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the european globalisation fund gives specific one off support aiming to facilitate the reintegration of redundant workers suffering the shock of serious economic disruption. the egf is however only a tool to manage such difficult situations once they arise.
in cases like these the immediate priority of the commission is to support those directly affected.
first and foremost companies operating in europe have the legal and moral responsibility to put social dialogue at the heart of the restructuring processes.
twenty four billion had already been invested in infrastructure projects innovation and small and medium sized enterprises under the european fund for strategic investment.
while these measures all contribute to our short term response this commission has from the beginning sent a strong signal on the necessity to preserve and improve the competitiveness of our industrial economy over the long term with the investment plan for europe.
indeed in a fast changing global economy skills will to a large extent determine europe's competitiveness and the capacity to drive innovation.
two thousand and twenty the investment plan also aims at removing barriers to investment and at creating simpler better and more predictable regulation in the european union.
the industrial dimension is also incorporated into all other major commission policies the single market strategy the circular economy package the digital single market the energy union the capital markets union our research and development agenda
nevertheless worldwide competition is increasing.
and as announced this morning by president juncker in his state of the union address the commission will take this further by doubling the duration of the fund and doubling its financial capacity.
in addition the european regional fund and the european social fund can be put at the service of the conversion of the region and the affected workers.
financial means from the egf can be used to support amongst others the professional retraining of workers.
this should lead to a total of at least eur five hundred billion of private investments by.
the better regulation agenda the trade for all strategy and the new skills agenda for europe.
so we must step up our efforts at all levels to ensure that europe remains a competitive and attractive environment for manufacturing.
they also help mobilise and attract investment and they are a catalyst in the virtuous circle of job creation and growth.
to respond to the serious situation in gosselies we have set up a taskforce a taskforce which will be an interface for the belgian authorities with the commission and which will assist with any questions arising during the process ahead for instance related to the legal framework or the use of european funds.
seeing the context additional financial support from the european globalisation fund can be made available upon request from the member states concerned.
i thank the european parliament for organising this debate and for making the link with the vitally important issue of the future of the european industry and the need for industrial competitiveness.
information and consultation of workers is a core feature of our european social model. it is absolutely clear that no company is allowed to escape this responsibility towards its workers.
it is absolutely necessary to quickly establish a perspective for the workers their families as well as the local economy.
we must work together at all political levels to help the workers who have lost their jobs and to assist the regions in overcoming this difficult economic and social situation.
i know from the situation in northern ireland that these are highly skilled and highly motivated workers.
at regional national and european level i believe we need to identify and address the challenges facing the manufacturing sector and equip for the future with a joined up approach and a clear positive vision to make the most of future opportunities.
certainly we have to have learned the lessons from what has happened we have to look at what we are able to do in the future and above all we have to reindustrialise europe and create a climate for it to happen especially in relation to cop twenty one and its implementation.
this is doubly damaging number one losing jobs in europe and number two increasing rather than reducing co two emissions.
taking into account profits and shareholders' dividends one way of saving these jobs might be to spread production over different plants and limit shareholders' dividend.
so will shareholders and millionaires receive a little less or will well performing industrial infrastructure be destroyed and thousands of families thrown into disarray?
it is the paragraph concerning the discrimination and persecution of christians and other religious minorities.
mr president the ecr group would like to have an oral amendment to paragraph thirty six to become a new paragraph thirty six a.
therefore like a commitment from you that no shenanigans like this will take place again in the future and that you will remain neutral as your job title says you should be.
eu member states have shown a strong interest in the commission's nutrition action plan and the italian presidency is preparing council conclusions.
the intention of more than one hundred and seventy representatives of states to eradicate malnutrition and led to the adoption of the rome declaration on nutrition.
colleagues have spoken about the need to support farmers in the developing world to make sure that they have the right equipment the right technology to make sure they have support.
i think tackling food price volatility and food price security is another issue that we need to address.
we also have to encourage greater use of breastfeeding to avoid contaminated water;
we have also spoken about the need to improve diet to make sure that there is a sustainable food supply. we have also spoken about the need to ensure that discrimination especially discrimination against women is tackled within the developing world and the position of women in terms of education at home and in the workplace also needs to be tackled.
and i think crucially a plan needs to be built around a child's first one zero days which other people have spoken about. the first two years are crucial in terms of getting on top of the problem of malnutrition.
even though progress has been made much more can be done and if we resolve to do this together working with other partners throughout the world i believe that we can address this even further.
we need to prioritise this issue to make sure that there is a strong focus within the commission within parliament on making sure we make progress.
every single death is preventable and i think we need to ensure that the political will is in place to resolve this issue once and for all.
we now risk a new famine in ethiopia because of water control of the nile.
relief funds for the ongoing ethiopian famine.
unlike democratic ethiopia the egyptian military ruler in the neighbouring country is causing problems by trying to enforce an old colonial right over the nile.
it reminds us all that undernutrition is not only a real human tragedy but also an economic issue which can be in the way of sustainable development. let me underline that the commission is fully engaged to improve
nutrition action plan.
three five billion it has pledged to reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by seven million.
the current situation since in the last few years the european union has indeed emerged as a key actor in the area of nutrition and has put nutrition at the heart of its development policy.
as well as stunting of children under the age of five. the commission has also developed two action plans one which addresses undernutrition in emergencies and mainly targets wasting.
these are vital efforts in our fight against child malnutrition.
i understand that the commission services have been working on an action plan on nutrition and i wonder commissioner could you update us on this and tell us what is happening and when we can expect something concrete?
reduced and ending child undernutrition is possible but like our other development policies it requires resources coordination and political will. this week we have had a debate marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the convention on the rights of the child.
we voted on tuesday on that issue and it is something we do feel is very important.
the world health organisation assembly endorses the global target for a forty reduction of the global number of children under five who are stunted by.
this oral question and resolution seeks to ensure this issue is given the priority it deserves by the commission in our collective action towards the post two thousand and fifteen global development framework.
the world health organisation says that undernutrition is the biggest contributor to child mortality causing thirty five of the disease burden in children under five. it can create a vicious cycle of poverty can reduce productivity and impede social and economic development.
undernutrition represents an enormous development challenge.
that is why the fight against child undernutrition and the provision of universal access to adequate nutritious food should remain as one of the major goals in the post two thousand and fifteen agenda.
two thousand and twenty five that means reducing the number of stunted children by more than seventy million seventy million colleagues by.
looking at progress in this area we have made progress but despite that the number of children dying or suffering from undernutrition remains unacceptably high.
two thousand and twenty five it calls for promoting sustainable agriculture and recognising the specific needs of women farmers related to food security.
tackling undernutrition in the next fifteen to twenty years would be a key contribution to make sure that every child could have the basic right that gives them the opportunity for a decent life.
so what we are asking the commission for this morning and why we have asked for this debate is because we now need a concrete action plan from the commission on how we as the european union can contribute to the child undernutrition targets and how we can work with our international partners to achieve this.
and how can the commission ensure coordination both in its different policies and with our international partners in speeding up progress towards the who targets?
a huge number of palestinian refugees have been facing an extremely precarious situation as they are in the front line of a series of regional conflicts that converge and amplify one another.
as the european parliament should fight together with the commission every year to face our responsibility and together with our other international partners find a more stable solution for unrwa funding.
finally this interpellation does not represent in anyway the position of this parliament.
unrwa is a part of the solution and not a part of the problem when it comes to ensuring stability in the middle east today and achieving a just and lasting peace between israelis and palestinians tomorrow.
there is a distinction between present and speaking. so i wasn't given the speaking time but i was actually present; there was somebody present.
i think that it is perfectly correct to do so and it is designed to be helpful to the chair.
otherwise this looks like a money grab from some member states to others.
a better more flexible and more liberal cap which allows farmers to be globally competitive is the answer to crises and will stop them having an effect in the future. however my real problem with this is the unfairness of the funding measures. a threshold of eur two zero means that member states with the largest farms will contribute the most.
as everybody knows and as was agreed in the cap reform the commission has to propose each year a regulation that fixes the rate of this financial discipline for direct payments.
two thousand and fifteen this will provide a reserve that will allow additional support for the agricultural sector in the case of a natural crisis affecting agricultural production or distribution by applying at the beginning of each year a reduction to direct payments with a financial discipline mechanism.
after all as i said it is funded from the existing resources of the farming community.
so the market orientated policy that you have voted for and supported is working in action in relation to how we are dealing with the pigmeat sector.
mr agnew made another very valuable contribution with regard to the uk staying in europe because he will know better than anybody that looking for eur twenty five billion which is the amount of money that the european union is subsidising british farmers at the moment will be very difficult when you are competing with the public services around the cabinet table of a uk government.
it is convenient for member states to forget that the uk is a massive net contributor to the cap and our taxpayers should have the comfort of knowing that their money is at least being used to support domestic agriculture and local food as opposed to propping up a failed economic project.
this may not constitute an act of god which is what the fund should be used for but it is an act of the commission an institution that has assumed the mantle of deity and can accordingly be included in this definition.
because it is being used by countries which never should have been allowed to join a single currency in the first place.
commissioner i will stay on in the debate as long as i can but i have to go to an agricultural meeting as you know because i would like to hear what you have got to say about all of that.
this fund could therefore be used as a replacement for what used to be called the green pound'.
this is not an argument for the uk itself to join the euro and i am sure that is what you will try and convince us to do commissioner but had we done so british taxpayers would be impoverished to the extent that they would struggle to finance the cap at all.
this is another area where even if the idea makes sense emergencies happen help is needed it should be implemented at member state and local level.
bring it down to the local level that is what we want.
our irish colleague was right earlier member states have the solution.
as far as i can see it is not working.
however this group did not support it at the outset we felt that there might be a better more equitable way to fund this provision.
i have no problem with the lowering of the threshold for contributions but rather i must express my concerns about the impact on producers in my own country.
it is a country which because of its farm structure has fewer larger farms than most of the other countries in the european union. that means individual producers producers who are already hard pressed will carry a greater burden of cost than average farmers.
this is a contribution towards a fund which historically their own government has declined to access.
mr president the annual exercise to establish the reserve for crises in the agricultural sector helps ensure that farmers' incomes are protected in the event of natural disasters and price volatility.
the reserve for crises should be considered as one element of a safety net which guards against the elements that farmers cannot normally anticipate.
the crisis reserve is financed out of the envelope available for direct payments in the given year.
this is a fair provision which takes into account that the eu budget already strained in times of economic hardship should not accommodate additional spending in case of an emergency in the sector.
the functioning of the crisis reserve is surely a good opportunity to look more closely at the risk management potential of the cap which should pay more attention to providing solutions to potential future problems.
instead of concentrating on income support we should make more use of the funds intentionally set aside in order to manage the detrimental effects of natural disasters outbreaks of disease or trade embargoes.
the cap budget is surely big enough to respond to the needs of the sector.
applied by israel against innocent people there.
it is time for us not simply not to upgrade that agreement but to suspend that agreement.
just within the last few days we have heard astonishingly israel threatening the european union and saying that if commissioner ferrero waldner continues refusing to upgrade the israel eu association agreement then european influence will be
i urge you to write to the commissioner to take some action.
however we need to go beyond just statements and ask for concrete action from the commission to make sure that we have a strategy as to how we address the taliban and their rising influence in that region.
as the only sikh mep i have been contacted by numerous constituents who are horrified as to what is happening in the swat valley people who have lived there for sixty years are discriminated against in this way. this parliament has a proud history and record of fighting against these forms of violations of human rights and denouncing those
the introduction of sharia law in the swat valley has also resulted in all non muslims living in the valley having to pay an ancient form of tax and i understand that the sikhs living in the area were kidnapped or threatened until they agreed to pay.
mr president i rise to express my concern about thousands of innocent civilians who have been turned into refugees in their own homeland by the taliban in the swat valley.
taliban are the real threat to all the values that we hold dear human rights equality and democracy.
in my country at the moment the so called uk independence party the party that mr mote was elected for has posters across the country claiming that the european union costs us eur four hundred million per day in membership.
mr president we have often deplored the supposed lack of information for the public in the run up to the european elections.
it is a rather small budget quite small when compared to the huge economic benefits which amount to some eur two zero per family in my country an enormous benefit well worth the price of membership well worth the benefit of mentioning.
i would submit after the recent intervention from mr mote that the greater problem is the wilful misinformation if not downright lies that are peddled before the public.
but the truth is that the european budget anyway costing only eur.
that would be eur fifteen billion per year a figure that is actually five times higher than the factual figure which you can get from the house of commons library.
last year he was convicted by a first degree greek court to serve an unconscionably severe sentence in prison in greece.
from the information i have been given mr president i consider that the crucial rules relating to greek legislation as well as the provisions for fair trials have been violated.
these fair trial provisions are defined by all of europe and are the rights of every european citizen.
at the start of this year i wrote to the greek minister of justice in athens to alert him to my concerns.
the response which i received three months later was signed by minor ministry employees and made no reference to the matter which i had raised with the minister in other words the breaking of the rules about fair trials.
thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve the commission is required to present its final report on this in two thousand and fifteen at the latest.
in line with the europe two thousand and twenty strategy improving working conditions goes naturally with job creation promoting permanent employment and higher productivity as the commission highlighted in its communication on an agenda for new skills and jobs'.
i appreciate the ambitious nature of this document and share the house's view of the importance of occupational safety and health policy which is one of the most advanced areas of european social policy.
from the commission's viewpoint the assessment of the first part of the period covered by the strategy highlights a number of priorities. first there is a need to simplify and update existing legislation and finalise proposals for legislation after consulting the social partners and the stakeholders extensively. this relates in particular to the proposal for a revision of directive two thousand and
third we need to build on experience with scoreboard two thousand and nine with a view to developing a structured and commonly accepted monitoring tool for evaluating future eu strategies for occupational safety and health. fourth we need to carry out the final evaluation
the fact that it was welcomed by all eu institutions highlights the importance of such an eu strategic framework for coordinating national policy and ensuring that workers enjoy safer and healthier conditions at work.
the strategy's prime objective is achieving an ongoing sustainable and uniform reduction in accidents at work and occupational illnesses'. given the overall reduction in incidence in the period covered by the previous eu strategy the strategy set an ambitious target to reduce the total incidence of accidents at work in the twenty seven member states by twenty five
two thousand and fourteen this is because of time constraints related to collecting and processing national data by eurostat.
the results of the mid term review confirm that the strategy remains broadly fit for purpose despite the changes that have taken place in the union since two thousand and seven and in particular the impact of the financial and economic crisis.
second we need to consolidate the encouraging results of the first phase of implementation and to take them further in terms of adopting and implementing national strategies for occupational safety and health.
of the current strategy and based on the findings to identify the next steps in the health and safety area for the period after.
in two thousand and twelve the commission will complete the final evaluation of the current strategy and adopt a communication on eu occupational safety and health policy priorities for the post two thousand and twelve period based on the results of that evaluation.
the commission will carry out an extensive screening of the implementation of all eu health and safety legislation covering the period two.
we do it every day.
so i ask that elements of this draft report such as simplifying existing legislation implementing national strategies and adjusting to the context of member states carry through to the final advisory version.
we seem to have to live through the same reality over and over again.
and an electoral law to implement this ruling.
the report is public and available for consultation by civil society and the
it is also one of the preconditions for the submission of a credible membership application.
and. twenty four this was also the result of montenegro's intensive work on the detailed action plans that the government had adopted during the summer. we now expect the action plans to be implemented according to the set deadlines so that montenegrin citizens can see and
whole. even more importantly we have high expectations that work on both chapters will have a positive impact on the situation on the ground.
avoiding impunity for the perpetrators is the best tool to prevent such crimes in the future.
two thousand and twelve the european commission will continue to support the country in addressing all these challenges through regular dialogue and targeted financial cooperation.
the country has good relations with all of its western balkans neighbours but its relations with greece remain affected by the name issue.
the country should build on its consensus and move forward through mature political dialogue in other areas as
an inter party agreement on electoral reform.
renewed efforts from all sides are needed to improve relations and trust between the parties needs to be strengthened.
we continue to believe that opening negotiations will contribute to maintaining the pace and sustainability of reforms and to strengthening inter ethnic relations. second two thousand and thirteen was in many ways a lost year for the country and the commission has called for urgent measures to be taken