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Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Barry Andrews
Political group: Renew
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Mr President, Commissioner and colleagues, despite it only being five weeks into 2024, 18 people have already lost their lives on Irish roads this year. 2023 had the highest fatality rate in nearly a decade in Ireland, made worse by a substantial increase in the number of deaths of young people. The Road Safety Authority in Ireland has noted that this isn’t just an Irish phenomenon. All over Europe, there has been an increase in fatal crashes since the end of COVID. A recent study by Eurostat found that road fatalities in the EU have increased by 6% after a decade of continuous decline. A new EU directive to extend driving disqualifications is very welcome. To ensure road safety and effective enforcement of road safety regulations, it is crucial that the EU takes a consistent approach to recognising and enforcing driver disqualifications across the Member States. Public awareness campaigns to inform EU citizens of mutual recognition of disqualifications is absolutely essential. Mounting fatalities on both Irish and EU roads have increased the urgency of these measures.
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Maria Grapini
Political group: S-D
Country: Portugal
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, doamna comisară, stimați colegi, directiva pe care o dezbatem astăzi, legată de decăderea din dreptul de a conduce are un singur scop, și anume salvarea de vieți, reducerea accidentelor rutiere. Sigur că avem accidente rutiere nu numai din cauza șoferilor care poate sunt băuți, consumă droguri, au viteză excesivă, dar și din cauza infrastructurii, acesta fiind un alt subiect, ca în toate statele membre, să reușim să avem o infrastructură rutieră corespunzătoare. Dar da, sunt de acord ca să fie tratați la fel cei care încalcă regulile de circulație rutieră, pentru că viața are aceeași valoare, indiferent în ce țară se întâmplă accidentul. Prevenția este foarte importantă, rigorile legii de asemenea. Sigur, avem dreptul să circulăm, este un drept fundamental, dar avem și responsabilitatea de a nu pune în pericol viețile copiilor, ale persoanelor în vârstă. Accidentele sunt mai ales în orașe, dar și pe autostrăzi. De aceea sunt de acord și susțin ca această directivă să se aplice în spațiul european, să avem o siguranță în toate statele membre.
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, this cross-border directive is an attempt to force Member States to exchange information in relation to certain driving disqualifications. As you know, if a driver is convicted of an offence in one country, the sanctions only apply to that country at the moment. I’m a bit sceptical of cross-border directives and whether they are required at all. Take, for example, the EU Commission’s flagship cross-border directive on health. Ten years since its implementation, and the Commission itself accepts that the directive has been a failure. If a person has been convicted, for example, of excessive speed – and whatever that means – should they be punished in 27 Member States? It seems a bit mad to me. I think that’s a bit over the top. I’m just wondering, is this part of building a United States of Europe, or is just an effort to increase bureaucracy? It doesn’t make an awful lot of sense to me.
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, I think this is an important file, but it should be handled carefully. We don’t want data bogged down for minor misdemeanours. We have a history of problems in Ireland with the way in which our police force have managed traffic offences, with a lot of political or Garda interference in that.  I think this should be about enforcing driving disqualification across the EU for offences where the seriousness of the behaviour results in major harm or death. Thanks to the heroic work of one Irish mother, Lucia O’Farrell, and the O’Farrell family, this issue is very well known in Ireland. In 2011, Shane O’Farrell had just finished his law exams. He was 23 years old and he was knocked down as he cycled home. He was left to die on the side of the road by a driver who failed to stop: a driver who had been at that time out on bail for multiple charges of criminality and traffic offences. A Lithuanian who was convicted of dangerous driving causing death but acquitted on the basis that he leaves the country. How is that fair to the people of Lithuania that he would be sent back, exposing them to danger? How is that justice?
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Adina-Ioana Vălean
Language: EN

I’m really happy to see that apart from the divergent views on some specific issues, the Parliament, I’m interpreting, is ready to support our proposal. A few words on some of the issues which were raised. Again, we are talking here about a package. We would have loved to see the whole package adopted at the same time. All the package elements will work together to ensure road safety. On the other hand, each proposal is a different tool, which, together with the others, will create a basket of tools to address road safety. So, from this perspective, driving licences focus on skills and training, and the cross-border enforcement focuses on better enforcement of road safety offences. Driving disqualifications focus on the most severe offences which should result in driving disqualification in the Union. We paid a lot of attention to subsidiarity. On the other hand, of course, it is not possible to have a Union-wide effect without a Union intervention. But I would say balance is in the text, preserving Member States’ competence and especially thanks to the grounds for refusal. It was a discussion about the penalty points under the scope of the directive; I’ve noticed the willingness in the recitals of the adopted report to assess the feasibility of eventually including the so-called demerit points under the scope of the directive. While I see the good intention behind this request, let me recall you that such point systems are, by their very nature, designed as long-term solutions to sanction perpetrators of repeated minor offences, with different seriousness assigned to them. As opposed to this, the proposal primarily concerns people who are committing the most serious offences in transit that should lead to their immediate disqualification. Again, these are a couple of remarks. It is indeed a file which will bring concrete understanding and positive effects, I would say, for all citizens and all those who are sharing the roads, let’s hope in a safer way. Thank you very much for the debate and I really hope that you will vote on this, even though I’m sorry it’s not going to be adopted in this legislature because the Council is delayed. But what you are going to send with your report is a strong signal that it is needed, and I think the citizens will understand this signal.
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Petar Vitanov
Country: Spain
Language: BG

Сега, аз съм убеден, че при тази ангажираност ще съумеем да подобрим законодателството за пътната безопасност, което е в интерес на гражданите и на всяка една държава. Понеже имаше две критики от г-н Хайдер и г-н Уолас, първо само четири вида нарушения са. Не става дума за всякакви нарушения, а именно за онези, които причиняват най-много тежки инциденти по пътищата. И второ, по отношение на синхронизацията. Тук стремежът не е да унифицираме наказателните ни системи. Трябва да е ясно, че когато извършим нарушения зад границата, наказанията са на база на правната рамка на страната, издала книжката. Синхронизацията може да дойде в случаите, когато нямаме фиксирано наказание, а плаващо такова и когато е плаващо, тогава това наказание би следвало да се синхронизира с наказанието в страната на извършване на нарушението. Така че хубавото е, че всеки един подчертава, че успехът на тази директива зависи от сътрудничеството между страните членки и от навременния поток на информация между тях.  И последно, вярвам, че тази директива не само ще спомогне за намаляване на инцидентите, но давайки ѝ гласност, ще остави отпечатък в съзнанието на всички ни и ще ни насърчи да бъдем по-внимателни, отговорни и безкомпромисни в следването на правилата, независимо къде шофираме.
Debate: Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Andor Deli
Political group: NI
Country: Germany
Language: HU

A javaslat megfelelő eljárási garanciákat és mentesítő alapokat irányoz elő, ami biztosítja, hogy az uniós hatály csak valóban indokolt esetekben következhessen be. A büntetőpont-rendszer uniós szintű kiterjesztésével viszont nem tudok egyetérteni. A tagállamok között fennálló különbségek olyan mértékűek e tekintetben, hogy ezek összekapcsolása nem lenne lehetséges. Továbbá nem is lenne indokolt. A szubszidiaritás elvével összhangban ezt a kérdést tagállami hatáskörben kell hagyni.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Roberts Zīle
Language: LV

Nākamais darba kārtības punkts ir debates par Komisijas paziņojumu par stāvokli Haiti pirms ANO daudznacionālās drošības atbalsta misijas sākšanas (
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Jiří Pospíšil
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: CS

Osobně si ale myslím, že ta pomoc může být reálná až ve chvíli, kdy zkrátka mezinárodní jednotky zajistí distribuci této pomoci. V tuto chvíli velmi hrozí, že pokud bychom poskytovali větší humanitární pomoc, tak ta bude rozkradena, rozebrána gangy. Gangy, které tam působí – více než 80 gangů –, které navíc způsobují obrovské utrpení tamních obyvatel, kriminalitu a tak dále. Takže je třeba zajistit mezinárodní akci, zajistit alespoň základní fungování tohoto státu, který je v rozkladu, a pak můžeme poskytovat humanitární pomoc, za kterou bych se přimlouval.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Carlos Zorrinho
Political group: S-D
Language: PT

Há demasiados interesses e demasiados interessados em semear por todo o globo os Estados falhados. Estados que são mercados da impunidade, mas, ao mesmo tempo, cenários do intolerável sofrimento dos seus povos.  Nós, europeus, membros de uma parceria de paz, liberdade e respeito pelas pessoas e pelos seus direitos, não podemos ficar indiferentes perante estas situações.  Nas resoluções que aprovámos sobre o Haiti apelámos sempre a uma ação concertada da comunidade internacional para fazer face ao caos político, à violência e às necessidades de apoio humanitário.  Depois das acusações feitas em relação à má-conduta de algumas forças da ONU no Haiti, os mais recentes pontos de situação identificam uma estratégia mais focada na reconstrução dos pilares onde pode assentar uma normalização da situação, incluindo a criação de uma plataforma política capaz de assumir o controlo institucional e retomar a aplicação do quadro constitucional em vigor.  É fundamental que as sanções penalizem os responsáveis pela situação e protejam do seu impacto as populações necessitadas.  Os esforços de diálogo na sociedade civil devem ser incentivados.  A parceria entre iguais no quadro do novo Acordo de Samoa, de que o Haiti será um membro ativo, deverá ser acionada para gerar respostas multilaterais às fraturas globais entre blocos e «terras de ninguém» mais pejadas de iniquidade e sofrimento.  Na Assembleia Parlamentar Caraíbas-União Europeia, que será formalmente constituída dentro de duas semanas na reunião da Assembleia Parlamentar Paritária ACP-UE, em Luanda, Angola, não deixaremos de seguir de perto a situação vivida pelo povo do Haiti.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Max Orville
Political group: Renew
Country: Greece
Language: FR

Il est temps de mettre les moyens nécessaires à l’envoi d’une mission de sécurité soutenue par l’ONU. Pour être efficace, celle-ci doit être transparente quant à son organisation, mais aussi à son financement. Elle doit viser à désarmer le pays et à appuyer la police et rétablir l’ordre tout en garantissant un assainissement des infrastructures d’eau pour enrayer la crise sanitaire actuelle. À nous de veiller à ce qu’une feuille de route claire et contrôlable soit mise en place afin de ne pas reproduire les erreurs du passé. Les conflits et la corruption ne profitent à personne. Il faut un retour à la démocratie.  Madame la Commissaire, quelles actions la Commission entend-elle entreprendre en lien avec l’ONU pour participer à cette mission et accompagner le peuple haïtien dans la mise en place d’élections libres et transparentes?
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Caroline Roose
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Poland
Language: FR

La crise en Haïti n’est pas seulement une crise sécuritaire, c’est aussi une crise politique: un État qui s’effondre, une corruption généralisée, des injustices énormes, un gouvernement illégitime aux yeux des citoyens. La réponse de la communauté internationale ne peut pas être seulement d’ordre sécuritaire. Les Haïtiens ne demandaient pas l’envoi de forces supplémentaires; ils veulent être inclus dans les décisions qui concernent leur avenir. Il est temps pour la communauté internationale et pour l’Union européenne de soutenir, en Haïti, un processus de dialogue politique qui mène à la formation d’un gouvernement de transition, véritablement représentatif, soutenu par une large majorité de la société. C’est en s’attaquant aux causes profondes de la crise haïtienne que nous pourrons aider le pays à se reconstruire sur des bases solides. On ne pourra pas régler le problème et la situation en Haïti sans les Haïtiens.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Tomasz Piotr Poręba
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: PL

Sytuacja ta też ma bez wątpienia duży wpływ na sąsiednie kraje, dla których zdolność do radzenia sobie z nielegalną imigracją, po prostu przekracza ich możliwości. Weźmy chociażby Dominikanę – trudno się dziwić, należy wręcz rozumieć – która w ubiegłym roku zdecydowała się na budowę specjalnego muru w celu ochrony swojej granicy. Dominikana nie ma innej możliwości reagowania, jak chronić obywateli swojego kraju przed napływem niekontrolowanej, nielegalnej imigracji, w tym członków gangów.  Jestem przekonany, że społeczność międzynarodowa powinna i musi wręcz zaangażować się w przywrócenie pokoju na Haiti celem stworzenia warunków niezbędnych do przywrócenia demokratycznych instytucji. Wydaje się, że wysłanie międzynarodowej misji stabilizacyjnej jest w tej sytuacji jedynym sposobem, aby powstrzymać spiralę przemocy, umożliwić władzom odzyskanie kontroli nad krajem oraz przywrócić porządek. Tutaj chciałbym podkreślić, jak ważne jest, aby instytucje Unii Europejskiej oraz państwa członkowskie zaangażowały się w zapewnienie personelu, sprzętu oraz zasobów finansowych i logistycznych na potrzeby takiej międzynarodowej, stabilizacyjnej misji. Mam również głęboką nadzieję, że reprezentanci Haiti będą w pełni współpracować i wspierać tego typu działania.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Maxette Pirbakas
Political group: NI
Country: Sweden
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, Madame la Commissaire, pas loin de la Guadeloupe – donc de l’Union européenne –, Haïti est notre île sœur. En tant que Guadeloupéenne, j’estime que les liens historiques, culturels, interpersonnels tissés avec les territoires européens de la Caraïbe nous donnent des obligations. La violence exercée par les gangs, qui sont souvent le bras armé de puissances économiques et politiques, vient encore aggraver la pauvreté extrême de cette population. Haïti est à la dérive. Les 12 millions d’Haïtiens sont en grande détresse aujourd’hui. C’est un sujet qui nous concerne et qui nous alarme. L’ONU a décidé d’agir par le biais d’une force multinationale sécuritaire en tant que puissance régionale de la Caraïbe. Je pense que l’Union européenne doit la soutenir financièrement. Elle doit appuyer les États qui, comme la France, entendent agir pour la sécurité première des libertés. En parallèle, il faut amplifier l’effort humanitaire de l’Europe en Haïti. Les 20 millions d’euros d’aides accordées en 2022 et en 2023 sont insuffisants. Pour moi, nous devons agir au-delà du simple cadre des accords entre l’Union européenne et les États d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique, avec un programme ad hoc pérennisant ces aides d’urgence. Chers collègues, Madame la Commissaire, Monsieur le Président, nous devons agir vite et fort pour garantir la dignité et le droit au développement pour les Haïtiens.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Carina Ohlsson
Political group: S-D
Language: SV

Herr talman! Haitis öde är djupt tragiskt. De mänskliga tragedierna avlöser varandra. Landet befinner sig i en ond cirkel av mord, kidnappningar och sexuellt våld. Fler än 2 300 människor dödades i slutet på förra året och minst 170  000 barn befinner sig på flykt. Gängens grova våld mot civila måste få ett slut.  Det internationella samfundet och EU måste ta ett helhetsgrepp om Haiti, där säkerhetsarbetet kompletteras med ett långsiktigt program för humanitärt bistånd, utvecklingsbistånd och inrättande av en övergångsregering.  Det är också avgörande för framtiden att de internationella insatserna respekterar mänskliga rättigheter och humanitär rätt så att inte våldet förvärras.  Jag hoppas också innerligt att FN-organisationen har lärt sig från tidigare insatser och misstag. Spridningen av kolera i Haiti av FN:s fredsbevarande trupp var djupt olyckligt, om än omedvetet. Över 10 000 människor dog till följd av dåliga sanitära förhållanden och dumpning av orenat kloakvatten i det fria.  Med detta sagt är det extremt oroande att den FN-beslutade säkerhetsstyrkan inte är på plats. Om Kenya inte kan sköta sitt åtagande behöver säkerhetsrådet skyndsamt hantera frågan. Den organiserade brottsligheten i Haiti är bortom kontroll och det är alltid kvinnor och barn som drabbas hårdast när laglöshet råder.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Stanislav Polčák
Political group: PPE
Country: Czechia
Language: CS

Pane předsedající, já bych chtěl nejprve pronést větu, že občané Haiti si zaslouží lepší budoucnost. Je to nepochybně i v zájmu EU. To, čeho jsme svědky na Haiti, tak je rozpad státu, je to řádění gangů, dokonce jsme byli svědky bohužel velmi tragické události – zabití samotného prezidenta. A je důležité tomuto státu a jeho občanům dát nějakou budoucnost. A pokud se zde ustavila mezinárodní mise, tak je jednoznačné, že EU nemůže stát stranou. Proto jsem přivítal i vyjádření paní komisařky.  Myslím si, že naší základní úlohou je společně s dalšími světovými státy zajistit stabilitu v tomto státě a posílit bezpečí, lepší životní podmínky. To je nepochybné. Čekal bych rovněž i nápravu zdravotních podmínek, protože rozšíření cholery, ke kterému došlo na Haiti bohužel nevědomky i v důsledku činností mise OSN, není asi nejšťastnější událostí a lze ji napravit. Takže pojďme skutečně pro Haiti zajistit lepší budoucnost.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, another US-backed and funded occupation of Haiti.  That it will be lent a black face by Kenya is one of the worst ideas I’ve heard for a while: the Kenyan police are notoriously violent and have a history of working in collusion with gangs, not disrupting them at home in Kenya.  Haiti has been occupied multiple times and every time the situation seems to get worse. The crisis today is a direct result of the Brazil-led UN occupation from 2004 to 2017. Haiti doesn’t need foreign forces, it needs the IMF to stop choking them to death. They do not need structural adjustment programs: they need health and aid workers, debt relief and the ability to grow their own food.  In the 70s, Haiti was self-sufficient in rice production, now it buys 82 % of its rice from the US. When will the US stop suffocating Haiti, carrying out coups, backing dictatorships and crushing their economy? This mission is a human rights disaster in the making, just like all the previous ones.
Debate: Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission
Date: MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, in a UN Security Council minute from January this year, it is stated ‘the persistent political impasse in Haiti remains a significant obstacle to effective governance.’ Well, they should know because those responsible were in the same room.  Haiti is – God help them – an assisted state supported in nation building by the US, pretty much like they helped Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it any wonder it’s such a mess? All Haitian elections since 2004 have been monitored, constant foreign interference, effective military occupation, Western NGOs taking over basic public services. What’s left to vote for in a country no longer their own? Clearly, Western powers want to control Haiti’s destiny. They’re doing everything they can to colonise them again. Well, they should look back at Haiti’s history. This is an island of slaves who rose up and drove out their colonisers. You will not prevail. The people of Haiti will find a way to take back what is theirs.