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Debate: Conference on the Future of Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: João Ferreira
Political group: GUE/NGL
Language: PT

Recorde-se o processo da «Convenção sobre o Futuro da Europa», que lançaria as bases para uma «constituição europeia», numa operação de mistificação então dinamizada e que agora se pretende, em traços gerais, repetir.  Tal como se verificou com a «Convenção», a «Conferência sobre o Futuro da Europa» procura impor de novo um roteiro e objetivos políticos pré-determinados, escondendo as responsabilidades da UE na atual situação económica e social e visando o aprofundamento das suas políticas, que estão na origem do agudizar das desigualdades sociais, do aumento das assimetrias de desenvolvimento e do incremento de relações de domínio
Debate: Conference on the Future of Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Bogdan Rzońca
Political group: ECR
Country: Portugal
Language: PL

Europa nie może negować wartości uniwersalnych i absolutnych. Potrzebujemy Europy, która chroni i broni najsłabszych, których głos jest niesłyszalny. Nie wystarczy, aby Europa miała tylko chrześcijańskie korzenie, taką musi mieć przyszłość. Parafrazując słowa papieża Franciszka, trzeba powiedzieć, że nadeszła pora, aby wspólnie budować Europę, która obraca się wokół gospodarki tak samo mocno, jak wokół świętości osoby ludzkiej, wartości niezbywalnych. „Europę śmiało obejmującą swoją przeszłość i z ufnością spoglądającą na swoją przyszłość, aby w pełni i z nadzieją żyć swoją teraźniejszością. Nadeszła chwila, aby (...) krzewić Europę uczestniczącą, niosącą wiedzę, sztukę, muzykę, wartości humanistyczne, a także wartości wiary”.
Debate: Conference on the Future of Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: László Trócsányi
Political group: PPE
Country: Latvia
Language: HU

Az európai államok jelenleg számos kihívással néznek szembe. Versenyképessé kell válniuk világpiacon és biztonságot kell nyújtaniuk a polgáraiknak. Választ találniuk a társadalmaik elöregedéséből fakadó demográfiai kihívásra. Nemet kell mondaniuk az európai kultúra értékeit tagadó tömeges migrációra. Újra kell indítaniuk gazdaságaikat, amiben együttműködésre vannak ítélve. Olyan Unióra van tehát szükségünk, amely ebben nyújt segítséget az európai nemzeteknek. A Konferencia jó keretet szolgáltat a viták lefolytatásához, de eredményes csak akkor lehet, ha senki sem sajátítja ki magának. A vélemények szabad ütköztetése megköveteli, hogy a nemzeti parlamentek is részt vehessenek ebben a gondolkodásban. A nemzeti parlamentek egyfelől a népszuverenitás hordozói, másfelől az európai szerződések urai, így nélkülük nem remélhető sikeres európai jövőkép felvázolása.
Debate: Conference on the Future of Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: István Ujhelyi
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: HU

Amikor Európa jövőjéről gondolkodunk, akkor meg kell tudnunk válaszolni: rendjén van-e az, hogy egy kelet-európai tagállamban a hatályos protokollok és ellátás-minőségi különbségek miatt kevesebb eséllyel diagnosztizálják időben egy európai polgár daganatos betegségét, mint tőle nyugatabbra. Szerintem nincs rendjén. Szerintem egy felvilágosult, szolidáris európai közösség nem tűrheti ezeket a mély különbségeket. Tarthatatlannak tartom, hogy az egészségügy szervezését tagállami hatáskörben hagyva az Európai Unió csak megvonni tudja és megvonni szokta a vállát az ilyen állapotok miatt. Éppen ezért felül kell vizsgálni a tagállami hatásköröket és elsőként minőségi minimum-sztenderdeket kell meghatározni a közegészségügy területén! Én ezen dolgozom! Ezt vállalom!
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Katarina Barley
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über die Erklärungen des Rates und der Kommission zum Schutz strategischer europäischer Sektoren vor ausländischer Übernahme in der Zeit nach COVID ( Auch zu dieser Aussprache gibt es keine spontanen Wortmeldungen und keine blauen Karten.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Phil Hogan
Language: EN

We all agree that investment, including foreign direct investment (FDI), will play a central role in our economic recovery in each Member State, but foreign direct investment will also contribute to bridging the gap of domestic financing for the EU’s economic recovery and future ambitions, including greening our economy and making it fit for the digital age. In addition, foreign direct investment turbocharges research and innovation. Foreign—owned firms account for a quarter of business in terms of R&D in France, Germany and Spain, between 30% and 50% in Portugal and Sweden, and more than 50% in Austria, Belgium and Ireland. But foreign investments should not happen at the expense of our own internal security. This is where our FDI Screening Regulation plays a very important role in addressing the concerns when foreign investment may put European security or public order at risk. The Commission is closely following developments in the European Union, and at the end of March, we issued, as the Council President has said, special guidance to Member States on the protection of Europe’s strategic assets, ahead of the full application of the FDI Screening Regulation in October 2020. It reminds Member States of the interdependencies that exist in the European single market. It calls on all of them to seek advice and coordination in cases where foreign investments could, actually or potentially, now or in the future, have an effect on public order or security. Those Member States that have screening mechanisms should take full advantage of that and use them, and those that do not should certainly put them in place as soon as possible.  Europe has a strict and unique system of state aid control and transparency in place, but there is increasing concern that some third countries do not shy away from intervening in our markets with massive amounts of subsidies, and such third—country subsidies will then distort the European Union’s internal market. So investors receiving such subsidies could aim to acquire EU companies and could, thanks to their state financing, outbid other companies, including European companies. As Executive Vice-President Vestager said, the Commission has today adopted a white paper, which launches a very important public consultation on the ideas for future roles to make sure that foreign subsidies don’t undermine the level playing field in Europe’s single market. I look forward to hearing your views.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Wir setzen nun unsere Aussprache über die Erklärungen des Rates und der Kommission zum Schutz strategischer europäischer Sektoren vor ausländischer Übernahme in der Zeit nach COVID (
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Christophe Hansen
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

The white paper on foreign subsidies gives good options, but actions speak louder than words. Actions such as the pioneering countervailing duties levied on imports of fibreglass stemming from Chinese state-subsidised companies producing abroad in Egypt. But more can be done: a China taskforce, to speak with China with one single voice on all different levels; secondly, we can beef up our FDI screening instrument; thirdly, we can move forward on the instrument for public procurement.  If we are to keep up public support for our trade policy, we must equip it with the tools to enforce fair competition.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Agnes Jongerius
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: NL

Er moet een herziening komen van de regels rond buitenlandse investeringen, met daarin een duidelijke definitie van wat strategische sectoren zijn. Zijn dat alleen de fabrieken die medische hulpmiddelen maken, bijvoorbeeld, of zijn we bereid om andere strategische sectoren voor ons continent veilig te willen stellen? We mogen niet toekijken hoe bedrijven met oneerlijke subsidies de crisis aangrijpen om op koopjesjacht te gaan. Het is aan ons allemaal om banen en bedrijven te beschermen.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
Political group: Renew
Country: Latvia
Language: FR

Le livre blanc que vous présentez aujourd’hui sur les subventions étrangères est vraiment un pas dans cette direction, et je tiens à le saluer, d’autant plus dans le contexte actuel où la Commission européenne travaille intensément à la gestion de la crise, notamment via l’encadrement temporaire des aides d’État. Dans le rapport annuel sur la politique de concurrence, dont je suis rapporteure et qui sera voté demain, nous appelons, avec les collègues, la Commission européenne à renforcer la politique de concurrence dans la mondialisation et à assurer la réciprocité avec les États tiers en matière de marchés publics et d’aides d’État. Notre constat est clair, nous devons adapter nos règles à la situation actuelle pour remédier à deux vides juridiques. D’abord, nos règles d’aides d’État ne s’appliquent pas aux opérateurs non-européens qui ont pourtant pleinement accès à notre marché unique et, enfin, ni les règles antitrust, ni le contrôle des concentrations de l’Union européenne ne prennent en compte les subventions étrangères. Imaginez, Mesdames et Messieurs, un match de football où les règles de l’équipe étrangère accueillie seraient beaucoup plus clémentes que celles de l’équipe qui joue à domicile. Inutile de regarder le match, parce que sans être voyant, on sait déjà à l’avance qui le remportera, mais de façon totalement injuste! La crise de la COVID-19 nous a alertés sur la nécessité de préserver nos secteurs clés pour parvenir à une Europe résiliente. Les rachats hostiles d’entreprises affaiblies par cette crise ne peuvent être monnaie courante, sous prétexte que nous n’avons pas su les empêcher, et je me réjouis des pistes avancées ce jour par la Commission, qui permettront d’investiguer et d’empêcher ce type de comportement prédateur. Toutefois, le chemin est encore long, et j’espère que la consultation publique répondra à ces questions, en particulier: quelle répartition des pouvoirs entre la Commission et les États membres, quelle liberté pour les États membres qui, dès maintenant, acceptent volontiers les investissements étrangers ou les rachats de leurs fleurons nationaux par des entreprises étrangères largement subventionnées? Une chose est sûre, si nous voulons que cela fonctionne, nous devons rester unis, sinon nos partenaires commerciaux joueront davantage sur notre diversité que notre unité.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Kim Van Sparrentak
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

The health and pharmaceutical sector is crucial for the public health of Europeans. We must put public health before shareholder profits and that’s why we need an increase in public funding with clear guidelines. We need a change in the research and development model for pharmaceuticals, based on open science and cost transparency. Changing the pharmaceutical sector for the benefit of everyone will be a lot harder if European pharmaceutical companies fall into foreign hands. That’s why this sector in particular needs to be protected from hostile foreign takeovers, especially the ones that come from a very nationalistic interest.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Johan Van Overtveldt
Political group: ECR
Country: Spain
Language: NL

Bescherming is goed, bescherming is prima, maar onvoldoende om ons ondernemingsweefsel zijn oude elan terug te geven, dat toch wel zwaargehavend is door deze crisis. Ik denk dat er op dat vlak twee maatregelen of twee ingrepen absoluut structureel noodzakelijk zijn. Een: versterking van de interne markt. Zonder die interne markt kunnen ondernemingen onmogelijk concurreren op de internationale markt. En twee, de realisatie van de interne kapitaalmarkt, die nodig is om de nodige fondsen voor bedrijven te genereren en om er ook voor te zorgen dat die middelen efficiënt gebruikt worden.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Emmanuel Maurel
Political group: GUE/NGL
Country: Greece
Language: FR

Il a fallu attendre 2020 pour que certains découvrent qu’à l’OMC, par exemple, la Chine ou les États-Unis ne sont pas vraiment des fanatiques de la réciprocité. J’ai vu que Mme Vestager et M. Breton avaient dit qu’ils avaient été naïfs. C’est bien de le reconnaître, mais maintenant, il faut cesser de l’être et il faut réagir. J’ai lu avec attention votre Livre blanc. Tout d’abord, je le trouve compliqué: vous avez trois niveaux d’enquête, des formulaires innombrables, etc. Je pense qu’il faut aller à l’essentiel, il faut être clair, simple, pragmatique. Il faut arrêter, comme vous le faites trop souvent, de vouloir restaurer à tout prix le marché pur et parfait. Il n’a jamais existé et il n’existe pas. Allons à l’essentiel: il faut protéger nos entreprises, nos emplois, nos savoir-faire; il faut un
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Mislav Kolakušić
Political group: NI
Country: Greece
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, poštovane kolege, pravo na istinu i pravo na istinite činjenice jedno je od temeljnih prava čovječanstva. Da bismo mogli donijeti ispravne odluke mi moramo saznati činjenice. 10. ožujka 2020. godine zatražio sam da ne zatvaramo vrata Europskog parlamenta, da ostanemo ovdje i saznamo istinu o virusu, o jednoj od bezbrojnih mutacija virusa iz porodice Corona i bolesti COVID-19. Umjesto toga, mi smo zatvorili vrata Parlamenta i time dali pravo i drugima da zatvaraju vrata svojih parlamenata, nadalje, trgovina, da ukinemo prijevoz, da ukinemo kompletnu ekonomiju.  Što se dogodilo? Dogodila se neviđena ekonomska katastrofa. Nama sada slijedi drugi val, mi moramo saznati činjenice, moramo pozvati najpoznatije epidemiologe i virusologe u ovaj dom, postaviti im pitanja da znamo kako ćemo reagirati u 10. mjesecu.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Herr Kollege! Darf ich aber schon klarstellen, dass das Europäische Parlament die Türen nie zugemacht hat, sondern wir die einzige internationale, multinationale Organisation sind, die mehrsprachig und
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Lídia Pereira
Political group: PPE
Country: Finland
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, a pandemia da Covid-19 está a provocar consequências devastadoras na economia europeia com as exportações da União a poderem cair perto de 470 mil milhões de euros até ao final deste ano. A volatilidade dos mercados deixa as empresas europeias suscetíveis a ofensivas estrangeiras. É, por isso, urgente tomar medidas concretas que as protejam e, sobretudo, quando protagonizadas por empresas participadas ou detidas por Estados. A velha máxima de que o capital não tem nacionalidade é válida apenas e até ao momento em que esse capital deixa de ter como motivação a sua remuneração e passa a ser uma arma política, cultural e civilizacional. Este tipo de ameaça é ainda maior quando incide sobre sectores estratégicos, infraestruturas ou tecnologias.  Precisamos de uma União pragmática, uma economia atrativa e um quadro regulamentar que permita monitorizar a origem do capital estrangeiro em todo e qualquer processo de fusão e aquisição.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Raphaël Glucksmann
Political group: S-D
Country: Romania
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, port du Pirée, aéroport de Toulouse, Alstom. Jusqu’ici, tout chez nous était à vendre. La Commission réagit enfin avec ce Livre blanc. Le filtrage des investissements étrangers est en effet vital, mais c’est insuffisant. Je vais vous raconter l’histoire d’une usine française, celle de Gerzat, la dernière usine capable de produire en Europe des bouteilles d’oxygène pour nos hôpitaux et nos sapeurs-pompiers. Il y a un an, la direction anglo-américaine de Luxfer, a décidé de fermer cette usine, malgré des bénéfices en augmentation de 55 %, et nous voici aujourd’hui totalement dépendants, pour produire cela, des États-Unis ou de la Turquie. Luxfer est le nom d’un abandon de solidarité et d’un abandon de souveraineté. Alors, chers collègues, nous avons un bras armé de 2 000 milliards d’euros: la commande publique. Il faut aujourd’hui un
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Reinhard Bütikofer
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Mr President, in protecting Europe’s strategic sectors there is no single silver bullet – we need the whole toolbox. That’s why I welcome the White Paper that looks at ways of reining in foreign subsidies, but we also will need to strengthen our investment screening approach vis-à-vis predatory takeovers. Even though the volume of capital invested has decreased recently, the number of investments has grown, which means that investment from China is going after smaller companies that still might have a strategic role. So I think we should try to start amending our investment screening mechanism once it comes into force in October and we could learn a lesson from this. In addition, I think in order to protect our strategic sectors we must also protect their supply chains, and there it would be interesting to learn from Japan where they’re investing into relocating in order to protect supply chains, and they do that together with ASEAN countries. We could think of doing that with Western Balkan countries and other partners too.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Tom Berendsen
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: NL

Voorzitter, de komende jaren bepalen hoe wij als Europa de toekomst ingaan. En we keren de rest van de wereld niet de rug toe. Een uitgestoken hand blijft belangrijk, maar we moeten wel duidelijke regels stellen om onze eigen belangen te dienen. Niet meer naïef zijn! Wie op onze markt actief wil zijn, moet zich aan de regels houden en die regels moeten de Europese belangen dienen. Een Amerikaanse overheid die hier op zoek is naar een coronamedicijn alleen voor Amerikanen, dient ons belang niet. Chinese staatsbedrijven die hier op zoek zijn naar strategische koopjes, of dat nu om havens, hoogwaardige technologiebedrijven of orders voor elektrische bussen gaat, dienen ons belang niet. Om ons belang te dienen, moeten we ervoor zorgen dat op onze markt ook onze regels, onze normen en waarden gelden. Zo beschermen we onze plek in de wereld en zo zorgen we er ook voor dat de banen van de toekomst ook hier in Europa worden behouden. Ik roep de Commissie dan ook op: zet uw plannen van vandaag snel om in actie!
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Phil Hogan
Language: EN

So in that respect the foreign direct investment screening mechanism that will come into effect in October needs to be strengthened. Also I think if there were two issues that we need your assistance on, then it would first of all be to respond in a very clear way and in a very strong way to the White Paper that has been issued by my colleague Commissioner Vestager today, in terms of getting a good response about how we need to do more in dealing with the issue of farm subsidies and that they are competing on an uneven playing field with the European companies.  And secondly your strong political support would be very welcome for moving on the international procurement instrument, which has been left a little bit in abeyance by a certain institution, so I call on the Council and Parliament and the Commission to work more closely together in order to ensure that we get this particular piece of legislation enacted as quickly as possible.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Margrethe Vestager
Language: EN

I hope that we can continue a strong cooperation on this. I really hope that you will encourage the co-legislator on the international procurement instruments, because here we need reciprocity and we need tools for that. I also hope that you will insist that we get better procurement rules, because procurement is a competition, and those who are the most efficient, with the highest quality, they should win: not those who come with a subsidy in their luggage. Right now, European governments are doing the best they can to help businesses come through the damage that the coronavirus is doing, but they do that in a controlled way, they do that in a transparent way, they do that in a way that preserves the single market that will help us recover and create the jobs that have been lost. The reason why we’re dealing with foreign subsidies is that we have no control, no transparency, and that is why we stand up against this today. So thank you very much for the very broad support. I very much look forward to our future cooperation, also on these files.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Nikolina Brnjac
Language: EN

The new EU legislation to create the first EU-wide framework for the screening of foreign direct investment was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in March 2019 has now entered into force and can be fully applied from 11 October 2020.  Finally, allow me to reiterate that the Council and the Member States will take all the necessary measures to protect strategic assets and technology from foreign investments that could threaten legitimate public-policy objectives.
Debate: Protecting European strategic sectors from foreign takeovers in a post-COVID world
Date: WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020
Speaker: Beata Mazurek
Political group: ECR
Country: Malta
Language: PL

Musimy działać rozsądnie. Nie możemy zamykać się na inwestycje zagraniczne, które przysłużą się do szybszej odbudowy gospodarczej. Nie mogą one jednak zagrażać naszemu bezpieczeństwu. Potrzebny jest ich stały monitoring, potrzebna jest kooperacja pomiędzy państwami członkowskimi i bieżąca wymiana informacji. Nie możemy działać hermetycznie. Poprzez dobrą współpracę lepiej zabezpieczymy nasze interesy. Nasze działania muszą być zdecydowane. Pamiętajmy o tym, że chroniąc naszą gospodarkę, chronimy rynek wewnętrzny oraz konsumentów, a przede wszystkim obywateli Unii Europejskiej.