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Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Janusz Lewandowski
Political group: PPE
Country: Denmark
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Na początku wdrażania nowych ram finansowych mamy dwa budżety korygujące dotyczące roku 2021, zwyczajowy  Niektóre z tych nowych wyzwań są nieprzewidywalne, inne są jak najbardziej przewidywalne. Do takich należy potrzeba przedłużenia pomocy dla uchodźców z Syrii. Znana była w grudniu zeszłego roku, ale nie znalazło to wyrazu w nowych ramach finansowych. Mówię o tym, bo kończą żywot unijne fundusze powiernicze, którymi się zajmowałem, i liczę na lepszą współpracę z Komisją Europejską przy wdrażaniu nowej generacji instrumentów polityki zagranicznej Unii.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Elisabetta Gualmini
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, the 2020 budget is the first after the humongous financial effort of Next Generation EU. We are talking about the EUR 170 billion for the next year. We have asked for more resources compared to the Commission, overall EUR 4 billion more.  The programmes for which we have asked for an increase range from Erasmus+ to the Child Guarantee, but here I would like to mention the COVAX programme, one which we speak too little about. Its goal is to deliver vaccines to low income countries all over the world.  We need the EUR 1 billion more in order to reach the 500 million doses announced by von der Leyen. There can be no talk of getting out of the pandemic if it is only us who manage to get out. We cannot think about returning to normal life if it is only us who save ourselves. We cannot think that the right to a healthy life is only for the few and not for the many.  We have learned that what solidarity means, and now we just have to spread the lesson.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Dorien Rookmaker
Political group: NI
Country: Netherlands
Language: EN

Madam President, here we are together debating on the general budget of 2022. The average comment of my dear colleagues is that we need more money for closing gaps, green policies, digital agendas or tourism. Most of these could easily be funded if we didn’t waste so much money on rules and regulations.  Yes, dear colleagues, a lot of money is wasted on too many bad regulations created by the EU institutions, probably with the best intentions but lacking experience and knowledge of the horrible side effects of EU law.  Take, for instance, public procurement law, a labour-intensive piece of legislation that doesn’t solve any problem but leads to endless, complex, costly processes. Since its introduction, it has caused billions spent on implementation, enforcement, control and litigation. And this is only one example.  If the EU decides to spend money, we must be aware of the fact that costs of regulations multiply in real life. If we are to spend money, it should be spent wisely.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Angelika Winzig
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin, Herr Kommissar, geschätzte Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Wie noch kein anderes EU-Budget steht dieses Budget 2022 im Zeichen des Klimawandels. Immerhin haben wir hier im Hohen Haus das 55%ige Treibhausgasreduktionsziel beschlossen.  Wir alle wissen: „ Daher begrüße ich zusätzliche Mittel für Horizont Europa, für Digitales Europa, aber auch für KMU im Binnenmarktprogramm
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Robert Biedroń
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Panie Komisarzu! Szanowni Państwo! Rozmawiamy o kolejnym budżecie unijnym na 2022 rok, ale dzisiaj także rozmawialiśmy o bardzo poważnej sprawie dotyczącej stanu praworządności w Unii Europejskiej. I nie może być tak, że przyjmujemy kolejne budżety, odwracając głowę od tego, co naprawdę dzieje się w niektórych krajach członkowskich. Ja reprezentuję taki kraj, Polskę, w którym dochodzi do poważnych naruszeń praworządności, a pieniądze podatników europejskich są nadal przekazywane. I my musimy być strażnikami tego budżetu. Nie może być tak, że z pieniędzy Belgów, Holendrów itd. są sponsorowane autokratyczne rządy Orbana albo Kaczyńskiego. I Komisja Europejska musi być strażniczką środków publicznych w tej sprawie i musi tego pilnować.  Druga rzecz niezwykle ważna w tym budżecie: powtarzamy jako Komisja Równouprawnienia i Kobiet, że brakuje kwestii związanych z równością płci, gender mainstreamingiem i gender budgetingiem. To musi być też rozwiązane i Komisja Europejska w końcu musi zacząć wysłuchiwać naszego głosu w tej sprawie, bo jak równość to równość.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Andrey Novakov
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, only three Member States submitted their partnership agreements to the European Commission. It means one thing and one thing only. There is a very high probability that this year it will be a zero when it comes to the budget. A zero 2021 means additional stress on the budgets of 2022, 2023 and 2024. It means that we have a really high risk of losing EU money for our Member States, our regions and constituencies.  This is much more important than the arguments over a million here or over a million there, and I think a lot of work has been done to reach that agreement. I believe that we should support the compromise that has been reached and not create any additional delays on the budget procedure because we have already lost one year for the new programming period and this is a great paradox. This economy, the European economy, needs European funds to be invested immediately in order to recover, so we cannot play games with this important issue. Please vote in favour of the report that has already been proposed.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Margarida Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Cyprus
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, Senhora Ministra, Senhor Comissário, no debate sobre o orçamento 2022 temos dois pontos fundamentais: o cumprimento dos compromissos assumidos no orçamento plurianual 21-27, do lado da despesa e do lado da receita, incluindo o respeito do calendário dos novos recursos próprios, e a contribuição do orçamento para a recuperação pós-COVID e a criação de um ambiente económico e social que sustente as ambições internas e externas da União Europeia.  A recuperação econômica assenta, em grande parte, no NextGenerationEU. Mas, Comissário, os programas europeus que privilegiam a dimensão europeia, geridos, à partida, pela Comissão, são também os instrumentos de excelência para a recuperação económica, recuperação económica que se quer inovadora, com vista a uma economia neutra em carbono, assente numa transição justa, verde e digital. Sem secundarizar a responsabilidade dos Estados-Membros, este esforço compete, desde logo, à Comissão Europeia.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Lefteris Christoforou
Political group: PPE
Country: Romania
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, κύριε Επίτροπε, καταβάλαμε το άπαν των δυνάμεών μας στην Επιτροπή Προϋπολογισμών, με πρώτο και καλύτερο τον αγαπητό συνάδελφο εισηγητή, Karlo Ressler, για να κατορθώσουμε να καταρτίσουμε τον προϋπολογισμό και να καταστήσουμε την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση πιο ισχυρή, πιο πράσινη, πιο αναπτυξιακή, πιο καινοτόμο, πιο κοινωνική, ενισχύοντας ιδιαίτερα την κοινωνία και τους πολίτες, δίνοντας ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στους νέους, στις μικρομεσαίες επιχειρήσεις, στην ύπαιθρο, στους αγρότες μας, στην υγεία και σε κάθε ευαίσθητο κοινωνικό και οικονομικό τομέα.  Όμως, πιστεύω ακράδαντα ότι ισχυρή και κυρίαρχη Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση δεν νοείται όταν δεν υπάρχει ισχυρή άμυνα και ασφάλεια και ευρωστρατός. Για αυτό και ενισχύσαμε το Ευρωπαϊκό Ταμείο Άμυνας, γιατί θεωρούμε ότι η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, επιτέλους, πρέπει να είναι σε θέση να προστατεύει τα εξωτερικά της σύνορα, να προστατεύει την κυριαρχία των κρατών μελών και να εγγυάται την ασφάλεια των πολιτών.  Κυρία Πρόεδρε, κύριε Επίτροπε, τόσο οι αρχές και οι αξίες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, όσο και οι δικές μου αρχές και αξίες και τα ευρωπαϊκά μου ιδεώδη δεν μου επιτρέπουν να εγκρίνω και να ψηφίσω ούτε ένα ευρώ για χώρες όπως η Τουρκία, που παραβιάζουν το ευρωπαϊκό και διεθνές δίκαιο, που παραβιάζουν το κράτος δικαίου, που δεν σέβονται τις αρχές και τις αξίες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Καλώ τους συναδέλφους στο Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο, στην Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή και στο Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο να ακολουθήσουν αυτόν τον κανόνα ... (
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Evin Incir
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

Madam President, colleagues, I’m going to focus on one thing today, Peace between Israel and Palestine. In the heart of peace lays the well-being of the people directly affected. UNRWA is a UN agency that I hope we will not need in the future, since I hope we will be able to provide also the Palestinian people with statehood through a two state solution with two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, side by side in peace and security.  But today, millions of Palestinians are living under catastrophic conditions, and many are refugees, internally displaced in Palestine, in Syria, in Lebanon and Jordan. UNRWA has been lifesaving for many of them. Every person in this Parliament should want to support UNRWA, but instead I’m shocked to hear that so many, especially from the right wing groups here, believe in lies spread about the Palestinian textbooks and the work of UNRWA. At least trust in the EU funded report by the Georg Eckert Institute, which clearly states that the Palestinian textbooks adhere to UNESCO standards.  I hope that all of us contribute to stability, solidarity and peace. I hope you all vote for the amendment tabled by the S&D Group that ensures continued support for UNWRA.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: José Manuel Fernandes
Political group: PPE
Country: Ireland
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, Senhor Comissário, Senhora Representante do Conselho, caras e caros colegas, o orçamento da União Europeia, sendo pequeno, tem uma enorme mais-valia e é essencial para a competitividade da União Europeia, para a investigação, para a produtividade, para o empreendedorismo e, em simultâneo, para a nossa coesão territorial, económica e social.  Para além disso, e nem sempre temos consciência, somos os maiores doadores mundiais, aqueles que mais ajudam em termos globais, que mais financiam a ajuda humanitária. Mas, este orçamento, é urgente que seja reexecutado rapidamente, e aqui há uma preocupação e viro-me para o Conselho: os Estados-Membros não estão a fazer a sua parte.  Em 2021, não haverá um euro que será executado da nova política de coesão, e a economia precisa, a juventude precisa, as pequenas e médias empresas, as autoridades locais e regionais. Façam a vossa parte, adotem rapidamente os acordos de parceria, porque cerca de um terço do orçamento, que é política de coesão, deve chegar rapidamente à economia.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Alex Agius Saliba
Political group: S-D
Country: Malta
Language: MT

Sinjura President, is-sena 2022 ser tkun ikkaratterizzata minn kriżi ekonomika u kriżi ta' qgħad. Dan ser iwassal għal aktar inugwaljanzi, aktar faqar u aktar esklużjoni soċjali. Għalhekk, inħeġġeġ lill-Kummissjoni kif ukoll lill-Kunsill sabiex ikunu aktar ambizzjużi u jappoġġjaw baġit tal-Unjoni Ewropea b'dimensjoni aktar soċjali li jikkontribwixxi b'mod pożittiv għall-kwalità ta' ħajja aħjar liċ-ċittadini u l-ħaddiema tagħna, kif ukoll għall-funzjonament aħjar tas-swieq tax-xogħol. Baġit li jagħti spinta 'l fuq lit-tkabbir sostenibbli, il-koeżjoni u l-konverġenza soċjali filwaqt li jiġġieled il-faqar, inkluż il-faqar fost it-tfal, l-esklużjoni soċjali u l-inugwaljanzi. Il-baġit li jmiss għandu jiggarantixxi investiment suffiċjenti fl-inizjattivi ewlenin tal-S&D, bħall-Garanziji għat-Tfal u ż-Żgħażagħ, il-Pilastru Ewropew tad-Drittijiet Soċjali, u d-djalogu soċjali u l-innovazzjoni soċjali. Fir-rigward tal-Proġetti Pilota u l-Azzjonijiet Preparatorji, il-Kummissjoni u r-rapporteur tal-PPE kellhom ikunu aktar ambizzjużi billi jappoġġjaw proġetti li se jindirizzaw l-isfidi soċjali u dawk relatati mal-impjiegi attwali li jirriżultaw mill-pandemija.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Johannes Hahn
Language: EN

However, I would like to raise one aspect. I have heard a lot about what we should do, how ambitious we should be again. I think this is very understandable, if you look at the different – so to say – interests, etc., but at the end of the day, I think we are all challenged on an almost daily basis to look into our institutions, in all our institutions, to see which kind of activities, initiatives, structures may currently and in the predictable future not be so important. And maybe others, because things are changing, challenges are changing, priorities are changing, and what we have to do is prioritise again and again what is important in order really to deliver, and not to put money for each and everything, but really to focus our activities, our investments.  This concerns money but also human resources and in that respect I think we should really see, analyse and take decisions as to how we can reallocate each and everywhere our resources again and again in order to achieve our common goals. When it comes to the 2022 budget, again, be reassured that my team and I are at your disposal and ready to facilitate the work, with the rapporteurs and the presidency, during this conciliation procedure. I am again hopeful – may I say optimistic – that we can get an agreement within the time-frame, in a first hit, and not need the additional second kind of conciliation period. I think it is in the interest of all citizens to get the necessary agreements as fast as possible and therefore the guarantee, the knowledge of what the budget is for next year and on what the people can rely, can take their decisions, can make their investments and have, so to say, a strong indication of what is available next year for which purposes, for which activities. So thank you again for the debate today, and let’s see if we can make already next week the necessary progress.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Irena Drmaž
Language: EN

What I have tried to hear and pick up from this debate is the arguments and the justifications of the colleagues to really understand what the reasons are for the proposed amendments and what the rationale behind them is.  We still have limited resources, we have the limited framework of financing. So within these restraints we have to have clear and focused priorities. Although in the first view of the top down approach, we have the same priorities, but the way in the approach, how to do this, to come to that is a little bit different.  So within this process, which is ahead of us in the next few weeks, we have to come closer in order to find a way to reach the same goals and priorities. So I am sure that I will inform our colleagues in the Council about this debate today, and we will together assess all the amendments, all the proposals, and we are looking forward to a successful conciliation process with the help of all of you and especially also the Commission on that side.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Karlo Ressler
Country: Germany
Language: EN

However, there are obviously still elements on which we will have to work and on which Parliament and the Council are significantly apart. I see that we all agree on the fact that the needs are increasing, that they are much higher, that this moment was anticipated, and that, for some period of time, we really have had multiple crises going on. Many of them were mentioned: COVAX, the Afghan situation, having to deal with the Syrian refugees and having to find common solutions. But we definitely need to adjust and it would be really irresponsible for us to try to ignore, and not to see, all these new and old emerging challenges that, in the end, we all agree are there.  In this context, the Parliament will also propose to fully reuse the decommitments in the field of research, as the unexpectedly high amount of decommitments in the last year was not part of the MFF agreement. From our point of view, this is the amount that must not be lost, and we really do not see any good reason why we would waste this opportunity. To sum up, you heard specific emphasis by different political groups and by different specialised committees, but you also heard our one unified voice that Europe really has to invest strongly in the recovery and resilience. We can work together within this House to agree on our stance, and to focus on the future, on recovery and on investments. With this strong position, I firmly believe that the Parliament is now ready for conciliation and we are ready for that kind of discussion.
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year  - all sections
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Damian Boeselager
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

I just wanted to quickly react to some of the comments that have been made, so I didn’t really fully get the translation of what you were saying, but I’m very thankful for the cooperation we have had so far, and also for you mentioning the potential differences or implications that the Polish situation might have on the budget, because I think that’s actually also relevant if you think about it. How can we transfer money to a country that does not accept the treaties? How can we actually believe that the judges will follow up with due diligence if they’re not bound by our common order? And I think that’s a question that we had discussed this morning, and that the Commission also is currently looking into.  Mr Kuhs asked what he should tell his grandchildren and I actually quite enjoyed this question because I think the first answer would be to tell them that, you know, a Europe of segregated nations with closed borders to each other is not a Europe that they want to live in.  The second thing, though, which has more to do with the budget, is the question of how we should invest in the future. My colleagues have mentioned many of the points that we believe are relevant for future investment: climate youth programmes, digitisation, ensuring the future competitiveness. I think to get out of this crisis well, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is a good tool, but the whole budget is very important to actually build back better. In terms of institutional changes that we can also consider to have in the future better working mode, I think it’s important that when we talk about the budget, we also see the context of the overall architecture of our financial and fiscal framework. And here I’m very happy that we are starting this process of understanding that the RRF was a one time tool, but we have an ongoing understanding or issue with the fact that we have a currency union, but not yet a fiscal union, and that is something that we also need to get to. To end, let me close with what I started with. I think it’s important that we come to a good conclusion for our institutions, for our European Union, to strengthen them, to strengthen the Ombudsman, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, all these institutions that make up our European Union, and I also very much look forward to then, at some point, coming to a conclusion on this budget.
Debate: Situation in Tunisia
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Ewa Kopacz
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PL

Kolejnym punktem porządku dziennego jest oświadczenie wiceprzewodniczącego Komisji / wysokiego przedstawiciela Unii do spraw zagranicznych i polityki bezpieczeństwa w sprawie sytuacji w Tunezji (
Debate: Situation in Tunisia
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Michael Gahler
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: DE

Ich würde aber trotzdem keinem der Präsidenten dort deswegen empfehlen, ein demokratisch gewähltes Parlament nach Hause zu schicken. Präsident Saied hat ja nicht die Auflösung des Parlaments mit dem Ziel von Neuwahlen betrieben, sondern er hat sich auf einen Notstandsartikel 80 berufen für den Fall unmittelbarer Gefahr für das Land, seine Sicherheit oder Unabhängigkeit, die das reguläre Funktionieren der öffentlichen Verwaltung beeinträchtigt – ich zitiere die Verfassung. Von einem Streit zwischen Parlament und Präsident ist hierbei nicht die Rede. Spätestens danach hat er den Rahmen der Verfassung verlassen. Er hätte nämlich zuerst den Regierungschef und den Parlamentspräsidenten konsultieren müssen, und er hätte berücksichtigen müssen, dass entsprechend Artikel 80 Absatz 2 in dieser Lage das Parlament als in ständiger Sitzung befindlich betrachtet wird. Stattdessen hat er es auf unbestimmte Zeit suspendiert und mit dem Dekret 117 seine Dekrete als über der Verfassung stehend deklariert. Das ist meiner Meinung nach nicht mehr und nicht weniger als ein Verfassungsbruch von oben, und er kann auch nicht dadurch geheilt werden, dass es dazu Applaus von der Straße gibt. Das Land braucht anstelle einsamer Entscheidungen außerhalb der Verfassung einen nationalen Dialog, vielleicht koordiniert durch das Quartett, das bereits in der Vergangenheit hilfreich war und dafür den Friedensnobelpreis bekommen hat. Und als Parlamentarier sage ich: Dazu gehört natürlich auch das demokratisch gewählte Parlament.
Debate: Situation in Tunisia
Date: TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2021
Speaker: Maria Arena
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: FR

En 2011, la révolution pacifique menée par des milliers de citoyens tunisiens mettait fin à un régime, à une dictature, celle de M. Ben Ali. À cette époque, l’Europe a été aux côtés de la Tunisie. Peut-être pas suffisamment: nous n’avons peut-être pas compris suffisamment la portée de ce mouvement prodémocratie en Tunisie. Aujourd’hui, la Tunisie est confrontée à une crise économique entraînée par l’insécurité de son voisin libyen. À une crise sanitaire également, la COVID ayant particulièrement frappé la Tunisie, avec un effet dramatique sur le tourisme, secteur économique essentiel en Tunisie. Mais aussi à une crise politico-institutionnelle dans une jeune démocratie. L’Union européenne doit à ce titre doubler ses efforts à l’égard de la Tunisie et être aux côtés avant tout des citoyens tunisiens. Dans une démocratie digne de ce nom, un homme à lui seul ne peut prétendre représenter l’exécutif, le législatif ou le judiciaire. Dans une démocratie digne de ce nom, un décret ne peut pas changer la Constitution. Dans une démocratie digne de ce nom, nous ne pouvons pas interdire arbitrairement les voyages, nous ne pouvons pas juger des civils devant des cours militaires. Tout cela aujourd’hui a lieu en Tunisie et nous demandons donc que l’état d’exception cesse, que le processus démocratique reprenne, mais aussi que nous évaluions notre action à l’égard de la Tunisie, pour être plus efficaces.