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mr president the year begins with unjustified optimism about growth prospects but that recedes as the year's realities begin to emerge.
if you persuade countries to share a currency that is over valued for some of them if you import manufactured goods from countries of low wages and inhuman conditions and tolerate the transfer of production and investment to emergent economies you will not get growth you will get recession.
extremist twice over extremist in italy against austerity and extremist in this parliament in supporting austerity but behind the ideologies there is reality and the reality is that the rate of fiscal consolidation is not only worsening the recession and unemployment it is not reaching its main goal the reduction of deficit and debt.
it must leave room for public investment and have a sustainable space.
the aforementioned countries do not fall into the category of least developed countries but they certainly fall into that of developing countries.
into the human condition at the beginning of the twenty first century.
if the mdgs do not embrace the least stable and least secure countries we will never achieve a viable social and moral order there.
let us take for example some grave problems relating to health care.
if we need proof that no durable and sustainable development exists without security we have it here.
therefore it is critically important to come up with a new and fresh perspective instead of offering that of the twentieth century. it is a fact of our time that no development is possible without security and. this is why we have tried to offer a more balanced approach to the mdgs paying more attention to such regions as central asia where poverty goes hand in hand with a lack of safety insecurity instability forced child labour and even slavery.
we are facing new challenges and we have to react to them.
dire straits combined with instability and violence may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe in the region.
therefore the time has come to expand our horizons.
in addition to that we cannot forget about extreme forms of poverty in such european countries as moldova and albania.
they are outside the legal system.
yes nine trillion.
they do not have a capital value.
what are these mdgs?
well actually there are eight millennium development goals and i think we should have had more.
we keep talking about mdgs.
the trouble is that none of those slums and none of those businesses are registered.
one of the things that is most important in eradicating poverty is to have stakeholderships to be able to own something to have property or to own a small business.
should we be able to recapitalise those properties and those businesses we would put nine trillion dollars' worth of capital assets into the hands of the leaders of the developing countries.
had we been able to do that we would have been able to eliminate poverty faster. this is what has happened in other parts of the world.
that is larger than the entire debt that we have been worrying about in europe and more than value of the stock markets in new york london and tokyo. however we have not found a way to capitalise on those properties and those businesses.
most countries in europe including britain are on the verge of bankruptcy and only stringent public spending cuts will reverse the situation.
we should not be thinking of more ways to tax those businesses that still make profits and drive them abroad beyond the eu's control.
madam president no one could fail to agree with the millennium development goals formulated in two thousand and no one could fail to be astounded by the complete lack of reality in believing that such goals could be achieved by the target date of.
dismantle the ever increasing burden of regulation and red tape that is strangling businesses across europe;
and of course britain should leave the european union as soon as possible.
two thousand and fifteen quite apart from the totally unrealistic timescales to achieve these gargantuan tasks there is the amount of money that the report now says should be spent. where is the money to come from?
abolish the european single currency and allow countries like portugal italy ireland greece and spain to return to the world of economic reality.
in these circumstances the way to help poorer countries become more prosperous and alleviate their multitude of social ills is to stimulate the world economy.
what we should do is the following relax eu trade barriers and protectionist measures that restrict trade with poorer nations;
we are spending less and less of our development aid budget where it is needed most that is in subsistence agriculture and among peasant farmers.
two thousand and six perhaps the commission will tell us what actions they are taking to address that and i see a nodding head so i am hopeful and also to get governments in african countries to recognise that hunger exists in the rural areas where people could actually farm if they had the tools.
twenty two you know the reasons.
i am particularly grateful about his paragraphs forty eight forty nine and fifty on food security. i actually think his explanatory note is much stronger than the paragraphs in the report because we have a real problem in the european union.
we should not go alone on this and export refunds are not the problem.
i disagree fundamentally with paragraph.
eight millennium development challenges which still remain challenges.
in some of the least developed countries we are slipping way way away from the targets that we need to be reaching mid way through.
back in the year two thousand when we were going through economic boom times we made promises and we made commitments.
and that is why in my report i have looked at not only what we have done so far but how much more we need to do.
think of trade think of the common agricultural policy think of the common fisheries policy.
i want to thank the ngos across europe for supporting my report.
and we do not want a redefinition of overseas development assistance.
it will not be a perfect report; nothing produced by this house ever is but let me say this let us not now use party political differences to take away from ourselves the opportunity to go for a united position at the united nations and achieve the mdgs
so what i want to see is leadership from the eu.
not the minimum set that they can agree on but a commitment to that.
child mortality rates are low low low and yes the numbers of children dying are gradually decreasing.
and it is investment.
the maternal health improvements are there.
without policy coherence our investment in these countries will never pay off.
it is in our long term economic interest to get rid of these mdgs to achieve them and get rid of these problems that curse individual lives across the world.
there must be no tinkering at the edges. so we have an interesting debate tonight.
but our problem is that not only do we need more money to tackle these commitments we now need additional finances to tackle the problems associated with climate change which are bedevilling the positions that we are taking in the developing countries and the least developed countries.
and that means looking at the big problem we have in the european institutions of policies on the one hand that want to deliver positive change and policies on the other which contradict and undermine that.
let me restate them the major challenges are extreme poverty and hunger access to universal primary education gender equality child mortality maternal health aids malaria and tb environmental sustainability and global partnership for development
there has been some progress and yes the investment that we have made and i use that term wisely the investment that we have made so far has paid off.
and now during this week the eu will come together to hopefully forge a united position ahead of the september plenary at the united nations in new york. but i have to say the signs are worrying. there is a lack of commitment to that. zero seven of our gross national income that we said we would commit to taking on these challenges.
so often the word runs off our tongue the mdgs' but do we ever actually revisit what they are?
the council has agreed to make a real step forward in terms of aid effectiveness inviting concrete proposals from the commission.
and beyond.
we need to ensure that policy coherence for development becomes a strong tool to guide eu decision making.
i am broadly satisfied with the conclusions we have reached. there is a clear commitment to meet
they help galvanise development efforts and help deliver opportunity to millions of people around the world. despite impressive gains however overall progress has been uneven among the different goals across regions and within developing countries.
we need to pay special attention to countries most off track including those in situations of conflict and fragility.
we need to turn aid effectiveness from a good concept into tangible reality.
by. two thousand and fifteen council adopted gender equality and women's empowerment in the development plan of eu action for the years
strengthening country owned institutions policies and service delivery systems will be essential as will avoidance or mitigation of shocks and the promotion of broad based economic growth. mr cashman's excellent report responds to the issues mentioned and gives powerful guidance for the european union in preparation for the united nations high level meeting in september
the commitment to govern effectively is a basic condition of any pursuit of public development strategies and policy.
all these example show that development policy is more than a small field.
we can use the cap reform to focus on sustainable agriculture and eliminate all direct and indirect export subsidies and we can stop acta for which the commission still has not delivered the proof that it will not hinder access to medicine and technology transfer.
the eu institutions and that includes us can do a lot to reach the targets.
aspects of development policies can be found in all our committees and we should be aware of that.
madam president the millennium development goals are sure not perfect but what makes them great and different is that they demand measurable progress and because they are measurable we can see that we are not on track currently and we need to reinforce our efforts.
and this we should also take into account when designing the external action service.
and we can finally recognise that you cannot achieve maternal health without women's rights.
for example we can use the reform of the fisheries policy to support fisherwomen and fishermen in developing countries rather than industrialised fishing companies.
let me say about age i do not want to live more years and witness more suffering more hunger more poverty and increasing mortality rates amongst women giving birth and amongst children under five.
i want us to see these mdgs achieved.
i would say to those who have spoken with some reservation about elements of this report let us not turn around to our citizens and say that we failed to agree and we failed to vote in favour of that report because it had elements within it that i could not vote for.
what kind of signal does it send to people living in poverty and deprivation without water without access to health care without access to education without access to an equal life that somehow in a debate in brussels there were elements within a report that prevented us from doing the right thing
for the majority of this planet?
but think of that child or that woman dying in childbirth think of that child dying through malaria or diarrhoea or tb or aids or hiv and of the young woman denied access to education so that she cannot empower herself for the rest of her life.
mr president i have a point of order under the rules of procedure.
i have such a resolution in my hand.
i have enjoyed much of what you have said over the years.
so i view you as a fantasist but at no point have i ever ever implied that you were dishonest.
you are very honest indeed.
you made it clear that he was wrong and that he was deceiving the british people.
it is the expansion to allow in more and more countries; it is the expansion of the eurozone to let in mediterranean countries which should have never have joined in the first place and which are now suffering so horribly.
but thank you for last sunday thank you for appearing on british television thank you for confirming that the real fantasist is not you it is david cameron.
the british prime minister who pretends that we can restrict free movement and remain members of the european union.
you made it clear that you were the boss and not him and for that i thank you and wish you a very happy retirement indeed.
perhaps that comes from your early days as an active student maoist when you believed in big ideas but did not perhaps have much to do with practical reality.
i also enjoyed you saying that the european union was the first ever non imperial empire because in that you showed so much of what this project has now become.
sometimes we had the feeling that it was paris and berlin highlighting the issues and tabling them and the commission was somehow in the shadows.
this is one thing that we surely have missed.
this is where i would have expected the commission to take a much stronger lead. having said that clearly there are policies where you have succeeded. transport is definitely one of
so mr barroso as you look forward to your next role may i on behalf of our group wish you all the best and your commissioners all the best for the future.
your first term began with an institutional crisis after the french and the dutch voted to reject the european constitution.
but instead of listening to the very real concerns expressed by voters in two of the founding member states instead of lifting your eyes from the institutional navel gazing the commission resurrected and repackaged the constitution as the lisbon treaty under a new guise. your second term was marked by a financial crisis and a banking crisis and then a currency crisis and a debt crisis.
these changed the political agenda and consumed much time and energy.
we know you can be open.
after all you have been very open with the british people in the last few days and in the same way that you have said what you think about freedom of movement in the same way that you have been clear what membership of the eu entails will you now be open with the taxpayers of germany the netherlands finland and other richer eurozone countries about what euro membership entails?
these crises are enormous and are not over and we will have long term consequences for years to come but these crises are a symptom of a larger crisis and that is dealing with global competitiveness.
but there are people who are deeply worried about being left behind;
left behind as leaders come to brussels to pursue political integration; left behind as our share of the world economy shrinks;
at times we have agreed with you on the services directive free trade agreements and measures to pursue the completion of the single market.
but it is time that we look at how we help businesses grow.
instead of creating more red tape ask entrepreneurs what stops them from creating new jobs.
instead of environmental targets ask companies what makes them greener and more environmentally friendly.
so while i think it is fair to say that your commission has not always had the chance to look forward i also think it is fair to say that we hope that the next commission will be in a position to sometimes take a step back focus on the bigger picture and face the challenges of the future.
for years the sight of british fishermen being compelled to throw discards back into the sea something like one million tonnes of these dead fish yearly and they are perfectly edible fish demonstrated an unfeeling absurdity in eu policy and fomented deep domestic resentment in the uk about the over extension of european union power.
therefore with the exception of a few amendments this report is hugely welcome to our group.
while the transparency directive will encourage greater efficiency efficiency does not translate automatically into hastiness which is why i welcome the compromises on time limits.
let me also put on the record that i am proud that the european medicines agency is based in my london constituency a rare example of an eu agency which provides good value for money.
above all this legislation which i voted for could offer an exemplary reconciliation of member state competence and single market harmonisation giving patients faster and more cost effective access to medicines while ensuring that their prices are fairly administered within the limits of national rules and regulations.
madam president twenty years ago there were only twelve member states and the single market was only a few months old.
but it went through with only fifteen votes and we have left them with months of uncertainty.
a few months ago i went to visit a company called radical cars.
suddenly their entire business model is under threat.
they were the first company to get single type approval which means that instead of getting their new car adopted in twenty seven countries they just do the paperwork once.
but then this noise directive arrives and a bit of legislation which is meant to deal with golfs fiestas and renault clios is suddenly imposed on this little tiny company which sells one hundred cars not thousands or tens of thousands every year.
it is a fantastic flagship for the single market.
i am so glad that the amendment to help these smaller cars went through today.
madam president i have long argued that we need to make sure that our smaller companies are exempted from european legislation.
in the nineteen th century it was widely believed that the noise of a passing train would cause miscarriages in pregnant women.
it is not a good business model to go around poisoning your customers and opening yourself to massive liabilities.
madam president one of the most scandalous episodes i have lived through as a member of the european parliament was the banning and restriction of a number of higher dose vitamin and mineral supplements and herbal remedies by their reclassification as pharmaceutical products.
once again we see that consumers taxpayers and entrepreneurs are disadvantaged in favour of the handful of corporate interests which are the real beneficiaries of this system.
the justification was the precautionary principle which is one of those ideas that sounds plausible but turns out to be specious.
had we applied the precautionary principle we would not have laid a single inch of track because the rail operators at that time could no more prove that they would not cause miscarriages than the herbalist can prove that her products are not deleterious to health. there is such a thing as benefit of the doubt'.
of course the real reason that these restrictions were brought in was because a handful of massive pharmaceutical corporations which could easily afford the compliance costs saw it as an opportunity to put their smaller competitors out of business which is exactly what has happened.
madam president i welcome the limited reforms passed today.
while the eu must do all it can the specific causes cultures and circumstances of violence against women and girls differ greatly across the union.
up to seventy of women worldwide are thought to experience domestic violence in their lifetime.
i therefore wholeheartedly endorse the un's efforts to tackle this problem everywhere. the only problem is one of eu universality.
madam president i doubt there is a single decent minded politician who would not welcome efforts to combat the scourge of violence against women and girls. despite the progress of the last fifty years it is shocking that violence against women continues to be perpetrated in every country in the world including even children such as the recent case in pakistan.
an over prescriptive eu directive i would oppose as it would be a blunt instrument to tackle a problem which is best dealt with by the individual member states in cooperation with the european union.
these noise levels do not only come from the vehicles themselves. for instance we have other contributory factors such as road surface and the type of tyres used on a vehicle can significantly contribute to the noise levels from a vehicle. vehicles need to have a sound identification system where consumers can see which vehicles emit various sound levels.
the noise made by motor vehicles is one of the main contributors to noise pollution; reducing the noise emitted by vehicles is an absolute necessity and we must facilitate such a reduction in any way that we can.
the conditions present in the pharmaceutical markets are vastly different to the ones which existed when the previous directives were put in place. more medical products are now available thanks to medical advances and generic medicines.
it is absolutely vital that we work to create greater transparency of the measures regulating the price of the medical products. it is also very important that we do this now as the directive in effect is completely outdated.
mr president anyone who has visited my region of london can attest to the fact that the capital city is plagued by noise pollution. my constituents and i would certainly appreciate reduced noise levels in the city but londoners also have a love of motor sports and luxury vehicles and many are connected to the uk's substantial auto industry.
any new noise limits introduced must not adversely affect employment or productivity in britain or its auto industry or the greater european sector for that matter.
new regulations regarding the sound level of motor vehicles must be reasonable and have a reasonable impact on the industry.
while it is important to address the issue of environmental noise caused by motor vehicles we must remember to do so in a pragmatic and balanced way.
in these trying economic times we cannot afford to sacrifice jobs or revenue.
ultimately they would not be willing to trade economic growth for slightly quieter streets.
i find it deplorable that the commission proposal would substantially reduce the permissible noise limit values for motor vehicles without making acoustic vehicle alerting systems compulsory in electric or hybrid cars.
madam president i firmly believe that the noise produced by cars and lorries should be at levels that are generally consistent with public health.
this is why a solution could be for member states to recognise domestic violence as a form of gender based violence in their criminal codes and implement protection orders and impose sanctions. non criminal measures such as shelters and real and long term protection for victims
also we need to focus and think that the objective is protecting the victims and reducing domestic violence;
including putting distance between those aggressing and their victims could be more efficient than any punishment.
madam president it is rare that i feel so pleased about a vote in this parliament but the abhorrent system whereby perfectly edible food was thrown back into the seas because of the eu brussels set fishing quota has got to end and today we have moved in the right direction.
in the meantime my local fishermen in small boats using lines not nets with no discards they are sustainable fishermen are not allowed to fish.
so bringing back the decision making to our local regional panels is absolutely key.
this has started to turn the tide for the fish in our sea and for those of us who want to be able to eat our fish and chips for many more years to come.
madam president i believe in a single market for medicinal products. in order for this market to function properly we need a level playing field and greater transparency and this means that pricing and reimbursement of medicines must be based on objective and verifiable criteria.
however member states have exclusive competence in deciding on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines.
therefore we must ensure that the new directive does not interfere with national competences.
i voted for this report because i believe that unlike the original commission proposal it offers a good deal for patients.