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we share the same urgent need to protect children prevent child abductions and minimise the distress that families suffer due to the legal uncertainty and the lack of a simple and unified procedure at eu level in this matter. i really regret that we are fighting about procedures instead of fighting for the good of the child.
i deeply regret that despite their declarations of intent the member states as a whole have so far failed to show the sensitivity and the political will which are needed in order to tackle the current fragmented situation
i really do regret that this package has been blocked in the council for almost a year.
the adoption of such proposals would ensure that all member states have the possibility to use the hague mechanism with all the contracting parties of the convention for very concrete child abduction cases;
that has very often substantial long term consequences for the child. the prevention of child abduction should therefore be a central part of eu policy to promote the rights of the child and in international cases multilateral rules are key to ensuring the protection of children.
this would be in the best interest of children and it would also respect the principle of the unity and external representation of the european union.
it also means that after having promoted russia's accession for many years and having finally persuaded russia to accede the european union as a whole is now not able to accept this accession and the russian authorities are of course raising this with us in the regular high level meetings we have.
in practice this means for example that singapore's accession has been accepted by ten member states morocco's by fourteen and seychelles' by eighteen member states.
in the field of international child abduction.
to date there are eighty seven contracting parties to the hague convention including all the eu member states.
last year presented a package of proposals for the eu's acceptance of the accession of eight new contracting parties to the convention including key partners such as russia and morocco.
that is the message i have for the member states and i hope that they have heard the message from the european parliament. thank you for helping me to fight on this issue.
they are economic migrants.
the police did not detain them they did not deport them and that is wrong.
i was actually sent here to protect our national interest and actually the people of britain will vote to leave this place because they recognise that our national interests are not being served in this place.
the main concern of the migrants is not safety but economic gain.
six zero i said it before the majority of these people are not refugees.
i am just not sure how you are going to bring that together with sending people back to afghanistan because afghani refugees are recognised as refugees inside the european union;
but for once finally we have it in the conclusions so let us hope that all of those things are finally going to be delivered.
afghanistan certainly is not a safe place and again unfortunately the mini summit on sunday failed to address the crucial questions of a new and fair distribution system fair for member states and for refugees and the question of legal access.
finally we will ask member states to further contribute to the efforts made to support unhcr the world food programme and other agencies as well as to support the eu's regional trust fund responding to the syrian crisis and the eu trust fund for africa.
this is still work in progress.
the european council decided that we want to achieve concrete operational measures in a fair and balanced manner on effective return and readmission dismantling of criminal networks and prevention of illegal migration accompanied by real efforts to tackle the root causes and to support african socioeconomic development together with a commitment concerning continued possibilities for legal migration.
from the very outset of this crisis i have underlined the importance of protecting our external borders.
we should have no illusion that any third country including turkey can replace us in protecting our borders.
this has to include stopping the illegal crossings of our borders registration of all asylum seekers and organisation of appropriate reception facilities.
when it comes to the role of hotspots we have started an honest debate on how they should function.
second leaders took stock of work to make eleven hotspots in greece and italy fully operational by the end of november.
it will be able to intervene in border crises faster and more assertively and it will take a lead in the return of irregular migrants.
a very first step is to provide frontex and the european asylum support office with all the resources they need as well as implementing the temporary relocation mechanism to alleviate the burden from those of our member states most affected.
we will aim at exploring possibilities for developing safe and sustainable reception capacities in the affected regions and providing lasting prospects and appropriate procedures for refugees and their families including through access to education and jobs until return to their country of origin is possible.
they are not coming. i hope that at least the valletta summit will be an opportunity for our leaders to realise what they have been told here in this parliament namely that without opening safe and legal avenues for refugees and migrants they will continue to feed business into the criminal gangs.
but the fact is that the relocation process is not working at european level.
nobody talked about it the source of this crisis is the ongoing conflict in syria and we have looked away for years from that conflict.
what he said was a long list of decisions taken at european level have not been implemented by the member states for months now. when it concerns relocation not enough has been done.
there is no reason for a battle between us because this battle is only good for them over there with their blue cards to attack the european project because this is an existential crisis;
that means that it is together in greece in bulgaria that we have to control the border register the different refugees who are coming establishing facilities so that they can live in good circumstances and not as in the images that we have seen in recent days and recent weeks.
and there we stand together.
an existential crisis that can only be overcome if based on the commission mr tusk now the council decides on what is in my opinion the first thing to do that is the european border and coastguard so that we can regain control over our borders. that does not mean that we have to create a fortress europe.
when it concerns the budget not enough has been done. when it concerns sending civil servants for the external borders not enough has been done. the problem is not here between political groups;
it is there that we can differentiate between those who are economic migrants and real refugees and it is there where we can organise the relocation.
in greece there we have to create this european border and coastguard that has to be multinational and that has to deal with registration and at the same time with relocation.
if at least a third of those sixty million people come to europe in the coming years we will have a new medium sized nation on our territory. so what conclusions can be drawn from these numbers?
said that what we have been going through now can be compared to the great migration of peoples from prehistoric times.
money and resources need to go into processing and returns.
but all these plans are no substitute for action so to solve the crisis we first have to stabilise it accepting only the most vulnerable genuine refugees from the camps as identified by the unhcr returning those who seek to bypass that system.
our grandparents had the vision to meet the challenges of their times.
we have a moral obligation yet some countries are doing far more than others.
these new challenges will need new solutions and history has taught us that to face the really big challenges we need to work together as allies but stand up to those who seek to dictate to us.
it is in danger of becoming a geo political crisis. in syria a proxy conflict is unfolding. russia is doing all it can to destabilise the eu's borders to focus our attention away from the ukraine.
our turn to do something for our children and grandchildren face today's challenges or retreat to the past.
some countries are donating huge sums.
let us move on from road maps and action plans and get on with helping those in need.
they allowed our generation to enjoy a longer period of sustained peace and prosperity that any generation ever before.
when i say all countries i do not just mean all eu countries.
start focusing on helping those genuinely seeking refuge.
let us get away from the arguments of those who want to do nothing and those who think that we can do everything.
stop individual countries opening their borders to all one day forcing others to close theirs and start being clear about what each country can do and is doing to help because we need to face the reality now.
this is not just a refugee crisis.
this is not just a migration crisis.
stop driving refugees into the arms of the traffickers. start helping people nearer their homes.
instead of a stop start approach let us be clear about what we need to stop doing and let us be clear about what we need to start doing. stop sending out a signal that anyone is welcome.
we have got to get away from the well rehearsed arguments of whether you are pro european or you are anti european.
our grandparents confronted the problems of their generation who had fought two world wars.
so while we should acknowledge and support the contribution of turkey jordan and lebanon we should also be asking when the richer arab countries and the usa will step up.
i mean all countries.
never take that for granted for now our world is changing shifting power from west to east wars on our doorstep terrorism at home living longer but reproducing less.
the balkans are in danger of destabilizing so against this background we have had the commission ten point plan we have the european council roadmap and now we have the seventeen point plan from sunday's summit.
so let us stop sending false hope to the millions thinking of coming here that they all have a future in the eu.
some countries are paying huge bucks while others are passing the buck so all countries need to understand the scale of the situation and help with coordinated action.
let us stop pointing fingers and setting quotas and start delivering for the sake of the refugees for the sake of the citizens of our countries and for the sake of the future stability of this continent.
but even with such a system in place we have to take some refugees into our countries.
our children will face a whole new set of challenges so now it is our turn;
some countries are struggling to cope.
we need to be fair but firm helping refugees close to their homes welcoming some to our countries but telling economic migrants to apply through existing legal migration channels and not being seen to jump the queue over those who have applied legally.
borders need to be strengthened.
i think what you need to do is cross out socialist' and put european union' and it fits like a glove.
perhaps none of this should surprise us as mr juncker has told us before that there can be no democratic choice against the european treaties.
what has been made clear here with greece and indeed with portugal is that a country only has democratic rights if it is in favour of the project.
i think for anyone that believes in democracy portugal should be the final straw.
this is the modern day implementation of the brezhnev doctrine.
my country has always believed in parliamentary democracy so strongly that twice in the last century it risked everything to fight for parliamentary democracy not just for britain but for the rest of europe too.
i actually believe that for all of us who believe in democracy and want to see it re implemented the british referendum offers a golden opportunity.
mr president as this migrant crisis begins to overwhelm the european union and yes it is an existential crisis perhaps we should ask ourselves what really is the true nature of this project?
i never forget seeing the greek prime minister mr tsipras sitting just over there having won a general election and then come to this house to be told the manifesto was unacceptable and it must be ditched.
all of this has reached a new low this week with portugal.
in this migrant crisis we have seen four countries led i guess by the strongest hungary making it clear they want no part of eu migrant quotas only to find themselves crushed through eu trickery and made to accept the very thing that they had said no' to.
i think what we are seeing is an increasingly authoritarian european union that crushes democratic rights and then actually crows about it. every single time there is a crisis it is national democracy that loses.
we saw exactly the same thing happen in greece in.
it should be the warning that this project to protect itself and all its failings will destroy the individual rights of people and of nations.
virtually unremarked upon by the media and yet for those that do not know there is now following the general election a left wing majority with a socialist plan for portugal and yet the president of portugal mr silva is refusing them office on the grounds that they represent anti european forces and is allowing the minority conservative pro eu prime minister to stay in place.
this is exactly what happened to states living inside the ussr.
it is important that whatever our political views we do not give up on the european union for a well organised and compassionate response.
people are suffering as winter comes. we will see more deaths and this parliament will call for action.
so action has to be taken and that means that this parliament must do its work.
after all the talk is finished we will have to do the work we will have to get the financial instruments and we will have to ensure that the hotspots work.
they would have worked if the asylum conditions had been created over the past years and member states had done it then.
so we have to do it now.
in all the member states should be replaced by emergency procedures.
awareness of this fact is not dominant unfortunately in all the member states.
i am convinced that this will happen and i would like to assure you that the luxembourg presidency is ready to support the efforts of the commission in acquiring human and financial resources indispensable to tackling this crisis. but let us also be fair.
contributions to the world food programme unhcr and other agencies exceed what has been pledged so far and this is not the easiest time for governments to spend fresh money today as you can imagine;
it is maybe the most difficult one.
let us remember when it comes to relocation that there are today eight times more places prepared for refugees to be relocated than refugees who want to make use of them.
from the beginning of this crisis i have underlined that our clear aim should be a significant containment of the migration tide.
but the opinion that it is impossible and that europe should accept nearly all who want to come here is still being voiced.
we heard accusations that human rights have been violated.
those people are fleeing countries where there is no police and no administration at all.
the condition for respecting human rights is the protection of the legal order and enforcement of rules.
in order to solve this crisis we need to find a mode of tighter cooperation with them. we also need to be careful to prevent the creation of other crises in this region. financial support has so far been limited and our response came quite late.
you will have your chance to have your say when the referendum comes.
mr president in listening to this morning's debate i hope that what we have heard is a more realistic approach to the issues facing european nations in dealing with the flows of refugees and migrants currently heading towards europe.
i understand that many of those coming are fleeing persecution but i fear that the initial response by some european nations may have consigned even more vulnerable people to trafficking and exploitation by criminal gangs.
president tusk focused this morning on the matter of securing borders concluding that even though deals with third countries are possible no third country can replace us in protecting our external borders.
if this is a more realistic approach it is late but welcome.
of course it is only part of the answer. it requires a dual approach stability in the region and promoting policies to encourage economic growth.
however i am perturbed by the tone of some of the leaders' comments in this debate this morning.
we are not a nation of extremes but a compassionate people who have mandated our government to give aid to the syrian refugee crisis.
in fact we are the second largest bilateral donor of aid to the refugee crisis in syria and one of the few countries working to fulfil our millennium development goals.
mr president let me use this opportunity to thank the european commission for its commitment to find practical solutions to this huge challenge we are all facing.
i welcome the action plan that was developed jointly with turkey as turkey and the eu need each other to share the burden of providing safe havens for so many people fleeing war.
so we urgently need to discuss further about financial support resettlement the effective return of economic migrants and fighting smugglers.
i nevertheless do reject the linkage of cooperation on refugees to the eu accession process as these issues are unrelated.
postponing the progress report on turkey without any explanation gives the impression that the eu is avoiding being critical on the human rights situation ahead of important elections.
and we have to help them as well.
i have to admit there is still not a full european spirit of cooperation.
more cooperation more solidarity more responsibility are needed and now we need actions not only commitments.
implementation is key. this is also the message i got from you here.
this is also why the commission work programme will have to give some answers in relation to borders dublin resettlement legal migration and relocation already on the table. they are all key because we cannot afford to fail.
national leaders who have reached this deal must take on their responsibilities to deliver their own agreement.
this crisis is a continuing nightmare for all those families forced to walk mile upon mile to reach shelter and food for their children.
these are people just like us they are human beings.
it is not a political game.
talking of which i note that at the council meeting there was a short discussion on the terms of the uk's negotiations and referendum so i will use this opportunity to warn prime minister cameron there can be no more delay. this is too important. he now needs to join us in securing a future that britain deserves a future inside the european union.
as a matter of fact this expenditure on the nord stream pipeline would negatively affect the countries of central and eastern europe only favour the interests of certain eu countries and companies and oppose the principle of solidarity and common action embedded in the guidelines of the common strategy that the commission developed at the request of the member states
mr president commissioner efovi's initiative to investigate the legal aspect of nord stream ii is very welcome because it is an open use of energy tools for geopolitical gain and i would even call it part of a notorious hybrid war'.
doubling the capacity of the nord stream pipeline has several implications which crucially need to be evaluated by the commission.
first mr arias caete the commission must ensure that the project complies with eu laws on energy markets. i am also urging the commission to investigate urgently what the doubling of the pipeline's capacity will mean for the central and eastern european countries. it is in our interests to find a comprehensive solution for energy security
which will benefit all member states.
' i call it business as usual nothing new.
russia will be a key energy partner for the eu for decades to come.
we are essentially interdependent and this should inform our deliberations on key infrastructure projects.
but russia and its leading gas exporter gazprom have openly objected to eu efforts to liberalise energy markets and actively sought to undermine the diversification strategy.
as you know mr arias caete parliament is working on goals and objectives for the future energy union in europe.
i would like to hear your assessment about how the eu might proceed with discussions on nord stream ii in the light of the european energy union's guiding principles.
for instance commissioner can you tell us how many eu nations will conduct strategic reviews of the future nord stream expansion to assess the strategic and geopolitical implications of this project?
i believe that most countries merely conduct environmental impact assessments but these do not capture the broader political implications of critical energy infrastructure projects.
therefore i am calling on the commission to enter into dialogue with the relevant member states and to tell parliament how many of them undertake geopolitical assessments of critical infrastructure.
i would also like to know how the commission approaches these questions and to ask it to conduct and publish a europe wide strategic and geopolitical study on the implications of an austrian pipeline particularly its impact on the european neighbourhood policy and the
so my question to these three leaders is where is your coherence on ukraine policy?
it is a political project.
it is a highly explosive highly divisive political project.
madam president leaked government documents have revealed how china's mass detention of uyghurs and other minorities started with directives issued by the chinese leader in.
i'm proud of labour party colleagues in the uyghur solidarity campaign who mount a regular monthly protest outside the chinese embassy in london and i'll be joining them on five january to call for the closure of these concentration camps.
china has even organised tours of the camps which it describes as voluntary vocational training centres intended to provide students with job skills.
the documents also highlight the extent of brave resistance by thousands of local officials.
among the leaked documents is a script for local officials to use when speaking to the children of parents being punished. it explains that their loved ones are receiving concentrated education to eradicate them of violent terrorist thoughts.
one han chinese official was jailed for trying to slow down the detentions and protect uyghur officials.
two thousand and twenty the situation in the region cannot be solved without the involvement of the wider international community therefore i highly support the commission's external action efforts towards the negotiating of a transition leading to transparent and internationally monitored presidential elections and the restitution of the public powers.
six million venezuelans have fled the country since two thousand and fifteen and if this trend continues and according to estimations.
first reestablishment of political freedoms and the legal status of banned civil society organisations as well as the release of the remaining political prisoners without charges.
they have stemmed from the commitments undertaken by the government itself we are not requiring anything else that fulfil these agreements.
third an agreement on electoral reform between the government and the opposition including the civic alliance.
accepted to seek a negotiated way out and sign two agreements on the liberation of prisoners and the reestablishment of political freedoms. but it is clear that the government has failed to live up to these commitments.
our policy is to support a peaceful negotiated and above all democratic solution.