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Carlo Fidanza | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of Mrs Sârbu’s report. At this point in time, when we are preparing to reform the common agricultural policy after 2013, today’s vote shows the direction that Parliament is intending to take. In order to ensure a secure supply of affordable food, the EU must equip itself with a strong common agricult... | null |
Lorenzo Fontana | MEP | ID | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Achieving food security and independence in Europe is absolutely essential, which is why I voted in favour. I welcome the fact that reference is made to an ambitious vision for the common agricultural policy (CAP). We must remember that the CAP is essential to support farmers, who, as well as producing commodities and... | null |
Elisabetta Gardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Improving food security is one of the challenges that will need to be tackled with the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013. The ability to guarantee sufficient food stocks to EU citizens must reflect the predicted sharp increase in world food demand by 2050. In the light of this, it is a priority... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Yes, the agricultural sector is a strategic sector and food security is an imperative. It has taken Europe decades to realise this. However, the title of the report is misleading. At no point does it denounce the devastating consequences of global free trade and market logic. We will continue to eat strawberries in wi... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a central issue to which the European Union must respond effectively. That is why I endorsed the report by my Social Democrat colleague, which supports a strong, responsible CAP that is geared towards young farmers; proposes combating speculation on the agricultural markets and the price volatility th... | null |
Ian Hudghton | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the Sârbu report despite its numerous good points. Food is a fundamentally important issue and one which is going to be of increasing significance. It is essential that the EU takes a coordinated stance in relation to its agriculture sector in order to face the challenges which lie ahead. However, I do ... | null |
Juozas Imbrasas | MEP | ID | en | lt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I agreed with this report because food security is a human right, guaranteeing an active and healthy life. A large number of people worldwide are chronically hungry or lack genuine, long-term food security. In spite of apparent sufficiency of supplies, a significant proportion of the world’s population cannot afford t... | null |
Karin Kadenbach | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, as a result of the votes of the conservative Members, a clause was included in this text for the proposal of a faster approval process within the EU for the importation of a new GM feed variant once it has been proved safe. However, under no circumstances must the demand for food be met by genetic engin... | null |
Elisabeth Köstinger | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Agriculture is enormously important for global food security and we therefore need to take action. Securing the incomes of farmers and an adequate supply of good quality food must therefore be key goals of the common agricultural policy. The fluctuating market prices in the agricultural sector also represent uncertain... | null |
Giovanni La Via | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the Sârbu report because ensuring constant, yet also secure, food stocks is the main role that society assigns to agriculture. Food security is a basic human right, meaning that all people, at all times, should have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food in or... | null |
Bogusław Liberadzki | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the Sârbu report on recognition of agriculture as a strategically important sector in the context of food security. Historically, food security has, for centuries, been among the highest priorities of all governments. Financial and economic criteria cannot, therefore, be deciding factors. The production of... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | At the present juncture, when food prices are steadily rising and there is ever-increasing talk about a future food crisis, a large section of the European Union’s population is living below the poverty line and it is crucial for us to ensure that food is available to every section of society. I voted for this report ... | null |
David Martin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this report, but abstained on the three parts of amendment 14 which dealt with GMOs. I am not intrinsically against GM foodstuffs but was nervous at this attempt to speed up the importation of GM material and the use of production methods from third countries. The scientific evidence that GM is safe must be... | null |
Marisa Matias | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report reaffirms food security as a basic human right. In this context, two of the main issues that this right should address are identified as price volatility in the markets, which are heavily influenced by speculation, and the fall in food reserves. The report notes that speculation has been responsible for 50... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Noting that food security is a fundamental human right, which must be guaranteed, calling for the payment of farmers for their efforts and proposing a system of food stocks administered by the United Nations are all concessions to our theses. I welcome them. Accommodating the difference, among financial products, of c... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The concept of food security is very clear, and it is achieved when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Therefore, there is no doubt that the constant increase in foo... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | When it comes to food security, in particular, there is a problem in that the Member States of the EU are increasingly losing their self-sufficiency. It has not, as yet, proved possible to bring a halt to the worrying trend of farmers moving away from full-time farming and towards farming as a sideline business and of... | null |
Claudio Morganti | MEP | ID | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The rapporteur stresses the importance of agriculture in relation to the new food challenges. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has declared that food production must increase by at least 70%, insofar as the world’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050. Thus, food security continues to requi... | null |
Cristiana Muscardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a human right, and one of the objectives of the common agricultural policy must be to ensure easy access for all to food, taking into account population growth, climate change, high energy costs and the obstacles of limited natural resources. I agree with and support the rapporteur, Mrs Sârbu, in her ... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this report. However, I regret that a few important provisions were removed at the time of the vote, such as the provision which involved examining the possibility of authorising the implementation of production methods used in third countries with regard to genetically modified organisms. Some st... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report contains some very good initiatives, such as incentives for traditional and organic agriculture, support for small-scale farmers in particular and the protection of domestic farmers from competition pressure from third countries with significantly lower quality standards. On the other hand, the rapporteur a... | null |
Wojciech Michał Olejniczak | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a key challenge for agriculture, not only in the European Union but throughout the world, particularly in developing countries. According to the FAO, global food demand will double by 2050, and the number of people in the world will grow from the present 7 billion to 9 billion. Global food production ... | null |
Rolandas Paksas | MEP | ID | en | lt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this motion for a European Parliament resolution on recognition of agriculture as a strategic sector in the context of food security because, due to the increasing amount of consumers, the large amount of people suffering from hunger, the situation faced by farmers, fluctuating food prices and spe... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a basic human right that is achieved when all people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient food. In spite of apparent sufficiency of supplies, a significant proportion of the world’s population cannot afford the basic food it needs; around 900 million people worldwide suffer from hun... | null |
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the Sârbu report because agriculture is an important and growing sector which should be a priority in the policy agenda due to its strategic role in the context of food security. The review of the common agricultural policy for 2013 should submit proposals relating to this matter. The recent volat... | null |
Aldo Patriciello | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a fundamental right that is impeded by limited natural resources, high energy prices and climate change. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, production will have to increase by 70% by 2050, since around 900 million people worldwide suffer from hunger, and in Europe alone, 16% of the po... | null |
Marit Paulsen, Olle Schmidt and Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | On a planet with what will soon be 9 billion inhabitants, food supply for the future is a key issue. This report focuses on this enormous challenge and asks several important questions, for example, in relation to the problem of land grabbing, and this is, of course, something that we support. At the same time, the re... | null |
Rovana Plumb | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | According to the FAO, food production needs to increase by a minimum of 70% in order to meet the ever-growing demands of the world population, which is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050. Furthermore, around 900 million people are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty, while up to 2 billion people lack genuine, ... | null |
Paulo Rangel | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have highlighted the fundamental nature of this issue of food security on several occasions. In the current environment, the Member States should not view agriculture as a simple economic issue, but rather as a strategic defence issue. To this end, it is vital, as the rapporteur stresses, to ensure that the new, pos... | null |
Crescenzio Rivellini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I congratulate Mrs Sârbu. In order to ensure a secure supply of affordable food, the EU must provide itself with a strong common agricultural policy (CAP) that discourages speculation on food commodities and helps young people to enter the farming sector. In fact, the future CAP absolutely must do more for young farme... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report was adopted without the support of the Verts/ALE Group, which voted against. The reason for that negative vote was that paragraph 14 remained in the text. It ‘calls on the Commission to propose a technical solution to the problem of low-level presence of GM material in non-GM imports, and to propose a faster... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Food security is a basic human right, and it is achieved only when a person’s dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life are met. In particular, looking ahead to the common agricultural policy reform planned for 2013, the support given to European farmers must always enable them to meet food saf... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Leaving aside the dubious reference to data on world population growth, which does not reflect the recent reduction in birth rates in various non-European countries, food security is undoubtedly linked to good use of agriculture. Clearly, then, a common agricultural policy that is aimed at increasing high quality, env... | null |
Bart Staes | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | On the whole, this report is a fairly worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of agriculture in food supply. Parliament has rightly identified the problems which farmers have to contend with in times of extreme market and price volatility and drawn attention to the difficulties which farmers are currently go... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I cannot support an initiative which facilitates or accelerates the import of any genetically modified plant. The excellent characteristics of agricultural land in the European Union enable many countries, including Hungary, Poland, Italy and France, to produce good quality feed. We do not need genetically modified fe... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The term food security highlights the need to take concrete measures to increase the global food stock: a human right that includes physical and economic access to healthy, sufficient and nutritious food. I consider the adoption of this report emphasising the agricultural sector to be extremely important. The populati... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Parliament adopted a report on the recognition of agriculture on which I had to abstain. This report takes account of many concerns that are of crucial importance to farmers, such as assistance for small production, young farmers and combating price speculation. This report also highlights the need for su... | null |
Dominique Vlasto | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this resolution, which stresses the need for European policy to give priority to agriculture. European citizens are making ever more demands in relation to food security, which must be guaranteed along the whole production, processing and distribution chain. The challenges to be addressed in order... | null |
Artur Zasada | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2011-01-18T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am quite sure that the recognition of agriculture as a strategic sector will make it possible to create better conditions for the implementation of aid and information programmes. There can be no doubt that food aid programmes should be put in place for the poorest members of society. We often forget that nearly 80 ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the European Council and the European Commission on the conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December. Pursuant to the Treaty, the President of the European Council, Mr Van Rompuy, will make a presentation of the report. | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | First of all, I wish you a Happy New Year! As simple as that and I wish it for you personally and I wish it for our Union, in these difficult times. As the last European Council is already a month behind us, let me remind you that I already give a full report each time to your Conference of Presidents on the results of... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, last year, the European Union faced a series of stern tests and December’s European Council has shown just how determined we are to take whatever decisions are necessary to defend our achievements. In particular, by agreeing to establish a European Stability Mechanism and to make the linked Treaty change,... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Barroso, the last European Council clearly showed that the euro is a vital pillar of European integration. Everything possible must be done to stabilise and strengthen it. Our Heads of State or Government have since confirmed their deep attachment to the European currency and the fact t... | null |
Stephen Hughes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, December’s European Council at least gave us political agreement on a permanent crisis resolution mechanism but – given the reaction of the markets after Christmas, with new fears over the solvency of Portugal, Spain, and Belgium – we have to ask whether, once again, this was a case of ‘too little too lat... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Barroso, I would like to make two comments on the conclusions of last December’s European Council. The first comment involves reminding you that the crisis is having a most singular impact on the Union for one simple reason: we have been a legal community from the very beginning and, in... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, my main memory of the last Council meeting was not reflected in your summary and, therefore, I would like to sum the meeting up in a different way. From today’s perspective, the most important thing which I remember is that during the summit of the Heads of State or Government in Brussels,... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Council took important decisions about the future management of crises, but I agree with President Barroso that the underlying problems remain: the need to return to fiscal discipline and the reluctance by some Member States to pursue seriously economic reform. We were told that in a single c... | null |
Joe Higgins | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the permanent Financial Stability Mechanism in practice is nothing more than another tool to cushion major European banks from the consequences of their reckless speculation on the financial markets. It is a mechanism to make working class people throughout Europe pay for the crisis of a broken financial ... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, what is the most commonly used word in association with the euro? No, it is not ‘failure’ – although it could be. It is ‘stability’, is it not? A decade ago, everybody said that once we had the euro currency, it would bring us stability. Well, a decade on, I would suggest that what it has brought is chaos... | null |
Barry Madlener | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, from all the fine and empty words of Mr Barroso, I have only, for the most part, been able to make out one real point, namely, that it is the job of the rich Member States to pay for the poor Member States, because that is the reality of the matter. It appears that this situation wi... | null |
Olle Schmidt | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | (Blue card question under Rule 149(8) to Nigel Farage) Mr President, it is always – or at least sometimes – amusing to listen to Mr Farage because he knows all the answers, and he asks himself all the questions. But, Mr Farage, would the alternative of 16, 17 or, indeed, up to 20 different currencies – as we had in the... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I did say a decade ago that you could not have Greece and Germany put together in the same monetary union and that it would not work. If you go back through history, you find that when people are put together in false currency unions, when governments think they know better than the markets, governments a... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, anyone who reads the newspapers today will find out two things: that we are at a crucial point in the sovereign debt crisis, and that the European response is a succession of isolated provisions with no internal consistency. Even now, we have on the table the European Semester, the economic governance pa... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, you agreed to chair what is referred to as a Panel of Eminent Persons. It was made up of finance ministers who were threatened with a downgrading of their sovereign debt. Were they capable of providing a panel of eminent persons? The discord that pervades the current debate between Mr Tric... | null |
Martin Callanan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, because this is a matter of such importance to the European economy as a whole, even though (thankfully) my country is not part of the eurozone, I welcome at least some of the measures that were agreed at the eurozone Council, and notably the fact that eurozone countries themselves should be responsible f... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in politics, there are reasonable measures, mistaken measures and improper measures. It is reasonable for Europe to issue European public debt, although Mrs Merkel does not approve. It is reasonable for us in Europe to be able to mutualise part of our sovereign debt, although Mrs Merkel does not approve.... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a law has been passed in the United States requiring the Federal Reserve to detail how much of the USD 3 300 billion rescue package has gone to which banks. I wonder whether it would be subversive to ask you to adopt the same transparency criteria, unless the finance and banking sup... | null |
Ioannis Kasoulides | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the political message from the last Council decisions addressed to speculators, media and the markets is that the EU Member States will do whatever it takes to safeguard the eurozone and defend the euro. Whatever internal discussions take place, whether the financial facility will need to double its capit... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we need to acknowledge that, even though it was completely unprepared institutionally and politically, Europe made serious steps to deal with the crisis right from the start. From the application of the support package for Greece nearly a year ago, through to the decisions taken by the last European Coun... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have reached the end of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Has the Council taken stock of its achievements? No. If they had done, they would have concluded that poverty has never seen such a sharp increase, and that the number of people living in poverty in this wealthy Euro... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am happy to say that today is the 19th day of Estonia’s membership of the eurozone, but Estonia has been preparing for this since its accession. Even the design of the Estonian euro coin was already agreed by popular vote six years ago. However, joining the eurozone is not simply a question of individua... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Barroso, I would like to offer two thoughts. The first thought concerns the scope of the permanent crisis management mechanism. The non-Member States of the euro area are, in fact, divided into two categories: the United Kingdom and Sweden, which are not obliged to adopt the euro, and t... | null |
Roberto Gualtieri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, ladies and gentlemen, I see two major problems with the proposed amendment to Article 136, one of them institutional and the other political. The institutional one is that Article 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that monetary policy for the countries whose c... | null |
Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Barroso, the stability of the euro and the setting up of the crisis management mechanism are our most important operational tasks in triggering growth that will create new jobs and which will, at the same time, reduce Member States’ public debt, with which all Member States agree. Howev... | null |
Nikolaos Salavrakos | MEP | ID | en | el | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as you know, the US Government has been forced, for the second time in the present credit crisis, to intervene drastically to support two major banks that collapsed and the insurance organisation ING. Thus, it has pumped USD 700 billion into its banking system in financial aid. Despite these measures, th... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there is no doubt that the doubleedged sword of Damocles is hanging over Europe – that is, the economic crisis and an increase in nationalism – and both of these have joined forces. Mr Hughes asked, on behalf of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, unlike many speakers, I would like to compliment Mr Van Rompuy and Mr Barroso for at least being proactive in the present crisis and introducing measures which hopefully will be successful in the future. Whether they will or not, we cannot be certain at this point in time. If they are, they will be seen a... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, this debate has shown the complexity of the crisis and the complexity of the answers. One thing I want to say to you – and it is clearly a huge majority that shares European ideals and need to have a European response – is that we should not be divided by some differences that are not the mo... | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I will begin with a few positive facts. I apologise for appearing positive every now and then. Firstly, economic growth is much stronger now than we thought it was a few weeks or months ago. Unemployment is falling in some countries. Who would have believed that in 200... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for your report, Mr President. The next meeting of the European Council will be on 4 February, and after that, also in February, the next report from President Van Rompuy. The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council is going to establish a permanent emergency fund for the euro area. That may be necessary if we are to regain financial markets’ confidence in the government bonds issued by the weak countries of the euro. However, this also begs questions about the foundations of our economic and monetary union. ... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The nature and objectives of the process of European capitalist integration are becoming ever more evident as the effects of the crisis of capitalism in the EU are deepening, which is exacerbating the economic and social situation in several Member States, exacerbating imbalances. The last European Council showed this... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting on 16-17 December (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In his recent book, the former Prime Minister of England, Mr Gordon Brown, says that, as a result of delays on the part of the EU in passing decisions on the economic crisis in Greece, the amount that Greece needed to borrow rose by 90 billion. Germany’s filibustering in terms of speeding up the procedure to increase ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We now come to the explanations of vote. | null |
Jens Rohde | MEP | ALDE | en | da | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, we have today achieved an historic compromise with this directive on patient’s rights. I believe this is the most historic agreement that we have concluded since I have been in Parliament. A historic compromise that has been cemented between two parties that have been a great distance apart for far to... | null |
Clemente Mastella | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, up to now, there has been too much doubt and uncertainty surrounding access to treatment and reimbursement for cross-border healthcare. The directive we have approved today will finally enable all patients to enjoy a series of rights and healthcare services throughout Europe. The... | null |
Andres Perello Rodriguez | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Spanish delegation from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament voted in favour, like the rest of our group, but I would not be happy to leave here without making clear my concern regarding the issue of organ transplants being included in this d... | null |
Morten Messerschmidt | MEP | ID | en | da | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are here again today with something that has been pushed through by people who have not been elected, namely, the European Court of Justice, which, by means of a series of rulings, has put pressure on the genuinely elected institutions to also draw up this directive that has been voted through toda... | null |
Jim Higgins | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Messerschmidt is right. This was dumped on us by the Court of Justice but I welcome it, and I want to compliment Ms Grossetête for producing an excellent report, because with this directive, patients will benefit from complete and transparent information when they resort to healthcare abroad. It is ... | null |
Constance Le Grip | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I also wished to vote for the report by my colleague, Mrs Grossetête, on the directive on access to cross-border healthcare. Indeed, I welcome the progress that this text represents for the mobility of patients throughout Europe. After many years of uncertainty, particularly legal uncertainty, and con... | null |
Adam Bielan | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted in favour of the directive presented by Mrs Grossetête, so that the principle of cross-border treatment in the European Union can finally be put into practice after many years of negotiations. I regard the directive in its current form as a good compromise, based predominantly on patients’ rig... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I welcome this healthcare directive, but I am cautious because the devil will be in the detail. It is very important for our citizens to realise that this directive will not come into force for 30 months. But, in the meantime, citizens can cross borders to get healthcare in another Member State and can... | null |
Jarosław Kalinowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, European society is becoming ever more mobile. We study, work, relax and travel outside the borders of our own country. Citizens living in the European Union should have the right to benefit from free emergency medical care wherever they are in Europe. It goes without saying that we should put in plac... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, it was high time we established common European rules to protect our citizens and patients. It was also excellent that a separate directive was produced on this issue and that it was not incorporated into the Services Directive, because while this was in preparation, it was realised how many things we... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I, too, am very pleased with the agreement we reached today which I think will ensure that patients will have access to cross-border healthcare in a proportionate way and an equitable way. As several of the speakers have already said, the current proposal is here, of course, because a citizen from your... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted against this measure on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare because it will only mean another massive burden on the British taxpayer and on the National Health Service. The NHS is already used as an international health service and is subject to widespread abuse by non-British citizens ... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think it is excellent that this historic compromise has at last been found between Parliament and the Council. I might say that this regulation on crossborder healthcare could result in the waiting lists that have come into existence in many Member States being dissolved. This would also be an oppo... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I believe it is important that we do not use the national tax systems to work against the internal market. This is essential particularly in the case of cross-border services which is where equal treatment is needed. There is currently a negative example of this in Hungary, where retrospective price l... | null |
Syed Kamall | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, Happy New Year. It is wonderful to see you in the chair. One of the things on which we agree, on the whole, across this Parliament – though I know there are notable exceptions – is our belief in a functioning single market. When my constituents write to me and say ‘Look, I am not getting a good service... | null |
Joe Higgins | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | ga | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted in favour of the resolution relating to the arrangement between the European Union and Cameroon and between the European Union and the Republic of Congo regarding forest law and trade in timber from those countries. It is vital to preserve the tropical forests to maintain the balance of our ec... | null |
Morten Messerschmidt | MEP | ID | en | da | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, free trade is, in reality, the only way to achieve prosperity. We have seen this in the internal market amongst the EU Member States, and there is no doubt that this will also be the case where the developing countries are concerned. It is the only real development initiative that we can and should ac... | null |
Syed Kamall | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is a truism that the most prosperous societies are the freest and the freest societies are the most prosperous, and in that we should recognise the role that free trade plays. Unfortunately, when it comes to international multilateral discussions on free trade, the WTO Doha round is stalled and, for that reason, the... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, for a long time, the Pacific has been a Cinderella in the European Union’s overseas development initiatives. I am very pleased to recognise now that the initiatives taken by Fiji and Papua New Guinea on creating an Economic Partnership Agreement will not only help us to trade more liberally with them, ... | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today, I voted in favour of the oral question on international adoption in the European Union. International adoption has proved to be the procedure most likely to offer the chance of a permanent family to those children for whom a suitable family cannot be found in their country... | null |
Andrea Češková | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, as I was unable, due to childcare responsibilities, to participate in what was clearly an interesting debate on Monday, I would at least like to express my full support now to this assembly, which I have also expressed through my vote. I very much hope that the steps following this resolution will lea... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, many Members of this Parliament may not be aware of a very nasty war of words raging on this issue of adoption, which is most unhelpful and unwelcome. If we are truly to put the rights of the child at the centre of this debate, which we did in this House and which this resolution also does, then we wil... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, my thoughts at this time are with the thousands of couples around the world who every day face the necessary difficulties involved in adopting a child. Adoption is a value, a genuine display of love which opens the door to a new family for a child who unfortunately can no longer ... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the motion for a resolution voted on today on international adoption. I know of several people in my own constituency who have gone, or who are right now going, through this process and it is a delight to watch the joy in parents’ and children’s faces alike at the conclusion. To get to this point, however, is... | null |
Cristiana Muscardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have been facing the problem of international adoption in Europe for many years, and today’s resolution finally attempts to bring a ray of hope to a situation that is becoming increasingly complex and difficult. Instead of stimulating international adoption, the accession of n... | null |
Julie Girling | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, from your fan club in this corner, may I thank you for your efficient chairing. There is a big issue here. International adoption is, of course, vitally important. It is important that we get it right. I very much welcome this resolution, which includes, as do many of the resolutions that we pass in th... | null |
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