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yes the deal is historic but only the part of the recovery fund next generation eu which includes a big part of grants and also communitarisation of debt.
here the council missed an opportunity to move us out of the net payer discussion in europe.
today we as members of the european parliament the only directly elected eu institution write history too by voting in favour of this resolution where we welcome the recovery fund but we clearly state that this mff is not enough.
i deeply regret that the rebates have not been abolished.
i will advocate as part of the parliament position to have within the recovery and resilience facility a pillar for reforms and investment designed for the next generation for youth and children.
we name it we promote it but we do not listen to it.
we will repair and prepare the union for the future only by having the next generation on board not only asking them to pay the bill but to let them have a voice.
i'm also a researcher and a professor.
i cannot explain to my fellow researchers why horizon europe is not what it should be because we need that also for innovation for start ups for smes for our power our leadership role in the world.
we are at the beginning of the second wave.
i cannot understand i cannot explain to my colleagues why the member states did not understand this as an absolute priority.
we all see the figures rising again in europe.
and we cannot compare the figures in the proposal now with previous figures because we did not have a covid crisis then.
we've believed the ambition of the commission in respect of the green deal and the digital transition and these are the priorities that are aimed to the future that we are missing in this proposal.
but as a doctor i must say i am disappointed because of the cuts in the health programme. we are in the middle of the crisis.
parliament has the power and we have a duty to use it.
today's debate is not about money or figures; it's about how we want to shape our european society and make it fit for the future.
mr president before i start my intervention i would like to say that i find it regrettable that the leadership of the commission and the council have a habit of leaving before the end of the debate.
last year over two hundred million europeans gave us a mandate.
they voted with hopes and expectations for the future.
the government leaders at the time had the vision and the courage to take a big leap forward for future generations.
it's the birthday of the european coal and steel community and in the one thousand nine hundred and fifty one founding treaty of paris it gave the high authority the power to levy taxes and to borrow money and budget decisions were taken by majority.
it's about the choice between old europe and new europe.
investing in research climate policies and the rule of law that's new europe.
and parliament's call should be clear no more empty promises on values no more uncontrolled flows of eu money to the pockets of corrupted oligarchs but direct funds to local communities who need them now more than ever before.
it can strengthen europe or it can help the anti european populists.
but make no mistake this deal is what we make of it.
we ask the commission to take action and take leadership on these commitments and we ask the german presidency to live up to chancellor merkel's promises and treat rule of law as a top priority.
he is one of the many casualties to this health crisis and i have to say sitting here i'm really struck by the shocking disconnect between the words spoken the deal before us and the reality for his family and for the citizens of europe.
nine four billion for a new stand alone health programme the first instalment of a necessary eur seventy billion programme.
we talk about solidarity but your conditions on your form sound very much like austerity to me with no such conditions on the rule of law.
spain is the country that bails out the banks not the people and never ask banks for any money back.
european citizens need the recovery fund to get back on their feet and face the future with hope but to boost back our economies we need more than hard work
spain will be a major recipient and this money needs to be put to good use and yes this requires external control because spain is the member state where the royal house is the centre of a massive corruption scheme but the government and parliament refuse to investigate.
these are our expectations these are our demands in order for us to be able to support the budget of the european union for the next seven years.
for this we need to prioritise the horizon europe programme.
help is coming for the people affected by the coronavirus for the enterprises affected and for the regions affected by this virus.
it is here to stay it needs to be ambitious and it needs to be enough to fulfil the promises which we have made to the people of europe.
we want more young people to be able to travel and study in other countries to better know the european union and the european way of living in different countries here in unity in the union.
we saw in the council twenty seven presidents and prime ministers fight for twenty seven national perspectives.
this is why i say let's start the final negotiations fast and give a message to the people of europe that we have an ambitious budget for the next seven years.
on the budget for the next seven years we need to get this right because this is the budget of the european union also for the time after corona.
now it is very important that we get this right that money is being used to modernise to further develop the european union and one thing is clear the more we spend the better the control needs to be.
for this we need an ambitious eu health programme and we want europe to be more innovative to research more.
we want no one to be left behind in the transition to a green economy.
madam president i would like to use my minute to really address the frugals' the five frugals in your council where all our political families have our issues and i think we have to be fair on that.
but the questions to the frugals would be what were you thinking?
ten years after a euro crisis when there is finally a momentum for a public investment plan let's cut it.
a health crisis hitting europe everywhere let's cut the eu for health programme.
the next big crisis being climate change let's cut the just transition fund.
the european values being challenged everywhere let's kick the rule of law can down the road again.
yes dear frugals you have your rebates but we are discussing the future of europe here and that is in everyone's interest certainly in yours.
we as a european parliament are offering you this summer to rethink your priorities.
this money comes from the effort of millions and has been mobilised thanks to a marvellous word which is or should be the essence of the eu solidarity.
no one should ever forget this. a powerful economic recovery machine has been built but the opportunity has been lost for this colossal energy to serve to strengthen democracy and the rule of law especially in these times when dramatic situations such as those of the uyghur people
demand from europe an indestructible moral authority in the human rights field.
there are states that will receive a lot of money but will not feel any obligation to change their treatment of or their opposition to national minorities as we catalans know well.
just for the record mr szjer the final vote takes place after the debate.
i move now to the next speaker mr fernndez for one and a half minutes.
the result of the second referendum in the irish republic on the lisbon treaty changes nothing for the united kingdom.
the date of the uk general election will not change that;
as i have said on a previous occasion in this house i stand before you as one keen to see a europe of cooperating nations.
and therefore i want to use this opportunity in this house to call for the british people to be given a referendum just as each and every european nation should be on the full and complete text of the lisbon treaty.
i have consistently opposed the federalism of the lisbon treaty and the ceding of powers from nation states.
mr president the lisbon treaty provides for an intensification of the neoliberal economic agenda that has caused economic disaster throughout europe with twenty one million unemployed an intensification of militarisation and the armaments industry and more pressure for privatisation.
we will support genuine initiatives that will stand for workers' rights within europe but when the lisbon treaty and the charter of fundamental rights itself in fact institutionalise the judgments of the european court of justice whereby they find in favour of the exploitation of migrant workers by contractors supplying businesses across borders how can we support that?
member states and their leaders have of course invested a lot of time and energy in this procedure and this is why it is not static it cannot be compared with a football match.
the reality will also influence how we think about these issues and there is nothing wrong with that but i think we should always in the analysis that follows after a referendum think very carefully about any fear factors on both sides because fear is a very strong emotion and
they maybe prefer to forget that this is a discussion about a reform.
and this is what was done.
by civil society in ireland from now on and in the rest of europe in the same way.
i think the legal guarantees helped because then it was clarified that they did not have to worry about neutrality or abortion or any of the other concerns.
the downside is that it also divides the population.
should i believe in them?
and why did they do that?
of independent nation states are also the ones who would be willing to impose a referendum on all other member states which i find a bit strange.
now ireland decided to carry out a second referendum.
so they looked at the reasons.
this is part of the reason why we did not have a higher voter turnout that it is not part of the daily discussions about politics in each and every member state.
so this was clarified and they got legal guarantees and they got a commissioner and thank you ireland because it means that there will be a swedish commissioner also from now on also a german one and one from greece etc.
you are forced to say yes' or no' and that can stay for a long time in the hearts and minds of the irish as well. we have a duty an obligation democratically to also take the concerns of the no' side seriously to continue the debate and make sure that the eu issues are integrated into the normal political debate including
it is a process that started in laeken many years ago and has involved different democratic bodies and discussions over the years to try to find a common way of taking decisions in a more modern more democratic and efficient way.
you have to provide information and a debate and a discussion.
but the reality showed that the irish people believe that they have a place in the centre of europe and that they will be helped by belonging fully to europe and not being questioned about whether this is true or not.
i do not think that president klaus will be able to hold out i hope that he does; he is a fine and brave man. but it looks like we have got the victory of bureaucracy over national democracy.
the whole thing was a travesty!
and perhaps worst of all the broadcasting commission in ireland changed the rules so there was not equal coverage for the yes' and the no' sides.
in fact i hope you are all very proud of yourselves because what you have done is you have taken the littlest boy in the playground got him into the corner and given him a good kicking. this is a victory for the bully boys;
the only jobs that were preserved by the yes' vote were the jobs of the political class.
but what they did campaign on what you all campaigned on was vote yes' for jobs'.
well hot off the press folks aer lingus have laid people off today and intel the people who put eur four hundred zero into the yes' campaign have laid off three hundred people today.
what is the point of any of
it? as far as i am concerned this irish referendum begins the real debate.
that was what it was all about.
it is a victory for big money and a victory for bureaucrats.
the referendum commission in ireland did not do its job did not tell the irish people that of course the lisbon constitutional treaty has profound impacts on their own constitution;
but the difference is that with a third referendum let's make it a free and a fair referendum. because what has happened in ireland most certainly is not that!
one thousand five hundred and fifty jobs have gone since saturday;
i suspect that it is all over. i suspect that for ireland their period of independence will be a very brief one in their history.
what is the point of a foreign secretary if we have got an eu foreign secretary with his own diplomatic service?
you cannot have two heads of state and since the eu takes precedence over national bodies the eu president perhaps tony blair will take precedence over our queen. the people of my country will not accept an unelected failure or anybody else taking precedence over our queen.
mr president the result of the referendum in ireland at the weekend on the lisbon treaty is living proof that this parliament is not democratic honest or accountable.
the lisbon fanatics in this parliament will now go full steam ahead to create a new european superstate of five hundred million people.
the fact that the irish were made to vote twice proves that the eu has now become a dictatorship.
the new president of the eu will be the head of state.
that is what we are trying to achieve here with the swedish presidency.
that is what we need to have in place and that is why i am so precise in saying that we are now at number.
we hope to see it in just a week or a couple of weeks.
it will allow you to be more democratic to be more efficient and to be more transparent.
i will begin consultations on the nominations of the new president of the european council and the high representative and secretary general of the council.
i will therefore say that it is very important for us to work closely and constructively together with the commission and the european parliament in this process.
therefore i have decided that while awaiting the clarifications in the czech republic firstly we will continue the preparations for the entry into force of the lisbon treaty and secondly when there is clarity on when the lisbon treaty will come into force when there is clarity
i pay tribute to brian cowen and his associates;
the european council is united in its wish for the treaty to enter into force by the end of this year and the end of the swedish presidency.
as president of the european council i am responsible for moving the work of the union forward.
i know that the legal guarantees offered by the european council were decisive in the referendum campaign.
it will in fact increase the influence of the eu in the international arena and make us stronger in meeting global challenges and i know that you in this parliament will also be given a more significant role in the overall decision making process.
preparing this will not only be a matter for the presidency this is a matter for three institutions at the same time.
i also say to all of those who have been engaged in the campaign whatever their party or background who contributed to this successful outcome thank you for all your efforts.
therefore it is very important to put this lisbon treaty into force.
we do not foresee today an exact date when they will give this decision and we are of course awaiting that signal.
you might know that seventeen senators have appealed to the constitutional court in the czech republic with a complaint concerning the lisbon treaty to see if it is in accordance with the czech constitution.
i think he did a fantastic job because i understand that his interference actually helped the yes' campaign.
at best he can be accused of dithering.
in britain we have the ukip and the tories who as you will all know have been arguing for a no' vote in the irish referendum.
they have divisions over europe and it is overshadowing their conference which is taking place this week in manchester.
that is what is known as unintended consequences but we are grateful for his intervention.
and just when the major issues of the day need more cooperation not less issues such as climate change how we tackle the financial crisis and how we deal with rising unemployment just then the tories have decided that britain is going to be isolated and at the margins of the eu.
the british tories now need to come clean and tell us if they are intent on putting the future of the british people in the eu at risk with all the serious consequences that has for jobs and prosperity.
the conduct of gordon brown is particularly reprehensible.
i want britain to enjoy warm and friendly relationships with all our european neighbours.
mr president i was elected in june to represent the south west of england and gibraltar and during the election campaign i was saddened by the large number of people i met who no longer support britain's membership of the eu.
world leading companies such as airbus in my constituency have shown what we can achieve when we pool our industrial resources.
it has promoted peace and reconciliation amongst the peoples of europe.
breaking his promise to hold a referendum threatens to undermine british support for the eu and i deeply regret that.
i cannot understand why those in favour of political union seem determined to build this structure on the worst possible foundations.
when i was a student i lived in france for twelve months and i came home a francophile.
i hope it will continue to do so. the single market promotes trade and prosperity;
my concern is that the current march towards political union without the support of the peoples of europe threatens to undermine the good work that the eu has done. i respect the fact that the irish people have now voted in favour of the lisbon treaty though i think it disgraceful that they were pressurised into holding a second vote by countries which had not even held one referendum.
it saddened me because i believe that the eu has been a force for good in the world.
his legacy to britain will be not only to leave us bankrupt but also to deny the british people a vote on this latest transfer of power from westminster to brussels.
the irish government's duplicity was shown by the fact that it asked the management of aer lingus to postpone until today after the referendum the announcement of seven hundred savage job cuts in aer lingus.
the eu commission intervened continually interfered in the process. the three presidents are not here but i want their representatives to ask them for a reaction to the following scandal. mr tajani eu commissioner for transport spent a full day travelling around ireland on a ryanair jet with the chief executive of that multinational campaigning for a yes' vote. he is the regulator of transport supposed to protect consumers and workers. he is hopelessly compromised by going around with the chief executive
what is your answer to that?
what happened in ireland in the referendum was not a victory for democracy. the irish people were threatened by a major coalition the political establishment big business most of the capitalist press and the eu commission that if they voted no' they would be economically isolated they would be punished by the european union and there would be a flight of capital and investment and they were told that if they voted yes'
i am proud of the role that the commission played in giving the irish people the information they needed to make up their minds.
force. when i spoke to this parliament last month i set out what i saw as the greatest challenges and the great opportunities facing europe
we need to fix exactly how the new system should
we need to respect the constitutional proceedings in that country as we have done in other countries but once these procedures are concluded i see no reason why proceedings cannot be concluded swiftly. this is important for europe as a whole but it is particularly important for the commission. i want to see the new commission in place a commission in accordance with the lisbon treaty and i want to see it in office as quickly as possible.
this is one of the most striking innovations on the treaty's democratic agenda and one on which this parliament has already worked in
we have been working hard to think through some of the practical details of how we can make the european external action service a real success. this work will now accelerate and in the same spirit as the remarks made just now by the swedish presidency i want to
i would like to take this occasion to highlight four areas where we are working hard to ensure that we can hit the ground running when the treaty comes into force. one of the most important and the most complex has to be the innovations regarding the european external action service.
i know that elmar brok has been leading on this subject here in parliament.
i am ready to start the formation of the next commission as soon as the council is ready to clarify the legal basis definitively and also to nominate the high representative who will become vice president of the commission.
today. another important democratic element is the new mechanisms to allow national parliaments a direct say on subsidiarity. we need to put these mechanisms in the broader context of the excellent relations with national parliaments built up by the commission and indeed the european parliament over the last few
a long period with a caretaker commission is in nobody's interest.
so we need to maintain the strong role played by parliament
i understand that you will debate this at the next plenary.
i think that report is an excellent basis for discussions between our institutions and i welcome the strong community spirit that inspires the report. this is exactly the spirit that i will uphold in the preparation
the treaty of lisbon introduces new rules making the system more rational and transparent.
i also know that this parliament has worked tirelessly to promote the lisbon treaty. parliament and commission have worked hand in hand to explain why it is the right treaty for europe.
detail. margot wallstrm has been leading our work in developing a green paper to launch a consultation as soon as possible with the goal of seeing this opportunity in citizens' hands within a year of entry into
work. but let me be clear many of these decisions are of great political importance and deserve proper democratic scrutiny and real political ownership.
this is indeed very good news. of course we have to see the completion of the process in the czech republic.
years. finally i would like to mention the european citizens' initiative.
the irish people by a resounding majority recognised the importance of the lisbon treaty a treaty that offers a more democratic and effective europe a treaty that gives us the right platform to deliver the modern successful european union our citizens wish to see.
she also named many men who are being mentioned for the top jobs but those are men named in the media in the press;
i will go there tonight if i catch the plane and will meet with lots of people tomorrow in order to get a clearer picture of the different scenarios the different timetables that we can expect. we need a few days to grasp and to assess the situation in the constitutional court. the treaty is in the constitutional court and until it has
so; but we also need to move on independently of what treaty we have to show concrete results and to deliver.
there are lots of working groups going on in order to prepare for the full implementation of the treaty.
we have guarantees or promises that the polish president will sign within a few days.
i can assure you that the presidency is doing everything it can to move the processes on on all these issues with the help of the european parliament.
i received a question from madame flautre about the extra meps;