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it is not by chance that very often it is eu member states which hold the annual rotating chairmanships of the hague code promoting its universalisation and chairing relevant meetings.
it is for this reason that in our view the united states and the russian federation needs to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve to inf treaty and ensure its full and verifiable implementation which is crucial for european and global security.
this is no small achievement as subscribers include the us and russia as well as all eu member states.
calling it a cold war era agreement or a relic of the cold war is a misinterpretation and a misunderstanding. the inf treaty is always an important contribution to disarmament obligations under article six of the nuclear non proliferation treaty.
the hague code does not prohibit the possession of missiles but aims to prevent proliferation and increases transparency for the benefit of subscribers. subscribing states exchange information including pre launch notifications. as of now one hundred and thirty nine countries have subscribed to the hague code.
the world doesn't need a new arms
the inf treaty is also a model to be followed and as such it is today more relevant than ever before.
we are united in our support for the non proliferation treaty as the cornerstone of the global nuclear non proliferation regime.
let me recall that all states party to the non proliferation treaty are committed to pursuing the objective of achieving a world without nuclear weapons.
plainly that isn't going to get through parliament and so we're losing i'm afraid the opportunity to have had a cordial amicable withdrawal process.
obviously what happens in that mff is not britain's business but as i speak the chances of britain leaving without any withdrawal agreement has hugely increased which will of course have budgetary implications.
there's still time to put a looser more skeletal deal in place that would cover the basic courtesies you expect to have with friendly neighbours but that time is very short now.
there's been one of those unfortunate misreadings of each other's political conditions and the prospect is now being put of a withdrawal agreement that requires membership of the customs union.
two five million to address the needs of people affected by violence in the northern triangle. concerning the caravan the commission is currently looking into possibilities to respond to humanitarian needs in particular regarding the protection of vulnerable children and women against trafficking.
this applies to europe and its member states as it applies to everyone else including the united states.
once fully ratified the political and cooperation dimensions of the agreement will further reinforce our partnership. the eu is and will remain a reliable partner to the countries in the region in addressing the migration challenges combining response to immediate needs with action on the root causes.
every day hundreds of people from honduras guatemala and el salvador begin the journey to the united states.
regional cooperation is equally important for the development of the region including the creation of economic opportunities.
through international cooperation with our partners we can turn migration from a common challenge into a shared opportunity for human development.
we support the national strategy to fight violence with a focus on prevention including support to community organisations on the return of young people to the education system and on the construction of safe public spaces.
they are all fleeing poverty and hunger but fear seems to be the main driver of these migrations.
the eu also funds social programmes such as ciudad mujer' an innovative approach to provide women with psychological and legal support and training for entrepreneurship.
all these factors combine and today the migrants are also fleeing death violence and extortion.
in guatemala support amounting to over eur one hundred and fifty million is focused on food security competitiveness security security and human rights.
half of the unemployed are young people so it is hardly surprising that many of them decide to leave their country and look for a better future.
natural disasters have also been a strong driver for migration from the region.
every country in the world has every right to protect its borders and every country in the world has the obligation to do so in full respect of human rights and the principle of nonrefoulement as well as the norms on international protection.
i know that the parliament has always supported this approach so i thank you for this debate and look forward to hearing your views.
the northern triangle countries are among the poorest in latin america with one third or even half of the population living on less than eur five a day.
efforts to address security challenges at national level go hand in hand with reinforced regional cooperation against transnational crime and drug trafficking.
migration is a global challenge that requires global solutions and global responsibility sharing.
the association agreement between the eu and central america opens our markets to central american businesses.
the european union has been supporting countries in the region in a twofold approach providing immediate relief and tackling the root causes. in terms of humanitarian assistance the commission is implementing a program of eur.
he shed the light on the biggest lies that led the greek state and the eu into one of the most severe financial crises since the end of the second world war.
how can the european nuclear states argue that countries like korea and pakistan should not have the very nuclear weapons that they claim is so vital to their own security?
trump's reckless actions could launch the world into a new deadly arms race.
mr president my first child was born in one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven and having grown up under the shadow of the mushroom cloud i can remember the relief i felt at the disarmament process led by mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan. the treaty on intermediate range nuclear forces in europe that trump is sabotaging dates from that era. it was a step on the path away from the cold war and led to the destruction of three thousand missiles.
this time it would not be just between two superpowers but open to any immoral regime that could find the cash to join in.
as the actions of the authoritarians polarise the foreign policy debate britain and france should show leadership by unilaterally dismantling their nuclear weapons and signing up to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons treaty on the prohibition of such weapons becoming the first un security council members to do so.
mr president a hundred years after the first world war many have reflected on the risk of war returning to our continent but in reality the next war has already begun. it's a culture war an information war and we're all conscripted into it many of us without our knowing.
last week shahmir sanni the vote leave whistleblower won his unfair dismissal case that exposed the activities of nine lobby groups seeking to undermine action on climate change and help the tax avoiders all working out of fifty five tufton street in london.
a year ago the prime minister drew attention to russian involvement in british politics but she is refusing to say whether she blocked an investigation into arron banks' russian connections and we have learned that the mueller investigation is making similar inquiries with regard to nigel farage.
we need this activity by what we have called the brexit syndicate' called out as propaganda and not given oxygen by the bbc.
welcome to the culture war. it's a war between democracy and authoritarianism.
the foreign actors distorting our elections are coming from both russia and the usa.
all available digital radars should be focused on the european election infrastructure and systems that are part of the voting process but also on foreign intelligence activities notably the russian state sponsored media outlet which operates in various member states.
i drive from my home in killarney to dublin twice a week every week coming to brussels and going back and the amount of trucks and buses is enormous.
being a member of the european parliament from the uk i'm all too used to delays on the railways.
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sixty one' he broke down into simple straightforward terms the importance of this measure a few days ago when he said this implementing missed connection protection is absolutely essential to stop passengers having to pay huge penalties to operator b because of operator a's delays rendering rail travel risky and discouraging people from using it. ' we in this parliament need to be encouraging people to use the railways.
rolling out new very high capacity networks is crucial for putting europe at the forefront of digital innovation.
we have also strengthened people's protection in emergency situations including through the retrieval of more accurate caller location.
the code will lay the groundwork for developing five g across europe.
consumers will benefit from advanced services and from better online protection.
that includes better coordination of planned radio spectrum assignments and specific rules regarding radio spectrum fees.
europeans expect an internet connection that is fast reliable affordable and safe.
they create the legal conditions that will allow us to meet europe's growing connectivity needs and to boost its competitiveness. we have succeeded in providing a legal environment for european telecoms that is both investment friendly and pro competitive. this is something very much to be welcomed. we should not underestimate the significance of this achievement. i would like to thank the rapporteurs pilar del castillo
we have extended the end user protection obligations to web based services where that makes sense.
the code's new provisions including those on core investments offer strong incentives for deploying these new networks.
finally we brought certain terms and definitions into line with those used in the eu reach regulation.
let me underline that these substances can be transported over thousands of miles in the environment from where they were released.
two thousand and four the current eu regulation on persistent organic pollutants dates from two thousand and four and implements the international commitments expressed in the stockholm convention.
addition it aims at reducing and eliminating the releases of pops that are unintentional byproducts of industrial processes such as dioxins. last march the commission proposed the recast of the eu regulation on persistent organic pollutants in order to bring its procedures into line with the procedures set out in the lisbon treaty.
the recasting process gave us an opportunity to update certain aspects of the regulation to provide further clarity and to make its processes more efficient.
in addition we adopted and streamlined reporting and monitoring obligations and proposed to align the annexes to the regulation on persistent organic pollutants with the outcome of the two thousand and fifteen conference of the parties to the stockholm convention.
pop stands for persistent organic and pollutant. the term refers to chemical substances that persist in the environment that bio accumulate through the food chain and that are highly toxic to human health and the environment.
the regulation aims at eliminating the production placing on the market and use of internationally produced persistent organic pollutants in.
i'm looking forward to hearing your views and i trust that you will give a strong mandate to ms girling to start negotiations as soon as possible.
this is why persistent organic pollutants are a global concern.
the international community took action on these chemicals through the establishment of the stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants which entered into force in.
madam president thousands of poor families and unaccompanied children from central america are on the move travelling to the mexican usa border fleeing violence poverty and unsustainable lives.
he has scant regard for human rights and uses his position to stir up hate.
he has threatened military violence and he uses the racist xenophobic language that has become a hallmark of his presidency.
trump has become the bully in the school playground.
thirty eight yearold jos vega who is travelling with the caravan from honduras said my hope is someday to build a house for my family to live in peace to go from sandals to shoes not to be rich but to be in peace'.
he is unfit for public office and he shames his country by his words and actions.
i speak as a lifelong peace campaigner.
it was prompted by the huge nuclear disarmament movements that swept across europe and the usa in the one thousand. nine hundred and eighty s in some respects the peace movement owns this treaty and we must do what we can to ensure it is not taken away.
mr president president trump's decision to withdraw from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been widely criticised for good reason.
let's also remember that in this house on twenty seven october two thousand and sixteen we voted by a large majority to support the un process to make nuclear weapons illegal.
the inf treaty occupies a special place in peace history in our history.
scrapping the treaty will undermine international security could prompt a new arms race and certainly increases the risks of a nuclear war.
we have achieved the goal of promoting investments while making sure that consumers in europe retain the right to choose their operators.
one key technology for revolution is five g and very fast connections.
if we want better digital services we need better digital infrastructure.
this morning i came from paris where i had the privilege to head the parliament's delegation to the internet governance forum. europe is at the forefront of the digital revolution but we need to cooperate with the rest of the world and we have to make sure that we have common goals for the right use of the digital tools.
it's not just in these connections that you see that you are connected but your program doesn't work anyway.
it's high time for member states to see that we need common rules for spectrum as well and we need the spectrum bands to be out there at the latest by.
any attempt to undermine independent experts should ring alarm bells.
the commission should take steps to protect the independence and integrity of the work of statisticians and to ensure that they are not subject to political pressure.
in this case there is a suspicion that a legal process is being used as a tool to scapegoat statisticians for the impact of national economic policies.
policy makers as well as the general public require high quality statistics in order to make informed decisions within our democracies.
the mff needs to be ambitious effective and forwardlooking.
i believe that adequate resources have to be ensured to tackle new challenges.
among other priorities we should properly finance such fields as defence and security the erasmus and horizon programmes allocate adequate funds to the civil society in the eu neighbourhood and ensure that the cohesion policy is for now kept at least at the two thousand and fourteen two thousand and nineteen levels before gradually downsizing it.
however one must also question the motivation of those who wish to limit its power the same people who stayed quiet when my voice was gagged and my words were twisted in the past by old' media.
this time our national broadcaster kept me off the main debate for my constituency.
with one day left to go for the big debate for the election i was told by the national broadcaster that they would contact me later after the election.
there is no doubt that the power of facebook co.
their collection of data is phenomenal and their motivation questionable.
international eu rates have been unjustly high for too long. the end of roaming in europe was a great success but we stopped half way.
also every citizen will now have a right to an affordable internet connection.
the internet must be seen as a utility like electricity and gas.
in the twenty first century citizens should not have to rely on rumours to know what is happening in the case of an attack or emergency.
from fifteen may next year everyone will be able to make cheaper calls.
finally i want to highlight the introduction of the mobile public warning system.
i am proud and humbled to have led parliament to complete the final step in creating an eu where country codes are obsolete and where consumers can call anyone without worrying about the price.
as more and more services including government services go online it is unthinkable to be without internet access today.
eu member states have two years to transpose and implement the rules.
it will make a huge difference to people and business to our society and economy.
for the commission our focus will now be to make sure that the code is properly implemented and we will also monitor this.
not only must they do this on time they must also do it correctly and efficiently.
although we have created a structure and environment for the next decade of european telecoms our work is not yet done.
while some argue that the numbers of migrants in the caravan are small they set a precedent and encourage others to make this dangerous journey to the us.
both here and in the eu and over there in the us there are legitimate and legal routes for seeking genuine asylum but these migrant caravans should not lead to permanent residence in the us.
in recent weeks the united states has seen a migrant caravan consisting of thousands of people travelling from central america to the us border.
but if you enter a country illegally you are breaking laws and you are therefore a criminal.
it's not just in the european union but it's also in the united states.
leaders in europe would do well to learn from president trump's response to what's happening at the us border instead of just continually pointing their fingers and complaining.
there are one hundred and twenty nine million people who live in mexico quite happily.
i think president trump is right to send thousands of us troops to the border to stop the illegal entry of the migrants and to protect their national security.
it has been said in this debate that they are not criminals.
we're witnessing an organised mass migration of economic migrants on a scale that has never been seen before and this quite simply is economic migration.
we share a common challenge when it comes to dealing with the millions of people who are trying to illegally cross borders.
are we saying that everybody in mexico should be leaving mexico to go to america as well because it's unsafe there or are we saying that the migrants should stay in mexico now that they are there?
since two thousand and seventeen multiple caravans have headed to the border and each time they are getting bigger and bigger.
the final deal thanks to parliament is much more balanced than the first draft and is much more ambitious in the field of consumer rights. with the electronic communications code we're making real improvements to the transparency of contracts to the ability to take your phone number with you when you switch providers and to ensuring that everyone has affordable internet access also recognising community networks.
even the most conservative economists would predict the exact opposite namely that competition drives innovation and doesn't stifle it.
there's a reason why telecom companies have quite a terrible reputation among consumers.
when we told europeans years ago that we would abolish roaming they thought that would mean that wherever you called in europe and wherever you used the internet you would pay the same price.
although the european union has enshrined net neutrality in law it has failed to provide a clear and unequivocal ban on zero rating.
that's an intraeu call something completely different where higher prices are considered okay.
it's not just that the us has abolished federal net neutrality rules.
that will bring european consumers one step closer to a real single market.
the berec regulation makes some modest improvements but this parliament and national governments failed to take the important step of creating an eu regulator with all the powers needed.
it's a missed opportunity because global threats to our open internet are becoming bigger.
so it is a great success for parliament that the proposals from the greens and the left to abolish charges for intraeu calls have made it into the final deal at least in the form of a price cap.
it's not just that in paris this week mr macron said that net neutrality must not stand in the way of internet regulation. no mr macron net neutrality is internet regulation and it's precisely the kind of regulation we need to strengthen.
the consequence is that today according to berec's own figures zerorating still exists in most eu countries and we need to take further steps to ensure that an open internet is available to everybody.
what they soon had to learn was that calling somebody in another eu country is not roaming.
many people in europe have the choice between just a small number of providers and often all the available options are bad. bad surprises in the form of ridiculously high phone bills slow speeds and difficulties in switching providers are still common.
two thousand and sixteen first it was based on the strange notion that the best way to get companies to invest in broadband internet was to reduce competition and to offer deregulation in return for investment.
we are making real improvements to people's security too by introducing systems that allow people to receive automatic notifications on their phones in the case of disasters.
the verts ale group has been at the forefront of resisting any deregulation agenda and ensuring that telecom regulators have the necessary powers to regulate.
to conclude i would like to underline that the commission stands ready to provide support and to play to the full its honest broker role.
we must also be aware that products made from recycled materials will be accepted by consumers only if they have confidence in the quality and safety of the recycled material.
first regarding mr andrieu's point about breaches of chemical legislation i'd like you to know that this study was conducted regarding the reach regulation whereas in the debate we were discussing the recast of the pops regulation and i would therefore really like to focus only on that.
let me underline however one specific issue concerning your proposal of listing decabde in the recast since this featured prominently during the discussion. while i fully understand the objective of parliament to take into account the experience and concerns of the recycling sector i would like to remind you that it is
this is in line with the objective of both the united nations stockholm convention and the eu regulation on persistent organic pollutants to eliminate production and use of these substances.
this is significantly different from the listing of the other pbdes under the convention in two thousand and nine where such a recycling derogation was included.
crucial that our circular economies are as free as possible of toxic chemicals.
to achieve that objective it is of utmost importance that materials that contain persistent organic pollutants can be used or placed on the market only if those pollutants are present as unintentional trace contaminants.
it has been a really useful discussion and has touched upon the main elements of the commission's proposal.
before i conclude let me refer to some of your additional comments.
i am looking forward to starting negotiations in order to ensure a first regarding agreement during the austrian presidency so that this legislation can make a real difference on the ground as soon as possible.
i remember a time when the previous president president obama gave a speech on a world without nuclear arms and i think we are now unfortunately on the wrong track.