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we understood the need for working together learning from each other with the exchange of information and best practices and putting in contact authorities which in the past worked in silence.
it is our role to protect democracy and internet freedom from such powers.
allow me to quote from one thousand nine hundred and eighty four by george orwell who wrote power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing'. some may want to interfere in the free elections of our political classes reshape the minds of our voters by micro targeting political advertisements and disinformation attacks.
we do not want to be the ministry of truth' but we cannot be naive.
and that's also why the conservatives are european elections because they know they would be hammered in those elections.
there's no need to be afraid.
i have no great hopes for the talks between the two front benches because mrs may cannot move position without a rebellion in her party.
in fact we're losing all the trade deals we have via the european union if we go ahead with brexit.
and in any case brexit the european union losing a member state for the first time in its history the consequences of that decision are far more significant than the inconvenience of one group having a few more members than another group in these elections. have a sense of perspective.
the british people are beginning to see through the lies that they have told for years about the european union. they're beginning to see through the lies they have told about brexit.
i think that illustrates the attitude of some of those on that side of the house.
it's turning out to cost a fortune.
madam president may i also join those people who have commented on notre dame and in particular your words mr tusk on sharing the pain of the french people when you said we are bound by more than just treaties.
they told us it would save lots of money that would all go to the national health service;
they said there would be new trade deals ready with countries across the planet to replace any lost trade with europe;
remember they told us it would be easy;
the british people are beginning to see through that and that is why they are so afraid of having another referendum because they know what the answer would be if we had one.
but it does give us the time to go back to the people and end this damned mess that we have got ourselves into.
the majority of british members being returned will not be of the ilk of those on that side of the house.
it comes with an ambitious revision clause to investigate if this six month stockpiling waiver is enough to achieve public health or whether we need to question the spc regime altogether and have a more fundamental reform.
this is a small step but it's a step in the right direction.
they just prolong patents on medicines that are already too long.
so long and thanks for all the fish.
indeed assange if extradited to the united states could face an accusation of spying which would entail the death penalty. that's a very strong reason political and juridical why he shouldn't be extradited by a court be it in the uk in sweden or in your own country.
we know that no european country should extradite to a country that has the death penalty.
that's exactly the case of the united states i'm very sorry.
i'm just wondering especially in relation to all these fake accounts one hundred and sixteen million and i presume the people that were threatening to kill our good friend mr tarand probably had fake accounts as well is there some way that we should look at monitoring fake accounts before they actually are
in other words is there some type of passport proving your identity before you actually get on facebook and the other social media platforms because as long as fake accounts are there they're going to be able to do what they like with impunity to a large degree.
i'd like to compliment commissioner king for his proposals and his efforts to get to grips with this very worrying situation.
mr president this is a very opportune discussion especially with our european elections only six weeks away.
growing precariousness at work is fuelling economic insecurity on which the far right feed.
these are minimum rights.
madam president in two thousand and sixteen the committee on petitions of this parliament heard directly from mcdonald's workers from across europe about their precarious employment contracts and conditions as part of their unhappy meal' campaign.
i would have liked an explicit ban on exploitative zerohours contracts and an explicitly universal coverage for all workers regardless of public or private and regardless of how many hours they work.
but as the european tuc have said these rules give new important rights to precarious workers and shift workers across europe. these rules must be implemented comprehensively without loopholes or exceptions.
the draft rules on transparent and predictable working conditions are not as radical as i would have liked to see.
i've worked with them and i've been inspired by the mostly young workers in the fast food industry who've joined together in their unions to say enough is enough we deserve fair working conditions and decent pay'.
i know you discussed this yesterday in the debate on the whistleblowers' directive.
we are all aware that when acting for the purpose of protecting the general public interest whistleblowers play an essential role by disclosing wrongdoing and dangers to society.
he argued that his asylum claim aimed to prevent his being ultimately extradited to the united states and put on trial for publishing thousands and thousands of classified us documents.
therefore they deserve legal protection.
i'm sure that if there is a price we will help all our very important friends in israel as well as in palestine so that they don't give up hope on the two states and they can still count on us because words no longer help.
that's much more than labelling.
we are breaking new ground with this directive and it will therefore be extremely important that we get the implementation right.
this includes information on their remuneration their working schedule and the duration of their contracts and thanks to parliament extra information for temporary agency workers.
the proposed directive is a significant achievement for social europe. with the directive we will provide two hundred million workers across europe with more transparent and predictable working conditions.
madam president i am very happy to be here with you before the vote on this directive one of the key deliverables of the european pillar of social rights.
and there is also the principle that mandatory training should be costfree to the worker and again thanks to parliament that it should count as working time.
however we do not stop at information rights.
all workers in the eu will receive information on key working conditions.
all in all what you are voting on today is a substantial improvement in the working conditions for all eu workers.
the directive also provides completely new substantive rights like for example a limitation on probation periods a ban on unjustified exclusivity clauses a right for workers on ondemand contracts to know within which time slots they can be called to work and thanks to this parliament a right to compensation if an employer cancels a work assignment on short notice and measures to prevent abuse of ondemand contracts.
workers will know at the beginning of their employment this means within the first week what their basic rights and obligations are.
this is why we needed to find the right balance. we must ensure protection for workers without overburdening employers and without stifling innovation and that is exactly what we have done with the proposed directive. with the new rules in place we will first of all ensure more transparency.
reaching a provisional agreement would not have been possible without goodwill and cooperation both from parliament and the council and not without the rapporteur's tireless commitment to seek a good compromise text during the negotiations.
we are modernising european labour law and adjusting it to the new world of work.
we have to retain certainty.
it's our own fault because i asked two years ago that we shouldn't distribute any seats until the british had left because it was discourteous to them and also there was a possibility remote as it seemed that they might not go on twenty nine march.
producing sufficient sustainable and sufficiently healthy food for all now and in the future in europe and globally while facing extreme weather resource scarcity changing markets and demanding consumers will require innovation and technological development.
will build on the achievements of some of our recent programmes such as horizon two thousand and twenty and fp seven and help us to reach our targets and create jobs particularly in the areas of renewable energy food production digital etc.
i look forward to voting for it tomorrow and seeing europe further driving leadership in this area borderwide.
also i welcome the strong support being given to climate action and also research into cancer.
horizon europe will ensure that our future food production will be more sustainable and competitive protecting the environment and catering to various needs.
this is the most ambitious research programme ever and will strengthen the eu's science and technology capacity and indeed leadership in a number of areas. i particularly welcome the significant budget that has been allocated to agriculture and food production.
we fully rely on the independence and professionalism of the uk courts to take the right decision having in front of them the appropriate evidence.
madam president honourable members the european parliament asked the commission to make a statement on the possible extradition of julian assange from the united kingdom. we can inform you that extradition between the united kingdom and the united states is governed by a bilateral treaty and a subsequent eu us extradition agreement. the latter does not allow
there are no clear cut eu rules in this respect but rather a list of factors to be taken into account by the court.
in addition the court of justice has also decided that a member state must refrain from an extradition if there are serious risks that fundamental rights of the suspect are affected.
as a general remark i must note that the european commission does not have the competence to intervene on judicial proceedings pending in front of the courts of member states.
this is a landmark achievement and it shows that the european union can deliver in an area of citizens' concern and that it can deliver fast.
social dumping or unfair competition.
in order to achieve all this we need better enforcement of the european rules in the area of labour mobility and that is exactly what the european labour authority is going to do and it will start doing it very soon.
thank you all for your attention.
so once again a big thank you to the european commission commissioner thyssen to the romanian presidency and to all our colleagues who worked together in a very good a very constructive and a very efficient manner to get this done.
abraham lincoln said elections belong to the people.
it's why the cybersecurity act that you have voted and supported is so important the new cybersecurity agency and the role that goes with it.
we need to make sure it stays that way.
which is why it's so important that we've now got these measures on foreign direct investment screening that we've got measures proposed around five g security so that people understand the importance not just of making judgments about digital infrastructure on the basis of price and cost but also
i can assure you that we will do everything we can from the commission side to follow up the effective implementation of the cybersecurity act and indeed i hope that you will also support the cybersecurity competence centres and the research into cybersecurity that is going to underpin our future cybersecurity resilience.
greater transparency around political debate and political speech greater transparency around the provenance of particular pieces of information where does it come from?
that's what is involved in the measures that we are promoting through the code to have greater transparency around political adverts sponsored content to tackle the problems of bots and fake accounts to use fact checkers more effectively to have that independent scrutiny that many of you have spoken about so that we know what is happening on these social media platforms
first of all there have been a number of suggestions particularly from behind me that in some way the work that we're doing to tackle disinformation is against free speech that in some way it amounts to censorship. i want to be absolutely clear about this.
for me that's the essence of defending free speech and free debate and it is as far away as you can be from any sense of censorship.
this is absolutely crucial.
the second thing that i want to react to the importance of our cyber resilience protecting ourselves from cyber attacks cyber enabled interference.
to have effective corrections when some piece of demonstrable disinformation has been circulated.
we have never suggested we will not suggest that it is the responsibility of someone whether it is public authorities still less private sector to judge whether a piece of political speech or a piece of political information is true or false good or bad. the measures that we are seeking to promote through the code are measures to promote
so that we as citizens can be better equipped to assess that information and form our own judgments about it.
integrating security into those decisions.
we have to protect our critical digital infrastructure the plumbing of our digital lives of our digital political debate.
but as a number of you have underlined this needs to be implemented.
flexibility is today inevitable just like digitalisation.
i call on you to support the directive.
it's a crucial measure of social justice and solidarity for all our citizens. as i said before madam president this directive is also a major achievement to make the european pillar of social rights a reality.
therefore we have not sought to prohibit new types of employment but to support the workers concerned with protection against excessive practices and with the minimum of predictability that everybody needs to organise life. the implementation of this directive will be a common task for member states employers and workers with all the adequate room for social partners to make the rules a success on the ground.
honourable members allow me to conclude by making the connection between this directive and our other initiatives posting of workers protection against cancelled work access to social protection for all the accessibility act the skills agenda a more european semester and not to forget work life balance.
in all three countries the humanitarian needs are enormous.
this is our analysis of the immediate needs and the emergency response.
nearly three million people have been affected in mozambique malawi and zimbabwe and almost one zero people have lost their lives.
member states have contributed extensively by providing humanitarian and that means more than eur sixty million and civil protection assistance in kind including shelters food and power generators as well as the deployment of water purification satellite communication medical emergency teams flood rescue and relief modules experts all provided through the eu civil protection mechanism.
we should translate them into life lessons of strength and resilience.
as you know the eu and the member states mobilised quickly in response to these natural disasters.
the potential loss of harvest will have a severe impact on the livelihoods of smallscale farmers who depend on agricultural production.
our close consultations with member states and the commission have shown that protection must be at the heart of our emergency response.
we also need to ensure that education can resume as soon as possible for thousands of children affected by the crisis.
a number of member states also made available military assets such as ships helicopters and aircraft for logistics and transport.
in malawi the cyclone and the floods have destroyed many fields of recently planted crops.
this brings us to the importance of implementation.
they include food drinking water shelter health and nutrition as well as education protection and logistics.
many families have been separated. women and children are disproportionately affected by displacement and women and girls are particularly vulnerable to genderbased violence and sexual exploitation.
a european civil protection team led by a romanian expert has been deployed to mozambique since twenty three march two thousand and nineteen in order to assess the needs and ensure coordination and distribution of the aid provided by member states.
disasters teach us valuable lessons.
the tropical cyclone idai and the subsequent flooding we witnessed in recent weeks have brought enormous destruction and human losses to southern africa.
our intensive exchanges through various channels have shown that the eu and its member states were quick to react in response to this disaster.
many are still missing.
a post disaster needs assessment will indicate the necessary action to address the long term recovery needs.
we included the disaster caused by the tropical cyclone idai on the agenda of the relevant council working parties to facilitate indepth discussions among member states and the commission.
women and children are heavily affected.
member states have allocated substantial amounts of funding to the humanitarian response. thus the necessary services are currently being contracted and implemented.
malaria is on the rise.
lastly we should consider using cash assistance wherever the circumstances allow for it.
mr president when you look at the pictures last night of notre dame burning in times like this it's time to put aside politics and wherever you are whether you are british european or from the rest of the world many people shared sorrow when they saw those pictures.
so the current talks are naturally uncomfortable for members of both main parties myself included.
and we must aim to find a solution in time to avoid participating in the european elections. the time has now come for pragmatism.
this may be my last speech from this seat or in this chamber after nearly fourteen years and can i just say to my colleagues that whether we have agreed or disagreed over the years whether you are re elected or moving on to new challenges can i thank you all for your service.
and while that may seem natural to most people in this chamber this is not how the uk system of parliamentary democracy works.
i'd like to thank mr tusk for his more constructive approach last week compared to say some of his more recent statements. i think mr tusk that your words in advance of the council struck the right chord that this shouldn't be about recriminations or humiliations and that to remain friends and move forward we have to build a future partnership that can truly stand the test of time.
and even though it's a building not of my faith i share the pain of many of you in this chamber today and i hope that we can all come together whether british european or from outside europe come together and do our bit in that rebuilding.
but eu membership has been a divisive issue in our country for many years not just in my party but in the main opposition party too and you can see these divisions playing out and i know many people here will ask well why didn't you begin cross party talks sooner?
think of the millions of people over the years who have stood and watched that building whatever their faith looked at it and it's been a symbol not only of paris but of the history of europe but also the whole feeling it gives.
let's get it done.
many of us had hoped that we wouldn't be having this debate today and that the uk would have left the eu on twenty nine march or even last week but we have to deal with life as it is.
as a country the uk has been in difficult positions before but we have a reputation for seeing things through and i believe that this time will be no different.
can i thank you all for being part of this amazing experience and can i wish you all the very best for the future.
however i realise that your patience has worn thin and that you look and wonder what is happening in westminster.
personally twenty five years ago my wife studied in france and she worked in paris for a while and we used to go to notre dame.
you only have to look at the house of commons where the two parties sit opposite each other rather than side by side as in this parliament. on one side sits the government on the other the opposition and rather than seeking to build coalitions across it's a much more adversarial style of politics.
the article fifty extension agreed at last week's council may not have been the answer everyone or perhaps anyone wanted but it gives us more time to pursue all the options in search of a breakthrough and i hope that my colleagues in westminster do not take too long. our economy our politics and our country need certainty
so as i say farewell to this parliament today i can say i have enjoyed myself.
it has haunted these negotiations since the beginning and will continue to do so as long as you retain your position.
yes the extension gives the opportunity to really address the real problem and you'll not be surprised mr barnier i still consider that problem to be the backstop.
i have to say the extension to october i can see no agreement at the end of that time.
there have been some good times and some extremely sad times where we have been through some of the most terrible terrorism ever faced in any part of europe and i had to go through that.
and europe did with over two billion extra funds that touched many people up and down the length and breadth of northern ireland.
i hope i have given it something and i hope i have represented my people well during my time here because they are a proud people they are a great people the people of northern ireland.
my view has always been simply if you're part of a club you should be in the club.
in order to be realistic and successful any future plan for israel and palestine will have to start from the internationally agreed parameters recognise them and this includes the one thousand nine hundred and sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps and the status of jerusalem as the future capital of the two states.
i think it is important for us the european union again united in this to say clearly that abandoning the two state solution would bring greater chaos not only to the holy land but also to the entire middle east which is already facing a very difficult situation due to the proliferation of crises we have seen in the region in the last years. the next escalation of violence in israel and palestine could easily spiral out of control and it would have tragic consequences in a region as unstable as today's middle east not to mention the
alive is the most courageous and the most fruitful contribution we can do and the best service to peace and stability and security in the region.
in fact the two state solution is not only fading away;
starting from our arab partners let me say that in the last few months we've had the chance of meeting with the leadership of the arab league countries both in the first ever european union league of arab states summit in egypt and with my participation the third in a row to the summit of the league of arab states just a few weeks
only last week plans for more than four thousand six hundred new housing units were advanced by the israeli authorities.
i will not comment on the potential policies of a future government that is not even established yet.
ago. i can tell you that this position of the european union on the two state solution but also on the golan heights has been probably one of the main elements of discussion and is probably one of the main elements that brings together the europeans and the arabs in this difficult moment in our common difficult region.