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Debate: Cohesion policy - – implementation and outcomes in the Member States
Date: THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2024
Speaker: Anders Vistisen
Political group: ID
Language: DA

Fru formand! Pengene bliver ved med at fosse ud af EU's kasser. Hver gang man ikke formår at lave udvikling i Sydeuropa, i Østeuropa, er svaret det samme: Send flere penge! Denne gang er det EU's såkaldte samhørighedsfonde, der er tale om. Men prospektet er jo, at det bliver meget, meget værre. Man er ved at invitere 8-10 nye lande ind i EU, og når man ser på Rådets beregninger, vil det medføre en ekstraregning i form af penge til landbrugsstøtte, samhørighedsfonde på 35 milliarder kroner i Danmark alene. Det er jo vanvittigt, at man her i Parlamentet bliver ved med at kræve og kræve og kræve penge uden at tage et ansvar for at skabe den vækst, der skal til for at understøtte Europas fremtid. Derfor må man sige, at pengekassen skal lukkes i! Der skal ikke bruges flere penge på samhørighedspolitik, på landbrugsstøtte. Vi er nødt til at sætte en stopper for disse vanvittige programmer, der kun medfører, at medlemsstaterne ikke tager et ansvar for økonomisk udvikling.
Debate: Cohesion policy - – implementation and outcomes in the Member States
Date: THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, cohesion policy funds are intended to encourage even development in the EU, including regional development. Ireland has obviously received significant cohesion funding, but it is not clear these funds reach all those areas in need. Cape Clear Island off the coast of Cork is a place of beauty, but the long-term survival of life on the island, its culture and heritage are at risk. The population of Cape Clear has stagnated with a dramatic 25% drop from 2016 to 2022, and right now there’s only a handful of kids in the national school on the island. The islanders identify housing as the main policy failure. There are some amazing community leaders on the island. They have a plan to build four family homes on the island for rent, for the sole use of new full-time residents. The houses would function as transitional accommodation to attract new families. I think the government and the local authority in Cork need to work together with islanders to try and make this happen. Everything is possible –
Debate: The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for
Date: THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2024
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I was really glad to see this motion tabled, and I voted for it. It is past time for this Parliament to get serious about clipping the Commission’s wings, because the Commission, and particularly its President, are out of control. And if you care about the rule of law, that should really bother you. It’s not just that the Commission is going on mandate-free solo runs in relation to the Tunisia deal; we’ve also had Ursula von der Leyen, without any mandate, undermining Member State policy towards Europe’s biggest trading partner, China, siding with her bosses in Washington over the heads of the European governments she’s supposed to work with. We’ve had her flagrantly usurping Member States’ prerogatives in relation to foreign policy, with her trip to Israel, and her repeated declaration of Europe’s unconditional support for that gang of genocidal maniacs. And in response from this slow-rolling coup – nothing. A few quiet words of concern behind the closed doors of the Council. Not good enough! We have laws. We have Treaties. When someone starts incinerating, it should concern us all. Hopefully today’s motion is a small signal that Parliament is finally waking up to that.
Debate: The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for
Date: THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2024
Speaker: Anders Vistisen
Political group: ID
Language: DA

Fru formand! Nu ser vi konsekvenserne af den håbløse migrationspolitik til Europa. For ingen har ønsket at tage et ansvar, og derfor har svaret her fra Huset og fra Kommissionen og fra Rådet været: Lad os prøve at udlicitere det. Lad os lave aftaler med islamiske despoter i Nordafrika, i Tyrkiet, og lad os lade dem holde migrationsstrømmene tilbage. Det kan jo lyde besnærende. Det kan lyde fristende, at man ikke selv skal håndtere sine problemer, men sandheden er jo, at man har gjort sig fuldstændig sårbar over for afpresning, at mere vil have mere, og at der tit er tale om regimer som her for eksempel Tunesien, hvor man ikke kan tale om stabile samarbejdsrelationer. Vi er nødt til i Europa at tage ansvaret for vores egen skæbne, og i det ligger der ikke, at man bare kan forhandle med en diktator i Mellemøsten eller i Nordafrika og tro, de løser vores migrationsudfordring for os, hvis de får en pose penge med i baglommen.
Debate: The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for
Date: THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2024
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, we talk a lot in the EU about human rights, EU values, defending democracy from the threat of authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the Commission President and the right wing are doing deals with the likes of Tunisia to outsource the EU borders to repressive dictatorships. Hardly surprising, given von der Leyen’s support for the genocides in Gaza by the fascist Israeli regime. It seriously challenges EU claims to have anything to do with progress and humanity. For hundreds of years we have genocided and plundered using our gains to enrich ourselves. We have strangled many independent movements with death traps and forced development through structural adjustment programmes. In North Africa and the Middle East, people flee NATO regime change wars and their fallout, climate change caused by the developed North, and the neoliberal impact of the IMF and the World Bank. And what do we do? We pay corporate lawyers to detain and kill the people looking for a better life than the one that we’ve helped to create for them.
Debate: Formal sitting - Address by His Majesty King Philippe, King of the Belgians
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Your Majesty, dear colleagues, today, the European Parliament is honoured by the visit of His Majesty the King of the Belgians. Your Majesty, it was a pleasure for me and my colleagues to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the European Parliament together with you last year in Laeken. This year, it is a privilege for the European Parliament to welcome you in our Brussels hemicycle, while Belgium holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Brussels – the centre of Europe – is the host of many European institutions and the home of the European Parliament. We are grateful to be here and thousands of Europeans serving Europe are proud to call Belgium home. Belgium – a founding European member – has played a leading role in developing our Union, always protecting European ideals and advocating for European values. Last January, the visit of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to this Parliament was an opportunity to outline the importance of the Belgian Presidency. It closes off an intense five-year legislative cycle marked by unprecedented challenges. I am proud of how the European Parliament has stepped up to meet them. Indeed our Parliament still has an intense workload here today – and until the very last plenary sitting of this legislature – in order to continue to deliver, as we have already done, on what European citizens expect from our European Union. In 60 days from today, the people of Belgium – including for the first time those aged 16 and 17 – will be invited to vote for the 22 Members of the European Parliament that will represent their interests and steer Europe for the next five-year term. We count on them to convey the message that Europe matters. Seventy years of European Parliament democracy matters, and must be defended further. Allow me a moment to also welcome students from the GO! Atheneum in Halle, the Institut Saint-Boniface Parnasse in Ixelles and the Sacré-Coeur in Jette who are seated in the diplomatic gallery. They have come to our House of European democracy for Your Majesty’s visit today. Finally, Your Majesty, allow me to thank you for your personal commitment, dedication to public service and example. The floor is yours.
Debate: Composition of political groups
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Massimiliano Smeriglio is no longer a member of the S&D Group and sits with the non-attached Members as of 20 March 2024. Theodoros Zagorakis is no longer a member of the EPP Group and sits with the non-attached Members as of 6 April 2024.
Debate: Closure of procedure for requests for the waiver and defence of Members’ immunity
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

The Committee on Legal Affairs has informed me that the committee concluded that the request for the defence of the immunity of Clara Ponsatí Obiols announced in plenary on 11 September 2023 was inadmissible pursuant to Rule 7(3). The procedure concerning the request for the defence of privileges and immunities was therefore closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs has informed me that the committee concluded that Article 8 of Protocol No 7 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union was not applicable to the request for waiver of the immunity of José Manuel Fernandes and Paulo Rangel announced in plenary on 5 October 2023. Following the end of mandate of those two Members, they no longer enjoy the immunity under Article 9 of Protocol No 7, which is limited to the duration of the Member’s mandate. Therefore, the procedure concerning this request for waiver of their immunity is closed.
Debate: Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Several committees have decided to enter into interinstitutional negotiations, pursuant to Rule 71(1) of the Rules of Procedure. The reports which constitute the mandates for the negotiations are available on the plenary webpage and their titles will be published in the minutes of the sitting. Pursuant to Rule 71(2), Members or political groups reaching at least the medium threshold may request in writing by tomorrow, Thursday 11 April at midnight that the decisions be put to the vote. If no request for a vote in Parliament is made before the deadline expires, the committees may start the negotiations.
Debate: Delegated acts
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

I was informed that no objections have been raised within the Conference of Committee Chairs to the recommendations by the AGRI Committee not to oppose two delegated acts, pursuant to Rule 111(6) of the Rules of Procedure. The recommendations are available on the plenary webpage. If no objections are raised by a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold within 24 hours, the recommendations shall be deemed to have been approved; otherwise, they will be put to the vote.
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

I would like to inform you that, together with the President of the Council, I shall, on Thursday, sign 12 acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure in accordance with Rule 79 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure. The titles of the acts will be published in the minutes of this sitting.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Jeroen Lenaers
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: NL

Met andere woorden: met dit migratiepact krijgen we eindelijk grip op migratie. Eindelijk bepalen niet langer mensensmokkelaars maar de lidstaten wie er toegang krijgt tot de EU. Natuurlijk is een compromis als dit zelden perfect. Niet alle uitdagingen zullen als bij toverslag opgelost zijn. Maar het is een hele belangrijke eerste stap waarop we verder moeten bouwen. Laten we elkaar niks wijsmaken. Een stem tegen dit pact is geen stem voor een beter beleid. Nee, een tegenstem is een stem voor het behoud van de huidige situatie, voor nog jarenlang een hoge instroom aan illegale migratie, voor overvolle opvangcentra en een gebrek aan controle aan de buitengrenzen, voor het businessmodel van mensensmokkelaars en hun levensgevaarlijke routes. Een tegenstem vandaag is een stem voor de status quo. Dat is waar extreemlinks – en daar tel ik de Groenen bij – en extreemrechts elkaar vandaag in proberen te vinden. Hoefijzerpolitiek in optima forma. Een duistere coalitie tussen Frans Timmermans en Geert Wilders, terwijl mensen in heel Europa zich al jaren zorgen maken over migratie en terecht verwachten dat de Europese Unie optreedt. Dat is een gigantische verantwoordelijkheid voor ons allemaal hier vandaag in deze zaal. Laten wij die verantwoordelijkheid niet ontlopen.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Gabriele Bischoff
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: DE

Und löst der Pakt alle Probleme? Nein. Ist er besser als der Status quo? Ja, und da haben viele schon darauf hingewiesen. Und ich weiß, in diesem Pakt sind auch Punkte drin, die schmerzen, und auch ich habe die, wenn ich z. B. gucke, dass Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Grenzverfahren nicht besonders geschützt sind. Aber es war mit den Mitgliedstaaten nichts anderes möglich. Und wenn Europa nicht handlungsfähig ist in diesem Feld, das ein Kernfeld ist, weil es nur europäisch zu lösen ist, dann befeuert das nur die Rechten, nur die Spalter, nur die, die Chaos wollen und die darauf setzen, dass Europa nicht handlungsfähig ist. In diesem Sinne bitte ich darum, diesen Pakt zu unterstützen und dafür zu sorgen, dass wir ihn anständig umsetzen.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Malik Azmani
Political group: Renew
Country: Netherlands
Language: NL

Dit is een historisch moment omdat we al lang proberen te werken aan Europese oplossingen als het gaat om migratie. Ik snap de verschillende deelbelangen. Ik snap de emoties, maar die blokkeren altijd de oplossingen. Dus het gaat om verantwoordelijkheid. Volgens mij hebben al diegenen die onderhandelden, hun verantwoordelijkheid laten zien. Maar alles hangt ook af van de mensen die misschien niet zo nauw betrokken waren bij de onderhandelingen over de wetgeving. Het is uw verantwoordelijkheid om te stemmen. Als u tegen stemt, stemt u voor behoud van de huidige situatie: een groot humanitair drama, geen grip op migratie. Dus alleen door samen te werken en uw stem te laten horen voor dit pact, zetten we een stap vooruit. Het is niet ideaal. Het kan in diverse opzichten altijd beter, maar we zetten een stap vooruit. Daarom doe ik een beroep op uw verantwoordelijkheid: laat vandaag niet alleen uw deelbelang of uw politieke belang gelden.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Saskia Bricmont
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: FR

Ce pacte n'apporte pas de réponse pour mieux gérer les arrivées, pour mettre fin aux morts en Méditerranée, aux trafics d'êtres humains, aux crises de l'accueil dans nos États membres, aux violations des droits fondamentaux et du droit d'asile. Le pacte scelle au contraire cette Europe forteresse dans les textes et la collaboration avec des dictatures. Vous entendez dire qu'il fallait absolument un deal après dix ans de blocage par les gouvernements européens. Mais mieux vaut pas de deal qu'un mauvais deal qui marque une régression des droits fondamentaux, un véritable échec de civilisation.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Nicola Procaccini
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Da un lato, le troppe morti in mare, il grande business del traffico di esseri umani, la battaglia politica immigrazionista delle navi ONG, osannate e premiate in quest'Aula, malgrado rappresentino l'anello di congiunzione con gli scafisti. Dall'altro lato, la perdita di sicurezza nelle nostre città, l'incremento del lavoro nero con conseguente compressione dei diritti dei lavoratori, lo sfruttamento odioso delle donne, il diffondersi del radicalismo islamico con le sue manifestazioni più violente.  Migliorare la situazione attuale: questa è l'unica ragione per votare a favore di alcuni dei regolamenti presenti nel nuovo Patto. Pochi passi nella giusta direzione, pochi ma importanti, con la speranza di proseguire su questa strada con maggiore risolutezza nel corso della prossima legislatura europea.  Bisogna fermare le partenze collaborando con le nazioni di origine e transito dei migranti, stabilendo prima chi ha diritto di entrare in Europa e chi no. Questa è l'unica soluzione strutturale possibile, anche aiutando le nazioni in via di sviluppo a rimuovere le cause dell'emigrazione. È ciò che da anni cerchiamo di far comprendere alle sinistre, che vorrebbero far entrare tutti, indistintamente, per poi dare loro il diritto di voto e così soppiantare la volontà delle nostre popolazioni. La diminuzione del 71 % degli sbarchi in Italia e la drastica diminuzione delle morti in mare confermano l'efficacia della scelta del governo Meloni di prevenire gli arrivi, lavorando con pazienza e determinazione sulla dimensione esterna dei confini europei. Purtroppo si è perso tanto tempo ed oggi è difficile entrare nel merito dei nuovi regolamenti, a poche settimane dal voto. Ma è ciò che si dovrebbe fare ed è ciò che alcuni di noi faranno.
Debate: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System  - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation  / - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation  No , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes  - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Jordan Bardella
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: FR

Devant ce défi existentiel, l'Union européenne choisit la voie de la faiblesse et celle de l'appel d'air. L'accueil ou la contribution financière des États, c'est ainsi que les représentants du président Macron résument ici ce pacte avec le ton déconnecté qui les caractérise. C'est en réalité la submersion ou la punition.  Nos pays seront contraints d'accueillir des milliers de migrants dans leurs villes et villages, ou bien payer et payer cher pour en être épargnés. Bruxelles veut répartir. Nous, nous voulons faire repartir. Nous nous opposerons par conséquent à ce pacte de submersion, avec ces appels d'air incessants, avec la brutalité par laquelle vous infligez aux peuples des vagues migratoires qu'ils ne souhaitent plus. Vous piétinez la démocratie. Mesdames et Messieurs, les peuples d'Europe ne veulent être ni remplacés ni submergés. Ils aspirent à la protection et au respect de leur volonté. Entendez leur appel.