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to deny a woman a right to abortion as we saw in ireland and as we see elsewhere can take the lives of women every single day in every single country in this world.
parliament should therefore be absolutely clear that we define sexual and reproductive health rights as fundamental to this union fundamental to our external policies and fundamental to development.
in the end i respect religious belief but not the right of you to impose your religion on others and thereby deny them their fundamental human rights.
i want to be a credible country with capabilities that can increase and be inter operational with other allies within nato and with partners in the european union.
this is a choice.
therefore finding a balance between research innovation the digital economy youth jobs and traditional policy areas such as regional policy development or agriculture or defence is always a challenge.
this is my concern and i do not see the answer in the debate so far.
this is essential.
likely formation of another german government led by chancellor merkel we have gone in football terms from a zero one to a two one situation. that gives me hope and optimism for the strength of the european project including the debate on the financial framework.
this is the problem.
as i said we need to have equal chances in this exercise.
it is a political choice in a strange situation when someone is actually about to leave.
today. second on uljanik and on the shipping industry and the shipyards in
the capacities of the croatian police of the croatian border system to surveil our borders and it is perhaps the best absorption of all the funds that we have. we have so far at the level of contractual arrangements about fifty above the total allocation for croatia which is just over eur. ten three billion. we have more or less contracted
in mind. when it comes to the three questions of my colleague nino jakovi on subsidiarity absolutely
further migratory flows at the source of the crisis failing states wars conflicts poverty and other reasons why people are looking towards europe from the continents which are around
this? all eight of those minorities are members of my parliamentary majority which i personally wanted to be like that because i feel that the minorities in any european country and especially in croatia with all the historical legacies that we have can better cater for their needs their priorities and their position in our society if they are within the majority and influencing the policies of our
into that. but there is goodwill on the croatian side to sit down and try to understand how we can surmount the
distress. it actually cost a lot of money in the croatian budget. some of them are stable restructured and ordering new ships. some of them occasionally have difficulties in the market which has globally completely altered to what it was before. you know it and
border issue. in my view it is an overblown topic both politically and
production. this is why we believed it was a good choice and that is why we explained to the european commission to give us a go ahead in this
country. that is why this is a very dear subject for me from a principle point of view with all the european values always
eur. five two billion. when it comes to schengen we have actually absorbed. ninety eight given the migratory refugee crisis a few years ago we were the country that today looks at this issue in a way that our focus should be on protecting the external borders of the european union on preventing
why am i saying
this house. i don't want to enter
yes. you are aware that my ambition is to involve first of all when it comes to the european national level and the multi layered governance the croatian parliament more than
us. the entry exit system yes. preparation for schengen whether it is formally within the mandate of this parliament i would be very happy if we could achieve
of the czechs and of the roma as well which is very important because this was mentioned in one of the debates earlier where there was an insinuation that we do not protect the roma minority
obstacles. this is
so there is no contradiction between both concepts.
in my opinion the best way not to lose it is to embed this system in a democratic process.
you need to involve the citizens.
the first is on the new financial framework.
this parliament will request a say on the expenditure and on the income. it has to be finished that this is the only parliament worldwide that has no say on the income of the european union.
that has to stop now.
it is clear that it is a crucial thing and i ask one thing of the council to accept that in the future it cannot be as in the past.
because spitzenkandidaten where there is a backroom deal inside a political party or between political parties i can tell you people are not very involved in this.
you need to give them the possibility to vote directly for a spitzenkandidat not only a spitzenkandidat from their country but the spitzenkandidaten from other countries so all europeans have to have this possibility.
the spitzenkandidat is a gain in the democratic process and we cannot lose it.
that is the system and it gives the power to the citizens to vote for him.
would this not be also a way to regenerate income for member states and not just the union?
be the example show the way to do economy and ecology together.
the future of europe as i see it lies in creating the future of the people who live in europe.
you said that you want to be on the energy map.
while it is of course important to remember the past and to learn from it it is also important to make peace with previous enemies.
i think croatia has plenty of resources to be on the map of renewable energies and to be at the forefront.
we have learned from the past and we have decided never again to allow war to happen.
we should strive to end hate in europe to overcome nationalism and to strive together for a better and a common future.
croatia is an example of a beautiful resourceful country that can really show other european countries the way ahead.
but unfortunately it seems that many in your country and also many in your party are actually holding on to the past.
therefore i would urge you to reconsider your plans for those lng terminals in the northern adriatic and also to reconsider some other huge development plans like golf courses because those would hurt not only the environment but also local businesses.
after all this is what the european union is all about.
your country with its history and its geographical position can be a prime example for all of that.
how come we are not moving on with this?
how can it be that there is even a question about whether we should protect women from violence?
this means enhancing their quality of life improving social policies and guaranteeing human rights.
refugee rights are human rights too and i hope that you prime minister will not allow pushbacks to happen in the future and that you will investigate the pushbacks that have already happened from croatia.
europe can learn a lot from croatia but for that you need to be ambitious.
we want to finally overcome nationalism and we want to prosper together with our old enemies. i hope that croatia will do the same and that especially you as the leader of the country will do your utmost to overcome the shadows of the past.
the social pillar principles twenty of them are items that we can all improve on a national
substance. i am willing to debate this within the croatian parliament within the political parties and with the public and try to distinguish the wood from
we also know that as jean claude has said the bilateral issues should not obstruct or slow down the process of any country's accession to the eu.
will follow. finally an issue of identity which was rightly mentioned by manfred thank you
first of all we are helping all of them already.
we have different budgets for campaigning we have different legislative frameworks for campaigns.
the situation is not the same if you are looking at it from the optics of the countries which contribute with a substantial percentage or coming from a country with more modest economic and financial abilities where the increase would not be so dramatic.
this is not perhaps the best forum or the place to go into details of our border issue but what i would like to stress here is my government's readiness and openness to solve this issue in a manner which would be acceptable for both countries
because i do not think that is smart and that is useful.
we have an issue of accountability to our constituency.
because of the fact that it was unfortunately the slovenian representatives who violated the arbitration rules and violated in international law.
found. at the same time let me be very honest and clear with all of
the? twenty seven for that i would need to see a little more concrete evidence that it is feasible.
this is something i cannot
are some countries willing to increase it or to remain in the framework of what they are paying or contributing today?
this is something we should remember.
i have the courage to do it but the only thing i cannot do is close my eyes and say no everything was okay'.
a few points on the social elements that you mentioned.
one relating to the bilateral issues and the other to wider international conditionalities. five years from a historical perspective might not seem a lot but it is an awful lot when you consider what it means to invest or lose in your economic social development and take the benefits of eu membership.
it remains a mystery to me because they had two years. what i have done is ensure we have completed the public consultation.
that is why i see the role of my country as a bridge as a facilitator and as someone who will advocate further enlargement.
very much. we have always longed to be part of this european
my country has no dilemma.
this is what i think from the experiences i have had personally so far and the consultations with my
it is a very positive coincidence for me that the commission will come up with a paper during the college a few hours later bringing forward as you said the indicative timeline for the countries that remain within the group that we called the western balkans.
in. one thousand nine hundred and ninety and therefore the national identity which we acquired in terms of international recognition and finally having our own state after nine centuries is
can we have enough resources to implement all the objectives of our policies? will this require more contributions from all member states?
you are not aware of that but so many croatian experts are engaged in one way or another transferring the freshest knowledge on the process of accession negotiations to all of our neighbours.
it. at the same time those of you who are following this in a little more detail will know that croatia's parliament has withdrawn from the arbitration process that was facilitated by the eu in two thousand and nine in order to unblock fourteen chapters of the accession negotiations at a time stalled by slovenia
so after the analysis which we have made in croatia if there were an increased demand from our side we would be willing to do it to be very clear at the beginning.
first on jean claude's comment on balancing the enthusiasm ambition and the financial realism of what we would like to see implemented what policies should be the guiding lines of our project and which budgetary means we have available.
having spent basically my entire life dedicated to the objective that one day my country would be around this table i know what it means to lose a couple of years in the accession process.
almost over. unfortunately the debate on this convention which was there in my view to protect and prevent violence in the family especially violence against women has somehow acquired a different dimension in many public debates a sort of gender ideology debate which is trying to put a different angle on the
we know it better than you if i may be very clear.
lists. in the last elections in two thousand and fourteen i was privileged to be on the list of the croatian epp family and i was always mentioning jean claude at every single event we had and he was more popular than he can imagine!
own people. everybody who believes in strong nations must be in favour of a united and democratic
time. and i am a european.
nations. that is not the idea
all share. we have to stick to our christian
i want to talk about nations.
my message is clear.
therefore we shall urge at european level and at national level the adoption of the new legislative mechanisms that are tending in that direction.
there were several comments in the last round of questions one of them on the cohesion policy and implementing measures which ivana has just mentioned.
in that respect dialogue with the european parliament will be something that we will take into account and take on board when preparing our presidency of the council which is envisaged for the first semester of. two thousand and twenty i thank you all very much for this opportunity.
i feel enriched by your comments.
i just have a quick question for you.
you mentioned about building an lng terminal;
i want to ask you how important that is in the security supply for your country.
the uk's decision now to leave the single market and customs union will also weaken both parties and poses big problems at the irish border. i also hope that the uk can stay plugged into security and defence structures by cooperating closely with pesco and as rapporteur of the parliament for montenegro i also hope that the uk can stay engaged in joint projects in the western balkans. stability in the western balkans must be a common priority for all of us. lastly i also see some merit in making european parliament elections far more relevant to the people by the spitzenkandidat process and the transnational lists. congratulations and i think that croatia is a great member of the european union.
rather than populism and external intervention. unfortunately it is still visible in the eu institutions.
please ensure in council that our focusing on the western balkans does not take other challenges off the european agenda.
can you be a bit more precise? what would your intelligence tell us about own resources of the european budget?
when you say no new taxes where should we get new resources from?
maybe you have an idea.
also where should we reduce expenditure? the president of the commission has said we have to cut somewhat our expenditure on agriculture and on regional policy.
where is your priority for making cuts to free up resources for new necessary expenditure?
finally what is your position on what some people call the weaponisation' of the european budget meaning the proposal that the budget should be used to cudgel some governments into policies that are objectionable to the rest of us?
fortress europe' has no place in our future and we cannot sit in a brussels bubble surrounded by sea and barbed wire while those fleeing war and discrimination are turned away and forcibly returned to turkey libya and serbia or worse still left to die in our seas.
the future of europe should also be rooted in its history. the eu was established as a peace project but it is now paving a future for itself in militarisation and the war alliance of permanent structured cooperation on security and defence. a militarised europe will create a future with more insecurity more wars and more money for war at the expense of the social protections that europe once treasured.
just to clarify that we voted on amendment three which was adopted and therefore the original text fell.
this is indeed the first of twelve levers to boost growth and strengthen confidence in the single market act adopted by the commission in april.
so the regulation builds on the main pillars of the current successful system and the improvement it brings will provide europe with a single transparent and comprehensive instrument which will not only support the implementation of policies here in europe but will also help promote the competitiveness of european enterprises throughout the world.
this regulation will provide an evaluation procedure after which public authorities will be able to use such ict specifications in public procurement provided they comply with a set of criteria based on the world trade organisation principles for the standardisation process.
for smes standards are a key tool to help them retain and attract consumers.
standards play a vital role in enhancing the competitiveness of european enterprises;
precisely because of this importance standardisation must adapt to the new societal changes that we face the globalised economy the need for sustainable development the convergence of technologies protecting the consumer and improving accessibility and inclusion for disabled and elderly people.
you all know that standardisation is one of the major instruments underpinning the european economy.
to address these issues the commission adopted the standardisation package in june two thousand and eleven and i am glad to see that the european parliament is now discussing the adoption of the final piece of that package the regulation on european standardisation.
nevertheless given that most of the key elements of the original proposal have been accepted and in a spirit of compromise and in order to facilitate a first reading agreement the commission is willing to accept the text as agreed between parliament and the council.
the planning and transparency of commission mandates asking the european standardisation organisations to draw up standards in support of the legislation and policies will be improved through the annual work programme and by means of financial support.
you know that many information and communication technology standards ensuring interoperability are elaborated not by the european standardisation organisations but by global forums and consortiums and these specifications do not then fit into our categories of standards to which public authorities may refer in their calls for tender.
the opinion of relevant societal stakeholders is today not sufficiently integrated in the process and this regulation will improve this representation of smes and societal stakeholders at both european and national level.
i am sure that tomorrow this proposal will have the major confidence of the whole house but it is a reflection of the real importance of this subject that so many of the political groups and members have been engaged in getting an excellent result.
mr president honourable members scientific advances over recent decades have contributed to an increase in the use of cord blood stem cells in medicines.
finally i can reassure you that the commission regularly monitors the transposition and implementation of the tissues and cells directive. in fact the commission adopted a communication on the application of the directive which was sent to parliament in january.
providing such information is again the competence of the member states.
the transplantation of substances of human origin including cells carries risks of disease transmission and that is why there is a european legal framework in place to ensure the quality and safety of human tissues and cells throughout the union.
i agree with you that it is important to provide accurate and objective information to citizens about the advantages and limitations of the use of cord blood stem cells.
the use of such cells has led to positive results in treating patients with blood disorders such as leukaemia.
the eu has no competence to harmonise the use of cells. the tissues and cells directive explicitly mentions that the eu should not interfere with national decisions concerning the use or non use of any specific type of human cells.
that is something that we should encourage and therefore it is important that this type of research and facility be made available obviously within ethical constraints.
we are very fortunate with the quality of medical research we have in various institutions throughout the european union and also with the quality of medical practitioners.
as far as information is concerned it is important as we all agree to provide accurate and objective information to parents and to the general public about the advantages and limitations of the use of stem cells including cord blood stem cells.
eu law on tissues and cells regulates all tissue establishments whether public or private.
however several member states have established public cord blood banks based on altruistic and voluntary cord blood donation.
providing such information is the competence of the member states which sometimes vary in opinion and policy regarding the advantages and limitations as well as the uses of stem cells.
however because of the concerns that have been raised maybe one solution could be that the national registry of blood banks could be used as the registrar the resource for maintaining the cord stem cells for future use.
this would overcome some of the problems and difficulties some of my colleagues have already mentioned with regard to the cost of storage.
as well as that we already have a system in place within the existing national blood banks that can regulate and control the quality of that supply.
that could be a good way of overcoming some of the difficulties.
we need core scientific values and core scientific research to ensure that the results that are being proclaimed can actually be delivered.
we have been using all the market measures available and here we expect to spend approximately eur six hundred million over a twelve month period.
not. if the super levy should then be collected anyway then the part corresponding to the bought up quota could then be used for restructuring.
one way to restructure is that member states can actually buy quotas from farmers and put these quotas into the national reserve.
freezing quotas is not on the table and neither is any return to the use of certain expensive but inefficient market instruments of the past.
in other words making a u turn on the health check decision is not an option and something that the european council the heads of state explicitly asked me not to
for me the problem in the dairy market is not only an issue between the commission and member states.
quota with the national reserve included then no super levy is actually
this certainly does not mean that we have now done the job in terms of policy.
as i said our current approach seems to be working.
this makes me more confident than ever before that the policy approach that we have been taking from the very beginning is the right one.
i am therefore proposing that we include the dairy sector in article one hundred and eighty six and this will enable us to spring into action in the future if we hit serious problems in the dairy sector.
tool. all of these steps are actions that we are taking now with an almost immediate impact on the markets but we also need to do something about steps for the medium and longer
more generally speaking we could with almost immediate effect mobilise measures stimulating demand and or we could limit the marketing of milk and all this would only be put in place on a temporary basis and under the condition that we had the necessary financing available.
the first longer term issue is about using contractual relations between milk farmers and the dairy industry to better balance supply and demand in the dairy market.
my preferred solutions but i strongly believe that these solutions are working that they will work and they are also solutions that we can defend politically.
we are not yet where we want to be but we are heading in the right direction.
it might sound a bit complicated but it is actually a very efficient
we have the recovery package and the decisions taken in the health check that provide another eur.
term. i would like to thank france and germany here for their ideas and their input on these different possibilities.
i think it is time for further action.
i am therefore more determined than ever before not to go back to the future in ways which would hurt our dairy sector in the long term and leave our farmers without any kind of predictability.