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it's hard enough to get your head around this dispute even if you're working here all the time but to try and explain this to farmers is damned difficult.
they have enough going on without trying to explain to them that a problem with the aeroplanes is going to result in potentially them going out of business because while you're explaining it to them they're also asking you to explain how can i expect the commission to help me when these people who are meant to be helping me are going along signing another deal with mercosur countries which will make things even more difficult
it's very hard to believe how they will though because they usually are the ones who both in a literal sense and in a metaphorical sense end up with the shit on their hands.
i believe that in order to prevent such things we should invest in prevention more than recovering from such disasters.
i believe that the european union should have relations just like in a marriage so it should be there in good and bad times.
if we are in a relationship between two private persons then both have the liberty to express their opinions and their concerns.
that is the reason why i think that you are attacking the state of poland because you dislike the conservative government and use misbehaviour and maybe criminal acts of private individuals. and that is not acceptable.
ambassador walker has put forward workable proposals and already interim arbitration solutions are in place with canada and norway.
we recognise of course that the commission has really made some very concrete proposals about wto reform not just on dispute settlement but on other matters on rule making and enforcement.
as we move toward the ministerial conference in kazakhstan next summer i think we need to face a truth and the truth is that this is an enduring and a very deep crisis in the wto.
you asked us to send a strong message and with this resolution we will do so.
we send a message to the commission and to the wto members that efforts need to continue in order to unblock the appellate dispute and the appointment of judges.
but i think we also need to remember and to remind european citizens that the wto has been with all its shortcomings a very effective guardian to date of our rulesbased multilateral trading system.
it's safeguarded order and fairness and given us a level playing field.
and these are things which we take for granted.
i'd just like to close by saying that the paralysis in the appellate body is not inevitable even though we treat it as such.
we want a system that works for all members and that includes all members including the us.
to that end we are ready to talk to friends and partners with an open mind.
it has to be independent it has to be a two level system and it has to be binding.
we are preparing for them and we must do everything to preserve our right if the appointments remained blocked and that is very likely.
but we will continue to work here. many of you have said the wto needs reform.
it does need reform in all areas in the daily work when it comes to transparency and reporting in the decision making process when it comes to dealing with new issues such as e commerce where we're doing some work as well and updating the rule book to address issues such as massive
and here the european union is working very hard sometimes with other allies and friends to address all these issues and we will do this and we will continue to do this during the spring and the month leading up to the next ministerial conference.
i think that will be heard outside this plenary as well not only in europe.
could you elucidate us a little bit further on what kind of new deal the labour party is looking for with the european union and then what your position would be post that in terms of whether you would support your leader in neutrality or you would vote for remain?
on the mff i hope the signal given by this parliament and the commission to the council was clear and in very simple words i would say it's an illusion to think that the mff should be more of the same.
we want the same but more of it that's not going to fly.
we want the same but less of it is not going to fly either so we will have to find a compromise where we do more on what needs to be done now and less on what needed to be done in the past.
for that we need to have a reasonable budget where we convince those member states who say they are frugal that it is in their interest to pool our resources at the european level to meet these challenges and we convince those member states who still cling to outdated policies that they should embrace the potential of
this brings me to my second point and also triggered by some of the remarks that were made.
i want to warn of a false contradiction that's been put on the table by some here no longer here but some who were here.
and that is that there is a contradiction between being ambitious on climate policy and saving our industry.
i think it's exactly the wrong way round.
the longer we take to embrace the potential of this transition the more we will hurt our industry and the potential for jobs in the new economy.
i think now that even jeremy clarkson recognises that there is a climate crisis i think there's no more space for any climate deniers anywhere. so we know we're faced with an existential crisis and we know we have the collective responsibility to do something about it.
i think the sooner we do this the sooner we put the resources in creating a circular economy in creating new jobs in the new economy in helping people transit from the coal mine industry towards a new economy the sooner we embrace that the sooner we will come out of this as leaders in the world and the sooner we can say to our children and grandchildren we've heard you we know what our responsibility is we're taking it we're helping you create a world that is better tomorrow.
wouldn't it be more correct to say that it is not poland it's the polish government imposing one particular set of values on the whole population ignoring the rights of all the polish people.
wouldn't you agree that the polish government should not be defending christian values it should be defending the rights of all polish citizens?
because apart from being despicable and illegal the notion in and of itself is absolutely ludicrous the idea that lgbti citizens are not present in every country in every family in every community.
more than anything the fact that we have to discuss this shows the need for education.
i think there's an incredible irony in the fact that these homophobic actions were sparked by the proposal to have an all inclusive lgbti sex education in warsaw schools precisely demonstrating why such comprehensive sex education is needed in the first place to combat ignorance and intolerance.
attitudes change when you publicly discuss these issues in a tolerant loving environment.
i don't think i'm setting the bar very high here right?
the desire to protect children is the most basic of all human instincts.
so why did i just vote against this declaration on the rights of the child?
because yet again something that has a motherhood and apple pie title is in fact filled with a miscellany of trivia with congeries of accretions all sorts of issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with the basic title.
there are some amendments from the right some from the left there are issues here to do with abortion to do with lgbt rights to do with sex education to do with the rights of children of fighters in the militia camps in iraq and syria.
sensitive issues of this kind should be dealt with by national parliamentarians elected on respectable turnouts known to their constituents and therefore in a way that we cannot be answerable to their peoples.
the next prime minister jeremy corbyn has said that as prime minister he felt he should be neutral in the referendum to apply whatever the outcome the british people decide.
but the labour party will be taking a position at a special conference and i am convinced that faced with the prospect of remaining or leaving even leaving with a less damaging deal than boris johnson's deal which is what we will secure in negotiations with our european friends and partners that we like the british public will choose to remain in the european union.
but there are some points that are even more important.
this is the ability to work together to cooperate and find good solutions that will allow us to solve the problems that are standing behind us and that must be or should be solved on a european level.
but in other matters we are not working so well for example not only in financial matters but in very important issues in the area of foreign policy like the case of albania and macedonia the issues that are making us weaker and can make our neighbourhoods less safe.
this is a matter of responsibility a matter of important transformation of our economy and an issue that can be very beneficial for our future.
first of all our policy should be evidence based should be based on the impact assessment analysis and studies. we should favour the market approach and technological neutrality.
second it is good to set ambitious long term targets but it's even more important to deliver on existing targets because only through fulfilling our promises can we reach the long term goals.
i guess we can succeed.
i call on the council to find as soon as possible good compromise solutions because the cost of delay is substantial.
let me also say that if climate is the key priority it should be fully respected in our financial plans.
then before you know it this is extended to more and more areas.
s i also am a bit concerned about the criminal nature it wants to bring in.
they happened as a result of wrong headed policy in particular the idea that governments could pick winners and that governments should control the economy and make things happen through reallocating resources. the twenty seven member states have moved on but the european union has not.
here is the eu coming out with policies on women in agriculture export credits for favoured companies special grants to unilever in the czech republic and to machine tool manufacturers in poland. the one thousand nine hundred and seventy s was a dire period for europe as a whole and for the united kingdom in particular a time of stagflation of unemployment of national bankruptcy.
we are still in this world of taking money from our taxpayers and giving them to favoured client groups.
but these things did not happen because of some tectonic forces beyond our control.
because if we did not do that what would the european union be for? as upton sinclair once observed it is very difficult to make a man see something when his job depends upon not seeing it.
the real cause which uproots people and makes them shift themselves hundreds of miles in pursuit of a better life is opportunity.
emigration we know historically more often is the product of rising wealth and rising aspiration.
in our country the united kingdom there are more than four million people who are either unemployed or on incapacity benefit and yet every month we are bringing people in from all over the world to do jobs that are not being taken by people born in the united kingdom.
we have placed them in a situation where work is no longer part of their mental horizon.
the idea that emigration is a product of poverty and desperation although superficially plausible turns out to be specious.
the reality is that in the european union we have created a situation where we have long scale structural unemployment and yet are still are having to import labour.
we saw very recently that the great migratory flows from tunisia came after the restoration of democracy and the end of dictatorship.
it is a crime to be persecuted.
respecting culture and religion is important but it should never be an excuse for honour killing genital mutilation trafficking domestic violence and forced marriages.
the stockholm programme provides a new policy framework to enhance the fight against violence on women and calls for concrete action.
i voted in favour of this report because i believe we must join forces across political parties to denounce and combat all forms of violence against women.
i support the principle and most of the proposals but judicial and criminal law measures should be taken at national level.
we have to start daring to talk about custom unions and free trade agreements with the countries of the mediterranean that are moving towards democracy and reforms.
the industry has a responsibility to provide schools for the children that it exploits.
i would like to assure all of you that the commission is fully committed to maintaining policy coherence in all its initiatives related to trade development human rights and corporate social responsibility bearing in mind that in developing countries the problem of child labour cannot be just looked at in isolation as a separate problem.
i will just recall a couple of them the european union is conducting a lobbying campaign to support the ratification of ilo convention one hundred and eighty two on the worst forms of child labour and two optional protocols to the convention on the rights of the child.
these are family farms facing huge challenges. they are sometimes located forty km down a dirt track and have extremely difficult access to infrastructure.
to conclude i would like to reaffirm my strong belief that a child's place is at school and not in the fields or factories.
children have the right to be protected from economic exploitation and from child labour.
an ever increasing number of children are engaged in activities that meet the ilo definition of child labour.
in order to assist communities to provide the conditions where children will no longer need to be employed the commission is fully engaged through its development cooperation and its policies that we apply in this sector.
the eu's engagement is outlined in the two thousand and ten commission staff working paper on child labour and the june two thousand and ten council conclusions.
this is coupled with helping west african countries to address the issues themselves including through cooperation on improved infrastructure and farming methods and providing for more and better labour inspection and market organisation.
nevertheless the commission has repeatedly expressed its profound regret that despite the efforts of the international community including the near universal ratification of ilo convention one hundred and eighty two which requires the complete eradication of this practice
eradicating poverty is the first objective that we should try to achieve tackling the root cause of child labour in africa and in all developing countries.
with this responsibility in mind we recognise that the question of child labour represents one of the most difficult challenges the controversial aspect being that in our view the idea is abhorrent while in some other traditions it is an accepted practice.
all these elements are of paramount importance for cocoa producer countries which also in most cases happen to be developing countries. being the world's main importer and consumer of cocoa the european union has a clear role and a responsibility
we could even go further on this issue by saying that the problem of child labour goes well beyond the cocoa sector and unfortunately affects nearly all our developing partners.
it is our responsibility to ensure that this balance is correct but that we do not have a misuse of legislation either in one member state or across the european union.
that is where the doubt entered and as mr weber correctly said that pressure was applied. this is an allegation which has been tested in our high court and is the subject of proceedings but it clearly sent messages across the world that political pressure was being applied in this case.
the reason we are here is that there was doubt as to whether that uk act was being proportionately and correctly implemented.
his answer to me was that it was having a chilling effect on media freedom and on journalism. that is the problem we are now encountering that across the media world the detention of david miranda is having a chilling effect'.
this is the problem that we have.
that is what this statement should be about and that is why we are here today.
we should not be applying such legislation in relation to somebody who had close proximity to glenn greenwald.
this particular act did not come as a result of nine eleven but it came in relation to northern ireland in the year two thousand.
i want to hear from you a defence of media freedom.
i asked the editor in chief of the guardian in the european parliament enquiry last week what effect this situation is having on journalism both in the guardian and amongst journalists more widely.
ms kroes as one of your colleagues said in the college of commissioners if we are going to cast doubt in other countries about the question of media freedom and pressure we should apply that across the board.
in the words of a former attorney general the use of that power was both not proportionate and incorrectly used.
i believe that the guardian is redacting and editing its stories so as not to put people in danger. this is not just about having information out there in an irresponsible way as we heard in the committee inquiry last week;
this is why across the political spectrum there was severe doubt as to whether david miranda should have in fact been detained for the maximum nine hours when it was clear that he was not prima facie a terrorist.
today's debate must be about north korea or belarus?
it is about the free western world.
secret. laws secret courts secret budgets for secret services all citizens being watched by the secret services blanket surveillance journalists and whistleblowers held on grounds of national security.
of course the facts have to be investigated thoroughly i would never say otherwise but investigating thoroughly is not the same as turning a blind eye or closing our eyes to reality.
they may sometimes be a pain in the ass mr weber but they are necessary for democracy.
we know about the miranda case we know there is a case in germany we know about whistleblowers like edward snowden and chelsea manning and many others.
so we should be dispensing justice to whistleblowers not revenge.
our parents our grandparents and our great grandparents suffered and gave their lives for freedom and democracy on this continent we owe it to them to make sure that we and future generations can enjoy the same freedom and the same democracy not only on paper but in practice.
we have seen the abuse of counter terrorism laws and we also see mr weber abuse of the rules on confidentiality again to cover up illegal acts by governments rather than to preserve the rule of law and it is our job as a parliament to ask critical questions to make sure that these things do not happen again.
yes they are breaking the law but sometimes mr weber that is the only way to expose the illegal acts of states the only way to expose violations of international law and indeed of national law and human rights.
they are essential to democracy.
if we want to do so with real moral authority then we need to clarify and resolve the situation before us.
colleagues we need to take a very close look at what is happening here because it is very serious.
oh no it is about us!
we are speaking here about fundamental values.
however the council has not discussed this issue and has not adopted any position on it.
the eu should be a role model on media freedom a beacon of freedom to our own citizens and others. freedom of expression is an essential foundation of democracy enshrined in the european convention and the charter of fundamental rights.
we are committed to ensuring that this freedom is fully respected by member states when they implement union law.
people must be free to hold opinions;
they must have the freedom to receive and give out information without constant interference and that includes the freedom of journalists to carry out their work.
of course freedom of expression is not absolute for example if public safety or national security or other rights are at stake but limitations must be necessary and proportionate.
they must be in accordance with the law and they must be justified in a democratic society. some have expressed serious doubts about the case of david miranda the partner of guardian journalist glenn greenwald and particularly about whether his detention for nine hours and the searching and confiscation of his possessions were proportionate and justified.
of course where there are ongoing proceedings the commission cannot take a position on questions of law in a particular case but i do want to assure you about the wider work we are undertaking in the area of media freedom and pluralism.
i have long been concerned about these issues and i asked the high level group of experts to advise me.
they found among other things a need to ensure independent monitoring of media freedom and pluralism and a need to strengthen the independence of audiovisual regulators etc.
for example we are piloting a project on an independent tool to monitor member states' media pluralism via the european institute in florence a project first put forward by the european parliament i might add.
we can expect the first results in the spring of next year. we have also just published a call for projects concerning an independent european centre for press and media freedom a centre to gather data on threats to journalists and provide them with help if needed.
it should be a beacon of freedom to our citizens and to others. freedom of expression is an essential foundation of democracy enshrined in the european convention and the charter of fundamental rights.
what is becoming increasingly clear in the work of this parliament is that we are becoming the judge jury and executioner on all issues with a dislike of acquiring evidence before doing so.
the facts the uk has independent reviews of its terrorist legislation introduced by mr moraes' party but improved by the coalition government.
david miranda's legal team and the uk's courts have both agreed that there is a strong case for the highly sensitive stolen material i emphasise stolen' to be retained by the police and that the documents retrieved may be examined on both national security and specified criminal grounds.
the proportionality of mr miranda's detention was further confirmed by the consent order which was granted. this is an ongoing investigation.
it is not an opinion of a journalist.
it is a theft.
mr president as reiterated today by the member of the commission present the core values of the european union are supposed to be democracy liberty the rule of law and the protection of human rights
it is all right or it is relatively all right for a small business of two hundred and forty nine employees that has specialist administrative staff but for a micro business with one or two staff over regulation can actually make trading impossible.
micro businesses really need to be treated like family units and in particular the eu and its member states need to work together to look at how small businesses can be given upfront support for energy efficiency improvements.
there is much we can learn about how we could better support our own innovative small businesses in europe.
it is really important that we now show small businesses that this was not just a piece of paper.
i am particularly concerned about the situation that micro businesses find themselves in.
on the issue of administrative burden the target should not be a once off which we reach and then abandon.
the one in ten which succeeds pays for all the rest but the motto is fail fast'.
what we discovered was that venture capital was much more available than in europe and that those who provided it were much more risk taking in their approach.
we should not forget that micro businesses of less than ten employees actually make up over ninety of all eu businesses.
i particularly like the proposal for combating the practice known in my country as gold plating' whereby national authorities add layers of regulation to european measures.