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Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Victor Negrescu
Political group: S-D
Country: Finland
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, doamnă comisară, dragi colegi, războiul din Ucraina a creat o presiune suplimentară asupra turismului și transporturilor, grav afectate de pandemie, pentru care trebuie să găsim soluții. În țara mea, România, aflată la frontiera cu Ucraina, au existat costuri importante în aceste două domenii. Am cunoscut o scădere a turismului internațional, turiștii externi fiind speriați de ce se întâmplă în regiune. De aceea avem nevoie de noi instrumente europene de sprijin și am cerut o linie bugetară dedicată.  În ceea ce privește transportul, România a trebuit să preia din ceea ce se transporta în Ucraina. După începerea războiului, traficul de mărfuri în portul Constanța a crescut cu 8 %, de la 33 de nave pe zi, la 50.  Ministerul Transporturilor din România a alocat fonduri suplimentare pentru aceste noi nevoi pe zona de transport, însă este nevoie de sprijin european. Nu doar marfa este importantă. Trebuie soluții și pentru marinarii sau transportatorii ucraineni care nu mai au unde să se întoarcă.  Avem nevoie de mai multă flexibilitate din partea Comisiei Europene și de resurse suplimentare pentru a asigura fluxurile de transport necesare atât Ucrainei, cât și țărilor din estul Europei, de care depind reziliența și stabilitatea comercială a întregii Uniuni.
Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Eugen Tomac
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, doamnă comisar, am fost în Ucraina în ultimele două luni de cel puțin patru ori. Am fost acolo pentru a fi alături de oamenii care trec prin clipe extrem de complicate. Am văzut oameni care sunt speriați de război, am văzut oameni care și-au părăsit pentru totdeauna locuințele care nu mai există. Însă este esențial să înțelegem că, pe lângă acest război declanșat de un criminal care temporar se află la Kremlin, pentru că nu este veșnic și viața noastră va reveni la normalitate, trebuie să facem ceea ce este necesar pentru a ajuta economiile europene puternic afectate. Unul dintre segmentele cele mai vulnerabile în aceste clipe, pentru că pe lângă această criză generată de război, avem și criza energiei, este turismul. Din acest punct de vedere, cred că este esențial să se creeze resurse necesare, sprijin necesar și politici care trebuiesc implementate imediat, astfel încât să ajute acest segment vital pentru Europa.
Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, we acknowledge the devastation of the horrible illegal war, but what I found shocking is that there’s not a single sentence in this motion designed to assist in ending it. Instead, we see this transport sector subordinated to the war effort and nothing for the 11 million transport workers who are already reeling under the impact of COVID. We see in this new EU war fever that the Commission has selected 22 projects which will receive EUR 339 million to ensure the transport sector is acceptable for military use, but no transparency around it whatsoever. I couldn’t even get answers to it. We see the celebration of more sanctions, but not a single word about how workers will be assisted in dealing with the impact of those sanctions: the platform workers dealing with the cost of food; the seafarers stuck on ships; the air crew seeing their working hours lengthened, and so on. I applaud the efforts of the workers who have tried to halt the action in the war. That’s a far better contribution than anything we’re doing.
Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Stanislav Polčák
Political group: PPE
Country: Czechia
Language: CS

Pane předsedající, já jsem si se zájmem vyslechl projev paní komisařky a jsem velmi rád, že si je vědoma výzev, kterým zrovna tyto dva sektory našeho hospodářství čelí. Je nepochybně nutné nasměrovat naše TNT sítě i směrem právě k Ukrajině, k posilování našich tras a samozřejmě přeshraničního styku v rámci dotčeného prstence regionů kolem naší vnější hranice s Ukrajinou. Zároveň je důležité uplatňovat sankce na letecké společnosti, železniční společnosti z Ruska. A nepochybně také potřebujeme podporovat investiční projekty i v rámci naší Evropské investiční banky. To, že turismus bude nadále postižen nedostatkem přílivu turistů z Ruska, to je asi po dvou letech pravda. Myslím si, že už jsme si na to zvykli, ale turismus ukazuje příležitosti pro nové regiony, kde bychom mohli rovněž čerpat podporu i z naší kohezní politiky. Je to nová příležitost.
Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Ylva Johansson
Language: EN

The Commission also seeks your cooperation in making quick progress on other legislative proposals already on the table, such as on sustainable aviation fuel and on fuel, maritime alternative fuels, infrastructure, single European sky and intelligent transport systems. They all will greatly improve the resilience of the EU transport sector. As you know, the Fit 55 package is key to reducing our dependency on Russian fossil fuels.  President, Honourable Members, thank you once again for your support, for your contribution and for this opportunity to address you on this crucial issue.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Rainer Wieland
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über den Bericht von Javier Zarzalejos im Namen des Ausschusses für bürgerliche Freiheiten, Justiz und Inneres über den Vorschlag für eine Verordnung des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates zur Änderung der Verordnung (EU) 2016/794 in Bezug auf die Zusammenarbeit von Europol mit privaten Parteien, die Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten durch Europol zur Unterstützung strafrechtlicher Ermittlungen und die Rolle von Europol in Forschung und Innovation (
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Jeroen Lenaers
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Crime is becoming ever more digital, and we need to ensure that law enforcement can rely on the right tools to take on these criminals. The mandate that we are voting on tomorrow does exactly that. First, through direct cooperation with private parties, by being able to receive data from them directly, the agency can tap into an important source of relevant information, and it can make sure that that information gets to the right authority in the right Member State. Law enforcement in the EU as a whole will be better equipped to fight sexual abuse, terrorism and serious crime.  Second, through its improved capacity to process large and complex data sets, Europol was already the expert in this field and will become even more so. And thirdly, through research and innovation, Europol is perfectly placed to monitor emerging technologies and to develop ways of using them to keep our citizens better protected. These very important steps amend the central role of Europol in the European security architecture, and it does so in a very European way by also matching it with increased safeguards. So the only thing I would like to add is to add my congratulations to rapporteur Zarzalejos for this excellent work.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Paul Tang
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: EN

In the Netherlands, we have seen an awful example of where this balance tipped over. Central to the child benefit scandal was a blacklist of potential fraudsters that turned innocent citizens into defenceless victims through the abuse of data.  Indeed there is a thin line between risk—based objective investigations and unfair prosecutions and trials. To prevent us from crossing this thin line, we need safeguards. We need effective redress methods, independent audits and strict data retention periods. Of course, let me be clear, cooperation of law enforcement agencies across national borders is inevitable to be effective against international crime. There’s no doubt about that. However, the provisional agreement we are discussing lacks the safeguards that I’ve been looking for and, at the same time, also opens the door to real—time biometric recognition. The agreement may very well cross the thin line between risk—based investigations and unfair prosecution. It should worry parliamentarians, and most certainly EU citizens.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Dragoş Tudorache
Political group: Renew
Country: Lithuania
Language: EN

And that is what we as legislators have well understood and have diligently done with this new mandate that we entrust tomorrow to Europol. We have also strengthened democratic oversight, safeguards, transparency because the rights of our citizens and the values of our Union come first. But as we act responsibly and diligently as legislators, so too Europol must understand that their new mandate is not a blank cheque. They hold vast amounts of data which they now must manage with utmost responsibility and in full alignment with EDPS. They receive new investigative powers for which they are accountable in terms of respecting procedural rights. For that, they’ll have a human rights officer in their ranks who must be given the space and the resources to perform his or her role properly. I therefore call on Europol and on the Commission as the guardian of our rules in the EU to take these new functions very seriously, to internalise the duty of care they have towards our European citizens and the scrutiny they owe towards this Parliament that represents them.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Saskia Bricmont
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: FR

Venue légaliser les pratiques illégales, la réforme de l’agence de coopération policière européenne, présentée comme technique, a été proposée sans évaluation ni étude d’impact, alors qu’elle étend considérablement les pouvoirs de l’agence. Les impacts des missions d’Europol sur les droits fondamentaux sont pourtant bien réels, et en tant que législateur, il nous revient de les protéger efficacement. Certes, nous avons obtenu la mise en place d’un officier des droits fondamentaux et d’un forum consultatif. Ce sont là des évolutions positives, mais largement insuffisantes pour garantir le respect des droits fondamentaux des citoyens en Europe et ailleurs. Dans une démocratie, le contrôle démocratique des activités d’une agence en charge de la coopération policière est indispensable. En cette Journée internationale de la liberté de la presse, voir mon propre pays, la Belgique, reculer de douze places dans le classement de Reporters sans frontières parce que les journalistes y sont victimes de violences, notamment par la police, me confirme que nous n’appréhendons pas les questions de sécurité par le bon bout. Chers collègues, j’ai la conviction profonde que cette réforme n’est pas la bonne et que nous ne pouvons certainement pas prendre le risque qu’Europol sombre dans les mêmes travers que la NSA.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

But for us, the legislation, unfortunately, has a number of shortcomings which won’t enable us to support it. It empowers Europol to gather unlimited and uncontrolled amounts of data, including from private parties such as social media and content from hacked phones and computers. And as we all know, data is power. Whoever holds it has control over our identities, our movements, our freedoms. And for one, opaque policing service to harvest large quantities of it in the name of enhanced security is, frankly, for us, terrifying. Greater security can’t align with the degradation of our right to personal privacy or the violation of human rights. And Europol intends to use this newly acquired big data to feed into research projects on AI and data driven policing. The Parliament has been clear on this before that practices such as mass data harvesting, automated surveillance, predictive identification entails high risks for discriminatory policing, which would be targeted against the most vulnerable – migrants, refugees and so on who’ve already been at the receiving end. So, we have to be careful once we set something in motion, the technologies are here for good.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Frances Fitzgerald
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, we know that criminal networks extend across borders. In Ireland, in recent weeks, we have seen the effectiveness of cross—border cooperation in tackling international gangland crime and ensuring that no lawbreaker is untouchable.  Europe must take the same approach to cross—border crime. The security of our citizens should be our number one priority. I know from experience as Minister for Justice the tireless work done by Europol and by our police forces, and I want to pay tribute to them. It is vital that they are fully supported by the political systems in their work.  This is why today’s debate on Europol is so important because Europol exists to tackle cross—border crime in Europe by working with national justice systems. We must ensure it has the resources and the technologies, as the Commissioner has said, to do its job effectively. Today’s proposal will make it easier for Europol to process complex data, as they must, to initiate effective investigations, as they must, use information to tackle online terrorist content, and cooperate on cases more effectively with non—EU countries. I also welcome the creation of a Fundamental Rights Officer within Europol to ensure that data is not misused. It is very important that innocent people’s rights are protected and that citizens can have confidence in the administration of justice. Critical for our democracies, it is not only important that people are safe, but that they feel safe. There should be no safe haven for lawbreakers.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Evin Incir
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: SV

Herr talman! Den organiserade brottsligheten och terrorismen riskerar att splittra sönder våra samhällen. Den tar livet av våra barn och unga. Det gör ont i hjärtat och jag fylls av ilska varje gång jag läser att en ung människa har mördats eller kvinnor utsatts för trafficking. Vi måste därför göra allt vi kan för att knäcka den grova brottsligheten. 70 procent av de grova organiserade gängen är aktiva i fler än tre länder. När brottsligheten inte ser några nationsgränser måste politiken säkerställa att vi bekämpar dem gemensamt. Allting annat vore naivt. Samarbete är nyckeln.  När vi bekämpar brott måste vi dock säkerställa att vi inte riskerar att underminera våra grundläggande fri- och rättigheter och kränka rättsstatens principer. Det är helt avgörande att vi har skyddsåtgärder på plats för att förebygga missbruk och skydda oskyldiga människors integritet. Jag välkomnar detta förslag om att stärka Europols mandat, men jag är besviken, måste jag säga, över just bristen på tillräckligt starka skyddsåtgärder. Vid inhämtandet av stora mängder personuppgifter uppkommer nämligen också stora risker för missbruk. Jag hade också önskat starkare skydd för att säkerställa att det nya mandatet inte riskerar att utsätta människor för rasism och diskriminering, som redan idag sker. Den grova brottsligheten ska bekämpas och måste bekämpas med full kraft. Men jag är samtidigt fullt övertygad om att vi hade kunnat göra det med ett ännu bättre förslag med ännu starkare skyddsåtgärder.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Lena Düpont
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Wenn wir uns die Geschichte der europäischen Innenpolitik, des Raums der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts anschauen, haben wir gleichzeitig einen kurzen und einen langen Weg hinter uns. Es ist eines der jüngsten Politikfelder, tief in der Souveränität der Mitgliedstaaten verankert, gleichzeitig ein Feld mit nicht nur enormem Potenzial in der Zusammenarbeit, sondern auch eines, in dem das Vertrauen der Mitgliedstaaten untereinander auf eine neue Ebene gehoben wird, in dem das Vertrauen der Bürger in das Sicherheitsversprechen die Richtschnur unseres Handelns ist. Damit hängen Erwartungen zusammen, Hoffnungen, Lehren, Erwartungen an die Sicherheit, Hoffnung auf Schutz vor Kriminalität, vor Terror, vor Cyberkriminalität, Lehren aus der richtigen Balance zwischen Datenschutz und Sicherheit. Denn im digitalen Zeitalter verändert sich das Bedrohungsumfeld rasant. Terroristische Gruppen, kriminelle Netzwerke treffen sich nicht mehr in dunklen Hinterhöfen. Sie kommunizieren über verschlüsselte Kanäle. Sie begehen Verbrechen über das Internet und finanzieren ihre Aktivitäten über internationale Finanzströme.  Mit der Mandatsreform geben wir Europol die nötigen Instrumente an die Hand, um die wachsenden Anforderungen auch in der virtuellen Welt wirksam zu erfüllen. Dank der exzellenten Arbeit meines Kollegen Javier Zarzalejos ist es gelungen, die Agentur entscheidend zu stärken, unsere Kampfansage an kriminelle Strukturen zu unterstreichen, eine gute Balance im Sinne der Grundrechte zu finden. Europol ist eines unserer Flaggschiffe im Kampf gegen Verbrechen, gegen die Verbreitung von Missbrauchsdarstellung, organisierte Kriminalität, Terror, Geldwäsche und vieles mehr. Hat Europol alle Instrumente in der Hand, die es dafür braucht? Aus meiner Sicht noch nicht. Aber in dieser Woche wird ein entscheidendes, ein enorm wichtiges Instrument dazu kommen.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Stanislav Polčák
Political group: PPE
Country: Czechia
Language: CS

Pane předsedající, já jsem přesvědčen, že potřebujeme pevný právní základ pro nakládání s takto citlivými osobními údaji, a proto tento návrh nařízení a i zprávu zpravodaje vítám. Je jasné, že čelíme celé řadě kybernetických útoků, ostatně jsme o tom mluvili již v předchozí debatě, a musíme reagovat na nové teroristické výzvy. Těch možností, jak reagovat, je samozřejmě celá řada. Od té spolupráce se soukromými společnostmi, samozřejmě rozšiřování, varování před teroristy, to jsou všechno osobní údaje, s nimiž pracujeme. Zároveň bych ale rovněž chtěl vyzdvihnout potřebu jasných právních garancí nezneužití těchto údajů a postupování podle přesně daných právních pravidel, tzn. transparentnost v tomto postupu, parlamentní dohled a samozřejmě i určitý bezpečnostní mechanismus. Myslím si, že můžeme budovat lepší a bezpečnější Europol, ale s jasnými garancemi.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, comisaria Johansson, lo ha oído usted con claridad, el Parlamento Europeo es bien consciente de que en los años de pandemia se ha producido un incremento exponencial de la cibercriminalidad —como el  Es por eso que ha escuchado usted con insistencia el mensaje de que es imprescindible salvaguardar, en este refuerzo del mandato de Europol para cooperar con terceros Estados, con actores privados, en el manejo de  Creo que este es el mensaje que surge con claridad de este debate y es por eso que es importante que en el Reglamento se contemple la incorporación del agente de derechos fundamentales, que es lo que hemos exigido en la renovación de cada agencia que responde ante el Parlamento Europeo y, en particular, la Comisión de Libertades, Justicia e Interior.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Ylva Johansson
Language: EN

Many of you here in the debate have raised the very important issue of safeguards and transparency, especially when it comes to handling personal data and big data. I should say that thanks to the constructive works in the trialogue, we have that now in place in the new mandate. Europol will represent a model of transparent and responsible law enforcement innovation. And I’m proud of that.
Debate: Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Javier Zarzalejos
Country: Croatia
Language: EN

Let me just say that Europol’s record is a success and we have to prolong and to strengthen that success, that I am aware of the doubts and the criticism that has been expressed from some groups and some Members. I regret to say that some of them stem from an utterly inaccurate representation of what the regulation says. For example, Europol is not allowed, and won’t be able, to enter alerts from the Schengen information system on its own, and certainly not on persons who have no relation with any criminal activity. That is simply false. But let me stress that, once the regulation is in place, we will all have a different and a new role. There will obviously be a new role for Europol – a new mandate, new responsibilities, new capabilities. There will be a new role for the Commission, of course. Some of the new duties brought back about the development and implementation of the Europol regulations are, and will be, very important. There will be a new role for the EDPS in reinforced intervention in the activity of the agency. And there will be a new role for Parliament and the instruments that we have placed in the hands of Parliament to increase and strengthen democratic oversight.  I think that if we all use the instruments that the new regulation places in our hands, Europol will be better and all these doubts will simply disappear.
Debate: Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage
Date: TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Speaker: Jessica Stegrud
Political group: ECR
Language: SV

Herr talman! Sällan har det pratats så mycket om demokrati och folkstyre och samtidigt gjorts så mycket för att minska den. Maktförskjutningen från medborgarna till Bryssel pågår konstant och nu föreslås det att i valet till Europaparlamentet ska det finnas en särskild lista med 28 fristående kandidater som medborgarna kan rösta på. Man vill ha ledamöter som inte ska representera sina hemländer, utan Bryssel.  Om förslaget genomförs så kommer listan i praktiken att fyllas av EU-vurmande federalister, elitister utan känsla för och samhörighet med de enskilda medlemsstaterna. Ledamöter utan ansvar. På vilket sätt skulle de värna Sverige och svenska medborgares intressen? Inte alls. Som Sverigedemokrat har jag självklart röstat nej till denna avdemokratisering.