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they managed what the international community did not see through the ousting of omar albashir a dictator sought by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity crimes against the sudanese people.
so to avoid a repetition of the socalled libya scenario we should invest in democracy and peace and prevent the militia but also the military from taking the space left open and recruiting desperate youngsters.
as this is my last debate with you madam high representative i wanted to thank you for everything you've done.
and three that transitions are both very hopeful but also very hard.
let the events in sudan be reminders of one the fact that repression cannot outlast calls for liberty and an end to corruption and injustice;
thank you all from me for a fantastic fifteen years fantastic friends all over the borders from political borders and national borders.
so thanks to all of you for a fantastic fifteen years.
we might sometimes have different views but the good thing is that we have a common task and a common aim.
i would like to underline that here lies an opportunity to make europe stronger a free society open for all individuals strong in a global environment that needs cooperation.
but i think there's something you can do so that you get the right answer from london.
i think this parliament should declare that this is a priority number one for the next legislature to reconstruct this church. mr tusk you also said that it should be done by all twenty eight nations.
you can make sure that britain remains a participant in the reconstruction of the church in paris under the auspices of the european union. make sure britain stays a member of the european union.
one issue that i just want to mention one of the outstanding issues that we're dealing with the platforms in particular with facebook is facebook's decision not to permit cross border political advertising.
this challenge will not go away.
we want to see greater action against fake accounts and bots.
i look forward to our debate today.
we've set up a rapid alert system among the eu institutions and the member states in order to spot and tackle coordinated disinformation campaigns.
while some credible progress has been made in the area of political ad transparency platforms still need to improve independent scrutiny through better access for factcheckers researchers and civil society to the data they need.
we have now received the latest reports from the platforms on what they're doing covering the month of march and we'll publish our assessment of those reports in the coming days.
depending indeed on what happens between now and the end of may i think we should discuss how to react how to learn the lessons and to take the necessary steps for the future.
briefly to recap over the last six months or so we've brought together the member states election commissioners cybersecurity experts data protection experts in the reinforced election cooperation network
under the code and the action plan the platforms have been reporting month by month on their progress to tackle disinformation particularly political disinformation. we recognise that there has indeed been progress but those reports have been patchy
this process is going to include a discussion at the european council in june on an initial assessment of how the ep elections have gone.
we discussed this in the conference of presidents last week and i'm glad to say now that the secretary general of this institution the council and the commission have written to facebook setting out again our concerns very clearly
at first sight the latest reports do indeed suggest further progress has been made for example in terms of transparency for political ads and indeed ads in general but there are still some outstanding issues.
finally let me say that member states' computer security response teams are going to come together in a further exercise on election cybersecurity integrity in mid may.
obviously it's up to facebook to respect the law.
in a way this represents a final push in areas where we can realistically still have a meaningful impact in the fight against disinformation before the ep elections.
that'll be a last opportunity for us to test how robust our cybersecurity measures are in the run up to the ep elections.
it's also up to them to decide how they do so and in this case the decision they've taken the interpretation that they have given to respecting national electoral rules has raised concerns about the ability of eu institutions and bodies and europewide political parties to communicate effectively in the run up to the ep elections.
we need see more quick and prominent corrections for example through a pilot programme of the correct the record initiative that's been advocated by civil society.
any lessons that we learn from that on the basis of a report prepared by the presidency the commission and the high representative will be an opportunity to look ahead learn lessons and establish a strategy for the future.
in order to share best practice and promote cooperation with a view to better securing our elections.
we've seen the big internet platforms sign up to our code of practice on disinformation last summer which was reinforced by the publication of our action plan on tackling disinformation in december.
as we've heard elections continue indeed there's an election somewhere in europe every week and so we're going to need to continue our efforts to protect elections and our political lives in this digital age.
and asking that facebook reconsider their approach in this area as a matter of urgency.
with the european parliament elections rapidly approaching we're in what you might call the final straight when it comes to taking measures to ensure that they are secure.
we don't want the platforms to be marking their own homework.
we will also review the code of practice later in the year and look again at whether we need to do more to reinforce transparency around the activity of online platforms in this political space.
we have worked with this house meps and the political parties to raise awareness around the transparency of particularly political advertising online as well as the security and resilience of electoral systems.
and they continue to show that at least in some areas efforts are lacking.
we'll have an opportunity to address these concerns direct with facebook at an upcoming meeting that we are having with them.
we need to maintain our current push for immediate action in the runup to the ep elections but we also need to look further ahead to the future to ensure that our democratic processes remain as robust as we need them to be.
i know that this has raised concerns in this house.
this is not a challenge of just the next few weeks.
there's nothing in the code of practice that limits political advertising to advertisers residing only in a given member state.
mr president honourable members the last time i had the honour to address this plenary was on eleven december last year and at the time i welcomed the political consensus that emerged at the itre committee thank you president buzek
the partnerships where we decided to go for an easier way for a less complex way of defining those partnerships.
that will link us to the people.
you worked very hard twenty four hours a day to achieve this and i'm really deeply thankful for that.
that is a big achievement and i also wanted to congratulate you for that.
imagine that!
congratulations to the romanian presidency;
it. this will be the next challenge my friends and i count on all of you to make sure that horizon europe will become not only the biggest science and innovation programme ever but also the one delivering the highest impact for our citizens.
we did it and europe was there touching the button of that picture which will make for the world things that we cannot even imagine because even einstein could never have imagined what he did how much that would impact the world.
we owe it to you to the parliament that we achieved that agreement;
when you think about everything that we have achieved that we have decided that on the next programme we will have these missions that mr ehler referred to missions of science that people will understand.
i think that for me if i could have described european science it was that moment. because that moment was about open science about open innovation and about openness to the world in that room that day they were representing
and of course one of the points that was so important for all of us is that while the programme is about excellence we have also to help those that are going up that ladder of excellence and that we owe to you.
they were representing forty different nationalities. and so i'm extremely proud because horizon europe is just about that. it is about our leadership as europeans in science.
two hundred scientists.
that we will put.
and i wanted to be a little bit personal congratulations ambassador to you and to your team.
i think there was one scientist there that said you know there's a history of science before that moment before the picture and there will be a history of science after that moment'.
last week i had a beautiful moment. i think we all had a beautiful moment to have for the first time in our lifetime a picture of a black hole.
so by agreeing on horizon europe we have sent a strong signal to the mff negotiators about the importance of science and innovation and it is now our common task to defend a robust budget for
a man one hundred years ago albert einstein imagined a black hole and for one hundred years people tried to achieve and to prove that that was right and we did it.
and then the ways that we will do it in terms of the european innovation council and the way we will innovate on the financing and the funding for innovation.
that we will communicate with people about the things that we want to do to cure diseases like cancer.
and the ability of going at speed and quality that was the ambition of parliament to agree on the framework programme regulation establishing horizon europe and a specific programme decision thus opening the way for the council and the commission to start the real negotiations.
refugees and migrants trapped in detention centres are also at risk. we are working with the iom and with unhcr to evacuate them outside libya or to move them to safer places inside libya.
our work with the un agencies continues but obviously conditions on the ground are more and more difficult by the day and this is also why we call on all parties to allow the swift and unconditional evacuation of detention centres on the front line as also requested by high commissioner grandi last week.
if the libyan parties will not seek a win win solution that the international community starting with the european union would be ready to accompany and support and the libyan parties will not seek i would say a win win solution then all the people of libya will continue to suffer and the entire region will continue to suffer.
humanitarian corridors and respect for international humanitarian law ceasefire negotiated by the un and a return to the negotiating table and the holding of a national conference as soon as possible with the full participation of the libyan people.
the offensive against tripoli has been is still an attack against hope an attack against the concrete perspective of achieving peace in libya and we have seen this happen before. when peace becomes a real possibility concrete possible it is then also that we see that the resistance against peace gets stronger and more evident.
first to affirm the need to open humanitarian corridors as a matter of urgency and fully respect humanitarian international law.
we stated clearly last time last week the european union's united position along these lines in the name of all the twenty eight member states and i would now appeal to all the regional players and the international players to unite in support of the united nations' work in support of the political perspective
and we have seen day by day the aspiration the readiness the desire of all the libyan people the citizens of libya to move their country forward to turn the page to unite and build unity and peace for a country that has potentially an enormous
if the war continues it will only lead to greater suffering and if someone continues to seek military victory everybody will lose.
work trying to unite the europeans and i can say that if in the past we have seen different approaches i believe today that all european union member states understand that our common work is required to avoid libyans turning in different directions and disaggregating the potential of
the national conference still represents the hope of an entire country.
for which we have been trying with the un agencies to work to try and save lives and to try and empty the detention centres.
third to go back to the political track with the holding of the national conference as soon as possible to give libyans the libyan people men and women of all generations of all cities and in the countryside of the country the chance to outline their common way forward.
these are the three elements on which i am sure for sure the european union for sure the united nations but i'm sure also the rest of the international community would be ready to support and accompany the libyan people.
second to establish an immediate ceasefire that i am sure the un is ready to negotiate.
let me add that it is not only libyans not only the region that are suffering.
the conflict in libya the escalation from the military perspective i know that some in europe perceive it as a growing threat of growing flows but it also represents first and foremost a threat to the lives of those migrants and refugees that are trapped in libya and whose lives are more at risk than others and
our support for his work i would say is even stronger today than it has ever been in the past along three main lines on which the european union and our member states have acted united in these last weeks.
unity through a political dialogue that is in their hands.
the european union has worked for almost one year together very closely together with the united nations and the special envoy to prepare the ground for a libyan led and libyan owned national conference that would prepare the ground for elections under the appropriate legal and constitutional conditions
i would like to add that when i say libyan people i refer to libyan men and women. let me take a moment to praise the libyan women that have been sometimes in the shadow trying to accompany the political process so far in difficult conditions and i believe that the european union together with the united nations has an interest as in every conflict we face in promoting the role of women at the negotiating table and in the reconciliation process on the ground. this is what we are trying to contribute to achieving supporting the un
the military offensive is also making this work more difficult. to conclude let me restate very clearly a swift return to the negotiating table is essential it is still possible. we believe more than ever that the un track and the national conference are the only real opportunity for a peaceful resolution.
madam president the recent escalation in libya started at a moment just when the possibility for peace was becoming real.
the only scenario where the whole country where all libyans in an inclusive and unified manner move forward is a negotiated political solution.
the multiplication or the proliferation of different initiatives may lead to destruction that would definitely not be helpful at this moment.
the work we have done together within the un agencies with the help of the african union on the ground with the help of the libyan authorities on the ground has brought in this last year enormous results with tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily and safely repatriated through the work of the iom and those in need of international protection protected through the
the separation of the executive and the judiciary is absolutely fundamental.
that is it.
that is your privilege to argue that but it is completely contrary to the way in which western democracy and democratic institutions are organised.
and the text which is now on the table is a compromise achieved by the council and parliament negotiators after and i agree with mr dalton very tough but i would say constructive talks.
i would like to thank parliament for its strong push to improve consumer rights especially in relation to digital markets. but in addition this directive will strengthen the enforcement of consumer rights as we are providing more harmonised sanctions with teeth.
turning now to the issue of dual quality i know that many people in this house have been fighting against this for years.
the new directive will also introduce a number of new measures to avoid misleading consumers online and to improve online transparency.
we require a clear indication of commercial sponsoring when it is used in the ranking of goods in market places.
i am glad that already now under the pressure we have imposed on them many manufacturers have adjusted their recipes to have a single one across the
the consumer protection authorities in the member states base a lot of their cases on this article. recently they published the result of their action against five big car rental companies for not being clear on the real content of their services and preventing informed choices and they will do so in the future on the illegal use of dual quality.
this is why we consider that blacklisting of any differentiation as a misleading practice is not the appropriate and workable solution.
those who continue must have justified reasons for doing
we want the private sector to take their responsibilities and to end dual quality.
finally there is a clear revision clause in the text and we commit to reassessing the situation two years after the entry into force of the directive to see whether we should move to more stringent solutions.
so. such traders should be in a position to demonstrate their legitimate reasons.
it is now absolutely clear that they cannot cheat on the quality and sell under identical packaging foods with a significantly different composition and this is a huge step forward.
i think that it is not less effective.
this. furthermore thanks to a pilot project from the european parliament we are going to implement
the commission is going to closely monitor the implementation of this provision and we will continue our efforts to improve the enforcement capacities of the member states.
i expect that producers will stop differentiation.
eu. with further steps we made with the omnibus proposal and following exchanges of views on this issue i know that many other companies are working on eliminating differences.
consumer authorities in all twenty eight member states will be able to fine companies harming consumers in several or all member states up to four of their annual turnover. victims of unfair practices will be equipped to claim remedies from traders such as terminating the contract or compensation of damages. this will also facilitate outofcourt and incourt disputes.
we prohibit the displaying of fake consumer reviews.
there will be no more fake price reductions for goods fooling consumers and there must be a clear indication that even if a consumer agreed to a contract which does not entail money he has rights.
this helped to draw more attention to the issue and to bring it onto the political agenda. i am therefore proud that the commission in the new deal for consumers has for the first time ever proposed a legislative provision on this issue so that the dual treatment of consumers in the eu will stop and so that the new rule is the same composition everywhere in the eu. this has been a very sensitive issue in the negotiations
and i ask him as a member of this house to come and explain to this house nigel farage where is your money actually coming from?
through this web narratives are constructed and propagated a result of which is that compromised political actors today sit in this very chamber and in chambers right across the european union.
executivelevel action literally nothing;
we can remain.
so i endorse president tusk's comments that we still need dreamers.
dream on remainers dream on.
' for the hour is late and the time is short.
those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
madam president for the hour is late and the time is short. the european union was built out of the nightmare of the second world war and it was a dream born of that nightmare that created the place in which we are today.
so dream on president tusk dream on.
then act on those dreams and make them possible.
misinformation populism is a risk to all of us and i have to say frankly the uk's democracy is in trouble and i urge you to send international observers to make sure our european elections are properly conducted because i don't have faith in our domestic authorities. it's proven the leave campaigns lied it's proven they broke electoral law data protection law campaign finance rules and there is every indication they will do it again.
it's going to be a flight for international solidarity.
so thank you for the time to find our way out of this.
but turning to the european elections which my party is preparing for and looking forward to i have a warning and a plea learn the lessons of brexit.
my party and scotland stands ready.
this election is going to be a fight for europe.
there's plenty dreamers in scotland there's plenty dreamers in the uk who know that the best brexit is no brexit.
and let me tell you that i'm very proud to see and this is the last partsession of this eighth legislature that tonight i will keep very fond memories because from the left to the right to the middle every one of you
thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.
with different ideas every one of you converged converged to this agreement converged to the fact that we can really do something that we can really change the lives of scientists of researchers and the lives for the future of our children so i will keep this amazing memory of tonight.
however the people and especially the women of sudan are resilient and have aspirations and are hankering after real change.
but my questions to you are what mechanisms and alliances are you proposing to move democracy on in the short term and also will the eeas examine closely the financial flows towards sudan as the us did when it fined the french backed
the eu and this house should show solidarity with peaceful demonstrations and we should have concerns about two years' length of transitional military council and need to work quickly to ensure that impartial media are set up and restrictions on internet are lifted.
they rightly have reservations about the military regime and want to have a transition towards proper civilian government following free fair and transparent elections.
mr president high representative we've heard already sudan has experienced massive changes in the last weeks al bashir ousted after thirty years;
high representative i welcome your statement that only credible and inclusive political process can meet the aspirations of sudanese and lead to political and economic reforms the country needs.
and can you confirm that the arms exports towards sudan from the eu are still prohibited and this prohibition is fully respected?
and to top it all the second highest inflation in the world.
we can improve consumer legislation every day but if the rules are not obeyed then there is no meaning in it.
this is what this legislation is about making sure that the goods sold on the internal market are safe and compliant with the rules adopted in this parliament.
we put in place measures encouraging greater online transparency accountability and integrity ensuring the application of the general data protection regulation and enhancing cybersecurity for the european elections to preserve the integrity of their electoral systems and infrastructure strengthening citizens' resilience and critical
we are ready for the possible challenges ahead.