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the european arrest warrant is amongst the most important tools we have in fighting cross border terrorism.
police cooperation in the european union and i would like to pay tribute to the psni in northern ireland and the garda sochna in the republic for the way in which they have developed over the years.
the now agreed directives on the right to interpretation and translation on the right to information about rights and on the right of access to a lawyer constitute minimum standards throughout the
recently the commission published a report on the implementation of three pre lisbon framework decisions in the field of detention.
we are already in the process of addressing some of the issues raised by the report.
this was very helpful and it once again highlights the importance of the european parliament in the co decision procedure. on the report by sarah ludford at a recent debate in this chamber and on numerous other occasions
efforts. we also share the report's focus on the importance of reliable data. to that end the commission has developed and agreed with member states a new questionnaire seeking european arrest warrant
the rules aim to improve mutual trust between judicial systems in europe and this mutual trust is essential in order for a common european area of justice to function.
eu. but open borders do not mean that criminals can evade justice simply by travelling to another member state.
once the commission has full infringement powers to act on the transposition and implementation of these instruments and that will be the case from december this year we will work towards full implementation.
rights. the european parliament has been a driving force and a key partner in delivering the three directives on procedural
can only be achieved if member states do properly implement the instruments they have agreed upon. i would like to thank the rapporteur mrnuno melo and his shadow rapporteurs for their very good work. the commission applauds their work in rebalancing
states. against that background the commission considers that a decision to re open the european arrest warrant would be premature.
the commission hopes this time things will be different.
likewise thanks to the european arrest warrant many suspected terrorists are now answering for their alleged crimes in the jurisdictions where they were wanted. the european arrest warrant is a very successful criminal justice instrument.
eu. i only regret that some member states do not want to participate in this system of minimum rights throughout the eu because these rights represent a counterbalance to the important tool of the european arrest warrant. for instance persons subject to an arrest warrant will have a lawyer in both the issuing and the executing member state. if you do not
i just wish to underline that the latter was adopted by the council in two thousand and eight and implemented in two member states only.
it expects member states to implement the directive correctly and on time so that it will not become a dead letter as was the case with the european evidence warrant.
right. that is why i regret very much that some member states do not want to participate in implementing these fundamental
this instrument and in particular their strong advocacy for strengthening the fundamental rights safeguards it contains.
orders. as i said at the beginning the commission has adopted an implementation report in which we observed that these decisions have not been fully transposed by member
because despite repeated calls by the commission to member states the european arrest warrant has not yet received the benefit of full implementation of the complementary mutual recognition instruments.
i have strongly defended the right of european citizens to freedom of movement within the
that. i also welcome the start of the european parliament's work on the commission's recent proposals on legal aid presumption of innocence procedural rights for children and vulnerable suspects which will also help to complete the procedural rights roadmap in the future and will be a good complement to the european arrest warrant. i would like to see all these instruments in place and being applied by all member states and i wish to close any remaining gaps in the protection of fair trial rights across
despite the implementation dates being long past about half of the member states have not transposed these framework decisions into their domestic law. the objective of developing an area of freedom security and justice for all citizens as laid down in article three of the treaty
that is why we have the european arrest warrant in effect since. two thousand and four it is an efficient tool for surrendering people suspected of an offence from one eu country to another.
for instance on the issues around fundamental rights the commission has worked to strengthen the rights of defendants.
these three eu laws focus on mutual recognition of sentences pre trial supervision orders and probation orders.
we will closely consider the issues raised in the report which will feed into the permanent ongoing work on improving the european arrest warrant system.
on the european investigation order let me stress that i hope that this time this directive is implemented and applied unlike the evidence warrant framework which was only implemented by two member states.
all these directives contain specific elements which strengthen the application of the arrest warrant the right to interpretation and to translation the right to information about rights the right to have access to a lawyer and even to have access to a lawyer in the country of origin and in the country of destination under the arrest warrant
for instance according to the lisbon treaty member states can make legislative proposals without the commission.
legal aid presumption of innocence procedural rights for children and vulnerable people all these are very important so that we have this equilibrium which unfortunately in pre lisbon times we did not have.
that is not positive for the development of the european union.
i just regret that some member states refuse to participate in those elements of fair trial rights.
parliament now has the possibility to implement those.
and these are rights which you have on the table now.
i refer here to fair trial rights which are directives presented by the commission on the basis of the lisbon treaty to reconcile security considerations with the rights of individuals.
we will then work towards full implementation and in the case of instruments like the european supervision order we can help to reduce pre trial detention in european arrest warrant cases so it will be important to have all the instruments functioning together.
we will be out of the state of exception then.
and i am also telling the parliament that the implementation of this directive can then be monitored by the commission.
if david cameron is serious about repatriating power from the eu he has the golden opportunity to do so now.
thirty five the one hundred they are opting out of are of no consequence being purely rhetorical redundant or superseded by later legislation. the thirty five measures they are opting in to are the worst and most dangerous including the european arrest warrant.
the european arrest warrant has been the cause of numerous cases of gross injustice and these will continue to grow.
the coalition government has the option to opt out of the existing one hundred and thirty five eu criminal justice measures.
but i fear the tories will do what they always do and sell their fellow countrymen down the river to the european union.
there is still time to change the decision and opt out of all these measures thereby protecting the real interests and freedoms of the british people.
these safeguards are now being destroyed by the creation of the eu's own system of criminal justice.
now we have the european investigation order which will empower foreign police forces to require british police forces to carry out investigations on their behalf which we will then have the privilege of paying for.
we hear a lot about fundamental rights in this place. in england we had very good fundamental rights long before we joined the european union.
none of this is necessary because there are already existing mutual assistance measures in place that allow police forces and judicial systems to cooperate with each other across national borders. this is not about cooperation. it is about harmonising our legal system in pursuit of the great ideological goal of a united states of europe.
and that is the work that we have to do today.
the perpetrators of the attempted bombings in london on twenty one july two thousand and five are also being brought to justice because of the european arrest warrant.
it had in fact become a cornerstone of cross border criminal justice but of course as everyone in this house knows it needed urgent and clear reform.
there are many people who have long pre trial detention.
there is the inability of the uk courts to consider the human rights system in the country of extradition.
madam president some months ago i gave evidence to the british house of lords on the efficacy of the european arrest warrant and in researching that i learned as a citizen of europe that in fact the european arrest warrant had been extremely effective.
but when we did our work on the european arrest warrant we found out something very valuable and that is that when you look at the facts what you find out is that we do something here in cross border justice that is very effective for citizens of europe but when we find out the detail that is when we get clarity.
but of course there are many trivial cases.
but the question of where that balance lay is the work that baroness ludford has done very effectively and our group is very happy to support it because in order for us cross over from the caricatures of how the european arrest warrant has been treated as a poster child of how justice and home affairs cooperation is bad
but let us get the balance right and let us reform with a sense of objectivity a sense of balance let us do our work here as meps to get the balance right.
in my own city of london in my country the united kingdom in the case of maggie hughes whom the commissioner knows and her son robert who suffered a brutal life changing gang attack whilst on holiday in crete his attackers are on trial thanks to the european arrest warrant.
i know you have such examples and i would never deny this.
my country has benefitted from the use of the european arrest warrant eaw on many occasions securing the extradition of drug smugglers child sex offenders rapists and terrorists.
i remember when i was a home office minister the extradition process used to be painfully difficult plagued by political obstructions and that is certainly not something i want to return to.
we live in a world where terrorism and cross border crime hang over us in a very serious way every day.
but just as essential are the checks and balances and the proportionality that go along with it and the need for proportionality is at the core of our debate.
the eaw was not designed to leave a person to languish in a jail without an early trial. it was not intended to make an individual subject to years of inconvenience and questioning as the result of outdated requests.
criminals must have nowhere to hide in the eu but a necessary ingredient of any fight against crime is the public's continued faith and trust in the system.
but would you agree that one of the reasons for this is because when people are extradited to britain the police must be case ready.
they have to have a case fully prepared to go to trial before they can extradite somebody.
whereas under some continental systems investigative judges may hold people while they investigate which results in sometimes weeks months or years of them being detained.
claude can i ask you to retract something that you said in that speech?
some of them have alibis showing that they were not even present at the place where the attack took place. nevertheless the lack of evidence against them has not stopped them being extradited.
i know that you are a very fair man so would you like to retract the word attacker' and say accused' instead?
we should give better tools to law enforcement authorities to prosecute criminals organised crime and criminal networks when they move cross border.
the existing rules on police and judicial cooperation are simplified.
it will be easier for our police and our prosecutors to operate efficiently.
the way that the eaw is worded is that in pre trial cases it is for the purposes of criminal prosecution.
it is not for the purposes of investigation which is one of the reasons why the eio is going to be so important filling that gap taking the strain off the eaw and that is why we refer in the report to the need for trial readiness.
there are different systems in the member states.
we are not making criminal justice uniform in the eu.
but anyway i agree that the eaw must be used for the purposes of prosecution not for fishing expeditions or for the purposes of investigation.
this report will help eu countries to work together to prevent and detect network disruptions in critical infrastructure like banking energy and air traffic control.
as we negotiate our new uk eu relationship i hope space and time will be given for us to continue to work together when necessary on security issues such as this.
national security will not be compromised as member states will not be forced to disclose sensitive information. online companies were concerned about bureaucracy if they needed to report the same incident twenty eight different times so we have a light touch common approach agreed to address this.
it has been an extremely complex and sensitive negotiation which has taken three years to agree.
member states will set up their own expert teams share early warnings of risks and learn from each other's experiences.
madam president cyber security is a real issue. cyber crime knows no borders and international cooperation is needed.
i am hoping that it will improve cyber security and network and information systems in europe. it is obviously not perfect but it is the best that we could do under those trying circumstances.
cyber security is essential in today's european digital economy and society. when people and businesses use and make the most of connected digital services they need to feel that they are safe and secure.
so we did achieve a very important step forward for that.
the internet knows no borders.
a problem in one country can have a knockon effect in the rest of europe.
i hope that member states will soon acknowledge that cooperation and information exchange between each other is a key element that will help us tackle the increasing number of cyber attacks.
i would like to congratulate the commission on a new public private partnership agreement on cyber security.
that is also a very important step forward.
it is not easy for implementation and we see it.
this is also the opportunity not only for better security but for cyber security business development and innovative digital economic growth.
it can bring us more understanding of the cyber security problems raising the awareness issue and more practical business oriented solutions.
will it actually bring them new opportunities or is it just a strategy to scapegoat them for not having a job?
if we want to make the new skills agenda a real success it will have to be in support of existing educational systems taking into account the needs and wishes of the students and it will have to be accompanied by an investment programme that can actually create the jobs that people will need these skills for. new skills will have to develop from being a magic word to having a real tangible outcome for the lives of people in europe otherwise we have not done our job well.
what does it sound like in the ears of young unemployed people?
i can already see a poster in bright colours with a lot of glitter and smiley faces saying new skills'.
i would like to address my thanks to parliament for your active contribution to the debate on skills from last year's report on creating a competitive eu labour market for the twenty first century' by martina dlabajov to the adoption this year of the resolution on skills policies and youth unemployment'
stay in work and improve their working situation.
we are also putting forward a blueprint' for cooperation on skills in specific economic sectors to stimulate stakeholders to work together to identify skills needs and identify practical solutions.
at the same time forty of european employers have difficulty finding people with the right skills.
in a fast changing global economy it is people's skills which will be a motor for our competitiveness and growth. the skills agenda sets out how europe will add value to member states' action and to mobilise actors.
too many people work in jobs that do not match their talents.
later this year we will propose a revision of the europass framework to support the documentation of skills and qualifications and better skills intelligence.
furthermore the digital transformation is re shaping the way we live work and do business and the types of skills needed.
for the period two thousand and fourteen two thousand and twenty there is more than eur twenty seven billion of the european social fund available to support skills.
other actions will follow over the next two years.
yet the situation in europe calls for action.
more than seventy million europeans have poor reading writing numeracy and digital skills.
for two thousand and seventeen work in the pipeline includes a revision of the two thousand and six key competences framework proposals supporting the modernisation of vocational education and training and an initiative on graduate tracking to improve information on how graduates progress in the labour market.
and improving forecasting and understanding of skills needs now and in the future.
the skills agenda is one of the most important initiatives on the commission's work programme this year.
while national and regional labour markets and education and training systems encounter specific challenges all member states face similar problems.
a red thread across our agenda is the need to stimulate strong business education partnerships such as those under the european pact for youth.
with the right skills people are equipped for good quality jobs and can fulfil their potential as confident active citizens.
making skills and qualifications easier to understand and compare across borders and economic sectors;
madam president dear members of parliament i am very pleased to be here with you in strasbourg to present the new skills agenda which will be formally adopted and announced to the press on friday. but i am happy to be with you already here today to share and discuss with you the key elements of our agenda.
refugees and migrants come to europe with a diversity of skill sets that can contribute to our economies. in order to facilitate integration into the labour markets we propose a skills profile tool for third country nationals to help identify and document their skills their qualifications and their professional experience.
these partnerships also have a crucial role in promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindsets.
also in a fast changing global economy skills determine europe's competitiveness and the capacity to drive innovation.
one in four adults has not achieved an upper secondary qualification.
and too few people have the entrepreneurial skills and mindsets needed to establish their own business.
we count on your support for swift adoption when the time comes. we will also launch a digital skills and jobs coalition' to develop a large digital talent pool and ensure that individuals at all levels are equipped with adequate digital skills.
it will directly contribute to our promise to deliver on jobs growth and fairness.
to step up action and not to leave anyone behind we propose a basic skills guarantee. this is a recommendation to member states to bring together their resources to offer low skilled people opportunities to catch up and acquire the skills that will help them to find employment
a revision of the european qualifications framework will make it easier to understand and compare skills and qualifications and facilitate work and study mobility.
it is the same story but it is something that we really need to address.
as has been said by the previous speaker and i want to make the same point twenty of our young people in europe are unemployed forty of our employers have difficulty in finding those with relevant skills and we also have long term unemployed who do not have relevant skills.
i think that is very important.
i welcome and am delighted to hear that you underlined the eur twenty seven billion funding that is available under the european social fund to support such skills development.
mr president skills the necessary skills for success are at the heart of our competitive innovative economically progressing union so i very much look forward to the concrete proposal.
to address this i believe we need a more uniform approach and a very convinced political leadership in europe.
not to mention that we are not entirely aware what the jobs of the future will look like and be.
in order to ensure the added value we must step up practical skills recognition such as through the entrepreneurial skill pass and other existing programmes as well as the recognition of competences acquired online.
in europe currently almost forty of the population holds a university degree though at the same time one in four employers struggle to find people with the right skills.
mr president i welcome the recognition in the commission's proposal of the need to adopt a global and lifelong approach when it comes to skills combining work skills and life skills.
in an uncertain world we need to prepare a generation of young people with the motivation commitment and transferrable skills such as creative thinking entrepreneurship leadership and capacity building so that they can become audacious problem solvers and responsible citizens.
we are asked to help prepare these young people to live in a fast changing world which we cannot yet even imagine.
one thing we know though is that this future world will be more and more digitised and connected.
but here again it should not limit itself to learning about the tools and the technologies it should aim at equipping individuals with the critical thinking and digital curiosity necessary for them to become not only users of technologies but active citizens in connected societies.
for me the backbone of this skills agenda must be education for citizenship including e citizenship through formal non formal and informal learning.
the technological change will be even faster in the upcoming decade.
as i said the speed will only accelerate.
what we have to do is firstly the following we have to equip the young people of europe with the right skills they will need to have access to the jobs of the future.
we are discussing a lot about online and about the digital single market but digital skills are the point where our whole digital agenda becomes personal.
it is the point where the citizens of europe feel that europe does something for them.
secondly i think that digital literacy has to become one of the core skills acquired from an early age and also later perfected throughout one's life.
the education systems at national level have to be adapted to this.
we are well aware that we have key shortages in our skills area we have just discussed that not least in terms of the blue card proposals.
we are well aware that it is not just in the digital sector;
it is also in the engineering sector where we have an enormous shortfall.
i really hope that the new proposals are going to be looking again for example at stem skills and where we are actually going to develop those particularly in relation to gender.
otherwise i think we are just doomed to repeat our reports without actually moving forward.
human? women must be able to choose their own paths in life whether it is having children having a job or both.