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Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As we face a flood of applications for EU membership, the vote on this resolution could not have come at a better time. The EU is a rock of stability on this continent. It cannot remain a club which is closed to other European states, but it cannot open its doors indefinitely either. The European Union must, above all... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In spite of all the criticism that can be levelled at it, it has been unequivocally shown that many countries harbour an enormous desire to join the European Union. The brutal and turbulent history of several of these countries, particularly in the Balkans, has strengthened their conviction that they would be free of ... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This resolution is yet another case where, in relation to enlargement and a statement published by the European Commission, entitled ‘Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2009-2010’, the majority in Parliament wants to acknowledge Kosovo, even saying that they ‘welcome the Commission’s intention to strengthen its ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for Amendment 4. I very much believe that we have to underline that by non-muslims, we first and foremost mean the Christians, therefore a mention of Christians explicitly next to other religious communities is needed. Christians are still persecuted in Turkey and it remains one of our biggest concerns. Christi... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The process of EU enlargement should always be carefully considered and any new accession should always respect the common points of reference between the countries that make up the EU. I understand that the accession of Turkey is seen as grounds for a preliminary debate, yet this indicates that there are doubts which... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | With regard to the resolution on the Commission’s enlargement strategy paper for 2009, we would like to make it clear, on behalf of the Spanish delegation of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), that the fact that we supported it overall does not in any way mean that we agree with the recogn... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I strongly oppose the Commission’s enlargement strategy with regard to Turkey. The clear majority of EU citizens is against Turkey joining the EU and yet they must help to fund payments of billions of euros to Turkey in its role of official accession candidate. Turkey is not a European country, either geographically o... | null |
Justas Vincas Paleckis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the European Parliament resolution on the Commission’s 2009 enlargement strategy paper concerning the Western Balkan countries, Iceland and Turkey, since 6-15 years ago, Lithuania, together with the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries, was in a similar situation to the c... | null |
Rovana Plumb | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The EU enlargement process is taking place at the moment against the background of a harsh, far-reaching recession, which has hit both the EU and the countries involved in the enlargement process. I welcome the progress made by Turkey in meeting the criteria for joining the European Union, especially the fact that thi... | null |
Nikolaos Salavrakos | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We vote against the motion for a resolution ‘The Commission’s 2009 enlargement strategy paper concerning the Western Balkan countries, Iceland and Turkey’ by Gabriele Albertini, because we believe that neither Turkey nor the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shows any progress in meeting the Copenhagen criteria, no... | null |
Renate Sommer | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The motion for a resolution on the European Commission’s current enlargement strategy is very balanced. It rewards the progress made by the accession candidates but, at the same time, clearly identifies the problems. Turkey, in particular, has taken a major step backwards. Therefore, I welcome the explicit criticism o... | null |
Eva-Britt Svensson | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am in favour of the EU being open to countries who meet the criteria for membership. I am concerned that this resolution presents enlargement as being imperative for the countries in question as well as the EU. It does not conceive of the possibility that it may be in the best interests of the countries concerned to ... | null |
Regina Bastos | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is an incentive by the UN and the Council of Europe which aims to discuss and give greater visibility to the victims of domestic violence and other types of mistreatment. The situation of this issue in Portugal is worrying. The number of crimes of dom... | 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 the motion for a resolution on the elimination of violence against women as I believe that the Commission and the Council need to consolidate EU action in this area. The EU urgently needs a more comprehensive policy on combating violence against women, specifically through the Commission drawing u... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In a week when the frightening figures for cases of domestic violence have hit the headlines in Portugal, I believe that violence against women and children is a topic that requires consideration and serious action by governments. I condemn all kinds of violence, but particularly when it is used against those who are ... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we wish to raise awareness of this serious social, economic and political problem that undermines women’s rights in many different areas, including at work, among their families, and in society in general. Violence against women is a violation of ... | null |
Marine Le Pen | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As we mark the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it has to be said that the preventive measures which have been implemented with this purpose in mind have not achieved the expected results. How can we explain this phenomenon? Judging from the debates which have be... | null |
Astrid Lulling | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It makes perfect sense for the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality to remind us, as we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that, in spite of the countless legal instruments and UN declarations, not to mention the numerous resolutions in this Parliament made over many d... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the vote in the European Parliament on the resolution for eliminating violence against women on this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The declaration of this day by the UN in 1999 and the adoption of this resolution today are valuable instruments for reminding national governm... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | When we talk about violence against women, we are discussing something that is clearly a reality in all the Member States, as one in four women is a victim of violence. In an EU that sees itself as the champion of rights and freedoms for all its citizens, we must make every effort to put a stop to this scourge. The ad... | null |
Rovana Plumb | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this resolution as violence against women is still a problem which is all too prevalent in Romania and worldwide, making it necessary to adopt urgent measures to combat this scourge. Legislation is no longer the problem, but its application in the situation where many women are reluctant to report... | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome Parliament’s commitment to this cause. In particular, it is critical to ensure that the women in some of the most vulnerable circumstances, such as in ‘trafficking of women’, fall under this assistance. I am appalled that the ECR Group, which contains the British Conservatives, has submitted an amendment to t... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Women are easy victims for any form of violence due to their unequal position in all class societies, in which they are open to class and gender oppression. Physical abuse, rape, trafficking and so on are forms of violence which demonstrate the gender dimension of the class aspect of female inequality. However, violen... | null |
Marina Yannakoudakis | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The ECR Group fully supports and stresses the great need to increase awareness and action to combat violence against women. However, we do not support calls for an EU legal base and further directives (as in paragraphs 10, 11 and 27) to address the problem. Whilst we acknowledge that work needs to be done in this area,... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Somalia is one of the most blatant cases of the total breakdown of the central power and the return to a belligerent, tribal way of life, as the country is an epicentre of violence and instability which spreads far beyond its own borders. The coasts of Somalia have been constantly threatened by armed groups which not ... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | When discussing the issue of Somalia, we need to remember that there is no military solution to the crisis there, and that we must take into account the country's lack of financial resources, caused at an international level by the debt crisis, which created a vacuum that was exploited by illegal fishing in its territ... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am deeply proud to see the UK leading the work of the EU’s first naval ESDP mission, Operation Atalanta, with a British Commander at its head and its operational HQ in the UK. Atalanta’s work in the protection of vessels delivering food aid to displaced persons in Somalia and in protecting vulnerable vessels off the ... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The current situation off the coast of Somalia is wrong on every level and has an impact on all countries. I think that it is therefore crucial that, pending a political solution to the problem of Somalia, and while there continues to be instability in the area, we should follow a strategy of heightened security for O... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against Resolution RC-B7-0158/2009 because I think that piracy is not a military problem but a development problem. I therefore believe that the problem should be dealt with at its root, and that the solution cannot be a military one, either by land or by sea. The officer responsible for Operation Atalanta sta... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The relative success of Operation Atalanta, now renewed for a year, underlines the fact that although the European Security and Defence Policy has the potential to achieve significant results for Member States, it is still unclear why NATO alone could not match this and thus avoid duplication. But piracy remains a clea... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the European Parliament resolution on a political solution to the problem of piracy off the Somali coast because sea piracy is a real problem and will continue to be a problem in waters off the Somali coast. The EU must protect maritime vessels passing through this region by means of international... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We are in favour of robust international action to deal with piracy and have no doubt that the Royal Navy and allied navies from the US and other European nations will do a good job. However, we see no reason for the EU to run up its flag on a naval operation. We are opposed to the interference of the EU as an institut... | null |
Elena Oana Antonescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome this resolution enabling Parliament to support the Commission’s highly voluntary anti-smoking policy. Exposure to cigarette smoke is the main cause of death and illness in Europe, with smoking imposing a heavy burden on health care systems as well. I hope that the Commission’s measures will go further and th... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I believe that we must protect non-smokers from passive smoking, but also make smokers aware of the impact of their addiction on themselves and others. They must not be left in any doubt about this. In Belgium, we also have a head-start on this issue because our country has already advocated a total ban on smoking in ... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Despite voting in line with the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), I must express some concerns I have about the present motion for a resolution. Firstly, I believe that smoke-free policies should be decided by the Member States and that the role of the European institutions, while respecting ... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The protection of human health and the quality of life of employees at their places of work and that of the general public forms the basis of this resolution, and that is why we voted in favour of it. It is necessary to increase the protection of non-smokers by preventing passive smoking, but also to create the necess... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of deleting item 13 from the original text, which read: ‘Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal to Parliament and the Council for legislation on a smoking ban by 2011 in all enclosed workplaces, including all enclosed public buildings and public transport in the EU, in the field of protection o... | null |
Robert Goebbels | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I abstained in the vote on the resolution on smoking. I have never smoked in my life, but I find this constant harassment of smokers completely anti-freedom. The current bans are more than sufficient. I distance myself from this constant, counterproductive harassment. The desire to get rid of tobacco plantations in Eu... | null |
Elisabeth Jeggle | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Health policy and, therefore, the protection of non-smokers clearly come under the authority of the Member States and should not be the subject of central regulations. The Member States must have the freedom to determine the extent to which they want to protect non-smokers. It must be made clear that the EU has no aut... | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour, though I would have liked to see a tougher resolution. Smoking is the greatest single cause of premature deaths in Europe. Tobacco smoke is an environmental pollutant that contains over a hundred compounds that do harm to the health. Nevertheless, parts of Europe allow not just users o... | null |
Elisabeth Morin-Chartier | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted for the resolution supporting smoke-free environments because I believe that it is vitally important to monitor the progress being made towards the widespread introduction of smoke-free environments in the European Union and to facilitate the exchange of good practice between Member States and th... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | bg | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I voted to remove the explicit reference to the year 2010 in paragraph 9 of the motion for a resolution. In my country, tobacco growing is a vitally important and critical industry for a large part of the population in regions where it is their only form of livelihood. One of those is also the re... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I agree with all reasonable measures aimed at combating smoking and protecting non-smokers, which is why I voted for this resolution. However, I must express some doubt about the effects which any kind of measures directed against tobacco growers would have. Romania currently has approximately 1 600 hectares of tobacc... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This is a proactive and ambitious resolution we are dealing with. However, I am dismayed by the vote cast by a majority of my fellow Members, Christian-Democrats in particular, who, in the wake of intense lobbying by relevant pressure groups and stakeholders, have rejected Article 13. They believe therefore that Europ... | null |
Vilja Savisaar | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The proposal in the resolution dealing with non-smoking areas envisaged a considerable change – the imposition of a smoking ban in pan-European public institutions and public spaces. The intention of the resolution was to task the Commission with preparing the necessary legislative act, which would come into effect in... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I share the concern, through this resolution, of making progress in the battle against passive smoking imposed on those who do not smoke. However, some people are taking advantage of the situation to insert a provision in this resolution opposing the subsidies paid to tobacco growers. I am personally in favour of prov... | null |
Liam Aylward | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Given that over 40 million people die of hunger and poverty each year, including one child every six seconds, and that the global food crisis is one of the major threats to peace and security in the world, I have voted to support this timely Resolution. The Resolution calls for the Commission to conduct a full impact a... | null |
Ole Christensen, Dan Jørgensen, Christel Schaldemose and Britta Thomsen | MEP | S&D | en | da | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We Danish Social Democrats believe in the phasing out of the EU’s agricultural aid. Today, we gave our backing to the resolution on the ‘FAO World Summit on Food Security’ – a resolution that focuses on the major challenges we are facing in relation to eradicating hunger and ensuring better opportunities for developin... | null |
Corazza Bildt, Christofer Fjellner, Gunnar Hökmark and Anna Ibrisagic | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Swedish Conservatives have today voted against the resolution (B7-0168/2009) on the FAO World Summit on Food Security. We are concerned about hunger in the world and believe that a focus on food security is important. However, in contrast to the resolution, we Swedish Conservatives believe that the common agricult... | null |
Lena Ek, Marit Paulsen, Olle Schmidt and Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | There is a strange situation in the world today: a billion people are suffering from obesity, yet at the same time, a billion people are starving. This situation is disastrous and requires effective measures, particularly on the part of the wealthy European Union. However, we do not believe that the EU’s common agricu... | 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 the joint motion for a resolution on the FAO World Summit on Food Security – Eradicating hunger from the face of the earth, because I believe that urgent measures are necessary to put a stop to this scourge, which affects a sixth of the world’s population. In light of the impact of climate change ... | null |
Göran Färm | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We Swedish Social Democrats have today chosen to vote in favour of the joint motion for a resolution on the FAO World Summit on Food Security. More than a billion people are currently suffering from starvation. Extreme oscillations in prices and a dramatic increase in the price of food on the world market have also ca... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | No one can remain indifferent to this global problem when they know that 40 million people die every year of starvation and that a child dies of malnutrition every six seconds. The European Union is the foremost donor of development and humanitarian aid, but only a small part of this is channelled towards the agricult... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Although we do not agree with all the points made, we chose to give our approval to this resolution, as it underlines the importance of principles that we consider fundamental to a real fight against world hunger, particularly: – Emphasising that ‘the fight against hunger must be based on recognition of the right to f... | null |
Anne E. Jensen and Jens Rohde | MEP | ALDE | en | da | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We, the Danish Liberal Party’s MEPs, voted in favour of the resolution on food security as we want to emphasise the importance of the EU taking global responsibility in the fight against hunger and poverty. We are opposed to paragraph 9 of the resolution, however, which puts question marks against the continued libera... | null |
Elisabeth Köstinger | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Long-term food security is one of the central challenges of the common agricultural policy. Especially in the light of food shortages, we must emphasise the importance of a strong CAP which will take on a key role in future in overcoming global challenges. This means that adequate long-term funding for the CAP is requ... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Hunger is a scourge that is affecting increasing numbers of people. As the EU is a place of solidarity, it has to be at the frontline of combating this growing problem. The world food crisis is one of the major threats to global peace and security, so all global and European food security policies need to be stepped u... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-11-26T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The authors of this resolution, although forced to highlight the problem of hunger and the problems raised at the Food and Agricultural Summit in general, have nonetheless concealed the basic cause of the problem, namely the capitalist system of exploitation and the strategy which the EU also loyally serves so that ca... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | In opening the last session of the European Parliament in 2009, I would firstly like to offer you all – all fellow Members – my sincere wishes for the approaching Christmas season, for the Chanukah festival, which has already begun, and for the coming new year. On behalf of all Members of the European Parliament, I wou... | null |
Francesco Enrico Speroni | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-12-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, apologies if I am not speaking in accordance with proper procedure, but I wanted to express my solidarity and that of my group with Prime Minister Berlusconi. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I was speaking on behalf of the entire European Parliament. | null |
Gianni Pittella | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-12-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I, together with Mr Sassoli and all the members of the Democratic Party within the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, would like to echo your words of solidarity towards the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and stress ... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-12-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like, also on behalf of my group, to informally offer my truly heartfelt thanks, first of all to you, who labelled what happened in the most appropriate terms, which is to say ‘undignified’, but even more so, if possible, to my Italian fellow Members, and in particular, Mr P... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcement by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | First of all, I would like to read out an important piece of information. On 2 December, I received a Communication from the Commission, addressed to the European Parliament and the Council, concerning the consequences of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon for ongoing interinstitutional decision-making proced... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | The next item is the joint debate on the following: - the report (A7-0083/2009) by Mr Surján and Mr Maňka, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) (11902/2009 - C7-0127/2009 - 2009/2002(BUD)), and Lett... | null |
László Surján | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Thank you for the floor, Mr President. Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, right at the start of this budget debate, I must say that I would like not so much to cause an argument as to express my thanks. I wish to thank the Council and Commission for the fruitful cooperation which has enabled us finally to r... | null |
Vladimír Maňka | N/A | N/A | en | sk | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, Commissioner, Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen, today I do not have to worry about failing to mention something important from my report. Everything that has been drafted over a whole year with colleagues and fellow workers has already been sufficiently discussed in the budget committee, the plen... | null |
Jutta Haug | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, when we debated this year’s budget in December of last year, we were already aware and, as general rapporteur for the 2009 budget, I mentioned in the discussion that the impact of the financial market crisis and its repercussions on the real economy wo... | null |
Reimer Böge | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, following the agreement on the 2010 budget, we are talking in terms of EUR 141.4 billion in commitments and EUR 122.9 billion in payments. First of all, I would like to thank both rapporteurs very warmly for their dedication and I would also like to say at this point that everything... | null |
Hans Lindblad | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, it is an immense honour for me to be here today for your debate. The budgetary procedure for 2010 has been demanding and I am pleased with the agreement that was reached between our institutions during the conciliation meeting in mid-November. This agreement serves two different, but equally important, p... | null |
Algirdas Šemeta | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I am very happy to have the opportunity to speak to Parliament before it finalises its second reading with Thursday’s vote on the 2010 budget and on amending budget No 10/2009, which has, in part, contributed to the successful outcome of the annual budgetary procedure. The negotiations on the 2010 budget ... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this budget represents a response to the economic crisis, with its focus firmly on Europe’s citizens. It is a budget designed to fight unemployment and kick-start the economy. We are therefore prioritising the European Economic Recovery Plan, with financing of EUR 2.4 billion for th... | null |
Göran Färm | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved. These negotiations have produced results. There are few problems remaining to be solved ahead of the second reading and all of the parties concerned have helped in a constructive way to achieve this. Even though it took a long time, it was definit... | null |
Anne E. Jensen | MEP | ALDE | en | da | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Surján for the positive outcome of the negotiations. As others have done, I would like to express my satisfaction at the fact that we, in Parliament, have been able to retain our important priorities in the second reading, too, even if we have had to make some cuts in connection ... | null |
Helga Trüpel | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Lindblad, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance also believes that the budget for 2010 which we have negotiated and agreed on is a reasonable compromise. At the beginning of the budget discussions, there were still several open issues and gaps which had not... | null |
Lajos Bokros | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, the EU budget has been suffering from a number of structural problems. It is too big and it keeps growing. There are built-in automatic increases for many items, especially for the operating costs of bureaucracy without any apparent improvement in output performance. All budgets are supposed to be mirror ... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think we are in danger of not seeing the wood for the trees with this budget. The question I put to you, quite frankly, is this: if there were no crisis, would this budget be very different from what it is? We all know it would not. That is the crucial issue. That, in fact, is why... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, the proposal for the second reading of the 2010 budget still represents a 6% increase in respect of 2009. That proposal appears to come from another planet – a planet where there is no financial crisis. Following the conciliation meeting in November, Parliament still deplores the Council’s refusal to incr... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, regardless of whether we live in urban areas or in the countryside, we all form part of an information and knowledge society. Those people, businesses and organisations which are able to use modern information technologies most effectively have a significant competitive advantage. H... | null |
Alain Lamassoure | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I, in turn, would like to express my satisfaction with the agreement reached in conciliation. It required the intelligence of the Swedish Presidency, the effective contribution of the Commission, the competence of our rapporteurs and the sense of compromise of the political groups’ representatives. May w... | null |
Francesca Balzani | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we reach the end of a budgetary procedure and it is possible to assess the work carried out as a whole, I think that we need to ask a very frank, straightforward question: is this a useful budget? This budget is a transitional budget, one marking a shift towards the Europe of L... | null |
Ivars Godmanis | MEP | ALDE | en | lv | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I would like to speak about Europe’s Structural Funds. These account for approximately 35.5% of Europe’s total budget. Specifically, the European Regional Development Fund and the European Cohesion Fund from 2007 to 2013 total EUR 308 billion. In 2010, they account for EUR 39 billion in commitments, and ... | null |
James Nicholson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, we are all aware of the remaining EUR 2.4 billion for the European Economic Recovery Plan that has been committed in the 2010 budget, and I welcome the attempt to get Europe through this difficult economic climate in this regard. I feel the focus of this plan should be on innovation and employment and ess... | null |
Jacky Hénin | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, in our Union access to a reliable and low-carbon electricity supply should be recognised as a fundamental right for every European citizen. To this end, our Union must conduct a genuine European public energy policy, and not finance, by way of a budgetary procedure, the decommissioning of a nuclear power... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, the 2010 budget is being adopted against the background of the economic crisis, and additional care must be taken when budgeting EU funds. In this context, the Council has forced the European Parliament to set priorities. The ailing economy and investment in sustainability have been placed high on the ag... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, with one minute to speak about a budget of EUR 141 billion, one must of course confine oneself to the essentials, namely that, at all levels – Community, national, regional and even lower – so-called ‘European’ money is really spent less efficiently and less carefully than money from closer to taxpayers.... | null |
Salvador Garriga Polledo | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I would, of course, like to congratulate the two rapporteurs, Mr Lindblad, for the Council, and particularly the Commissioner, Mr Šemeta, who has only been responsible for the budget for a few months. I sincerely believe that he has done an excellent job and he has succeeded in finding a significant cons... | null |
Eider Gardiazábal Rubial | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I believe we should be pleased with the result of the negotiations between Parliament and the Council for the final adoption of the Union’s budget for 2010. We should also be pleased because we have managed to maintain the funding for the dairy sector that we adopted in Parliament at first reading, which... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, we are discussing the last budget under the Treaty of Nice. Next year, things will be very different: for the first time, Parliament will be able to get its teeth into agricultural policy and fisheries expenditure, for example. This part of the budget will finally come within the reach of Parliament, and... | null |
Takis Hatzigeorgiou | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, we do not agree with the political approach of this budget, because it increases military spending and because it slowly but surely merges its policy with NATO policy. Essentially, this permanently excludes the potential for an independent EU foreign policy. The five-year financial framework cuts agricul... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | The European Commission is planning to divert considerable resources to two areas in the modification of the 2009 budget. One area is competitiveness, which includes the research and development framework programmes, even though this was regarded as a priority until now. If we blame the candidates in this sector, this... | null |
Ingeborg Gräßle | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Lindblad, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to pick up on the call made by Mr Garriga for realistic budgets. What are the costs of the Treaty of Lisbon? This has become a very urgent problem. Why can we not be more realistic with regard to the Structural Funds? They have become our sacr... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, during the current financial and economic crisis, particular attention must be focused on growth, competitiveness, jobs and a more efficient and simpler implementation of the Cohesion and Structural Funds. Other priority objectives, apart from these, include increasing the security ... | null |
Nathalie Griesbeck | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is my turn to pay tribute to the imagination shown and the efforts made by our institutions in order to release – via some budgetary techniques, as Mr Lamassoure mentioned, by some miracle – the very substantial sums of money that correspond to the second phase of t... | null |
Elisabeth Jeggle | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament has come out well in these negotiations. I would like to thank all my fellow Members who took part in the negotiations and who clearly stated their opinion to the Commission and the Council. Now it is important for us to do full justice to all the issues rela... | null |
Estelle Grelier | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, in essence, the vote on the budget is a profoundly political act, and we must learn a political lesson – a major, fundamental political lesson – from the budget being proposed to us. The European Union budget, and particularly this one, reflects the lack of a European political project even though, again... | null |
Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I completely support the European Parliament's decision to prioritise funding for the European Economic Recovery Plan. A recovery plan of this kind is necessary to increase economic demand and to re-establish the competitive capability of the region. As a result of the economic crisis, unemployment level... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Thank you Mr Gallagher. As the Vice-President responsible for multilingualism, I would like to say how glad we are to hear you speaking Gaelic in Parliament. | null |
Danuta Maria Hübner | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | Mr President, I should like to make four points. Firstly let me emphasise the need to use our 2010 budget and, in particular, the European cohesion policy financial instruments, with the utmost expediency in order to stimulate economic activity in all of the Union’s regions and cities and create the leverage necessary ... | null |
Cătălin Sorin Ivan | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-12-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by the Council (all sections) - Draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009, Section III – Commission - Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument - Amendment to the multiannual financial framework ... | I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteurs for the results they achieved in negotiating the 2010 budget. Europe’s citizens need now more than ever a substantial European budget to tackle the economic crisis and their problems. Member States’ budgets are currently experiencing major difficulties in tacklin... | null |
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