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madam president we will have to wait and see where the european parliament stands on apple pie but we now know its position on motherhood and for many of the supporters of this report on equality between the sexes it really is in that category.
of course if we were simply proposing equality of all citizens before the law it would be very difficult for anyone to disagree.
but what has happened is that this report has become a kind of general holdall receptacle for every current nostrum quotas on company boards quotas in political parties abortion law reproductive rights.
i am not saying that there is not a case to be made for and against all of those issues but surely they ought to be determined through our national democratic mechanisms and procedures?
madam president this report contains some positive statements regarding domestic violence female genital mutilation and forced marriages all of which made it difficult to vote against the report.
i acknowledge the gender pay gap is still very real and it is an unjust fact of today's employment market.
i do not underestimate the need to encourage more women into politics.
however it is difficult to support a report that calls for an eu dictated maternity and paternity leave proposal which is both damaging to women and small businesses and is socially regressive.
unfortunately there are too many areas i cannot support and these drown out all the good the report can do.
madam president the bologna process is part of an ongoing task to create a european higher education area which will help to facilitate the mobility of students and professionals.
i believe that education is a key factor in boosting economic growth and as such i was able to support some of the aspects of the report.
it seems however that some have been carried away in the drafting of this report and it includes elements which are very difficult for me to support.
as a british conservative i cannot support the repeated calls for more funding and increased public investment in higher education at a time of difficult cuts for many member states my own included.
on this basis i have had to vote against this report.
madam president i very much regret that this report which should have been about reducing inequality and highlighting a very important issue in this respect has not only strayed into areas which are solely within the remit of the member state but has also been used once again to press the case for the pro abortion lobby across the eu.
as someone who believes firmly in the right to life of the unborn child i cannot support the distortion of reports in this way.
indeed only two weeks ago in the uk the daily telegraph revealed the availability of gender based abortions in a private clinic in england.
that is a practice that must end and reports would be more profitable if they were to uphold the right to life of young girls such as those highlighted in the daily telegraph report.
despite the merits of some aspects of the report i cannot support it and regret the continued pursuance of reports in such a one sided way.
madam president mobility is an important principle of the single market. also many students find studying abroad to be a rewarding experience.
however i do not believe this means we need to accept the rigid recommendations of the bologna process not least because education is a member state competence.
three of the top universities in the world are in the uk with one of them imperial college in my home constituency of london. there is a danger that the bologna process with its emphasis on an academic credit system will lead to a mechanical approach to learning or worse still the dumbing down of british universities.
student success should be based on their achievements not the number of hours they spend in the lecture hall.
i will be saying no' to this report and i voted against it.
madam president i voted alongside my group against the pietikinen report on women in political decision making.
while i accept strongly that there is a numerical imbalance between men and women in terms of numbers involved in political decision making at the highest levels and that this is not an ideal state of affairs i strongly reject eu wide quotas and targets being put in place and enforced.
although i do not oppose the notion of introducing targets at national level i again feel strongly that this is a matter to be organised by the member states as they see fit within their own political systems.
madam president whilst i agree that there are disproportionately low numbers of women in political roles and indeed high in business and we want to see those barriers which remain broken down i do not believe that this report from the european parliament will be the instrument to do so.
i am sure that i speak for the vast majority of women in saying that we want career advancement on the basis of merit on our ability to actually do the job rather than on our gender.
i want people to vote for me on my record of representation not because i am a woman.
i certainly do not want someone else to suffer discrimination in order to advance my career. capable ambitious women want to reach the pinnacle of their careers on what they have achieved and what they can offer.
to progress because you are a woman in order to meet an eu statistic would be a hollow achievement indeed.
i want to state that i firmly support mentoring programmes and i want to commend the work of organisations such as the ballybeen women's centre in my own constituency an example of real working women who are tackling the issue head on with greater access to education training and support.
what if the eu had offered more in negotiations with the british people?
now politicians in the uk and the eu both need to look to the future and on both sides of the channel we need to pause and start thinking about our negotiating strategies.
so both the uk and the eu negotiators need to give the markets certainty over the timetable for negotiations prepare your negotiating positions ready for when article fifty is triggered and look for a deal that is as much as possible mutually beneficial to both the eu and the uk.
now is the time to look to the future to ensure that as we roll up our sleeves and begin negotiations we in britain become good neighbours and are no longer reluctant tenants.
today i hope all british politicians can unite in stating that britain will remain an open tolerant and global nation.
i know there was surprise shock and lots of emotion on both sides of the channel and there will be many attempts to replay both the referendum campaign and history.
the eu needs to be clear and the uk needs to prepare its own plan.
when many european countries were mired in dictatorship and fascism we were an open country.
let us think carefully in the short term about the best relationship for us both in the long term. as the presidency said cool heads must prevail. across europe there is disagreement amongst leaders about what the eu should be seeking in its future relationships with the uk.
regardless of how we now proceed britain and the eu will continue to be close partners for years to come. so now is not the time to replay the past.
only in the last few days i have heard people say what if british politicians had been more honest with the british people about the political dimension of the eu and the dream of a united states of europe?
it is not the speed at which negotiations are completed but the deal that we get at the end which is more important.
but that is now all in the past.
what we need to do now is accept the result of the referendum and build a relationship that is mutually beneficial to all our people a relationship which respects our decisions but which helps us build prosperous economies protect fundamental rights
but at times it has reinforced all the stereotypes that the british people fear about europe and which they voted against on twenty three june.
mr president i have listened very carefully to the tone of this debate and i do accept that emotions are running high this morning.
threats bullying and hectoring will not work with the british people.
no country on the face of the earth can meet all the threats and challenges alone.
our union can only exist if it is supported by the millions and millions of citizens it is supposed to serve and to protect.
so let us rediscover the simple notion that in this world our interests are converging rather than diverging.
it is about a convincing europe.
as the new reality of a twenty seven member state eu looms this should not divert us from concentrating on what the eu can do to meet today's main challenges such as ensuring the security of our citizens dealing with migration and refugee flows and boosting the european economy by creating jobs for european citizens.
as i have just said the outcome of the uk referendum does not mean that the threats and challenges we commonly face have suddenly disappeared.
in a world that is rapidly becoming rougher and more complex we cannot afford to be driven apart.
mr president let me repeat that we have no choice but to respect the outcome of this referendum a referendum that should serve as a wakeup call to all of us. at this point in time the answer is not necessarily more or less europe.
so let us make sure that we maintain our friendship.
neither does it mean that each nation will be better off acting on its own rather than as part of a collective.
we share global interests.
it is about a better europe.
in fact geopolitical developments underscore the need for unity.
to this end council and parliament will have to work constructively in tackling the big issues that european citizens require the eu to act upon.
that support cannot be taken for granted so we need to work day and night to earn it.
if anyone is fatigued by continued cooperation let this be your wakeup call.
the union of twenty seven will continue if the uk decides to leave but it is clear that we will have to act.
you fail to realise the depth of opposition among the ordinary people to their anti democratic practices and anti social policies.
we say we are not and like the previous mep mr smith we asked you to respect our vote.
i tell you that the last thing that the people of ireland need is an eu border with twenty seven member states stuck right in the middle of it.
sinn fin worked for a strong remain vote on the basis of another europe a more social europe a more democratic europe and clearly i say to the commission and to the council that you are not listening.
we stand by the vote of the people of the north of ireland just like scotland which voted remain.
what is now politically important is a massive vote in favour of that resolution.
mr farage you are presenting yourself here as a defender of the little man and the hard worker while you have an offshore financial construction.
what makes it so hard for me and i think also for the other group leaders and for everybody here in this house is the way it succeeded.
it means four things.
for those who voted to leave it is quite the opposite i should say.
is that the certainty we need?
the worst thing that can happen is to continue this uncertainty.
you know what we need?
we need to show the people of europe that we are capable of building a new and better europe a union that can really address the many crises that it faces.
we should now move forward with courage and with conviction also united towards a new horizon because there is a new horizon a new future for our old continent.
only the immediate invocation of the procedure for a clean separation as foreseen in the treaty can end what i call the toxic climate that has been created since thursday of last week a toxic climate that is bad for business bad for investment
prepare ourselves?
so we need one thing. not to start informal negotiations preparing ourselves.
a healthy memory.
we need an effective european government for the union and for the eurozone.
it is respecting their choice if we do so but it is an act against the current bickering of the tory leadership and against the selfishness of one man who is ready to do everything even to sacrifice the voice of seventeen million british citizens and the interest of sixty million other citizens to become prime minister of the uk or should i say
if you were to decide to cut off your noses to spite your faces and to reject any idea of a sensible trade deal the consequences would be far worse for you than it would be for us.
that trade is mutually beneficial to both of us.
be pragmatic sensible grown up realistic and let's cut between us a sensible tariff free deal and thereafter recognise that the united kingdom will be your friend that we will trade with you we will cooperate with you we will be your best friends in the world but
let us listen to some simple pragmatic economics. we between us between your countries and my country do an enormous amount of business in goods and services.
even no deal is better for the united kingdom than the current rotten deal that we have got. but if we were to move to a position where tariffs were reintroduced on products like motor cars then hundreds of thousands of german workers would risk losing their jobs. so why don't we just
that trade matters.
but i am looking forward next year to celebrating our independence day on twenty.
i got into politics because our political class in britain led us towards a european political project.
you never know we may be getting rid of a labour party leader as well.
sterling is weak but then it started declining from july two thousand and fourteen and the prime ministers of australia and new zealand are now vying for who can be the first country from outside the eu to do a trade deal with the united kingdom.
but upheavals in politics can actually be a very healthy and a very good thing.
so if that result last week sweeps a few of them away so be it.
you have imposed upon them a political union and when the people in two thousand and five in the netherlands and france voted against that political union when they rejected the constitution you simply ignored them and brought the lisbon treaty in through the back door. what happened last thursday was a remarkable result.
now i know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper job in your lives. or.
just listen.
in business or worked in trade or indeed ever created a job.
they rejected the merchant banks they rejected big politics and they said actually we want our country back.
and the reason you are so upset the reason you are so angry has been perfectly clear from all the angry exchanges this morning you as a political project are in denial.
but the biggest problem you have got and the main reason the united kingdom voted the way that it did is that you have by stealth by deception without ever telling the truth to the british or the rest of the peoples of europe imposed upon them a political union.
when i came here seventeen years ago and said that i wanted to lead a campaign to get britain to leave the european union you all laughed at me.
well i have to say you're not laughing now are you?
we want our fishing waters back we want our borders back we want to be an independent self governing normal nation and that is what we have done and that is what must happen.
i will make one prediction this morning the united kingdom will not be the last member state to leave the european union.
but listen.
we need to make sure that it happens.
but what i would like to see is a grown up and sensible attitude to how we negotiate a different relationship.
it was indeed a seismic result not just for british politics for european politics but perhaps even for global politics too because what the little people did what the ordinary people did the people who have been oppressed over the last few years and seen their living standards go down they rejected the multinationals.
now it is up to the british government to invoke article fifty and i have to say that i do not think we should spend too long in doing it.
for years the people of the united kingdom have been trying to tell you of their frustrations and concerns about the european union.
the united kingdom not only has the strength of character to succeed for ourselves but also the inherent humanity to defend the freedoms of our neighbours.
we are not inward thinking.
we have for a long time sought a new relationship with our european allies a positive relationship based on self governance free trade and cooperation one which makes our world more secure and more prosperous.
they have recognised that the eu's problems are not just imperfections and they have said let us chart our own course'.
mr president the people of the united kingdom have given their verdict and their decision cannot be rewritten.
these institutions despite what i have heard today must resist the urge for the knee jerk reaction. our nation has not turned its back on europe.
that does not make us any less european and it does not make us any less optimistic.
let us look forward to a new era one in which the european union and the united kingdom can work closely and calmly for the benefit of all our people.
yet he should be praised for giving the british people their say.
and the people of scotland along with the people of northern ireland and the people of london and lots and lots of people in wales and england also voted to remain within our family of nations. i demand that that status and that esprit europen be respected. colleagues there is a lot of things to be negotiated we will need cool heads
i want my country to be internationalist cooperative ecological fair european.
and warm hearts but please remember this scotland did not let you down.
clearly in this globalised world europe is facing huge challenges. so yes we do need an eu that is protecting its borders and controlling migration an eu that is providing economic opportunities for all citizens and an eu that is keeping threats at
we have. true it will not always be easy to agree on what we should
so we will have to do better.
this is what european citizens expect from us and rightly
strong. together we are the world's strongest advocates for the values we cherish the rule of law freedom democracy a market based economy.
to do. clearly the outcome of the uk referendum does not mean that the threats and challenges we commonly face have suddenly disappeared.
at the same time let us also allow the uk the time it needs to recuperate and to take the necessary decisions so we can indeed move forward.
we need unity because terrorists will not hesitate to strike at us again.
but history and geography cannot be changed.
to act. the fact that fragmentation is no longer considered unthinkable should gravely concern us all and propel us into
fifty negotiations can only start after such a notification has taken
in other words it will be in the interest of us all to ensure that a future relationship will be constructive and mutually beneficial. let me absolutely clear. no one will benefit from a prolonged period of political limbo.
let me be clear once more. no country on the face of the earth can meet these challenges alone. these challenges are simply too complex. they also tend to ignore borders.
it is in the interest of all to have clarity about the way ahead
debate. you yourself president schulz will be able to address the members of the council this afternoon when you meet them and to convey the substance of the debate and of the resolutions you will adopt later this morning.
we need unity because geopolitical tension and the conflicts surrounding europe will continue and possibly even multiply.
steps. however i will listen carefully to your
it has been a driving force to bring and keep the people of europe together in all its diversity and strength.
choice. but fancy words conclusions and declarations will not be
way. as we all know article fifty of the treaty sets out the procedure to be followed if a member state decides to leave the european
the united kingdom has been a respected member of the european union since one thousand nine hundred and seventy three working with member states and institutions to build and strengthen a secure and prosperous europe.
the inconvenient truth is that neither europe as a whole nor any single nation can isolate itself from a world in turmoil.
in closing the european council will meet in a few
the shock of the referendum should be a wakeup call to us all.
bay. we need an eu that is not seen as a threat to national identity but as an extension of our identities an eu that is not seen as a bureaucratic meddler but as a facilitator.
why do people from africa and asia leave their families to reach our shores in rickety boats? it is because of the fundamental values that bind us the fundamental freedoms that inspire us and the promise that if you do your best you can really get ahead and if you cannot you will not be cast away.
these achievements stand and we can be proud to have contributed to them. however nothing is irreversible nothing inevitable.
on the contrary i would
the ball is in the british court and we look forward to hearing from london soon.
soon. at the same time it is important to recall that we have the rules to deal with this situation in an orderly
following this result which we respect there is deep deep regret but there is also a strong resolve to show unity in our response.
we must cope with this turmoil together as best we can or else the zone of peace and stability that we have built up over decades might disintegrate and we would have no one to blame but ourselves.
hours. you will understand that i cannot prejudge the discussions in the council in other words i cannot go into greater detail on the next
never in modern history have we enjoyed so much freedom so much wealth and so much stability in europe.
enough. we have
union. the eu stands ready to launch negotiations swiftly but it is up to the uk government and no one else to trigger article.
until a uk exit is finalised the uk will be a member of the council with all the rights and obligations that derive from this.
in other words cool heads must now prevail.
many within the uk and other member states feel uncertain about the consequences.
the outcome of the referendum therefore marks a watershed moment in europe's history.
it has reunited eastern and western europe and it has brought about the longest period of peace on our continent in modern times.
place. meanwhile we have some work
we must intensify our efforts. we need a more efficient more effective and most of all a more convincing european union.
so. while institutional debates on treaty changes and conventions are a paradise for lawyers and diplomats they are a hell for citizens. so we simply need to grit our teeth roll up our sleeves and use all the tools and means
the uk is and will always be a european nation.
whether we like it or not the sentiments of a large part of the british voters are shared in many other eu member states.
together we can and will address our common challenge to generate growth to increase prosperity and to ensure a safe and secure environment for our citizens.
but it would be foolish to underestimate the challenge at
and that no personal data is transmitted or made available by the competent authority of another member state. so that is how the law stands today.
they must also be justified by legitimate interests national security public safety prevention of disorder or crime protection of health or morals and so on.
so what are we going to do about this?
one of the eu's main objectives in the forthcoming negotiations is to ensure enforceable data protection rights to data subjects on both sides of the atlantic regardless of nationality and providing effective administrative and judicial redress.
therefore the assessment of the legality proportionality and necessity of the us government's requests must be based on the us constitution and its legal system.
first the commission's forthcoming proposal to reform the eu data protection framework will focus in particular on the challenges posed by globalisation and modern technologies most of all when third country operators target eu consumers. second as you know