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Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: David Maria Sassoli
Language: IT

Care colleghe e cari colleghi, saluto i parlamentari presenti e quelli collegati in via web.  Com'è evidente a tutti, siamo ancora dentro l'emergenza COVID-19. Speravamo, con la pausa estiva, di tornare alla normalità ma abbiamo constatato che i nostri paesi sono ancora colpiti dal virus.  La progressione del contagio è ripresa in molti dei nostri territori e ha spinto i governi nazionali ad adottare misure di contenimento.  Per questo motivo, sulla base delle informazioni fornite dai servizi sanitari e delle autorità francesi, ho assunto, con rammarico, la decisione di non tenere la sessione plenaria a Strasburgo nel mese di settembre.  Desidero ringraziare i presidenti dei gruppi politici per il loro sostegno a questa decisione difficile e per aver manifestato alla Conferenza dei presidenti il pieno appoggio alla mia decisione di ripristinare la sessione di Strasburgo non appena la situazione sanitaria nella città e le condizioni di sicurezza consentiranno il nostro ritorno.  Sono grato alle autorità francesi per aver compreso lo spirito di questa decisione e per la collaborazione costante in questi mesi difficili. Voglio rivolgere, a nome di tutti i parlamentari, un caloroso saluto alla sindaca e ai cittadini di Strasburgo, in attesa del nostro ritorno che, ci auguriamo, accadrà al più presto.  Care colleghe e cari colleghi, ho ricevuto da molti di voi la segnalazione di un caso di un cittadino slovacco, Jozef Chovanec, deceduto dopo essere stato trattenuto in custodia all'aeroporto di Charleroi nel febbraio del 2018.  Vorrei esprimere la mia solidarietà e la vostra solidarietà alla famiglia, ai suoi cari, ai suoi amici, e sottolineare ancora una volta che il rispetto dei diritti umani e dello Stato di diritto è un valore centrale per l'Unione europea. Ci associamo alla richiesta di verità e chiediamo che sia fatta chiarezza sulle responsabilità.  La commissione per le libertà civili, la giustizia e gli affari interni del Parlamento europeo è stata già investita del caso e il Parlamento, naturalmente, seguirà gli sviluppi.
Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Manon Aubry
Political group: GUE/NGL
Country: France
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, je me permets de m’adresser à tous pour vous faire part de notre écœurement après la caricature abjecte dont a été victime ma collègue Danièle Obono, élue de l’Assemblée nationale française, représentée en esclave enchaînée dans le journal d’extrême-droite  Ce dessin nauséabond, suintant d’un racisme et d’un sexisme ignobles, doit nous faire ici collectivement réagir. La violence de cette attaque est évidemment d’abord personnelle, avec une volonté d’humilier une élue de la République en raison de sa couleur de peau, mais elle est aussi un message politique légitimant le racisme et les discriminations subis au quotidien par des millions d’Européens noirs. La violence des images et des mots entraîne la violence des actes, et le Conseil de l’Europe vient de nous alerter sur leur recrudescence inquiétante à travers l’Europe. Alors depuis le Parlement, nous le disons très clairement: il n’est plus possible de rester les bras croisés face à la banalisation d’un racisme décomplexé. Il ne faut rien laisser passer, ne pas céder d’un pouce, ne pas baisser les yeux. Notre rôle est de prendre position, comme nous l’avons fait il y a quelques semaines en votant la reconnaissance de la traite des esclaves comme crime contre l’humanité. Soyons maintenant à la hauteur du présent en condamnant avec la plus grande fermeté ce racisme qui fait irruption sous nos yeux.
Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Terry Reintke
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Mr President, this Parliament is going to debate the situation in the refugee camp in Moria on Thursday, and rightfully so as the situation has dramatically deteriorated after fires broke out last week. There are thousands of people without shelter and without clean water, many of them children. It is clear that we have to act. The European Parliament is actually ready to act. It is just the Council that is blocking. Under this precondition, I believe it is absolutely unacceptable that we debate this situation without the Council being present. So I would like you, Mr President, to make sure that the Council has to be here when we discuss the situation in Moria.
Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Anna Fotyga
Political group: ECR
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Mr President, I speak on behalf of many MEPs over political divisions. We kindly ask you to consider, during the next October part-session, our question referring to the human rights situation in Iran, especially political prisoners sentenced to death. Unfortunately, the situation deteriorated since our earlier request: Navid Afkari has already been executed. We kindly ask you to consider this request.
Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Nicolaus Fest
Political group: ID
Country: Cyprus
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Ich beziehe mich auf Artikel 11 und Artikel 22 Absatz 5 sowie Anhang III der Interinstitutionellen Vereinbarung zum Transparenzregister. Sie, Herr Präsident, sind verantwortlich für die Sicherheit dieses Gebäudes. Am vergangenen Freitag, dem 11. September, stürmte ein Kommando von Greenpeace das Berlaymont-Gebäude – also das Hauptgebäude der EU-Kommission in Brüssel. Greenpeace beging einen Hausfriedensbruch oder auch einen schweren Hausfriedensbruch. Das ist eindeutig ein krimineller Akt. Deshalb meine Frage an Sie und das Präsidium: Wie gehen Sie mit diesem kriminellen Verhalten um, und wie stellen Sie sicher, dass nicht das Parlamentsgebäude ebenfalls für rechtswidrige Aktionen von Greenpeace genutzt wird? Wie Sie wissen, sieht der Verhaltenskodex des EU-Transparenzregisters ausdrücklich vor, dass wilde Hausbesetzungen und Hausfriedensbruch dazu führen können, dass solche Gruppen aus dem Transparenzregister gestrichen werden. Ich empfehle dies, denn es kann nicht sein, dass Leute, die kriminelle Handlungen begehen, auch noch im Parlament mit Lobby-Ausweisen herumlaufen. Ich bitte das Präsidium, das bei der nächsten Sitzung zu entscheiden.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: David Maria Sassoli
Language: IT

L'ordine del giorno reca, in discussione congiunta, - la relazione interlocutoria sulla proposta di decisione del Consiglio sulla constatazione dell'esistenza di un evidente rischio di violazione grave dello Stato di diritto da parte della Repubblica di Polonia ( - l’interrogazione con richiesta di risposta orale alla Commissione: Zone libere da LGBTI in Polonia nell'ambito della causa Rete Lenford, presentata da Marc Angel, Maria Walsh, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Terry Reintke, Malin Björk, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Pernille Weiss, Billy Kelleher, Isabel Carvalhais, Pernando Barrena Arza, Sophia in 't Veld, Marianne Vind, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Dietmar Köster, Monika Vana, Daniel Freund, Frédérique Ries, Francisco Guerreiro, Nathalie Loiseau, Frances Fitzgerald, Birgit Sippel, Robert Biedroń, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Vera Tax, Evelyne Gebhardt, Arba Kokalari, Petra De Sutter, Grace O'Sullivan, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Radka Maxová, Heidi Hautala, Evelyn Regner, Rosa D'Amato, Aurore Lalucq, Hilde Vautmans, Pierre Karleskind, Evin Incir, Pina Picierno, Antoni Comín i Oliveres, Johan Danielsson, Magdalena Adamowicz, Diana Riba i Giner, Sandro Gozi, Brando Benifei, Mónica Silvana González, Ernest Urtasun, Kim Van Sparrentak, Alice Kuhnke, Rasmus Andresen, Marie Toussaint, Milan Brglez, Karen Melchior, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Eleonora Evi, Sylwia Spurek, Manuel Bompard, Isabel Santos, Jeroen Lenaers e Delara Burkhardt (
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Dear colleague, I would inform you that you have now used your six minutes of speaking time, with speaking time at the end, so I cannot give you the floor at the end of the debate.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Marc Angel
Country: Luxembourg
Language: EN

The amendments the Intergroup proposed and which were adopted by the S&D rapporteur and supported by four other groups specifically target the fears and the realities that LGBTI persons are experiencing in Poland. This includes hate speech by high political officials and, more recently, police brutality during the mass arrests of LGBTI activists this summer during the Polish ‘Stonewall’. Apart from cutting EU funds under the city-twinning programmes, which we highly welcome, the Commission’s lack of action regarding LGBTI-free zones is worrying. Last April the Court of Justice of the European Union recognised in the Rete Lenford case that homophobic statements can constitute discrimination in employment. Therefore, the LGBTI Intergroup asks the Commission if it agrees that LGBTI free-zone declarations risk discriminating against LGBTI persons in employment and occupation. Will the Commission start an infringement procedure based on the EU Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment? The Polish LGBTI community needs the Commission to take stronger action. What concrete steps will the Commission take to protect it, especially when it comes to protecting human rights defenders, like the authors of the ‘Atlas of Hate’? We must keep in mind that attacks on the rights of LGBTI people are a serious threat to Fundamental Rights everywhere in our Union. Throughout the whole summer, thanks to the webinars of the LGBTI Intergroup and of Rainbow Rose, I listened to many testimonies from Polish LGBTI people. They feel neglected because of the insufficient EU action, but they still have hope and believe in strong EU support. Dear Commission, let us not disappoint them.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Evelyn Regner
Country: Netherlands
Language: DE

Die polnische Regierung hat die letzten Monate dazu verwendet, Hass und die Ausgrenzung gegen LGBTI-Menschen anzufeuern. Was für eine Schande! Gerade in Zeiten der Krise ist es notwendig, die Gesellschaft zusammenzuhalten und nicht die Spaltung voranzutreiben. Die Salami-Taktik der PIS-Regierung beschneidet immer mehr Menschen in ihren Rechten: zuerst LGTBI-Menschen und nun auch Frauen, die ohnehin nur wenig echten formellen Schutz vor Gewalt bekommen und noch mehr in Gefahr kommen, durch massive Einschränkungen ihrer Rechte durch die Regierung. Als Europäische Union müssen wir dafür sorgen, dass unsere Grundwerte eingehalten werden und alle Menschen – wirklich alle Menschen – ein selbstbestimmtes, freies Leben ohne Angst führen können. Staaten, die sich nicht daran halten, dürfen keine EU-Gelder mehr bekommen, und nur ein Rechtsstaatlichkeitsmechanismus im nächsten Mehrjährigen Finanzrahmen kann das garantieren.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Andrzej Halicki
Political group: PPE
Country: Finland
Language: PL

Oczywiście chciałbym, żeby tego sprawozdania nie było. Chciałbym i mam nadzieję, że nadejdzie taki moment, w którym polskie społeczeństwo na tyle dobrze wybierze władzę, że ta nie będzie stawiała siebie ponad prawem. Bo to sprawozdanie to akt oskarżenia władzy, która właśnie siebie stawia ponad prawem, ponad konstytucją, a także szykanuje tych, którzy myślą inaczej. I pewnie usłyszymy tutaj nieraz te krzyki czy zaklęcia, że to ideologia, że to intencje. Nie, to sprawozdanie to zbiór faktów i opis zdarzeń. Bardzo zbalansowany.  Nie ma zgody na to, by władza dyskryminowała kogokolwiek w jakimkolwiek państwie europejskim. Jeżeli tak jest, to musimy w tej Izbie mówić, że tak być nie może. Nie ma zgody na to, by władza upartyjniała sądy i sama chciała być sądami w imię własnych interesów. Nie ma zgody na to, by zagrażać niezależności mediów tylko dlatego, że czyjaś opinia się władzy nie podoba. Nie ma także zgody na mowę nienawiści, a jeżeli słowa agresji płyną z ust polityków najwyższego szczebla, to trzeba reagować, trzeba reagować mocno. Dlatego nie spoczniemy w Polsce – to nasze zadanie, polskiego społeczeństwa. Ale ja chciałbym powiedzieć w imieniu całej grupy PPE, że to sprawozdanie musimy przyjąć, bo ono po prostu jest – niestety – prawdziwe.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Birgit Sippel
Political group: S-D
Country: Croatia
Language: DE

Die letzten Wochen und Monate haben nochmal deutlich gezeigt: Demokratie, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Grundrechte sind der PiS-Regierung egal. Von unabhängiger Justiz ist schon lange keine Rede mehr. Medien und immer mehr Organisationen geraten unter Kontrolle der PiS. Statt klarer Bekämpfung der Gewalt gegen Frauen ein angekündigter Rückzug aus der Istanbul-Konvention. Wir erleben massive Diskriminierung und Hetze gegen Menschen aufgrund ihrer sexuellen Orientierung und Identität und eine ausdrückliche Unterstützung sogenannter LGBTI-freier Zonen. Wenn die Mitgliedstaaten im Rat weiter nur zuschauen, verliert die EU ihre Glaubwürdigkeit als Kontinent mit Demokratie, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Grundrechten. Die Mitgliedstaaten müssen endlich etwas tun. Machen Sie sich nicht länger zu Handlangern von Orbán, PiS und Co. Positionieren Sie sich endlich eindeutig. Verankern Sie einen verbindlichen und effizienten Rechtsstaatsmechanismus im kommenden Haushalt. Jetzt haben Sie die Chance, unsere Werte für alle Menschen in Europa zu sichern. Lassen Sie diese Chance nicht verstreichen.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Sophia in 't Veld
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: EN

But in the meantime, the situation has got worse, obviously. We see LGBTI-free zones in Poland, in Europe, the return of witch hunts in Europe – something I thought I would never see. Today several NGOs have lodged a legal complaint at the Commission regarding the LGBTI-free zones, and judges in other EU Member States are now refusing to cooperate with judges in Poland and to use the European Arrest Warrant. Such civic action is very welcome, but why are the Commission and the Council not doing their job on this? Because frankly, Madam Commissioner, after three years I don’t want to hear the word ‘dialogue’ anymore. We’ve been in dialogue with Mr Orbán for 10 years and look at where we are now. It is impunity: dialogue equals impunity by now. It is time for action. I understand that Commissioner Jourová and Commissioner Reynders are ready to take action and to pursue the two pending procedures which are in court, but you’re being blocked by Ms von der Leyen. Ms von der Leyen is going to address this Chamber on Wednesday, and I’m sure she’s going to speak very moving words on the rule of law. But Ms von der Leyen, it’s time to act, it’s time to deliver, and I do not want to hear her say anymore that nobody is perfect –because impunity is encouraging other governments inside and outside Europe. How can we have moral authority, as Ms Sippel said, when we are giving support to the people in Belarus, when we are too chicken to tackle the governments of Poland and the governments of Hungary, and many others. It’s time to act. Now!
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Hélène Laporte
Political group: ID
Language: FR

Le déclenchement de la procédure de l’article 7 contre la Pologne constitue une humiliation, une atteinte inadmissible à sa souveraineté. L’argumentation juridique est de surcroît fragile sur plusieurs points. Un exemple parmi tant d’autres: le rapport souligne la partialité des médias en Pologne. Mais, objectivement, dans quel pays au monde les médias seraient-ils impartiaux? Soyons prudents. Par ailleurs, la stigmatisation des personnes LGBT après le retour au pouvoir du parti conservateur Droit et justice, en 2015, reste à étayer. L’arrestation de militants ne constitue pas une généralité. À l’heure actuelle, aux yeux du monde, Bruxelles donne l’image d’une Europe faible face à l’attitude belliciste d’Erdogan en Méditerranée orientale – lequel s’est même payé le luxe de menacer directement la frégate française Courbet le 30 août dernier – mais qui affirme avec un aplomb inouï que la situation en Pologne aura une incidence négative sur la situation des États membres. Le courage de l’Union européenne nécessiterait non pas une autorité sur la Pologne – il faut d’abord pouvoir vérifier –, mais une détermination à cesser tout financement en faveur de la Turquie, qui viole des zones maritimes grecques et qui occupe illégalement le nord de la Syrie.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Terry Reintke
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

If you think that I’m exaggerating the situation, or that I’m overstating something, I would like to give you one number, and maybe you are going to rethink that judgment. Currently 10% of all Polish judges, one in ten – in some districts, every single judge – is under urgent threat of being targeted with disciplinary measures.  What was their crime? They think that defending the rule of law and defending the independence of the judiciary is something that you can actually say out loud.  This is an unprecedented attack on EU values and the very foundation of the European Union, and probably not one, not two, and maybe not even five, Court of Justice of the Eureopan Union rulings are going to be enough when the ruling party is trying to take political control of the judiciary.  We have to stand not only with the judges in Poland, but we have to stand with the EU citizens that are demanding access to justice in Poland.  As the co-chair of the LGBTI Intergroup, I can tell you that every week, every single week, we receive more messages of worry and sometimes, I must say, despair from the LGBTI community in Poland.  Every week there are new attacks, every week there are new lies spread, there is new anti-LGBTI propaganda, and I don’t know what to tell them anymore, Madam Commissioner, because they all ask the same question: when is the European Union finally going to act? The silence of the Commission over this summer has been screaming into the faces of all of those people whose rights are under attack right now. And I urge you: do something, start an infringement procedure against LGBTI-free zones in Poland now, Madam Commissioner. Lastly, and I hope, especially, that Mr Duda is watching but also to our colleagues from the Polish ruling party here in this Chamber: look at me, look at Marc, look at Malin, look at Maria. We are not an ideology. We are human beings. We are made out of flesh and blood. We want to have exactly the same fundamental human rights like everyone else. And I know that deep inside of you, you actually know that, so stop using us and the LGBTI community in Poland for your disgusting political agenda.
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Patryk Jaki
Political group: ECR
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

So once again I call on you to maintain the seriousness of your office. But to get to the point: thank you very much for providing us, at last, with a definition of the rule of law. In your interpretation, the rule of law in Poland is being violated by, firstly, the adoption of the anti-terrorist law – even if you know there are similar laws in the other Member States. Secondly, by the appointment of the judges – which is done in the same way as in Spain. You know, in Poland the judicial council is appointed by parliament, like in Spain, by the same majority as in Spain, and you say: ‘In Spain everything is good but in Poland you harm the rule of law’. And this is equal treatment? Then in your definition, the existence of just one big Conservative television channel harms the rule of law. And merely holding a debate on abortion – not approving anything, only having a debate – harms the rule of law, in your definition. And the adoption of a solution in civil law to defend the good name of Poland, which is a fundamental right of every citizen and every country, you say that this is still harming the rule of law. Then the prohibition of the political activities of judges, which is a fundamental thing for the independence of judges – and we have this in the Constitution, by the way – in your opinion this is against the rule of law. The same thing when we don’t provide leftist organisations with more money out of public funds. And finally, the adoption of Regional Family Rights Law. Yes, it is true: in your interpretation, defending family law is harming the rule of law. So to conclude: everything which is not leftist is harming the rule of law in your interpretation. That’s why I need to ask you something: did you even understand what the rule of law is? Do you know what democracy is? The fundamental thing about democracy and European values is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the right to create a political group, a Christian political group, a Conservative political group, like Robert Schuman did. I need to tell you something: we in Poland know this kind of ideology. In the past, the Communists used the language of ‘I tell you...’. The Communists called censorship ‘the principles of freedom’: the restriction of religious practice, the freedom of conscience. And today you call a left-wing bandit beating a man a child who has been arrested for his beliefs, and supporting the traditional family you call an ‘attack on tolerance’. I tell you something, and I want to underline something: I am not surprised that the new monument in Germany of Lenin – a murderer, a tyrant – does not bother you. But the maintenance of family values in Poland does. Shame on you, shame on you!
Debate: Determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by the Republic of Poland of the rule of law - LGBTI-free zones in Poland within the scope of the Rete Lenford case
Date: MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2020
Speaker: Malin Björk
Political group: GUE/NGL
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

,  I think it is important to recognise that the rule of law, democracy and respect for fundamental rights go together. You cannot take away one and keep ‘a little bit of this and a little bit of that’. So we can see that the lack of independence for the courts, the lack of media freedom and pluralism, the attacks on women’s rights highlighted here in the Chamber and the attacks on the LGBTI community go together. We will not let this go on. We will not let the bullying go on. This House will stand up for the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights, and we will have an EU budget that doesn’t give money to those Member States like Poland that cannot respect fundamental rights and democracy and the rule of law.