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young activists are at the forefront of the protest but farmers and shopkeepers have also joined and after years of economic crisis the country is now facing a constitutional crisis too with no government and no parliament.
businesses hospitals schools government institutions are often closed transport throughout the country has become very complicated including for humanitarian aid and the country is basically at a standstill.
and let me say very clearly that i am proud that we have opened a new phase in our relations with cuba during my mandate let me stress this with the full support of all of our member states no one excluded no matter the political orientation of the government in place.
only through such critical engagement that we have opened with cuba can we accompany the country in its modernisation.
we have no taboos we address these issues at all levels including at mine every time that we see the need for doing that and that is unfortunately quite often.
in these years we have never refrained from raising cases such as the one of mr ferrer together with our member states in a coordinated manner and in a very proactive manner.
the day after our intervention his family including his three children was able to visit him.
and i'm proud of our critical engagement with the cuban leadership which gives us the opportunity to strengthen our cooperation but also to openly address our disagreements and to do something about them.
the first formal dialogue we launched with cuba under the new agreement was precisely on human rights because respect for fundamental freedoms and for civil society is essential for us and is essential to us also because it can only be with the full respect of the space for civil society and human rights that economic development can be sustainable.
let me stress very clearly once again what we have declared many times that we expect cuba to respect every citizen's fundamental freedoms and human dignity including the right to a fair trial.
we have chosen to engage with cuba not because we see eye to eye on all issues but precisely because we don't.
we have raised the case of jos daniel ferrer as well as other cases with the cuban authorities both in brussels and in havana most recently at the level of our head of delegation who conducted an outreach on this issue to the cuban ministry of foreign affairs most recently on six november.
i am proud that our political dialogue and cooperation agreement is in place also because human rights are an essential part of it.
this is one of the goals of our agreements accompanying the country as it reforms its political and economic model building its economy on more solid foundations and helping cubans build a country where everyone enjoys the same freedoms and the same rights.
this is a gradual process and ending fuel allowances next year would have a severe impact on low income families and pensioners who cannot otherwise afford heating for their homes. as commission president von der leyen said the transition to renewable energy sources must be fair and inclusive as it is ambitious'.
in two thousand and fifteen the lumber mafia' broke his head his ribs and his hand with the intention to kill him.
i want to tell you the story of a romanian activist gabriel paun from agent green.
last year they cut down big trees in aiming to crush him and his car to block him from filming their illegal logging.
mr president our precious nature does not have a voice and the brave people who stand up to defend it risk their lives by doing so.
while it was all recorded it took prosecutors four years to send the attackers to court.
the authorities protect the illegal loggers by manipulating the official figures of the volume of wood that is taken each year from romania's forest.
he has been attacked many many times.
they continue to expect a golden era of transatlantic trade relations and free trade post brexit against all of the evidence.
never mind who's right or wrong we now have an adverse ruling from the wto that we have to deal with and four eu member states have been singled out. all have reacted strongly except the uk.
meanwhile our international trade secretary expressed her disappointment providing absolutely no relief to scotch whisky producers now facing twenty five tariffs.
the french german and spanish governments and the european commission have said that they will respond in kind with their own tariffs.
the tories have been hypnotised by the us.
we will not endanger a resolution on cop.
it is amendment. eleven it speaks about a climate emergency and we're doing this because after a meeting yesterday we understood that there are groups that are willing to threaten the whole cop resolution because of that amendment and we are responsible.
twenty five we want the european parliament to go strongly united together with the ppe and other political groups with a strong cop twenty five.
we have a resolution now that speaks about climate emergency.
there is an amendment that we have tabled in conjunction with some other political groups but with a sense of responsibility towards this house we will be abstaining on that amendment.
the commission monitors the implementation of these rules and takes action when needed. the european union is also providing financial means for the protection restoration and sustainable management of forests in line with the eu forest strategy. the european union's rural development funds under the common agricultural policy
thousand and eighteen to two thousand and twenty one the european union policy cycle's primary objective is to increase cooperation amongst law enforcement services and eu agencies to disrupt organised crime groups through operational actions.
on the specific case of romania the commission is working with the authorities to assess the situation.
environmental crime is also considered a threat to european security and to the well being of citizens.
in addition species protection rules under both the birds and habitats directives apply within the whole eu territory. environmental defenders represent natural and indispensable allies in the promotion of environmental rights.
in particular many forests are protected under the birds and habitats directives.
another tool is the directive on environmental crime in the european union.
the commission is currently carrying out a wide public consultation open until january two thousand and twenty and will assess the need to review this legislation or improve its implementation.
two thousand and fourteen two thousand and twenty last but not least the recent communication on stepping up eu action to protect and restore the world's forests shows that the european union is increasing its efforts to step up global action against biodiversity loss.
it has therefore been included in the eu policy cycle against serious and organised crime covering the period from two.
in this context i have to highlight again the important role of the timber regulation which applies to both timber logged in third countries and imported into the european union and to domestic timber logged in the european union.
the commission has been alerted to reported cases of continued illegal logging in some member states including in primary forests and is carefully assessing the situation.
are the main source of funding for forests amounting to eur.
it is important to recall that member states are responsible for implementing the relevant rules as well as for taking appropriate enforcement measures including sanctions and penalties.
i think this parliament needs to point out now more than ever to the maltese authorities that the assassination of journalists with clear political links must have clear political consequences. i have always seen this parliament raising its voice very high to claim the respect of rule of law and of the freedom of the press to several governments in europe. today it's time to do the same in the case of malta.
the situation in malta has consequences for the entire european project.
madam president high representative as we've already heard haiti is a country almost on the brink of collapse.
ensuring its sustainable development is vital if we are serious in the effort to tackle the climate change corruption and chaos there.
and finally i would once again like to wish you all the best for your future endeavours and thank you very much for everything you have done.
the violence has led to children missing school and people struggling to access sufficient food drinking water medicine and fuel.
the eu needs to play a real effort to find a meaningful inclusive resolution to the current solution especially addressing concerns around corruption.
the health sector is facing shortages in electricity fuel supplies and an inability to reach people in need of treatment.
economic struggles have led to violent protests and shootings with dozens of deaths at least twenty people killed at the hands of the security forces and many more have been severely injured.
high representative what leverage are you using given that we have hundreds of millions of euros through edf to push for a political solution to alleviate the suffering of the people of haiti?
we demand for the ministry of the interior to approve the application of christian organisations.
we demand for all churches to be rightfully re opened.
this year the algerian ministry of the interior closed fifteen protestant churches and declared them illegal.
madam president i abstained on this motion on grounds that very soon this will be none of britain's business. if it were still the case that we were staying in the european union i'd have had a lot to say about the individual merits and demerits of some of these candidates and i'd certainly have had a lot to say about the appointments process the concentration of executive and legislative power in the hands of twenty eight officials who are immune to the ballot box and invulnerable to public opinion. but happily this is going to cease to be our problem so i instead wish you every success and look forward instead of being a difficult member to being good neighbours.
in fact the ipcc says that such issues are probably caused by socio economic conditions and we forget socio economic conditions too much and demand in fact as this parliament has done decarbonisation which will lead to eco austerity massive price hikes in energy and ordinary working people paying the cost for scaremongering and.
there's no scientific evidence from the ipcc or anyone else about the extinction of humanity and we should be very careful about claiming that anthropological climate changes cause floods and droughts which we have been doing quite casually during the last few days.
i think that the fact that we voted against an amendment today that said that we should be committed to bringing environmental subject back to rational discussion and we rejected it admits that actually we're having an irrational discussion.
these shocking numbers have no place in our society and i'm appalled that the istanbul convention has not yet been ratified by the united kingdom.
our society must be a safe place for our daughters our sisters our mothers. no more holding our keys when we walk home at night no more what did she wear what did she drink?
we can't claim to be a leading economy a world power if we're systematically failing some of our most vulnerable and most valuable citizens.
last year alone almost forty zero women and girls in my home region were known survivors of domestic abuse and over eight zero experienced sexual violence.
during the last mandate europe has taken important steps towards the regulation of the international calls lately which will come to power only at the end of next year and will also lower the price there. and then we know the success story of the roaming. i'm happy to be the rapporteur and see that results have been causing more happiness than these problems.
there is now the proposal that service numbers must be included in the unlimited data prices and not have external prices as they are nowadays not in the price regulation because even many public services use them.
i don't very easily see the potential there to serve the citizens because if they're negotiating the whole euro price instead of the one country where the hospital is located i might think that they don't want to serve these free phone calls for everyone because the hospital in finland cannot serve the language of the greek grandparent or the polish
and i'm always in favour of unlimited packages whether it's data or telephones.
i also read the petition made by the german gentleman who was on holiday in france and wanted to call the hospital and thought it was a free number because it started.
but then of course informing the consumers is the most important.
it really gives the purposes for the users to have access to digital services in a more broad way and then having that one as the main goal to make the low price for the telephone users it serves the people best.
the others were suspended when they walked out in solidarity.
we call on the authorities to ensure fair and open trials for all protesters and we deplore any action targeted at peaceful protesters.
meanwhile the authorities are ramping up the arrest of peaceful protesters with quick fire trials and eighteen month jail terms.
mr president all of them must step down' cry tens of thousands of algerian protesters voicing their demands that key officials from the bouteflika era should resign before the country holds new elections.
it has been identified because of the amount of carbon emissions fossil fuel burning and how we just exploit our planet which are the real reasons why we have this emergency.
and we have to take from time to time the advice of younger generations.
there are thousands of people in ireland on every friday young students protesting highlighting the deficiencies of effort on behalf of politicians and political leaders across the globe.
it is time for us now to accept that we have an emergency and accepting that to respond with an emergency in terms of developing policies that will immediately impact on saving the planet saving the environment saving the biodiversity and saving our oceans.
however the leaders of the various protest movements have been detained in recent months by what is increasingly looking like a military regime.
it would be a tragedy if algeria misses this opportunity to alter course and join its neighbours morocco and tunisia in becoming a country more open to the outside world.
i call for the release of all of these prisoners and i echo my colleagues' concern about religious freedoms and the opening up of religious freedom and when these elections come along they need to be free and fair.
madam president i don't believe the resolution that we passed today to declare a climate emergency would have happened had it not been for the campaigning and the pressure of those thousands of young people in all parts of the world those young people walking out of their schools and colleges as they did in leicester a few weeks ago when i was pleased to join them.
they've done that to demand real meaningful decisive action and that's what we must now deliver.
that's what the new commission must deliver that's what our national governments must deliver and it's what we as a parliament must ensure is delivered.
because if one thing is clear from those young people from greta thunberg when she spoke to this parliament a few months ago words are not enough.
voted for this new commission and the fact that the commission is elected and remains accountable to this parliament is vital.
we voted on the candidates put forward by the elected governments of every member state and now we have elected them this new commission must get to work.
because beyond this hall people are waiting to be helped people facing the danger of climate change people facing the uncertainty of a changing economy people feeling insufficient power in their own lives.
the commission's job is to give everyone good grounds to look forward to the next five years with hope instead of fear.
if the uk makes the mistake of brexit giving up our voice in europe the decisions made here will still shape the uk's future.
as a british mep i voted in this election for the commission because i expect brexit will be stopped and this will be the commission of all european citizens.
ten percent of europe's population comes from a racial or ethnic minority but there's never been a black commissioner here.
here black europeans are not segregated by the bus they travel on they are segregated by time.
at night we let the black people in to wash the floors and clean the toilets.
she could instruct the commission to change its employment practices and hire and recruit more black people.
the president boasted in her speech yesterday about changing the face of the commission but only i believe as long as those faces are white.
the eu is institutionally racist and i won't vote for those white slave masters.
mr kelly before i give you the floor i would like to remind all of us that the deadline for submitting requests for oral explanations of vote is the start of the session.
the european community must not watch silently as environmental defenders are harassed arrested and face charges for what they do.
i call for increasing efforts to protect and fulfil environmental defenders rights within the eu.
madam president i voted in favour as for many brexiteers the wto has become the land of milk and honey with donald trump in the role of moses leading the british people to the promised land of global free trade.
but what their story doesn't say is that trump has been busy destroying the wto for the past three years and he's about to succeed.
the truth is that from the perspective of international trade the eu is by far the best option for britain.
we've seen determined and concrete efforts in brussels to keep ukexporting businesses afloat.
madam president i would like to strongly oppose the content and intent of this outrageous motion.
its intent is to undermine and isolate the cuban government and its people at the behest of the united states against the backdrop of increased hostility being meted out to that magnificent country and its incredibly resilient people.
in the pay of the united states he's had all of his rights respected.
to hear those who have championed us interventionism and supported unelected puppets in bolivia and venezuela call cuban humanitarian aid medical care and education to its latin american neighbours interventionism' is simply outrageous.
it is not accountable to each and every voter in any of the european countries.
it undermines national sovereignty and is an assault on each and every voter.
i am an internationalist and on the left.
i believe real european solidarity is to respect the voters of each and every european country and i urge my fellow democrats who are here as meps not to pretend that this place is a place of democracy but to stay true to their voters and to respect their votes and they can have nothing to do with recalling or holding anyone here accountable.
we need to work with member states to ensure implementation and enforcement of european union and national law on the ground.
madam president i congratulate the new commission on their election yesterday but i would not pretend that the process over these past few months has been perfect because it hasn't.
but importantly it has built in the chance for members of this house to change their minds.
we then had several weeks to examine the detail of the commission's proposed work programme to scrutinise to challenge nominees to the commission.
we then voted yesterday in what you could describe as a confirmatory vote on whether we want to confirm our original decision of july or not.
madam president as a british mep i am proud to be part of a sovereign nation that works alongside our partners in europe to tackle climate change. throughout europe governments and local councils have been declaring a climate emergency but today this parliament became the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency across a continent.
we must take urgent action to reverse the damage done to our planet before it is too late.
time is running out. it is imperative that we all reduce our carbon footprint in every aspect of our lives.
from the food on our plate to the technology we use from the exploitation of our oceans and the imports from trade outside our block we will work together to reduce our footprint not just in europe but also across the globe.
of course it makes sense to seek safeguards from israel.
it is worse to rebuild them with european money knowing that they will likely be destroyed once again.
if he went there he could visit the site of the industrial area which is one of his pet projects designed to generate jobs but levelled last month. the quartet has to open its mind to a new approach and if our partners within it cannot take that step then we should explore ways in which it might.
well perhaps but let us first acknowledge that the policy failures the dashed hopes and the creeping extremism of the past seven years have taken place under the quartet's watch.
last month's violence and the outcome of this month's election have changed the terms of the debate.
mr solana we must pioneer a new path to peace and the european union if necessary must take the lead.
meanwhile the gulf between the west bank and gaza grows ever wider with the threat of a permanent division.
if israel is wrongly accused its name should be cleared but if it has committed those crimes it must face up to its responsibilities.
in any event reconstruction and humanitarian aid from the european union will not prevent future conflict.
with the situation in flux and neither hamas nor the israelis talking to one another we must set achievable terms on which we can talk to both.
there should be a free and fair international investigation into alleged war crimes in the gaza conflict.
the time has come for diplomacy delicate but determined.
the unrwa and our own parliamentary committee have both reported alarming evidence of war crimes and the allegations are serious indeed.
our aim must be to forge an agreement for a peaceful and prosperous future on both sides of the divide where enemies can once again become partners.
is it possible is it credible to imagine that israel can assure us that this will not happen?
the council and the commission have not really said what their response will be to this turn of events and the czech presidency appears to want the matter off the agenda but we can afford to wait no longer.
we need a new and positive approach jointly with the united states if possible but without them if not.
hamas is stronger politically it is intact militarily it is holding out against recognising israel and the expected coalition in israel will be more hard line than ever and broadly resistant to seeing a separate palestinian state.
lastly we can only prepare for the future if we acknowledge honestly what has happened in the past.
its envoy tony blair has never even been to gaza.
but in the face of the recurring violence we have recycled those tired phrases so often that they have lost whatever impact they once had.
it is bad enough to see the airport schools and sewerage systems blown up;
of course it is our moral duty to assist in the reconstruction of gaza.
mr president it is with heavy hearts that we debate once again what our union can do to ease the pain in the middle east.
we have to support the reconciliation process in palestine as part of achieving a long term solution and that means ensuring that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past.
one five million people that has been bombed for twenty two days and in which over one zero people were killed even begin to recover when only fifteen categories of humanitarian items are being allowed in food some medicines and mattresses? you cannot rebuild homes and offices without cement and glass which are banned.
this is not linked to any negotiations. we have to ensure that that aid gets through and the key to that is the lifting of the siege and the opening of the crossing points.
you cannot feed people when there is not enough food being allowed in.