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asian countries are very much interested in what we are doing.
it's also a unique step because it takes the full circle of plastic into account.
i am confident because since this is something that is shared by the full political spectrum of this house it will also be something that will be shared by the next commission the next european parliament and the council.
i do agree with those of you who said it's only a first step. with all the self congratulation here today we should also remember that we have a long long way to go until we actually have a circular economy.
there is a huge sense of urgency in european society that this needs to be done and it needs to be done now.
it is already having an impact.
if you think back three or four years i don't think we were there yet.
that is why after the thanks we gave to the rapporteur and to the co legislators i think it's only right that i should mention also those who have contributed to creating a sense of urgency in broader society because that's what's driving us.
plastic pollution is something that is felt across the board and by many countries and many regions. i also want to add that to be very very clear on this it will also affect packaging.
the size of our economy is such that if we change our economy and create a more sustainable economy it will have an impact on the economies of other parts of the world.
microplastics are a huge challenge to our health and we need to come up with proposals firstly removing it from products where it's not even needed.
if we are to say today that it's quite remarkable that we got here we have also to be grateful to all those outside the political sphere who got us to this point.
we also want to go further.
you have the wide ranging media who have taken up responsibility to create public awareness.
then we need to look at products where we still need them and look for alternatives in tyres for instance.
just to give you my sense of urgency this is something we will still have to do whatever the composition of the next commission.
it should be recyclable or no longer used by.
latin american countries as well. even though our share of the pollution is relatively limited our change of economic model has a global impact and it will also change economic models elsewhere.
it's a unique step that is recognised at the global level.
we can still leave on twenty nine march by the grace of god but if we do not then the uk independence party will lead the struggle to set britain free from the european union in the years to come and if necessary we'll start that in the next european elections in may.
her so called deal is an unconditional surrender treaty except that we have not been defeated by a foreign power.
if britain does not leave the european union on twenty nine march then it will mark the official end of democracy in the united kingdom.
never before have the british been governed by such a pack of traitors quislings and collaborators.
no eu withdrawal agreement no eu future relationship agreement no treaty can bind a people that do not want to be bound.
accept that no people that want to be free can be enslaved forever.
in britain any act of parliament may be repealed and set aside;
ms may still has some grovelling left to do.
instead those entrusted with safeguarding our freedoms and liberties have surrendered them to a foreign power the european union.
theresa may has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a way unparalleled in the history of the world.
the english constitution will prove to be stronger and more durable than any eu treaty or agreement.
you're breaking your own rules.
the commission has acted under article sixty nine requesting the european chemicals agency to study oxo degradable plastics because the commission thought that they created microplastics.
if and only if echa were to recommend a restriction this would need to be considered by two committees according to articles seventy and seventy one of reach and put out to public consultation before any restriction could be implemented.
echa has not yet completed its study but did advise after ten months of work last october that they were not convinced that microplastics were formed.
none of this has been done.
as with any copyright legislation the authors and producers must not be forgotten.
the broadcasts that we share form part of a common experience.
those who author information or cultural work must have their incomes protected.
the commission i believe will continue to reduce the barriers to broadcasting across europe and this will contribute to improving the programmes and information that are available.
it can never be right for broadcasters to profit disproportionately from the work of others.
i hope that this legislation will enable progressive forces in europe to push for improved availability of culture across borders whilst maintaining a balance with the preservation of contractual freedoms.
this legislation does mark some improvements for consumers and will increase the availability of certain programmes across europe.
it can only be a good thing that we support more trusted information being provided on a european level and i hope this has the capacity to develop a shared european perspective on current affairs.
it is important that as online services expand the barriers to broadcasting are reduced whilst maintaining the contractual rights of producers and broadcasters over their work.
this is also a positive move for consumers online and should increase accessibility for all.
fully financed works by online broadcasters will also be included in this directive.
this will allow citizens to access quality news and media across the continent which i believe will enhance our media sector.
it is important for the health of the cultural sector that they maintain reasonable levels of control over the material they produce.
the protection of creators' income relates directly to the health of the sector.
culture plays a vital role in forming strong relationships across the continent and breaking down barriers between people.
they must be able to live from their work otherwise we risk damaging the diversity of the sector.
finally i'd like to look to the future.
however we cannot facilitate improved broadcasting without offering support to independent and emerging producers of culture.
those who work to create content must not be vulnerable to exploitation and must receive equitable remuneration for their work. authors content creators writers and other rights holders need adequate protection in the law to ensure they receive just reward for their work.
we must facilitate a healthy broadcasting sector that can reach out to citizens everywhere.
we await progress in london and hopefully this will happen.
but we should also be prepared for any outcome and we should be ready to offer any help that we can.
but the bad news is also the tone of self congratulation which we have heard today.
but the clock is also ticking for the european union ladies and gentlemen and you should be listening to voters across europe.
and that was accepted by the united kingdom and hopefully the solution will be found within the timetable.
they're using the argument that it was a very small majority that decided about brexit.
the bad news is that the eu still seems to continue pursuing the same policy of deterrence which roughly speaking consist of two elements.
well if it had been the other way round if the remainers have won by the same small majority their verdict would have been considered here in this chamber as absolutely irrevocable and binding for eternity.
there are more and more voters desperate for change and change will happen.
president juncker president tusk let us admit it this has been the most crisis ridden period in the entire history of european integration. brexit is one of several crises and all of you who have taken the major decisions in the european union are responsible for it do not delude yourselves.
in the interests of our citizens and that everybody supports the sustainable development goal six and better access to water.
i would like to reiterate that the commission stands ready to help the colegislators reach an agreement that will support the objectives we all share and will ensure that our citizens benefit from the highest health protection for decades to come.
i am hoping to see this reflected in the first reading position so that parliament comes to trilogues with an ambitious position when it comes to the quality of our water health protection and access to water.
i wish you success for the vote and thank you again for your commitment to this fight.
the commission has been invited to develop by march two thousand and twenty a longterm action plan for better implementation and enforcement of the single market rules.
in the meantime we have instructed ministers to step up work on the eu's longterm climate strategy in order to implement the goals set down by the paris agreement.
however for this system to continue to operate it needs to be quickly updated.
as regards bilateral issues we would like to finalise talks on the investment agreement already next year.
yesterday the commission put forward a recommendation in this area.
leaders also considered the uk's request for a short extension of the article fifty period. our decision on extension envisages two scenarios.
before that day the uk still has a choice of a deal no deal a long extension or revoking article.
in this context we supported a concerted approach on the security of five g networks.
they may feel that they are not sufficiently represented by the uk parliament but they must feel that they are represented by you in this chamber because they are europeans.
given its significance for millions of jobs in europe the commission has been invited to present a vision of the eu's industrial future including concrete measures. third the eu needs to further develop its digital economy
and of course i can't imagine not having human rights on the agenda.
let me be clear such thinking is unacceptable.
second we discussed how to address the challenges faced by european industry.
we will discuss all of this with china at the upcoming summit.
you cannot betray the six million people who signed the petition to revoke article fifty the one million people who marched for a people's vote or the increasing majority of people who want to remain in the european union.
with a special focus on data and artificial intelligence.
the leaders called to resume the discussion on the public procurement instrument as well as to pursue rapid implementation of all the elements of the us eu joint statement of twenty five july.
we worked out a positive stance that offers ambitious cooperation on bilateral and global issues including trade. we both have a key economic interest in maintaining significant trade flows which are possible thanks to the rules based trading system.
for the eu this means serious reform of the wto that would cover industrial subsidies as a priority.
we want to persuade china to address this and i am convinced that we shouldn't give up.
the good friday agreement endorsed by many here contains the solution president tusk so build on the council statement of april two thousand and nineteen have the necessary conversations answer the big question de dramatize the issue once and for all.
we campaigned for the north to remain in the eu not out of the total love of this place or some of its policies but because we knew the damage that brexit would inflict on our island. we were right. more importantly the majority of the people of the north of ireland agreed with us.
their ignorance and arrogance fuelled by the democratic unionist party has brought us to the abyss on which we currently stand. brexit has been described as a neverending series of question marks yet one question provides us with a very simple answer for ireland and possibly for the eu from this utter mess and total shambles.
before the referendum was even called we were in london telling the british government the damage that brexit would do to our island.
we the european institutions and the member states have spared no efforts to provide as much certainty as possible to this process.
so let me finish by saying that if the option for a longer extension is seriously discussed if there is in uk a cross party debate and decision on a renewed political declaration we urge you the british political parties to do it in a way respecting citizens and their rights and avoiding the creation of uncertainties for them.
so we need to invent this new phase of the future.
i'm pretty confident that for europeans knowledge culture our creativity is by far the main asset.
when it comes to china it is very important to say as we just said that we want to have a strategic partnership with china but working in both directions and respecting our values.
a european way of digital revolution means protecting privacy our security and our freedom.
we need to promote the european way to drive the digital revolution and this should be said to our chinese partners in the next summit.
we were able to define a grand plan to deal with europe and globalisation. this was the lisbon agenda followed by the lisbon treaty.
we also know that fighting against climate change and promoting sustainable development goals will become an absolute priority for the next agenda.
yes the world is changing a lot.
most of all we need to make sure these will be translated into more and better jobs and that we can update our social protection systems to protect citizens throughout this big transformation.
we don't know what's in any of our future and the forces of populism are gathering in all of our nations.
there are a lot of us in scotland and elsewhere across the uk working hard to turn this round to serve our citizens to remain within this family of nations.
i am asking you to leave a light on so that we can find our way home.
in the scottish parliament we're debating revoking article fifty because from a scottish perspective and every single party in scotland except the conservatives are united around this view the best brexit is no brexit.
we celebrate international solidarity.
if the european union didn't exist we would need to invent something like it and scotland would want to be part of it. you as professionals must deal with the united kingdom as you find it. you must respect the uk's constitution and i respect that.
we don't know what's in the uk's future but i do know that scotland is a european nation.
we celebrate freedom of movement.
so many issues we should be working on together utterly distracted by a self inflicted disaster entirely because the uk still even now at this last hour hasn't made a decision on what it actually wants.
we see mps today at westminster finally trying to reach a settled view.
welcome to the party.
but in what might be my last speech in this place after fifteen years serving our european people we don't know what's in the uk's future.
thank you for the consideration.
i would like to replace the words the fight against climate change' with the words tackling climate change' in agreement with the two co rapporteurs.
allow me to thank on behalf of colleagues the rapporteurs and all the members who have been involved in getting the file to this point.
it will also benefit those living abroad as they will be able to stay connected to their home countries as well as europe's numerous linguistic minorities. at the same time the directive protects rights holders with a number of safeguards.
the directive will help enable our citizens to benefit more fully from the diversity of content offered by european broadcasters as we've heard by making copyright licensing easier for broadcasters and retransmission operators that are willing to make more programmes available to more people across the eu.
in particular the new directive makes it easier for broadcasters to provide access to their radio and television programmes via their online services makes it easier for retransmission operators to obtain the necessary rights to retransmit broadcasts from other member states and includes new rules on the direct injection technique relevant for the remuneration of rights holders.
on behalf of the commission we agree that this represents an important part of the digital single market strategy.
there is the humiliation of the british people sitting in your group.
i want to recall the words of winston churchill who said if i may quote him success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm'.
first of all in that we can make it more binding for both parties than only a declaration.
with the approval of the letwin amendment there will be for the first time after two years of negotiation maybe a solution based on cross party cooperation between labour and the conservatives.
a two hundred mile march.
but it will not be succeeded now. it will be succeeded later on and the seed is there let's be honest in the march by one million people in london and the petition by six million people a few days ago.
this is a surprise for me because i thought that he was marching somewhere in britain and he is here.
but more seriously after all the negative voting of the last two weeks in the house of commons against the deal against the no deal against the second referendum and so on i think there may be light at the end of the tunnel now.
i hope that the way forward giving them time until eleven april will see a majority in the house of commons for one of these options between remainers and reasonable brexiteers because it's between them that they have to find a way forward.
i believe that such an existential issue as brexit can only be decided on with a crossparty agreement in parliament as we do here in this european parliament.
secondly in that we can put inside this political declaration a far more intense relationship between the eu and the uk than the relationship that is foreseen in the political declaration at this moment.
the political declaration in two senses.
that is the way you are taking your responsibility.
well i think it's now time to look into the possibilities together with mr barclay you and both houses to see how we can formalise that as fast as possible so that in any case whatever happens even when the most stupid thing happens for example a no deal at least these citizens are not the victims
they are not even there.
it will help chinese and european investments to flourish.
by. two thousand and twenty this is of utmost importance.
it's a business leader in many areas and that's why there is no point to say that china is only a developing country. china for sure is a developing country in many respects but taking into account its power in the world's economy today we have all the reasons to expect reciprocity.
it's kind of an expert group which has been working on the future of the industrial policy of europe. the target is two thousand and thirty and this group has already been working more than a year.
the european council also asked the commission to come with concrete proposals on how to improve our business and economic relationship with china and this is under our work at the moment. we are preparing for instance state aid rules to third country acquisitions.
we want to make sure that there is a level playing field that there is hard competition but not unfair competition.
we share many views with the chinese authorities on various policy issues and we have also done some things together but there are many issues which we have mostly been talking about but not doing that much and this happens mostly in the field of economy.
another very important topic is the eu china relationship.
as everybody knows we have very strict state aid rules when it comes to intraeu acquisitions but the same rules don't apply with a third country and this is problematic.
very briefly on industrial policy the commission has already set up a working group.
so we have to make sure that our single market is open for everybody but is fair for everybody.
the financial crisis led to the use of financial derivatives being better regulated and this is the final piece in that post trade regulatory framework.
it is of great concern that the council have decided not to prioritise this technical file which is essential for the future financial stability of the eu financial market infrastructure.
i urge the council and commission to ensure that this crucial piece of legislation has top priority in the next mandate to better protect eu investors and the financial system as a whole.
this regulation was designed to address the risk of concentration in eu central counterparties and put in place the safeguards needed to deal with the most extreme scenarios in ensuring the recovery and or the resolution of central counterparties.
the shadows and myself and the co rapporteur have brought this file back today for a final vote because the interinstitutional negotiations envisaged by this house nearly a year ago have not even begun.
banning cotton buds and plastic plates is a good move but where is the systemic change that we need to achieve?
the plastic spoon we know is thanks to the fracking boom and the fossil fuel industry's desperate attempts to secure its future.
but i would caution and say hold off from popping the champagne corks just yet because the truth is that the linear plastics economy will be continuing business as usual.
so what's great is that this directive has raised awareness about plastics but we absolutely need to hit home that the answer to the plastics crisis is not about individuals rejecting straws or even campaigning for a straw ban it's about radically changing our production lines.
mr president today we will approve the single use plastics directive one of the highest profile pieces of legislation in the eu and we have a good outcome thanks to the rapporteur despite the council dragging down the ambition.
so plastic will remain cheap and ubiquitous unless we take on the fossil fuel industry and strongly regulate the plastic manufacturers. we need to stop talking about the circular economy in just fancy words and we really need to think about how we put this principle into action.
we have some very positive measures in this directive but we should all acknowledge that we are still just scratching the surface here.
how do we stop the thirteen million tonnes of plastic from entering the ocean every year?
this should take into consideration the deindustrialisation of central and eastern europe over the past decades.
by the end of two thousand and nineteen the commission shall be presenting a longterm vision.
at the beginning of this meeting mr president you had to tackle the issue of mobility. now this is an example of services from eastern europe being driven out of the market by using legitimate social and labour concerns.
and he pointed out that the commission is invited to present by the end of two thousand and nineteen a longterm vision for the eu's industrial future with concrete measures to implement it.
if we want to have a balanced industrial future it has to take into consideration this central challenge for industry jobs and growth.
madam president at the beginning of this session president tusk highlighted an initial text in the conclusions of the council namely a strong economic base is of key importance for europe's prosperity and competitiveness'.
now mr president i appeal to you and through you to president tusk who for the moment has left but i see he's coming back and to vicepresident katainen think carefully what this wording means.
i have said plenty of times that the visa free regime comes with rights and obligations and the kosovo authorities are well aware of this. they have done their part of the work and i trust they will continue doing so.
i am aware of these concerns and i can understand them.
against organised crime and corruption. two years later on eighteen july two thousand and eighteen following the necessary efforts and progress the commission confirmed that kosovo has fulfilled all benchmarks of the visa liberalisation roadmap including the two previously outstanding requirements.
i would like to thank this house for the swift support it has given to our proposal.