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members of parliament this list is by no means exhaustive and the commission will continue its legal analysis on the matter.
mr president colleagues ministers honourable members i want to thank the president of the commission for having tabled this discussion. this is a subject that attracts a lot of attention and the european parliament is the right place to discuss the eu institutions and matters related to the values and principles on which the european union is founded.
law. hungary is required to take the necessary measures to comply with the judgment of the court and the commission continues to analyse compliance with this judgment.
the commission is currently carrying out a detailed legal analysis of the amendments.
once the legal analysis is finalised the commission will where relevant take the necessary steps in order to start infringement procedures.
secondly with regard to the broad powers given by article fourteen of the fourth amendment enabling the president of the national office for the judiciary to transfer cases from one court to another the council of europe and the commission
this article provides for restrictions on the publication of political advertisements during election campaigns including elections to the european parliament.
there are three main issues firstly a clause introduced by article seventeen of the fourth amendment to the hungarian fundamental law on european court of justice judgments entailing payment obligations.
full. the second case concerns the violation of the independence of the data protection authority and the termination of the mandate of the former commissioner for data protection.
according to this provision political advertisements may only be published on public media services.
respected. the commission has urged and continues to urge the hungarian authorities to act in a responsible manner and in the best interest of hungary and of the eu
we now expect the hungarian authorities to fully comply with the judgment of the court.
two' i think there is already a breach because mrs reding is saying that hungary is not complying with a decision of the court of justice concerning the application of these principles and values.
article seven of the treaty is very clear.
that is my conclusion.
we have article seven of the treaty.
as i said earlier it is up to the commission to give an assessment of these amendments and to consider the extent to which they respect the values on which the european union is founded.
as i said in my introductory remarks the council has not discussed this matter;
as for the second part of mr swoboda's question regarding whether we support the position of the commission of course the presidency supports the position of the commission as laid down by the treaties.
that is of course the role of the commission and i take that very seriously.
the question is do we take them seriously or not?
i believe that britain needs to retain membership of the internal energy market and our government needs to set a long term consistent vision for energy drop its opposition to onshore and embrace these ambitious targets.
we are getting greener. for the first time since the industrial revolution last year the uk had a day without using any coal power to generate electricity.
but past success is no guarantee for the future.
i am proud to back increased binding targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
we must not be blown off course.
i welcome the ban on palm oil for fuel but crops like soybean rapeseed and sunflower have carbon footprints that are almost as high as oil from tar sands.
the thirty five ceiling on biofuels by two thousand and thirty can be celebrated but it is the fine detail in this directive that will have those in the biofuel lobby rubbing their hands in glee as they prepare to cash in on the land of the world's most vulnerable people land that should be managed for the good of the climate and for biodiversity.
biofuel crops grown on peatland and deforested land contribute almost as much in carbon emissions as fossil fuels.
as profits in the biofuels sector increase so does their influence over policy making and their destructive impact was evident today.
it is presented to us as these things always are as being in the interests of the planet and ecologically friendly and all the rest of it.
more specifically the committee of the regions' subsidiarity monitoring network provides a very good access point for regional and local authorities and can enable the commission in some situations to reinforce the analysis of regional aspects in its impact assessments. it can also help the commission to strengthen the analysis of subsidiarity and proportionality
what we are trying to do now in the commission is to be more efficient in terms of responses.
if i want to work for you and you want to employ me.
is it just a question of whether you look as though you are working as hard as the other person?
any normal person would think that that was a clear comprehensible statement of objective but in a series of controversial judgments the european court of justice has expanded the plain meaning of those words well beyond what the treaties say.
do you need to factor in how many suitably qualified applicants there were for the post?
how is an employer supposed to assess that?
two two million in iraq because there is not that stability of the nation state a unit to which all owe allegiance which has been the basis of european freedom and democracy.
it would be crazy for us to replicate the ottoman or habsburg model and throw away that advantage on our own continent.
we can describe it with different language we can talk about it as a move from south to north or from poorer countries to developed ones. but one way of looking at it is that there is a mass movement of peoples from countries which do not have nation states and ethnographic borders to countries that do.
one eight million displaced persons in syria.
the biggest refugee crises now engulfing our near abroad if you like are those in syria and iraq countries where the sectarian or ethnic map resembles a fruit salad.
i am sure you can see where i am going with this argument.
huge movements of peoples in a way that is unprecedented and we can measure it in lots of different ways.
the best way is to get out of the way and let the innovators innovate and develop the solutions.
we see that mobile operators are struggling some of them may be making operational profits but have not paid back their investment and they are struggling to invest in new technology and then we are the first to complain when we do not get a decent three g or four g signal. let us make sure that we are encouraging innovation and not holding it back.
with the possible exception of nuclear power it is hard to think of a more regulated industry than the financial services sector.
then you will not need all of these regulatory bodies because the strongest incentive will be there to prevent bankruptcy. if you give people more responsibility they behave more responsibly.
i am going to challenge the idea that the problems we have had in the financial sector were caused by an absence of regulation.
the reality is that this regulation which encourages consolidation and higher compliance costs has created the too big to fail' phenomenon that led to the crash. how about this it may sound counter intuitive if you make people responsible for their own losses if it is clear that they will carry the can
our own financial services authority publishes a guide book on compliance with its rules that now runs to ten five hundred pages.
i hope today's discussions and proposals will lead to that happening all over europe.
one eight million refugees in a quarter of the time that the iraq war has displaced.
if as barack obama said the other day ninety eight of the world's governments reject poison gas then why should it fall exclusively to the united states and a handful of allies to enforce that prohibition?
our minds are not designed to contemplate suffering on that scale but no one has yet persuaded me that it falls to the western world to intervene.
i wish i could as for example mr murphy did dismiss everyone who disagrees as a warmonger. i think the issue is finely balanced and i think people on both sides of it have decent motives.
there are other countries in the region for whom this is a more immediate problem.
they are by and large sincere men and women who often know the area well and are concerned with a catastrophe which is almost beyond our capacity to measure. there have been.
in the eu institutions we do not balance the ideas of supply and demand when it comes to creating employment.
entrepreneurs create jobs and we need to recognise this aspect it is just as important as any of the other issues i have mentioned.
also job creation does not occur in a vacuum and especially in countries which are undergoing austerity programmes flexibility must be part of the solution.
it calls for the strengthening of eu battle groups in an attempt to move towards an eu army for more money to be spent on armaments and for a closer relationship with nato a military alliance with over five zero nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
and then we have this report which flies in the face of all of the attitudes of the majority of people across europe.
the rebuilding of a strong anti war movement armed with a political alternative to.
across the world people remember the lies they were told about iraq about afghanistan and they have no trust in the political establishment.
the eu council meeting in december will discuss further militarisation further the agenda of the european merchants of death.
mr president two weeks ago the british government suffered a humiliating defeat when mps felt the pressure of the mass of the population against going to war once more.
it drives forward instead the efforts to militarise the european union.
nine five million but the basic function of an ombudsman which is to inform a citizen of his rights and deal with grievances against the governmental system depends on some relationship between government and government on some sense of citizenship on some sense of belonging and the reality is that almost no one has such a sense vis vis the european union in the way that they have vis vis their national authorities. we have created a government where there is no nation and in consequence not all the euros in our treasury will serve to convince people that this is a process in which they ought to be involved.
mr president i wonder how many of the people watching this clip are aware that there is such a thing as a european obudsman?
i also welcome that meps voted to no longer incentivise first generation biofuels but to encourage producers to shift to second generation biofuels using materials such as algae straw and waste that do not create additional demands for land.
i think it is time that the eu moved away from a policy that leads to famine poverty land grabs and climate change and towards one that promotes sustainable production of good biofuels climate action jobs and prosperity.
but i want to welcome meps' decisions to introduce indirect land use change as a mandatory factor to distinguish between good and bad biofuels when calculating greenhouse gas emission savings attributable to biofuels.
the changes to be adopted in this report will modernise and simplify procedures therefore reducing bureaucracy and allowing united kingdom businesses to operate with greater ease.
furthermore this update has allowed for the rules governing origin markings of products to be strengthened including providing measures aimed at ensuring the traceability of products from third party countries.
in providing a means for all transactions to be carried out electronically by two thousand and twenty these proposals will make the customs procedures fit for purpose in the digital age.
this will give british consumers greater protection against counterfeit products and bring increased confidence to the system of origins and their markings.
we are continually told that equal pay legislation was handed down from on high by the eu.
as the great abolitionist frederick douglass put it power concedes nothing without a demand.
mr president with the pay gap between women and men at fourteen in ireland this is clearly a key issue. as across europe women comprise the overwhelming majority of workers in some of the lowest paid sectors are more likely to be affected by pay freezes in the public sector and are more likely to be in part time or precarious employment.
it will be a struggle across europe including against austerity precarious contracts and the lack of childcare facilities which will ensure that equal pay for equal work is truly won.
irish families are forced to fork out twenty nine of their family net income on childcare more than double the european average.
that is rubbish; it was won by mass strikes in france after the second world war and by the heroic strikes of female ammunition workers in belgium ford workers in britain and countless others across europe.
it never did and it never will'.
right now for example we have a situation where one of our french colleagues is trying to muddy the waters in regard to the agreed abolition of milk quotas by.
now coming from a country that has a huge export services sector compared to our size i consider it is very important that there are no unnecessary restrictions that hamper service provision and we must do all we can to prevent gold plating by member states.
although it is not clear who is responsible for the chemical weapons attack both assad and the leading forces in the opposition today are undoubtedly guilty of gruesome sectarian atrocities.
a non sectarian mass movement of the syrian people is needed to provide a democratic and just solution.
it is the shadow of a massive movement of over ten million people which failed to stop that war but did demonstrate the hollow nature of the democracies that we live in.
it is the mass opposition to any military intervention which has tied the hands of the warmongers and forced them to at least go through the motions of finding a diplomatic solution but none of them can be trusted one iota.
i have a particular interest in this as i come from a country where eel fishing has been banned since two thousand and nine and yet it is clear that this has not worked.
we have no increase in the eel population and we have many eel fishermen unemployed with no hope of re opening eel fisheries.
europe needs a proper eel management plan as outlined in this report and ireland needs to be part of it.
it is like constantly filling a bucket with water that has a large hole in the bottom.
if we can encourage that perhaps the solution to our problems is closer to home.
mr president i welcome the adoption of these resolutions on the youth strategy and youth employment as an indication underpinning the importance that the european parliament attaches to the issue of youth employment.
we need to ensure that member states consult with stakeholders in the first instance.
we need to ensure that a youth guarantee is just that and that it provides young people with a real opportunity and it provides progression into real and sustainable jobs.
so my question is how can we expect these young people to support pro eu parties in the next european election when they see that eu policies are currently failing them?
mr president the report on the eu youth strategy once again highlights the urgent need to get to grips with the fallout from the current economic crisis and its impact on young people.
yesterday in the state of the union address mr barroso spoke about the glass being half full or half empty and he was certainly on the half full side but for a lot of young people the glass is entirely empty at the moment.
this report certainly highlights some of the positive issues concerning for example youth entrepreneurship and the youth guarantee but we have to recognise that the money set aside for the youth guarantee will be insufficient.
of course they do good work but are they doing it in a cost effective way?
it is important that we who were responsible for introducing the concept in the first place should now highlight it again to ensure it becomes a reality right across the european union.
that is also something that we have to look at and deal with.
i do not presume to speak for you but it taught me that there is no such thing as a good coup.
if we were trying to create islamic fundamentalism this is exactly how we would go about it by vindicating the most paranoid world view of the jihadists.
the western world generally i do not lay any particular blame at the door of the european union here the western world made a fatal mistake in the hours when the coup was threatened but had not yet been delivered by failing to intervene then giving a green light to the repression and tyranny that has happened since.
mr president you and i have in common that we have spent part of our lives under a military regime.
mr president one of the reasons that the people of ireland were so opposed to the lisbon treaty was the fear of its impact on irish neutrality and the further drive towards the militarisation of the european union.
even then we did not think that a report like this would be adopted in the european parliament.
sabre rattling war mongering and jingoism like this are destined to make people across the european union even more critical of the eu and to see it as an increasingly militarised and aggressive body.
i was told a story by a government minister in the uk who had a seminar on cybersecurity and who noticed when they put the screen up that it said their anti virus software was out of date and needed to be updated.
that was a very simple step they could have taken to tackle this problem.
nobody cares these days what the regulations are on steamboats or analogue telephones. if we simply turn off the regulatory tap eventually the regulation withers away.
that is why in this chamber we find ourselves constantly rushing to regulate whatever new activity appears on our horizons in this case the internet.
why do we not just experimentally try assuming a presumption of innocence assuming that things will flourish on their own without needing to be directed from brussels?
mr president the rapid advance in the field of genetic technology has understandably unsettled a number of our constituents.
we cannot always put our finger on what it is that we are disquieted about but somewhere deep down it feels wrong for example to take an anti freezing gene from an arctic fish and put it in a tomato or whatever.
i am not saying that prejudice is invalid.
i am enough of a burkean to recognise that public feeling does not always need to be strictly rational but the key thing for us is to allow people to choose.
if the european union repeatedly stands in the way of advances in technology not on the basis of science but based on a sense of giving people creepiness then we take away the basic responsibility of each consumer to be able to make a judgement about what is in his or her interest.
mr president acting in times of humanitarian and global crisis as a united eu while simultaneously respecting the sovereign rights of individual member states is no easy task.
it would therefore be foolish to make any attempt to extend the scope of the csdp which would see it duplicate the role of nato.
it is with this in mind that i find it necessary to vote against the recommendations of the report particularly with regard to its proposal on establishing an eu military operational headquarters within the eeas.
furthermore the attack it made on individual member states for cutting their military budgets at a time of austerity is totally unjustified.
any eu defence policy must be based on the principle of intergovernmental cooperation over the communautaire method which sadly this report has little respect for.
mr president belarus's continued disregard for democratic government and the rule of law is of great concern to all of us.
nevertheless the release of siarhei kavalenka is of course welcome yet we must not allow this lone political gesture by lukashenko to detract from the wider picture which is one of political prisoners on a large scale.
in calling for an end to restrictions on democratic opposition judicial reforms greater press freedom and an end to the discrimination of minorities this report is valuable in highlighting some of the fundamental flaws in the regime.
as we look to the future it can be hoped that belarus will look to its near baltic neighbours such as lithuania and the successful transition that these countries have made to democracy following the collapse of the soviet union.
i attended a hearing yesterday where commissioner kroes was outlining proposals particularly in regard to the telecommunications area and the hope of eliminating roaming charges within two years.
i commend that and i think that is going to be of major value.
certainly the operators might not agree but no doubt about it citizens will agree and it will show them very clearly that the european union can work for them.
mr president however many resolutions we pass about digital growth and employment we are not creating any growth or any employment.
the amazing thing is that this growth happens anyway like some plantation thrusting its way through the broken stones of an old jungle temple and the best thing we can do is to stay out of the way.
if there is one slogan that i would like to have every mep put up in their office and to be constantly reminded of it is what thomas edison said as he was engaged in his exciting inventions there ain't no rules around here we are trying to accomplish something. '
the best way forward is to have transfers from the richer parts to the poor parts.
that is the best economic argument but of course we know that politicians do not want to be honest with their electorate.
and the question we have to ask ourselves is is it right for it to be mandated in a particular way at eu level or is it right to let the market do its job?
an attack will only serve to inflame the whole region.
the syrians have a right to peace democracy and human rights.
the only way to stop conflict is through peace talks and a peace process.
international leaders need to work to secure a ceasefire and bring all sides in this civil war to the table. meaningful dialogue involving all sections of the syrian people must be established to address all of the grave issues currently facing the citizens of syria.
we have been ahead of the united states of america since two thousand and eight and i very much welcome as the high representative has said the engagement by president obama and his administration in opening up the relationship between the united states and cuba.
i think it is fair to say that we are now entering a new relationship with cuba.
it is only through engagement that we can argue for our values human rights and democracy. it is not by shutting people out or shutting the door of cooperation with cuba. i believe that this agreement has the potential for us at least to highlight those european values on the world stage. we should not forget the important trading links between cuba and the eu; the eu remains cuba's main export partner. each year as we have engaged our trade with cuba has gone up exponentially and i suspect that that will continue into the near future.
let me be even clearer it benefits the cubans and it benefits the europeans because this is the nature of all good friendships.
over the past few years the european union has started to discuss how to accompany cuba's evolution.
cuba has been changing slowly but continuously for a number of years now. on regional and international affairs our cooperation has already been constructive for quite some time now.
to sum up it means enhancing eu relations with cuba effectively accompanying the modernisation and reform process on the island promoting democracy and human rights and finding common solutions to global challenges.
so it is time we finally developed a partnership that reflects our shared history serves our interests in the present day and helps us build a future that is shared.