remove virtually all of the two hundred different variants of the video and the extremist socalled manifesto including the soundtrack used to glorify the attack within a couple of hours.
indeed a couple of weeks ago the internet forum met and this item countering violent rightwing extremism was at the top of the agenda.
to implement the joint action plan the commission is putting in place a set of tailormade arrangements with each of the western balkan partner countries including actions for effective prevention and countering of all forms of violent extremism.
while our work on countering violent extremism and terrorism at eu level covers all forms of extremism it's fair to say that the primary focus in recent years has been on jihadi terrorism.
let's put in place clear and effective measures to prevent the dissemination of illegal terrorist content including live streaming directly linked to attacks while at the same time ensuring that we retain full respect for fundamental rights and freedom of speech.
jo cox a member of parliament in the united kingdom was not murdered by a british patriot.
and building on this work we think there are a number of areas where we can go further where we need to go further. first we agree with all those who argue that we need to do more to counter violent rightwing extremist content online.
third and this has also been stressed by member states in the council it's important to support our neighbours in their efforts to tackle violent extremism particularly our partners in the western balkans.
we need to crack down on this poison and help save some lives.
her life was taken by a farright violent extremist thug.
this needs to remain a priority given the nature of the threat but the commission is also increasingly focusing on and working to tackle violent right wing extremism especially through the radicalisation awareness network that is working with police officers prison and probation staff local government officials teachers and others on the front line of tackling this particular challenge.
as a follow up to the cities against radicalisation conference which we organised together with the european committee of the regions earlier this year the commission is supporting a pilot group of interested cities in building a network focused on countering radicalisation in our communities.
so i very much welcome the good cooperation with the companies involved in the internet forum.
the recent tragic events in halle germany have further underlined the very real and growing threat posed by rightwing violent extremism and in this particular case anti semitism a threat already highlighted by the horrible slaughter of innocent people earlier this year
the joint action plan on counter terrorism for the western balkans signed a year ago covers counterterrorism policy as well as prevention of all forms of radicalisation and violent extremism.
let's be clear violent extremism is violent extremism whatever hatefilled ideology fuels it.
europol in fact is now working with more than three hundred and fifty different social media platforms but there are still platforms today which refuse to cooperate in our efforts to take down illegal terrorist content online including violent rightwing extremist content.
after both those events i know that all our thoughts were with the families and friends of those involved.
the commission and the social media platforms will continue to build our cooperation within the eu internet forum.
our european countries belong to all of us not to those who would use their supposed patriotism as an excuse for committing coldblooded murder.
second the commission stands ready to provide further support to member states in their efforts to tackle this particular challenge.
three years ago we signed with the platforms an eu code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online.
among other things this includes helping local and national governments to develop their action plans to prevent rightwing violent extremism including through exit and de radicalisation programmes.
they sat back and let the company fold not because they couldn't do anything as we've heard from the people who have left the chamber now but because they did not want to.
it was great news that a real corporate success story in tourism sunderland's own hays travel stepped in saving scores of local jobs as a result. but now considering the scale of damage to our economy and particularly our manufacturing industries as johnson's brexit beckons we need a government that is willing to defend jobs and rights not one that sits back and lets those jobs go
it requires that children pay the price for regressive political views which are not their own at a cost of their health wellbeing and fundamental rights.
to deny children's right to knowledge and inhibit their own bodily autonomy would undermine and seriously restrict their rights.
healthy relationships means learning to respect each other and to treat each other with equality and dignity.
we all share this duty as parents educators and legislators and the eu as well to empower future generations to learn about themselves their bodies their rights and their autonomy.
one of the most fundamental duties of any society is to teach its youth about equality and healthy relationships.
to criminalise the teaching of sexual health and education to under eighteen s is deeply alarming.
this bill targets lgbt and women's rights in particular as it violates poland's commitments to international agreements on women's rights the istanbul convention and cedaw.
but like many out of touch businesses it went into a tailspin as customers migrated to the internet.
economically illiterate pro eu politicians in the labour party suggested that the british government should have bailed out thomas cook completely failing to realise that even if mps had wanted to eu competition law would have prohibited such an intervention.
emma and her husband jake were dragged through the british court by the british government which failed to legislate on irish citizenship twenty one years after the good friday agreement.
last week it wasn't just emma who lost her case. we all lost.
britain is a country which you cannot trust a country that never keeps its word perfidious albion. so until meps see brexit legislation enacted we must not give our consent to the withdrawal agreement because the british establishment will be working to undercut it piece by piece.
as an irish and eu citizen emma has the right to love and to sponsor her husband jake and she has the right to defend irish citizenship.
mr president friends. i don't care where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum. i don't care how you came into power or why you came into power.
i salute the climate strikers skipping school to save school the extinction rebels disrupting indifference and the countless young activists like isra hirsi and xiye bastida who are proving no one is ever too small to make a difference.
so let me say this as clearly as possible climate justice is empty without social justice.
it is the poor the more vulnerable those beyond the easy embrace of development who will pay the catastrophic consequences of a world spinning its way into oblivion.
the front lines are in the marginalised edges of global power.
if you have any influence in any sense to be in politics in the twenty first century is to be in the collective war room of humanity against environmental catastrophe.
but most important of all i salute the countless unnamed activists of the global south fighting for their way of life in the face of the consequences of corporate greed.
however given the aggressive campaign of scapegoating and hatred against say the lgbti community in poland over the past few months it is very difficult to believe these assurances.
in fact like my colleague i find it quite impossible that in twenty first century europe teachers would actually be threatened with prison time for explaining the practice and benefits of condoms to youngsters.
the problem is that it might in fact cause the very opposite because without proper knowledge about sexual abuse by potential victims it may well be that sexual violence will increase as a result because making sexuality taboo is typically an invitation for paedophiles.
what we see here is actually the very opposite depriving children of this very right.
normally governments in europe and all across the world do their utmost to invest in education education which is free from ideology and equips children with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate through their professional and social lives.
this would send a very bad signal to the entire profession and create an atmosphere of fear and persecution.
any attempt to effectively ban sexual education would therefore be to the detriment of the children's wellbeing and safety.
and i say to my colleagues in parliament you should be careful about bandying around accusations of hate speech to anyone who disagrees with you the real hatespeechmongers are the murderers and the extremists whereas some of us who get labelled with those labels are actually the lovers of freedom and the fighters against anti semitism and against all forms of racism and discrimination.
to those who say anti semitism is confined to the extreme right i have to say as somebody on the left in british politics that to my shame anti semitism is far too much of a factor in left wing organisations there.
i also say that while it's very tempting when we see extreme violence of this nature to clamp down i would urge the german authorities and the people in this parliament in relation to their nation states not to call for bans or attacks on free speech.
i don't say that to score left right titfortat points but simply to just not point fingers and to be honest.
the clampingdown on anything in the name of hate speech might be what the eu does but it should not be what freedom lovers do.
but i have a number of concerns about how we react we shouldn't be too simplistic.
it is a partnership that allows governments to address issues that no one country can tackle alone.
it is proof in a world where superpowers can impose their will on small nations that we are better together.
mr president i have heard the european union described in britain as an empire a malevolent force out to control and constraint.
a brexit deal has been agreed between the european council and boris johnson.
we should do all we can to resist brexit. but if we win or if we lose whatever we call upon our colleagues here to build upon the strength of this european union and live up to its aspirations to be a force for good in the world.
they want to remain european citizens and for britain to be a leader in europe not a leaver.
it is a champion of freedom and democracy.
in a continent that has seen centuries of conflict it embodies the conviction that this must never happen again.
the european globalisation adjustment fund is a strong demonstration of european solidarity it provides assistance to dismissed workers to help them find new employment on top of what public employment services offer.
however the commission is aware of the difficulties passengers may still face in asserting their rights ahead of or during insolvency proceedings.
furthermore the european social fund may support actions to help dismissed workers for retraining reskilling and job counselling. second other cohesion policy instruments may help affected regions.
we are in contact with the member states to assess the impacts in terms of the numbers of businesses jobs and travellers affected in their constituency and to share information about the european support available to help address such impacts.
furthermore national authorities have in some cases been actively engaging in ensuring the repatriation of stranded passengers.
the erdf support is available via the relevant national and regional managing authorities in line with the respective operational programmes. third european stateaid rules give member states flexibility to support companies facing acute liquidity shortages due to unforeseen circumstances.
the unfortunate insolvency of thomas cook exemplifies this well it shows once more that tourism and the travel industry require an integrated approach across different european policies.
tourism is an important economic activity for the european union.
for some european regions tourism is even the main economic activity.
one euro of value added in tourism results in fifty six cents' value added upstream and in this sector there are not only big players out of the.
the combination of these factors makes the tourism industry not only complex but also tightly connected with and affecting other areas of the economy.
this proposal which is still in the interinstitutional procedure does not provide for any specific rules in the case of airline insolvencies.
fourth on the question of travellers' rights the directive on package travel obliges organisers such as tour operators to have insolvency protection to ensure the repatriation of travellers to their place of departure and the reimbursement of the travel services not yet performed
european instruments are available under different policy areas and may be mobilised to support member states. first we can help avoid negative impacts on the people affected by job losses.
it is worth pointing out some tools in place to mitigate the negative impacts of insolvencies on passengers such as an industry commitment to provide rescue fares to passengers which was indeed triggered on several occasions.
in particular member states can create schemes supporting smes which face financial difficulties.
the egf may be triggered by member states under certain conditions and the commission stands ready to help the member states concerned.
the european regional development fund in particular can be instrumental in helping regions that face problems of industrial transition digitalisation globalisation decarbonisation natural disasters or regions that need to diversify for instance by avoiding too strong a dependence on the tourism sector.
these vulture capitalists make rich pickings by investing in financial products that pay out when a company defaults on its debts as was the case with thomas cook.
and lamenting the loss of jobs in the old system must go hand in hand with a properly funded transition to a more secure future.
for some hedge fund managers and financial speculators this was just another business opportunity.
it's low cost flights that are fuelling the heating of our planet which in turn is making popular destinations in europe unbearable at peak holiday times.
so the two biggest issues of our time the climate emergency and brexit played a part.
now tackling climate change will involve new patterns of travel and different types of holiday overland travel and more stay cations will have to replace the existing model.
but aside from this perversity of capitalism we should also consider how thomas cook arrived at this destination.
madam president the collapse of the iconic british holiday company thomas cook is tragic and may well have been avoidable.
it's important that we recognise that as the tories try to take us out of the eu while watering down workers' rights and customer protection this safety net will not be there under a boris johnson led government post brexit.
it left one hundred and fifty zero uk holidaymakers stranded many of them children and the elderly working class families who had worked and saved hard for a well earned break.
thomas cook say that the conservative government's business secretary andrea leadsom did not even speak to their executives leading up to its collapse.
school leaders policy makers and experts has opened a survey on the topic of sexual education to try and understand better the views of teachers who work in this field. the survey is open until twenty november available in twenty three languages and the results of that survey will be published on the school education gateway. when it comes to the criminal law again as you know article eighty three of the
tfeu sets out that union competence comes into play for serious crimes with a cross border dimension. now that does include the offence of sexual exploitation of women and children. indeed as you know directive two thousand and eleven ninety three criminalises sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. the directive requires member states to take appropriate measures including education and training to discourage and reduce the demand that fosters all forms of sexual exploitation of children. examples include campaigns on the consequences of violating the law as well as the short and long term damage to those who are caught up in this vile crime. the commission will make use of its enforcement powers under the treaties to ensure that this directive is implemented fully and
the union does encourage cooperation between the member states in this area. curricula regarding sexual education are part of teaching. that said the school education gateway which is europe's online platform on school education for teachers
mr president it appears according to your rule that this house has voted against allowing a debate just a debate in relation to the atrocious actions of the spanish state in catalonia.
i think people deserve to know the margin by which members of this house voted on this matter.
i spoke to them about sexual education and consent in the countries they were from and the type of education they had received in school.
not one of them was able to say to me that they had received comprehensive sex education.
we have a long way to go across the union in relation to this.
if we in europe are to ensure gender equality real equality where women girls men and boys understand their value worth and responsibilities we need to progress sexual education not hamper it.
we must educate our young people. as i know well from ireland it is rather a lack of education as opposed to education that results in alarming and unexpected consequences.
and what consequences they are.
development of healthy relationships is hampered awareness of what constitutes sexual abuse is stifled and fundamentally it does a disservice to the youth in europe by denying them the right of information a fundamental of our democracy.
as regards the proposal that to teach young people about sexual education would be akin to promoting paedophilia i say absolute nonsense.
in fact sexual education can heighten young people's understanding and therefore make them more aware of what constitutes sexual abuse and protect them.
to deny young people the opportunity of such an education makes them vulnerable not just at that moment but actually throughout their lives.
fundamentally this proposal will not and cannot achieve its true aim to reduce the numbers of young people engaging in sexual activity.
rather we must encourage young people to be careful and responsible should they make a choice to do so.
the only way to do that is through thorough and comprehensive sexual education.
i would urge the polish government not to progress in this manner and not to proceed in this manner.
i just think it is really interesting when i hear statements like the one that you have made.
i just think it is really hypocritical that you would say such things and it is divisive.
this is about nastiness this is about racism this is about creating hate which is what we're not about on this side of the chamber.
so i suggest that you look at yourself and reflect on what you're saying before you use this language because the danger is that the language you are using when the real nazis come along when the real racists come along you will not be able to identify them.
our suggestion is let us be vigilant as to what might happen in future but currently there is definitely no urgency as no legislation is planned.
there have been other occasions when we've discussed anti semitism.
there can be no doubt about the commission's commitment to tackle that.
you've discussed it at length with my colleagues frans timmermans and vra jourov and i think there can be no doubt that the new commission will continue its efforts to tackle anti semitism and tackle racism xenophobia and extreme nationalism because these are
fundamentally opposed to our shared values.
at the same time we need to continue our efforts to counter violent extremism. i said it at the beginning of this debate and i shall say it at the end of this debate violent extremism whatever its source that is far right violent extremism far left violent extremism jihadi extremism