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europe in the face of a reluctant united states needs to step up to the plate in its own defence and cooperation is essential in terms of improving industrial efficiency and economies of scale. i am very concerned at the consequences of brexit as flagged up by airbus industries affecting sixty odd organisations in their supply chain in my constituency.
an estimated three hundred and seventy million indigenous people still live in close communion with our planet.
i had a glimpse into the world view of somebody who believes that rather than the land belonging to us we belong to the land.
she is a maya elder and knowing her has been deeply inspiring.
of course we should protect indigenous communities for their own sake but also for ours because if we are going to find a way to live in balance with the planet we share they have much to teach us.
as long as you switch the tap off and as long as you stop adding new regulations old ones become redundant over time.
now some in this house regard that distance as regrettable because they see unregulated as synonymous with illegal. me?
always the innovator is in front of the regulator.
the green shoots are vibrant with the life of the inventive entrepreneur and the pillars and flagstones are what's left of the old regulatory structure.
think of the state as being like one of those old temples swallowed up in the rainforests in india or in central america.
the entrepreneurs are designing these wonderful innovations leaving governments panting and wheezing several furlongs behind as in three d printing the current inventions in biotech in ai vaping whatever.
who cares these days what the regulations are on steamboats or fax machines?
i see it as the most hopeful sign that despite the best efforts of politicians everywhere economies will continue to grow.
i found out how manufacturing is being revolutionised three d printing is already being used for car components we have seen the first three d bridge and you can three d print chocolate hips and things like that as well.
we have also seen the first three d printed gun and it is vital that legislators get ahead of the game.
in fact in front of us we see a world of personalised medicine and shoes that don't rub your toes.
who is responsible if a three d printed bike helmet fails leaving a child injured?
mr president i was recently in anglia ruskin university in my constituency seeing three d printing in action and they told me how they were about to print a whole mini chelmsford from a topographical map so that they can use it to test different scenarios particularly for flooding.
i wouldn't have used exactly their vocabulary but it is certainly the case that defence integration and procurement integration is not being pursued in a bottom up pragmatic way driven by looking for economies of scale but is seen as being about the assimilation or amalgamation of european industry as an end in itself because the european union ought to have a military capacity.
i think we should have our own satellite system.
but it does have consequences in terms of the uk's general strategic positioning.
but i have to ask as so often what on earth is the european union doing having a policy on telling cities what to do and what to debate and what to fund?
i suppose that for some members and i understand this there is a romantic historical appeal a vision of a pre nation states europe where there is a loose confederation of city states innovating within the nexus of some holy roman empire or whatever.
for the practical consequence as with all these initiatives is you end up just creating some new bureaucracy.
you create a new group of people who become financially dependent on the european union;
you start getting an eu officer in every place who knows that he has to look to the brussels institutions for every improvement in life.
the paradox is that it was precisely the diversity the variety of the pluralism of europe that first elevated this continent above the run of humanity.
by setting targets europe showed the way
deal. one of the reasons is the lack of progress in the american senate.
we will present our proposal tomorrow and i think that it will accommodate many of the concerns that this parliament has raised.
now in a lot of countries these domestic targets will lead to some kind of paradigm shift.
somebody referred to the emerging economies.
there were some questions on the
today because of copenhagen they acknowledge that they have a co responsibility.
two years ago we were more or less alone in setting targets.
all other things being equal this is also very important when seen from a european business perspective.
the rich countries would have to deal with it the developed countries.
we all know why we cannot get one of the things we would like the internationally binding
that was something we actually gained.
we all know that that is the reason
it is a jolly winter and the conspirators will be much more careful to hide their global governance agenda this year.
but we still need eur two hundred million from member states in order to be exactly where we promised to be in copenhagen.
i take it that you can hear the difference between being able to say in cancn on behalf of the european union we have delivered' and saying we have almost delivered'.
my final point is that we are working to ensure the implementation of the treaty of lisbon obviously and i can assure you that we will inform parliament's delegation at every stage of the progress of the negotiations.
i would also like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the eu needs to deliver on our fast start pledges from copenhagen.
i must say that it is my clear impression also from the pre cop that there is growing acknowledgement of our arguments on this.
i think that this is one of the main challenges in cancn whoever speaks on behalf of the european union our partners outside europe can be sure that they will be met with the same kind of priorities and the same kind of messages.
if targets are not being debated that much now i think this is because a lot of other parties are not that ready for reasons that you know to discuss targets in cancn. i think what is important is to anchor the pledges from the copenhagen accord into the formal text.
in order to build on the copenhagen accord and secure the momentum now continuing in cancn. but although there seems to be agreement that this is what we should bring home from cancn a balanced package it is easy to say that is what every party would like but more difficult to agree on what that then means.
here i would say that seen from a european perspective it is clear that we will insist on the need to anchor mitigation pledges set up an enhanced mrv system and promote the carbon markets.
all these elements will have to be reflected in a package that we consider balanced.
we must use these conditions to raise the level of ambition and to get others to move.
it is very clear that the legally binding deal that the eu was ready for last year and that we are still ready for will unfortunately not be the outcome of cancn not because of us but because others are not ready for it. it is true that we are heading for a package which is balanced but i would also say substantial and ambitious. we were actually the first this spring in february march to come forward with the idea of pursuing a stepwise approach
what is a substantial balanced package?
from that we can improve things.
no change there.
therefore we need to stick to our conditions to lever positive responses from our partners.
we strongly welcome the support indicated in the motion for a resolution to ensure that the eu speaks with one voice.
the draft resolution that we have in front of us addresses all the areas that i just mentioned.
the conditions attached to a possible second commitment period are very important for environmental integrity and the ambition of the future climate regime.
i really think we should use the remaining days up to cancn to try to deliver all we pledged in copenhagen.
how much longer can the fascistic eu impose ever more punitive taxes and controls on ordinary citizens on the pretext of man made global warming when an ever increasing number of real scientists are rejecting the theory as unfounded and demolished?
and it is being exploited by leftist political elites to complete the deindustrialisation of the west because spineless conservatives are too browbeaten by global warming hysteria to stand up and tell the really inconvenient truth man made climate change is the most profitable con trick in history.
agw is baseless propaganda a josef goebbels scale big lie from the green industrial complex because they favour massive transfers of wealth from the little people to carbon trading crooks such as al gore and goldman sachs.
an even better trick would be to hold these events only in the spring look it is getting warmer every day.
we do need a fallback position and fundamentally that must be to drive forward our energy efficiency.
i want an international agreement in place as soon as possible but i have concerns about the nature of such an agreement.
we have got to save our resources.
i wonder how long it is going to be before some of the developing countries overtake the poorest european countries.
i wish i had more conviction that within the commission there was agreement that this really should be considered and done.
i am not sure she has the full backing of the college.
thirty i want us to see carbon prices rise so we drive forward the low carbon investments in the future.
china is planning on reducing its carbon intensity by forty five over the next decade.
we have got to become more competitive.
i look at the climate change conferences the enthusiasm with which saudi arabia supports the idea of carbon capture and storage being put in the cdm.
that means investment in new power stations replacing the old ones; it means improving its energy efficiency. there is a real difficulty here in that if we cannot compete with the chinese now how are we going to compete with a more energy efficient china in years to come?
but maybe we need a fallback position?
it is therefore of high importance to re establish europe's leading position within the international climate negotiations by introducing the climate diplomacy principle and for the european union and its member states to define and implement a principle of climate justice advocating therefore an equity clause in future international climate negotiations.
new innovative sources of revenue such as a financial transaction tax green funds or private sources will be necessary to raise the money required in order to implement climate change adaptation and mitigation projects and to achieve green growth which contributes to a good life for citizens and fair growth.
mr president speaking in a personal capacity let me remind colleagues that the public has lost faith in man made global warming.
voters are sick of being blamed for climate change and are no longer prepared to pay for it.
recent minor climate changes are entirely consistent with well established long term natural climate cycles. copenhagen failed for the same reason that cancn will fail.
the usa with its new republican majority in the house will not buy cap and trade.
india and china will not forego progress in the name of climate alarmism.
our green policies are probably unnecessary certainly ineffectual and ruinously expensive.
if europe acts alone we will destroy our economies and impoverish our grandchildren while making no impact on climate.
we are embracing poverty by choice in the name of a disputed scientific theory.
it is time to change course.
what is your advice to me if i come from a member state where workers make about eur two hundred and fifty to three hundred a month without any labour protection in factories owned by for example your member state and other old' member states?
do you think we can all speak the same language?
its exports to the south have been reduced severely.
quite right it is an instrument to achieve political union. the report claims that it will achieve sustainable growth and a high level of employment but it admits that unemployment in the twenty seven has risen by fifty from two. thousand and eight to two thousand and twelve in those countries for which the euro is overvalued mass unemployment and negative growth are directly attributable to eurozone membership. if they were to leave the zone they would experience export led growth and a fall in their unemployment.
the euro led recession in the south has not left the north unscathed.
more control and austerity measures will not reduce debt.
the question of whether a single voice in international institutions for the core only will be the best solution might emerge.
we need better supervision and we can achieve that all together.
that is why i am concerned about some of the proposals we are discussing because we are risking more fragmentation rather than unity regarding developing the opportunities of the single market.
we need moral stability in public finances and we have the rules for that but now we need to ensure that everyone is following that.
that we are underestimating the strengths and opportunities of the european union we have. it is the genuine achievement of all the member states that united and integrated and it is the world's biggest economy but we are not able to make it
just because we have a tax at european level that does not mean that it is free for the european citizens.
we need to have an entrepreneurial single market at european level where the commissioner here is responsible and doing his utmost but also at the member state level.
we need to have lower taxes in order to become competitive not new taxes.
we need better crisis management of banks and we can achieve that.
i think in the end if we do not do it right we are risking a weaker europe with more fragmentation instead of a stronger europe using all the opportunities.
the world's biggest and most dynamic market.
we should enable ourselves to exercise meaningful parliamentary scrutiny and i would like to add here as well that although parliament should reflect the cultural diversity of europe we should not actually be speaking on behalf of the member states.
so far we have worked under the diplomatic method with the tradition of diplomatic discretion but now we need transparency we need openness we need to enable citizens to watch what we are doing.
so i do think that we need a roadmap towards adequate and democratic banking supervision.
it cannot cover the non banking sector;
finally about banking supervision i would still like to emphasise that although there is a need to move quickly to set up the banking union we all know as we are working on the proposals that they are not sufficient in the long term. i think that we need now already to have a long term perspective because we know that the ecb
a second issue that we need to look at again which is not a nice luxury extra is transparency.
increasingly intergovernmental and increasingly outside any treaty structures.
that is not the way to go.
no democratic legitimacy is a precondition for solving the situation we are in.
in this respect i have to say that i am extremely worried when i see that the european union has taken major steps ahead over the last three years but in an increasingly undemocratic non transparent way;
we have a democratic crisis and the issue of democratic legitimacy is not a nice little extra that we can do once the economic crisis is over.
if we want to solve the situation if we want to make that leap ahead into the future then the democratic crisis is the first thing that we need to solve and i think there are some interesting elements in the report.
i would like to start by addressing the so called fourth pillar democratic legitimacy because i think that this is an issue which is under exposed.
i think one of the things that we need to look at very closely is individual accountability of european commissioners accountability before this parliament.
and i have too my question marks over the concentration of power.
cannot cover everything.
in a democratic political union transparency is key to accountability.
for fiscal union you will not restore confidence in public sector finances without greater transparency on public sector debts.
the so called single rule book' is not a level playing field it has many exemptions for big member states it does not meet global standards and it does not end the dangerous feedback loop between sovereigns and banks.
eighteen months ago member states agreed to greater transparency but many countries including big countries are still not delivering.
mr president as an economist i understand the intellectual arguments that for the euroszone's monetary union to work it also needs fiscal union and banking union but the reality seems somewhat different to me.
at the same time for fiscal discipline to hold solid democratic legitimacy is necessary based on an enlightened political culture of civic responsibility.
at this stage in the development of the eu fiscal policy has to remain national because full democratic legitimacy exists only at national level.
setting budgets imposing taxes and redistributing income are inalienable components of national sovereignty.
that includes also the right of states to go bankrupt while other states should maintain the right of refraining from bailing out bankrupt ones.
we find ourselves in the current financial mess in large part due to the inefficiency of the european institutions. angela merkel recognised this by deciding to act intergovernmentally instead of interinstitutionally during all the peaks of the crisis.
now we are being asked to empower the same institutions to be the supervisors of this new european monetary union which will also result in an additional burden to taxpayers.
in a nutshell this will entail more staff and even more money and will further remove powers from national supervisors while the main problems remain unresolved.
the most important thing we as parliamentarians can do on this wide reaching proposal is to guarantee legal certainty as far as possible.
in the us the overarching financial crisis legislation dodd frank has come under huge legal scrutiny. a few months ago the cftc which was charged with writing rules under dodd frank lost their legal case around position limits because the political agreement had been to look at where the position limits were necessary whereas the cftc had interpreted this as implementing them without consideration of necessity.
the wrongs and rights of this case are obviously up to the us legal system.
however there are lessons to be learned about how political compromises can lead to legal battles in the court.
banking union will seek to supervise the eurozone's largest banks.
these banks have large legal teams which they will not hesitate to use.
unintended consequences need to be kept to a minimum and cross cutting legislative issues identified and addressed in advance.
above all else we must shy away from political fudges and ensure that we create a stable and legal framework that will truly stabilise the financial system.
i am not an ambassador for my country i am an elected representative.
i was elected on a political programme in order to represent a political view of europe.
there are some political parties in the government of my country that i may disagree with so how could i speak on behalf of my whole country?
i think we all have different political views here;
we represent the interests of all european citizens including the ones living in your country.
mr martin if you take a look around the world where do you see prosperity rising and where do you see poverty?
prosperity is rising where there are open economies free trade and entrepreneurial room for new activities all over the world.
what we really need is a credible federal economic government clearly responsible for and to taxpayers and delivering sustainable fiscal and economic policy.
without europe and the euro we are sunk as a continent but neither can we continue as a union as though nothing was wrong except a few greedy bankers budgeting discipline will not solve the problem.
as a member from ireland i would like to remind the house that political irony is a trait much appreciated in ireland. jonathan swift the author of gulliver's travels once proposed to the british government that the way of solving poverty in ireland was to encourage us to eat our babies.
already the financial institutions are resisting the regulations we need to prevent a future meltdown.
we need more integration of our social and economic and climate and energy policies with the objective of job retention and creation with decent living and working conditions.
well i do not think the historical irony of the united kingdom independence party proposing to come to ireland to campaign for the independence of the united kingdom from the european union will be lost on the people of ireland as a subject for a good belly laugh.
we need more than ever now a recommitment to the millennium development goals and more immediately mr president in office i regret you did not call for an immediate lifting of the siege of gaza or indicate any wish to re energise the search for peace alongside president obama.
they need workable and defined legislative timetables prioritisation of legislation and proper consultation.
mr president i would like to congratulate the swedish presidency for prioritising economic challenges. whilst we have economic uncertainty our ability to face any of our other challenges is obviously diminished.
these industries are as we all know global industries.
but restoring health to financial institutions is also key to regaining the confidence of consumers and returning economic growth let alone taxpayers' money.
the capital the talent and the individual enterprises are highly fluid.
in your priorities you discuss the importance of the supervisory framework. i would add that regulatory clarity is vital.
i welcome your commitment to work alongside the g twenty because if we get out of step and go unilateral in the eu we risk not only putting borrowers and investors at a competitive disadvantage but also causing industries to relocate outside.
you are right to prioritise the need to restore public finances the extraordinarily high levels of public debt pose great and long term threats that unless we face up to them now may be with us for many decades.
the european union's collective action has led to an unprecedented fiscal effort that is producing concrete results. we have also shown solidarity amongst member states for instance by doubling the ceiling for balance of payments support for non eurozone member states to eur fifty billion.
dealing with the economic crisis and negotiating an ambitious international agreement on climate change in copenhagen.
i believe it is essential to prioritise measures that limit unemployment and get people back to work.
we need to put into practice the shared commitment to youth and to employment. of course responsibility for labour market policies lies with member states but we can and should use existing european instruments to help member states keep people in employment and train them for the jobs of the future.
moving all these dossiers forward over the next six months is essential to build a new economy because let us make no mistake the post crisis economy cannot and will not be the same as the pre crisis economy.
changes to our governing treaty are absolutely necessary to equip the enlarged european union to work democratically and effectively.
with the proposals already made many of them already approved by this parliament and by the council some still in our decision making process we are indeed taking the lead globally in the reform of the financial international system.
in september the commission will put its proposals for financing on the table so that we can build a european consensus and negotiate with others. the climate change agenda is of course closely linked with another priority energy security.
concerning climate change europe is already the first region in the world to implement far reaching legally binding climate and energy targets.