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a glaring weakness is the lack of a strong centralised monitoring function of the whole eurozone economy.
special attention needs to be given firstly to the discontinuation of cash flow accounting by any eu member state and their finances. secondly the public finances and the reporting need to be audited according to eu approved standards.
fourthly the results of stress tests by the eu need to be published regularly.
finally i think we should discourage eurozone members from the easy way out of financial engineering and fiscal one offs delaying real adjustments which we all know must come from credible and sustainable spending programmes.
the new commission i presume is pleased to be in place but it is going to have to hit the ground running because of the problems we are discussing here.
there are those who are revelling in the problems of the eurozone but i think the bulk of us want to see a resolution.
ten years on i do not think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
having said that it is very clear from listening to this debate that there are serious problems in some member states and the severity varies among those with problems and ireland is one of those.
however the rules in my view have not been effective.
we need to pre empt rather than react when a crisis is with us it is too late. we need to be ahead of the markets;
you cannot buck the markets as others have tried to suggest we can so we need to have strict and timely supervision and scrutiny and then immediate action. i wish you well.
in our last resolution in april two thousand and fifteen we called on the european external action service and member states to issue warnings about the maldives' human rights record on their travel advice sites and to consider targeted sanctions should human rights further deteriorate.
for which so many maldivians have dedicated their lives.
we hope this will help highlight those areas where respect for rule of law should be improved in line with international standards.
the government of the maldives has accepted fortunately the offer of the eu to send a legal expert to assess the legislative framework the procedures and practices of the judiciary and the implementation of the new penal code.
we encourage the authorities to maintain it in all circumstances particularly in cases that involve juvenile offenders and to work towards abolishing the practice altogether.
anything short of this will fail to secure the release of former president mohamed nasheed and to bring about the change that this small country so desperately needs.
not content with targeting opposition figures from former president nasheed down the administration has resorted to arresting its own members. following what was allegedly a staged assassination attempt on gayoom his vice president has now been arrested and charged. as freedom of the media expression and association are clamped down on gayoom appears to be reconstructing a oneparty authoritarian state based on the model of his half brother and pandering to local islamist radical influences. today's resolution calls for the european union and the member states to consider the implementation of targeted sanctions and travel bans against leading members of the government and their financial backers.
we want an impartial judiciary where people are equal before the law where the law applies equally to everyone and where we do not see laws adapted to deal with particular individuals most notably former president nasheed.
i would agree that the current situation in the maldives is of very great concern to us.
we also want to see a judiciary which is improved.
but we are seeing things moving backwards not forwards. key elements of a democratic constitution are the separation of powers not least between the president and the judiciary and that is not what we are seeing at the moment.
the gradual curbing of fundamental freedoms including the right to protest freedom of expression freedom of assembly freedom of association and media freedoms is alarming.
as an openly lesbian woman myself i have seen so many such women around the world who are afraid who cannot come out to their families who cannot be open in school in society or at work.
i would like to speak specifically about the two amendments that some of us are going to table again for the vote tomorrow.
it is about the european charter of fundamental rights which i hope all of you subscribe to which makes clear that discrimination is not part of what we should have in the european union.
we say that the european neighbourhood policy is wrong to tolerate thirteen countries which have failed to either sign or to ratify the un protocol against torture and we name my own country the united kingdom which has shamefully obstructed eu ratification of the eu convention on human rights.
we ask for concrete mechanisms so that allegations of human rights violations within europe do not compromise our ability to promote human rights outside. although it is always right to seek to protect those whose lives are at risk there must be a major increase in the transparency of eu human rights policies as accountability for those who abuse human rights can only be achieved if there is also accountability for those of us who seek to promote them.
i hope to come back to all these issues in my report on corporate responsibility later this year.
in this report too i have particularly examined the issues of social media and of business and human rights.
mr president i have long argued that speaking up for human rights is more important than staying silent for the sake of european unity.
whilst sincerely welcoming the cooperation of the shadow rapporteurs in not always easy circumstances i regret that there was a left right split in the votes at committee on this and on the issues of women's rights on discrimination against all religions and on justice for the victims of extraordinary rendition.
this is why we should congratulate belgium and austria for voting for the inquiry into settlements in the palestinian territories and why we introduced an amendment maintaining support for the investigation of war crimes in gaza.
just as there is a constant race for new technologies there is a race between those harnessing new media for the purpose of liberation and those who seek to use it for repression. i do not hesitate to say that vodafone must learn from doing mubarak's bidding or to give due credit to google for refusing to be complicit with censorship in china.
age. these are some of our key conclusions this year and i commend them to the house.
in this report we name six eu countries which have failed to legislate for the international criminal court.
if human rights are indeed a silver thread the review must demonstrate that there is a silver bullet. in our vote tomorrow we shall ask baroness ashton to appoint a special representative to ensure that europe's voice on human rights is heard clearly on the world stage and that human rights are put on an equal footing
to the high representative i understand why you advocated more for more' in the wake of the arab spring but we were negotiating improved trade terms with gaddafi just four weeks before we started dropping bombs on him. today we ask you to address the harder question of less for less'.
we ask for human rights organisations to be treated as partners and not simply as agents of delivery.
indeed we warmly thank her for adopting these proposals in the course of our joint discussions.
the infrastructure has broken down and yet the iraqi government is not allowing them to conduct their own repairs. they are not being allowed to bring ambulances from ashraf to build ramps for disabled people or to build pathways over the gravelly surface to allow elderly and disabled people to communicate and walk around the camp.
the camp is insufficient to accommodate this number of people.
this is a breach of human rights.
where people would spend no more than a few weeks.
now to make matters worse the iraqi government has allowed representatives of the ministry of intelligence from iran to take up location next to the camp.
they are living in dilapidated containers;
i am happy to confirm that the network of human rights focal points is nearly complete one hundred and sixteen eu delegations now have someone and many have two in both their political and cooperation sections.
tolerance is at the heart of the european union and that is why we need to strengthen our policy on the freedom of religion or belief which is fundamental to a free society.
my communication of last december was designed as a contribution to what is an ongoing discussion within and between eu institutions on a more effective and comprehensive approach to human rights and democracy.
it is therefore natural that ongoing work on human rights and democracy should be in full cooperation with this house.
the review of eu human rights policy was first announced in this house.
at the nineteenth session which concluded on twenty eight march the european union resolution on syria was adopted with a record vote of forty one in favour out of a possible.
the session was a success for the rights of individuals who too often find themselves marginalised and ostracised. the successful panel on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity' was a remarkable achievement for which all credit is due to south africa's leadership together with ban ki moon.
this is totally incompatible with international human rights law.
fifteen we have also included icc clauses in many of our enp action plans.
at the same time as was discussed at the gymnich' meeting of foreign ministers we want to agree a political declaration on what we want to achieve and we want an action plan on how to put this into practice.
this is just another example of the important role of the european parliament and the important way in which it is seen to promote human rights in the world.
to end as i began i pay tribute to mr howitt for his work and i pay tribute to the european parliament for its continuous work in support of human rights.
the report also highlights the importance of accountability and the importance of our work in developing in serious situations the accountability that we have.
honourable members coherence' might sound dry but this really does mean that human rights can be woven into everything we do in europe and beyond.
the very first paragraph of the report is about coherence between the internal and external policies of the european union one of the main themes from the communication of december.
i believe it is essential reading for me my colleagues in the commission and my colleagues in the council.
it means making sure that people everywhere benefit from the same universal rights regardless of who they are or where they live.
while we may sometimes disagree about how best to champion respect for human rights globally we stand united in our aim to see a freer world where people's dignity is respected wherever they may be from and for the eu and the external action service in particular to play a key role in supporting people's struggles for their rights.
this will bring together new initiatives as well as others that we have already launched.
i believe it is very very important that barbara lochbihler and laima andrikien were able to attend the human rights council where they addressed eu heads of mission and met with a wide range of international representatives.
it is important that this person be someone with a strong track record on international human rights.
some have been prepared to give their lives for freedom dignity and a better future. i should like to pay tribute to all of them now.
if we simply look for example at what is happening throughout the middle east and north africa men and women young and old representing the whole of society have found the courage to assert their fundamental human rights.
it is unacceptable that eighty states still criminalise same sex relations between consenting adults and that seven even foresee the death penalty.
the appointment of a special representative was championed by this house.
i believe we have risen to that challenge. human rights and deep democracy are at the heart of our new approach and i believe our partnerships with our neighbours are stronger and healthier as a result. our work at the un human rights council has also helped to reinforce and support these positive and domestically driven developments.
forty seven our resolution on human rights in burma myanmar was adopted by consensus as was the resolution on freedom of religion or belief.
on all of this i want to work closely with the honourable members.
now that there has been time to consider what i put forward i look forward to working with you on the shape of our future strategy.
i have written to the chair of the human rights sub committee to ask her to work with me to ensure the fullest possible participation in the drafting of the joint declaration.
i specifically want to support amendments seven and eight which i believe would strengthen the report in this regard.
first of all the importance of the eu seeking accountability for breaches of international law to which baroness ashton has already referred. in this respect i want to offer my full support for amendment four in relation to gaza and the occupied palestinian territories.
i support the call for the withdrawal of gender identity from the list of mental and behavioural disorders.
as i have said previously in this house i believe that the eu must demonstrate coherence between its policies and policy resolutions on the one hand and our external and bilateral arrangements on the other. secondly i would like to raise the issue of lgbt rights and specifically the issue of gender identity.
but we will not support an illegitimate government and i completely agree with you on that but please do not think that i was trying to bring one issue into another.
i was very pleased to see that so many people mentioned the issues of women's rights and the importance of continuing to support women especially women going through extreme circumstances of horror and terror but also women trying to engage in the political and economic lives of their countries.
but you know how much i am concerned about this and how engaged we are on this.
when i was a minister for human rights in the country i came from i did legislation on forced marriages there.
mr tavares i just want to say to you that my message on argentina had nothing to do with this debate. i was asked by mr salafranca snchez neyra if i would say something before the debate began about argentina because i cannot be here tomorrow.
i agree with what mrs gomes said about the importance of meeting with human rights activists.
them while also trying to isolate and put pressure on their governments.
i know his personal conviction and commitment to this and i pay tribute to that.
i agree too that honourable members have been in the forefront of wanting to see a special representative and as you know i am currently working on the mandate for that person.
it will be an important role and the appointee will need to have a good relationship with this house.
it shows the importance of being decisive in what we do and it shows more than anything that standing together is so important.
i agree with all the concerns that have been raised about the importance of making sure that this is a core part of the work that we do on human rights.
this shows the strength of the european union;
i try to do that in every country i visit in order to listen to them and hear from them about the situation on the ground and the realities of the life that they lead.
we are looking for someone of enormous integrity and with great ability in this field.
they lead to that lack of dignity and respect that is core and fundamental to how we feel.
in terms of south africa on the point that was raised we have agreed to launch a human rights dialogue with south africa where we can raise a number of different issues.
mrs ludford i have already said before that we will look into that but you know that i am deeply concerned about the use of the death penalty everywhere especially as i said to you earlier over the one hundred instances of the death penalty in iran so far this year.
in terms of how we work with different countries i have talked before about the spectrum of engagement to isolation and the importance of ensuring that human rights is one of the indicators of how we work with countries. we are often as the honourable members know trying to work with people in countries in order to support
i agree with you about the terrible situation in guinea bissau.
this is something we need to take seriously everywhere.
it was a separate discussion before the debate.
those who are in prison should be released immediately and we have suspended most of our aid to guinea bissau. we are of course looking at how to make sure we can continue to give direct support to the people.
very simplistically we know that when women are engaged in society societies are richer in every possible sense economically socially and politically and the issue of forced marriages is one that affects many countries.
finally if high representative ashton's arithmetic is correct i have served as the twenty eighth annual human rights rapporteur of this european parliament since the first direct elections.
i hope that may change later his week but i am not holding my breath.
to mr claeys who would win greater respect if he condemned both black and white murders in south africa;
i hope they will join with me in condemning discrimination against all religions and beliefs in all countries at all times.
i welcome the contributions from my colleagues ms de keyser and ms costello on lgbt rights.
country strategies papers and human rights benchmarks must provide for timely consultation with civil society and must be made public.
yes i believe that the challenge of the future lies in our ability to identify and tackle less obvious vague and elusive not to say subtle violations of human rights such as selective justice politicised trials and endemic corruption all of which undermine any kind of fair and equal treatment of people as well as illegitimate surveillance abuse of psychiatry government sponsored and state coordinated campaigns of defamation and slander and blackmail against dissenting individuals and human rights defenders.
the eu is taking an international lead on the abolition of the death penalty but a reply to a written question that i put to the high representative has not reassured me that eu funding for a regional partnership in central asia and neighbouring countries against drug trafficking avoids indirect facilitation of the
i applaud her work on amending the torture goods regulation last year to require export controls on pharmaceutical drugs like anaesthetics which are being outrageously misused in lethal cocktails for executions principally in the united states.
tyrannies lock people up for expressing different political opinions from those of the political class.
the unsuccessful prosecution of geert wilders had scarcely passed when we saw in this parliament the unlovely spectacle of the commissar' for justice no less drooling over the possibility of jailing wilders for his website.
before the countries of the eu seek to spread the appreciation of human rights beyond their borders they should put their own houses in order.
unfortunately we failed to find an amicable solution in that context. the commission also undertook a thorough legal assessment of their national measures.
two thousand and seventeen we intend to take advantage of these legal proposals to propose rules to clarify the application of the posting of workers directive to road transport.
the commission already recognised this fact on eight march two thousand and sixteen when it adopted its proposal to amend the posting of workers directive.
this is done as part of our review of the road transport legislation.
because of the highly mobile nature of workers in road transport a driver often works for very short periods of time in several member states in the course of international transport operations. the application of national measures regarding minimum rates of pay to even a very shortlived presence would create an unjustified and disproportionate administrative burden on road transport operations without applicable benefits for their workers.
this is why they call for an eu solution.
the commission fully supports the principle of the minimum wage.
however such national measures must be fully compatible with eu law notably the treaty principles on free movement of goods and the freedom to provide services.
as regards especially the introduction of minimum wages the commission welcomes such national measures.
two thousand and sixteen we need to join our forces and coordinate our efforts to move towards a single european transport area in which road transport services are not only safe and efficient but at the same time socially responsible.
this is clearly in line with the social policy commitments of the commission.
only then can road transport contribute adequately to a fairer and deeper internal market one of the key priorities set by president juncker for this commission a market which is shaped by people for people which respects workers' rights and contributes to the developing society and economy within the eu.
however we consider that the systemic application of the minimum wage by france and germany to all international transport operations touching their respective territories restricts in a disproportionate manner the freedom to provide services and the free movement of goods.
the commission has already taken the initiative to have indepth discussions with the french and german authorities on this issue.
this is necessary to prevent the emergence of uncoordinated national measures fragmenting the internal market.
in that proposal the commission announced its intention to clarify the application of the directive to road transport in the context of the sectorspecific legislation.
we are currently working on finding the most appropriate solution at eu level to address these challenges.
this review should lead to presenting a series of road initiatives in.
on this basis the commission decided on sixteen june to open an infringement procedure with respect to france and to proceed further with the current infringement case with germany.
it is also clear that all member states potentially face these same questions and difficulties.
do you not think and this is let us say my appeal to the commission that it should have to inform us on its position concerning the application of minimum wage laws in the transport sector from the point of view of the need to protect the single market and the freedom to provide.
i was really hoping we would find a solution during the process but we have exhausted this possibility and we are now moving on with legal proceedings.
this is our core message.
let me stress that the commission sent a letter of formal notice to germany in may two thousand and fifteen challenging the systematic application of the german minimum wage to all international transport operations and transit.
in the pursuit of constant improvement we will seek to find appropriate measures to create efficient safe and socially responsible road transport services where people are at the heart of eu transport policy.
this is what we need to take into account as well.
this will be the line that the commission will follow when preparing the two thousand and seventeen road initiatives.
i would like to stress once more that the establishment of national minimum pay rates is considered by the commission as a very positive development.
but of course the national measures should not be misused.
since then the commission has been engaged in a dialogue with the german authorities to reach a satisfactory solution without the need for further procedures.
this is by far the best possible approach.
while protecting workers effectively they need to respect eu law so as to preserve the proper functioning of the internal market with all the benefits it brings across the eu.