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the commission adopted on thirty april a legally binding case definition on the basis of the eu communicable disease legislation and this decision was published in the official journal on one may.
it is clear that we all benefit from our integrated european economy and society.
maintaining unity on eu sanctions against russia is of importance and excluding russia from the swift system could be the next step.
ukraine is not an isolated area of foreign policy for putin but part of his wider dream to reconstitute a crony capitalist authoritarian greater russia and to challenge the post cold war settlement and legal order.
so sadly even if a ceasefire can be agreed tomorrow and i hope that i am wrong in what i am about to say it is unlikely in my view to end the conflict.
russia is providing heavy military equipment financial assistance and combat troops to the so called separatists sparking a conflict in which over five zero people have now lost their lives two hundred and sixty three civilians alone in the last six days and.
militarily we must not allow russian intimidation to prevent so minded eu states from supplying the ukrainian armed forces the means to defend themselves and to deter russia's ability to steal more territory from ukraine. sadly in my view the eu strategic partnership with putin's russia for now is over.
one five million people displaced. as we approach tomorrow's minsk deadline for a renewed attempt at a ceasefire rebel troops are surrounding the important railway hub of debaltseve and i have just heard of further criminal attacks today on civilian areas by the rebels in kramatorsk in which at least seven civilians were killed.
as recently noted by the british foreign secretary putin is behaving like a one thousand nine hundred and thirty s tyrant and such agreements are merely part of a dissembling approach to gradually legitimise territorial gains before embarking on another round of attacks.
challenging nato and the western alliance is therefore part of his mission.
no behind the escalation is russia and its support by all means for the separatists.
now it is not for me to go into the details of what is being negotiated
our unity makes the headlines only when we do not have
firstly someone mentioned the need to reinforce the role of the osce and the
it goes in the european direction and has to have all europeans supporting it and not just applauding it.
we will have a day after;
full implementation of the minsk agreements as the basis for a sustainable political solution to the conflict must remain the focus of such talks'.
some of you have rightly said that the important thing is that it gets results.
so i understand if for internal political reasons and party politics some groups and some members of this parliament take it as a way of attacking one or the other but believe me this is a european initiative.
i am happy if it does not make the headlines.
firstly by keeping our unity.
it. but we all know very well that a crucial part of our response to this crisis is to keep our unity in political efforts and in diplomatic exercises and when we exert pressure on russia through sanctions.
what is at stake first of all i would like to remind us all are thousands of human lives almost two million refugees and internally displaced people the integrity and sovereignty of an independent state on european territory and respect for basic principles of international law
but we have also decided all together keeping our unity in difficult times and this is the first thing we must always do keep our unity in difficult times because this is our main strength we also agreed to increase our diplomatic and political efforts and our diplomatic and political activity.
what is also at stake especially in these very same hours where we see the escalation constantly growing in a very dangerous way is also and mainly i would say our capacity to respond to these threats not only in an effective way to protect international law states and
this is what is really at stake.
tomorrow is a chance not a certainty but a chance that cannot be missed for all the reasons that i stated at the beginning of my speech for the people who are losing their lives for the principles of international law for the sovereignty of the state and for preserving and restoring peace in europe. a chance i would say if this would not
on the government side we see the full political will to pursue reforms.
by extending the time framework of the existing list of individuals and entities to september and by adding names.
but then we also have economic reforms not only macroeconomic in their nature but also reforms that need to change fundamentally the system in which the economy in ukraine is working starting first of all with tackling corruption.
not always in a visible way but always in a very united coordinated way and one i would say that is starting to be effective.
there is another part of the story while we are talking about ukraine.
security of supply. i will stop here and listen very carefully as i did last time to your debate our debate and take stock of that.
we are also working through the support group for ukraine to implement the measures that are foreseen by our association agreement.
the first basic principle being that you do not change borders by force.
in this respect we have worked as we had also done in previous months through two channels that have proved to be i cannot say effective because we did not reach a result but the most effective among those that we have tried on the one side the trilateral contact group of the osce and on the other side the so called normandy format
i am talking about constitutional reforms decentralisation reform of the judiciary electoral reforms just to mention the political ones.
and finally come to agree on the implementation measures of the minsk agreement. this is what it is all about and this is the only way in which we can start finding the way out of the crisis. i think that here today
the lives of civilians but also our capacity to restore and preserve peace in europe.
we may wish for there to be a diplomatic solution but a military solution by russia is taking place before our eyes. in order to achieve a political solution leverage is needed to bring the aggressor to true not potemkin village type negotiations and to bring binding and executable results.
we have the responsibility to protect the victim against the aggressor in the name of our values.
the crisis in ukraine is indeed about our own future and our own security.
in order to sustain the eu's common foreign and security policy the high representative must be included.
we need and we will need not just to achieve but to implement a peaceful settlement with the common voice of the.
however the reality might be different as in recent efforts the european union was reduced to only two member states.
as it is the role of the high representative to ensure this unity of europe and i would be grateful if she could reassure me on this front.
creating divisions in europe is what russia has always done and this can already be seen today if we look at the talks in greece about getting funding from russia.
russia is very resistant to economic sanctions if resistance serves a higher political purpose.
it is not necessary to draw the whole picture; the picture is quite clear.
there was already a minsk and we need to have a minsk ii to implement minsk i.
but let us do it! i will be very brief.
if putin does not want to take the olive branch he will be severely punished.
that is the only way. because any other way we accept that ukraine should be crippled.
in that case in your opinion should russia have a judge on the european court for human rights?
would you agree with me that for economic sanctions to have an impact on a country like russia with big resources we would need a much longer time?
this means more violence more human suffering and the landscape changing every single day and for the worse.
most importantly this means peace in europe is drifting even further away.
i feel extremely concerned about the rapid escalation of the conflict and about the attitude and actions of separatists and of russia.
only a strategy which creates a virtuous circle based on necessity and proportionality between the undertakings of the eu and the situation on the ground can lead to a sustainable solution to the conflict.
without forgetting one crucial precondition we managed to attain our unity.
the report is also very concerned about the data protection privacy issues related to obtaining information about people's financial situation.
most of the respondents agreed with the need for measures at community level to increase the transparency of debtors' assets though views differ as to what can be done in practice.
the european union has an impressive set of legal measures to ensure access to justice in cross border cases and to facilitate the free circulation of civil and commercial decisions within the union. however there is no doubt as stated in the hague programme on mutual recognition adopted by the european council that it would in fact be much easier to enforce judgments within the european union if it were possible to obtain accurate information on debtors' financial positions.
furthermore this is key for the survival of small businesses in the current economic climate.
finally in the light of the first results of the consultation the commission believes that this proposal that is to draw up a manual of national enforcement laws to increase access to commercial and public registers to improve cooperation between enforcement authorities and to create a compulsory assets declaration by the debtor will go some way towards
i would like to inform parliament that improving the practical enforcement of judgments will be a high priority of the commission in the future stockholm programme in the area of justice freedom and security for the period two thousand and ten two thousand and fourteen that the commission will present in.
i am grateful to parliament for presenting such a detailed response to the green paper.
the commission is also committed to protecting privacy and the personal data of citizens. the report instead calls for the adoption of national directories of foreign lawyers working in other member states as a way to help creditors and suggests a community provisional measure.
this is particularly the case when the creditor and the enforcement authorities have no information about the debtor's whereabouts or his or her assets. the problem can be resolved where the debtor has assets in the eu and it is possible to trace them and bring legal proceedings.
the commission in its report suggested drawing up a manual of national enforcement laws and practices and highlighted the possibility of increasing access to population registers.
it also raised questions on whether enforcement authorities should be given better access to social security and tax registers.
the proposal suggested that the cooperation between public enforcement bodies might be improved and lastly it put forward the idea of a european assets declaration which would oblige debtors to disclose all their assets in the european judicial area possibly backed by sanctions.
my report as voted by the committee suggested that creditors would benefit from the introduction of a simpler more flexible procedure effective throughout the eu to obtain an order to disclose information about assets which may then be made the subject of a judgement.
such measures could take the form of an interim payment order giving the creditor immediate payment pending resolution of the underlying dispute.
the report also calls for a study into how the present national systems work with a comparison between common law countries such as britain and other european jurisdictions and how existing arrangements could be improved.
it also highlights the need to consider areas in which further cooperation with member states could have a positive effect and how the proposals will work alongside existing data protection and human rights legislation.
we have endeavoured to shape the report along these lines and the compromises arrived at by the committee have already ironed out some of the discrepancies between member states' legal systems.
many of the additions we have made are designed to make the proposal more transparent and easier to use for the creditor.
it will therefore be imperative to ensure that the proposed manual of national enforcement laws and practices is kept updated and that the information is provided in easy to use format and that it should be written in an accessible language. it will also be crucial for the initiative to act in tandem with rather than replacing the work of national courts.
this will require the legislation to be restricted only to cross border cases.
by bearing this caveat in mind the enforcement of this legislation will made to work efficiently and proactively.
overall the report will do much to help small businesses and enterprising individuals to overcome a significant obstacle to their success because they lack the resources of large enterprises to track down debtors and bring legal action against them.
small businesses are affected disproportionately by people defaulting on payments.
if companies are thereby discouraged from trading abroad this represents a real threat to the very functioning of the common market.
it will be vital to protect the activities of small businesses at this difficult time because smes make up a large proportion of our economy.
thanks must also go to colleagues from other groups who have made very constructive suggestions.
what is key i believe is for this legislation to be brought forward as soon as possible.
i call on the commission to act on parliament's recommendations with urgency.
the winter is coming and we will have tens of thousands of disappointed and frustrated young men on the streets.
it is dangerous and irresponsible to allow this kind of uncontrolled migration to europe and within europe.
they are coming because they were told by smugglers that they will get a free apartment a well paid job and a good life in europe. instead they find themselves in crowded reception centres barracks or even tents with nothing to do because there are no apartments and no jobs.
five hundred zero we are the richest continent in the world and this is our contribution.
not since the second world war have we had such legislation in our member states and i feel it shameful that this is where we are today.
furthermore the national legislation today makes sure that hungarian citizens who show solidarity and humanitarian care by sheltering refugees in their homes run the risk of being put in prison for three years and their neighbours
are now willing to inform on those hungarian citizens who take their humanitarian responsibility seriously.
mr president i would like to express thanks and gratitude to turkey to jordan and to lebanon which have received up to now between three and four million of the ten million syrian refugees where we in the eu in our twenty eight countries up to now have received approximately.
we can do so much more and we can do so much better and the world is looking at us.
but no we are doing quite the opposite we are putting the lives of our own citizens at risk the lives of people like those here in the gallery.
it is an economic migrant crisis not a refugee crisis.
the german authorities last week reported that one in three so called syrians' are arriving with fake passports.
one of the founding principles of the european union mr timmermans is freedom of movement of people. what we are probably allowing now is freedom of movement of jihad.
they are on sale on the turkish black market for eur. seven hundred and fifty we do not know who these people are!
i fear that in the future in the very near future we will all have blood on our hands as
let me make it clear that the crisis we have in europe at the moment is not a refugee crisis it is an economic migrant crisis.
we are putting them at risk by not stopping the boats.
this is ridiculous! what is going to happen to europe?
in fact the father was trying to get to canada to get a new set of teeth!
to assist turkey lebanon and jordan in dealing with the refugee crisis through the help of the trust fund for syria;
the european council was responsible last week by paving the way for decisions that can now be implemented.
in this respect i am again very grateful to this parliament yet again leading by example and fast tracking the adoption of the budgetary proposals we made last week. this parliament as an institution has assumed its responsibility in an admirable way.
and to speed up preparations for the valetta summit on eleven twelve november.
greece needs to return to the dublin system and i have to say that i salute the greek government for committing to returning to the dublin system.
eur three hundred million in humanitarian aid next year and as you know we asked member states to match this and the heads of state or government agreed to do that.
this is also the time when politicians across europe will be challenged on whether their integrity still prevails or whether they go for the easy solution of catering to fears in the hope of then gaining political position.
humanitarian aid is our urgency of today.
i know that in this day and age fear is an important factor in european society. many european citizens are afraid and you know what fear has as a characteristic when you are afraid you go and look for proof that your fear is justified and you are not open to proof that your fear is unjustified.
in geneva yesterday our interlocutors welcomed the latest eu steps to mobilise the budget for these purposes.
i spoke to the high commissioner for refugees antnio guterres yesterday and he said clearly that we know how to and we certainly can winter proof the refugee camps the tents the reception centres but we cannot winter proof masses of people on the move and moving in an unpredictable and fast manner.
you need to put in place necessary help mechanisms linking manpower and assets.
what is being put to the test is actually the fundamental values we share and much that was said this morning testifies to this.
when it comes to humanitarian aid it is not enough to find necessary funding.
what is being put to the test is our capacity to handle a huge humanitarian crisis.
we speeded up the roll out of support teams in the hotspots in the most affected member states to identify register and fingerprint migrants.
we do not want to waste time.
without reception capacity nothing will work and we all agree on that.
responsible politics in this situation is not to cater to fear not to create stereotypes not to put people in groups but to come up with solutions to a problem instead of just increasing people's fears in the hope that it will provide you with more votes at the next election.
that is exactly what i did but apparently you only hear what you want to hear when you talk in the camps.
refugees on the run from war and persecution willing to risk everything for even the chance of a decent life will continue to flee.
i hope we will all be responsible in this phase.
we need to address the issue of what i would call also in this area moral hazard'.
these are important decisions.
you will not hear me saying that all is ready for winter but this commission has identified and proposed all the operational and budgetary measures that are needed internally within the eu and outside our borders. with regard to turkey the president has said more than enough we will continue working on this and you will also be informed this afternoon about exactly what we will be doing in the next couple of weeks.
my hope is that once those in this house who currently reject everything we do understand that we are actually dealing with a majority of real refugees they will see the fallacy of their ways and come to the conclusion that there are only european solutions here.
the issue is that as in other areas we lack self confidence.
i think you will agree with me that while working on the humanitarian situation and sharing the burden with the most affected countries we should also not neglect the wider issue in relation to managing the situation and the root causes of the situation.
mr president today we are all put to the test.
much of this funding is going to address the immediate humanitarian needs to help member states provide the necessary shelter health welfare and other specific basic needs of new arrivals.
the civil protection mechanism is ready to be activated.
i have to note that when people try to argue that those arriving in europe today are in the majority people seeking a better future not refugees which is completely unfounded there are no scientific
to increase the funding of the emergency trust fund for africa;
this needs to be finalised in the coming weeks.
i think you are absolutely right we have to talk to turkey because without turkey we are not going to get a solution to the problem and we have to work more with the united nations agencies.
the families are losing hope they are getting weary that is why they are coming here. we need education and i hope people will support the budget amendments we have to increase money for education.
is a courageous step only if they are willing to go the whole way.
we cannot underestimate the importance of this proposal to the competitiveness of the european economy.
this continent the european union needs to be more inventive.
i am pleased that we are starting to make some serious progress on it.
we need to create more inventions and exploit them more.
it should surprise no one that the british coalition government is a prime mover in this just as successive british governments have been prime movers in most eu projects while pretending to do the opposite.
the proposals are unnecessary and will impose yet more administrative and cost burdens on innovative companies.
the commission however wants to forge ahead with this.
we must ensure that we translate the political agreement reached by eu leaders into action that will make a real difference and give the pakistani economy a lifeline at this desperate time of need.
it is certainly beyond anything that i could have imagined or expected to see.
we are after all their largest trading partner.
the trade concession to be offered to pakistan needs to represent a credible effort by the eu and bring about meaningful economic benefits to pakistan whilst taking into account sensitivities of our own industries as well as other wto members in particular those of least developed countries.
i believe through this proposal we are being ambitious we are being courageous but above all we are being fair to ourselves as well as to the people of pakistan.
i hear the concerns made by colleagues in this chamber and it is only right that we are fair in our response; fair but ambitious.
this really is now a test of the eu's credibility.
we have to be absolutely sure that we continue to react in an appropriate way.
for. we will continue to do
jobs. i think it is an essential tool in economic recovery that we should give additional trading opportunities to pakistan.
because as a result of the more favourable position of pakistan to export on the european market there will also be a certain amount of trade diversion which means that other importers will lose some opportunities on the european markets. so the overall impact will be about eur fifty million on a yearly basis. i am saying this because i heard again in this debate
trade is about giving opportunities to the pakistani economy to produce and to export and to give jobs to the people that need those
so this is not immediately harming
the european parliament's support in helping this proposal come to fruition is essential to the presentation of a complete picture of eu solidarity in times of unprecedented needs. trade can be an important part of a long term economic solution for pakistan.
to this end the commission adopted on seven october a proposal for unilateral suspension of import duties on a number of important export items from pakistan.