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good. the commission and i myself are ready to take up the challenge.
a european council a week before the conclusion of the copenhagen summit is certainly well timed.
the stockholm programme which is largely based on commission input and proposals will be a key lever to make this
the agreement should be precise. that means specific individual numbers on reduction of emissions and a detailed finance package to help developing countries both to develop mitigation programmes and to adapt to climate change.
ahead. we all know that freedom security and justice will see some of the most significant changes from the
as i said yesterday all the nominations for the commission have now been made.
finally i feel the leaders' involvement is going to be central as these are difficult decisions that need to be made at highest levels of government.
focus. we must keep a close watch on our recovery measures especially with unemployment still
it is a decision i welcome and personally support very much.
at least a reasonable not an ideal but a reasonable number of women for the next commission.
we need a clear simple political text that shows that we are moving from talking about tackling climate change to doing something about
years. the removal of controls at internal borders in the schengen area allows more than four hundred million citizens of twenty five countries to travel without border control from the iberian peninsula to the baltic states from greece to finland.
work. we must also start to shape a post crisis agenda to exploit new sources of growth and find new job opportunities.
i can assure you from my own experience with her as a member of the commission of her deep commitment to the european project.
in particular fast start funding is going to be very important.
year. now we must keep the strength of purpose and sense of
map. second even if at copenhagen it will not unfortunately be possible to finalise a new treaty it must bring an operational agreement based on real commitments on all sides to which all the major players contribute and which is endorsed at the highest political level.
retire. we have come a long way over the last ten
rising. our top priority must remain keeping people in jobs and helping those who have lost their jobs to get back into
we have been the first to put a binding tough target for reduced emissions on the table.
more effective respect for fundamental
the european union has shown itself the pioneer of action on climate change.
happen. it should set the scene for a comprehensive effective programme of action which brings real change real benefit for our citizens.
in order to obtain meaningful results we must work in partnership in partnership between the commission and parliament to which i am grateful for consistent support for the policy ambitions put forward by the commission in these
now the lisbon treaty gives us a new opportunity to move
we need to stay united and to keep focused on our goal of cutting global emissions and getting the necessary finance on the table;
courts; more determined action against organised crime human trafficking and terrorism;
ahead. let us work together for the common european
then parliament can hold substantive hearings and vote on the next college in january.
the european council will also face a test of ambition with progress on the financial supervision package.
i am extremely proud and happy that catherine ashton has been designated as the first vice president high representative.
first climate change.
it clarifies what action can be taken and in particular it extends the democratic framework for these policies by the full involvement of your parliament.
done; and in partnership with our danish friends preparing the copenhagen conference.
the appointments made last week naming herman van rompuy as president of the council and catherine ashton as high representative and vice president of the commission are the first steps towards the full implementation of the lisbon treaty.
it is an appointment that i supported and approved during the european council as it is necessary according to the treaties.
we cannot negotiate against the science of nature.
i am pleased to hear that following prime minister rasmussen's invitation already at least sixty five or so heads of state or government are planning to attend copenhagen.
we have to say clearly that it cannot only be a task for europe we need others namely the major economies also to contribute to ambitious goals.
they also require a strong approach with our third country partners which i am determined to pursue as we work together to maximise our global interests.
i look forward to working in tandem with him and to joining him here in the plenary debates on the european council.
i will now move on to the portfolio allocations.
the agenda we have sketched out in the two thousand and twenty strategy the consultation paper that the commission circulated yesterday.
the appointment of baroness ashton in particular as a currently serving commissioner must have been a source of particular happiness for president barroso though this must not afford an opportunity for the commission to assume greater power in its hands rather than in the hands of the democratic institutions of europe.
if we are to have a reinforced high representative for foreign affairs the main task should be working closely with member states in coordinating common policies where they have shared objectives.
it is often said that the citizens of our member states do not understand europe and if they did it would be more popular.
our citizens do understand europe's self absorption only too well.
the european union must now move on and concentrate on the real work at hand in building dynamic and competitive economies and in creating a strong global trading system and specifically during the course of the weeks ahead in securing a really effective agreement on climate change.
why should they be interested in the intricacies of codecision if their children face such an uncertain future?
our citizens can see that our economies are in crisis that unemployment is rising that businesses are finding it harder to generate growth that climate change is getting worse and that other parts of the world are becoming increasingly and dramatically more competitive. yet when they turn to europe they find a union which has devoted years to this institutional wrangling.
why should they care about the details of qualified majority voting if they have lost their jobs?
i admit that the words from the swedish presidency and from president barroso are encouraging in that respect.
what they do not understand is why so much time effort and resources are devoted to the institutional processes and so little to the policy outcomes which actually might make a difference to their lives.
if the european council is to have a semi permanent president it should be someone who takes a low key but practical approach to building a consensus among the member states where this is possible and desirable.
but having spent a decade obsessed with its own institutions the european union now needs to get back to business.
these appointments should be an opportunity to put a stop once and for all to the nightmare vision of an ever more centralised and bureaucratic european foreign and security policy in favour of one that is based on willing cooperation amongst our member states.
in a week where we started with only three women in the commission we finish with nine. i can advise some of those that the women meps in suits and ties have stood down for the moment but they will be back in five years' time if
next time please can we have a process where all member states nominate a woman and a man as candidates so that we do not have the last minute rush.
this process was untransparent.
it has been mentioned that we now have to think about the practical implications of the lisbon treaty. let us make transparency the watchword for our three institutions and how we deal with one another how we are open to the public.
transparency must rule in the future.
as for the conservatives in this chamber the way that they vote is to press green green green.
what i would like to make very clear is i am not ashamed of anything at all that the leader of the conservative party is saying or doing and in particular it is clear to all of us that we have always indicated that if the lisbon treaty had not been ratified we would have wanted it to be put to the british people.
i think that is an honourable position for us to take.
i think that those who talk about unreal objectives in relation to europe those who talk in an extreme and obsessive manner will do no good to the very people that i have been talking about in my speech the citizens not only of europe but the citizens of my country who want prosperity who want certainty in their lives and the future.
this institutional navel gazing occurs with these people just as much as it does with any of the institutions of europe.
it comes back on a container from china comes on a truck into our area and is sold for half the price.
it is not lack of skill or technical ability.
it then takes them back out and sells them.
there is a very simple answer. steel and stainless steel goes really well into a form of energy production and it is not windmills folks. what it is and i will whisper it is nuclear nuclear power stations a new generation of them across the uk making cheap effective clean energy with british and european steel producing them.
the stainless steel that we were using was coming from taiwan and the far east and the service centres mostly the ones with technical details moved to germany. what has happened is very straightforward.
what a great solution.
high energy prices are putting people out of work.
shortly after the communication on the steel action plan was adopted the commission formally created in two thousand and thirteen our high level expert group on steel with the aim of providing a european platform for dialogue exchange of information and best practice.
the sector however faced and still faces major challenges low demand increasing energy costs reliance on imported raw materials strong and not always undistorted competition and challenging environmental requirements.
in one year since the adoption of the steel action plan about half of the actions foreseen in it have been implemented.
as you remember the commission adopted a year ago in june two thousand and thirteen a commission communication action plan for a competitive and sustainable steel industry in europe the so called steel action plan.
a strong commitment to follow up underlines the importance of the steel action plan for the sector. the constructive discussions in the meeting of the high level group have highlighted the usefulness and the need to continue the dialogue among major stakeholders in this important industrial area.
this plan recognised the strategic importance of steel to the eu and emphasised that steel making has a future in europe as the european steel industry has many assets in the form of modern plants advanced products demanding clients forcing i hope
i would like to say a few words and present the overview of the current state.
in june two thousand and fourteen a commission staff working document was published which takes stock of the progress made since the adoption of the steel action plan.
i must say however that i was a bit surprised that you did not at all mention the present situation on international steel markets because i believe that has a major impact on the situation in europe.
the united states as you know is presently taking anti dumping measures.
is there a need to take similar measures in europe too?
this parliament is pondering not for the first time how we could help the steel industry to hold on to the future that it should have.
here i agree with you commissioner steel must have a future in europe.
there is no way of ignoring the advice that the famous baseball philosopher yogi' berra gave to everybody when you come to a fork in the road take it! and the fork in the road that we have to decide upon is whether we want to develop the future of our steel industry
following an innovation based competitiveness strategy or whether we want a dumping oriented never catch up strategy.
the european steel lobby is unfortunately focusing its own efforts not on pursuing an innovation agenda but on resorting to a strategy composed of calls for subsidies calls for protectionism and calls for social and environmental dumping strategies.
i have a leaflet here distributed by eurofair.
all seven points have just one message give up any meaningful climate and energy transition policy in europe and we might be thankful.
not a single word about innovation.
i believe that competitiveness can only be built on the basis of technology leadership.
if we want to have a competitive european steel industry that is where we have to go.
and now on fifteen october the kyrgyz parliament has passed at first reading a draft bill which contains amendments to the criminal code the code of administrative responsibility the law on peaceful assembly and the law on mass media aimed at prohibiting the promotion of non traditional sexual relations in an open or indirect way
it happens in families in parliaments in ministries in sports associations so please do not put lesbians and gays into jail for living a life that has been happening all over this world in all cultures in all regions.
and of course specifically for lesbians gays bisexual and transgender people who will face more discrimination and violence as we have seen in other countries where similar bills have been passed.
let me also thank all those shadows and the parliamentarians of all seven groups in this house who have come together to formulate this resolution.
this will have huge consequences for journalists if they write about the existence of lesbians and gays they might go to prison for one year;
and providing for up to one year of imprisonment. that means they are prohibiting talking about facts of human life.
it can happen to your daughter to your son.
there are time and again political and religious leaders who speak out against same sex relations against lesbians and gays.
this draft legislation if adopted would restrict freedom of expression and association.
the eu has also recalled that the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe when it granted partner for democracy status to the kyrgyz parliament earlier this year expressly stated that this should not be followed up. in line with the human rights guidelines of the european union to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lgbti persons i will personally continue to use all possible means to warn against the risks of adopting the draft resolution and i will coordinate my work with that of vice president timmermans to make sure that we adopt coherent measures internally to protect the enjoyment of all human rights by all lgbti persons including in europe.
in reality it is designed to undermine efforts by human rights ngos including lgbti organisations to advocate equal treatment for lgbti people.
let me also say that we will have to work on the coherence of our internal policies on human rights because today we are debating something extremely important concerning countries that are not our own member states and in our internal work on human rights and in particular on lgbti
the eu has reminded the kyrgyz authorities of the guarantees for freedom of expression and non discrimination in the kyrgyz constitution as was mentioned before and of the kyrgyz republic's international commitments.
since this legislative initiative was initially proposed in march last year the european union has raised its concern about the draft law and insisted on the principle of non discrimination including in the human rights dialogue in april two thousand and fourteen and in subsequent high level discussions with the parliament and government of the kyrgyz republic.
the title of the law on the promotion of a positive attitude towards non traditional sexual relations' is totally misleading.
during the cooperation council meeting the kyrgyz foreign minister stressed that the presentation of the draft laws by members of parliament was a democratic right and asserted that the government was not favourable to these draft laws.
this legislation will set out rules and procedures for monitoring the safety profile of medicinal products once they have been authorised and placed on the market.
the more up to date information available to the healthcare sector and to individual patients on the safety of medicines in common use the better it is for the health and safety of all european citizens.
i therefore welcome the european medicines web portal which will be created and linked to national medicines web portals in each member state and where patients will be able to find information about the safety of the medicine they are taking.
the new powers will also equip national and eu authorities to target the growing problem of forged or falsified medicines which pose an enormous threat to public health.
mr president i congratulate my colleague linda mcavan on her report. with almost two hundred zero deaths per year in the eu caused by adverse reactions to prescribed drugs i welcome the new eu wide system to monitor the safety of medicines which have already been approved for use by doctors. adverse reactions are the fifth most common cause of hospital death in europe.
it will include experts not just from national governments but also from among patients and healthcare professionals.
the creation of the medicines agency a network of agencies in each country underpinned by eu law has helped us to make such progress.
last week at a meeting of experts to talk about this new legislation we were reminded that two thousand and ten marks the fiftieth anniversary of thalidomide.
there will be better public information a one stop shop web portal on medicines bringing together all the different information about medicine safety the patient information leaflet the kind of information that at the moment you have got to spend hours putting together.
this has been a great team effort and we now have to work together to implement the legislation properly.
these are changes which i believe will vastly improve the whole system of pharmacovigilance in europe.
what are the key changes?
it is very clear that we need to work together.
but we need further improvements.
the safety of those products is of paramount importance for public health.
in recent years in europe we have been working at european level to develop a coherent system between member states and the european medicines agency in london on pharmacovigilance.
at the moment healthcare professionals know when they give you as a patient a new product.
they know they should be looking out especially for adverse reactions but you as a patient do not know this.
we are improving information to patients direct patient reporting to national authorities and a notice on patient information leaflets encouraging people to report any adverse reactions.
secondly an improved system for marketing authorisations and post authorisation safety and efficacy studies thirdly a better and more efficient means of reporting of any adverse drug reactions and fourthly of course greater transparency and medicinal safety.
patients will also have better access through web portals to information regarding potential side effects of medicines and these measures we believe will be of benefit first and foremost to european patients and citizens but will also clarify and simplify the roles of the commission member states and risk assessment committees and pharmaceutical companies in ensuring the highest possible levels of patient safety throughout the eu.
patient safety will also be reinforced with the possibility for authorities to request efficacy studies after a product has been authorised on the market.
for the first time here we will be able to use health technology assessment in order to avoid putting patients' lives at risk.
transparency has been one of parliament's guiding principles during the negotiations.
to conclude the changes made to the pharmacovigilance system in europe should be a tool to reinforce european citizens' confidence and understanding of the medicines they are taking.
we have a public health responsibility to guarantee the highest level of safety efficiency and transparency in the future european pharmacovigilance system to be implemented.
the amount of information that will be made public through the web portals is a huge increase on what we have already.
so we have done a big job in establishing this independence and improving it. the commission there is a lot of work for the commission to do after this legislation is approved tomorrow.
i think we will achieve a big majority in the house.
there is a lot of work to do on the patient information leaflet with a lot of dissatisfaction from patients' organisations and from individual patients about it.
you tried to find a solution in the commission.
but we want to work with you to have a good patient information leaflet.
the leaflet cannot be a repository for every possible thing that can happen to a patient because that makes the leaflet useless in the eyes of the average patient.
we need to work with you on that.
you are going to do the study on the environmental impacts of medicine.
that is very important and we want to see the black symbol.
we want to see that symbol soon.
for the member states an awful lot of work on the web portals has to be done.
thank you once again to everybody concerned.
i hope we will get a big majority tomorrow and then the real work can start to make a difference on the ground to people's lives.
at the same time what we are trying to do here is to boost innovation in a very important industrial sector for europe.
many manufacturers appreciate that because that gives them the long term planning that they really need the predictability that they need.
so we believe that it will be feasible but we are of course looking into this.
he can also explain that his children and his grandchildren will have cleaner air.
this is what we are trying to
it has always been the long term target that has been the main focus throughout our debate.
it should also be noted that there is already much greater penetration of diesel fuel usage in the lcv sector than in the car sector. when the commission published its original proposal many of the manufacturers made it clear that they wished to settle for nothing less than one hundred and sixty g co two km a figure which in turn struck most of us in parliament as being far too relaxed and complacent.
my personal belief is that this provides a good balance between ensuring improved environmental standards on the one hand and giving a realistic and achievable target for the lcv manufacturing sector on the other.
personally i was not entirely convinced of the need for this legislation because most vans are bought by businesses both large and small which are already very conscious of the need for economy and fuel efficiency.
in particular isobel's help on the complex comitology issues is very much appreciated.
the package that is before you today includes a very sensible proposal that the commission will review this issue before the end of the year and sets out the basis under which this review should take place. i believe that the package that we have negotiated and which will be put before parliament today as amendment fifty eight is the best possible outcome. i am pleased to have the support i hope of most of the main political groups.
one area of the commission's proposal which all groups agreed was unworkable concerned the very complex issue of multi stage vehicles.
unlike passenger cars there is less scope to modify either their shape or their weight in a bid to reduce emissions. the principal way to accomplish this in lcvs is through modification of the engines and mechanics of the vehicles a much longer and more expensive process than simply altering the body or reducing the weight of the vehicle.