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this fund will include the justice programme and a new citizens equality rights and values programme whereby funding is made available to continue supporting work on remembrance.
projects encourage tolerance mutual understanding intercultural dialogue and reconciliation as a means of moving beyond the past and building the future.
more than three hundred participants from both the general public and the programme attended.
remembrance as one of the strands of the programme supports initiatives to reflect on the causes of totalitarian regimes and to commemorate reference points in europe's modern history.
the essence of our programme is to connect citizens.
the commission has been in the vanguard with its europe for citizens programme which promotes peace eu values and the wellbeing of all.
regimes. today we enjoy many different freedoms to travel without barriers to speak to write to protest to follow any profession and to live or visit wherever we desire.
raising awareness of remembrance the common history and our own eu values is critical.
for instance in early april this year we held under my auspices the highlevel event europe for citizens history defines our future'.
what a naive irresponsible dangerous approach!
if we have learned one thing from the past both the distant and the near past it is that we can only face them together in trust.
in may two thousand and eighteen the commission proposed a new instrument the justice rights and values fund.
that is why we should always strive to reach out to others and make diversity an asset.
it was built on the basis of solidarity of working together of sharing responsibilities and of caring for and protecting the more vulnerable and weaker.
i have trust that supporting remembrance will remain a priority for the new commission.
this is why we need to stimulate activities that keep the memories of the past alive as a means of moving beyond the past and towards building the future together.
we the commission and i personally remain consistently committed to a policy of values and historical responsibility.
it is vital to appreciate fully the meaning of the fundamental values on which the european union and european democracy are built and never to take these for granted.
some countries have gone through specific experiences with colonialism or totalitarian regimes while there are the facts there is no single truth in the experience of an individual or a community.
we should not forget that we living and growing up in the european union as we know it today are the only generation that has not experienced a war.
it offers funding for projects on the ground in which the citizens can reflect on the past participate in shaping the future and engage.
if you can travel freely today across borders if you can call abroad for the same price as at home if you study at a university in another member state and have those credentials recognised that is because the european union makes this happen.
the thing is the european union is not just a concept.
the prudential supervisors should now have better abilities to intervene in cases where activities endanger financial stability.
two thousand and twenty once in effect the fifth antimoney laundering directive will improve the powers of financial intelligence units increase the transparency around beneficial ownership information and regulate virtual currencies and prepaid cards to better prevent terrorism financing.
it agreed in december two thousand and eighteen on a dedicated antimoney laundering action plan to further improve the current system and the council is regularly monitoring the delivery of the various actions.
on this the commission will be better placed to update you but i understand that some of the infringement procedures have already been closed.
this directive is currently being implemented in member states and the transposition deadline is december.
the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing is a key topic during the finnish presidency and is an area to which the council is strongly committed.
we believe that in order to establish a strong and effective instrument the commission proposal needs to be established in a transparent manner and needs to incentivise affected countries to take action.
it is our priority as the presidency to fight tax fraud tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning.
through the review of the european system of financial supervision on which we agreed just before the parliamentary recess we progressed further and reinforced the role of the european banking authority as regards risks posed to the financial sector by money laundering.
with the fifth antimoney laundering directive we streamlined the cooperation between prudential supervisors and antimoney laundering authorities.
this decision does not mean that the listing is not an important element of the ongoing work on the contrary but in order to achieve the full impact of this instrument and to ensure its quality we need to introduce the list in an orderly process.
as you know on the previous fourth antimoney laundering directive the member states transposition is facing some delays.
the criminal law framework in the area of money laundering has also recently been strengthened through the adoption of a directive on combating money laundering by criminal law.
madam president dear commissioner honourable members thank you for inviting the presidency to contribute to this debate.
i know the commission has been working intensively on the new methodology which it will present to ministers in october.
we have also asked the commission to deliver a postmortem review of recent alleged money laundering cases involving eu banks with a view to better informing possible additional actions in the medium to long term.
over the last years we have the parliament the council and the commission worked closely with the aim of establishing an effective regime to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
exactly the opposite of what some politicians in britain and here in this house are doing which is to become more and more aggressive and to use war metaphors and i say this explicitly as a german and british citizen. we will stay neighbours anyway and we should stay good neighbours in peace.
it is also about ireland and we have every right to discuss this here because ireland is going to stay in the european union.
so why is it such a problem?
it is because there is a lack of mutual trust and we see that today very clearly.
it is not only about the uk.
what is hardly ever mentioned though is that the backstop is only a temporary solution until a final agreement is signed.
what we need from the british government is automatic registration of all our eu citizens.
in fact the message of the people during the elections was very clear reform europe don't destroy europe don't leave europe.
we will defend our own companies we will defend our own economy we will defend our single market and we will never accept what people call a singapore by the north sea'. that will not happen. finally
the main reason why we need the safety net is to make sure that violence does not return on the island of ireland.
in. well that may be possible but we are not stupid.
there is no discussion about this.
that was the case in all our member states and it was also the case in britain because nearly forty of the seventy three elected british meps are remainers today.
it's a bad idea but it has at least one positive effect and that is to reunite europeans and to make the european project since brexit more popular again. that is what we have seen in all the public opinion inside the european union.
that will not happen.
that is the main reason. and i have to tell you that i find it completely irresponsible of a number of british mps especially hardline tories not to accept this.
so i think we need a fundamental shift in the way the uk government applies at least that part of the withdrawal agreement.
they want to move on.
they think that if we do not grant the extension then we can go about other business and we can actually get rid of all this drag that we have been seeing in the last month and in the last years.
a lot of people are tired; a lot of people are exhausted.
at the same time we in the eu must be united in facing the potential consequences of a hard brexit for the rights of all european citizens in the uk.
twenty seven however i do feel it is even more important to maintain the unified european approach to brexit especially now in order to protect citizens from all eu member states smaller and larger who are residing in britain.
however much we strive to avoid a hard brexit we must be ready to face it together in unity for the sake of equal protection of all eu citizens should we be confronted with a worst case scenario of the uk's departure from the union. let's remember that the unity of the eu twenty seven has been at the core of our successful negotiations with london and we must therefore reinforce it in the run up to the most difficult decisions on brexit.
in particular we have to be strongly united in our insistence that the uk government exert the utmost effort to offer the settled status to all qualified eu citizens without any unnecessary technical hurdles and political delays.
this parliament has always supported the united eu approach to dealing with brexit and its negative consequences for the lives of europeans and i am glad that the proposed parliamentary declaration maintains the emphasis on the unity of the eu.
we must continue commemorating the victims of the holocaust the jews the sinti and roma and the homosexuals but coming from berlin i also insist we also must talk about the fate of our eastern european friends of the balts and of the poles. this is something we owe to those countries as someone who was on the other side in the war.
yes their security concerns and their energy concerns are all rooted in their tragic past and we have to start hearing them in order to build a common a truly common european foreign policy.
we need to start listening and hearing the concerns of our eastern european friends.
this will be the answer to the tragic past and to the future.
in my country of germany every second german does not want to deal with the history of the totalitarian gdr.
this is something that we need to bring to life talking to the young people sitting over there bringing it to their schools bringing it to the internet and awakening the history.
as well as to revoke article fifty outright.
i want to thank the pro europeans across this house who continue to show solidarity with us in the face of the dangerous nationalist populist drive begun by a man in that part of the chamber who only turns up here to stamp his feet and collect his allowance.
not because i want to see the withdrawal agreement implemented since any form of brexit would be damaging and regrettable for all but because the text acknowledges an extension is possible in order to avoid no deal and for the uk to hold a democratic event such as a referendum or general election
to my pro european colleagues who make up the majority in this house i say we must continue to work together to defeat the forces of nationalism and populism and not let them win.
no matter how frustrated you are with the british government and its prime minister bear with the british people.
that is why leave voters are entitled to say this is not what i was promised;
in such a referendum faced with a boris johnson deal or a no deal they would campaign to remain in the european union.
they said it would be good for the british economy and jobs.
they said it would save lots of money that would all go to the nhs.
but the british parliament has legislated to prevent such an outcome and to require him to ask for an extension rather than have a nodeal brexit.
although mr johnson claims that he is seeking a deal he has not put any actual proposal on the table and the ideas he sometimes floats for a solution are ones that would not be acceptable either here or to the british parliament.
madam president we have a chaotic political situation in britain at the moment but colleagues should not for one moment think that this prime minister nor that lot over there represent the entire british nation.
it is important for colleagues to remember that.
the eu is doing what it must to protect its citizens.
the allocation of financial resources is not a technical and bureaucratic exercise but it is the way the european union answers the needs and requirements of the five hundred million eu citizens. we as the european parliament have to be very ambitious.
neighbourhood policies especially in the mediterranean area are fundamental and have to be reaffirmed in order to keep on with our values of solidarity and inclusion.
we have just a draft that was dismissed three times in the house of commons and which the current uk government a pretty legitimate government doesn't accept.
but unfortunately it seems that we are dancing pretty much alone.
i will be brief but it's important that these points are put on the record.
this investment budget reflects the truth that our collective endeavours as a union enable us to achieve more than any member state in or out of the union would achieve alone.
the agreement with the council was that the final element would be presented as an amending budget during two thousand and nineteen so today we complete that agreement by reinforcing two programmes which more than any others reflect in their outcomes the economies of scale and added value of the union budget erasmus and horizon.
two thousand and twenty the heavily oversubscribed student programme will receive an additional eur twenty million and horizon will receive eur eighty million which will fund research into technologies that will help address the climate emergency.
this draft amending budget no two is somewhat different to the norm. it is in fact the final element of the two thousand and nineteen budget settlement negotiated last december in the second conciliation between parliament and the member states in council.
i thank the house for its indulgence and recommend your support.
it is enshrined in our human rights instruments that came on line after the second world war the european convention on human rights the un charter all of the international conventions that we have at the moment and our european charter of human rights.
we respect the rule of law we respect human life we respect freedom of association and speech and we respect living a life in dignity for older people for children for individuals in all their diversity not excluding anyone.
well in my opinion as a human rights lawyer for over twenty five years i would suggest that we respect human rights and human dignity.
as this resolution clearly states we irish in the north of ireland are therefore entitled to eu citizenship where we reside.
it is important that this parliament recognises as stated in the resolution the legitimacy of whatever choice is freely exercised by the majority of the people in the north of ireland as to our right to change its status our right to self determination as recognised in the good friday agreement in british and irish law.
the good friday agreement provides a peaceful democratic pathway back into the eu for the people of the north of ireland and that should be respected by all.
french president macron stated that the solution to the brexit problem is irish reunification.
it is a political question.
this is a drop in the ocean.
in two thousand and fourteen when i took up my position as commissioner for health and food safety i announced that one of my major priorities was the promotion and protection of health and the prevention of diseases.
if we want to get serious about beating cancer we need to start putting our money into the remedies that cannot be prescribed only by a doctor or health commissioner.
care. for example we can expect a future where we will have much more precise treatments based upon the genomic signature of the patient.
this issue. all these are important steps in the right direction but it is essential that this progress this innovation and these developments reach the patients who need them
i know how it feels when you are face to face with a diagnosis and you know it is too late.
the european union steering group on health promotion disease prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases is very valuable in this respect as it identifies member states' priorities and highlights best practices that can be transferred scaled up and implemented with european union support.
it is no wonder therefore you're so desperately trying to cling on to theresa may's surrender treaty a treaty that has been rejected repeatedly in my country.
and machinery for adjudication will cease to apply and the uk would be subject to no enforceable obligation to make any financial contribution at all. in other words no deal means no uk money for the european union.
plus through another european treaty no thanks no deal you can do one.
we heard the word continuity' earlier. the british people did not vote for continuity they voted for independence and that is why the brexit party will now fight for a clean break from the european union. as a house of lords report has previously stated in my country if agreement is not reached all eu law including provisions concerning ongoing financial contributions
and that is why the brexit party is putting boris johnson our prime minister on notice that he must not simply try to rebrand and resell that treaty because we don't want it and the brexit party will fight him every step of the way. on behalf of the people of the east of england and essex where i live let me tell you what we think about the prospect of handing over gbp thirty billion
sounds pretty good to me.
to bridge the gap between our positions and to propose balanced compromise solutions for us to consider. europe as a whole requires a budget which meets the needs of its citizens. this means providing for expenditure that is necessary and at the same time taking into account that the burden for taxpayers should be as low as possible.
or it can be used to buy luxury cars luxury houses private education anything of high value lifestyles which motivate more crime.
money laundering can go into africa into america into asia and we need a framework for partnerships that trace money and trace the criminals.
madam president it was my honour to come to this parliament after sixteen years as an advocate in criminal law including some time as a crown prosecutor in the uk. and what i saw in my work was that money laundering is to crime what the circulation of blood is to our bodies. money can be obtained in a fraud then reinvested say in a drugs factory reinvested in human trafficking and then maybe reinvested in weapons and someone loses their life.
brexit of course puts my country at much greater risk.
i hope very much the new commission will attack this issue with vigour.
we need to change a culture where some law enforcement officers be they police or prosecutors or something else think that money laundering is second division crime and not important.
each time it can move between different countries.
it's outrageous and unacceptable that some member states have not implemented this legislation though we also need partnership that goes beyond the european union.
in my country the police estimate money laundering at gbp one hundred billion every year and we have twenty five different organisations meant to have some responsibility in addressing it.
there will be a reckoning for them when the election comes.
the uk has accepted in the withdrawal agreement a number of disagreeable and difficult concessions a continuing role for the ecj asymmetric arbitration mechanism a gbp thirty nine billion bill that no international tribunal would uphold.
i have to say this idea that we're suffering a brexit crisis is based on something that you all fail to notice that brexit hasn't happened!
the only thing which it wouldn't accept is replacing a status that has an exit mechanism i.
the backstop and by insisting on that point in this declaration this house has made it almost impossible to see a way that the two sides could have orderly and amicable withdrawal resolutions.
we're seeing a crisis caused by the refusal of our opposition parliamentarians to do what they promised when they sought election.
we depend on our friends in parliament and in the council to give us the time we need to take back control from the moneymen and the oligarchs.
we cannot allow a race to the bottom where the uk ends up as a tax haven a sweatshop or goes back to being the dirty man of europe'.
the nationwide protests about the prorogation of parliament an outrageous usurpation of power unmatched since the seventeenth century have meant the british prime minister is unable to appear in public anywhere in the uk or even as we see recently in luxembourg.
i deeply regret that this parliament has failed to suggest that their rights should be ring fenced in our resolution.
the clear message of our resolution today is that we look to the european council to grant the uk the extension we need to enable the democratic forces in britain to regain control and end the political crisis.
although the situation in my country is chaotic and democratic institutions are being tested to breaking point both our mps and our courts are taking positive action to protect democracy.
madam president from the start brexit has been about control but far from taking back control from europe johnson and cummings have lost control of the country.
tragically five million eu citizens have lost control of their lives and been shamefully turned into bargaining chips as they struggle to keep their families together and their lives on track.
only we the people can resist the tyranny of johnson and his cabal.
johnson could negotiate a different deal or leave without a deal.
law they are the source of that power.
they do not represent the decent polite and pro european majority of my people.
it would be an act of catastrophic self harm.
we need a people's vote so that the british people can finally choose between one clear leave option and remain which is by far the best deal for us. we therefore need more time.
no deal crashing out cannot be an option.
brexit is a mess created entirely by leavers because they've never been able to agree on what type of brexit they wanted. it's a mess that has laid bare the broken nature of uk politics.
further studies in epigenetics are allowing researchers to look deeper beyond dna and to combine the medical data with critical information about the kind of external and environmental factors that have been mentioned here today.
in addition genetic instability means that tumours go through an evolutionary process which means they can quickly become resistant to treatments that were working. but we know that one in three cancers might be curable so we need to do more. advancements in genomic research are allowing research on tumour mutations
but other cancers are still an automatic death sentence.
to move quickly.
we must seize the opportunities created by these advancements in biomedicine bioinformatics big data and artificial intelligence to help us in this fight.
over recent months i have marched with many thousands of people all over wales in support of independence and that support is growing. forty percent of people now saying they would support welsh independence if it meant that wales could remain in the european union.
to resolve the current crisis we must put the whole thing back to the people in a referendum and we need the time to do that.
we have the right to determine our own future.
but i ask you to look beyond that at other things that are happening.
we are leaving the european union and we have no regrets.
let's face it mr verhofstadt is the darth vader of europe and this place is his death star where national democracy comes to die. as for the empire i'm here for the.
today we are here to liberate the united kingdom from the european union.
seventeen four million to strike back. seventy five years ago my forefathers fought and died on european soil fighting fascism.