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what is happening there is completely different from what is happening in libya.
second i have established a task force to draw together our work and bring in the european investment bank the ebrd other international financial institutions and other international partners to turn commitments into reality to synchronise and work closely together.
un. i now want to turn to two kingdoms morocco and jordan where the eu supports and encourages the strong commitment to reform.
made. but we need to remain vocal and strong in order that the national dialogue can finally get under
the goal is clear the promotion of what i call deep and sustainable democracy' and with it economic prosperity.
but i do not underestimate the fact that there is much more to
they know that we will stay with them over time.
it has financial backing to match in the form of an extra eur.
we have a strong position from which to move forward based on the council conclusions a united position.
in algeria the state of emergency has been lifted and the president's promises of reform now need to become action something i raised with foreign minister medelci recently when we met at the eu algeria association council.
in tunisia and egypt we see the evidence of the economic upheavals of the last months.
the changes in the surrounding neighbourhood the speech of president obama in may the moves towards palestinian reconciliation the approaching un general assembly all those bring a renewed focus on the possibility of talks and a solution.
support. but i do not need to tell honourable members just how difficult the situation is in yemen and how concerned and alarmed we are by events on the
we continue to work for a political resolution to the conflict in the contact group which will meet in istanbul this week and in the cairo group where at our instigation we continue to work with the un secretary general and the special envoy mr al khatib the arab league the african union and the organisation of the islamic cooperation where we prepare for the days weeks and months after gaddafi leaves.
that is why for instance we are supporting a major egyptian social housing initiative and why we are launching a major programme to support the poorest areas in the greater cairo region as well as a eur twenty million programme to support egyptian civil society.
we need to support them practically by offering our resources and politically by making it clear that we expect to see their engagement.
yemen. crippled by political stalemate and worsening humanitarian and economic conditions the only way forward as i discussed with the president before he was injured and as we continue to send messages from our delegation is a truly inclusive political transition in line with what the gulf cooperation council have put forward in their initiative.
there. but there is no question that if yemen is to move forward that transition has to begin
individual approaches to individual countries depending on circumstances and aspirations and offering more support for more reform.
i talked with deputy prime minister el gamal who is leading the electoral process and the drafting of the constitution.
we do not yet know what a un resolution might say and what reaction it might bring.
the eu was the first to offer a serious response to the arab spring with our partnership communication in march.
when i was in egypt a few days ago i talked to shopkeepers to people in the streets and to people running hotels.
we applaud the consensus that was reached on the date for the elections and the fact that the principle of male female parity for the lists of candidates has been retained. i am concerned that the voice of women should continue to be heard and their engagement certain.
we will continue to work closely with our partners with the united states and with the council to try to unblock the situation and find a solution. as president saleh begins to recover he must transfer power and follow through on his commitment to the transition.
i am delighted to have stefan fle with me today my close and trusted partner in conceiving this new policy and on ensuring delivery on our promises.
support for civil society and for the preparation of october's constituent assembly elections is well under way.
honourable members this parliament is unique in what it can offer those in search of democracy.
i saw that an independent international commission of inquiry into the events of the past few months has now been established.
first to enhance our effectiveness presence and visibility i have appointed an eu special representative for the southern mediterranean bernardino len.
i have been in close touch with foreign minister davotoglu of turkey to offer support in the future should they need that and to discuss with him the political situation.
the office is now up and running and experts are arriving each week working to see how we can support the security needs of the people and build the capacity of civil society.
security reform and regional development programmes are also in motion.
since we last met i have increased our sanctions twice.
ago. we see trials lacking in due process the handing down of death sentences and the disgraceful treatment of doctors who have tried to help those in
so now is the time for all of us for the institutions and the member states to deliver on those shared objectives.
our eu delegation remains on the ground in damascus meeting every day with individuals and groups working with other representatives and sending out our messages.
many of you know only too well the challenges of building democracy fighting for causes and working for people. you have much to offer the people that i have met all over the region who long for greater dialogue and for the opportunity to meet with as many of you as
need. there may be some steps in the right direction.
our delegation in ankara has been visiting the refugees who have arrived over the border in turkey in their thousands.
last week my team was in new york coordinating our work on libya with the un.
i have continued to make our voice heard worked with our international partners and sought action at the security council with the objective of sending a single message to stop the violence create the dialogue and prepare for change.
we know full well that democracy is hollow without food safety and jobs.
but let us be clear any dialogue has to be inclusive and that means the opposition taking part and all participating without fear.
i have consistently stressed the need for the crossings to open to provide what people need and to ensure the security that israel needs.
they can. in this way they can find out some of the practical ways in which democracy has taken root in your countries and in this european union and how you have overcome the challenges. i know that you will be generous in your support for those who are finding their own path to democracy and their own
all tell me the same story that revenues in tourism and foreign direct investment have fallen and that they need support to revive and sustain the economy.
there is a fear expressed to me that having taken part in their revolutions their place in their future is not guaranteed.
since then the envoys have met intensively and for the first time with the negotiators from both sides.
ago. finally this past weekend there was good news from morocco with a referendum endorsing the new constitution on saturday. the reforms proposed are a significant response to the legitimate aspirations of the moroccan people. i now hope that moroccan citizens will remain at the centre of the implementation
we have made it clear that we are ready alongside our international partners to provide further humanitarian political and practical
we have been asked to deploy an election observation mission and will do so.
we condemn without reservation those acts of violence and repression.
you are the representatives of democracy you demonstrate the power of the citizen and the qualities of open debate and freedom of expression.
that reality is about the democracy and the economy we wish to see on the ground.
that brings us to the search for peace in the middle east between israel and palestine.
we are ready to help egypt reform its security sector and we have offered eu election observation and assistance and support for democracy.
the un the us and russia responded to my letter requesting a quartet meeting which will take place in washington on monday.
in stefan's words more for more'.
an eminent lawyer it falls to him to sort out a constitution that in my words will be the guardian for the people'. similarly in tunisia i met with foreign minister kefi on friday.
but perhaps our greatest concern is for the people of syria who are denied the right to play their part in the charting their country's future.
but i am clear that my energies should focus on using this time to get the talks moving and on that the european union is united.
his task will be to assist us in strengthening the eu's political influence in the region in dialogue with governments civil society and international organisations and to cooperate closely with the european parliament.
to this we should add a sum in the region of eur seven eight billion the result of the concerted efforts i initiated to unlock new investment funds from the european investment bank and the european bank for reconstruction and development.
lie. i am encouraged that having spoken to the prime minister of israel in the last few days meetings are now taking place on the ground.
he is now part of the problem and not the solution and he should stay in saudi arabia and sign the gcc brokered agreement and pave the way for free elections and a successor.
i welcome this week the independence of south sudan and hope that khartoum also a member of the arab league will not try to destabilise africa's newest nation which needs all the help it can get from the european union.
we must help stabilise this key country's economy.
egypt deserves credit for prosecuting former president mubarak and his family for corruption.
egypt needs massive eu direct aid and loan finance now from the eib and ebrd.
the ecr hopes to see a new president emerge in september who can restore egypt's rightful place as leader of the arab world.
its military has generally shown wisdom and restraint in its handling of the political vacuum in the country.
lastly i thank the high representative and her staff for all their good work and commitment to supporting the arab spring and stabilising the eu southern neighbourhood.
i also welcome the constitutional reforms in morocco to diminish the king's powers but hope the situation in western sahara can also be settled peacefully with the referendum for independence.
a wounded gaddafi being allowed to stay in power would be a disaster as he would plot revenge against his own people and also western targets.
the arrest and torture of children is particularly sickening in syria and although i too am concerned by reports of salafist jihadi groups now joining the protesters this cannot be used by the regime as an excuse to murder innocent protesters.
that is something we should encourage for these regions because they are special.
mr president during the volcanic ash crisis it took me two days to get home to my own country because of the fact that there is no land link and no tunnel between ireland and england.
that would apply to my own situation in the south of ireland all the way up along the west coast to pat the cope's donegal.
i strongly believe that the eu must now respond by introducing concrete measures at an early date. under the resolution i suggested that there should be a greater emphasis on the important economic sectors on which these communities rely heavily.
these small vessels are of extreme importance to peripheral areas where there is no alternative source of employment.
thirdly i would like to ask the commission to look carefully into eu two thousand and twenty and especially its flagship initiatives to identify priorities of particular importance for these territories with specific developmental features.
reaching out through the model of strategic environmental assessment could be of help here.
territory proofing should become part of good practice in the union.
secondly you spoke commissioner about the inter service group on territorial cohesion.
i would like therefore to strongly support the idea of territorialisation of the impact assessment instrument.
the treaty calls on the community to take into account in its policies territories with specific features which entail particular development challenges both in terms of problems to be solved and of opportunities to be exploited. in this context let me raise three issues. first territorial impact assessment. this issue has been on the european agenda for years. i would like to call on the commission to include the territorial dimension in the impact assessment procedure for european initiatives.
there is more than enough dynamism excitement and enthusiasm across our islands in scotland mountainous areas and various places to help them heal themselves.
i would pay tribute to colleagues across the chamber who have worked so hard to bring this subject onto the agenda because commissioner while i very much welcome your presence here and welcome your statement all the action in terms of actually setting the pace on implementing article one hundred and seventy four and making it useful has taken place within this parliament.
the rules that we are operating with do not fit the specificities of the communities we are talking about and they often deliver perverse results.
the geography be that being an island be that having mountains be that being sparsely populated is actually irrelevant.
you have a very enthusiastic partner in making article one hundred and seventy four work for our citizens because it sets us a challenge in terms of demonstrating real eu added value for some of the most diverse and disparate communities we have within our union.
like the previous two speakers my colleagues from ireland i know the areas that have been suffering for many generations.
populations are shifting to urban areas;
there is a lack of economic opportunities for young people we could go on all day about the issues facing them.
i believe that it is time that we recognise that cohesion policy despite many successes and very noble efforts has not fully succeeded in providing economic development across the union especially for these areas.
i would hope that the response of the eu to this problem will lead to real concrete differences by addressing the basis of this inequality and very importantly by adapting to modern needs such as the communications area and especially next generation broadband which i believe is a huge issue.
access to communications is going to be the next big challenge;
it is time to ensure we give these communities an economic lifeline.
therefore i welcome the proposals in the motion for a resolution. in my short contribution i wanted to focus on the role of local government and regional government because it is clear that whatever strategies projects or programmes are put in place they will be prepared implemented delivered and managed by regional and local authorities.
that is right because this is the level of government which is closest to the ground and the closest to the people.
therefore it is also right that they are involved at all stages of any programme or initiative.
so i would hope the commission would bear this in mind and put in place mechanisms to ensure the full involvement of local and regional government and i am sure that they in turn will ensure the development of our communities and regions.
and the rest are not to receive any benefit.
commissioner my constituents in argyll believe this to be unfair and unjust;
two thousand and nine however we have not been able to confirm the information referred to.
the commission shares the concerns of parliament about recent signs of a more hard line attitude of the government of vietnam on human rights.
we believe in constructive engagement. however in order for such engagement to remain a sustainable option dialogue and cooperation need to show tangible results.
this marks a significant step towards achieving freedom of association and allowing civil society a role in the development of the country.
regarding other lao hmong in camps in thailand a proper screening should be undertaken in order to determine the status of the offences.
let me now turn to vietnam.
there will be no better demonstration that dialogue is the best option than vietnam's own performance.
in april the laos government approved a decree allowing the formation and registration of national civil society organisations.
and catholic priest father nguyen van ly who are currently in detention for having peacefully expressed their views.
mr president vietnam and laos sadly remain the only vestiges along with cuba and the people's republic of china of one party communist dictatorships where parliamentary democracy pluralism of debate including freedom of the media and internet blogging and peaceful practice of religion are alien concepts.
we welcome you as a true representative of a democratic africa.
the same might be said of ten out of the thirteen other so called csdp missions which are purely civilian in nature.
i go further the police training mission in afghanistan has been a catalogue of errors.
may i just say that i hope other prime ministers will support the british prime minister tomorrow when he calls for cuts in the eu budget.
therefore we call for caution while applying restrictions on citizens' free use of cyber space which has two billion globally connected users.
some important points were made in this report. we need a coordinated assessment of cyber attacks on the eu level.
and to create synergies at the eu levels.
our main message to the commission is to come forward with a comprehensive eu cyber security strategy providing a common definition of cyber security and defence as well as a common operating vision to enhance horizontal cooperation and coordination of cyber security
there are signals that the commission is in the course of preparations and i hope that today's report will encourage the commission to complete its preparations.
it is a powerful instrument for mediating freedom and also fighting dictatorships. at the same time we realise that security and defence problems ultimately have to be addressed by the national governments.
private public cooperation is a key factor.
the lisbon treaty creates new provisions for implementing csdp activities.
in the external action service it could also be done in the same way as the recently appointed special representative on human rights.
the shadow rapporteurs from all the political groups worked hard and many succeeded in convincing their political groups to support these ideas whereas others disagreed and gave substantial reasons for their objections.
secondly another idea was to use the generally acknowledged perception that climate change is a threat multiplier and to use it as a platform to introduce more cooperation between member states and the respective military in particular up to forming a joint engineering corps for the european union.
that is why i believe our debate is very timely.
it comes after hurricane sandy but more importantly it comes simultaneously with a non paper by the cyprus presidency on the need to develop the military capacity of the eu which aims to have a decision made by the council during the year.
only later i discovered that this might have happened because i am only a former soviet sergeant but he has the experience of a brigadier.
we ended up with seventeen compromises out of one hundred and fifty amendments. i would like to thank all the shadows for their contributions which made the report clearer and better sometimes less ambitious but at the same time more pragmatic and closer to the democratic consensus which we cherish in this house.
i would like to thank her for her participation in making this report.
that is why this report also describes tools which could be used for example in policy planning with a coherent and logical approach to defence adapted to security challenges that we in europe will have to face in decades to come.
also the mainstreaming of potential effects of climate on security into the most important strategies policy documents and financial instruments would be a success in my opinion.
their role can and should be enhanced in assisting our member states in helping to pool and share the existing experience and in developing a good practice guide. finally with regard to international cooperation i think the role of the eu and especially the commission
they only support and amend them helping the member states to deal successfully with a situation invoking the clauses. in other words the report is about solidarity.
moreover nato responsible for the security of twenty one of the twenty seven eu member states is confronted with the american reorientation towards asia forcing europe to manage the consequences through increasing their contribution to nato and strengthening the eu security and defence dimension.
to that effect the report advocates the cohesion of the eu's pooling and sharing and nato's smart defence initiatives;
the report arguing for the best use of such instruments like the civil protection mechanism the internal security strategy and the capacities of the external action service supports the ongoing review of the emergency and crisis coordination arrangement and the development of an integrated situational awareness.
on the other hand the solidarity clause is an addition following the multiplication of natural and man made disasters both within and outside the eu.
we also call on the commission and the high representative before the end of two thousand and twelve to make the joint proposal for a council decision defining the arrangements for the implementation of the solidarity clause clarifying in particular the roles and competences of different actors.
in turn the solidarity clause is meant to address the situations where the national capacities of a state to deal with a certain disaster are overwhelmed to maintain a balance between preparedness and flexibility and to avoid the phenomenon of free riding when one prefers to rely more on others than on oneself.
what the report names the mutual defence clause because in the treaty on european union it is nameless although it deals with measures in case of external armed aggression is a provision imported from the treaty of brussels establishing the western european union which after lisbon has been embedded into the eu's legal basis.
this way the eu mechanisms do not substitute for the national ones.
to those we answer with a rush to slash our defence budgets making life miserable for the defence planners be they from nato or the eu.
you are all aware that the president of the european council has decided to put defence on the agenda of the european council at the end of december.
eutm somalia played an important role in this positive development as three thousand somali soldiers will be trained by the end of this year and they are taking up their responsibility for somalia's security.
indeed in these trying economic times these cannot be stressed enough.
the challenge is to enhance early warning and move to early preventive action.
there have only been five successful attacks this year compared to twenty five last year and forty seven in.
in addition to the three csp operations and on the basis of a jointly agreed strategic framework for the region there is strong political engagement support for amisom through the african peace facility development cooperation and humanitarian aid.
the report by mr kelam sets out the imminent need for stepping up eu wide preventive measures and to improve horizontal cooperation within the eu institutions and agencies.
and adaptation.
we look forward to continuing our work with you in our joint efforts to protect the security of our citizens and make the european union an increasingly effective contributor to global peace and security.