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Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: David Cormand
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Ireland
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, merci pour ce débat. Permettez-moi d’avoir un regard assez contrasté sur le paquet qui nous est désormais proposé. On a une formule en France qu’on utilise souvent et que je réutilise ici: cet accord ne mérite ni excès d’honneur, ni indignité. Pas d’indignité, parce que c’est la première fois que nous avons un plan de relance qui permet d’avoir une solidarité européenne et cela, c’est quelque chose qui n’existait pas. Pas d’indignité, parce que nous avons gagné aussi sur la mise de côté, un tant soit peu, du Semestre, qui nous contraignait à des politiques austéritaires – on voit évidemment que ce n’est pas ce qu’il faut faire aujourd’hui. Pas d’indignité, non plus, parce qu’il y a des premières pistes en direction des ressources propres, mais j’y reviendrai. Pas d’indignité, enfin, parce que, c’est vrai, depuis très longtemps, c’est la première fois que nous avons un budget pluriannuel légèrement – très légèrement, mais tout de même – revalorisé, à hauteur de 16 milliards d’euros. Mais pas d’excès d’honneur non plus, parce qu’il y a eu des occasions manquées dans ces négociations. Là, je veux revenir sur les ressources propres. Ces ressources propres sont fondamentales, pour deux raisons. D’abord, ce sont elles qui nous garantissent d’avoir une souveraineté européenne où nous ne sommes pas sous le chantage permanent du Conseil pour décider de notre sort en matière budgétaire. Elles sont aussi très importantes parce que c’est ce qui permet d’avoir une fiscalité juste. Et le refus par le Conseil de la taxe sur les transactions financières est une faute politique extrêmement lourde. Pendant cette période de crise, les plus riches ont continué de s’enrichir grâce à la financiarisation de l’économie et à la spéculation. Cette taxe sur les transactions financières aurait été un moyen de mettre de la justice fiscale au niveau de l’Union, et le Conseil a refusé de le faire. Un dernier mot pour dire que je regrette aussi que la Commission n’ait pas été suffisamment aux côtés du Parlement pour porter nos positions. C’est pourtant sa responsabilité de le faire.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Derk Jan Eppink
Political group: ECR
Language: NL

Voorzitter, de Europese begroting bedraagt 1 233 miljard euro voor zeven jaar, plus 25 %, als we de Britten wegdenken. Het compromis tussen de Raad en het Europees Parlement bedraagt nog eens 16 miljard euro. En nu is er ook nog een herstelfonds van 750 miljard euro:  Wie gaat dat betalen, mijnheer Verhofstadt? De Europese burger, via Europese belastingen. Er is al een lijst gemaakt van deze belastingen: plasticbelasting, emissiehandelsbelasting, digitale heffing op financiële transacties, enz. Die zullen echter allemaal ontoereikend blijken als we in 2028 moeten beginnen met het terugbetalen van die 750 miljard euro. Weet u wat er dan gaat gebeuren, mijnheer Verhofstadt? Dan worden er nieuwe schulden gemaakt en krijgen we een schuldencarrousel. De Europese Unie wordt een schuldenunie, mede dankzij u. Commissaris Hahn, deze begroting heet dan misschien
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Sira Rego
Political group: GUE/NGL
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señor presidente, nos acercamos a la recta final de este presupuesto, de este instrumento político que va a determinar nuestras vidas en los próximos años. Y, aunque tiene aspectos positivos, como la reversión de recortes en programas educativos o investigación, también nos preocupa que siga destinando una cantidad inmensa de dinero a la militarización de la UE, demasiado dinero a Frontex. Dicho lo evidente, que esta no es nuestra propuesta ideal, quizás sí que sea el momento de tener el debate de cómo gestionarla. A mi juicio, está claro: debemos hacer todo lo posible para que haya un control democrático; garantizar el refuerzo de los servicios públicos y del empleo para que nadie sea vulnerable ni por una pandemia ni por falta de trabajo; hacer que los recursos sirvan para recuperar la soberanía productiva con control público. Si algo nos ha demostrado la pandemia, es nuestra debilidad: en la UE no se fabrica ni un paracetamol. Pero, sobre todo, que no nos engañemos. Si dejamos que las reglas austericidas se cuelen por las rendijas, como quieren las derechas, y si no brindamos una condicionalidad social y un reparto con justicia, quienes desde sus escaños nos escupen su proyecto de odio para Europa ganarán.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Esther de Lange
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: NL

Voorzitter, in de Tweede Kamer van het Nederlands parlement heeft premier Rutte expliciet naar het Europees Parlement verwezen als de instelling die hopelijk nog een aantal zaken kan verbeteren met betrekking tot de Europese top over het MFK. De premier heeft het Europees Parlement dus opgeroepen om een aantal zaken te verbeteren, omdat hij dit op de Europese top zelf niet voor elkaar heeft gekregen. Aangezien de Nederlandse premier zich in het verleden nogal eens minder positief over het Europees Parlement heeft uitgelaten, wil ik hierbij zeggen: graag gedaan, Mark. Het Europees Parlement heeft inderdaad voor een aantal belangrijke verbeteringen gezorgd. Bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van de rechtsstaat, waar eindelijk het rechtsstaatmechanisme is ingesteld met een breder toepassingsgebied en met de bepaling dat de Raad besluiten niet eeuwig voor zich uit kan schuiven. Daarnaast wil ik nog een aantal andere zaken noemen, waaronder de extra middelen voor onderzoek. Als we onze economie structureel willen verbeteren, hebben we onderzoek en innovatie hard nodig. De verhoging van Horizon 2020 is in dit verband dus zeer welkom. Voorts wil ik de bescherming van de buitengrenzen aan de orde stellen. Ik voorspel namelijk dat de lidstaten die tijdens de top enorm op de begroting voor de buitengrenzen hebben bezuinigd, tijdens de volgende migratiecrisis vragen waarom Europa niets doet. Zo ook partijen zoals die van mijnheer Eppink. Als je wilt dat Europa handelt, moet je Europa de middelen geven om te handelen. Ten slotte wil ik de aandacht vestigen op gezondheid, en met name op de verhoging van de begroting voor gezondheid, die middenin de huidige pandemie niet meer dan logisch was. Ik wil daarom vooral mijn collega’s bedanken die dit voor elkaar hebben gekregen.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Kati Piri
Political group: S-D
Language: EN

While this Parliament has no role in triggering the new mechanism, without this House there would be no strong conditionality between the EU budget and respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights. This was a red line for my group. Our negotiators fought to the end with the Council, and with success. The agreement reached last Thursday makes me proud to be a Member of this Parliament. Being determined and firm, we achieved something unique and something that is there to stay. We now have a real, effective and enforceable tool to stand up against autocratic leaders trying to take down our democracies and blackmailing our Union. We can finally put an end to leaders enriching themselves, their friends and their relatives with EU money. We created a smart mechanism to make sure the EU budget ends up in the hands of the people who it is meant for. As Parliament, we kept our promise. We did not give in on our core democratic principles, and the empty bluff of autocratic leaders in panic will no longer hold the EU hostage. We are ready to adopt the agreement and to get started on an ambitious EU budget we have agreed on for the next seven years. Now it is up to the Commission and the EU leaders to make use of this, too. This historic agreement is important for all those Europeans striving hard through crisis and the pandemic, making sacrifices every single day, and bad news for corrupt leaders trying to take advantage of it.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Guy Verhofstadt
Political group: Renew
Country: Bulgaria
Language: EN

Mr President, the word ‘historic’ has been used, I think, 100 times here in this plenary but for once, I think, we are using it in the right way, because my impression is that exactly 20 years after the launch of the Convention, this is a real big step. Why is this a big step? Because we are in fact breaking three long-standing taboos in Europe. The first taboo was no eurobonds, no recovery bonds – that was impossible. That was the call of the Council and of everybody after the financial crisis. And what we will do now with this programme is launch nearly one trillion of these bonds on the market, and the first bond that has been launched is a huge success. The second new thing we are doing concerns own resources. I have heard for years ‘no, it’s impossible to have new own resources’ – for 10 years we have fought for that. It’s there and it’s not taxing the ordinary citizen, it’s taxing Google, Amazon, the big tech companies in America, imported products from China, which are in fact bad for our environment, and so on. So I don’t know what Mr Eppink has against taxing Google and Facebook and Amazon – who is against it? Not the citizens, anyway. And then there is the fact that there will no longer be money for authoritarians. But I want to give two short warnings. The first is to the Commission. Mr Hahn, tell your colleagues to use now the tools. I hear already in the corridors, ‘now we going to use this and we’re going to try to find out if Hungary and Poland are in accordance with the system’... but you have to do nothing at all, that has already been proved! You have now to use it and not wait two or three years before doing it. And my second warning is this: let’s not stop the reform of the European Union. There are other things to tackle: the lack of a European Defence Community, the unanimity rule, and the fact that we cannot elect our own leader. In America they can do it – not always easily – but we cannot do it.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Terry Reintke
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Mr President, it is happening in the US, it is happening here in Europe, it is happening all around the globe. Authoritarian leaders are trying to destroy the basic principles and the very foundations of our democracies. Donald Trump does not want to accept the outcome of a democratic election. Viktor Orbán is threatening to veto the EU budget over the rule of law conditionality.  Some people might think, oh well, if we just back off a little bit, if we just try to see this from their perspective a little bit more, it might all turn out to be a big misunderstanding. Well, here’s the thing – it is not! This is not just a misunderstanding. These guys, they mean it. They are planning to undermine our democracy, our values, by spreading baseless conspiracy theories, by scapegoating minorities, by erasing all checks and balances we have built in hard-won battles over the centuries. This is on, and it is on now. That’s why we need to use every tool we have available in order to stand up to these attacks. The rule of law conditionality is not just a side note in these budgetary negotiations, it is a precondition. Without it, the European Parliament is not going to accept this budget. Lastly, you can threaten us, Mr Orbán. You can try to intimidate us. You can send your trolls after us. We in this Parliament are not going to be afraid of you. We have the backing of hundreds of millions of EU citizens with whom we stand side by side in the battle for rule of law, for democracy and for our rights. It is on and we are in it.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Pedro Silva Pereira
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PT

Prosseguimos agora com o debate sobre o Quadro Financeiro Plurianual (incluindo os recursos próprios), o Mecanismo de Condicionalidade do Estado de Direito e o Fundo de Recuperação para a Europa [
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Esteban González Pons
Political group: PPE
Country: Slovenia
Language: ES

Señor presidente, Europa es mucho más que la economía europea. Este acuerdo que hoy aprobamos es una buena prueba de ello.  Para Boris Johnson o Donald Trump, Europa era solo un mercado contra el que competir. Se equivocaron. Europa es sus valores y sus principios, contra los que no cabe la competencia. Sin sus valores y sus principios, Europa no es nada. Por eso, anteponemos hoy el Estado de Derecho al mercado.  Hoy creamos un mecanismo sobre el Estado de Derecho que va a consagrar en este continente que los principios y los valores anteceden siempre al mercado. Nace con la confianza de no ser usado, porque lo que busca no es castigar a nadie, sino protegernos a todos. Es nuestra alarma frente al autoritarismo; pretende protegernos frente a tentaciones presentes o futuras de quienes abusan del poder y pretende que aquellos que ordenan qué decir y qué pensar, qué es verdad y qué no lo es, no se atrevan a hacerlo porque encuentren un castigo.  El nacionalpopulismo, como todos los virus, no discrimina por frontera, raza o género. Miren, si no, lo que está pasando en los Estados Unidos de América, donde la democracia más sólida, estable e ininterrumpida en 250 años no ha podido evitar que su presidente en funciones no acepte un resultado electoral.  Si lo que está haciendo Donald Trump lo hiciera el presidente de otro país americano, el Congreso norteamericano estaría ya hablando de sanciones. De eso se trata con este mecanismo: de anteponer la democracia a la economía.  El Estado de Derecho es respeto a la igualdad de hombres y mujeres; es respeto a la diversidad, a la libertad religiosa, educativa; respeto a la libertad de expresión, a la libertad de prensa, a la independencia de la justicia. Todo eso es más importante que el mercado.  Este mecanismo de Estado de Derecho no nace contra nadie; nace para defendernos a todos. Si algún país lo contraviene, aunque sea el mío, debe ser sancionado.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Elisabetta Gualmini
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, oggi celebriamo il grande successo che abbiamo ottenuto in questi giorni sull'approvazione del bilancio pluriennale, della riforma delle risorse proprie e del Fondo europeo per la ripresa, ma soprattutto celebriamo la forza del Parlamento europeo, il ruolo che ha giocato con determinazione, un ruolo finalmente non subordinato o piccolo rispetto al Consiglio. E il risultato c'è stato: 16 miliardi in più, per un totale di circa 1 800 miliardi per questo bilancio pluriennale. Ma non contano solo le cifre e la quantità, contano altri due aspetti che vorrei sottolineare. Il primo è la logica di sistema che è stata utilizzata per la prima volta, direi rivoluzionaria: il quadro pluriennale è stato approvato insieme alla revisione delle risorse proprie e potremo finalmente chiedere contributi pesanti alle multinazionali del web, potremo chiedere alle imprese che inquinano di non farlo più e di pagare tasse, se per caso lo fanno e non ci aiutano nella lotta al cambiamento climatico. La revisione delle risorse proprie ci consentirà, in una logica appunto di pacchetto, di finanziare il  Il secondo elemento è il rapporto tra bilancio e democrazia: il bilancio è il cuore pulsante delle democrazie, è il modo in cui noi spieghiamo ai nostri cittadini cosa facciamo e come lo facciamo. Abbiamo bisogno di un bilancio dell'Unione europea sano, pulito e trasparente per far capire dove stiamo andando; abbiamo bisogno di un bilancio ambizioso per evitare che questa devastante crisi si diffonda. Come ha detto Kamala Harris, la prima donna Vicepresidente eletta negli Stati Uniti: "
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Sophia in 't Veld
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Mr President, let me start by congratulating the negotiating team of the European Parliament: you’ve done a fantastic job, and it cannot be said enough. I note that the Council is absent, which is strange because they are the other half of the agreement, but apparently they don’t care. And there is a contrast between the attitude of the Council and Parliament. Colleagues, do you remember the scenes of last summer, the balcony scenes, where they were fighting like cats and dogs over money, where there were political games, where there were vetoes, blackmail, and acrimony? It was the worst of the European Union, the image that they showed the citizens. Compare that to today. The European Parliament has a lot less drama than the Council, but we deliver, we deliver on change. We made a qualitative change. We deliver on the rule of law. We deliver on climate. We deliver on recovery from the COVID crisis. The European Parliament has done its job, as always. We take responsibility. On the rule of law conditionality, I’m very happy that we have the mechanism, but now we also expect the European Commission to act on it. And we need to remember that this is about conditionality, it’s not a sanctions mechanism. That means that every single penny that will be spent has to be checked against compliance with the rule of law standards. Every single penny! So don’t come here and say ‘oh, we first have to investigate and see if everybody complies’ – we know what the situation is, so act. Finally, I think the situation with Mr Orbán shows that we desperately need to change the system. It cannot be that a single autocrat is holding the entire European Union hostage. It is taxpayers’ money that we are talking about, and this should not be for Mr Orbán to determine. This is for the democratically elected representatives of the European people.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Daniel Freund
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Spain
Language: EN

Mr President, you might have noticed that two governments – Hungary and Poland – are fuming since last Thursday, since we struck this historic deal on the rule of law conditionality. The Polish minister has been speaking of political, cultural and economic colonisation, and Hungary goes a step further, as always, and speaks of the execution of the Soros plan. What a bizarre fantasy land these people live in. Hungary and Poland are among the biggest recipients of EU funds. They have profited to the tune of EUR 180 billion of European solidarity since they acceded to the European Union and now, at this moment, where millions of citizens, where thousands of businesses need a lifeline from us and are expecting European solidarity, this is the moment that they threaten to block the whole package, because Kaczyński wants to continue to throw out judges that he doesn’t like and because Orbán wants to keep lining his own pockets. I think one thing is pretty obvious: that those that are screaming the loudest now about this are the ones that have to fear the most from this new conditionality. Just last night, the Hungarian minister, as some colleagues have referred to, has put forward new constitutional changes that would make it impossible for the opposition to run in a coordinated fashion. In Poland, we have an ECJ ruling that this so—called disciplinary chamber should cease to exist, but it continues to operate and to put judges out of work. For years we have seen how the situation is deteriorating. Commissioner Hahn, I was recently in Hungary. I visited Klub Radio, which is about to lose its frequency – the last independent radio station in Hungary. There are thousands of people in Poland on the street because they lost the independence of the judiciary. These citizens do not have the time to wait. They don’t have the time to wait for another rule of law report, another dialogue, we need to act. When this enters into force on 1 January, we don’t have a minute to lose, it’s time to act.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Jessica Stegrud
Political group: ECR
Language: SV

Herr talman! Det är bra att parlamentet och övriga svenska partier, liksom vi, vill höja kraven på rättsstatlighet för att få ta emot EU-bidrag. Det märkliga är att de inte samtidigt ställer krav på ekonomiska reformer, budgetdisciplin och korruptionsåtgärder; att ni så lättvindigt och kravlöst vill ge ut pengar till stater som misskött sina ekonomier i goda tider; att ni nu är beredda att införa nya skatter och skuldsätta kommande generationer; att ni vill lägga tusentals miljarder på ogenomtänkta klimatåtgärder, som kommissionen själv medger inte kommer att räcka eller ha någon avgörande betydelse för det globala klimatet. Ni pratar er varma för handel, inre marknad, miljösamarbeten och säkerhet. Samtidigt lägger ni pengar på helt andra saker och passar på att flytta ännu mer makt till Bryssel, allt längre från de enskilda medborgarna. EU talar om en kopernisk revolution, och det är det sannerligen, men inte en revolution som befriar någon, inte en som bygger något för framtiden eller löser några problem.
Debate: Multiannual Financial Framework , Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and the Recovery Fund for Europe
Date: WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Speaker: Eugen Jurzyca
Political group: ECR
Country: Belgium
Language: SK

Vážený pán predsedajúci. Fond obnovy a odolnosti môže európskej ekonomike veľmi pomôcť. Ak minieme peniaze dobre a budeme investovať do projektov, ktoré nás posunú najviac zo všetkých dostupných alternatív, bude to unikátna príležitosť skokovo zvýšiť hospodársky rast v Európe. Fond obnovy a odolnosti však prináša aj značné riziká. Hrozí vytláčanie súkromného sektora a efektívnejšej časti ekonomiky na okraj, takzvaná holandská choroba, a prichádza riziko zvýšenej korupcie. Namiesto debát o tom, koľko z výdavkov fondu obnovy a odolnosti prideliť jednotlivým sektorom, ktoré sú momentálne v móde, by sme sa mali vrátiť k tomu, ako sme o tomto fonde hovorili na začiatku. Flexibilné podmienky pre členské štáty umožňujúce investovať do návratných reforiem zameraných na hospodársky rast.