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i hereby invite irish communities with poor connectivity to get their applications in for this great new initiative and reap the benefits of this excellent eu initiative and thus make their areas more attractive to live in more attractive for investors and stem the tide of rural decline.
internet access for all citizens is crucially important and this means that nobody should be excluded particularly because they happen to live in rural areas. rural growth is dependent on increased connectivity and wifi four eu will help in this regard and perhaps be a blueprint for similar bigger initiatives.
this simple and fast financing mechanism can deliver high quality internet quite quickly and i welcome its potential to revitalise rural communities.
parts of my constituency still see some of the lowest broadband speeds in ireland with our average speeds being around half of those found in dublin.
indeed eur one hundred and twenty million where is the money going to go?
i think my constituency will be very concerned about eur one hundred and twenty million being spent on this.
as with the elimination of roaming charges this has the potential to benefit tourists residents and businesses alike.
however it is also clear that we have some way to go in terms of our broadband infrastructure particularly in rural areas.
it is deeply concerning that there is a level of inequality in the terms of access to broadband connections.
for instance broadband provision in my own constituency of northern ireland lags behind the rest of the united kingdom as a whole and within northern ireland there is a divide between urban and rural areas.
the german finance minister wolfgang schuble has said that a new constitutional treaty is required. this has been described by herman van rompuy as the establishment of a united states of europe.
such a deal would not only be immoral it would also be self defeating in the long term.
mr president it has been well demonstrated that the whole idea of the euro zone a single currency value for seventeen very different economies is flawed economically.
we would have helped to create a monstrosity to which a future british government could feed the united kingdom.
its purpose of course has been to facilitate political integration.
the british conservative leader fantasises about having some sovereignty returned to the united kingdom as the price for agreeing to federalism being foisted on the euro zone.
however the chosen remedy is not less europe but more europe.
despite the best efforts of the honorary consul of the republic of ireland in sri lanka and our department of foreign affairs and various human rights organisations he still remains in detention.
they also advised that any laws or measures taken to combat terrorism must comply with all obligations under international law.
he was arrested there in september two thousand and seven and although no warrant was issued or charges brought against him he was accused of providing support to the militant liberalisation group ltte.
the atrocities carried out the number of killings turned the world which was pro america and pro american sentiment into anti united states condemnation.
this led to a huge outpouring of sympathy for the united states throughout the world.
mr president ten years ago yesterday two nine hundred and eighty three innocent people died in the horrific attack on the new york world trade center.
the attack was motivated by a fanatical hatred of everything western by the muslims.
now this may have embarrassed mark dowd but embarrassment is one way of holding office holders to account. in any case the labour party is committed to the principle of financial transparency.
now however councillor dowd has merseytravel taking legal proceedings against andrew makinson demanding an apology and payment of potentially huge legal expenses.
a public body with massive resources is trying to crush one individual who lifted a stone to discover what might lie beneath.
it is the action of a bully.
it suggests a desire to cover up the truth and keep the public in the dark.
mr president the commission has recently replied to my written question confirming that commissioners almunia and kroes attended the bilderberg meeting in st moritz in june.
the commission cannot give me details of what was discussed but assures me that the bilderberg meetings do not take decisions.
and what other summit of world leaders in politics finance and business would go completely unreported in the mainstream media such as the bbc?
it is impossible not to reach the conclusion that the non reporting of these events is anything other than a conspiracy between the organisers and the media.
it merely confirms the belief of many that the hidden agenda and purpose of the bilderberg group is to bring about undemocratic world government.
it is a disgrace that the european commission is colluding in that.
fda. that would be an idiotic idea because we have an enormous interest in the
everything has been delayed until the end of the year.
we have general ideas and general principles but no agreement on the resolution mechanism.
mr president honourable members after the march european council meeting i reported to you on the broad agreement among all leaders on our strategy to bring the european union to recovery first restoring and maintaining financial stability;
though only three years old it is already the most advanced surveillance and policy coordination mechanism in the world.
this is a crucial matter which can now be taken forward with parliament in the legislative process before the end of this parliamentary term. together with the single supervisory mechanism and the directive on capital requirements
and the fourth element of our strategy was working towards a genuine economic and monetary union preparing for the future.
we are moving forward we are making progress gradually but decisively.
based on that member state representatives have in the meantime formally approved it.
the decisions that the european council took just a couple of days ago on the financing of the economy and the fight against youth unemployment would not have been possible without the agreement reached on the multiannual financial framework by the presidents of the parliament the council and the commission just a couple of hours before the start of the european council.
we need to bring oxygen deep into the system across the whole union and especially in the most vulnerable countries.
the june european council also proved that our european project remains attractive for those who are not yet part of it.
the european union via its external action service is examining the allegations and is in contact with us authorities.
we decided to scale up and speed up the youth employment initiative so that the money starts flowing as of one january. two thousand and fourteen most of the money will now be spent in two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen the years when it is most needed;
and at the same time we prepared the way for other decisions still to come.
of course there is still a lot of work ahead of us on many fronts for instance on the deepening of economic and monetary union on which i gave heads of government a detailed state of play last friday.
european leaders also took action and we agreed on an investment plan for europe based on a joint report by the commission and the european investment bank.
i take note of the remarks today by us president barack obama and his commitment to provide all the information that us allies want and what exactly the facts have been.
to sum up the june european council reached some important agreements.
it will be a catalyst for investment and growth and jobs across europe which is particularly urgent and necessary at a time of crisis a time of high unemployment and of doubts about the european project.
we also called for other important actions for instance promoting cross border mobility through the eures and erasmus programmes including vocational training as well as high quality apprenticeships.
during the european council it was clear that leaders are eager to exchange experiences and best practices just as they will again at tomorrow's meeting in berlin.
we made a clear link between this youth employment initiative and the youth guarantee to ensure that within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed every young person gets a good offer for a job education or training.
but this should not prevent us from reaffirming loud and clear that even if the road is still long we are on the right track and that when our institutions work together for the common european good and the mff is an example europe is capable of producing concrete tangible results.
the banking union remains an immediate priority and the european council stressed this again forcefully as it will help ensure financial stability reduce financial fragmentation and restore normal lending to the economy. on the latter point restoring normal lending to the economy
on friday morning we agreed to move forward towards opening accession talks with serbia and to take an important step in our relations with kosovo.
the european union has demanded and expects full and urgent clarification by the us regarding the allegations.
moreover the flexibility offered by the mff means in effect that there will be substantially more available for the youth employment initiative than the eur six billion we had initially foreseen for it;
so we are welcoming new members and not as some had predicted losing them!
at this stage i cannot provide any further comments.
we also agreed on concrete measures with an immediate impact to fight youth unemployment which is a most urgent concern for our societies and a concern we also discussed in the presence of the european social partners in a prime example of social dialogue at work at eu level.
i should add one more of special interest to parliament namely the formal adoption of the decision establishing the future composition of parliament on the basis of the consent it had given.
last thursday the european council unanimously and firmly gave its political backing to the mff agreement.
looking back at the decisions taken at or just before the june european council because sometimes the pressure created by having a european council meeting can concentrate minds it is striking to see that on each and every one of the four strands of this strategy
as is now the tradition every june we discussed and endorsed the country specific recommendations thus closing this year's european semester which is the cornerstone of our new economic governance.
we welcomed the agreement reached by finance ministers the night before the european council on the directive on recovery and resolution.
we have to deal with these matters with a great sense of responsibility.
if i may now make a more general political remark i hope that members of the european parliament namely those coming from the pro european families resist the temptation that is unfortunately very common among some national politicians when there is a problem in the economy to put the blame on brussels or on the european union instead of doing their own homework and instead of doing what they should do at home to reform their economies to promote investment and in fact to make our economies more competitive.
mr president regarding the european council issues the question that was directed to me was about what the european union has been doing regarding the implementation of the growth compact.
one seven billion.
most of the bottlenecks if you look at this report are mainly in terms of national implementation. this is the fair objective assessment we can give to you.
what has not been done and what is in the process of being completed.
i could go on at length explaining some of the measures namely the action teams for tackling youth unemployment and many other concrete measures.
i urge those member states who have not yet done so to accelerate selection processes for prompt implementation.
because in the business of attacking the european union there are others that are much better than the mainstream political forces and at the end they are going to be the ones who will benefit from these kinds of populist attacks.
but i think this is the language of truth. this is the only way to reconnect europe to citizens;
other member states have indicated that selection processes are well underway for instance germany france poland and the uk.
the commission is now working with member states to ensure that these resources are mobilised rapidly and efficiently to support growth in investment and jobs.
because if the main political forces those with the great tradition of supporting the european project start criticising the european union if they think they will gain or make points with that they are completely wrong.
this takes pressure away from national budgets in the most vulnerable countries at a time of crisis.
i invite all of you those who have not yet seen that report to look at it attentively because i think it is a very important exercise in transparency as regards the real implementation of the compact for growth and jobs.
however we have to do it in a spirit of responsibility on a step by step approach;
i invite you to look at this report on the compact for growth and jobs where you will see afterwards in a very graphic way as well all the measures that were announced by the european council and the council where
there are it is fair to say important points of progress but there are still matters where we need to do more namely in terms of implementation.
before the european council i sent to all heads of state and government and also to the european parliament through its president a very clear and transparent report on the implementation of the growth compact where i signalled in very clear terms what has been done
i think this is clearly important.
that is why i want to conclude and since i cannot mention all the statements by praising one statement that i particularly liked during today's meeting.
to talk with them responsibly;
we fail to see that more laws more initiatives more red tape are actually harming businesses and stopping people from working.
they said and i quote in many cases drivers who are employed on a pay as you earn basis are actually being stopped from working after their eleventh week as this is the point at which the eu regulations kick in'.
the saying less is more' should of course apply to the eu and that is why i fully support the dutch government's recent efforts to draw a line in the sand to say that there are competences that we believe are better exercised closer to the people that ever closer union is not the answer to our problems in europe.
there will be protests from many lobby groups from trade unions and from others often funded by the eu itself but by taking on those vested interests we will open to door to the economic reforms that we have to make.
if we are serious about solving this problem then there are two good places to start.
we now know that it is possible to overcome some vested interests.
this parliament seeks to extend its powers at every opportunity;
the problem is that we in this parliament and officials in the commission are dominated by those same vested interests.
to redirect our efforts and open up markets across europe; to reward hard work.
if we want to solve the eu's economic crisis then we need to overcome those vested interests that stand in our way that stop us from delivering a better europe by constantly forcing us to deliver more europe. we can do more to help europe's economy by doing less here in the commission and in this chamber.
ever closer union has become synonymous with ever more meddling regardless of whether it is the right thing to do either for our economy or for our people.
unfortunately we will have harmonised unemployment and we will have equalised poverty across the union.
fewer pet projects;
it will of course harm those that are dependent on eu handouts such as the trade unions and the ngos that the commission funds.
secondly we should open up markets so that enterprise is rewarded and not penalised.
frankly some of the comments made by french ministers in recent weeks have undermined their own credibility and demonstrated the desperate situation in which they find themselves.
the best way to create more employment in europe would be to create some unemployment in the european commission fewer officials dreaming up new rules and regulations;
first of all we should scrap the laws that punish productivity that damage entrepreneurship;
in fact i have to admit that i am actually at a bit of a loss today because normally i like to stand here and reprimand president barroso for stuff the commission has done or alternatively i like to denigrate the french socialist government but it seems to me that they are doing such a good job of slagging off each other that i am not sure i am actually required to interfere in this happy feast any more.
but does anybody outside the bubble really believe that we cannot reduce the budget in europe and yet increase its value?
we will soon be perfectly harmonised we will be perfectly equal in europe.
there is an alternative and that is to cut the red tape that binds us;
commission officials move their careers forward by formulating new ways to interfere in our lives here in europe.
i am sure that mr verhofstadt will want to show his support for the position put forward by one of his own liberal governments.
fewer vested interests standing in the way of the structural reform that we need.
the long term mff budget has shown that change even a little bit of change is slightly possible in europe.
that is why i would like to see president barroso use the last few months of his term to take on those on the left and the socialists who are actually preventing these reforms.
this of course is legislation brought in to protect workers but actually it persecutes them.
this is from someone who works in a temporary work agency and actually deals with the agency workers directive.
people are actually being stopped from working because of the laws that we pass here in europe. the commission's own european vacancy monitor showed that after the agency workers directive came into force vacancies at randstad which is france's leading temporary agency fell by twenty in two months.
we need to understand that sometimes in europe less is more'.
it is because too often vested interests are obstructing the reforms that we desperately need in europe.
yet your recipe is more bureaucracy a youth guarantee scheme another six billion for the youth employment initiative the setting up of the european alliance for apprenticeships backed up by the quality framework for traineeships and the list goes on and on yet more highly paid civil servants setting up organisations that will achieve nothing.
but there was plenty of support from the croatian political class.
just the usual drivel about the fight against youth unemployment.
until the euro is broken up until you reverse the social market model you will not help youth unemployment.
a couple of years ago mr barroso said that the european union was an empire and your empire has just expanded.
we are doing it through the misconstruction of the euro through the obsession with global warming and the over regulated business model.
he says that if eurobonds are introduced the danger of default would disappear balance sheets and banks would receive an immediate boost and so would the budgets of heavily indebted countries. could we please hear what is the position of the president of the council and the president of the commission on this?
mr president first of all can i say at the outset that my country fought for its independence for seven hundred years and eventually got it and gained sovereignty the day we joined the european union.
can i say in relation to this crisis we are in that i believe it is time now for a solidarity charter and that is not just a question of the germans showing solidarity to us;
up until then the british chancellor of the exchequer set our interest rate and set the value of our currency and we got ten minutes' notice.
what do we need to give in order to receive? i think that is the sort of thing we need to say.
we should have an explanation from the us ambassador to the eu as to what is going on and he should then make himself available to a committee of inquiry in this house so we can determine exactly what has been happening in relation to these spying allegations.
this is economic governance at work. and it is working.
year. with our communication on the top ten' consultation of smes we urge all parties involved to take a long hard look at themselves to see if their role in legislation is a burden or a help
we will launch today the european alliance for apprenticeships because not everything can be done by governments or other public institutions.
the deal reached was based on very extensive negotiations conducted by the council parliament and commission and their respective teams i want to congratulate all of them and i hope it will be formally endorsed both by you and by the council.
if we want this money to really make a difference we need to focus it on regions with youth unemployment rates of over twenty five and do so quickly. this is only possible if member states prepare specific youth unemployment initiative programmes and submit their plans this year. this will enable us to hit the ground running early in. two thousand and fourteen and as this house rightly stressed in the mff discussions we need to guarantee funds for the years afterwards as
business can do more to help create more and better quality apprenticeships. before the european council we met with the european social partners and i was happy to see that all of them trade unions and business organisations were very committed to a stronger response from
we are all in this together so we have to cooperate coordinate debate and decide together as well.
the eib. the european council committed member states to do their part of the further preparatory work in order for these instruments to be fully operational by
union. today i would like to announce that following our commitment towards the european parliament as part of the overall agreement on the two pack the commission is now setting up an expert group to look into all merits and risks the legal requirements and the financial consequences
on that. this will ensure effective european decision making on problematic banks within the single supervisory
this is why even though the commission has always supported a more ambitious european budget i consider this agreement a crucial step for the european union in demonstrating its capacity to act and to take difficult decisions.
further. last week we saw an important breakthrough with the council's agreement on a common approach to dealing with failing banks without relying on taxpayers'
economic governance in the european union has reached a new stage of maturity and common ownership.
background. i trust it will make a very good contribution for further work by the commission and by this
smes. the new teams will be sent to help countries prepare their youth employment initiative projects and implement the youth guarantee
themselves. to recover the confidence of investors and citizens alike we need to maintain the momentum of our efforts to reform the institutional set up
in terms of the structural reforms needed to get our socio economic framework in line with the demands of today's global economy the agenda was set out clearly in the annual growth survey and in particular in the country specific recommendations presented by the commission five weeks ago.
money. the commission is now looking forward to working closely with parliament with a view to finalising this by the end of the year at
it has delivered some very important results by endorsing the country specific recommendations for structural reforms as proposed by the commission by stepping up the fight against youth unemployment and by taking decisions aimed at restoring normal lending to the real economy notably to smes.
there is a lot that national governments can and must