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Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Maria Spyraki
Political group: PPE
Country: Romania
Language: EN

Mr President, Commissioner Gentiloni, in a recent White Paper, the UN explicitly emphasised the crucial role of companies in accomplishing development goals, wealth distribution and sustainable economic growth. No matter how large or small and regardless of their industry, all companies can contribute to the SDGs. Multinational enterprises can contribute to the SDGs by conducting responsible research and innovation with the maturity of innovation ecosystem. On the other hand, SMEs seem to struggle to understand the role they could play in the SDG framework. They encounter several barriers to implementing the SDGs’ principles and initiatives, making their engagement with entities challenging and problematic. All in all, there is a need for a decentralised approach to sustainable development. In that direction, the EU could also encourage interactions across different power levels and SMEs could actively participate in local processes of sustainable development implementations.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Lídia Pereira
Political group: PPE
Country: Finland
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, o desenvolvimento sustentável não é, hoje, um  A União Europeia não pode apenas reafirmar um compromisso teórico com os 17 Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, tem de os colocar em prática e avaliar o seu desempenho. E deve avaliar o seu desempenho porque os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável não são uma campanha política ou um número mediático, são a face visível de uma estratégia ambiental, social e económica que visa elevar a qualidade de vida de todos.  O momento atual na Europa é difícil. A guerra, os preços dos alimentos que já sentimos e os demais fenómenos climáticos extremos pressupõem ações concretas como resposta.  Precisamos, então, de mais coordenação e mais capacidade de resposta aos problemas, sendo também essa, com resultados, a melhor forma de responder ao populismo que continua a assolar a Europa.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Paolo Gentiloni
Language: EN

So we look forward to engaging with all of you in the preparation of the 2023 EU voluntary review. I am confident that this important deliverable and the process of preparation of this deliverable will provide an opportunity to take forward our ambitions to reinforce SDG implementation and also to strengthen the cooperation of the Commission and the Parliament.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Barry Andrews
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

That’s why I think it is so timely that we have this conversation today, that we have a conversation that’s based on the reality that, unfortunately, this agenda has really fallen off dramatically, and it’s really time that we bring it back onto the agenda, because fundamentally we cannot achieve our Paris climate targets without the SDGs. They are two sides of the one coin. They are mutually reinforcing and they are an off-the-shelf conceptual framework to build back better. You couldn’t imagine a better international global agreed framework to build back better based on solidarity with those that are suffering the most. I want to make a final point about democracy. The European Parliament is the second largest democratically elected body in the world, and I’m very proud that, thanks to the work of my colleagues (particularly my co-rapporteur Petros Kokkalis and my colleagues in the SDG alliance, which I am honored to chair), this House will express its views on the EU’s implementation for the very first time this term. European Parliament’s core function is democratic scrutiny. We communicate to you, Commissioner, the future that your half a billion citizens want. We neglected our duty to scrutinise the European Commission’s implementation over the last couple of years. From now on, this will not be the case.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Petros Kokkalis
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

I would like to take a moment to note the great work that’s been done by the JRC and agencies in the Commission in providing monitoring, in tying data, especially localising the SDGs in cities, their application in cities and regions. I think this is very important as we go forward to COP27 where we are going to have to discuss a globally—agreed, scientific—based global goal of adaptation, which is becoming more and more important. I think it is very critical that as we talk about innovation, we recognise our duty to provide basic services, as an organised state, to protect our citizens from the inaction of the past 40 years that has brought us to a world that would be, at a minimum, 1.5 degrees in the best case of international global cooperation on climate action.  Now what is important about localising the expertise and having this data is that we will have to prove our word. We will have to show that our policies actually work. It will be not enough anymore to monitor progress, to have little ideas that are yellow or green or blue. We will have to come up with hard data to prove that we are doing the right thing. It’s time, eight years before we finalise this progress, to agree and say that even with these indicators we have today, what will be the number that should be in that box in 2030, that we will agree constitutes a success and that we have done our job right? I think that it’s time that we take it much more seriously, and I’m very happy that we see that we are all doing that.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Daniel Buda
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: RO

Pandemia de COVID a afectat semnificativ realizarea obiectivelor de dezvoltare durabilă, în special în țările în curs de dezvoltare. De asemenea, noile realități geopolitice și invazia ilegală a Rusiei în Ucraina, nu doar că impactează obiectivele stabilite în cadrul Agendei 2030, dar provoacă chiar o regresie semnificativă în realizarea acestora, în special în ceea ce privește combaterea inegalităților și a foametei.  Cu toate acestea, nu trebuie să lăsăm pe nimeni în urmă. Trebuie să implementăm o politica responsabilă și orientată spre viitor, decisivă, nu doar pentru economia și mediul nostru, ci și pentru securitatea noastră, plasând egalitatea și reziliența în centrul atenției. Trebuie să ne adaptăm noilor realități. Prin urmare, este nevoie de o finanțare mai coerentă, de o aplicare mai bună și, nu în ultimul rând, de unitate la nivel european. Pentru că Europa trebuie să aibă o singură voce!
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Enikő Győri
Political group: NI
Country: Luxembourg
Language: HU

Ezt egy ECOFIN ülésen egyébként már maga a Bizottság is beismerte. Az Európai Parlament havonta tart Magyarország-gyalázó üléseket, a mai vita is ebbe a sorba illeszkedik. A baloldal zsarolja a Bizottságot, utasítja a magyar terv visszatartására. A lengyel terv jóváhagyása miatt még bizalmatlansági indítványt is kezdeményezne a Bizottság elnöke ellen. Kérdezem, a magyar terv jóváhagyása esetén a Berlaymont-t is megostromolnák? Magyarország a jelenlegi háborús helyzetben erején felül támogatja az ukrajnai menekülteket. Egyike azon tagállamoknak is, amelyeket leginkább sújtanak a háború nyomán kialakult gazdasági nehézségek. Jó lenne, ha baloldali képviselőtársaim, ahelyett, hogy energiájukat politikai viszályok szítására fecsérelik, háború idején inkább az összefogást és az egységet erősítenék.
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Romana Jerković
Political group: S-D
Country: Greece
Language: HR

Otkako su 2015. godine na samitu u New Yorku usvojeni ciljevi održivog razvoja s ambicijom njihove implementacije do 2030. godine, Europska unija se pokazala globalnim predvodnikom održive društvene transformacije, što je vidljivo i iz Europskog zelenog plana i svih kasnijih predloženih i usvojenih politika, planova i direktiva.  No, u posljednje vrijeme zbog energetske krize izazvane ruskom agresijom na Ukrajinu svjedočimo zabrinjavajućim reverzibilnim procesima i to čak i u europskim državama koje su bile predvodnice održive energetske tranzicije. Smatram da možemo i moramo bolje i da ovu veliku krizu doista trebamo pretvoriti u priliku za bržu i kvalitetniju održivu tranziciju te učinkovitiju implementaciju ciljeva održivog razvoja, posebice sedmog, devetog, jedanaestog, dvanaestog, trinaestog i petnaestog cilja.  Pokažimo da europska predanost održivoj tranziciji u ovim kriznim vremenima može biti na globalnoj razini pozitivan primjer implementacije UN-ovih ciljeva održivog razvoja.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Katarina Barley
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über den Bericht von Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Siegfried Mureşan und Dragoş Pîslaru im Namen des Ausschusses für Wirtschaft und Währung über die Umsetzung der Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität (
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Isabel García Muñoz
Country: Greece
Language: ES

Ahora son los Estados miembros los que tienen que demostrar que están a la altura, cumpliendo sus planes de reformas nacionales aprobados por la Comisión. Y a medida que los países alcanzan los objetivos fijados en esos planes, la Comisión debe garantizar que las ayudas siguen llegando.  Es imprescindible que se lleve a cabo de una forma rápida, pero esto no quiere decir que tenga que haber menos control. La implementación del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia debe ser transparente, eficaz y rigurosa, para lo que necesita mecanismos de vigilancia y control que aseguren que el dinero se utiliza según las reglas establecidas y que ni un solo euro se pierde por culpa del fraude o la corrupción. Solo así sacaremos el máximo provecho a los fondos para la recuperación, lograremos la transición ecológica y digital de Europa y mantendremos la confianza de los ciudadanos. Con estos objetivos, desde el Parlamento, continuaremos realizando la supervisión democrática del mecanismo que nos corresponde.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Niklas Nienaß
Country: Bulgaria
Language: EN

The cultural sector makes up 4.4% of Europe’s GDP. Over 8.7 million people are employed in the cultural sector. Every child goes to school, thankfully, but still we have asked for 2% of the RF to be spent on culture and 10% in education. We had to follow up on this, and see that this has not been done across Europe – the problem there being that some Member States actually invest money in culture and education while others don’t. They have not followed Parliament’s proposal to do the rightful investments, and what we see now is underfunded cultural entities in several Member States, especially those where freedom of speech is threatened by other means.  We are seeing a recovery of different speeds. We see Member States like Italy that have invested heavily in culture and others that have invested nothing and we know that this threatens the European diversity of culture. This has to be reversed, and therefore we are calling on the Commission to reuse the unused RF resources for culture and education to make sure that every European can enjoy diversity and can enjoy very well education.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: José Manuel Fernandes
Political group: PPE
Country: Ireland
Language: PT

Por isso, é necessária uma maior execução. No meu Estado-Membro, Portugal, em 2021, recebemos 2100 milhões de EUR e executamos 90 milhões de EUR e há Estados-Membros que têm uma execução ainda pior do que esta. Para além disso, é necessário assegurar que não há substituição de despesa, que os PRR não substituem o Orçamento de Estado. Os PRR têm de ser adicionais e também não podem promover o centralismo ou concentração, quer em termos de investimentos no território, quer em termos de investimentos numa mesma empresa. É necessário que haja coesão territorial e que estes montantes sejam também eles bem distribuídos.  Por fim, termino com uma pergunta: há Estados-Membros que vão receber mais do que aquilo que estava previsto, porque reagiram de uma forma pior, digamos assim, e responderam pior à crise. O meu país, por exemplo, vai receber cerca de 1600 milhões de EUR adicionais, que vão ser somados aos 13,9 mil milhões de EUR em termos de subvenções. Significa que os programas de recuperação e resiliência vão ser mudados. A Comissão vai participar nestas alterações face à guerra e às novas exigências? Vai direcioná-los? É uma pergunta para a qual nós precisamos também de uma resposta, porque a Comissão Europeia tem de fazer cumprir o regulamento e tem de atender à nova realidade decorrente da situação que vivemos.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Costas Mavrides
Political group: S-D
Country: Latvia
Language: EN

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, ο μηχανισμός ανάκαμψης δημιουργήθηκε για αντιμετώπιση των επιπτώσεων της πανδημίας. Είχε πρωτόγνωρα χαρακτηριστικά και αντικατοπτρίζει ουσιαστικά την αλληλεγγύη και τη δυνατότητα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Και στο σημερινό ψήφισμα επισημαίνουμε τη σημαντική θετική επιρροή του, αλλά παραθέτουμε και στοιχεία για σωστή βελτίωση της επιτυχίας του, όπως είναι ο κοινωνικός πυλώνας με ποσοτικά κριτήρια, η αναθεώρηση των κριτηρίων για τα δάνεια και η συμμετοχή των κοινωνικών εταίρων με αποτελεσματικό τρόπο. Τέλος, τα κράτη μέλη μπορούν να διασφαλίσουν ότι η χρηματοδότηση θα φτάνει με ισότιμο τρόπο σε όλους, και ιδιαίτερα τους μικρούς και αδυνάτους.  Ακούγοντάς σας προηγουμένως διαπίστωσα ότι σωστά έχετε επισημάνει τις επιπτώσεις από τις κυρώσεις και την εισβολή της Ρωσίας στην Ουκρανία. Ο μηχανισμός αυτός μπορεί να βοηθήσει μερικώς, για παράδειγμα με επενδύσεις στις εγχώριες πηγές ενέργειας, αλλά δεν αρκεί αυτό. Ο μηχανισμός σχεδιάστηκε για τις επιπτώσεις της πανδημίας και οι Ευρωπαίοι πολίτες αναμένουν παρόμοια αποφασιστική παρέμβαση βασισμένη στην αλληλεγγύη. Διαφορετικά, και τελειώνω, το οικονομικό και κοινωνικό κόστος θα διογκώνεται και η οργή των πολιτών θα διογκώνεται εναντίον μας για την απάθεια μας.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Luis Garicano
Political group: Renew
Language: EN

And it is precisely because issuing debt together is so unprecedented that we must succeed. The Commission must ensure, Mr Gentiloni, that the Recovery Facility is used to make our economies stronger and more resilient, and that our citizens are freer and our values are respected. Unfortunately, Mr Commissioner, the Commission has sometimes come up short in this task. Three examples: first, the Commission gave the highest grades to most recovery plans on exactly the same old criteria, the same one in all of them, and the lower grade in most plans to the exact same other criteria. I don’t know, I’ve graded lots of exams and I’ve never seen that. Second, amidst massive internal disagreement, the Commission just a couple of weeks ago approved the Polish recovery plan, taking at face value the promises – very deceptive promises, I’m afraid – of the Polish Government. And third, the Commission has approved a change in the Spanish pensions that reverses the reforms led by the European Commission 10 years ago to make them sustainable. Commissioner, we really understand the pressure that the Commission, that you all are under. But for this Recovery and Resilience Facility to succeed, the Commission must do its job. We must make future generations of Europeans proud of what we do here today.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Damian Boeselager
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

The Recovery Fund negotiations were extremely intense – and I can still feel parts of this mini—trauma when I see the colleagues here, because of all the all—night sessions that we spent – but they have also been extremely successful. For the first time ever, the European Union decided to take up common debt of such as size to invest us out of the Corona pandemic crisis and all the horrible social and economic effects that ensued. With a large majority in this House, we decided that we wouldn’t just build back in any way, but that we would build back better, that we would build back by fuelling the green transition, by fuelling the digital transition, by making sure that we have new standards for green investment when we do that, and that we also apply this new standard for green investment to cohesion funds.  Since then, actually, a lot of remarkable things have happened. We have seen countries implement reforms that have not been tabled for years. We have seen a lot of countries with very good and innovative ideas of how to actually do this green and digital transition. And we have seen that and we have also fought for the fact that no euro should actually go into any form of spending that would harm the environment.  That’s the positive side. But we have also obviously seen some issues and I think it’s really important that we point them out so that we can address them and also learn for the future. Some countries still did greenwashing, and I can name Germany with their hybrid cars is one example. Some Member States refuse to adhere to the necessary safeguards for our European taxpayers’ money when it comes to, for example, the rule of law. We have talked about this in the last session, obviously in the case of Poland, but also when it comes to corruption.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Antonio Maria Rinaldi
Political group: ID
Country: Italy
Language: IT

Primo: un modesto impatto di crescita per effetto degli investimenti programmati, così come nel rapporto del  Secondo: condizionalità troppo stringenti e scarsa flessibilità per ottenere finanziamenti, che hanno indotto molti paesi membri ad utilizzare spese in deficit invece di chiedere i prestiti.  Terzo: indisponibilità delle istituzioni a ricalibrare gli obiettivi ambientali del  Pertanto auspico che l'RRF venga maggiormente implementato da RepowerEU, unitamente alla ridefinizione di obiettivi sostenibili e di uno snellimento delle procedure attuative, in modo da consentire ai paesi di riformulare i rispettivi PNRR rendendoli effettivamente realizzabili.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Johan Van Overtveldt
Political group: ECR
Country: Spain
Language: NL

De middelen die we hebben, zijn beperkt en dus moeten we ze uitgeven waar we als collectief het meeste rendement hebben. De EU moet zich dus concentreren op die domeinen – en dat zijn er heel wat – waar ze het verschil kan maken. In dat opzicht is die nadruk op energieonafhankelijkheid een zeer goede zaak. Daarnaast roept REPowerEU toch ook op tot een versnelde groene transitie. En hier moeten we toch iets in ogenschouw nemen wat vandaag belangrijk is. De huidige inflatie wordt niet enkel gedreven door de stijgende prijs van fossiele brandstoffen en door de verstoring van de globale aanvoerlijnen als gevolg van de pandemie. We hebben ook te maken met  Het Internationaal Energieagentschap, het IMF en de Wereldbank zijn eensluidend in hun conclusies: deze prijsstijgingen zullen zich nog een tijd doorzetten. Wat mij betreft, zijn de blinde verhogingen van klimaatdoelstellingen contraproductief. Ik vind het een beetje zorgwekkend dat bepaalde groepen in het Parlement zichzelf blijven verliezen in een opbod aan klimaatdoelstellingen. Die torenhoge ambitie zal de burger straks tegenkomen in de vorm van hogere lasten. En dat op een moment dat de koopkracht al, om een eufemisme te gebruiken, zwaar onder druk staat. Ik zou de Commissie dan ook willen vragen verder de nadruk te blijven leggen op energieonafhankelijkheid en dus niet om de crisis aan te grijpen om de groene transitie te versnellen, met nog steeds verder stijgende prijzen als gevolg.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EL

Γι’ αυτό το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης πρέπει να πετύχει για να γίνει ένα μόνιμο εργαλείο, και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και η Επιτροπή πρέπει να προτείνουν και τέτοια νέα εργαλεία. Όπως για την πανδημία, έχουμε το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης και Ανθεκτικότητας για την αντιμετώπιση του πληθωρισμού και των αρνητικών συνεπειών του πολέμου. Χρειαζόμαστε νέα εργαλεία, και όχι να κλέβουμε λεφτά από το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης για να χρηματοδοτήσουμε το REPower EU.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Lídia Pereira
Political group: PPE
Country: Finland
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, o mecanismo de recuperação e resiliência é um dos motores da recuperação económica que queremos para a Europa. Não é, porém, o único. O compromisso dos governos nacionais com mais e melhor investimento público é igualmente essencial.  Por isso, espanta-me ver tantas reticências por parte de alguns chefes de governo sobre a revisão das regras de governação económica. Talvez seja egoísmo de uns ou oportunismo de outros. Talvez uns queiram agradar ao eleitorado. Talvez outros estejam mais preocupados com a Presidência do Conselho Europeu. Podemos discutir a suficiência e os prazos do mecanismo, mas não devemos perder tempo, que poderia ser investido na execução dos planos nacionais. Muitos deles estão atrasados.  Todo o debate tem o seu tempo e devemos, por isso, explorar primeiro todas as oportunidades de um mecanismo que ainda nem sequer foi chamado a emprestar todos os fundos que tem.
Debate: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Date: WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Irene Tinagli
Political group: S-D
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

Madam President, the reality around us, from the Russian aggression to the turbulence on the energy market, confirmed the genuine need for the Recovery Fund. Many of the decisions that we took during the negotiations, from the inception of the European instrument to avoid internal market fragmentation to fostering the renewables in the energy mix, were forward-looking, and the Parliament largely contributed to it. So I think this is something we need to learn from what we’ve done and be happy about it, but we also believe that further action is needed. Fiscal capacity at the European level is currently missing. That’s something that would allow us to cope with external shocks like the Russian aggression, for example. REPowerEU represents a very good opportunity, absolutely. It’s an opportunity to drastically accelerate our energy transition and increase Europe’s energy independence. But its swift deployment is possible thanks to previous decisions taken in terms of budget and own resources. What would happen if we had new crises coming up? We wouldn’t have new tools. We wouldn’t have resources. That’s why I think we need to move forward. We need to complete our economic and monetary union, because when we are united and look forward, we are capable of great things. But we just need the tools.