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by bringing to the table concrete proposals to tackle youth unemployment and to finance smes the commission broadened the perspective towards the issues that are of greatest concern to all our citizens jobs and growth sustainable growth. this is an approach that we have often discussed with this parliament and i know you support the commission's outlook rooted in the europe two thousand and twenty strategy.
this is a very important part of the global strategy to strengthen the economic and monetary union.
the single market act can improve the framework for our companies but there is also more we can do to create the conditions that will help these companies namely the smes to thrive.
from the outset of the negotiations on this treaty the commission together with this parliament defended a series of principles namely the primacy of european union law the need to keep the proper role of the union institutions a spirit of inclusiveness with all member states and the need to integrate the agreement into the lisbon treaty within five years.
indeed we cannot respond properly to our current challenges without democratic legitimacy.
when it comes to issues such as job creation there is clearly a european dimension. national action and indeed regional action too should be supported and complemented by european action.
i personally met with the representatives of the social partners at european level and i know how committed they are to fighting the terrible scourge that is youth unemployment.
we need to help them to take up the great opportunities being opened up by our trade agreements with growing economies outside europe.
on monday i asked the heads of state or government to be even more ambitious in cutting red tape for small and micro enterprises.
last december the commission proposed using structural funds as guarantees for smes to give them easier access to finance.
we have also put forward a proposal to facilitate access to venture capital which i would like to ask you to adopt this year.
europe's economic problems are obviously not over.
but the fact that twenty five of our twenty seven member states have agreed to sign this treaty is a testament to the solidarity and determination within the union to resolve this crisis together and to avoid a division between euro and non euro area member states.
mr president president of the european council distinguished members of the european parliament i would like to draw your attention to two main aspects of the informal european council on monday afternoon. firstly the european council was a first but a significant step by heads of state or government in recognising that it is not enough to focus on financial stability and economic discipline alone.
another positive step in this informal european council was the endorsement by the heads of state or government of the treaty establishing the european stability mechanism.
in the final text there are no new institutions that could weaken the role of the commission and of this parliament.
we are now entering into a new phase of economic governance based on the european semester where governments recognise that even matters under their national competence such as employment should be dealt with at european as well as national level. due to the high levels of interdependence between our economies we can no longer deal with economic and social matters solely at national level.
together we are moving.
one main message coming out of our discussion on growth and employment on monday was the need to do much more to unleash the potential of the single market europe's crown jewel'.
twenty five member states also reached agreement on the treaty on stability coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union which is an essential element in our efforts to regain stability and confidence.
at the beginning of the council he made an important political contribution on these points and i am grateful for his clear commitment in upholding the principles dear to both our institutions.
we will continue in this direction.
and they agreed to keep the treaty open to all and compatible with the community method respecting this european parliament.
on youth unemployment i called for an urgent response and made concrete proposals to halt this unacceptable trend.
it would appear therefore that the commission does not have the power to initiate any action. in fact it would appear that the commission will have no role in this draft agreement at all.
it would appear that he is promising to refrain from doing something that he cannot completely prevent and in some areas would not need to prevent.
mr president mr cameron said that he will not prevent eu institutions from being used to enforce the intergovernmental agreement on fiscal policy.
the court of justice will be able to say whether or not a country has broken the agreement but it will not be able to compel an erring country to obey. if eurozone countries want an agreement that can be enforced they will need a new treaty which will have to be agreed unanimously. in my view it would be disastrous for britain to agree to such a mechanism because it might be used today to enslave eurozone countries but one day it will be used to enslave us.
trying to save the european monetary union.
now we are moving beyond that. we see a certain stabilisation.
i would like to assure you that the commission is not going to give
surely the whole point is that this project that was designed to bring us all together in peace and harmony is actually ripping us apart and bringing back nationalisms.
that dumb approach is embodied in the so called six pack and it is made even worse by this new international treaty.
all that we can hope is that the inverse relationship between the council's use of the language of smartness' and the state of our economies will lead to a breakthrough soon for a true smart response to the crisis.
that is exactly what my group has been calling for since the start of the crisis.
i would like to thank him for putting so clearly on the record the conservative position.
the council could join this parliament in seeking to put in place a real system of eurobonds that would lower our interest rates on public debt and create room for manoeuvre for new investment.
that framework prevents us from preserving investment in future growth' as the conclusion said.
the problem is that you have already made the choice of a dumb rather than a smart approach to fiscal consolidation.
the aim is to provide prospects to offer hope through the decisions of this council and those of march and june.
as agreed in december we will reassess the adequacy of resources under the efsf and esm rescue funds at the next european council meeting less than four weeks
for instance by freeing up available eu funds to support employers and reduce red tape.
the recent initiatives of the ecb are also helpful in avoiding a credit crunch and a further deepening of the recession.
a strategy for growth covers many aspects the short term and the longer term;
an automatic correction mechanism will re enforce compliance.
now over to the treaty as i know this is of particular interest to you and it closes a chapter that has been the cause of much debate for almost two years.
point. although this was not formally on the agenda we also briefly touched upon three urgent foreign policy issues mainly along the lines of the good and strong conclusions adopted by the foreign affairs council on twenty three
to set up apprenticeship schemes and help young business starters.
national competencies and those of the union.
this treaty is about more responsibility and better surveillance.
treaty. as you know the necessary unanimity for this was not forthcoming.
states. this was the case also in the european council of last monday a positive step on the road for more hope.
firstly creating jobs especially for young people.
debt. the treaty also changes the majority required to initiate the excessive deficit procedure something that could not be done through the six pack legislation.
eurozone. all the countries ratifying this treaty will participate in euro summits when the architecture and fundamental rules of the eurozone are at stake or the implementation of the treaty and the competitiveness of the contracting
we are determined to get more out of it for instance by finalising the digital market and the energy market. priority must go to the measures which do most to stimulate growth and jobs.
treaty. besides this fiscal compact treaty we also endorsed the agreement among the seventeen on the treaty for the european stability mechanism.
this is not a commitment to austerity but a commitment to financing public expenditure through revenue rather than through debt. there is nothing virtuous about excessive debt it means that more and more of your public expenditure is spent on servicing your debt instead of public services and public investment.
growth and employment were never out of our minds.
and ten and two thousand and eleven the focus of monday's informal european council was indeed on growth and jobs.
although this was necessary and we are now starting to see that it was worth the effort we recognise that financial stability is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for economic recovery.
you will have seen from the statement approved by the members of the european council that we have called this growth friendly' fiscal consolidation and job friendly economic growth'.
slashing deficits but not by cutting our investments for the future investments in education training research and development and green infrastructure.
what do we mean by this?
the march european council will focus on structural growth and by the way the economies in most of our countries were growing positively in two thousand.
all this is helpful as i said in the short term.
we decided upon a series of deadlines for opening markets.
it will be signed this week so that it can take effect from
this is particularly important for the credibility of that procedure.
parties. i was happy to see that almost all countries will sign the
economic policy and competitiveness but also specific employment policies;
this treaty must be seen as just one element of the reforms to economic governance that we have achieved over the last two years reforms which involve both responsibility and solidarity and which include the six pack which remains the backbone of our new governance architecture.
excessive public debt is a threat to our social model. like most members of the european council and like parliament i would have preferred these issues to be addressed by changing the existing treaties rather than through a separate
report. step by step we are making progress in the construction of an economic and monetary union slower than hoped and expected but reaching each time broad agreements among our member
we focused on three priorities.
placing this commitment to self control in the treaty shows our long term and irreversible commitment to avoiding excessive deficits and
increasing the competitiveness of our companies while making it more attractive for them to hire people.
every country that signs it commits itself to bringing a debt brake' into its legislation preferably at constitutional level.
there was no choice but to go down this
these are good examples after our joint actions in libya of a common foreign
as i have said many times already in this hemicycle we have badly missed a governance structure since the launching of the euro.
january. we endorsed the restrictive measures against iran including an oil embargo as decided by the foreign ministers last week and we expressed our outrage at the atrocities and repression committed by the syrian regime and urged the members of the un security council to take long overdue steps to bring an end to the repression.
last week i received a letter from the european youth forum in which they wrote young people in times of crisis and economic austerity do not need nice words but strong investments'. and indeed that is why we have agreed to use available european funds
enshrining the debt brake in the treaty will enhance its credibility. this is important as a confidence building measure.
we were not setting up a separate organisation but the means of reinforcing our
results take time but there is no doubt of our resolve and that of the danish presidency.
stimulating employment is mostly a responsibility for the individual countries but most of the work we can do together as a union and we will do it. each member state must have a job plan' as a part of its national reform programme. second priority helping small and medium enterprises to get access to credit
potentially two trillion plus being sucked up by the banking system by next june should tell us that some kind of transfer already is going on. the question is will this generation face up to it or foist it along with joblessness on to the younger generation?
and for those who try to lay the blame on the eba for its bank stress tests i would like to remind member states that the deal was a combination of stress tests and firewall and it is the constant delay in the firewalls that has made matters worse among of course a few other delays.
the other issue that has made the top of the agenda is the crisis for youth but it is more than the fact that we just have devastatingly high numbers of young jobless.
mr president jobs and growth have made it to the top of the agenda and action needs to follow.
they face no jobs no home ownership and a financial system stuffed with the bonds of this generation's failure.
two thousand and one i think it is a shame to have a council summit about growth but not to be capable of definitely launching the european patent in europe.
that is the proposal of the five wise german economists to create a redemption fund.
seven pages of words and seven pages of good intentions.
why is it necessary to wait for two years of discussion inside the council and inside other institutions?
greece will not recover in the eurozone portugal is a cliff hanger and italy spain and france lost their competitiveness years ago partly because of the euro.
i wonder why french socialists still need a presidential candidate because mr sarkozy is turning socialist by the day.
he knows all about it but in the end moscow never succeeded in imposing policies on neighbouring states like the one of budget tsar mr rehn.
now we also have a brussels based budget tsar. mr rehn is from a country that once lived under tsarist rule.
in fact it comes ten years too late. a monetary union needs budgetary underpinning without which it will crumble. but the long term objective does not solve short term problems.
every time he appears on television he proposes a new tax.
transfers will not cure the loss of competitiveness.
we need to show that austerity is not forever that there is light at the end of a tunnel but as long as we cut off the possibility of a member state leaving the euro then we block that tunnel.
as a free market conservative myself who finds much to admire in the german model of fiscal and monetary discipline we cannot impose our vision by force of law;
there is one action however that we could take right here right now to show businesses our commitment to growth. surely one of the best ways for the eu to speed up growth is to scrap the directorate general for employment and social affairs in the commission and repatriate its responsibilities to national governments.
when i was a new mep we had something called the lisbon agenda.
and of course opening the single market would be pointless unless we continue to open our markets to the rest of the world;
we will continue to pursue this agenda of creating the single market of further extending services and reviewing procurement rules to encourage innovation.
imagine how taxpayers in our home countries feel when every pound or euro saved in domestic spending is swallowed up by higher contributions to the eu budget.
by passing resolutions.
what we can do is get out of the way and allow entrepreneurs to invent things to make things and to sell things.
that is where employment growth comes from and it is also where social security comes from.
my group makes no apologies for being single minded about the single market.
we will continue to push for better implementation of existing single market rules.
recovery will not come to many of the countries in southern europe in my view until they are free to reissue their own currencies and to price their way back into the market.
the parts of the world that is where there is still growth happening.
then we could scrap the working time directive the agency workers directive the pregnant workers directive and all of the other barriers to actually employing people if we really want to create jobs in europe. we cannot create those jobs by talking about them;
it was supposed to make europe the most dynamic knowledge based economy in the world by.
none of this is actually going to happen.
no more vetoes any more.
it is the kind of strategy that palmerston used against athens back in the nineteenth century.
and this is all a terrible huge mistake.
greece is not a failing subsidiary company where head office needs to come in and take control. greece is a nation with a soul a nation with pride with history goodness me they invented democracy in the first place.
indeed mr cameron is now actively supporting this quite despicable pact this plan to destroy and humiliate nation states that do not live up to a germanic view of how economies ought to be run.
they are suffering.
and remember these people are being driven into humiliation and desperation. desperate people do desperate things and i am deeply fearful for what will happen in greece if we continue with this mad course.
you are causing the misery in these countries and you blather on about creating jobs and growth.
apart from this i underline an important point.
i support that.
i think that is a fair definition but please more emphasis more leadership on growth.
as part of this we surely need some new definition of what the market economy is meant to stand for. we are in a situation it appears to me where the private sector is regulating the public sector and there is very little accountability.
oligarchs seem to be in charge of certain parts of the markets so please let us have more attention to what the markets are doing to the public sector and to us as parliaments and governments and let us do more to give leadership to try and bring about growth and jobs.
we do need effective eu legislation that establishes a mandatory human rights and environmental duediligence framework for companies and financial institutions that are eubased or that provide goods or services in the eu so as to make companies accountable for the impact of their activities.
mr president the recent murder of two romanian forest rangers highlights the urgent need to protect europe's environmental defenders and to save europe's last oldgrowth forests.
not only will it destroy small farms in europe but it is going to destroy more forests.
the fact that amendments were rejected demanding a full impact assessment shows rank indifference to the cost and practicality of aggressive climate policies.
they also call it the dismal science but when it comes to the climate emergency i would describe the apocalyptic forecasts as nothing but science fiction.
dieter helm professor of energy and economics at oxford university was right when he said we should be honest that it is a huge industrial undertaking and it will have significant cost.
' in my own country our own chancellor has put that cost at over one trillion pounds or almost two of gdp per annum.
it is an insane policy.
these are enormous industrial activities there is nothing in history that looks like this outside of wartime.
i may not be an economics professor but i do profess to understand economics.
one thing i can say for certain is that the impact of net zero makes the consequence of any form of brexit look puny by comparison.
the adoption of these policies today and the aim of carbon neutrality by two thousand and fifty is nothing short of reckless and the most extreme example of economic illiteracy i've ever seen.
one of the first victims of the cia regime change formula.
it is about inflicting further economic sanctions and it is about trying to prevent the normalisation of relations with the us.
the us state department wrote in one thousand nine hundred and sixty of its failing campaign against cuba that a programme of action should make the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to cuba to decrease monetary and real wages to bring about hunger desperation and overthrow of government' and sadly they're still at
the truth of this ferrer was arrested on suspicion of the abduction and hospitalisation of a cuban citizen.
madam president cuba is a shining example of what is possible against all the odds with the most aggressive and violent power in the world for decades trying to overthrow your government assassinate your leader and force your country into poverty and instability through sanctions;
we are not going to interfere in any police investigation or proceedings but we will make sure that the european parliament keeps the pressure up so that justice is done and the truth will come to light.
we are planning a visit to malta but we will be very clear there will not be any political interference or taking sides.
that's the second point.
and as she said there's no point in completing something unless the customers are aware of it.
pick them off deal with them get them out of the way one by one and do that over the next five years and we'll make fantastic progress.
i've been a member of this house now for ten years and each part session someone or other will always stand up and say we must complete the single market. we must complete the digital single market.
austerity is putting the safety of women at risk.
and in that year two thousand and seventeen in my own country two hundred and fifty intentional homicides against women.
it's outrageous that my government in the uk has not yet ratified the istanbul convention but it's also outrageous that as a direct result of funding cuts and austerity under this government rape crisis centres and refuges and other vital services are struggling to keep their doors open.
those numbers are shocking they are shameful they are frightening and they are why we have to pass the strongest possible laws at every level against violence against women.
another deplorable act of violence that's occurred during this unrest is violence against women in state prisons where women are detained in the same cells as men and subject to rape.
so let's not forget these vulnerable women in one of the poorest countries in the world.
yet aid organisations are struggling to provide relief to those most in need.
more than one in three haitians need urgent assistance to meet their daily food requirements meaning that nearly.
the eu must work with the haitian authorities to provide urgent humanitarian assistance.
three seven million people are going hungry.
here in the european parliament we're marking the sixteen days of action to end gender based violence.
large segments of the population are protesting against the way the country is currently governed and particularly against corruption and mismanagement cases that have involved high figures in the institutions.
we also called on all actors to engage in a national dialogue to identify consensual solutions to the current crisis in its political economic and humanitarian dimensions. let me also recall that the european union is also coordinating with other donors to provide urgent relief inside the country because the humanitarian situation is dramatic.
the authorities must guarantee the right to demonstrate freely and peacefully and violence must be avoided under all circumstances. i expressed this position on behalf of the twenty eight member states earlier this month.
the poorest country in the americas is now paralysed by a crisis that is political as well as social and economic.
we have been and constantly are following very closely the current crisis coordinating with the countries and institutions from the core group.