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Karel De Gucht | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to tell Mr Le Hyaric, who is calling for food surpluses to be shipped to Haiti, that this is not the European Union’s approach, for the simple reason that the Commission prefers to purchase these products in the region. We will begin by seeing whether we can purchase them in th... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the February part-session. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to express my solidarity with the people of Haiti affected by the earthquake that hit the country on 12 January, and I welcome the aid commitments made by the EU. The European Union is the world’s largest provider of humanitarian and development aid. A few hours after the catastrophe, the EU provided EUR ... | null |
Gaston Franco | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am surprised by the absence of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from the scene of the natural disaster in Haiti. In spite of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union still has difficulty in showing its face on the international stage, and that is mo... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, the reports reaching us from Haiti are shocking. It is one of the most horrifying catastrophes we have heard of. However, we can already draw certain conclusions which may be useful in future. It can be clearly seen that the mechanisms which coordinate humanitarian aid are not the best. Aid for t... | null |
Alan Kelly | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The recent earthquake in Haiti demonstrates to us all how fragile living on this earth can be. We have all been moved by the pictures and stories coming from the media in recent days. The response of the global community to this natural disaster has been amazing and I commend all of those who are helping with the relie... | null |
Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, tragic information about the disastrous earthquake in Haiti reaches us every day. From this news, it is absolutely clear that Haiti, plunged into total chaos and left without support, is not coping with the effects of that terrible tragedy. The entire international community, including the European Union... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission on the situation in Iran. | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, this is an important opportunity to raise the situation in Iran. The European Union wants normal relations with Iran, and our efforts on the nuclear issue are part of that. In this context, I will continue, in my capacity as High Representative, the role of my predecessor, Javier Solan... | null |
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Baroness Ashton, you are quite right to be concerned, because the situation in Afghanistan is extremely severe, particularly from the viewpoint of human rights. I refer particularly to civil rights and political freedoms, where we are seeing a truly incredible breakdown: the arbitrary exercise of violence, mass impris... | null |
Roberto Gualtieri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in view of the developments in the situation in Iran, one cannot help but express serious concern. These concerns relate to the increasing infringements of political and civil rights, which we strongly condemn, and concern over the failure to perform the duties resulting from Iran’s... | null |
Marietje Schaake | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, last summer, I got elected to the European Parliament by voicing criticism against my own government. A young woman in Iran, having done the same, would have likely been killed, imprisoned, tortured and raped since. Thanks to new media, we have all seen the clips of the brutal way the Iranian regime crack... | null |
Barbara Lochbihler | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, the European Parliament has paid close attention to the internal and foreign policy developments in Iran. The Iran delegation has been engaged in dialogue with representatives of the government and of civil society and had made preparations for a delegation trip to Iran at the start of t... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Ahmadinejad’s ruthless ambition to develop nuclear weapons represents, in my view, the gravest threat to world peace today. Only through a united and coordinated approach will the EU’s diplomacy eventually succeed. Renewed sanctions must now be targeted and must be extremely damaging to the regi... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the media presented me with an awkward proposition last week: Israel, they say, is going to attack its arch-enemy Iran sooner or later. While this debate was going on in Europe, the media in Iran was also intensively discussing the military option against Tehran’s controversial nuclear project. All Zioni... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the most recent events, in particular, have made clear that the handling of civil liberties in Iran has clear failings, from the European point of view. The death sentence handed down to the recently sentenced protesters is a sign of how differently fundamental rights and their observance are handled in ... | null |
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, Iran’s internal situation is worsening dramatically from day to day and from week to week. Human rights are being brutally violated before our eyes, and we are seeing terror of a kind we have not had to deal with for decades. An unprecedented wave of state repression is trying to silence... | null |
Ana Gomes | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Iranian question is one of the most important issues in modern international politics. Everything must be done to prevent the Iranian regime, which has been so detrimental to peace and security in the Middle East, from gaining access to nuclear weapons. However, the role of the European Union in its relations with... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Iran is undoubtedly going through the most serious crisis in its history since 1979 because of this regime, which is impervious to any kind of change and which has increased the number of targeted assassinations of opponents, of raids and of imprisonments of peaceful demonstrators, as well as journalists... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation inside Iran is continuing to deteriorate. At least eight people have been killed recently, the regime has stepped up arrests of women – female journalists, trade unionists and intellectuals – 30 mothers who were demanding news of their disappeared children have been ar... | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, even if the conflict in Iran often appears to be a power struggle between the old and the new establishment, it is still very clear to see that this very closed social system has very clear cracks. The situation in Iran is certainly proof of the significance of democracy, namely the ability of every sing... | null |
Philippe Juvin | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Iranians stated that they were ready for a gradual exchange of low-enriched uranium for fuel. This kind of production has been rejected by the Group of Six, even though it was not actually all that different from the proposal that this same group had drawn up shortly beforehand. I do not at all under... | null |
María Muñiz De Urquiza | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | My first speech in Parliament, in June last year, was on the subject of Iran, in the wake of the latest wave of executions. At that time, I called for the European Union to bring all the instruments at its disposal to bear in order to protect human rights. Now we find that the repression is still continuing against th... | null |
Marco Scurria | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in European Union publications and on EU websites, we often say that human rights are the heart of the process of European integration and the key element of its external relations. The countries that have entered into political or trade agreements with the European Union are bound ... | null |
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, over recent weeks, we have seen the Iranian Government, or the Iranian regime, commit serious violations of human rights and the most basic democratic freedoms. So, for this Parliament and for Europe, the issue is no longer simply that of relations with a country which is thinking a... | null |
Monica Luisa Macovei | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have decided to use most of my time for this intervention to highlight the names of people who, reportedly, are in detention in Iran, some convicted to death, for criticising the political regime or for defending civil rights. Ali Mehrnia, Parviz Varmazyari, Majid Rezaii, Alireza Nabavi, Ali Massoumi and Shirin Alavi... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I personally believe that there is great potential for close economic, cultural and political ties between Iran and the European Union. However, this potential remains untapped. Relations between Iran and the European Union encounter major difficulties when sensitive subjects are touched on, such as Iran’s nuclear pro... | null |
Salvatore Tatarella | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, you, Baroness, have drawn a dramatic picture of the situation in this great country which has a great history, a great culture, and a great civilisation. There is the suppression of dissent and of the opposition, there are very serious restrictions on civil rights, ... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Iran’s current administration blatantly violates human rights and tramples on the fundamental rights of its citizens. The most recent evidence of this is the slaying of eight people in connection with the Ashura event and the fact that five members of the opposition are currently awaiting t... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the end of last year saw the biggest opposition protests in Iran since the demonstrations which followed the presidential election in June, when the serving president was announced victor. In clashes with security forces, eight people died, hundreds were injured and hundreds were detained. Students suppo... | null |
Arnaud Danjean | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ashton, the events on Ashura Day and the bloody repression of the recent demonstrations in Iran have shown that it was a total mistake to make a very artificial distinction between the hardening of the regime internally and the inflexible policy that it pursues externally, in particular, on the Irani... | null |
Potito Salatto | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not want to carry on listing the reasons for our disagreement with the Iranian Government. Since it has not been referred to here, I will only emphasise one of the most serious violations of civil rights, which relates to young people. The Iranian Government, having signed the ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have to say to Mrs Ashton that our hopes of convincing the Iranian regime of our concerns will, I am afraid, be in vain. In fact, we are dealing with a dictatorship of yesterday and what is needed now is to concentrate on the opportunity for change. The regime is coming apart at the seams, and the Irani... | null |
Alexander Alvaro | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, reported today that yesterday, Monday, the office of public prosecution in Tehran demanded the death penalty for five opposition figures. According to Amnesty International, these five opposition figures are 17-year old Ali Mehrnia, 54-year old Parviz Varmazyari... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think it is clear to all of us here that the Iranian regime is a dictatorial and criminal regime. The question is: how to deal with it? I would like to state very clearly my support for the delegation that would have gone to Iran from this Parliament. The delegation would have met, for one whole day, me... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to agree with Tunne Kelam and Mr Alvaro. The day of dialogue and engagement with Iran has long since passed. People are dying in the streets almost every day in protests against this fascist regime. Only yesterday, as you have heard, a kangaroo court in Tehran called for the death penalty against f... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Baroness Ashton, I was delighted to observe your sober stance, informed by respect for a country with the history and pride of Iran. Iran is a special case and I am delighted that you are applying the diplomatic approach known as ‘smart power’, namely sanctions on the one hand and dialogue on the other. I would urge y... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Three short questions. First, the leading Iranian nuclear scientist was recently murdered in a brutal terrorist attack. What is the European Union’s view about this case? Curiously, there was no mention of it today. I deplore that fact very much. Secondly, just why is the Iranian nuclear potential a greater problem, m... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ashton, the death and disappearance of the body of Seyed Ali Mousavi, the nephew of the leader of the Iranian opposition, is one of many tragic examples that show the current malaise of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The legitimacy of the Iranian regime following the very dubious elections last June i... | null |
Piotr Borys | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ashton, Iran is a key country, affecting the stabilisation of peace worldwide and in part of the Middle East. Of course, it is beyond dispute that we must defend human rights and resolutely express our concern about the violations of the rights of the opposition which have been going on for several m... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in this context, as always, I would like to point out that we here in Europe actually only recognise individual liability and reject blanket suspicion on principle. I am sure that, as a Briton, Baroness Ashton might well have great sympathy for the idea of targeting the guilty parties in situations like ... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I hold no brief for the regime of the Ayatollahs in Iran or for its anti-democratic stances. But I would say two things: one is that there is repression of non-violent freedom of speech even in Europe and even among EU members. Furthermore, the activities in Iran and the events in Iran are being used quite cynically by... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think this has been an extremely important and timely debate, first of all, because we have reiterated the commitment that we have in the European Union to the importance of the values of human rights. And indeed, in our dialogue with Iran, we ask nothing more than that they live up to the international... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Dear colleagues, these discussions last from 15.00 to 20.00, which is five hours. I suggest that we take a five-minute break in order for the High Representative and everybody else who has been in the Chamber, and will continue in the Chamber, to catch their breath, and that we resume at 17.35: five minutes from now. | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, before we break, I would just like to give a point of information. Baroness Ashton, you were talking about the Iran delegation. The delegation was due to go to Iran from 8-10 January, but that delegation visit was cancelled. In fact, it was cancelled by the Iranian authorities. Many of us pressed for the ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I was unaware that there was a ‘point of information’ procedure. Mr Van Orden. I allowed you to go on, but in all fairness to everyone else, this was not a point of order. The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the February I part-session in Strasbourg. (The sitting was suspended at 17.30 and resumed at ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The sitting is resumed. The next item is the statement by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission on the situation in Yemen. | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we know the reason why Yemen is on our agenda today. We traced the Detroit bomber’s trail from the United States to Europe, to Africa and Yemen. Thus, we were reminded, once again, that our own security is at risk if we do not help countries like Yemen, who are struggling to meet multiple challenges at... | null |
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | After the formidable stunt that the Taliban pulled off yesterday in Afghanistan, where, lest we forget, we have 100 000 troops fighting for freedom, and the failed terrorist attack in Detroit this Christmas, I believe, Baroness Ashton, that it is legitimate to wonder whether terrorism is stronger now than when freedom... | null |
David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, our group is very worried by the situation in Yemen because there is a global threat there: the failed attempt to blow up a US aircraft, the threats directed towards foreign embassies and the intensification of attacks by al-Qaeda, the most recent being in Af... | null |
Holger Krahmer | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it seems to me to be a little symptomatic for the EU in general, but also for Parliament in particular, that we should have knee-jerk debates about situations in certain countries that are in no way new. Unfortunately, it is very often the case that overnight events lead to us here in Parliament spout... | null |
Franziska Katharina Brantner | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I will continue a bit on what the previous speaker said. Yemen is certainly not a new crisis: it has been deteriorating for decades, and the worsening political situation was clearly stated in the Commission’s mid-term review. I think we really need to focus on the political context: the longstanding conflict in the no... | null |
Adam Bielan | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the eyes of the whole world were on Yemen recently, after al-Qaeda activists there claimed responsibility for what was, fortunately, an unsuccessful attempt to blow up an American airliner at Christmas. However, we have known for a long time that the deteriorating state of security in the country is a... | null |
Sabine Lösing | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the media are already mobilising the populace for a third front in the war on terror. At this point in time, however, the strategic options for the US and the Member States of the EU in Yemen and the Horn of Africa region are not really open. The fact is that the ruling elites surrounding President Sa... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, rather than being a new frontier of terrorism, as someone dubbed it, Yemen is a country of precarious stability. The central government’s lack of control over the territory and the permeability of the borders are allowing illegal trafficking, unchecked migration, piracy and terro... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is well known that Yemen is currently a hotbed of Islamic extremists, a poverty-stricken country with ineffective security and a high density of weapons that is convulsed with conflicts and suffers from an acute water shortage. It is a country in which the government appears not even to have the ca... | null |
Laima Liucija Andrikienė | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have a short comment and two questions to put to Baroness Ashton. It seems that the EU is now faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, we need to support more robust action against terrorists who directly pose a danger to the security of European citizens. Various Islamist extremist groups in Yemen hav... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I welcome today’s debate in advance of next week’s Foreign Affairs Council and the London conference called by Gordon Brown. Our attention may have been generated by the attempted airline bomber. Today I also appeal for international attention to address efforts to free the British engineer, Anthony S.... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, an attempted attack is enough to remove any sense of triviality from the affirmation of the right to security of our fellow citizens. The protection of our societies obliges us moreover to permanently look for a balance between security and freedom. The right to protection, in pa... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, unfortunately, Yemen long ago developed the characteristics of a terrorist incubator and not enough attention has been paid to this over the years. Conflict, lawlessness and corruption are deeply embedded. It is worth recalling, by the way, that the reason that British troops intervened in Yemen in the... | null |
Charalampos Angourakis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the people of Yemen are the victims of imperialist conflict and intervention. The imperialist powers are, I believe, fomenting ethnic, racial and religious infighting in this country. For years, they have frequently resorted to military force. They are undermining the peaceful resolution of difference... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as the fictional Lady Bracknell might have said, to make one major mistake in the Muslim world is unfortunate, but to make two sounds like carelessness. To make three or more is an indication of stupidity, insanity or deliberate mischief-making. Yemen is now being called the new Afghanistan. US troops ... | null |
Angelika Niebler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, over recent months, the conditions for the people, as well as the overall political and economic situation, have dramatically deteriorated in Yemen. We Europeans must therefore do everything we can to finally stabilise the country. High Representative, might I as... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I agree with the Commission and my fellow Members who have said that the situation in Yemen is tense. The country is exhausted and impoverished by endless partisan wars and separatist fighting and people are suffering from extreme poverty. Such economic and political instability has already caused concern in neighbour... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I will speak in Slovene, so please listen to the interpretation. Yemen is a country troubled by religious and tribal conflicts and by mistakes made by past colonial and US policies. As some of our fellow Members have said, we are dealing here firstly, with the Near and Middle East, an unstable region and one riddled w... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we debated earlier the deteriorating human rights situation and brutal fascist regime in Iran. We heard in that debate how the mullahs have exported terrorism to Palestine and Lebanon, and how now they are exporting their vile brand of terror to Yemen. In late October, Yemeni officials reported that th... | null |
Cristiana Muscardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, the serious political, economic and social crisis in Yemen is linked to the operational presence of al-Qaeda on its territory and the jihadist vision that motivates it. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and the management of internal conflict... | null |
Arnaud Danjean | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mrs Ashton, you were right to stress that the important thing in Yemen in terms of security priority is to end the internal conflicts that exist in that country. We must not confuse the causes and the consequences, and without playing down the terrorist risk, the main reason for the instability in Yem... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Yemen is the poorest country of the Arab world. I was in Yemen not long ago and saw this with my own eyes. There is no doubt that poverty is the source, or at least a factor, which intensifies some of the many problems the country faces. Unfortunately, in the global world, Yemen’s problems are also be... | null |
Marietta Giannakou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as we have already heard and as we all realise, the situation in Yemen is drastic from a social and economic point of view and from the point of view of social cohesion. The country has no water, oil reserves are running out and the inhabitants are growing drug crops. It is exactly what Afghanistan wa... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The failed bomb attempt on 25 December on board the Amsterdam-Detroit flight actually only served to reveal an important fact. It focused the international community’s attention on the seriousness of the situation in Yemen because, as is well known, there are not one, but three conflicts going on in this country. Apar... | null |
Alf Svensson | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Yemen is not just a safe haven for al-Qaeda. That has been made clear in the debate here. The country could very well develop into a battlefield between two of the major powers of the region: Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Yemeni Government has repeatedly accused Iran of supporting the Shi’ite rebellion movement. This is ... | null |
Janusz Władysław Zemke | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to agree with the evaluation of the situation presented by Mrs Ashton. You are right, Mrs Ashton, that if we want to change the situation in Yemen, we need both humanitarian and, perhaps, military action. If this range of measures is to be a broad one, it also requires coordination, becau... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, my question relates to the forms of cooperation, in your view, that we, the European Union, should develop in Yemen, for example, in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises, or perhaps in the area of the provision of energy and water supplies, as communication and building up c... | null |
Marek Siwiec | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the President of the European Parliament nearly had to express condolences to the families of almost 300 victims, who were in an airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. He would have done this yesterday. This did not happen by accident. This dramatic incident was necessary for the world to discover... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, once again, an important and wide-ranging debate on an area of the world where we have, for some years, had a focus. I was reflecting on the fact that, over the period 2007-2010, EUR 100 million have been spent by the Commission in support and a similar amount will be spent in the future but nonetheles... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the first part-session in February. | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We have long seen the convergence of powerful geo-strategic interests in the vast area encompassing the Middle and Near East, Central Asia and Northern Africa, including the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, where Yemen has a strategic position (next to Somalia). These interests are increasingly being defended by military... | null |
Bogdan Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Yemen (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, regarding the problem of security and economic and political stabilisation in Yemen, a problem which has manifested itself fairly often recently, I would like, as a member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula, to express my concern. Yemen, which is the poorest co... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission on the situation in Iraq. | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, when we look at Iraq today, we see real progress, though the country still faces a multitude of challenges. But I want to focus today on the present and the future of Iraq, as a country with great potential and notable achievements over the past months. Violence today is at its lowest since 2003. Altho... | null |
Esther de Lange | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I, too, would like to thank the High Representative for her words, which struck the necessary note of optimism. There are, indeed, positive signs. Amongst other things, you made reference to the lower number of deaths resulting from attacks, and the forthcoming elections. Yet, Baroness Ashton, even su... | null |
Silvia Costa | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is very important for the European Parliament to take the opportunity offered by this debate with a view to the March elections in Iraq. The Iraqi political process has shown itself to be important – even if, as you were saying, interesting – but s... | null |
Johannes Cornelis van Baalen | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the fact is that Iraq is not secure. That is a fact. If we look at Iran, Iran is trying to get much more influence than necessary in Iraq in the south – throughout the whole south, via the Shia minority. I did not hear the High Representative mention the position of Iran. Iran is threatening Iraq. How ... | null |
Jill Evans | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, can I thank the High Representative, Baroness Ashton, for her statement. I do think it is relevant to mention that the debate we are having tonight is taking place against the backdrop of the Chilcot inquiry in the UK into the illegal war on Iraq and what lessons should be learned from that, and a lot ... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, the elections will not be free and fair in Iraq. Ten days ago, the Justice and Accountability Commission decided to ban Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of the parliamentary National Dialogue Front and a member of the Iraqi Parliament for the past four years. He has been banned from participati... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Baroness Ashton, I am sorry but I do not share your optimism. It is good to be optimistic, but we cannot be optimistic about Iraq as things stand at the moment. As proof of this, the Commission has decided not to send observers because it cannot guarantee their safety. I believe this decision speaks for itself. It cle... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, on Christmas night, 2009 – while we were on our Christmas recess, in other words – a number of churches in Iraq, Mesopotamia, were closed. Threats of bombings led to this sad situation, just as they had last year. In any case, the churches often remain empty, with or without such ... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The preparations for the legislative and presidential elections on 7 March have generated a frenzy of activity involving the formation of new coalitions and alliances. Some of the Iraqi Prime Minister’s opponents want to re-establish old alliances, such as the Iraqi United Coalition. On the other hand, the prime minis... | null |
Ana Gomes | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The democratic achievements of the Iraqi people still need to be consolidated and furthered, as does the security situation. In recent months, there has been an encouraging reconfiguration of alliances, which has done much to overcome the ethnic-religious splits that have marked Iraqi politics in recent years. The suc... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mrs Ashton, despite the huge commitment of international forces and hundreds of victims among the international coalition, including 23 Polish soldiers, the situation in Iraq is still bad. It is a country in which we have to deal with terrorist attacks and persecution of religious minorities, includin... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, we do not share your optimism either on the situation in Iraq or on the benefits of the Coalition, as it borders on blindness. Iraq was invaded and occupied on the basis of deliberately deceptive information concerning the presence of weapons of mass destruction. As a result, 17 o... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we sincerely welcome the forthcoming elections in Iraq because they represent a further step towards democracy. They will not be free and fair, but we must settle for one small step after another. Rebuilding Iraq in economic, trade, cultural and financial terms, and guaranteeing ... | null |
Alf Svensson | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Naturally, there is a lot of talk of violence and terrible horrors when Iraq is discussed, but it is indisputable that a democratisation process is taking place in the country. I would like to remind you that 3 912 women stood quite openly in the local elections in Iraq last year. That is roughly ten women standing fo... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In recent years, the European Union has greatly strengthened its relations and influence in the countries of the Near East. The European Union has always paid much attention to Iraq and, together with the international community, has participated both in the reconstruction of Iraq and in peacekeeping and security miss... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mrs Ashton, I would like to say that if I wanted to summarise Mrs Ashton’s speech in one sentence, I would say it was official optimism. However, I think Europe and our voters expect something more specific, and they expect the truth. Politicians show who they are not only by what they say, but also b... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think Iraq can serve as an example of how sometimes, to break the back of a dictatorship which destroys its opponents in their thousands using chemical weapons, it is necessary to use force. These decisions are difficult. Therefore, I would like us, today, while speaking about Iraq, to remember the ... | null |
Janusz Władysław Zemke | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it so happens that only Poles are speaking at the moment, but we do have experience of the involvement of Poland and Polish soldiers in restoring security in Iraq. I share your opinion, Mrs Ashton, that, fortunately, the situation in Iraq is a little better than it was, but it is still in a rather fra... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, my question relates to the memorandum of understanding that has been signed in the energy sector. Do you think it is possible to achieve further development together with either Mr Oettinger or Mr De Gucht? In my opinion, economic reconstruction would be the very thing to bring more s... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you all again for an important and interesting debate. I will just try and capture some of the clear issues that honourable Members were most concerned about. I would begin by recognising the importance that Members attach to the issue of minorities. As Members will know, one of the fundamental parts of our work ... | null |
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