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i am certain that we will overcome all the current and future challenges.
i take it very seriously.
these questions have to be settled before entering the second phase of the negotiations.
we are taking the social pillar very seriously.
i could say it is the cornerstone here.
we must protect the rights of eu citizens in the united kingdom.
we encourage all member states to increase their contributions to this fund.
in addition to strengthening defence cooperation with the european union we must continue to move forward with eu nato cooperation.
there is no doubt that security and defence are top priorities for europe.
we will be at the service of the member states and work closely with all eu institutions involved.
i would like to stress once more that we are fully committed to finding solutions to the refugee crisis.
the issues are difficult but we are working towards a common solution.
the european union can only be taken seriously as a global player if member states strengthen their own security and defence.
we must also take into account the interconnected nature of our internal and external security challenges.
some words about security and terrorism.
we are highly committed to doing our share.
some words about the social pillar.
the second urgent question is the financial settlement and the third is the border issues with ireland.
we will work very closely with you honourable members of the european parliament to make sure that citizens are at the heart of everything we do.
the european union has to be strong and united to go forward.
this piece of legislation is rather controversial and estonia still has an opportunity to address such issues as the inappropriate extension of the scope of the directive to social media.
from time to time we are able to welcome distinguished people in the gallery.
so please allow me just to welcome one of them someone who spent sixteen years in prison in cuba mr fuentes who is one of the coordinators of the cuban opposition.
since this commission came into office we have made some real progress towards completing the digital single market having made thirty five proposals since november.
there is no shortage of european innovators and entrepreneurs with new and fresh ideas to bring to a thriving digital market. but europe cannot afford to lose these ideas to other parts of the world because of a lack of opportunities or financing. that is why we are focusing on investments so startups and small businesses can access the financing that they need to scale up and bring their ideas to market.
finding agreement on the european travel information and authorisation system and the entryexit system by the end of the year will be absolutely crucial to ensuring
i say that because it comes at a time when we need to make progress on making the digital part of europe's dna.
how well prepared the presidency team is.
this is also reflected in the programme of the estonian presidency which is fully in line with the joint declaration which the presidents of the three institutions signed at the end of last year.
but in the long term all urban areas as well as major roads and railways across europe should have uninterrupted five g coverage.
the scale of the risks is significant.
that is why i hope we can learn from estonia's experience on cybersecurity.
this moment comes after a long wait for a country that joined the european union some thirteen years ago but good things come to those who wait and europe has many good things to look forward to over the course of the next six months. along with president juncker and my fellow commissioners i was in tallinn last week and saw first hand
achieving that could bring eur one hundred and forty six billion worth of benefits a year and is likely to create.
i know we can rely on your support and expertise on this and on all other broader security issues which i know your presidency has prioritised.
jobs matter to europeans and these are the things that we must focus on. that is why we are also making sure that we are investing in our digital future.
week. that is a very stark reminder and a very clear warning that we cannot take our cybersecurity for granted.
one of your first achievements will be to secure an agreement on extending the fund so it can unlock at least eur.
the next six months are crucial for making our economy digital.
thank you prime minister ratas and you have our good wishes and support.
that is why the european social pillar to be proclaimed during your presidency should be geared to the future and should empower young people in europe.
to provide advance payments to beneficiaries.
latvia is one of the countries which started the implementation of the youth guarantee as of january.
i therefore fully agree with the european parliament that making funding available to member states earlier in the implementation process is a key condition for improving the performance and generating tangible results soon.
in total the initial pre financing made available from the specific allocation for the youth employment initiative will be increased to about eur one billion in. two thousand and fifteen i would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm that the council will continue to actively monitor developments
the increase in funding is complementary to other measures and reforms that member states have to make in order to tackle the different crisis related and structural problems behind the youth employment situation.
in this context the youth guarantee together with the financial provisions of the youth employment initiative are highly relevant both measures seek to support the fight against youth unemployment in the most affected regions namely those with youth unemployment rates above.
this can help to tackle the problem faced by the millions of young europeans who are without a job and who do not have adequate access to education or training.
these groups include in particular young people and among them especially those without proper education and skills.
as we all know the shorter implementation period of the youth employment initiative compared to the multiannual financial framework cycle means that concrete progress in the first years will be crucial for the overall success of the initiative.
the reality is that youth unemployment is still at a very high level in several member states leading to underutilised talents the loss of human resources and in some cases leaving damaging consequences for the rest of the working life.
therefore i am convinced that the honourable members of the european parliament share my view that any further delay in the implementation of the youth employment initiative is likely to weaken the impact of actions undertaken by member states to combat youth unemployment. one of the main obstacles in the implementation of the youth employment initiative is the lack of sufficient cash flow
all in all to significantly reduce unemployment we need to do more to create new
concerning the youth employment situation and the implementation by the member states of the youth guarantee and the youth employment initiative. at the same time we need to keep in mind that the causes behind youth unemployment are complex.
sufficient liquidity at the beginning of the implementation process will allow for faster delivery of the relevant policy measures set out in the national youth guarantee implementation plans. we can be proud that the current amending legislative proposal has been finalised in record time.
the council adopted the draft proposal yesterday. today immediately after your vote we together with president schulz cosigned the text already. after the publication which will occur in the coming week member states will be able to receive pre financing.
two thousand and fourteen we can already see the first results the youth unemployment rate decreased by.
nevertheless it is already clear that more needs to be done.
the presidency wants to highlight the importance and timeliness of the current legislative proposal to accelerate the implementation of the youth employment initiative.
twenty five as a positive example i would like to underscore the experience of latvia.
the initiative was initially proposed by the european council yet at present over one and a half years after expenditure was made eligible member states' use of its resources falls far short of expectations and progress is uneven.
how does it intend to report on progress to the young unemployed to parliament and to other stakeholders involved?
how does the council intend to urgently encourage swift and efficient implementation?
can the council ensure sound funding for the youth employment initiative once the frontloading funds have been used? parliament is expecting a quick efficient and result oriented use of the additional pre financing within twelve months after the entry into force of the amending regulation.
how does the council intend to proceed where those results do not meet expectations even after the current increased pre financing?
what specific hurdles do they face?
two thousand and thirteen yet well over one year into the programme the results on the ground do not meet initial expectations.
the purpose of this initiative is to provide funding to promote youth employment in the most affected regions of the european union including by establishing youth guarantee schemes.
measures designed to allow for a quick uptake of funds have not led to a quick and efficient mobilisation of the youth employment initiative and opportunities to urgently address youth unemployment have been left unused.
with a view to ensuring swift implementation the youth employment initiative was front loaded and expenditure was made eligible as of one september.
can the council promise an assessment of progress six months after the entry into force of the amending regulation?
the member states faced with the highest youth unemployment rates and hardest hit by the crisis are on average lagging behind in using youth employment initiative resources and implementing youth guarantee schemes while long term policies are needed to address this issue.
what measures does the council envisage in order to assure the young unemployed and parliament of this swift use of funds?
besides a lack of liquidity to launch the youth employment initiative an issue now addressed by the proposed substantial increase in pre financing what is holding member states back?
many young people are deprived of taking on a first job and are thus obstructed from assuming independent adult lives. in two thousand and thirteen to urgently help address the situation the youth employment initiative was adopted.
so whatever the statistics tell us what i know is that we still have six and a half thousand sixteen twenty four year olds unemployed in the city of birmingham.
the youth employment initiative has fallen very short of expectations.
i find the court of auditors report very worrying and i particularly welcome the opportunity of an exchange of views with iliana ivanova in the employment committee next week on the eca's special report.
so we need to take a very good look at what is and what is not successful.
the united kingdom government led by these conservatives has now put in a minimal proposition to draw it down a year late.
and of course they refuse to accept the basic rules that apply to everybody else in the union that govern this scheme to enable the money to be drawn down.
there were eur two hundred and six million available to the uk tens of millions of euros available to help put young people in my region of the west midlands back into work.
the result is that young people in the west midlands tens of thousands of them remain unemployed.
this sentence is almost too diplomatic to even be translated but i will try. many members of this parliament including me are simply outraged by the fact that the money allocated to the member states for the youth employment initiative has still after twenty two months not been properly taken up.
the oral question reads results on the ground do not meet initial expectations'.
let me translate this statement briefly and bluntly. neo liberal policies following a deregulation agenda have messed up european economies and created massive levels of youth unemployment in recent years.
so i thought i should explain.
for me it is still far too little but well the eu allocated money to fight youth unemployment that is now supposed to be spent by the member states in the regions most affected by youth unemployment.
as important as this question is i would assume that at least ninety nine of eu citizens do not have a clue what an oral question actually is and what this debate is about.
we as parliamentarians thus use this tool of an oral question to tell the member states very clearly that we need to see action now.
to conclude i would like to underline that member states are currently in the process of submitting structured data reports on the implementation of the youth employment initiative.
at this point in time it is still difficult to fully assess the actual progress on the ground as the reporting cycle at eu level has not yet started.
in any case the council will discuss this issue in more detail at the june session in conjunction with a special report of the court of auditors.
the council considers in line with the european parliament that sufficient liquidity will also allow for a faster implementation of the relevant policy measures set out in the national youth guarantee implementation plans. the new proposal to increase pre financing should contribute to a quicker mobilisation of resources and thus to increasing the capacity of national authorities to launch calls for projects and to process applications more speedily. the additional pre financing will be paid to member states immediately after the entry into force of the amending regulation. a positive impact could be expected soon.
exchange of experience between member states is also important as well as impact evaluation of the measures carried out.
so how does the council intend to urgently encourage swift and efficient implementation?
to sum up the council shares the view that more needs to be done to fight youth unemployment.
i have just mentioned a few examples of measures underway in the council and the commission with the aim to make the system more effective.
these reports will provide an overview also limited of the progress made by member states in the implementation of the youth employment initiative which will feed into the commission's analysis of further measures and into the regular monitoring by the council.
least based on the experience of two thousand and fourteen and with little improvement of the youth employment figures in some of the hardest hit member states it can be expected that this issue will be addressed in the framework of the two thousand and fifteen european semester debate.
and when countries realise that this eu state intervention is not right for their countries what does this parliament seek to do but try to force them to do it the eu way anyway!
it is so simple and straightforward.
we are supposed to be adding value at european level and yet so far unfortunately there seems to be little european added value.
there is plenty of flexibility within the youth employment initiative the possibility to provide traineeships and apprenticeships the provision of first job experience targeted and well designed wage and recruitment subsidies job and training mobility measures and start up support for young entrepreneurs.
as our question says we are expecting a quick efficient and result oriented use of the additional pre financing.
my colleague anthea mcintyre has spoken about the issues raised by the court of auditors in regard to the youth guarantee.
we have already had an exchange of views with the court of auditors and some of these issues need to be addressed the fact that there was no proper ex ante assessment carried out and that member states did not provide accurate and complete information in regard to the source of funding used to support their youth guarantee implementation plans.
that was a debate about helping consumers;
mr president actually there is a connection because if you have a party and drink lots of fruit juices then you have to do the cleaning up afterwards.
the committee voted by forty eight to eight to include dishwashers and we thought good we are improving the situation for everybody.
the big moment of change the turning point came when denmark had a national election and the reluctant government of the right which had been resisting dishwashers changed to a new government.
so we talked closely to the polish presidency who were also magnificent in their enthusiasm and cooperative spirit.
the council worked very hard and we reached a final document which is pretty much the document in front of you here which recommends that both washing machine and dishwasher detergents be included. we then waited with trepidation to see what coreper would actually make of this document we had negotiated and to our enormous pleasure
the council was taken by surprise by this change and did not agree.
i asked to see my own minister in the member state i know best.
i tried again same refusal.
meanwhile keeping in touch with the polish presidency we found things were moving very satisfactorily towards a majority in the council so we embarked on an informal first reading conciliation to try and explore whether we could find grounds for agreement on a single first reading.
the message came back a few weeks ago that coreper had agreed to parliament's position by twenty five member states to.
the commission proposal is to remove phosphates from the detergents which we put into domestic washing machines not controversial all member states appear to agree and the commission produced a very good draft regulation.
the baltic and the danube will be cleaner as well.
it was nice suddenly to get a moment of controversy brought in at the end because this debate has been extremely harmonious.
this will hardly help small businesses all over europe.
well quite frankly we don't want an economic basket case on our frontier. we want to trade with you. we want to do business with you.
damage britain's ability to embarrass the european union by running an effective marketdriven economy rather than the european command economy envisioned by the european project which has failed so miserably in eastern europe over the last fifty years. mr draghi more than anyone as an italian banker should know the precarious
by not organising a proper deal verhofstadt and barnier are threatening the stability of the eurozone.
and it will remain so after brexit.
do you consider that governments are doing enough to reform their pension systems?
the ecb has repeatedly asked for assurances that central bank resources are not being used for financing the state as this is banned under article one hundred and twenty three of the treaties. in two thousand and sixteen in response to a question from my colleague mr bullmann the ecb stated that it was monitoring the situation.
now it is two thousand and eighteen do you consider that the situation in hungary has been remedied or is there evidence of a violation of article? one hundred and twenty three my second question is as follows. in several member states the pension systems show considerable weaknesses and shortcomings and that is contrary to the aim of sustainable public finance.
today while further efforts are needed to overcome its legacy the euro area economy is expanding and employment is rising.
the draft resolution also notes that the independence of the ecb has allowed us to take resolute action within our mandate.
two thousand and sixteen today's debate represents a good opportunity to take stock of progress made and discuss the way forward.
and you as the representatives of the people of the european union are the heart of our accountability.
these positive developments have been fostered and reinforced by the pass through of the ecb's monetary policy measures which have eased funding conditions for households and firms.
as i will explain in more detail for the time being we have little indication that generalised imbalances are emerging.
as we explain in our financial stability review asset price increases in euro area markets have so far not been accompanied by excessive credit growth.
a fully fledged edis is an indispensable counterpart to the single currency as everyone in the euro area should be able to have confidence that the money in their bank account enjoys the same level of protection regardless of where the account is held within the euro
this has helped to strengthen private consumption growth which in turn is boosting business investment.
we are closely monitoring developments in some market segments such as prime commercial real estate and housing markets in some countries and corporate bond markets for lower rated issuers.
one seven that had been foreseen in our december two thousand and sixteen staff projections for the same year.
the growing inclusiveness of this economic expansion is partly due to the renewed vigour of small businesses which are a key engine of income creation in our economy.
that is why at our last meeting we reaffirmed the decisions taken at our october monetary policy meeting last year.
it also fosters cross border financial integration and provides a level playing field by harmonising supervision across the euro
a well designed and effective policy framework requires clear institutional architecture measurable objectives and the tools to achieve them and it needs to be accompanied by strong accountability.
these. are two fundamental pieces of the banking union project and their implementation should not be postponed.
three three percentage points from its highest level.
smes. a more robust financial sector has also allowed us to pursue an accommodative policy for as long as necessary without any build up of significant financial stability risks.
this means more competition for banks including in the field of lending and payment services.
the dispersion of growth rates across countries and across sectors is at its lowest level in twenty years.
despite the improved cyclical environment improved market sentiment and the substantial strengthening of its shock absorption capacity the european banking sector continues to face structural challenges as you also state in your resolution.
let me mention two examples.
these developments bode well for economic growth as expansions tend to be stronger and more resilient when growth is broad based.
your draft resolution also considers several aspects related to the euro financial sector and i would like to follow up on some of them. let me first of all emphasise that our monetary policy and a healthier financial sector are mutually reinforcing.
of. strengthening the resilience of the euro area financial sector also means adapting to a changing operating environment.
the unemployment rate continues to decline and now stands at close to a nine year low of.
a better integrated and sounder financial sector has also been able to transmit our policy impulses more evenly across the euro
another factor shaping the euro area financial sector is the united kingdom's decision to leave the european union. at this stage we do not have clarity regarding the shape of the uk's future relationship with the eu. well managed preparations are thus essential
process and i would encourage you to aim for consistent implementation of the internationally agreed standards so as to ensure a level playing field worldwide and to reduce options and national discretion as much as possible.
moreover a stronger economy generates greater volumes of sustainable bank lending.
non performing loan levels have been declining for more than three years and good progress has been made on the eu council action plan although there is still a considerable way to
looking forward we remain fully committed to our price stability objective and in line with our monetary policy strategy we aim to stabilise inflation around levels that are below but close to two within a meaningful medium term horizon. as always our monetary policy will continue to be guided by our assessment of the progress made towards our objective.