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the new rules obviously will expand the number of uk jobs listed and advertised but more importantly the eu wants to include work experience and apprenticeship places advertised across europe as well.
at the last european committee meeting we were talking about new legislation on eures which is a website that hit the headlines in the uk a few years ago for advertising eight hundred zero uk jobs across europe.
well of course the elephant in the room there is immigration.
if we are serious about tackling the terrible plight of these young people we need to be much more ambitious and whilst i applaud bringing forward money under the youth employment initiative i cannot help but think this is a mere drop in the ocean a short term boost without any long term gain.
it is a shame the current uk government has shown no interest in implementing the youth guarantee.
labour meps believe we need to see ambitious plans in particular for the youth guarantee scheme which will boost and re energise those young people who feel abandoned in the current job market.
however commissioner i am sure you will be pleased to hear that my party the labour party is committed to a real jobs guarantee in the uk to get our youth unemployed into work.
mr president commissioner people tend to look at the youth unemployment crisis as a southern european problem but if you look at the figures you will see it is a problem in all parts of the eu including in my country the uk where over seven hundred and sixty zero young people are still desperately looking for work.
this plan should be used to create these jobs of the future for young people.
we will get an allocation of sixty eight million in ireland for the yei and a further sixty eight million under the social fund.
but also business set up support for entrepreneurs and targeted wage and recruitment subsidies. last week i met the youth sections of the european federation of public services unions and the irish civil and public services union.
i know that the youth employment initiative cannot deal with this specifically but it is crucial that money spent under the youth employment initiative delivers real outcomes and real jobs.
not just training and up skilling yes that's important but also a significant increase in employment.
they emphasised to me the need to deal with demand as well as supply and pointed out that virtually no jobs are being created in the public service in ireland.
i think it is important to say that this pre financing all of this money is available to member states and it can be used to support not just the provision of traineeships and internships and apprenticeships further education training etc.
i was filling in forms calculating how much money i had for my rent food train tickets and health insurance.
i was thinking about my life my dreams what plans i had for my future and i thought about my place in society where do i belong?
i have always been in a privileged position.
i come from a country where youth unemployment is proportionately low.
still the ultimate question that was always there in my mind was what is my value for this society?
raised in an environment and an educational system where having a job is a synonym for being valuable millions of young people probably ask themselves exactly the same question every day. every day young people are asking themselves what they have done wrong when people are telling them that they just need to try harder.
people are telling them to try harder when trying harder is just not enough anymore.
we need to make this very clear.
it is a systematic problem that was brought about by wrong political decisions in the past.
every day especially in times of more and more alarming information leaking about tax fraud and tax avoidance young people are asking themselves if we are doing enough to solve these problems if we are willing to learn from luxleaks and swiss leaks and change a system that brings these problems every day.
what we need is a fairer tax system and public investment to start this process.
strengthening the youth guarantee as proposed by the commission now is only one step on a long and winding road to a solution because eventually we will have to decide if we are standing side by side with the many million young people who are unemployed and desperate or if we support the interests of the few yet powerful people and companies hiding their wealth in tax havens and avoiding paying their share.
when i was sitting in the unemployment office one year ago i took my decision.
i would fight for the many who are often overheard and overlooked.
now i am in a position to speak to you mrs thyssen directly and i want to say you and to all your colleagues in the commission that this is only a first step.
what we need now is first for you to push the member states to really implement the youth guarantee in a way that will directly benefit young people but secondly and i think this is even more important to push for policies that are going to take the european union on a different path and that will really create employment so that young people have a future in europe.
i was here for the last debate i did not speak. i was here for the entirety of this debate and at the very outset i could not do it any quicker i bid for catch the eye.
i want to know what criteria you used to select those you chose for catch the eye.
what we need to be doing is to make sure we have sensible controlled immigration into countries so that people can get a foot on the employment ladder.
it is time to throw away the ideas of the past.
the elephant in the room is immigration.
i am also going to go back again to what i said about the free movement of people and the immense pressure it puts on young people in our country the uk trying to compete for jobs.
also other eu legislation and eu directives have failed.
what makes you think this one is going to work?
i would like to add some very short points on what we are deciding today.
at the same time the eprivacy regulation does not ban all forms of advertising. it only addresses the issues of surveillance driven advertising and wants consumers given a choice about whether they want to be tracked or not for commercial purposes.
the eprivacy regulation aims to put users back in control of their communication data and to make sure that confidentiality of communication in a digital environment becomes a reality for everyone.
also and i really cannot understand how this argument came into the debate the mandate of the eprivacy regulation does not at all affect the powers of member states to fight against illegal content online.
any further delay in this decision will only affect the strength of our position when it comes to negotiations with council and commission. therefore i urge everybody here to vote in favour of the mandate today.
one very important proposal is the creation of a european investment package to be undertaken by all member states to deliver sustainable jobs.
therefore i am appealing to member states not to block its continuation but to work together to ensure that the egf contributes to european added value by upskilling redundant workers.
now of course the challenge is to make those fine words a reality and to ensure that our plans and programmes deliver european added value.
this resolution also calls for upskilling and retraining of workers and one current instrument to achieve that at european level is the european globalisation fund.
i think this package would send a clear message to citizens that we are seriously attempting to rebalance the current austerity measures or the current austerity approach with the europe wide pact for investment and jobs.
we must not introduce measures that create unintended consequences and actually stop entrepreneurs and possibly those who are self employed from growing their businesses and starting to provide employment for others. smes and micro enterprises currently provide ninety million jobs in the private sector
it is businesses and entrepreneurs who create jobs.
in the eu and they have huge potential for job creation for growth and for innovation and we must do all we can to help them rather than hinder them.
mr president unemployment is a very major concern and i welcome the commission's communication on the job rich recovery but i totally reject calls for more harmonisation of european employment legislation any attempts to establish european minimum wages and any calls for the eu to have controls and sanctions in the national labour markets of member states.
the employment package that the commission presented in april shows how employment policies can ensure that job creation drives economic growth.
we need to secure transitions in the labour market by making sure that transitions pay.
third the package aims to strengthen eu governance of employment policies.
in addition the package also sets out a stronger link between member states' labour market reforms and investment through eu financial instruments and in particular the european social fund.
first we support measures to create jobs and boost the demand for labour across the economy.
the commission is also committed to improving mobility by removing obstacles such as those affecting the portability of pensions.
we identified the green economy information and communication technologies and the health and care services as the three areas that can generate the most job opportunities and for which a detailed action plan is presented.
we are also proposing to transform the current eures system into a genuine eu employment tool able to match jobs and jobseekers across borders.
in particular we want to reinforce monitoring of member states' employment polices so that employment and social concerns do not lag behind economic concerns.
we also seek to involve the social partners in the process of implementing reforms and monitoring wage developments at the eu level.
second the package seeks to make labour markets more dynamic through balanced and fair reforms notably investment in skills and the removal of obstacles to free movement of workers and worker mobility.
a more dynamic european labour market will help to reduce existing skill shortages and mismatches. this is why we also need to invest in skills and to create new tools to anticipate and monitor skills development at the eu level.
mr president during the second world war the royal air force was very concerned about the losses amongst its heavy bombers so it sought to protect its air crew first by putting armour around the pilot and then when they needed more protection armour around the navigator and more armour around the bomber. yet they found that losses continued to go up.
they finally realised that they had put so much weight of armour into those bombers that they could scarcely fly.
they then removed the armour the planes flew higher and faster and the loss rate went down.
it has done so with the best of intentions to protect workers but the effect is to create a labour market so overloaded and inflexible that it simply cannot fly.
on top of that problem we are now looking at green jobs.
it also points to areas of potential growth such as green technology.
however i think the cornerstone of what the commission is aiming to achieve in the job rich recovery is in my view a structural change to labour markets.
i know that there is a lot of fear that such reforms might have a detrimental effect on workforces and social labour rights.
clearly we need a sensible pragmatic and socially responsible balance when we make these reforms but it is only by making serious structural changes now that we can bring forward and build a solid foundation for growth in the medium to long term. a sustainable and competitive european economy based on real economic performance not endless public borrowing is the route to creating jobs and reducing our unemployment rates.
that is why i particularly welcome proposals in this employment package to boost entrepreneurship and tackle youth unemployment in particular providing opportunities for young people to develop valuable skills.
new businesses of course are the employers of the future and we must ensure that the rate of creation of new businesses is maintained. we need to identify and address the barriers to potential entrepreneurs.
we now need to make real progress on an investment programme for real sustainable and quality jobs a plan which will respect the rights and dignity of workers promote social justice and fight inequality in work poverty and social dumping;
a plan which will protect vulnerable workers such as part time workers domestic workers and those trapped in the black economy.
such a plan should also address the need for investment and growth industries such as the green economy and creative industries.
it should ensure that finance is made available for smes the backbone of the european economy.
we need specific actions to tackle youth unemployment including a binding european youth guarantee.
we also need to adopt a quality charter on internships.
too many young people are on their fourth or fifth unpaid internship with no job in the offing.
we welcome your proposal and we look forward to working with you in the delivery of this proposal.
the employment package should be seen as a building block of a new economic paradigm.
if you look at how wages or the role of demand is put forward in the employment package or to give another example the role of employment governance in the eu with the involvement of the social partners i believe these open up new opportunities
year. we will have opportunities to see whether our concrete solutions can match to produce the best and most effective outcome.
smes. this knowledge does not necessarily transfer to the new generation.
i fully agree with making progress in this area in close cooperation with michel barnier who spoke before me in the chamber.
we should also focus on secure funding for the financial instruments that can directly help the
i believe that recent science is enough substantive evidence that we need to be more ambitious than we thought just one or two years ago when it comes to climate change mitigation. the emission trading system is in my opinion not sufficient
to reach the two c target that the eu has agreed on. as currently designed the emission trading system will lead to a carbon free power sector only after some sixty sixty five years.
i do not see why a member state that has invested in making sure that its industry is setting high environmental standards should be undermined competitively and environmentally by those member states that are not prepared to make similar investments.
however there is much debate taking place as a result of the concern we now have about global warning concern which perhaps was not felt quite so acutely when we put this directive into law.
i am prepared at second reading to negotiate a derogation an extension of the large combustion plant requirements to keep old plants running so long as we do not end up building new coal fired power plants locking us into high emissions of co two for decades to come.
however it has to be a genuine trade off there has to be a genuine commitment from member states to make the changes necessary to reduce their co two emissions in order to allow the continued pollution from existing plants for a few years longer.
as greens we are happy with this european safety net which will reduce dumping possibilities for certain governments and we have improved monitoring and access of documents for citizens.
i think this is a shame.
the coverage as industrial polluters.
agriculture must be monitored for its emissions but i do not accept that we should do it in this way.
i would suggest that the nitrates directive in its current form does much of what we are talking about.
in addition to that there are concerns about dragging in poultry in particular because that european sector is under huge threat from imports from third countries where no such restrictions apply.
i would support amendments to the effect that this should not happen in the current proposals.
likewise the inclusion of dairy farming is of concern and i would support colleagues in my own group and others who have tabled amendments to take these sectors out of the current proposal.
i repeat my suggestion that when it comes to agriculture there is a myriad of directives covering emissions and pollution control in this sector and so maybe it is time we looked at recasting all of those so that farmers who are required to implement them can fully understand and appreciate what they are meant to do.
it is one thing to draft legislation as we do in this house but we sometimes have no connection with how it is being implemented and by whom it is being implemented and whether that implementation is effective.
i think it is very important that the commissioner realises that as has already been said it is specifically designed for industry.
commissioner i beg that you rethink the situation when it comes to the directives on agriculture.
please reconsider the amendments which are particularly damaging to it.
commissioner you talked in your presentation about distorting competition. i am going to ask you a simple question and please try to answer it today.
will you put in place legislation to stop imports of foodstuffs coming into the european union which are not reared to the same standards as we have in the european union?
there was no opportunity for the agriculture committee to give its opinion and unfortunately some of the proposals that affect farmers are quite inappropriate.
in particular the requirements on manure and slurry duplicate the nitrates directive and the water framework directive.
the lower thresholds on poultry drag small family farms into a complex regulatory framework designed to control global industrial giants.
this was the first step towards a coherent policy in one of the most sensitive areas in europe and it was a step in the right direction because the black sea is now widely analysed and feared as a converging space of political strategic and security hopes strengths and ambitions.
indeed it is but if we exchange this map for a strategy map the black sea becomes huge.
the eu policy approach towards the black sea lacks mechanisms for monitoring evaluation and follow up.
the black sea region is not visible enough in debates in brussels and eu funding for the region is fragmented and complicated.
the creation of a separate budget line in the eu budget is vital.
if we examine the current results of eu involvement in the region they seem at least mixed.
only through such a project based approach focused on small scale specific projects can we overcome the issue of the very diverse and complex interests in the region.
we need to get past our fragmented approach in terms of finance as well.
that is why we should make the black sea joint operational programme our central instrument for implementing the black sea strategy using it as seed money to attract institutions ready to invest in the region and hence promote cooperation.
it should not be in the eu.
had georgia been in nato the consequences could have been disastrous. whilst i support georgian independence it is unwise to goad the russian bear in its own lair. then there is turkey which the eu is playing with by offering membership despite the reality that members such as france will veto an application.
we have seen the unfortunate conflict in georgia where there was fault on both sides.
there are real dangers in leading turkey on. disappointment could drive turkey into the hands of islamic extremists.
the fact that nothing of importance has happened since the first review of the initiative in two thousand and eight and we are not very far advanced in its implementation as mentioned in the report is indicative of that.
madam president the black sea is a gate to and from europe and therefore it should be addressed as such.
its geopolitical and economic importance for the eu is constantly increasing in terms of security stability and energy.
in recent years there has been an increase in accidents involving loss of human life and environmental damage in the black sea.
i strongly believe that we the eu should benefit from the potential of the black sea region and not others. to achieve this goal the european union has to rely more on its member states belonging to the region has to give up any anchorage in the past and has to show more dynamism leadership and vision.
any slowdown in the eu integration process of the region will have a throwback effect on the democratic evolution of the area.
we all agree that freedom of movement is one of the fundamental principles of community law and accept that this right is not unconditional.
as proclaimed several times by this parliament and more specifically by the european people's party the poverty and social exclusion of the roma is a european issue and requires a strategy of its own;
for that very reason it is a pity that policy makers on all sides of the political spectrum seem to use the roma issue as a weapon against their counterparts.
as the commission has confirmed all eu countries have the right to take security measures regarding foreigners residing on their territory.
an important lesson to draw from the developments of this summer is that roma integration is a challenge that must be kept on the political agenda of all member states.
we have to bring them together officially and publicly and we have to push them in the right direction.
thirdly the social and economic integration of the roma and you all know that with ten to twelve million members this is the biggest ethnic minority in europe is a challenge for all twenty seven member states both for the countries of origin and for roma host countries.
firstly in order ensure the conformity of all member state measures taken regarding the roma with eu law on free movement non discrimination and the charter of fundamental rights we will monitor and assess the progress made on these questions.
in that context dialogue with representatives of the roma community should be intensified.
the next platform will take place under the hungarian presidency.
it is an issue for every day and for every year.
even though these safeguards are partly a reality in france because of the case law which the courts use and you have seen lately that the courts have decided on the basis of the eu directive although this eu directive has not been implemented in french
which as politicians you know perfectly well must always be aware of the dangers of being instrumentalised by national party political debates has been consistent over the past weeks.
this means that in spite of the important right of free movement member states have to take measures against eu citizens who break the law.
under certain conditions member states can even send eu citizens who have broken the law back home provided that they observe the principles of proportionality and the procedural safeguards which are written into the eu free movement directive of.
two thousand and four secondly in our european union no citizen must become the target of repressive action just for belonging to an ethnic minority or to a certain nationality. this is clearly set out in the eu charter of fundamental rights which prohibits discrimination on the basis of nationality or ethnic origin and which specifically prohibits collective
there can be no impunity under the umbrella of european free movement principles.
firstly member states are in charge of public order and of the safety of their citizens on their national territory.
law we have been very clear with the french authorities in saying that legislative implementation will enhance legal certainty in free movement situations similar to the ones experienced this summer.
thirdly i am calling on the presidency to hold a jumbo jha security and social affairs council as soon as possible in order to identify a more targeted use of national and complementary eu funding to promote social and economic integration
the commission services have identified a number of issues where the french authorities will need to give supplementary information and where they will need active assistance by the commission services to ensure that their action now and in the future
legislation.