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Kay Swinburne | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the report of the Court of Auditors and welcome a clean set of accounts without an adverse report on these accounts for the EU for the first time, especially after so many years of falling foul of this important process and a mission that would have put any private company in breach of multiple ... | null |
Cornelis de Jong | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to say a few things about the European Commission’s expenditure in the framework of external relations. According to the Court of Auditors, more errors were made in this field in 2008 than in 2007; and these errors were found in all the areas of external policy. I find it shocking that many errors are oc... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In respect of the 2008 financial year, the European Court of Auditors has found many errors concerning the Structural Funds, regional development and the research programme. This is due to the rules on grants being too many in number and too complicated. The European Court of Auditors rightly underlines the importance... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The latest Annual Report of the European Court of Auditors again gives perplexing insights into the way the European Union handles European taxpayers’ money. The Court of Auditors has ascertained on the basis of realistic samples that, in the 2000-2006 period, an estimated 11% of the total amount of EUR 36.6 billion u... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the Court of Auditors, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, thank you President Caldeira for this very high-quality report, thank you Mr Kallas for all the work you have done, and congratulations on your new appointment within our European Commission. We welcome this. Regarding the annual ac... | null |
Jens Geier | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Kallas, Mr Caldeira, ladies and gentlemen, firstly I would like to thank you, Mr Caldeira, for your introduction and I would like to thank you and the members of the Court of Auditors for your report. Parliament will investigate carefully the information you have provided and will act on it in the com... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to thank the Court of Auditors for its crystal-clear Annual Report, and I wish to express my particular thanks to Commissioner Kallas for the effort he has put in over recent years. In my opinion, he can rightly claim to have made a great deal of progress during that time. I should like to highlight thre... | null |
Vicky Ford | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, European finances do cause great concern to my constituents and to people in Britain. The UK is, after all, the second-largest net contributor to the European budget, so other Member States might benefit from remembering, when they are debating this money, that a large part of it comes from British taxpay... | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We need a revolution in democracy! Mr President, Commissioner, welcome to the new world of the Treaty of Lisbon. This represents an opportunity for you. For 11 years, I have been following your reports in this House, and before that as a journalist, and when it comes down to it, they are all very similar. However, now... | null |
Tamás Deutsch | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in my view, we MEPs owe it to every tax-paying European citizen to monitor with the appropriate attention the proper, justified and legal use of their taxes in the European Union. We owe this to every tax-paying European citizen, regardless of their nationality. Fellow Members, I be... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, when I meet my voters I often describe this institution as a computer, where the Member States provide the hardware, the Commission provides the software, Parliament is probably the keyboard where you can interact, and in that sense, the control by the Court of Auditors is certainly the control panel of t... | null |
Olle Schmidt | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank the Court of Auditors for an excellent piece of work and also Mr Kallas – it is good that you are continuing. Hearing the British Members express their criticism is all well and good, but from what I have seen in the newspapers, a lot of British politicians have been less than hones... | null |
Esther de Lange | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, you may be familiar with the film Groundhog Day, about a man who wakes up to the very same day over and over again? Although I am in only my third year as an MEP, I already feel like the protagonist of that film. Every year, the Court of Auditors comes here to tell us that, unfortunately, it is unable to... | null |
Barbara Weiler | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Caldeira, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by thanking Mr Caldeira and his team. His report will be very useful to us in our deliberations which lead up to the granting of a discharge. I have a sense of déjà vu, because as far as I can tell, the Council is once again conspicuo... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Caldeira, Commissioner, I wish to thank the European Court of Auditors for its admirable work for the benefit of the European taxpayer. The EU accounts allow a 2% margin of error. I would say that it is salaries and other administrative costs in particular that need to be dealt with more accurately. W... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, an analysis of the Court of Auditors’ annual report on budget execution for 2008 leads us to the conclusion that the situation is better than in previous years. Especially pleasing is the fact that it has been possible to extend significantly correct management of the budget. We have observed an exceptio... | null |
Georgios Stavrakakis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I too should like to congratulate the Court of Auditors on their excellent work, as well as the European Commission, and say that I am very pleased, because I can see that the overall situation has improved. I should like to emphasise in particular that this is the first time that agricultural spending i... | null |
Lambert van Nistelrooij | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The 2008 report once again gives cause for penetrating analysis and action, including on the part of the European Parliament. I thank you for this report. This approach – this cooperation – has led to demonstrable improvements over recent years. Nevertheless, as coordinator for the Group of the European People’s Party... | null |
Christel Schaldemose | MEP | S&D | en | da | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Court of Auditors has my heartfelt thanks for a sound and very serviceable report. Listening to the debate here today, I am put in mind of a Danish saying, where we talk about whether your glass is half full or half empty. This, in other words, is a question of whether you are an optimist or a pessim... | null |
Monika Hohlmeier | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the focus until now has been on the cohesion fund and this is certainly justified because of the size of the budget. However, I would now like to draw attention to an area in which only EUR 2.7 billion was spent last year, but which causes significant problems. The European Court of... | null |
Andrea Cozzolino | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as has already been stated, the European Court of Auditors 2008 report first and foremost gives us some positive news: the percentage of EU expenditure, characterised by high levels of irregularities, has gone down from 60% in 2005 to 31% in 2008. This is a significant result; it si... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I thank the Court of Auditors in particular for putting forward this morning, in a very clear way, the contents of a massive report giving us the good and the bad – and thankfully not the ugly because, to some extent, we have cleared up the worst aspects of our accounting practices. I want to concentrate ... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when I was at school, the teachers often said: Trust is good, control is better. (The speaker agrees to answer the question of another Member, in accordance with Rule 149(8) of the Rules of Procedure) | null |
Ingeborg Gräßle | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wanted to ask you whether you had noticed that, in the course of this important debate, Mr Martin, who has given us all plenty of advice, entered the Chamber at 10.00, spoke at 10.09 and left the Chamber at 10.12? | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am reminded of two basic rules from my childhood. I was once told: ‘When someone speaks to you, let him finish talking. If you ask a question, then at least wait for the answer’. On that principle, it would have been nice if he had stayed in the House, so that he could follow the debate in Parliament. That is my opi... | null |
Sophie Briard Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Court of Auditors’ report for 2008 concludes that there has been an overall improvement in terms of the legality and regularity of the European Union’s budgetary transactions. Nevertheless, it says that expenditure associated with cohesion policy is still problematic, since i... | null |
Ville Itälä | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are dealing with an important matter, and I want firstly to say that the management of the budget has got a lot better. There are problems, however, and I wish to mention a few of them. The first is the institutions’ policy on buildings and property. When I was drafting the budget for the 2008 Parl... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, a simple question. It has been stated that many of the breaches in compliance are due to a lack of understanding of the procedures and regulations. Do you accept that this is the case? And, if so, what percentage of breaches would be due to this unfortunate situation, not to deliberate breaching of the... | null |
Ivaylo Kalfin | MEP | S&D | en | bg | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I, too, would first of all like to congratulate the representatives of the European Court of Auditors for the report which they presented, and Commissioner Kallas for the evidently much-improved effort on the part of the European Commission in relation to European funds expenditure. Coming from Bulgaria, I can see at ... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am not taking the floor under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure; I simply wish to lament the fact that the Council bench is hopelessly empty. The Council is a budgetary authority, and we also note that we have many problems in the Member States. I wanted to express this regret, Madam President. | null |
Bart Staes | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have been present throughout the debate. One of the most crucial questions I have heard – and I would ask Mr Caldeira explicitly to explain this carefully – is what is the situation with the 11% under Cohesion Policy that should not have been disbursed? Various explanations have been given for this in the debate. So... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to say to Mr Martin that I saw that he was asking for the floor on a personal matter, and that I will give him the floor, but in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, I will do so at the end of the debate and after the Commission. | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I completely agree with Mr Audy. The Council is very conspicuous by its absence, as are the leaders of the political parties. As a vice-chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament myself, I felt that the chairmen of the other groups did not thi... | null |
Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would first of all like to thank all of the MEPs who have spoken. Their comments will certainly be very much appreciated by all those who work at the Court of Auditors and who were behind the report submitted today. In the time allotted to me in such an intense and interesting debate, it is a little... | null |
Siim Kallas | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, thank you for this debate and for the good words addressed to the Commission. I have two points relating to the past, from 2008 and recent years. Firstly, one important thing was underlined: transparency. I want to remind you that together we have made a big breakthrough. All information about benefici... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Martin, do you wish to speak at the end of this debate? | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am sorry that I have to take this opportunity to make a personal remark which, according to the agenda, I have been given three minutes for. However, I will not need three minutes. I took a very constructive approach in my speech and in the debate I pointed out very constructively what could now be ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We will stop there. The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Elisabeth Köstinger | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is true that there are still significant deficiencies in some areas, in particular, in the case of cohesion policy, but the fall in the error rate in the area of agriculture and natural resources to below 2% gives me cause to look optimistically to the future. Particularly given that this area makes up the majority... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to congratulate the Court of Auditors on its annual report on the implementation of the EU budget concerning the financial year 2008. I would like to draw attention to the paragraph concerning the European Union agencies, in which the Court of Auditors states that it has issued an unqualified opinion for ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the debate on the oral question to the Commission on Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage by Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs (O-0101/2009 – B7-0224/2009). | null |
Angelika Niebler | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you will all be familiar with Google, the internet search engine. You will probably also know about the new Google Books Project, which everyone has been discussing over the last few months. The aim of the project is to scan in bo... | null |
Siim Kallas | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to thank the Committee on Legal Affairs for raising these questions. You raised so many big and fundamental questions which definitely need to be discussed in the coming months. This issue is definitely intensive, interesting, exciting and very future-oriented. I will first of all give an ... | null |
Róża | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to thank you for your statement, the Committee on Legal Affairs for its question, and Mrs Niebler for her comments and the Commissioner for his answer. These are extremely important matters for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection as well. The process of digitising... | null |
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that the agreement between Google and the US publishers contains some undoubtedly interesting elements and some important prospects for new things for us as well. However, together with these positive aspects, it is important to evaluate the problematic issues it contains... | null |
Liam Aylward | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I welcome the action of the Committee on Legal Affairs in putting this timely question to the Commission. The book digitalisation project impacts on several European and Member State policy areas, such as copyright, competition, library digitalisation and culture, and as such requires both debate and m... | null |
Eva Lichtenberger | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as a result of the activities of Google Books, the European strategy of taking a slow, targeted approach and of highlighting the many concerns that have been expressed during the course of this strategy has simply been overtaken by reality. We are faced with Google’... | null |
Emma McClarkin | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, for book-lovers in my constituency in the East Midlands and EU-wide, this is good news. I believe this is a book revolution about to begin, and I welcome the Commission statement. The initiative by Google is an inevitable and logical step forward given the advancement of the digital economy with new ma... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, many of us have said that Google is practically a global monopoly, which is trying to appropriate the cultural, literary and journalistic heritage of the whole world. Europe should not allow itself to be controlled by Google. Moreover, Google’s strategy of offering the service fr... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the tasks of digitising Europe’s literary heritage for the purposes of not only preserving and remembering it, but also of distributing it and promoting its influence, and of providing Europeans with access to their fantastic culture, are major challenges which public authorities should have a greater... | null |
Tadeusz Zwiefka | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the potential benefits and possibilities which the Google Books Project offers consumers, researchers and the majority of publishers and authors for the preservation of cultural heritage is, really, beyond dispute. We must not, however, treat the legal consequences lightly, and it is on these that I, ... | null |
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the opportunities offered by the internet have inspired Google to revive in cyberspace books which are out of print, forgotten, or which have vanished in the mists of time. The grand idea of creating a modern counterpart of the Alexandrian Library has, however, given rise to disputes on the issue of c... | null |
Nessa Childers | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Google is an American company we all know well, providing online services which many of us use on a daily basis. As their European headquarters is located in Ireland, I know they are an excellent employer and real leader in cutting-edge internet technology. The digitisation of books, such as the Google... | null |
Georgios Papanikolaou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is a question of principle that we must encourage access to information and education. At the same time, we should also facilitate access to European and world culture, in which the written word does indeed occupy a special place. In this sense, the digitisation of books and free access to them is ... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This is yet another example of our migration from Gutenberg’s galaxy to the digital one. The slow pace of the legislative process is the reason why the business world has overtaken us. The legislative process must speed up. We need to avert anarchy and we need to prevent the formation of monopolies. We must guarantee ... | null |
Helga Trüpel | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am responsible for the new report on Europeana, and I am convinced that we have to find a very good balance to respect, on the one hand, intellectual property rights and, on the other hand, to give easy access to all our users. That means we need very clear definitions on how to reform copyright, and... | null |
Rui Tavares | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this is very ironic, is it not? What Google has done, taking on intellectual property and reproducing it for private usage, was clearly illegal at the outset, according to the conclusions drawn by the US Department of Justice itself. On a smaller scale, this is what we call piracy. Why should there be... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | While we are talking at the moment about the digitisation of the world’s book heritage by a private company, in this case, Google, it seems as if we are only dealing with the present. It was stated in one speech that those of us here will continue, at any rate, to use printed books. However, whatever option we pave th... | null |
Piotr Borys | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly, digitisation is a huge opportunity to make our cultural, European and world heritage available to as great a number of Europeans as possible. This fits in very well indeed with the objectives of the new Lisbon Strategy. However, it seems that, firstly, this requires standardisation of the who... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have a little story to tell to illustrate my point. Probably the first copyright case in the history of the world took place in Ireland 1 500 years ago, when a monk called Finian invited another monk called Columcille to his monastery. Finian was writing a manuscript at the time. Columcille discovere... | null |
Siim Kallas | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Commission is doing its utmost to develop the digital field in our society. It seems to me that Google – and particularly its books project – has appeared as a great integrating factor for the European Union, because, as you know very well, – and this is in all papers – copyright so far has been ex... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Google’s project to digitise the world’s book heritage (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Google Books, the new service offered by Google, has given rise to a number of controversies recently. The project is based on free access to large numbers of scanned books, whereby four million of the scanned books are by European authors. The situation raises questions about limiting internet freedom and about the c... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | WelcomeVideo of the speechesPV | Colleagues, I now have an announcement to make which is perhaps very appropriate as we have just voted on our report on the 2009 enlargement strategy. I am very pleased to inform you that we have with us here today a delegation of Members of the Croatian Parliament, the Sabor. (Applause) They are led by Mr Mario Zubovi... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I wanted to highlight above all the quality of the efforts made by Gabriele Albertini in drafting the motion. I also wanted to say that I voted in favour of this motion, given that enlargement is an important political gesture for the EU. I also want to point out that I have voted differently from my political group o... | null |
María Muñiz De Urquiza | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, the votes of the Spanish socialist delegation on Kosovo support international non-recognition of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration as an independent State. | null |
Dimitar Stoyanov | MEP | NI | en | bg | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the enlargement strategy resolution because it contains many flattering words about the progress Turkey is making under the Copenhagen criteria. I do not see any sign of this progress. Fellow Members, please understand once and for all that Turkey is a country which, less than 100 years ago, committed ... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of this report, but I would like to raise one important issue with regard to it. In my view, we in the European Parliament and the European Union need to ensure that all countries aspiring to membership of the European Union demonstrate compliance with the Copenhagen criteria. It is ver... | null |
Martin Kastler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have also voted no, because I am of the opinion that Turkey must first fulfil all the criteria, before we can make such a positive statement here. In particular, I would like to highlight the border dispute between Cyprus and Turkey, which has still not been settled this year, and... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I abstained from voting on this resolution, although the question is important, and even very important. However, I do not see why the question of combating violence against women should be taken together with the question of reproductive choice. During the debate on this subject yesterday, some of the s... | null |
Tiziano Motti | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have voted in favour of the motion for a resolution on the elimination of violence against women. I am dedicating my vote to the nearly seven million Italian women who are subjected to violence by men each year. Of course, I also dedicate it to all those women in Europe who find themselves in the same ... | null |
Lena Ek | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, violence against women is a widespread problem throughout Europe and, indeed, the world. In Sweden alone, with a population of nine million, 380 women are abused every day. A fifth of the female population is subjected to violence and 45% of all women between the ages of 16 and 64 have, at some time in t... | null |
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of this resolution wholeheartedly because I think that we need to join forces across political groups towards a common goal – to denounce, raise awareness of and combat all forms of violence against women. I am particularly sensitive to the women in conflict as I shared, provided help du... | null |
Zbigniew Ziobro | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to stress that the subject of violence against women is extremely important, and I am very glad that the European Parliament has taken up this problem. Worthy of particular attention is the problem of the most aggressive and brutal sexually motivated crimes, which are committed against women... | null |
Janusz Wojciechowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to give an explanation of vote on the question of combating tobacco smoking, if possible. A very short statement. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Wojciechowski, the rules state that we must deal with one subject after another. We have just discussed the subject of the elimination of violence against women and we will now be moving to the subject of a political solution with regard to the piracy off the Somalian coast. One thing at a time! | null |
Louis Bontes | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) voted against the motion for a resolution on Somalia, and I should like to explain why. The PVV takes the view that the monitoring of vessels off the coast of Somalia is not a task for the EU; instead, it is one hundred per cent a task for NATO. Europe has no army, nor does it have an... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The recommendations of the Council on non-smoking environments have the aim of assisting the Member States in their efforts to protect people more effectively from tobacco smoke. This is in accordance with international obligations arising from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. I support the recommendat... | null |
Axel Voss | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to speak about two aspects of the smoke-free environment. Firstly, I have voted in favour of the Member States being given the authority in this area, on the one hand, because of the concept of subsidiarity and, on the other hand, because we do not have any authority. Although I am very much... | null |
Anja Weisgerber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the German conservative group (CSU) would like to see clear and practical rules for the protection of non-smokers being introduced throughout Europe. However, in my opinion, ‘throughout Europe’ does not necessarily mean ‘from within Europe’. Many Member States already have in place ... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I come from a country which has introduced a ban on smoking in the workplace. Indeed, I was a Member of the Irish Parliament at the time and I fully supported the ban. However, we are in a slightly different position here in the European Parliament, where we have to consider the principle of subsidiarity.... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I feel slightly emotional explaining this vote as my own mother was born in the tobacco factory in this very city of Strasbourg where my grandfather worked. This factory has just closed down. When the service in France for producing tobacco and matches, which was a public service at the time, was turned ... | null |
Janusz Wojciechowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you for allowing me to speak. I support the action being taken by the European Union to reduce tobacco consumption, but I do not think this action should be based on reducing support for tobacco producers. This is because tobacco production is not related to its consumption. If we reduce or elimina... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The food crisis is not only an economic and humanitarian problem but also a question of world peace and security. I was delighted to support the approved resolution, even though I have reservations over the solution to the question of world hunger. The meeting of the World Summit on Food Security did not take the dire... | null |
John Stuart Agnew, Marta Andreasen, Gerard Batten, John Bufton, Derek Roland Clark, Trevor Colman, Nigel Farage, Mike Nattrass and Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The UKIP admires volunteering and recognises the contribution to society it can make. However, this report called for the naked politicisation of volunteering for EU purposes, and for the use of the British taxpayers’ money to achieve this politicisation. Thus, we could not support the motion. | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The notion of volunteering is crucial in modern day societies. It is something that is done out of the free will of the person concerned and can have an incredibly positive impact on the lives of many. The European Year of Volunteering is hence an important initiative. I am in agreement with the rapporteur. It is for t... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this proposal in recognition of the many volunteers who do invaluable work without the recognition they deserve. Without their contribution to society, for which they receive no monetary remuneration, the United Kingdom would be a lesser place. While against the whole principle of European citizenship, I re... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of Mr Scurria’s report on the European Year of Volunteering (2011), advocating greater support from the institutions of the EU for this sector, which involves millions of European citizens and is essential for the promotion of solidarity and social inclusion. I believe that both the budget and coordi... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The most basic definition of volunteering is goodwill in action. It is offered without charge, and it is generous, freely given and without strings. It is also a fundamental pillar of any society, as the work of thousands of volunteers, young and old, acting in a formal or informal capacity, in the fields of health, w... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We voted in favour of this report, despite certain contradictions and small parts of it with which we do not agree. Volunteering undoubtedly plays an important role in society, promoting the value of solidarity and mutual aid, contributing to social integration and helping to overcome discriminatory views, among other... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is with great pleasure that I have voted in favour of naming 2011 as the European Year of Volunteering. It is a great boon to the numerous voluntary organisations in all of our Member States of the EU. I would like to point out that sporting organisations play a central role in volunteering and, despite this not bei... | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, volunteering represents the expression of European social values such as solidarity and non-discrimination. While it contributes to the personal development of volunteers on the one hand, it creates social cohesion on the other. Therefore, it requires due recognition and support from the European institu... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the draft report on the European Year of Volunteering for a number of reasons. It is well known that voluntary activities offer a two-fold benefit: for the individual and for society. On the one hand, volunteering offers citizens the chance to learn and acquire new skills and for self-development.... | null |
Emma McClarkin | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Despite the request for a budget increase which I opposed and voted against at the committee stages, I nonetheless fully support the Report on the European Year of Volunteering overall. Volunteers are often unsung heroes. They make an immeasurable impact in their communities and on people’s lives. In tough economic tim... | null |
Robert Rochefort | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I supported the report on the European Year of Volunteering in 2011, intended to promote dialogue and the exchange of good volunteering practice between authorities and stakeholders in our Member States. With the increase over recent years in individualistic behaviour, the quest for new ways of individual expression, ... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I endorsed the report on the European Year of Volunteering (2011). In the Member States of the European Union, we must give more importance to the question of volunteering, and should plan political action which supports the work of volunteers. The amendments proposed by the European Parliament introduce many signific... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The year 2011 will be the European Year of Volunteering, and will be intended to honour and distinguish volunteers and their contribution to society. It is a wonderful proposal. Volunteering occurs in many different forms all over Europe, but everywhere, irrespective of the place, it is characterised by the fact that ... | null |
Oldřich Vlasák | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to explain my vote on the report of Marco Scurria on the proposal for a Council Decision on the European Year of Volunteering. Personally, I consider unpaid voluntary activities to be an important part of our society. In my own country, the Czech Republic, the most numerous and long-established voluntary ... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is generally possible to welcome any agreement which improves cooperation with states neighbouring the European Union. If we compare the position of the states neighbouring the EU, then we see that – after Russia – the most important partner is Ukraine. The exchange of information in the fields of science and techn... | null |
John Stuart Agnew, Marta Andreasen, Gerard Batten, John Bufton, Derek Roland Clark, Trevor Colman, Nigel Farage, Mike Nattrass and Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The UKIP is not opposed to cooperation in the field of energy efficiency, but insists that such cooperation must be conducted by democratically elected governments and not by their unaccountable proxies in an anti-democratic supranational organisation such as the EU. | null |
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