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Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as we know, the Arctic’s untold mineral resources have made the area the subject of heated dispute. It is estimated that 90 billion barrels of oil alone lie untapped under the ice. Inevitably, there is a certain feeling of unease that British Petroleum of all companies, having caused the oil catastrophe ... | null |
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I too, of course, would like to thank Mr Gahler for his very good draft resolution and his fruitful cooperation. For me, the most important matter during work on this report was the increased significance given to research into and monitoring of environment change, because the information gained is cruci... | null |
Diana Wallis | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Gahler for his very careful and detailed report, and indeed for his willingness to compromise. However, I fear that we have produced the proverbial Christmas tree – albeit it post-Christmas – of wishes, and of wishes that obscure the main political point. Our previous debates on ... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I, too, congratulate Michael Gahler on a well-balanced, excellent report. Despite the challenging nature of the environment in the Arctic, the rising price of oil has stimulated international interest in drilling in that zone. We all know that oil was first produced in 1968 from Prudhoe Bay on the Alaskan... | null |
Søren Bo Søndergaard | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | da | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, for some reason, reading the Commission’s communication on the Arctic makes me think of a cat licking its lips at the prospect of a saucer of cream. Global warming and the melting of the ice at the North Pole are certainly opening up new opportunities: natural resources, oil, fish, shipping and so on. We... | null |
Timo Soini | MEP | ID | en | fi | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this is an important issue, and because Finland is situated in the north, I am familiar with these matters. For once, I can agree with my Finnish fellow Members that they in Lapland and at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi know about these things. I also agree about the position of the indigenous pe... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would first of all like to congratulate my colleague, Michael Gahler, for the excellent report he presented. This report encourages the Council and Commission to outline a specific EU Arctic policy, while highlighting that Iceland’s possible accession to the European Union would turn the Union into one... | null |
Justas Vincas Paleckis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to offer my compliments to my fellow Member, Mr Gahler, who, despite coming from southern Germany, has demonstrated a remarkable knowledge and love of the Arctic and the High North. Some colleagues have said that countries should deal with problems that arise individually and that there is n... | null |
Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Arctic area is changing significantly as a result of climate change, with ice and snow melting. New shipping routes are opening up, fishing grounds are available and there are more and better opportunities for viable oil and gas exploration. The EU is playing an active role in Arctic issues. For exa... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not speak as a Member living at the Arctic Circle either; I only wish to warn everyone that the North Pole does not only hold economic heritage and energy heritage, but it is also one of the greatest examples of our natural heritage. It is therefore very important that the companies that are going t... | null |
Birgit Schnieber-Jastram | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Gahler, and all the shadow rapporteurs. It is quite true to say that Europe needs to adapt continuously to new realities and to deal with changes in the balance of political power. In relation to Arctic policy, this means: ... | null |
Mitro Repo | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the riches of the Arctic are not just its huge energy resources and new shipping lanes, but also its indigenous peoples. It is not an Arctic museum, but home to three and a half million people. That is why they need to be listened to. No one has the right to rape and plunder that region. In the future, w... | null |
Riikka Manner | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, firstly, I wish to congratulate the rapporteur for producing an excellent, balanced report. The global interest in northern regions has increased a good deal in the past few years, reaching new levels, as has been said. Consequently, it is vitally important that the European Union also take... | null |
Alfreds Rubiks | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | lv | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have no doubt that the subject we are discussing today is very significant, and as I see it, this century will witness a struggle – between nations, between governments – to gain benefits from the Arctic. In this respect, then, I approve of our discussing such a question today. On what do I base such a... | null |
Anna Rosbach | MEP | ID | en | da | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this report contains fine words on climate concerns and environmental considerations, but in reality, it is about the EU’s hunt for resources in the Arctic. It talks about the expected quantities of oil, gas, minerals, forests and fish that the EU will be able to exploit in the near future. It states tha... | null |
Anna Ibrisagic | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to thank Mr Gahler for an excellent initiative and an excellent report. I think it is well-balanced and takes into consideration those who want to exploit natural resources as well as those who are seriously concerned about the impact on the climate. I believe that the best form of protec... | null |
Kriton Arsenis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I agree with numerous fellow Members, especially Mrs Herczog and Mr Repo, who referred to the environmental importance of this area and the importance of protecting the rights of nationals. This is a virgin area a long way away. However, there are people living there, people with a culture. The enviro... | null |
Miloslav Ransdorf | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, there are three main issues arising in relation to the Arctic. The first is the issue of energy, and there has been talk here of oil and gas, and in the future, there will be methane as well, since there are about 300 years worth of reserves of usable methane in the permafrost. EU bodies have, in the ... | null |
Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė | MEP | PPE | en | lt | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to offer my congratulations to the rapporteur, Mr Gahler, on initiating a very important and necessary European Parliament report on the High North and on responding to the European Commission’s recommendation for the formulation of an EU Arctic policy with very specific and all-embracing... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think it is good that the European Union is developing policies and strategies for broad regions such as the Baltic, the Danube and my own region, the Atlantic, and today discussing the High North. But in dealing with the High North, it is important that we are seen to be diplomatic, not didactic; co... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the plundering of commodities, strategic interests, climate change and, not least, increasing tourism are driving this sensitive ecosystem to the brink of destruction. However, the ecosystem of the High North is relatively self-sustaining and therefore extremely sensitive. For this reason, it is impor... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mr Gahler, and the shadow rapporteurs, for an excellent, diverse report, which raises various issues in a balanced way. These include the Arctic region’s potential, its vast natural resources, the raw materials and energy resources, and the new traffic lanes and tourism... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this has indeed been an interesting debate showing how many important subjects are covered by Arctic cooperation, and how varied are the sensitivities in our society when discussing the Arctic’s future. Let me address five specific issues raised in this morning’s discussion. Firstly, the Arctic Informa... | null |
Michael Gahler | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would also like to thank all the speakers. Commissioner, when I referred to a policy in relation to our neighbours in the High North, I did not wish to imply that you were engaging in a dispute over authority with Baroness Ashton. I just wanted to clarify that. Almost all the speeches we have heard ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place later. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the report by Mr Ungureanu, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on an EU strategy for the Black Sea (2010/2087(INI)) (A7-0378/2010). | null |
Traian Ungureanu | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, exactly three years ago, the European Parliament endorsed the Black Sea Synergy. This was the first step towards a coherent policy in one of the most sensitive areas in Europe, and it was a step in the right direction because the Black Sea is now widely analysed – and feared – as a converging space of ... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am very glad that the Black Sea region is high on the agenda of the European Parliament. This region is important for the European Union and we need to focus on it to reflect its extreme sensitivity for us. I want to thank and congratulate the rapporteur for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Traia... | null |
Metin Kazak | N/A | N/A | en | bg | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to congratulate Mr Ungureanu and, as rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade, I am pleased that some of our proposals have been included in the main text of the report. I am pleased that, as has already been mentioned, after the accession of... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | N/A | N/A | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Committee on Industry, Research and Industry supports full market and regulatory integration on the basis of EU energy legislation and encourages the participation of countries in the wider Black Sea region in the Energy Community Treaty, as well as EU, EIB and EBRD assistance for the modernisatio... | null |
Victor Boştinaru | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, the importance of the Black Sea region for the EU from the transport, energy, stability, security and environmental point of view is evident. It is for this reason that the EU strategy for this region will certainly have a very positive impact on the area and on the EU as a whole. The Com... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the excellent work he has done, bringing many ideas together in a comprehensive form, something that will help us in our future efforts. We must understand that this cooperation in the Black Sea region should not be confused ... | null |
Ioan Mircea Paşcu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Black Sea is a gate to and from Europe, and therefore it should be addressed as such. It is not a far distant place of little relevance which occasionally comes to our attention. The truth is that the area has already put – and will continue to put – items on our agenda, be it through the interrupt... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the report which my fellow Member, Mr Ungureanu, has prepared in such a committed way and in a manner that paves the way for cooperation, for which I thank him, brings our attention back to a region characterised by diversity. The diversity of political systems, cultural traditions, religions, statuse... | null |
Werner Schulz | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, if the Black Sea region is to develop into an area of stability, security, democracy and prosperity and if these opportunities and challenges are to be fulfilled, we need an all-embracing strategy. This resolution pursues that objective and is therefore supported by... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, I think the document which has been drafted deserves to be endorsed, so on behalf of my group, I endorse it. I would like to emphasise that the Black Sea Synergy needs rethinking, today. Noble intentions have not always translated into effective use of the Synergy, and it is very good th... | null |
David Campbell Bannerman | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in discussing the Black Sea area, one word leaps to mind, and that is ‘caution’. All must tread carefully here. The Black Sea area is Russia’s backyard. It has its fleet anchored in the Crimea at Sebastopol, close to the bloody battlefields of the Crimean War. We have seen the unfortunate conflict in G... | null |
Dimitar Stoyanov | MEP | NI | en | bg | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to join the majority of the opinions expressed in this House and congratulate the rapporteur on what he has achieved with his report. Pontus Euxinus, as the Black Sea was called in antiquity, has always been of a major geostrategic and economic significance for Europe. It still has this s... | null |
Iuliu Winkler | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to start by congratulating Mr Ungureanu on his initiative in carrying out the report on the Black Sea. I also welcome the endorsement of several of the previous speakers, my distinguished colleagues, who have committed themselves to promoting a new European vision for the Black Sea region... | null |
Maria Eleni Koppa | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are debating a very important report today on a particular area close to the European Union: the Black Sea. The area combines EU Member States and countries which are important to regional cooperation. We therefore have a common need to safeguard the existence of an area of peace, democracy, securi... | null |
Adina-Ioana Vălean | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, since 2007, we have acknowledged the importance of the Black Sea region, yet the impact of our approach has been modest to say the least: no concrete projects, no concrete results. We need a realistic and financially sound action plan with clear objectives, priority actions and benchmarks, and a better... | null |
Oldřich Vlasák | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the slow tempo of project implementation, the non-existence of action plans and assessment reports, the absence of high-level meetings, the risk of duplicity with the Eastern Partnership and many other problems indicate that the decision for Member States to take a leading role in implementing the Bla... | null |
Georgios Koumoutsakos | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, it is merely a formality nowadays to emphasise that the Black Sea is an area of strategic importance to the European Union. How could it be otherwise, now that, following the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, it is practically an internal sea within the European Union? Energy, security,... | null |
Evgeni Kirilov | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, with the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, the Black Sea region became an EU neighbouring region. It is a strategic bridge connecting Europe with the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. Its geopolitical and economic importance for the EU is constantly increasing in terms of security, stability and energy. T... | null |
Marek Siwiec | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, when we are talking about the Black Sea region, it needs to be said that there is no place like it around the European Union where there are such extreme differences, so many intense conflicts – including bloody conflicts – and so many conflicting interests. So we should not delude ourselves that by f... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Black Sea region is strategically important to the European Union. However, we note the lack of a structured approach to this region. No action plan has been drawn up for the Black Sea Synergy and funding is provided via several uncoordinated instruments. This makes it imperative to devise an EU B... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Black Sea is very important to the energy security of Europe. Commissioner, there is the major issue of the Nabucco pipeline, on which the energy security of Europe depends in large measure. However, as far as the supplier of this large pipeline is concerned, the information is very unclear. Yeste... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mr Ungureanu, for the particularly fine job he has done on this report, which is extremely important both from a geopolitical and economic perspective. The region offers considerable potential for energy production and provision and must have gre... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as a Hungarian Member, I add my thoughts to the strategy for the Black Sea because I seem to notice two goals in the report which are identical with the main priorities of the Hungarian Presidency. The first one is the fact that the report makes a commitment to regional developme... | null |
Lambert van Nistelrooij | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Black Sea is on our doorstep and, when looked at from the energy perspective, it is also genuinely European. As shadow rapporteur of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and as coordinator for regional policy, I would lik... | null |
Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Black Sea is important to the European Union in terms not only of its strategic location, but also of the economic opportunities available and the conditions for stronger regional development. The benefits of the strategy for this region derive from its contribution to diversifying economic activi... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at this point, I shall make just three remarks. The first I have expressed already at the beginning of our debate, which is appreciation for this timely report on the Black Sea region. Second, let me welcome the clear evidence, as shown in our debate, of the importance you attribute to this special reg... | null |
Traian Ungureanu | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am very lucky I can be short, not only because of the noise, but also because I was lucky enough to be supported on both sides, largely speaking, of this House. I think that, as Mr Brok stressed in his brilliant remarks, the report which we are preparing to vote on today is a very good example of cro... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place in a few moments. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would first of all like to congratulate my colleague, Traian Ungureanu, for drafting this report, which is especially important to Romania. My country is the most active EU Member State in promoting the Black Sea’s strategic importance and the need for the Union to increase its role in this region. The region’s impo... | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The confused objectives and duplication of forms of cooperation are at risk of depriving the EU’s Black Sea strategy of any substance. The situation is unlikely to improve due to the differences in status of the countries involved in relation to the European Union, to the frequently differing interests of the actors i... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The strategy for the Black Sea is expected to play an increasingly important part in the future of the European Union. This is illustrated quite well by the joint declaration signed by the European Commission and Azerbaijan last week, in which Azerbaijan made a written commitment to making a large quantity of gas sour... | null |
Danuta Jazłowiecka | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The author of the report under discussion clearly indicates that what is called the Black Sea Synergy, which was adopted in 2007, has not completely fulfilled the hopes which were placed in it. The enlargement of the Union with Bulgaria and Romania meant that this region found itself at the centre of our attention. Af... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Union strategy for the Black Sea region resembles a yeti. Everyone talks about it, but no one has seen it. This belief of mine is strengthened by some of the contradictions I can see right at the beginning of the resolution. First, there is the definition of the Black Sea region. It is rather curious that... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are debating today a project which is important to the European Union’s future from several perspectives. The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU has brought added value with the provision of access to the Black Sea, a region which also brings together countries neighbouring the Union, including strategic p... | null |
Zbigniew Ziobro | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Black Sea Synergy is a further example of a missed opportunity in the area of relations with regions which are geopolitically and strategically important for its future. When the strategy was adopted, construction of energy interconnections between the Black Sea countries and the European Union was set as a priori... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | The next item is the vote. (For the results and other details on the vote: see Minutes) Mrs Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė has asked to table a procedural motion. | null |
Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė | MEP | PPE | en | lt | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this year, 13 January marks the 20th anniversary of an event which brought down the walls of the Soviet empire. In 1991 in Lithuania, an unarmed crowd of several thousand people resisted the aggression of the Soviet army and defended freedom and independence. The bloody events of th... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-01-20T00:00:00 | 2011 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mrs Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė. I would ask you to stop speaking now, because we allowed you the floor even though it was not a procedural motion that you were tabling. I did not want to interrupt you out of politeness and because you were making some valid points. Thank you. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-02T00:00:00 | 2011 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to pass on five pieces of news by way of preliminary remarks. I would firstly like to touch on the situation in the Mediterranean, which, as we all know, is changing very rapidly. The European Parliament was and is ready to lend its support to democratic changes initiated by the citizens themselves, who ar... | null |
Michael Cashman | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-02-02T00:00:00 | 2011 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I hope that the House and you will allow me this short indulgence to congratulate you on the statement you have made on behalf of David Kato who was murdered in Uganda. He was, as you said, a human rights defender and he defended the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. I just wanted to say that he... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-02T00:00:00 | 2011 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Thank you. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | The next item is the joint debate on: – the recommendation for second reading by Mr Goerens, on behalf of the Committee on Development, on a financing instrument for development cooperation [16447/1/2010 - C7-0424/2010 - 2010/0059(COD)] (A7-0009/2011) – the recommendation for second reading by Mrs Lochbihler and Mrs Gá... | null |
Charles Goerens | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, the proposal for a regulation establishing an ACP Banana Accompanying Measures programme is today being tabled for a second reading. As a reminder, we appealed at first reading for as many accompanying measures as possible for ACP banana-exporting countries, whose situation is liable to be made worse ... | null |
Barbara Lochbihler | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, a guarantee of human rights, the promotion and development of democratic structures and combating corruption are the central demands of those taking to the streets in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen – by peaceful means and in the hope of thereby achieving change, so that people in Maghreb and in the Arab wor... | null |
Kinga Gál | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, representatives of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, all that Mrs Lochbihler, my co-rapporteur, has said is of very great importance when we consider that the current tense international situation – I am thinking of the North African cases debated yesterday, of Tunisia and Egypt – shows that the a... | null |
Helmut Scholz | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the financing instrument for cooperation with industrialised and other high-income countries and territories (ICI) is being fundamentally amended in this parliamentary term. We plan to jointly allocate up to EUR 348 million to cooperation in areas such as science, a... | null |
Karel De Gucht | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I am here to replace Andris Piebalgs, who is abroad due to a long foreseen engagement, on the second debate on these external relations financial instruments. My first words are those of thanks to the rapporteurs, Ms Gál, Ms Lochbihler, Mr Mitchell, Mr Scholz and Mr Goerens. We have cooperated very wel... | null |
Maurice Ponga | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament will today give its verdict for a second time on the amendment to the financing instrument for development cooperation providing for the establishment of Banana Accompanying Measures for the main ACP banana-producing countries. These accompanying measures ... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, has it ever occurred to Mr Ponga that the EU taxpayer, and particularly the British taxpayer, might prefer the EUR 190 million to be frozen indefinitely? | null |
Maurice Ponga | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Thank you for your question, Lord Dartmouth. All I would say is that there are international agreements in place that require the European Union to invest in its relations with the ACP countries, and this is one of the agreements that the European Union must prioritise. As far as I am concerned, I have never felt that... | null |
Patrice Tirolien | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, the position unanimously adopted today by our Parliament shows just how vitally important the issue of implementing powers is to this House. Nevertheless, to turn to the subject of the Banana Accompanying Measures, this agreement is embarrassing with regard to our ACP banana-producing partners. Indeed... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, this issue has technical considerations and it also has human, poverty considerations. In this joint debate I would first like to tell the Council that Parliament is here to monitor and check, and look with openness and transparency and accountability at the way we spend our taxpayers’ money in terms o... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, there is a credible sounding justification for each one of the four financing instruments being presented to Parliament today. However, taken together, their collective aim is to advance and promote the political and foreign policy agenda of the European Commission. The Commissioner made that very clea... | null |
Jörg Leichtfried | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Mr Dartmouth, it has struck me that you are always trying to bring the British taxpayer into your speeches. I would be interested to know whether you actually see yourself as representing a small group of people in the United Kingdom or whether you feel at all that you are a representative of the Euro... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I mentioned both the EU taxpayer and the British taxpayer in my speech. I was, however, elected by people in Britain, not by people anywhere else, so I regard my prime responsibility as being to represent the British taxpayer. My heart also goes out to hard-pressed EU taxpayers in other countries – not... | null |
Franziska Katharina Brantner | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I would like to address a few points. First of all I want to raise the issue of flexibility of financing instruments in the external area. Over the last few weeks and months we have all seen a lot of unforeseen catastrophes and events unfolding, and under the external heading we have almost no more mar... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe we should make it clear that in the case of these financing instruments we attach importance to making a distinction between legislative and executive tasks. It is not the job of a parliament to carry out detailed management or to actually implement projec... | null |
Ana Gomes | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, out with Mubarak, now! The resistance forces are still shouting on Tahrir Square and I am shouting with them. The demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries, with millions of citizens braving the streets to bring to an end to decades of oppression and corruption, show that human rights ... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Commissioner, both Mrs Gomes and Mrs Lochbihler are right when they say that the events in Egypt and Tunisia should be receiving our support and should be attracting our attention, and indeed the instruments which we are debating, today, do create this possibility, particularly the financing instrumen... | null |
Rui Tavares | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, we are discussing here a series of packages concerning financial instruments, such as the Goerens report on a financial instrument for development cooperation, the report by my colleague, Mr Scholz, and others. The majority of the reports aim for specific measures that could improve the lives of milli... | null |
Dimitar Stoyanov | MEP | NI | en | bg | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I will, of course, support the proposal being made because Parliament must defend its rights when it concerns powers granted by the Treaties. I wish to say that we need to extend our control, and not only to preliminary control of the delegated acts which we are discussing at the moment. We must also ... | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are once again required to assert our role both inside and outside the European Union. The promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, which is enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our own Charter of Fundamental Rights and regional instruments, ... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I would like to ask if Mrs Matera is able to tell us whether the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) would be willing to lend its support specifically to the giving of assistance, on questions of democracy and human rights in particular, to countries in the east, by which I mean... | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yes absolutely, my political group, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), works hard every day, striving to ensure that fundamental human rights are respected throughout the world. I believe the speeches by my distinguished colleagues who have been worki... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I want to place on record my support for what other colleagues have said on the issue of parliamentary scrutiny of the instruments, and of the instrument for democracy and human rights in particular. I want to thank the Commission for the structured cooperation we have. By nature, human rights defender... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I wish to thank the previous speaker for permitting me to ask him a question. I have great respect for Mr Howitt’s knowledge on human rights and the work he has done in the past. My question is this. How can we take our presumptions about equality and fairness and justice, born of a deep Christian or h... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, answering that question in 30 seconds is a big challenge. The answer – as he and this whole Chamber should know – is that freedom of thought and religion is a fundamental human right for all nations, for all religions, for all countries and for all people. | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, development aid is always costly, often unfortunately ineffective and sometimes even harmful, because it all too frequently does not deal with the specific problems of the country in question. There is rarely any attempt to take a long-term approach and the activities are poorly coordinated. In my opi... | null |
Thijs Berman | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, this Parliament is asking for what every parliament in the world is asking: democratic scrutiny of the development and implementation of policy. The European Union should serve as a model, as an example, in that respect. The Treaty of Lisbon has been a major step forward in developing the European Par... | null |
Nick Griffin | MEP | NI | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, a young woman in my constituency has this morning, as every weekday morning at this time, just returned home from walking her two young children to school. Jenny used to drive them there but she can no longer afford to put petrol in the car for anything other than her twice-weekly trip to the cheapest ... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, we would probably not have discussed cooperation with the developing countries if the European Union’s founding states had not requested a special mention in the Treaty of Rome for the colonies that they possessed, which casts a shadow over the concept of democracy to start with. The European Union’s ... | null |
Jörg Leichtfried | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, the dictators in our neighbouring countries are being toppled and it is a good thing that they are going. Although our High Representatives in the European Union are not in a position or are not prepared to support and encourage those people who are fighting for democracy, it is good at least to be ab... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Parliament must be able to control on an equal footing with the Council the adoption of strategic decisions relating to how the resources allocated by the financing instruments for cooperation are spent. However, at the same time, the EU must become more flexible and speed up the mechanisms for develo... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, a significant part of the resources which are available to us through financing instruments and which are intended for the development of developing countries ends up via certain channels back in the hands of our companies or monopolies at home. I think that an essential purpose of these financial and... | null |
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