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Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I congratulate the Swedish Presidency on its commendable leadership over the last six months. Regarding the Stockholm Programme, I would highlight the fact that it is trying to give impetus to longed-for common immigration policy. However, certain essential issues have been relegated to secondary status.... | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I, too, would like to add my voice to the expressions of thanks which are being made to the Swedish Presidency, and to Mr Reinfeldt personally for his efficiency, and also for the excellent way in which he has achieved the priorities of the presidency. Of course, what is important for European Union citizens is, in pa... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I was the rapporteur for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, which I negotiated on second reading with the Swedish Presidency of the European Union Council. This is an extremely important report for the future of the European Union and the battle against climate change. It is also significant for the Copenh... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I must apologise to Mr Balčytis and Mr Luhan: I cannot comply with their request because we already have numerous other speakers and we do not have enough time to let everyone speak. They will have to save it for another time. I apologise once again. | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to congratulate the Swedish Presidency for leading the European Union fairly and responsibly at a time, as you said, of institutional change and of economic and financial crisis. However, you may have missed the opportunity during this period to promote a broader European discourse on a socio-economic mo... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Reinfeldt, I would like to know your view, Mr Reinfeldt, on the conclusions of the Troika, since the Heads of State or Government decided to create this troika concept in order to give a sense of continuity to the Presidency. Furthermore, since you are concluding the Troika between the Fre... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, We meet here in Parliament every six months to summarise the achievements of another country as it ends its leadership of the European Union. The Swedish Presidency will go down in history because its term saw the pushing through of the Euro-constitution, for which some had been agitating for nearly 10 y... | null |
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to congratulate the Swedish Presidency for the vision of a citizen-centred Europe laid down in the Stockholm Programme. We can never underline enough the historic importance of finally having a vision that meets our citizens’ concerns for security and, at the same time, for respecting individ... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Swedish Presidency has done an excellent job, and I would like to congratulate the prime minister for this. The final completion of the Treaty of Lisbon’s ratification resolved the regrettable and disgraceful mini-crisis involving the Czech President Klaus. This situation resulted from the political mistake made d... | null |
Rachida Dati | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Reinfeldt, first of all, I would like to congratulate the Swedish Presidency on the six months of relentless and very ambitious work it has done, notably by securing, alongside the Heads of State or Government and within the scope of the G20, a common and ambitious position on financial re... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this morning I want to express my extreme disappointment, on behalf of the Northern Ireland fishing industry, that yet another cut has been imposed upon the industry. Last night’s announcement from the Council that there will be a 9% cut in nephrops in Area 7A is a bitter blow to the fishing industry in N... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | During the Swedish Presidency, a great deal of good has happened in the Union, in what has been, of course, a difficult period of crisis and expectations concerning acceptance of the Treaty of Lisbon. I do not, however, share the opinion that we have a different Union or a new Union. I think we have, at most, a renewe... | null |
Fredrik Reinfeldt | EU Council President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, coming to the end of this debate, we are also coming to the end of the last presidency on the rotating principle, as has been mentioned. Soon, José Manuel Barroso and I will leave for Copenhagen, so just a comment on financial resources, because I think that will be at the heart of the discussions we will... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Prime Minister, in two weeks’ time, your presidency of the European Union will come to an end. Thank you for your activity and for your energy. It has not been an easy presidency; we know that. As we heard from our Members, and the many points of view expressed, it has been a successful presidency. I wish to thank you ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would just like to answer some of the concrete questions from the Members of Parliament who are still here. For instance, Mr Severin spoke about economic, social and territorial cohesion, and I want to underline the point he made. In fact, in the first exchange of views which we had in the European Coun... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President Barroso, thank you once again. I would like to thank Prime Minister Reinfeldt, Minister Malmström, a former Member of the European Parliament, and the whole of the Swedish Government for their very active cooperation with the European Parliament. That concludes the debate. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to congratulate the Swedish Presidency on constructively and effectively implementing the goals of its programme. Sweden put considerable effort into ensuring the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on 1 December this year, and this means that the European Union will become more democratic, more effi... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The six months of the Swedish Presidency under Prime Minister Reinfeldt have been a great success and marked by excellence. The Swedish Presidency played a crucial role in the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. It thus ended almost a decade of debate and institutional stalemate, opening the door to new opportuniti... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is a fact that it was during the Swedish Presidency that significant institutional changes were made, particularly the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, after that whole process of pressurising and blackmailing the Irish people into changing their vote in the second referendum they had to hold. However, even f... | null |
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, assessment of the Swedish Presidency yields a very positive result. Of course, its greatest success was bringing the ratification process for the Treaty of Lisbon to completion. As a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, I also consider a success the compromise reached in the Council on EU patents an... | null |
Zita Gurmai | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The green light has been given to the Lisbon Treaty, which has created all necessary circumstances for institutional reforms. The Swedish Presidency’s role was to pave the way for the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty’s provisions. It coped with this challenge. The next Presidency’s task is to ensure that the new str... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Treaty of Lisbon has strengthened Parliament’s role in the European decision-making process and, by extension, the legitimacy of this institution in the eyes of Europe’s citizens. Consequently, I congratulate the Swedish Presidency for the outstanding efforts made to bring about the new treaty’s entry into force. ... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wish to congratulate the Swedish Presidency for the six months of ambitious work it has carried out in the difficult climate of the economic and financial crisis, the preparations for the Copenhagen Summit and the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon. Thanks to the Treaty of Lisbon, we finally have the clear institution... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to congratulate the Swedish Presidency on its work, particularly in those areas that come under the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. The challenges were huge: there was the transition from the legal system of the Treaty of Nice to that provided for by the Treaty of Lisbon and also ... | null |
Rovana Plumb | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Swedish Presidency has signified progress through three major actions: - the election of the EU President and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force; - the adoption of the ‘Stockholm Multiannual Programme for the 2010-2014 period’; - the prepar... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The 2010 Strategy marks out the direction of the Union’s operations and its main priorities for the next 10 years. As we come to the end of the Lisbon Strategy, it is important, while continuing with current socio-economic priorities, to find effective means for evening out the effects of the economic crisis. In conne... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Despite the difficulties resulting from the delayed entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the Swedish Presidency achieved some notable successes. They include the energy efficiency package and the telecoms package, the creation of a prudential financial supervisory body, agreement on the 2010 budget, particularly as ... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Results of the Swedish Presidency - Outcome of the European Council on 10 and 11 December 2009 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the decisions made by the summit signal an escalation in the anti-grassroots policy of the European Union and the bourgeois governments and harsh measures against the working class and grassroots sections of society in order to strengthen the profitability and position of European monopolies, both within... | null |
Jan Březina | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the Böge report on releasing resources from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund because, particularly in the case of the Austrian request, it involves a highly unsystematic approach which is reflected in an unprecedented high level of support per person. If there must be time limited individual ... | null |
Syed Kamall | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the reason that I think many of us are interested in trade is really the idea of how we help those in the very poorest countries to get out of poverty. We know that one of the best ways to help them out of poverty is to help the entrepreneurs in poorer countries. Entrepreneurs in many poorer countries are... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, if we are to alleviate poverty in the world, we have to increase global trade. If we go down the path of protectionism because of the world’s current financial crisis, the only thing we will do is delay bringing millions of people out of poverty, and millions of people will die. If we do not grasp this ch... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, concerning this resolution on the World Trade Organisation, and contrary to the opinion voiced by the previous speaker, I believe that it is not international trade that will ensure that fewer than one billion human beings die or suffer from malnutrition, but subsistence farming. It will ensure this long... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We are not laissez-faire capitalists and we do believe in state help for workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. We would want that help to be provided by sovereign states to their own workers. We are not, of course, even in favour of EU membership. However, the European Globalisation Adjustment... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund was set up to grant additional assistance to workers affected by the consequences of major changes in the structure of international trade. Portugal, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and Austria have already applied to it, which shows that this problem affects... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Although we maintain our critical position regarding the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, since we believe it would have been more important to adopt measures to prevent unemployment in the first place, we voted in favour of the mobilisation of this fund to provide further assistance for workers affected by the... | null |
Françoise Grossetête | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the Böge report on mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. Its aim is to protect jobs and to make it easier for workers who have been made redundant following changes in the structure of international trade and the global financial and economic crisis to re-enter the labour mar... | null |
Jörg Leichtfried | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am voting in favour of the report on the provision of EUR 15.9 million in assistance to Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands. As a consequence of the global economic crisis, a total of 744 workers have had to be made redundant in the automotive supply industry in Styria alone. The application rightly submitted by Aus... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Swedish, Austrian and Dutch workers are being sacrificed to globalisation. We reiterate our strong opposition to the philosophy underpinning this fund, which makes European workers mere ‘adjustment variables’ enabling the smooth running of a form of neoliberal globalisation that is never called into question. The inte... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union is an area of solidarity. That spirit is the context for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. The fund provides essential support to help the unemployed and victims of the relocations that occur in a globalised context. That is even more the case when we realise that an increasing number of c... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Once again, the consequences of globalisation are having to be cushioned through the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). This time, unfortunately, Styria has also been hard hit. A total of 744 people from nine different companies have lost their jobs over the last few months, and that is ... | null |
Wojciech Michał Olejniczak | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I endorsed mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, because the situation in labour markets today demands that we act on behalf of workers. Previous crises were characterised by the fact that they affected specific regions, and were concentrated in one place. At such times, all those who lost their ... | null |
Aldo Patriciello | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on his excellent work. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund is a tool that is now being increasingly used by the European Parliament due to the difficult stage of economic convergence our continent is experiencing. This... | null |
Marit Paulsen, Olle Schmidt and Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Sweden has applied for assistance from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in respect of redundancies within the automotive sector in Sweden. We are convinced that free trade and the market economy benefit economic development and we are therefore, in principle, opposed to financial assistance for countries or ... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I abstained from the vote on further mobilisation of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund. The vote concerns, among other things, two payments of almost EUR 24 million in total to the car industry in Sweden and Austria. Another request concerns a construction company in the Netherlands. The car industry is the main benef... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This amending budget clearly reflects the contradictions in the European Union’s budgets. On one hand, its global values are low in comparison with the needs of the economic and social cohesion policies. On the other hand, the funds have not been spent, because the countries that were most in need of that money found ... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the motion, because overall, it promotes the liberalisation of markets and a trade system which is solely to the detriment of poor and developing countries and shows no real concern for the environmental needs of the planet. I consider that the liberalisation of trade and its catastrophic results, whic... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the joint motion for a resolution on the prospects for the Doha Development Agenda following the Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference. I did so from a general perspective because it clearly lacks vision in terms of promoting development and respect for developing countries, but more specifically because,... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In my view, the Doha Round is fundamentally important for international trade and may greatly help to reduce poverty in developing countries and to share out the benefits of globalisation more fairly. It is therefore important that the Doha Development Agenda take account of that effect and make a real contribution to... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am in favour of the European Union playing a leading role in the current WTO negotiations, so as to conclude the Doha Round while bearing in mind the new global challenges, such as climate change, security and food sovereignty. I hope that the outcome will result in new market opportunities and a strengthening of th... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This resolution stresses Parliament’s neoliberal positions on the Doha Round, which began in 2001, albeit with an occasional reference to social issues and the Millennium Development Goals. Its main thrust, however, is the emphasis on total liberalisation of the world market. It refuses to accept that it is time to ch... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | No, global free trade is not a solution to the current crisis. On the contrary, it is one of its main causes. The Doha Round negotiations have faltered from the start and have been at a standstill for a year because of a fundamental problem, namely, the system has reached its tolerable limits for everyone – be they de... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I hope that the Doha Development Round will lead to our establishing fair and equitable trade relations. That is why I have endorsed the amendments by my political group, which are aimed at improving this resolution in order to strengthen the demands relating to development; to request that public services not be call... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The various imbalances in the system of international trade unfairly help to accentuate the asymmetries between the continents. In this respect, anything that helps correct the current imbalances is of benefit to everyone and certainly contributes to creating a multilateral system based on fairer and more equitable ru... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | After 30 years of free market fundamentalism, the global economy is facing the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The neoliberal agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), involving deregulation, liberalisation and privatisation of services, has brought further poverty for the majority of the wor... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The joint motion for a resolution from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), the European Conservatives and Reformists and the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe on the Doha Development Agenda and the WTO continues the trend of global liberalisation in all economic are... | null |
Evelyn Regner | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have today voted against the resolution on the Doha Development Agenda because I am opposed to any kind of liberalisation of public services. I am thinking in particular of the liberalisation of the water supply, health services and services in the energy sector. For the cohesion of society, it is essential that all... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In this era of globalisation, an effective system for regulating trade is more relevant than ever. This is the role of the World Trade Organisation, which was created in 1995 to replace GATT. As is emphasised in the joint motion for a resolution tabled by the right of Parliament, which I voted for this lunchtime, the ... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is with pleasure that I welcome the resolution about the WTO, because it is an exceptionally important problem at the present time. The crisis is global in nature, and getting out of it as quickly as possible is in the interests of all of us. I think one way of effectively limiting the crisis is to expand world tra... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the motion, because it is predicated entirely on the doctrine and policy of the ‘war against terror’, which is still being used to justify restrictions on rights and freedoms and to legalise military intervention and actions introduced under the Lisbon Treaty. Also, the European Parliament has ultimate... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Public access to documents is an essential factor in ensuring that there is democratic control of the institutions and that they operate effectively, thus increasing citizens’ trust. In the framework of the Stockholm Programme, the Council reaffirmed the importance of transparency and invited the Commission to examine... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The issue under consideration concerns the Treaty of Lisbon, in particular, how to reconcile its Articles 75 and 215 with regard to Parliament’s competence in the procedure for adopting restrictive measures against certain persons and entities. Whereas Article 215 seems to exclude Parliament from the decision-making p... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The fight against terrorism is once again being used as an excuse to provide for restrictive measures and sanctions against governments of third states, natural or legal persons, groups or non-state entities. That is unacceptable, because the report itself acknowledges that in practice, it is difficult to distinguish ... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This Parliament’s resolution constantly wavers between the need to take certain measures against terrorist organisations and states that support them, such as freezing their assets or imposing diplomatic and economic sanctions, and so on, and respect for the rights of individuals and organisations to defend themselves... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this resolution because it is important for we MEPs to exercise our parliamentary control over decisions to impose sanctions against persons associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, as well as persons who threaten the rule of law in Zimbabwe and Somalia. The chosen legal basis is unacceptable; we... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The ECR Group are the strongest supporters of measures against terrorists in the EU and especially believe that national governments within the European Union must work together to tackle the constant threat from terrorism. The ECR Group have nevertheless decided to abstain on this resolution for two specific reasons: ... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The common sense behind the questions that have been asked goes beyond a mere evaluation of doctrine and the consistency between declared intentions and their interpretation. There is also a practical consequence, which arises from the old saying that he who can do the greater can certainly do the lesser, and it conce... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In recent years, more and more liberties have been curtailed in the name of combating terror. With the SWIFT Agreement and the Stockholm Programme, in particular, the ‘transparent person’ is becoming ever more a reality. Of course, in a time of modern technology, globalisation and a borderless EU, it is important for ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Award of the Sakharov Prize (formal sitting) Video of the speechesPV | Dear honoured guests, dear colleagues, dear friends, there are days when I am particularly proud to sit in the chair of the European Parliament as President. Today is such a day. Today we are honouring the winners of the 2009 Sakharov Prize, the prize for freedom of thought. It is an enormous honour to recall that the ... | null |
Sergei Kovalev | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Award of the Sakharov Prize (formal sitting) Video of the speechesPV | (translated from the original Russian) Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Memorial organisation, let me thank the European Parliament for this high accolade – the Sakharov Prize. Memorial views this award as being not only for our organisation: the prize is being awarded to the entire human rights community in Russ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the new EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan. | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the problems facing Afghanistan and Pakistan are naturally a concern of the whole world. Violent extremism is spreading beyond the region. Drugs that are grown and produced in Afghanistan find their way onto the streets of Europe. One of the driving forces behind our commitment is the need to prevent ... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Let me start with Afghanistan. We are at an important point in our relations here. Our future support must help build a government that is responsive to the needs and the concerns of the Afghan people. As the situation is volatile, we need to both work with, and to influence, the situation on the ground. That is what t... | null |
Ioannis Kasoulides | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the goal in Afghanistan was to fight the Taliban, who offered a safe haven to al-Qaeda. Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven but the Taliban insurgency has not been defeated because it was proven that victory cannot be achieved by military means alone and that over-reliance on military power by killin... | null |
Roberto Gualtieri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Minister, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, with this debate, the European Parliament is seeking to contribute to the discussion on the role of Europe within a region that is crucial to the safety and stability of the entire planet. The new military strategy announced by President Obama, and ... | null |
Pino Arlacchi | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we are here to deal with the EU plan of action for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Committee on Foreign Affairs of this Parliament has given me the opportunity to be the rapporteur on a new strategy for Afghanistan. We need a new strategy – or maybe we just need any strategy at all – on the civilian side... | null |
Jean Lambert | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think there are certain things to be welcomed in the action plan but, as colleagues have correctly pointed out, there are a number of questions there that have not been answered. I think that, when we are looking at this, we are always looking at it from the point of view of the problem that we have ... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we cannot afford to let the NATO-ISAF military mission in Afghanistan fail. With sufficient political will, the right military equipment and more troop numbers on the ground from all the Member States, NATO can defeat the Taliban and, of course, this must be coupled to a hearts-and-minds campaign as we... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Madam Vice-President designate, my group has never supported the strategy of the previous President of the United States, Mr Bush, in relation to Afghanistan. We never supported it and time has proved us right. Afghanistan currently has a corrupt, illegitimate government, there are innocent victims an... | null |
Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of meeting some of the UK returning forces from Afghanistan and I heard the same story over and over again that they were ill-equipped. Yet the UK pays GBP 45 million a day into this corrupt institution. Some of that money could be better spent in arming our forces in... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at first sight, the Council’s conclusions about Afghanistan appear to be a welcome contrast to the belligerent attitude of the United States and the United Kingdom. When looked at more closely, it is actually a mixture of naivety and complicity in their methods. The Council is thoroughly naive in tryin... | null |
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the international community, and not just the United States, has a problem in Afghanistan. President Obama has taken three months to establish a global strategy in response to General McChrystal’s alarming report. It is well known that that new strategy involves short-term reinforcement of military pr... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, let me start today by remembering Lance Corporal Adam Drane, 23, of the Royal Anglian Regiment, from Bury St Edmunds in my constituency, who died in Helmand province on 7 December, the 100th member of the British armed forces to be killed this year. Our thoughts should be with Adam’s family and all tho... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to make it clear straight away that I totally disapprove of the remarks that Mrs Sinclaire has just made against Mrs Ashton. Madam President, one in four children does not reach the age of five in Afghanistan, a country marked by social and health deficits, to which democratic and, above... | null |
Nicole Kiil-Nielsen | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, yes, we will have to emerge from the Afghan trap into which we fell because of the policy pursued by George Bush. However, the question is not when, but how, we pull out of Afghanistan. If the countless mistakes made by the international community are not called into question, we are in danger of comp... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, to read the EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, you would imagine that the whole situation depended on what the EU does. I believe the European Union could make a useful, practical contribution, but this needs to be set in the context of the wider, international effort and it should be focused... | null |
Cornelia Ernst | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today, after eight years, we all essentially know that the previous Afghanistan strategy based on military force has failed. The imbalance between military operations, on the one hand, and the insufficient resources for civil purposes, on the other, is directly preventing any improvement in the living... | null |
Philippe Juvin | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I believe that we must try to come up with some simple ideas with regard to these very complicated matters. My first question is simple: Why did we go to Afghanistan? We went to Afghanistan with one objective: to dismantle the al-Qaeda training camps, the support base of international terrorism, which... | null |
Ana Gomes | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Council says that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan has a direct impact on Europe. That, in fact, is the principal message that we have to be able to put across honestly and courageously to Europe’s citizens. In that respect, I welcome the EU’s new action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which includes i... | null |
Reinhard Bütikofer | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, if there is one thing that we really do not need in the bitter reality being experienced in Afghanistan, it is pretentious speeches. I am looking in your direction, Baroness Ashton, when I say that. You talked about the Member States being committed to the police training mission EUPOL. Is that really... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the heading chosen here of a ‘new action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan’ is an appropriate one. However, what has been presented here seems to me to be more like two separate action plans presented one after the other. I essentially support what has been said about both countries. In Afghanistan, I... | null |
Ioan Mircea Paşcu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the plan of action on Afghanistan and Pakistan adopted last October is, in itself, a good document. Its aim is to create the conditions for returning responsibility from the international community, including the EU, to the Afghan state, with the former in a support role. The same is envisaged by the U... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am delighted that the Swedish Presidency has strengthened the European Union’s commitment to stability and development in Afghanistan through the action plan. I would, of course, like to know more about funding for this plan as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Another very important moment for Afgha... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, an Afghan friend once said to me that it is a good thing that the West invaded Afghanistan, but remember that, in Afghan history, anyone who stayed longer than a year became an occupier, even if they previously went there as liberators. That was in 2001. We are now in 2009 and exactly that has happene... | null |
Lara Comi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the security situation in Afghanistan recently became much worse due to the lack of full control on the ground. Vast areas of the country are governed by tribal rule and no longer, therefore, by national law. The sense of insecurity has also spread to the main cities, despite the... | null |
Janusz Władysław Zemke | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think the European Union action plan is going in the right direction, because our assistance must concern two areas. The first is an improvement in security. The second is an improvement in the conditions under which people live. It can be said that progress in the first area – concerning security –... | null |
Sajjad Karim | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today, terrorist bombings are a daily occurrence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Schools, shopping centres, town centres and even military headquarters are under attack. The Pakistani military is successfully pushing back infiltrators into Pakistan from Afghanistan, but I have to ask myself: from whe... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In my opinion, the action plan for Afghanistan will only make sense if it underlines our European policy, that is, the European approach to Afghanistan. We are already deeply involved there and we cannot just go along with the decisions of our major allies, surprising us as they do with some of their strategic decisio... | null |
Arnaud Danjean | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, much has been said about the action plan on Afghanistan. Speaking for myself, I regret that the presentations given to us today did not place slightly more emphasis on the link between the EUPOL mission and the NATO mission in Afghanistan. This is a mission that we must carry out. The quantitative and... | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | For well over eight years, our countries have been wasting human lives, energy and huge financial resources in a country ravaged by war where two empires, the British and Soviet empires, had already been bogged down. Unfortunately, the political and military reinforcement of the Taliban’s influence, the poverty devast... | null |
Piotr Borys | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-12-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the situation in Afghanistan is, today, the most important problem facing international institutions and, now that the Treaty of Lisbon has come into force, the European Union in particular. This challenge cannot be met without three elements in our strategy: firstly, the success of a very ambitious, two... | null |
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