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unlike the emergency room which we talked about in the morning about turkey and kurdistan in this emergency we can offer more than words.
it is a serious and unexpected situation requiring immediate action but it's not climate or ecological. it is a human catastrophe which is affecting frontline communities.
this means that we need a comprehensive cross sectoral platform full of new regulation and legislation an action plan that will ensure climate neutrality by two thousand and fifty and at the same time not only creating millions of jobs but saving us trillions of imported fossil fuel which of course we don't have in europe.
it is disrupting food patterns.
it is creating climate refugees.
we are the leader in this situation and we should continue to be so globally.
so this is not about losing jobs it is about creating jobs and it is our action that needs to be taken to confront this emergency.
and in this emergency europe can be the leader.
the phrases climate change' climate crisis' and climate emergency' have been echoing through our streets and cities and in this parliament too.
citizens who are paying the high price of wildfires droughts floods and storms want leaders that are capable of addressing the real cause leading to this extreme weather.
that's why we want to start working now on a long term economic social and environmental plan with ambitious legislative proposals backed by sufficient financial investments and proper enforcement.
it has to be both private and public money at the member state level and at the eu level too.
we are calling for a new approach on how to address the climate emergency we are facing because a climate emergency it is. however stating that this is an emergency is not enough because if your house is on fire you do not just press the alarm button and sit around waiting.
the socialists and democrats are calling for an ambitious plan for deep de carbonisation shifting subsidies from fossil fuels to support clean technologies ensuring clean energy production safeguarding our biodiversity developing a new sustainable agricultural model that can also avoid food shortages having in place afforestation and reforestation plans
extreme sea level events that usually happen once per century are projected to occur at least once per year until two thousand and fifty and in many different locations.
we are calling for ocean based climate action which could deliver up to twenty one of the emission reductions needed by two thousand and fifteen further investments into developing ocean based renewable energy de carbonising marine transport through energy efficiency and alternative fuels and restoring and protecting marine ecosystems and ocean based food sources.
these are just a few of the stark conclusions that the intergovernmental panel on climate change of the united nations presented in its latest report this september.
wildfire is projected to increase significantly for the rest of the century.
awareness is increasing our young people are speaking and we have a choice to make. either we say that we have a crisis and do nothing concrete about it or we use this challenge to come out stronger better and empowered.
you make sure that the fire brigade is coming and that the fire is extinguished.
preserving water resources and investing in new technologies that address water scarcity renovating our building stock and ensuring the new energy efficient building stock and importantly having in place a strong just transition fund that ensures economic environmental and social progress leaving no one behind.
that is why the socialists and democrats have called for this debate.
to act on climate we need the money to finance the required transition as early as next year.
achieving carbon neutrality requires a revolutionary transformation that has the potential to create new jobs ensure our industrial competitiveness enhance resilience and improve air quality and human health.
we've had enough of empty rhetoric from those who say that they believe that climate change has to be addressed as a matter of urgency but then duck out when push comes to shove when the real binding measures that can make a difference are negotiated.
for sure this blockage will have political consequences not only in the two countries but also in the whole region.
the bulgarian presidency put back the topic of enlargement of the eu agenda after a gap of fifteen years after the thessaloniki summit.
furthermore we must invest enough funds in effective communication tools to counter the propaganda against the european union in the western balkans. and yes indeed both countries need to deliver still in many political fields for example the implementation of the good neighbourly relations agreement between sofia and skopje is unsatisfactory. sometimes i wonder why it is only
other geopolitical players like russia turkey china and saudi arabia are keen to increase their influence in the absence of a vital european perspective.
this is similarly valid for other bilateral issues in the region and indeed eu integration cannot depend only on the bravery of one person to solve all long standing problems and if the opposition come to power to destroy it.
we cannot wait until the zagreb summit next year and we should try to repair this mistake as soon as possible.
the eu must regain the trust of the citizens of this region as soon as possible.
under pressure from outside that countries are willing to wake up from decades of manipulation and falsification of historical facts and events.
the adoption of the un declaration is an important achievement as it promotes key eu values.
the european union will continue supporting all countries willing to make progress towards universal health coverage through our external actions including the external side of relevant eu policies and our international partnerships at country regional and global level.
mr president madam minister honourable members thank you for your lively and most useful debate. i believe that it has come out very clearly that we all share the values of universality quality and equity of access to health care that underpin the goal of universal health coverage and that all health systems in the european union
we need to make sure that the payment appropriations will be available to cover all amounts due in the first years of the new mff.
the risk especially in the eastern and central member states suggests that there might be a structural problem as well. we need to take steps to reduce the amount of the backlogs and help faster absorption especially for the member states lagging behind in order to secure an eu budget which is sustainable not just in the short term but also in the medium and long term.
the outstanding commitments have constantly been growing in the past years and in two thousand and eighteen we reached a record high number with eur two hundred and eighty one billion.
the high number is not just a number in our accounting system.
the payment backlog not only shows what we did in two thousand and eighteen but it is also a good indication of what to expect in the future.
otherwise it will endanger the new mff programmes. the difference between member states is enormous.
this bears a political significance.
i would like to quote stoltenberg's statement as probably the most balanced one while turkey has legitimate security concerns i expect the country to act with restraint'.
if we want to save people's lives we have to reinstate european border control and take help to third countries.
we have to invest in border protection further strengthen cooperation with third countries and we have to effectively fight human smuggling networks for people not to leave their countries in the first place.
it is also completely unreasonable to involve ngos with unclear backgrounds in operations that can only be carried out by competent state and european authorities.
if we keep pretending that we are able and ready to welcome everybody into europe then even more people will depart and risk their lives.
it is completely unacceptable to worship and encourage ngos to disregard rules and break laws.
the best way to avoid people drowning in the mediterranean is to make every political effort so that the smugglers' boats never leave the coast of africa.
its proponents claim that the aim is to save lives but in fact its adoption would be sending the wrong message and would consequently result in even more tragic events.
i want an investigation into who was responsible for the shooting because i don't think it's clear and i do think that agents provocateurs are operating in that region.
his friend aged nineteen just engaged was killed in the protests.
why? because it's a legacy of the us illegal invasion;
when you compare it to the coverage on hong kong we've got so used to the decimation of that country. young people looking for simple things electricity water jobs they can't get them.
the theft of their natural resources exacerbated by corruption.
i find it very interesting that the present government whilst predominantly pro us is being pragmatic is being a little bit open to syria a little bit friendly to iraq.
do you know what upset them the most and our friends back in ireland who are iraqi friends?
two thousand and thirty we are now over two thirds of the way through that period and we've seen a rise of only.
in the one thousand nine hundred and seventy s scientists told us we were entering into a new mini ice age and they came up with the genius idea of dumping ash from power stations on the polar ice caps.
there is frankly more credibility with the theories such as sunspots the milankovitch cycle and orbital variations than there is with anthropogenic warming but by far the biggest impact of climate policies is on energy costs living standards and the economy.
it predicted temperatures would rise between.
it amounts to unilateral disarmament. these policies replace the enormous tax revenues generated from fossil fuels with taxpayer subsidies for rent seeking renewable companies that generate no tax receipts to fund public services. this time will be remembered as history's most expensive virtue signal ever committed knowingly by government.
this is not only a tragedy but a major historical betrayal and i implore this morally bankrupt political bloc to change course.
the kurds in their tens of thousands stood shoulder to shoulder with europe to protect us from brutal terrorists.
so the executive must take heed or they prove this parliament is pointless.
instead the eu does nothing while erdoan uses eu bribes to fund his war and commit human rights atrocities from the murder of civilians to chemical weapons.
we now want economic sanctions but our intentions are futile when the eu continues to pay this rogue state to further commercial and expansionist ambitions.
it's funny everybody in this chamber is in agreement on this.
we must express solidarity with the kurdish people but the territorial integrity of syria is a matter for the syrians to decide.
he detests our democracy our fundamental freedom our human rights our liberty and our rule of law.
and by persecuting and harassing political opponents and kurdish and christian citizens on a massive scale erdoan has also made it perfectly clear that he detests everything that this european union stands for.
madam president it should now be beyond any doubt to everyone that erdoan's turkey does not belong in this european union and by invading syria and using his war on terror as a pretext to displace and slaughter civilians erdoan has made it perfectly clear that the international rule based order is not to his liking just like he is illustrating by occupying cyprus drilling off its coastline and repeatedly violating greek airspace and territorial waters.
there cannot be a place for erdoan's turkey in the eu and now is the time for this european union to terminate accession talks with turkey.
erdoan detests our european way of life.
so i salute the efforts of those involved in search and rescue.
but what isn't international law is pushing people back and delegating responsibility to libya where they face disastrous conditions.
madam president i too would like to commiserate with the thirty nine victims found in the back of a container in essex via belgium through an irish owned company registered in bulgaria part of an increasing race to the bottom in the haulage industry.
and it's yet another tragic and heart breaking example of how desperate people are and the risks that they take to come to europe.
but more than anything we need to stop bombing their countries and making them homeless and making them refugees in the first place.
it's basic morality and it's basic international law.
i want to be very clear about what i believe should be the concrete proposal of the new european commission.
for these reasons species are going extinct at an unprecedented rate and what we are doing we are putting the base of our life at risk the biosphere which provides us with drinkable water with fertile soils with clean air and this must stop.
so we expect the new commission to come up with a stringent plan on how we will act.
but there are two boundaries which are much more drastically exceeded this is biosphere integrity biodiversity basically and biogeochemical flows which means putting nitrogen soluble nitrogen and phosphorous into the environment.
representing a member state that is home to some of the poorest regions of our union i also have to add that fighting the climate crisis has to go hand in hand with the poverty crisis because our poorest regions are the most vulnerable to these climate related risks.
we are dealing with a vicious cycle and we have to act now.
if climate change threatens the health and livelihood of those people who are already vulnerable escaping poverty becomes even more difficult and this is why a just transition is the only way forward to a carbon neutral and circular economy.
politics is shifting throughout europe and i'm very happy for my hometown budapest whose newly elected leaders pledged to declare climate emergency ending years of inaction and i applaud the ambitious climate agenda put forward by ms von der leyen.
but let's not forget that effective climate action has to go hand in hand with a strong regional policy with more solidarity leaving no europeans behind.
what has been a source of long standing consensus has now become an open geopolitical problem.
as the standing rapporteur for serbia i can tell you that the failure to open accession negotiations with north macedonia and albania is our bigger political failure to commit credibly to enlargement.
a credible offer for eu membership to western balkan countries is in our joint and strategic european interest.
if we want a stronger and internationally respected union we must try for a decisive voice and influence in our immediate neighbourhood.
the north macedonians even changed the name of their country to get the green light from the european union.
let's remember enlargement has brought unification and an unprecedented sense of security to europe.
however our security is not a given especially when we look at turkey's and russia's actions in our neighbourhoods.
we do need successful stable resilient democratic and most of all european western balkans.
the success of southeastern europe on its path into the european union will also be our european success.
we don't throw things around and we are not violent.
i hope you all agree with me in that ruling.
it is my job to keep order in this house and what you did was appallingly disorderly and disrespectful to the house.
you can make your political points without being disorderly and abusive to other colleagues in this room.
it's been long in coming and we kept on ignoring it but now it's here both in climate as well as in biodiversity.
just today we had to object to protect the bees to protect the biodiversity to what our governments and the member states have been doing.
what we need now is to hold the governments the member states accountable because on one hand we say that we act on the climate we're going to phase out coal and on the other hand we actually use public money to export coal fired power plants to third countries.
on one hand we say we're going to deal with the switch to renewables and on the other hand we have projects of common interest building oil pipelines. we really need a fundamental change and we really need to hold our own government accountable.
i will and i hope that you will too.
that's very crucial because to be very honest mr oettinger if i hear you talk i don't really get an urgent feeling about the crisis that we are in the middle of and that's exactly the problem.
if you read all the scientific reports that are coming out on a daily basis it shows the urgency that we are facing.
this is about our future but this is also about opportunities as a european continent to really change our economy in a way that delivers on climate neutrality but also creates new jobs.
all the reports are out there and still the council is struggling to agree on climate neutrality.
maybe now in december it took more than a year and then we have next year the last year before paris starts.
are we going in with the same targets that we agreed five years ago? that's not the urgency that our citizens are asking for.
there is more that needs to be done and that urgency needs to become clearer not only from a debate here it needs to come from action from the council from the commission but also from this house because it is lovely to hear all the debates that we are having in this plenary but when we are talking policies this house is also not delivering.
at this moment we are discussing agricultural reform.
the agriculture sector is an important sector that can deliver on climate action but i'm challenging my colleagues then to deliver not only in speeches here but also in making sure that the agriculture reform is going to be a truly green reform and not again just subsidising the bigger farms.
every day requires us to act.
but essentially what he has done is to address both the commission and the member states on some key points because it is quite concrete in the end either we do something or we don't.
and we are doing this at the beginning of the new commission as the commissioner said.
so let's be very clear we can get around some of these things that would show our humanitarian effort and understand that we have some values here in the mediterranean.
we repeatedly called on the commission to issue guidelines specifying which forms of facilitation should not be criminalised.
in our resolution we call on the commission to finally adopt those guidelines by the end of this year.
i know the new commission will only take office at the beginning of december but the asylum package is frozen as has been said. but there is a lot of work to be done to take this proactive approach. operationally we need more information and transparency on frontex's activities at sea as well as on the funds and material support that are provided by the eu and its member states to the border and coast guards in third countries including libya turkey egypt and morocco. fundamental rights the principle of non refoulement and the principle of disembarkation in a place of safety have to be respected.
finally member states should step up their moral and legal obligations to save lives at sea and adopt a proactive approach to search and rescue making use of all available vessels and to cooperate and support ngos in their efforts.
essentially the resolution addresses on the one hand what the commission can do and what the new commission can do and then the member states because for the member states this blame game which is simply not demonstrating our values but passing around the blame will continue to drain our resources but ultimately
it will require us to make difficult decisions difficult decisions which ultimately will be the right moral decisions in the mediterranean but also sustainable decisions and proactive ones.
this resolution should be supported.
my group is asking for the maximum amount of support to show that we have the european values that we want to demonstrate in the mediterranean and i hope it gains maximum support.
as has already been mentioned it's one of the key priorities of the new commission.
we're guarding it and we're keeping it for the next generations to come and therefore we have a moral duty to look after it.
in this debate i'm quite sure we will see those who in a matter of speaking will show their middle finger to the next generation telling them that climate change doesn't exist and refusing to take measures.
we will also see those who will be telling you precisely what you can do must do or shouldn't do that you should insulate your house that you should buy a tesla even though you're just struggling to make ends meet by the end of the month.
therefore the epp group believes that there should be a third way a way that tackles climate change but that takes people along;
that doesn't put the burden on the shoulders of those who can least afford it;
and then it's too simple to only talk about a just transition fund.
in the view of the epp we shouldn't only have a green deal or only have a european climate law but also a strong industrial strategy to make sure that we have the cleanest the most innovative industry that actually keeps jobs for those generations in the future who will need it.
if we're talking about sustainability in three regards sustainability that yes indeed is environmental and tackles climate change but that is also social and economical we need to have a strong industry to make sure that we can also deliver on climate change.
last but not least it doesn't make any sense to speed up our commitments if there is not a clear commitment by the others;
a year ago donald trump said of the kurdish militias they fought with us they died with us' they are a great people' we do not forget that i do not forget that'.
it is in geopolitical terms highly irresponsible.
now the vacuum may have left turkey with what it sees as a difficult decision to make but turkey would do better to look to its own territory and give more political space to opposition parties supported by the kurds and to journalists supporting their rights if it is to successfully address terrorist threats.
we now urgently need a political solution that allows rapid return of displaced persons but also minimises the strategic ground conceded to russia assad and iran.
while fighting the kurdish military forces turkey hurts kurds syrians and its own citizens. in addition to civilian casualties the old wounds and anxieties of a deeply traumatised population along the border are being reopened.
the unfortunate us military withdrawal unnecessary turkish military invasion and destructive russian military and political presence in syria have created a new geo strategic shift which can hardly be balanced or sustainable.
madam president sometimes we need to explain why we need to do something.
climate change will not slow down because of single actions because climate change knows no borders.
we can only win if we work together leaving no one behind.
fossil fuels belong to the past and together we must look into the future of energy.
it's time to let go of old technologies. it's time to create and fund new ones.
let's invest more in science and innovation. let's make trade deals that fulfil the paris agreement.
we face that choice.
it's totally secretive and it damages trust of the public in the eu and they should be ashamed and should clean out their own stables but refusing discharge is the wrong approach.
the council will then start to amend our budget then we will start to amend their budget and we end up in a pointless war wasting everybody's time. a much better procedure for dealing with the council's secretiveness is for us to highlight individual examples of how the council wastes money exotic meetings in exotic locations for the ministers when they don't have much to discuss and many other ways that they waste money and this is not the moment to express them.
that would be the way to open up and shame them into transparency and spending taxpayers' money properly.