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to ask. so may i conclude by saying once again how much i appreciate all that you have done to support our people in their endeavours to live with their conscience freely and
we are all one because of our shared common human values based on the belief that we have the right to the birthright of every human being which is a dignified and secure existence.
at all? ' i want them to ask every kind of question;
world. i am confident that the young people of burma now will one day be valued citizens of the world helping to promote those rights and those achievements of which professor sakharov would have approved.
security freedom dignity if we had these three we could say that it has been worthwhile being born into this world and i would like all the young people of burma and all over the world to be able to feel that it was right that they have been born into this
we want to be able to learn to sort out our differences;
races. we all have to come together and create unity out of diversity so that the destiny that we build may be one that is right not just for now but for generations
destiny. we want to be able to decide what we think is best for ourselves.
world. i would not like our young people to ask this question why were we born
proudly. i would like to say that there will come a time when our people too can make our own contribution to the
thing; and always to remember that ultimately we are one whether we are europeans or asians or whether we are africans australians or americans.
but for them to question why they have been born into a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear that is not the kind of question i would wish anybody
destiny. when the fathers of the independence movement were working to free our country from colonial rule they said we want the right to shape our own destiny'.
to come. and as we work to achieve such an end we hope that you will be with us to point out our mistakes whenever we need to know that we have made mistakes;
behind. but now we are on the road towards democracy.
freedom of thought begins with the right to ask questions and our people in burma have not had this right for so long that some of our young people do not quite know how to ask questions.
because you are in a position to be able to think freely and to be able to live in accordance with your conscience you have great power you have great strength in your endeavours to help our people to engage in freedom of thought and to be able to live in accordance with their conscience.
i accept the concept that respect for yourself must be at the foundation of respect for others.
mr president this is for me a joyous and a deeply meaningful occasion
so this is the kind of society in which we had to live for many years.
this is very natural because my father was a founder of the army and i was brought up to love it and to look upon it as our family.
if we stop freedom of thought we stop progress in our world.
we are in the age of globalisation which has its drawbacks and problems but it also has great advantages in that nowhere in the world can people ignore what other people think.
you wake up and say to yourself now which one of my many imperfections shall i work on today?
if you do not have this curiosity and if you do not have the intelligence to be able to express this curiosity in terms that others can understand then we will not be able to contribute towards progress in our world.
that i think we admit we recognise.
these are the freedoms that are recognised as most important by the community of nations as reflected in the united nations charter of human rights.
you in the european union are fortunate to have been born in countries well perhaps you were not born in those countries but you have made those countries the kind of countries where you could live as dignified human beings.
i had become familiar with professor sakharov through the writings of others as well as through his own writings.
i think professor sakharov would agree that if we are to be firmly on the road to democracy that is to say if we are to adopt a system that respects the will of the people it would not do to have a constitution that subjects the people to the authority of one particular organisation an unelected organisation which is the military. i have often
this we have managed to do because of the solidarity not just of our own people but of the world at large.
instead our party was repressed.
society. unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them
you have to know why the world is the way it is or you have to want to know.
our goals are very simple.
we need those who believe
this was something that we could not accept.
our people are just beginning to learn that freedom of thought is possible but we want to make sure that their right to think freely and to live in accordance with their conscience is preserved.
our people simply want to live in dignity and in peace.
harder. our people will have to do the greater part of the work but i believe that all of you can help us in our endeavours.
so i would like to take this opportunity as i thank you for the sakharov prize to say that i hope you will be our friends in our continuing endeavour to achieve democratic rights for our
and i got into the habit of always smelling the books before i read them.
' we had to teach them their basic rights and we had to say to them that if somebody came to arrest them in the middle of the night they had the right to ask do you have a warrant?
we still have to work very hard before the basic law of the land which is the constitution will guarantee us the right to live in accordance with our conscience.
it is the values that count most of all the value of freedom of thought the value of democratic practices the value of respect for your fellow human beings.
there were those who told us that we should give up because we were trying to achieve the unachievable but i have never thought that anything that human beings wanted to achieve for the society in which we live was beyond reach.
guarantee that our people can live in human dignity as far as it is possible for human beings to do
us to be and he would have wished us to be in a place where freedom of thought was the birthright of every single citizen of our country.
for the democratisation of our country.
but it is more important that we work on the imperfections of societies and of laws and practices that truly hurt us as human beings and that erode the foundation of human dignity.
that was the year in which the first democratic elections in over two decades were held in my country.
this was for me the beginning of a very pleasurable few hours reading a new book.
we are not capable of producing a system that is perfect.
to say that the democratic revolution started in burma before it started in the czech republic or slovakia or romania
mr president i just wanted to send a message before the president of france and the president of the parliament leave about the difficulties that we are about to experience from one april in actually getting to strasbourg at all since the french authorities and air france have cancelled all flights
perhaps this could be taken up with the president before he leaves strasbourg in his private jet.
this report includes many important aspects and we as greens hope that we can vote in favour of it.
i hope it does not go that far and that we can have a strong and widely supported report to offer to the commission and to the member states as our contribution.
every woman should have access to shelters to free legal aid and to psychological aid.
i hope this report will be considered an important contribution to the victims' package that the commission has promised us and that the victims' package will in turn be one of the aspects of a europe wide comprehensive strategy that includes victim support but also other aspects of the struggle against violence.
for example we need to protect migrant women who do not have an independent residence permit and are extra vulnerable.
but if recital j and paragraph nineteen stay in which call prostitution a violation of human rights without even distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary prostitution we will have to abstain.
that gives us a common goal to make real progress in the coming years.
this report shows that the european parliament considers that immediate action to combat violence against women is not only necessary but urgently needed. the commission must acknowledge that all arguments point to the fact that eu wide measures and instruments have to be introduced.
we know that throughout the union huge discrepancies exist in member states' legislation to combat violence against women.
we have seen signs of commitment towards the eradication of all forms of violence and an efficient policy framework at eu level notably within the women's charter which you presented last year and the communication on the implementation of the stockholm programme.
nevertheless many member states have failed in implementing efficient legislation to protect women from all forms of violence and discrimination and we are now seeing that the core values of our union do not apply to half its citizens. therefore we now call on the commission to come up with a dedicated legislative proposal.
a set of minimum requirements must be drawn up and incorporated into a legislative act which should be part of a comprehensive strategy addressing all forms of gender based violence.
this strategy and policy initiative should also be complemented by broad awareness raising activities.
i am thinking in particular about a european year on combating all forms of violence against women for which we are currently collecting citizens' signatures.
as i outlined in my introduction we are planning several measures on this.
we are also following very closely the finalisation right now of the council of europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in order when it is ready to propose to the council that the european union adhere to it which would then make it legally binding in the areas where the european union has competence. i would also like to mention two other proposals that
the problem is as you have all outlined enormous and it is a shame that women and girls in our european union are afraid on a daily basis.
we need to act and we need to act where we can see concrete results.
this is surely one of the most horrendous violations of human rights.
i would like to congratulate those very few but still brave men who have contributed to this debate because violence against women is not a women's issue it is a human rights issue.
we can only achieve results here if we work together men and women to combat this horrendous phenomenon.
thank you very much mrs svensson for your very moving introduction on this extremely important subject.
combating violence against women is a very high priority for the commission as is shown by the gender equality strategy.
there is still as you show a very big problem of violence against women in europe and for that reason we are working on focused actions to address this issue.
we will develop a clear and coherent policy response to tackle this problem in europe.
i welcome your report mrs svensson and i welcome this important initiative;
it provides the possibility to cooperate exchange views and create synergies between what the commission is doing and what the european parliament is doing in order to define future action in this area.
a number of points that you raise in the report are actually covered by ongoing and planned actions of the commission on combating violence against women.
to maximise our impact we are focusing on concrete actions in an area where we have a clear legal basis to act in the lisbon treaty.
in the forthcoming victims' rights package we will notably address the protection of particularly vulnerable victims such as women but also children.
this package will be presented next month. every victim of crime needs assistance in the aftermath of a crime and to cope with any proceedings that follow.
women are of course particularly vulnerable if they have suffered violence in their home rape or sexual abuse stalking or other kinds of gender based violence.
they need to be treated with respect and knowledge when they come into contact with people and the justice system.
these women also need specialised support and protection and should be given access to justice and compensation.
the current legal framework in the eu does not provide for a minimum level of treatment for victims throughout the eu irrespective of where they have been victimised and that is why the commission intends to act to strengthen the position of victims in europe.
we are thus presenting as a first step a package of legislative measures on the rights protection and support of victims of crime and the mutual recognition of protection measures.
specific focus in this will be given to vulnerable victims such as victims of sexual and domestic violence.
the commission will also provide for the mutual recognition of protection measures which will benefit especially victims suffering repeated violence from a spouse partner or member of their close family.
with this package the commission will make sure that in europe no woman crossing the borders and benefiting from a protection measure be it of an administrative civil or criminal nature is left behind. our package will set out a general framework which would then be completed in the course of this mandate by other instruments focusing on the specific needs of certain types of victims.
for instance the commission is concerning taking stronger action to combat female genital mutilation as you also mention in your report.
in parallel with our actions in the criminal justice area we will work for the empowerment of women awareness raising and the collection and analysis of statistics on violence against women.
the commission will draw on the work by the european institute for gender equality which will collect and analyse data and statistics on this subject.
going back to the arsenis report on amendment twenty five one of my colleagues over there requested a roll call vote because he felt it was important.
mr president while you are enjoying yourself with your jokey and unorthodox approach to dealing with requests from the floor for check votes may i humbly submit that if you were to go a little slower the interpretation could keep up with your announcements and we could then vote in a more timely fashion.
on public enforcement and justice of course i think it is very important that we are not going towards lessening this enforcement and of course articles eighty one and eighty two are very important pillars of the eu single market and policies.
the commission is in favour but the precondition or the base for such an approach which would be welcome is an existing and functioning efficient litigation system on damages actions at the level of member states. so i think we need to not only encourage but
i would also like to say that i find it a little odd that we are having this debate late at night when we have a question on the same subject tabled for tomorrow morning.
however in complimenting the report let me say that my group's starting point will be doing justice' doing justice for smes and consumers across the european union where they have to face inappropriate and anti competitive action.
a few weeks ago my group organised a seminar at parliament in brussels and i was very struck by certain of our visitors who were at the sharp end of such anti competitive action ironically in the cement industry.
please please get on with this we need something that will allow us to pursue these inappropriate operators in the european market. we want a european solution and we want it sooner rather than later because if we do not get it my forecast and my warning is this
some of our member states will develop systems that will lead to forum shopping as a result of free movement of judgements.
we agree that measures must be taken to ensure full compensation of those victims.
we also share the view that collective redress is crucial for consumers and small businesses in order to give them a realistic and efficient possibility to obtain compensation in cases of scattered damage. the commission also fully agrees with the econ committee report that excessive or abusive litigation
must be avoided.
finally we fully agree that its approach to collective redress must be consistent and that compatibility must therefore be ensured between initiatives targeted at various areas such as competition law or consumer protection laws.
at the same time the commission welcomes the acknowledgement that a consistent approach to collective redress does not necessarily mean that all areas would have to be dealt with in one single horizontal instrument.
we cannot afford to wait and i am sure i can count on the full support of parliament to ensure the smooth establishment and running of the new agencies.
well the council as co legislator has agreed with parliament to insert in these regulations provisions that aim to ensure that members of the board of supervisors the management board the chairperson and the executive director of each esa are protected by and bound to strict independence so as to act solely
for the council as co legislator it is essential that all the provisions of the regulations are implemented completely and faithfully.
in the interests of the union.
it is our common responsibility to ensure that esas get down to business as soon as possible.
they are an essential part of the eu's response to the challenges posed by the financial crisis.
any comments i make this evening are purely about the process that has been followed to get to this point.
i would ask therefore that future selection processes aim to recruit candidates from the broadest possible pool of talent in order to ensure independent thought and a new diversity in the senior management of such authorities.
to that end salary scales need to be appropriate to the expected seniority of those roles. unnecessary age restrictions or any other criteria outside technical skills and competence should be avoided at all costs.
is creating another level of supervision called esma going to represent an improvement compared with existing supervisory authorities?
i believe that by doing this we are only going to cause confusion about who is responsible for what.
will the supervisory authority produce regulations suitable for the world's largest financial district? i doubt it.
i think instead that the pet theories of the anti market crowd will be adopted and forced upon the city of london. the problems caused by financial activity in recent years were due to rule books being either torn up or ignored by those whose job it was to enforce them.
there is no guarantee that these authorities will do anything better. moreover we have been presented with only one candidate for each post a totally undemocratic exercise.
of course it is the same that was used to appoint the president of the commission the rest of the commissioners and the high representative.
i could go on with a long list.
this is a major blow for our regional economy and for the whole of the uk steel industry.
in two thousand and eleven dutch print workers were able to access those funds providing workers negatively affected by globalisation with the funds needed to support them.
however the tory government in the uk is refusing to apply for this funding.
the european globalisation adjustment fund was established for exactly this sort of situation.
if mr cameron wants to be remembered as a socially compassionate conservative his deeds fly in the face of this practice.
madam president this week the official receiver managing the liquidation of the ssi plant at redcar in my constituency announced the full closure of the site after one hundred and seventy five years of steelmaking two two hundred direct jobs have gone with potentially six zero further job losses in the supply chain.
there is a paper trail showing that joint first minister martin mcguinness was not kept in the loop.
there are allegations over millions paid for fixers' fees political access and sensitive commercial information.
it recently sold its portfolio in the north for a record eur.
we need to know who got the money and what for.
one three billion to us investment giant cerberus.
now installed. the big winners of the crisis are the digital giants and that's why i think it's fair to ask the digital giants to pay part of the debt we are creating now. and another part of this solidarity responsibility is for us all the national
will be so easy. that's why as epp let's be honest
and cohesion. so the plan goes in
on the table. the health programme is upgraded a big signal an important signal in today's
solidarity. it's simply fair to do your homework to be better prepared for the future and in a globalised world we
call it semester. you can call it the need of
main arguments. first of all our companies or your companies cannot be successful without a successful single market so it's in your interest to make the whole european
with the council that the principle that no money can be spent at european level without the approval of the european parliament is also guaranteed from the council side. the proposal is now on the table and we have still to argue to convince. twenty seven member states' parliaments are needed to support this general idea and it's funny to see that in my camp in the epp we have one government we have two socialist governments we have one liberal government the netherlands and even the greens are part of the problem this time because in all three of their governings so it's really good to see that all of us have the same challenge now to convince the others to support the general idea that is still
lost generation
question is what is it for? and one of our principles is with the proposal we guarantee that we are not having fresh money for the old problems of the continent. we have to guarantee that we use fresh money for the new ideas for the fresh future for this continent. another element which was crucial for us in the debates and the preparatory process was the democratic procedures and i thank the commission president for the clear statement. now we have to go to the council and also clarify
internal reforms. i think it is simply fair if you ask your neighbour to help you to practise
to pay it back. and to say that in the next mff having the debates in march in mind when the council tried already to find a common understanding about the mff of today i don't believe that this
need still reforms. there are thousands of other principles which are important
corona time. and the mff there we will still have further discussions and it is about agriculture
perspective. you can
let's be clear. and that means we need own resources for paying back the debt we have
repaid. and my concern is that if we don't get own resources because if one member state opposes we won't get them in the end we will have to use our european budget to actually repay this debt having less money at our disposal to do actual politics and policies. therefore i would like to see a real commitment from the council that we will get own resources in time or that we start a repayment plan within this mff already. we need clarity for this programme to work. and then let me say one thing to madame garca prez. i've just said in dutch my mother tongue because i think it's important that we need to shoulder this proposal all together that we're all in the same boat and that we need to work
together. but if you propose making this a matter of twenty three against four we won't succeed. you will push those four countries into the arms of the extreme right if you say let's do this without unanimity. count on the pro european forces in those countries among which i include myself to get this done but we will have to do it together.