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Anne E. Jensen | MEP | ALDE | en | da | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I, too, would like to start by saying how pleased I am that we now have the Treaty of Lisbon in place, a treaty which will, of course, give Parliament more power over the budget and change the way we adopt the EU’s annual budget. We are in a transitional phase, in which the budget for 2010 is being adopt... | null |
Helga Trüpel | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, on behalf of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, I would like to state that we explicitly support the mandate for the chairman of the Committee on Budgets, Alain Lamassoure. We are sure that he will lead the negotiations in the transitional period in which we currently find ours... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, following the report by the honourable Member, Mrs Guy-Quint, dated April 2008, the new legal framework affecting budgetary matters should now be ready for adoption. All the institutions agreed that this would be the case so as to avoid any legal vacuum. We should therefore have no need for transitional g... | null |
Daniël van der Stoep | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) is sitting in the European Parliament for the first time, and is shocked by the mercenary attitude of the Members of this House. In that sense, Parliament resembles an anti-parliament. The objective seems to be to extract as much money as possible from the pockets of the... | null |
László Surján | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, after the First World War in Hungary, temporary huts were built in Budapest, intended to provide hospital treatment for prisoners of war returning home. These temporary huts are still in operation even today. We want to introduce transitional procedural regulations in order to safeguard the budge... | null |
Eider Gardiazábal Rubial | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as has already been said, the Treaty of Lisbon is finally going to enter into force and some of the effects of this entry into force will be felt immediately after it is signed; for example, some of the work of the Committee on Budgets must be governed by new rules starting from January. Therefore, we in... | null |
Timo Soini | MEP | ID | en | fi | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I support the well-argued proposals put forward by my colleague, Mrs Andreasen. In this report, you welcome the existence of the Treaty of Lisbon. That is your right, but for my part, I will say again that I am sad to see our sovereignty being crushed. You won, but we will be here and we will be on your ... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there is no doubt that the Lisbon Treaty introduces far-reaching changes concerning the budget and procedures for its adoption. I will mention only the removal of the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure, which should strengthen Parliament’s position, and recognition of a multian... | null |
Reimer Böge | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I very much welcome – personally, as well as in my function as the rapporteur for multiannual financial planning – the report by the chairman of our committee, Mr Lamassoure, as it builds the necessary bridges, including in terms of legal certainty, that we need until we have agreed... | null |
Jiří Havel | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to begin by expressing my thanks to Mr Lamassoure for the report he has written. In my opinion, this document is necessary and it was written with appropriate speed. We know that the Treaty of Lisbon will actually enter into force from December this year and we definitely need this report. I... | null |
Lajos Bokros | MEP | ECR | en | hu | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Conservatives and Reformists Group also happily endorses the transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters, but with the fairly significant addition that we too would not want the transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters to become permanent. On the other hand, we think that a tran... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Lamassoure, this may be the first time in your life that this has happened, but the President is giving you 15 minutes’ speaking time, if you so desire, to close this debate. You may say anything you want to, I guess, or you may stick to the two minutes that are in the agenda for your closing remarks! | null |
Alain Lamassoure | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I shall not abuse this exceptional right that you are granting me. I should like to thank all of the spokespersons from the groups that support the main proposals of the report and to assure all of the groups that we will continue, with the European Commission and with the Council, to work towards the su... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That concludes the debate. The vote will take place at 11.00. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Georgios Stavrakakis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Transitional procedural guidelines on budgetary matters in view of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Firstly, may I congratulate the rapporteur on his excellent work, completed in a very short space of time. The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon is an important step in the unification of the European Union, in strengthening its institutions, and in deepening our European identity. At the same time, the Treaty ... | null |
Isabelle Durant | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting: see MinutesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that, on your desks, you will find a file concerning the Lux Prize, a film prize that you are going to award. I wish to remind you that you have an opportunity to vote. You have an obligation to vote to choose one of the three films in the c... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting: see MinutesVideo of the speechesPV | I am grateful to Mrs Durant, who has given us our tasks for the weekend, which we will certainly carry out with great attention and great care. | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to explain my vote on the visa rights of citizens of the Western Balkans. The unwavering view of the left wing is that everyone has the right to move and travel freely; therefore, every citizen should have the right to travel to and enter the European Union. Whereas, therefore, I agree that... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, with regard to the Fajon report, on behalf of the Spanish delegation of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), I would like to point out that, although we voted for the report, we do not agree with recital 2a, added by Amendment 4, which states that the Commission ‘should start a... | null |
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I just wanted to say that we should stress that the joint declaration is really a great success. It is in the joint declaration that we carry the strong political message in support of speeding up the granting of free visas to all the people of the Western Balkans. It is thanks to the responsible position... | null |
Jörg Leichtfried | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-11-12T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to talk about Mrs Paliadeli’s report, specifically because I believe that the European Ombudsman must actually represent the citizens of the European Union. Over the last year, the Ombudsman has undertaken something that completely contradicts this remit as he has prostrated himself before e... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-23T00:00:00 | 2009 | Statement by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I would like, most of all, to express the hope that our work with other European institutions in implementing the Treaty of Lisbon, which enters into force in a week, will flow smoothly. I am constantly working on this matter, and am in contact with both the President of the European Commission and the Prime Minister, ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission on preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change. | null |
Andreas Carlgren | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, the last time I was here in Parliament to discuss climate issues was just before I met with my colleagues at the October meeting of the Environment Council. At that meeting, we agreed on the EU’s strong and collective mandate in preparation for the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.... | null |
Stavros Dimas | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | el | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are fast approaching the crucial Copenhagen Summit and there is little time left. I totally agree with Minister Carlgren that we need to step up our efforts and cooperate closely to ensure that we do not waste this historic opportunity before us, namely to achieve in Copenhagen a global, overall, ambi... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Commissioner, for a very interesting speech in which you spoke about the important problems we are facing before Copenhagen. You spoke for slightly longer than we expected, so I expect we will have shorter remarks from yourself at the end of the debate. It was so interesting that it was not possible to stop ... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The clock is ticking. We are faced with the important challenge of ensuring that an ambitious agreement is concluded in Copenhagen with regard to climate change and, now that December is drawing nearer, we are experiencing setbacks. President Obama is not yet able to keep his election promise. Yet there are also hopef... | null |
Jo Leinen | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent years, the European Parliament has been a driving force in the debate on climate protection, and we have also achieved a large percentage of the EU’s climate protection package. The resolution that we are putting forward... | null |
Corinne Lepage | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, on 26 September 2009, 44 citizens’ panels were organised in 38 countries representing the various stages of development. 91% of citizens worldwide believed that there was an urgent need to reach an agreement in Copenhagen, including 93% of Europeans. 8... | null |
Satu Hassi | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fi | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, the meeting at Copenhagen will be the most important conference in mankind’s history. It concerns the future of the entire human race. The importance of the meeting is highlighted by the fact that, as it approaches, the publicity game has even been enough to blacken the re... | null |
Miroslav Ouzký | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Minister and President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with most of the previous speakers that the Copenhagen Summit is probably the most important summit of the entire year for the European Union and also for the whole world. I would like to thank the Commissioner for being among... | null |
Bairbre de Brún | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | ga | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I completely agree that we must push to find a legally binding agreement in Copenhagen. The agreement must be strong enough to combat the challenge of climate change and, at the same time, it must be balanced and fair with regard to developing countries. Industrialised countries must promise a reduction ... | null |
Anna Rosbach | MEP | ID | en | da | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Council and Commission, it is one month today until Christmas Eve. I have one big Christmas wish, and that is that when the climate conference is over and all the participants have stopped acting like administrators and technicians who talk only of details and quotas, we can then finally have a political... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the still ongoing economic and structural crisis has shown how the international community can quickly make large sums available in order to take the sting out of an acute situation, even if the way it actually does that is sometimes questionable. The crisis also shows that the most... | null |
Andreas Carlgren | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I must say that I really appreciate the broad support that the EU’s approach has received from almost everyone in Parliament. That means, has meant and will mean a great deal for the EU’s strength in Copenhagen and also in the very important climate work that we will have to do afterwards. I would also l... | null |
Stavros Dimas | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, after what you said, I did not expect you to give me the floor, but I will take this opportunity to say two words about the main argument that was put forward for the 30% target. Of course I agree with Mr Ouzký that we need a global agreement, meaning all the countries of the world participating in a comp... | null |
Karl-Heinz Florenz | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to start by commenting on what Commissioner Dimas said. Of course we need a binding agreement, for the entire issue of climate protection, but in Europe, too, for our European industry. It is not only green industry that we have, of course. We also have industry in other sectors, and we must... | null |
Dan Jørgensen | MEP | S&D | en | da | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a couple of months back, I was in Greenland. I visited a small town there called Ilulissat, and just north of Ilulissat is a glacier. This glacier is now melting and it is moving at two metres an hour – two metres an hour! You can see it with the naked eye. You can hear it, because when a huge chunk of i... | null |
Chris Davies | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if you look out of the window today, you will see a rather miserable Strasbourg day, which is nothing out of the ordinary. Even the floods which are devastating parts of my region in Cockermouth and Workington, where we have had the highest rainfall on record, are nothing special; they cannot be specifica... | null |
Bas Eickhout | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We have two weeks left until the start of the conference in Copenhagen: a crucial opportunity to reach an ambitious climate agreement. The European Union rightly states that it is essential to conclude an agreement in Copenhagen; our climate will brook no delay. The science is clear. In order to meet the two degree ta... | null |
Derk Jan Eppink | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, Copenhagen has failed even before the conference has begun. A deal may be struck, but there will be no legally binding agreement. President Obama is not going to get an emissions trading scheme through the Senate; his priority is health care rather than cap and trade. This means that Europe is fa... | null |
Kartika Tamara Liotard | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to give a rough list of actions that emit CO2, from someone I bumped into on the street yesterday. She is alive (remember that one!) She took a shower. She drove her car to work. She bought a bunch of greenhouse flowers, wrapped in plastic. She had her laptop on the whole day. She cooked a huge, deliciou... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us draw a merciful veil over the unbelievable sum of EUR 30 billion per year until 2020 that the EU would be committing itself to paying out to the emerging countries, basically without any security. To us Italians, that is reminiscent of the notorious Italian Cassa del Mezzogio... | null |
Nick Griffin | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, everyone agrees that climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity: that is the constant claim of the political elite, and it is a lie. Everyone does not agree. Thousands of scientists dispute the very existence of man-made global warming, citing natural cyclical changes that saw vineyards in Ro... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Albert Einstein once said, ‘Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler’. We must be careful to avoid falling into that trap. We are fooling ourselves that certain weather phenomena – such as the flooding in Ireland – are directly linked to climate change. We also say that the global rise in tempe... | null |
Marita Ulvskog | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am pleased to see the Swedish minister’s commitment. However, he is still very much alone. World leaders, the European Council and even the Prime Minister heading the Swedish Presidency seem to be prioritising short-term political gains on the domestic front instead of long-term environmental benefits ... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to thank Mr Carlgren and Commissioner Dimas for both the substance and, in particular, the tone of their speeches. It is a positive tone, a tone that conveys a belief that an international agreement can really be reached; that is, an agreement containing internationally binding standards. Mr President, a... | null |
Yannick Jadot | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as we know – according to a number of scientific studies and also Yvo de Boer – emerging countries are today making at least as much effort as Europe with a view to 2020. We also know that, in the negotiations, there is already a right of scrutiny regarding emerging economies, and that this is exercised ... | null |
Konrad Szymański | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in the case of Kyoto, we gave developing countries concessions and exclusions which caused the loss of a significant part of our competitiveness. Meanwhile, in 2005, developing countries exceeded Europe’s level of CO2 emissions. Today, Parliament not only wants to burden the economy with still more drast... | null |
Sabine Wils | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in many parts of the world the consequences of climate change are visible. The most recent calculations assume a global temperature rise of up to 4° C by 2060, and up to 10° C in the Arctic. It is primarily Europe’s soot emissions that are responsible for the significantly faster melting of the ice in th... | null |
Paul Nuttall | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have just heard a Socialist colleague over there talking about Greenland and the ice melting in Greenland. The question I would like to ask on this subject is: why is Greenland called Greenland? Is it perhaps because Greenland was once green when the world was hotter? It seems that the British people ar... | null |
Pilar del Castillo Vera | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would firstly like to recognise the effort made, and also the enthusiasm shown by both the Commission and the Council and, of course, Parliament over such a long period throughout this programme to combat climate change. I would like to say that there are a series of certainties that should map out our... | null |
Linda McAvan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, once again the House has been treated to two speeches by the BNP and UKIP, and once again the two parties are united in their belief in conspiracy theories, showing there is very little difference between them. But I want to congratulate the minister first of all this morning for remaining ambitious about... | null |
Fiona Hall | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the positive and determined stance being taken by the Swedish Presidency, and particularly the Minister’s determination that the agreement in Copenhagen should be upgradable and include monitoring mechanisms so that it can be adjusted in the light of new scientific research. The EU climate packa... | null |
Claude Turmes | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have a specific question for Commissioner Dimas. If my information is correct, it is as follows. If we, in the European Union, implement the targets that we have set ourselves – 20% renewable energy sources by 2020 and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020 – then the EU’s energy models show th... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to appeal for a sense of proportion. Despite what we have heard here, these are not the most important negotiations in the history of mankind, and in fact, the future of mankind does not depend on these negotiations as some of our fellow Members are saying. The decisions on specific limit... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a consistent approach to the problem of climate change, which goes beyond simply setting emission reduction targets, requires a realistic explanation of the means by which they can be achieved. We believe that it is significant and revealing that the majority of the members of th... | null |
Timo Soini | MEP | ID | en | fi | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we should be protecting employees, small entrepreneurs and industry. Environmental action is only possible in a healthy economy. Only if the economy is healthy can we invest in the environment. Things will not go well with the present target percentages. The current trade in percentages, although I sa... | null |
Romana Jordan Cizelj | MEP | PPE | en | sl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am an optimist and I agree with Swedish Minister Carlgren who said that we must succeed. Let me also add that, in order to succeed, we must also act seriously and pursue our objectives in a way that is clear and transparent. The first point I would like to make is that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is both a Euro... | null |
Saïd El Khadraoui | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to discuss the transport aspect. I believe that, along with the energy issue, transport is actually the toughest of the climate-change challenges. It is tough because it necessitates a reconsideration of the logistical organisation of our trading system and of the way we move and travel around. Of course... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we fully understand the situation, the tone has been set, I believe, and Minister Carlgren has even criticised the prevailing pessimism. The countdown has really begun to save the Copenhagen Summit and to ensure that the main polluting countries of the planet sign an ambitious agreement and make a com... | null |
Caroline Lucas | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, there is a new film on climate change called The Age of Stupid. It is set in 2055 and focuses on a lone survivor of climate catastrophe. I am haunted by some words from that film, where the actor, looking back to 2009 – looking back to now – says ‘Why, knowing what they knew then, didn’t they act when ... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, once again in a matter which is very important for the European Union, we are constantly hearing the magic word ‘success’. The Presidency wants to achieve success, and it wants this above all else. Meanwhile, the press in Europe is full of information saying that the Copenhagen Summit will not be a su... | null |
David Campbell Bannerman | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in my English constituency this week, it was discovered that scientists from the University of East Anglia were allegedly manipulating data to try and prove man-made global warming. What a giveaway that was! It is clear now that the scientific consensus on man-made global warming is fast eroding: 30 00... | null |
Herbert Reul | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the context of the climate debates, we have seen a variety of views here in Parliament on the causes and impact of climate change. I do not wish to pursue this, but a number of my fellow Members who have made reference to this are right: there are an increasing number of new v... | null |
Teresa Riera Madurell | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, combating climate change also requires a radical change in the production and consumption of energy. We need a new model that balances these three needs: security, sustainability and competitiveness. With this objective in mind, we are working on a common response. 2007 was a decisive year, because we... | null |
Holger Krahmer | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, European climate policy should leave its reverie behind and take note of the international realities. First of all, Kyoto was a failure. It was very symbolic, but delivered no reductions in emissions. Secondly, on the eve of Copenhagen, it is clear that important states in the world are not prepared t... | null |
Michail Tremopoulos | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | el | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are at a crucial turning point for the planet. The scientific community, via the IPCC, is calling on the European Union and the Member States to commit to a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 values. Current commitments by the European Union are just 50% of what IP... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Debates, discussions and negotiations on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen have been going on without a break for months. In the clamour of information, where some countries are bidding and competing with each other in declaring ever more ambitious goals, others are announcing grand expectations, and ye... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, only a few days before Copenhagen, it appears more difficult than ever to come up with a legally binding agreement. We will have what someone has already called a two-way agreement, but this does not mean that we can afford to be complacent. The European Union must continue to lead the negotiations an... | null |
Vladko Todorov Panayotov | MEP | ALDE | en | bg | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Two years ago, Europe took the initiative to lead the battle against climate change. There is a legislative framework in place at European level and the initiatives for developing the relevant technological platform need to be promoted, which will facilitate the transformation towards a low-carbon economy. European le... | null |
Françoise Grossetête | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, everyone is hoping and praying today for an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen, but it has to be said that the ambitions of the Copenhagen Summit have, in fact, been watered down over the last few weeks, due in particular to the reservations of the United States and China. In order to prevent the plane... | null |
Gilles Pargneaux | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, allow me to address a few major points relating to our resolution, but also to the debate that we are going to have in the next few weeks in Copenhagen. Firstly, in relation to the first point: combating the increase in temperature. Earlier I heard ... | null |
Werner Kuhn | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for all the noble objectives for the Copenhagen conference – when it comes to climate protection, we must not forget, of course, that our Europe, its companies and businesses, are in competition every day with the major economic and trading locations of North America and South-Ea... | null |
Andres Perello Rodriguez | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to congratulate the members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and its Chairman, Mr Leinen, on the work that they have done in order for us to have a resolution such as this, which we must emphatically adopt. We cannot content ourselves with saying that se... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly I should like to commend the Swedish Presidency’s efforts to reach an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen, despite the very strong wind of pessimism prevailing over these forthcoming negotiations. Personally speaking, I do not believe that it is realistic to admit at this stage that the Copenhag... | null |
Vittorio Prodi | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Carlgren, Mr Dimas, ladies and gentlemen, this morning I would like to talk about an 84-year-old missionary, Father Ettore Turrini, who has spent 59 years in the north-west of the Amazon. He has always fought to protect the indigenous people and their forest from anyone seeking to destroy them in t... | null |
Christine De Veyrac | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are all aware – and we have all said as much – of the importance of the Copenhagen negotiations but, while we all hope for an agreement, we cannot accept one at any price. If the conditions for an ambitious agreement are not met, I sincerely hope that the European Union is capable of saying ‘No’ an... | null |
Åsa Westlund | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Carlgren warned us that we are surrounded by a lot of pessimists. That is true and I am pleased that Mr Carlgren is not one of them. However, the Swedish Prime Minister, who is presiding over the Council, and the Danish Prime Minister, who is hosting the Copenhagen Summit, are, unfortunately, among... | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, last week some information was leaked: the Commission had begun an initiative, on the quiet and in collaboration with some Member States, to move towards a 30% cut in emissions right away. The argument is that the price of carbon dioxide could be kept reasonable – which is to say at a level that would... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Carlgren, Commissioner, it is crucial that Copenhagen results in a binding political agreement. This agreement must contain operational elements that can be implemented immediately and a schedule which will allow the drawing up of a legally binding agreement during the course of 2010. The agreement... | null |
Iva Zanicchi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in a few weeks, I will have the honour of forming part of the official delegation that this Parliament is to send to Copenhagen to the United Nations conference on climate change. Following the fundamental stages of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Kyoto in 1997, on 7 Dec... | null |
Elie Hoarau | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Copenhagen Summit is an historic opportunity to change the fate of the planet. We must reach decisions that are even more binding than those taken in Kyoto. Therefore, we must call on our leaders to create an international organisation like the WTO, which will be in charge of... | null |
Rachida Dati | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, with the Copenhagen Summit less than two weeks away, concerns are growing as to the success of the negotiations on climate change. Some, moreover, are already saying that the summit will be a failure. Major inter... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU’s Member States in Central Europe wholeheartedly support the European Union’s climate policy objectives. The simple reason is that without their contribution, the European Union could not achieve its climate policy objectives. In fact, between 1990 and 2005, these Member States restrained their industrial produ... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Commission and Member States financed a study published recently, which criticises the European Union’s climate policies for being limited to reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions without attaching importance to the natural capacity for capturing carbon dioxide. On the other hand, this study indica... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have heard a great deal said about industry in this debate, and I would not like Copenhagen to make the mistake of forgetting about agriculture. Following on from the comments made by my fellow Member, Mr Niculescu, I would obviously like to confirm them by saying that agriculture should not be rega... | null |
Catherine Greze | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the protection of indigenous peoples plays a vital role in the fight against climate change. When it comes to the environment, poverty and health, they are the first to suffer from climate change. Above and beyond deforestation and the mining industry, they suffer from the false ... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Union has ample moral grounds for taking decisive action in order to achieve a reduction in emissions from the United States and China. This is based on the fact that the European Union and its 27 Member States have fulfilled the commitments made in the Kyoto Protocol. The former socialist countries made ... | null |
Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen conference on climate change is a very important and ambitious document, but without a global agreement, the summit will end in failure. We know that the United States is trying to establish details and the ultimate level of limits on emissions with... | null |
David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are preparing for the Copenhagen conference with a resolution showing our awareness that in order to tackle policies to combat climate change, it is necessary for all the geographical areas of the world to be involved. Also, it is the responsibility of the industrialised count... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | ga | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we had a very good debate this morning and there was much to be learned from all of the speakers. There are just three points I want to make. Firstly, if a binding agreement is not reached in Copenhagen, then this Parliament and the European Union should use its influence to name, shame and tame thos... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, while our expectations of Copenhagen at this stage are being lowered, it is also true that our ambitions cannot be lowered. As other colleagues have said, if we could accentuate the positives, both for economies and for citizens, in the climate change debate, there might be more traction – because ther... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, climate protection and sustainable development are subjects that – we are supposed to believe – affect us all. Yet there can be no satisfactory progress without close collaboration, in particular, amongst the global players. While the United States and China refuse to lay down common, binding greenhou... | null |
Jolanta Emilia Hibner | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in a few days, world leaders, including representatives of the European Parliament, will meet in Copenhagen to discuss the question of climate change. Without doubt, a matter of great importance is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, but equally important is the protection of European industry.... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the debate here has been very interesting, and it seems that the European Parliament is very committed to support for the climate conference in Copenhagen. The importance of agriculture has also been emphasised as a solution to the problem. I myself would also like to stress how important forest polic... | null |
Axel Voss | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to encourage the head of negotiations for Copenhagen to fight for a successful outcome. The ambitious targets are good and, ultimately, the efforts that we are making today will also represent a contribution to tomorrow with a view to the consequences and the future damage in the form of ... | null |
Andreas Carlgren | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would genuinely like to thank Parliament for a long and intensive debate and also for the strong and broad commitment that has become apparent during the debate. It has been said that the optimism that we are showing must be rooted in realism. However, I would go further than that and say that it is... | null |
Stavros Dimas | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | el | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this was a very interesting debate with some exceptional and constructive interventions. Numerous views on various issues have been heard. Very possibly certain people do not agree. For example, I cannot understand why anyone would be opposed to clean, green, non-polluting industries based on new tech... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the Copenhagen Summit on climate change (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would remind the Members once again that the Blue Card system created by the Working Party on Parliamentary Reform does not apply to the Commission and the Council, but only to debates amongst Members of this House. A motion for a resolution to close this debate has been tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Pu... | null |
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