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in public places women risk being harassed and raped going to a swimming pool a music festival a beach and more and more young women are harassed and persecuted on the net.
on social media it has become a global phenomenon.
i think about tiziana a young woman who committed suicide because of spreading her intimate videos by her ex boyfriend and maria rashidi disfigured with acid by her husband who like lucia had the courage to denounce him and became a women's rights activists.
freedom from violence dear colleagues is a fundamental right and the istanbul convention is the first and only international legally binding act that criminalises violence against women and recognises gender based violence as a breach of human rights and a form of discrimination.
let us be clear we are talking about men's violence against women out of jealousy revenge frustration alcohol.
often the culture clash for families coming from other countries and young women who just want to live like their schoolmates in a dress in a western way of living is too strong for their own families to accept. is there really any honour in killing a girl just because she has decided to take off her scarf?
it happened in sweden two weeks ago.
she thought she was in europe and she could be free.
violence against women is too often tolerated and seen as a private issue and we need to ensure more convictions of perpetrators.
the convention provides for strict sanctions to combat impunity and extend measures to protect victims such as restraining orders shelters medical and psychological assistance prevention measures training of officials education programmes responsible media and combating stereotypes.
it recognises that in order to eradicate violence against women we need to improve equality between women and men change mentality combat sexism and empower women.
it is time to shift the guilt from the victim to the perpetrator.
women must feel that it is not worth going through the painful process of telling the terrible stories the shame the embarrassment unless there is a credible judicial follow up.
member states have to criminalise by law gender based violence and also ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.
i visited shelters in sweden italy malta greece and many dedicated people who help women victims. more resources have to be given to them. i would like to finish by saying that i welcome the historical step forward of the eu's signing of the istanbul convention in may this year.
breast ironing; forced marriage which is effectively legalised rape;
honour violence which includes killing;
and sexual grooming of vulnerable white girls by asian men.
there is an enormous reluctance to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes because they are either from ethnic minorities or adherents of islam and it is considered politically incorrect to criticise such groups generically.
it is called racism.
political correctness is the cornerstone of this european union and it is doing enormous damage to the safety of women.
we now have a situation where perceived racism is a more serious crime than actual rape.
we have got to stop political correctness and defend women.
it is not for you you are not a country.
what we need to ask ourselves is why the european union is going down this road.
national governments must make these decisions.
while there is no legislative effect it nevertheless reflects the direction in which the european union is heading.
it is a blueprint for economic governance of europe by the european union.
the current financial crisis is seen as a beneficial crisis to extend the power of the european union.
i represent the city of london which faces potential destruction from proposed european union legislation.
economic governance by europe would destroy the british economy as a whole.
one sensible thing that the resolution did contain was mr pieper's amendment allowing countries to exit the european single currency.
i was happy to vote for that but unfortunately it was defeated.
whoever the donors are we know that the dup took the brexit money but we will pay the price.
the democratic unionist party received an envelope stuffed with the grand total of gbp four hundred and thirty six zero to advertise support for brexit in britain but not in ireland.
did anyone fumble in a greasy till? the dup has been asked to report on the original source of this money.
they killed the dragon because they wanted themselves to become a dragon but not because they wanted democratic challenges.
i think it should be an obligation.
i have also undertaken to discuss the guidelines with inta
try to find together with us a solution to that.
a clear majority of the committee did not want a shipping clause a provision that would give two weeks advance notice to european companies before tariffs were introduced tariffs that actually might affect them very dramatically.
we want an annual report from the commission on how they execute and implement this regulation.
i just want to mention some of those compromises.
there are two points though where we did not reach compromise and those are the most controversial parts of the most controversial legislation the lesser duty rule and the shipping clause.
it has taken us six months to do something that normally would have taken more than a year. i must say and i think i speak for all colleagues that this has been pretty frustrating.
we have been reviewing the most controversial part of european trade policy the trade defence instruments which normally come upon us as anti dumping tariffs. this is something that is moving higher and higher up the political agenda as we have more high profile cases.
we have done it in record speed;
we are not happy with the fact that the commission then chose to present such an important and big task to the parliament this late in the mandate forcing us to work under such pressure.
firstly on transparency we have introduced provisions for all interested parties to receive more information about the investigation.
we have also tried as i said to increase parliament's ability to monitor the implementation of this regulation.
there are two things that the commission presented as new' elements of the trade defence instruments that we debated at length.
we need someone to cooperate with.
i have described this previously as a frolic.
that is how an independent britain should handle this problem and there will be an independent britain sooner than most people think and that most people' includes the president of italy today.
this report in its essentials gives greater scope power and discretion to the commission.
on open trade it is simply not credible.
it also took place against the representations of seventeen of the then twenty seven member states.
illegal dumping by third countries of course needs to be dealt with but not by appointed trade officials acting on a whim. the european union in its beginnings and in its operations is a protectionist construct.
in the context of dumping the way forward is a sense of proportionality.
i am happy to help the fertiliser industry but i do not want to punish the farmers.
because i am happy to help the steel industry but i do not want to punish the car industry.
i do not know if the council has any comments because we are eager to debate and discuss this with the council in order to be able to conclude this quickly.
however i am even more concerned about the eu and the wto facilitating trade with low wage economies with whose manufactured goods we cannot possibly compete and which constitute dumping without any investigation being necessary.
mr president if we want a competitive economy that creates jobs we simply cannot have the highest energy prices in the world.
we cannot encumber our industry with regulations that no one else in the world follows.
we cannot provide preferential access to our market to countries that have much cheaper energy prices and do not impose any of the same regulatory burdens on their companies.
and we cannot have one of the most liberal trade defence regimes in the world.
i therefore urge all of my colleagues to support the inta report as it is.
i urge you to reject all amendments split votes and separate votes the only task of which is to sabotage the compromise we have reached.
finally i urge you to refuse all procedural tricks and direct this report back to inta for mandate for trilogues.
i hope that we will be able to keep up this momentum in this crucial phase of interinstitutional decision making.
our trade defence instruments are important for our industry and have become even more important in the context of open markets where trade defence is often the only remedy for industry when faced with unfair trade.
in all these very different sectors and many others trade defence measures have helped ensure that the eu's industry competes on fair terms with its foreign competitors. by using these targeted measures we provide a level playing field for our industry.
therefore we need to act now to ensure that we have instruments that are suitable for the current trading environment.
while the interests of the various groups differ significantly overall we all have the same goal in mind to reap the advantages of rules based trade defence instruments that are effective efficient and transparent.
compared with many other users around the world the strength of the eu's trade defence instruments lies in their balance and proportionality in the application of measures.
these important features need to be maintained and where possible further improved through this modernisation.
in particular the scope of the non application of the lesser duty rule has been considerably expanded and in addition the shipping clause has been removed completely.
i am of the view that these amendments will need to be reconsidered.
these are commission proposals which ensure predictability and fairness.
as i said at the outset parliament has achieved a great deal already within a short timeframe and tomorrow's vote is a further important step on the way.
balance remains the key word in this modernisation process when it comes to reaching a compromise.
rest assured that i will pass on this message also to the council.
in particular i wish to convince them of the importance of entrusting the presidency with a sufficiently flexible negotiation mandate in the coming month.
we must be ready to conduct the trilogues in march and i am prepared to facilitate the talks with all possible means from day one. while being politically charged the actual questions are not too hard to decide with good will from all sides.
i would like to emphasise once more that failure is not an option for me.
to conclude let me thank you once again for the hard work that you have put into this file.
we made that request in this chamber when it was empty.
the vote was suspended for thirty minutes.
as part of that rule a rule that is set down to sir do you wish to speak for me?
we are considering the legal implications of it.
my microphone does not seem to be working. i am not sure whether it is.
do you wish to hear what i want to say or not?
we will do so under the rules that this house has set down for this chamber.
we are going to regard whether there has been a breach of these rules.
such a proposal or request shall be put to the vote immediately. ' we asked for the vote to be put immediately.
i hope everybody enjoyed their drinks rushing down to get here with the emails and twitters that you had.
as a consequence of that our group as a whole now are going away to consider for the next couple of hours whether we feel that we should come back and present this motion once again to you.
the idea of including regions and local authorities responsible for e health deployment expressed in the report is interesting.
and is considering the various recommendations of this report.
we have to recognise that member states need to have more competences and also more means to address this task.
the recommendations aiming to ensure data security in the health field deserve particular attention considering the sensitivity of this issue and the need to increase users' trust.
the commission will be happy to report every two years as foreseen on the progress of the implementation of its own actions under the action plan.
it will also help in the uptake of e health products and services throughout the european union.
the call on member states to develop an adequate legal framework regarding reimbursement criteria in the context of e health is strongly supported by the commission together with data security.
we support the deployment of e health solutions and thereby a better quality of life for european citizens through high quality healthcare and we particularly welcome the emphasis on the importance of interoperability of e health systems and the need for the commission to take a leading role in establishing international standards and the european union ehealth interoperability framework.
however the directive superficially stipulates that participants in the e health network should be national authorities designated by the member states. promoting health and digital literacy is essential if citizens are to accept e health solutions and it is true that greater efforts will be required in the future as part of the action plan.
the e health network established under the directive on patients' rights in cross border health care is progressing well.
we share the ambition for national regional and local authorities to make effective use of the european union funding but not to the detriment of funding for traditional health services.
northern ireland is a rural community and in that rural community many patients with long term chronic illnesses are now being monitored remotely so that their health is better catered for and patient times and doctors' surgeries are less necessary.
the only difference is that belgium has escaped the political violence. unfortunately the same cannot be said of bosnia and croatia where there have been as many killings if not the same gratuitous sadism.
we were not content to leave africa with unworkable political societies.
if i were to follow the prescriptive nurture' explanation i would have to say there must be something in the water.
this is as true of belgium as it is of the former belgian congo.
in africa in general if not particularly in the congo when the colonists drew straight lines on the maps of africa they ignored the differences between different tribes and peoples. each country on independence contained enormous vertical ethnic linguistic or religious divisions in the body politic which always inject political
the congo has not been a special case in africa. a peaceful democracy would be more difficult to find.
we are busy recreating the same problems in the european heartlands.
if vertical divisions in political states lead to instability and sometimes to violence why are we creating the same vertical divisions in europe by uncontrolled immigration from the third world in general and africa in particular?
it is inconvenient to have to acknowledge that violence is still occurring in kinshasa but i ask the council and the commission to face up to this reality and to respond to it.
since the two thousand and six elections the eu has invested heavily in supporting good governance in the drc.
for example of the nine people removed from teeside in north east england since two thousand and seven and taken to kinshasa seven report that they have been interrogated imprisoned sexually abused or tortured.
and how the rules of engagement continue to hinder the effectiveness of its peacekeeping force.
in this parliament where we have decried the failure to offer protection in rwanda and srebrenica we cannot and must not stay silent.
our commitment should be to ensure it never happens again.
we should commend the un assistant secretary general for accepting that the un had failed and is partially responsible.
why the un base did not have access to local language interpretation;
but most of all in this debate we should say that there are no explanations no excuses no extenuating circumstances which can in any way justify sexual violence as a weapon of war and that our foremost concern should be for those five hundred women victims who all of us failed to protect.
frankly i would ask all member states of the united nations and every member state of our european union what has happened to the fine words we all voted on concerning the un's responsibility to protect.
therefore we must work more efficiently in the future;
we must actively engage and whenever necessary pressure the government to protect its own people.
we here in the eu need to step up our efforts and work together more effectively to make sure that the un acts in line with the fundamental values that we know here in the eu.
we have to step up our own responsibility and efforts to ensure that there will be no more victims to mourn.
we have to help the african institutions to find their own solutions and to take responsibility for fighting corruption and ending impunity.
to do this we have tools which have been mentioned the cotonou agreement and also the icc. the trade in blood diamonds and minerals has to end.
it fosters the incredible violence that is perpetrated by the various militias in african countries.
this is partly due to its vast size porous borders and poor infrastructure which makes democratic governance a major challenge. but the drc's fragility as a nation state is also due to decades of corruption political repression and sporadic armed conflict both internally and with neighbouring states where
president kabila has at least held a general election to give the impression to the outside world of instituting democratic reform but in reality he controls all the levers of power and in particular access to the country's vast natural resources.
the increasing interest of some countries particularly china in exploiting these resources has emboldened the kabila regime to neglect its responsibilities regarding human rights and the rule of law.
china itself has a lamentable human rights record and at the un actually defends the actions of countries like the drc with which it does business.
it is therefore no surprise to me that of the three trials under way at the international criminal court all involve nationals of the drc.
despite this alarming situation the african union refuses to condemn or pressurise kabila to live up to his constitutional obligations.
the eu to its credit has no such qualms and i welcome the tough approach taken by the high representative baroness ashton.
finally i want to reiterate the call i have made several times already in this house for the kimberley process to be extended to cover other key natural resources in africa.
human rights abuses in africa which are all too common regrettably are often linked to competition for the control of mineral resources.
the kimberley process has been hugely successful in curtailing the trade in conflict or blood diamonds and i believe a similar approach should now be considered for other extractive industries.
despite some modifications they are faced with essentially the same deal in the vote to be held on nine april.
the deal should be rejected. it is not the responsibility of the icelandic people to pay for the crisis.
workers pensioners and poor people have not created this crisis and must not pay for it;
they should not be bullied into accepting this deal;
madam president i voted in favour of the amendment insisting on a nuclear free future for europe. the tragedy of fukushima underlines the huge danger that nuclear power represents for humanity and for the environment.
the potential for massive catastrophe and the lack of a safe way to dispose of spent nuclear fuel means that nuclear power does not represent a safe means to develop energy production.
the tragedy also underlines the fact that private profiteers cannot be trusted with the vital task of energy production and energy distribution.
ultimately the capitalist pursuit of profit without regard for human life human safety or the environment is responsible for this crisis.
i call for the nationalisation of the energy sector under democratic worker control and management.
on that basis we could develop a rational and sustainable plan for energy production distribution and use to provide cheap and safe energy for all while protecting the environment. at the centre of that plan there must be a long term programme of investment in renewable energy sources leading to the progressive replacement of oil gas coal and nuclear power stations.
the revolutionary movements that started in tunisia have inspired and encouraged millions of people across north africa and the middle east to engage in popular uprisings against the brutal regimes that have dictatorially ruled those countries for decades.
those uprisings have once again proven the potential power of the working class and the poor to stand up and defeat their oppressors.
i denounce the hypocrisy of the leaders of the eu and other western countries who today condemn the brutal repression that is used by these dictatorial leaders but who yesterday supported and provided a lifeline for their regimes.
it is now vital that the masses unite across ethnic and religious lines to clean out the corrupt elites and build genuine democratic societies that can provide decent jobs decent education and end poverty.
i fundamentally object to any kind of privileged justice for multinationals and i therefore voted against this agreement today.
mr president this investment protection agreement between the eu and singapore will benefit only those who have already benefited the most from globalisation.
twelve because it provides special access to justice for foreign investors it directly attacks the fundamental principle that we should all be equal before the law no matter how rich or poor we are and there's no economic argument to support it.
it will create new privileges for multinationals in sixteen eu member states and it fails to remove the privileges that already exist in the other.
the hta proposal is expected to lead to a saving and benefits for all key actors.
the second general area i would like to comment on concerns the respective roles of the commission and the member states in the cooperation process.
but above all this proposal is about european citizens about european patients.
the proposed amendment should ensure the submission of appropriate evidence by technology developers and provide for a high scientific quality independence and transparency in the joint work.
the commission is currently fully engaged in the discussions in the council as these continue to progress and we welcome the romanian presidency's commitment to move the discussion forward.
by harmonising the disclosure of currency conversion costs the regulation will allow european consumers to check and compare the currency conversion charges applied by their bank or by merchants.
this is especially important for several million europeans who travel within the eu every year either for business or for pleasure. often when paying by card or withdrawing cash at an atm in a country that uses a different currency from the euro it is very difficult to know exactly how much it will cost.
now imagine instead that you are living in bulgaria and you want to transfer the same eur fifty to finland.
well trump putin williamson three men high on testosterone playing dangerous games.
france germany and the eu are defending the inf treaty whilst calling for greater russian transparency.
in an era when we should be working more closely together for a sustainable peaceful world trump goes against the grain by abandoning partnership in favour of a regressive unilateral approach.
britain's response however has been at best ambiguous with defence secretary gavin williamson quick to support trump saying russia has made a mockery of the inf treaty and must get its house in order.
these issues raise challenges around national and eulevel decisionmaking which won't let's be frank necessarily be easy to resolve.
although five g has for understandable reasons attracted the most attention in recent weeks it's not the only thing we need to be thinking about.
these issues are also inherently geopolitical.