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Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I know of only a few countries relatively close to Europe which have managed to put their ‘democratisation’ process off for several decades. Iraq, where units from EU countries have also unfortunately left a negative mark, is definitely one of them. At present, one of the most secular states in the Islamic world has b... | null |
Artur Zasada | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Situation in Iraq (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am pleased at the optimistic tone of Mrs Ashton’s speech, but I would rather maintain a certain caution in my assessment of the situation in Iraq. Despite many appearances, the country is still internally unstable, and democracy most certainly cannot be said to have ‘taken root’. We cannot speak of stabilisation in ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the report by Eva Joly, on behalf of the Committee on Development, on the second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (Cotonou Agreement) (2009/2165(INI)) (A7-0086/2009). | null |
Eva Joly | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the revision of the Cotonou Agreement gives us an opportunity to learn lessons from the crises that we face: the economic and financial crisis, the social or food crisis, climate change, energy challenges and the persistence of extreme poverty. The dominant economic mo... | null |
Vital Moreira | N/A | N/A | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Committee on International Trade, over which I have the honour of presiding, has decided to take a stand on the ongoing revision of the Cotonou Agreement for two reasons. Firstly, trade is an essential part of the relations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countr... | null |
Karel De Gucht | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I appreciate very much the interest that you take in the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement. It is also with great interest that I read the report of the Development Committee, which provides a shrewd analysis on the matters at stake. Throughout the whole process, it is a priority for us to keep Par... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would first of all like to congratulate Mrs Joly for compiling this report. The subject areas touched on in it are extremely important in terms of ensuring that the Cotonou Agreement remains the basis for a solid partnership with the ACP countries, as well as a relevant instrument against the backdrop of the new cha... | null |
Harlem Désir | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to congratulate Mrs Joly on her work, on the report and also on taking into account the contributions of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, and, although we have again tabled some amendments, ... | null |
Louis Michel | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I would also like to congratulate Mrs Joly on the accuracy and the rigour of her report, and on the very appropriate analysis that it contains. The second revision of the Cotonou Agreement must enhance the Lomé acquis while consolidating unity, cohesion and solidarity between the ACP States... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we go on and on and on. We keep talking about alleviating poverty. This is the 10th EDF. We have pumped about EUR 350 billion into so-called alleviating poverty when we know that poverty has increased. Why is it that we have policies and programmes in our ACP countries that we never had in our own Europea... | null |
Gabriele Zimmer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my group supports Mrs Joly’s report. We call for the following problems, amongst others, to be taken into consideration: the incorporation of the consequences of climate change and of the necessary adaptation measures for the ACP countries; the concern of the ACP countries that the EU’s regional negotiat... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I was shocked when, during a food conference, I saw a sign in the hand of the African delegation saying: Do not feed Africa. We would do better to realise that what Africa needs is not aid but food self-determination. Interestingly, the African population and farmers have the same interest as Eastern Europe’s post-com... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement comes at a very interesting time, because it allows analysis of the provisions of the agreement in the light of a rapidly changing reality. Much has happened since the previous review in 2005: crises in the areas of economics, food, energy and fi... | null |
Véronique De Keyser | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Article 13 of the Cotonou Agreement has not been revised since 2000. It concerns a sensitive subject: the dialogue between the European Union and the ACP countries on immigration, fair treatment of immigrants, the principles of non-refoulement, the underlying causes of immigration and, finally, the fight... | null |
Niccolò Rinaldi | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as liberal democrats, we want to take advantage of the revision of the Cotonou Agreement to affirm an idea of modernity that is backed by the ACP countries too, and when I speak of modernity I mean, above all, the assertion of policies that can stress and allow greater... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I would firstly like to congratulate Mrs Joly on the quality of her report. Indeed, the revision of the Cotonou Agreement must be an opportunity to finally take stock and to propose, on the basis of the lessons learned, solutions to improve its implementation, its operation and its impact. ... | null |
Michael Cashman | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, brevity is the source of wit. Congratulations, Madame Joly; congratulations, Commissioner. Parliament puts at its heart in these negotiations reinforcing the principle of non-negotiable human rights clauses and sanctions for failure to respect such clauses, inter alia, with regard to discrimination based ... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This revised version of the Cotonou Agreement introduces key issues for sustainable development and the gradual integration of ACP countries into the global economy. Issues such as climate change, energy security, training and education are essential for development in these countries. At the same time, global warming... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Parliament has been convened at this precise moment in order to decide on the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement. Please allow me, however, to point out the difficulties that Haiti is facing at present. This situation calls for international solidarity, action and attention. Of course, my thoughts ... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one objective that the second revision of the partnership agreement should have is definitely to promote a culture of responsibility. It will be very difficult to achieve this without the help of civil society organisations, non-State entities, and also without the parliaments. In f... | null |
Zuzana Roithová | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have repeatedly criticised the fact that the national parliaments and the non-governmental organisations in developing countries are not involved in decision making regarding development aid, and that they do not have access to strategic documents. This must be rectified during th... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The report we have debated today refers to many problems linked to food security in ACP countries. I believe that we cannot talk about this subject without also taking into account some of the realities of European agriculture. The European Union can and even should play the role of regulator on the global markets. If... | null |
Isabelle Durant | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would also like to express my support for the very good report by my colleague, Mrs Joly. The ACP-EU Partnership is more necessary than ever, and the tragedy taking place in Haiti demonstrates the extent to which the ACP-EU Partnership is indispensable and definitely must be strengthened. It is unusual... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the revision of the Cotonou agreements should promote a shift in the European Union’s policy of cooperation and development aid. This policy should be aimed at genuine cooperation and solidarity, and should help to promote autonomous and sovereign development in ACP co... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will come straight out and say this: I think there is little sense in paragraph 31 of the present proposal for a second revision of the agreement. I, too, am opposed to the kind of relay race that the various readmission agreements for migrants create, whereby the people in question are passed from one... | null |
Georgios Papanikolaou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this afternoon, the debate was held on the massive and unimaginable disaster in Haiti and on how Europe can help to bring relief to the victims. This debate should remind us – and this is why I have taken the floor during this evening’s sitting – that we need to approach agreements with countries which f... | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, when I think of the Caribbean, two images come to mind: the current major disaster in Haiti, and, when you have been working in this House for many years, also the MEPs luxuriating at the meetings of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA). After this long debate, in which important things have bee... | null |
Crescenzio Rivellini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the ACP Assembly is particularly important at this political juncture where globalisation has more or less divided the world into countries producing products and countries producing ideas, giving rise to a migration of workers as well as, naturally, goods. At the heart of this proc... | null |
Janusz Wojciechowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I permit myself to ask for the floor after hearing Mr Niculescu’s speech, and would like to support firmly the thought he expressed – that in our economic relations with other countries, including the ACP countries, we should not lose sight of the food security of European society. In relations with ACP ... | null |
Karel De Gucht | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | First of all, with respect to the GSP and GSP+, we have nothing in principle against these being included in the Cotonou Agreement, but we should realise that GSP and GSP+ are unilateral and Cotonou is contractual. I think it is therefore very difficult to put them in the Cotonou Agreement, but maybe we can find formul... | null |
Eva Joly | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the entry into force of the Cotonou agreements, poverty has not subsided. We have therefore failed in our development mission. Something has to change with this second revision. I am pleased to say that there is a fairly broad consensus on the measures that I am ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place tomorrow (Wednesday, 20 January 2010). Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The second revision of the Cotonou Agreement presents an opportunity to evaluate the fields left open to incorrect or inefficient changes and is also the time when corrections can be made to the agreement according to developments in the globalisation process. There are numerous challenges to face, triggered by econom... | null |
Martin Kastler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I will be voting in favour of this report, as I think that the deepening of cooperation between the European Union and the ACP states within the framework of the partnership agreements is important. That said, I would like to point out that this report contains the wording ‘protecti... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Today, the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement introduced in 2000 is in progress, and within the framework of this revision, the aim is to introduce a range of changes to the agreement, changes which will help us to achieve the objectives set out in the agreement: the abolition of poverty, economic development an... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the debate on – the oral question to the Council on procedural rights in criminal proceedings, by Sarah Ludford, Elena Oana Antonescu, Carmen Romero López, Heidi Hautala and Rui Tavares, on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (O-0155/2009 - B7-0343/2009), – the oral que... | null |
Sarah Ludford | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I frankly and fully acknowledge that these two oral questions tabled on 1 December last year have been overtaken by events, but this debate is still worthwhile to acknowledge that the issue of procedural rights is fully back on the table after a regrettable absence of several years and to stress the urgen... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am pleased that this question has been tabled by Baroness Ludford, who spoke just now, Mrs Antonescu, Mrs Romero, Mrs Hautala and Mr Tavares, because we are indeed faced with a matter of overriding magnitude in the shape of procedural guarantees in criminal proceedings. On this subject, I would like to say that we a... | null |
Jacques Barrot | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for this question. You know how much I value these procedural guarantees. It is true that, for many years, the Commission has been fighting to ensure that minimum common rules relating to the right of defence are genuinely applied in all criminal proceedings in Europe. This is necessary for judicial cooperat... | null |
Elena Oana Antonescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Although progress has been made in the area of mutual recognition of decisions in criminal matters, very little progress has been made with regard to guaranteeing and ensuring the rights of suspected and accused persons. The importance of common standards is an essential condition for instilling mutual trust in the Me... | null |
Carmen Romero López | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wish to welcome the Spanish Presidency and, at the same time, emphasise that this is the first initiative on procedural rights. We had been debating this topic but it was left in the air when the Swedish Presidency ended. This draft initiative is already with Parliament and the first debate has already taken place. ... | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this House proposed the creation of the European Arrest Warrant on 6 September 2001. Our proposal would still be on a shelf gathering dust if it had not been for the events in New York five days later. Mr Bin Laden helped make it a reality, and it was to me that fell the honour of piloting the measure thr... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Watson. I was going to call you the ‘Godfather’ of the European Arrest Warrant, but I thought it could be misunderstood. | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Watson, you mention Bin Laden and 9/11 as being the justification paving the way for the adoption of the European Arrest Warrant. Is it your contention therefore that the European Arrest Warrant should be used only against terrorists and murderers and in cases of serious violent crimes? | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with permission, I did not give Mr Bin Laden as the justification; I said he helped us to speed it up. It was never intended solely to cover terrorist crimes; it was intended to cover all serious crimes. Those who oppose its use are those who, effectively, oppose the rule of law on our continent and the p... | null |
Heidi Hautala | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fi | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Watson is absolutely right when he says that the European Parliament insisted right from the start that the European Arrest Warrant should be accompanied by clear minimum criminal procedural norms. We can now clearly see the sort of problems that many Member States are facing because the European Arre... | null |
Janusz Wojciechowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I, too, will give an example, as Mrs Hautala has done. A certain young man from Poland was sentenced in Great Britain to life imprisonment for rape, in a trial based on circumstantial evidence, which took place under the influence of a strong smear campaign in the press and which, in the opinion of some ... | null |
Rui Tavares | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Union need two legs to walk: one is the Member States, and the other is their citizens, who are represented by their elected representatives in this house. Now, it often happens that after the Member States have resolved their problems, they shut up their judicial systems; after allowing the... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I speak tonight because, as has been mentioned, two constituents – Michael Turner and Jason McGoldrick – are imprisoned in Unit 2 of the Central Budapest jail in Hungary. They have been imprisoned since 3 November and they are yet to be tried. There is, in fact, no trial date. The terms of imprisonment are burdensome. ... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As a Hungarian and a criminal lawyer, I should be ashamed because today, here in the EU Parliament, on the subject of the lack of procedural guarantees in criminal proceedings, two of my fellow Members, who otherwise represent two different political views, have mentioned Hungary as a flagrant example. Though I am ash... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr López Garrido will not mind if my first words are addressed to Vice-President Barrot. I do not know whether we will have the opportunity to be with him in Plenary before the new Commission enters into force, and so, just in case, I would like to thank him for his efforts, intelligence and fantastic co... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The issue of fundamental procedural rights in criminal proceedings is one of the key topics that should resonate in the field of justice and internal relations. In principle, the draft framework decision defines a set of fundamental procedural rights in criminal proceedings, namely the right to legal advice, the right... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Committee calls for the Council to continue work in introducing common European procedural rights in criminal matters. An existing common procedure in the form of the European Arrest Warrant has removed the centuries-old safeguards against unjust arrest and imprisonment that the English used to enjoy. This is not a... | null |
Georgios Papanikolaou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is crucial that we progress as far as possible with the creation of a common European reference framework for procedural rights during the dispensation of justice. The key concept is the concept of trust. We want European citizens taking recourse to justice to be confident that their fundamental right... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Having listened to the speeches, I would like to say how pleased I am to see that many MEPs, from very different groups, agree over the need to harmonise procedural guarantees at European level and to draw up a genuine European law on procedural guarantees. All the speakers and all the Parliamentary groups agree on th... | null |
Jacques Barrot | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Minister is right, and Mr Coelho put it very well earlier when he said, ‘a Europe of security, a Europe of justice’. Yes, Mr Watson, the European arrest warrant has been very effective and very useful, even if it is true that, at the same time, we need to get the European judicial area up and running... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Procedural rights in criminal proceedings (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Commissioner. I am sure there are many outside this Chamber who would like to endorse the remarks of Carlos Coelho in thanking you for your dedication and application as a Commissioner over this period. Thank you so much. The debate is closed. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Announcement by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to inform the House that I have received a letter from the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, in which he informs me of the European Council’s decision to consult the European Parliament on the proposal by the Spanish Government concerning the composition of the European Parliament and t... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement by the Council on presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency. | null |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to address my first few words to a country that is suffering pain and tragedy: Haiti. I know that we all share the concern, solidarity and commitment of all the institutions of the European Union, starting with the rotating Presidency, the Commission, the Counci... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President of the Spanish Government, over the next six months, Spain will assume the rotating Presidency of the Council. It is a country with a great European tradition and great European commitment, in its government as well as in all its political forces and in public opinion, and a President, José-Luis Rodríguez... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Barroso. Before I ask the leaders of the parliamentary political groups to speak, I would like, once again, to emphasise the importance of the vision presented by Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. It is a vision of development of the European Union, based on the Community method. Thank you, Mr Zapatero, too, for str... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the economy, the social field, climate and energy are the major priorities of the Spanish Presidency and they will rightly be the focus of Europe’s attention. That is why Mr Van Rompuy’s first decision, namely to convene a European Council dedicated to the economy and to climate cha... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Spanish Presidency has an ambitious programme, which you have described to us, Mr Zapatero. You mentioned the four major priorities of greater energy security, more investment in information technology, more education and training and the creation of a form of European economic governance that is to ... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have, in fact, two priorities for the Spanish Presidency. I believe you also have, in fact, two priorities. However many issues are raised to be solved in the coming six months, there are, we believe, two main issues. First of all, there is the post-Lisbon EU 2020 Strategy. I bel... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, Mr Barroso, I would like first to reply to your remark about Haiti. I remember that, in 2006, a European commissioner by the name of Michel Barnier proposed the creation of a European social protection force, which was to have been known as EuropeAid. This was during Mr Barroso’s Commission. If ... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am happy at this crucial time in the work of the European Union that Spain takes on the Presidency of the Council. Along with Greece and Portugal, Spain’s membership of the European Community was an early example of the way in which Europe could help encourage and support a new democracy – a path follow... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Welcome, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. Unfortunately, my group feels that your programme does not resolve the fundamental problems. In our view, the fundamental requirement of this Presidency would have been to rectify the current economic policy, through public intervention in the economy and, of course, by regulating the m... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you. Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, I have listened with attention to your proposals for the Spanish Presidency, and I can only wish you luck. I will now refer to a reality. I represent the south-east of England, and many of my constituents – together with other European citizens – have been suffering urban... | null |
Francisco Sosa Wagner | MEP | NI | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am delighted to be in this very special forum with the President of the Spanish Government, someone whom I have valued very highly since the time when he was a strong law student. I think that by chance, the rotating Presidency of the European Union has given my country the best possible opportunity to demonstrate o... | null |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would first of all like to express my thanks for the tone and content of the speeches that have been made on behalf of the various parliamentary groups this morning. I will talk about the most important matters, starting with Mr Daul. Thank you for your words regarding this positive drive for economic ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe that there has been general consensus on the priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council, with, of course, some nuances depending on the stance of the various political groups, but there is one issue which has figured in several speeches and to which I wish to refer, namely the question... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Barroso. We have all read the Treaty of Lisbon, and we know it does not say everything. This is why it is so important that, working together, we establish an interpretation of what the Treaty of Lisbon does say, and that, together, we plan our work in the European Union for many years to come. | null |
Jaime Mayor Oreja | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President of the Spanish Government, I would like to say to you that we are not living in just another period, we are not living in just any moment in and for the European Union. What you and Chair Daul said is true: the European Union and the European people know that their main concern is the crisis. It also need... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | On behalf of the Socialist delegation in this European Parliament, which, as you said, is the European parliament with the most extensive representation and democratically the strongest in the whole history of the European Union, I would like to join in extending an extremely warm welcome to the Spanish President of t... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President of the rotating Presidency, Mr Zapatero, I sincerely wish you luck and success, as this will be good for Europe and for its citizens. The crisis necessitates global thinking and local action, but you need to join forces with everyone. Make use of successful local and regional models, those based on the real ... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Prime Minister, welcome. I fear, however, that your Presidency runs the risk of being regarded as a political crocodile, that is to say, with a big mouth, expressing big ideas, but which ultimately has no ears to listen with. Nothing would please me more, I promise you, than to be able to congratulate you in six month... | null |
Adam Bielan | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, your country has taken over the Presidency at an exceptionally difficult time – the last, I hope, phase of the worst economic crisis to hit our continent for 80 years. Therefore, it is fully understandable that you have made returning to a path of economic development and the fight... | null |
Kyriacos Triantaphyllides | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Spanish Presidency, in describing the priorities for consumers, devotes a total of two lines to the governance programme. That is illustrative of the importance which it ascribes to consumer protection. We therefore wonder what the Presidency is intending to do about the rights of its citizens. Does ... | null |
Rolandas Paksas | MEP | ID | en | lt | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I also hope that the Spanish Presidency will be a success and that, in addition to the priorities laid out, Spain will also devote attention to a problem that is particularly relevant these days, that of human rights and freedoms. Following an investigation carried out by the Lithuanian Parliament into CIA prisons, it... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Spanish Presidency’s statements on immigration policy, and border controls in particular, blow hot and cold very curiously. In particular, Spain’s creed that such matters should be regulated at European level rings very hollow in view of the country’s recent mass legalisation of illegal immigrants; of which the – ... | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, I must compliment you on your eloquence. However, what do you really have to say? What is your message to us? What is the substance of what you said? I have heard many speeches – you are the 32nd Head of Government that I have witnessed – but I have rarely heard anything so non-com... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I do not think that Mr Langen was listening very closely, because otherwise he would have heard a clear modernisation strategy and a social pact mentioned. I am not surprised that you did not hear the social pact mentioned, because it is an important part of this st... | null |
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, last September, the Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, appeared in Parliament before the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. After reporting on the recovery of German exports and the growth in French consumption, Mr Almunia said that the crisis would be much longer and deeper in Spain. In fa... | null |
Oriol Junqueras Vies | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Hello, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. A couple of years ago, you assured us that Spain had exceeded Italy’s per capita production and that it would soon surpass that of France. However, at present, according to international rating agencies, Spain heads the European Union poverty index, with 20% unemployment and a deficit of ... | null |
Lajos Bokros | MEP | ECR | en | es | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is quite significant, and also symbolic, that the Prime Minister of a country which now has the highest rate of unemployment in the European Union should be speaking about the importance of creating employment. For this reason, I would like to ask the Prime Minister of the Spanish Government what, specifically, are... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this period should herald a sea change in European Union policies and priorities. Unemployment has reached alarming levels, with more than 24 million unemployed and an increase of over 5 million in the last year alone, a situation that has also exacerbated poverty, which now affects more than 80 million ... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the Eurobarometer indicators, Spain has the fourth highest percentage of people – 21% – who live on the poverty line, after Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria. Under these circumstances, and with the data that has been brought to light on several occasions, not least regardin... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. I confess that as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, I had prepared myself for this debate as if it were a bullfight; however, you have spoken of equality and human rights in such a way that I can now recognise what unites us, not what divides us. You h... | null |
Adrian Severin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Spanish Presidency is the first to take place under the new Lisbon Treaty. Here is the first challenge. We have the treaty, but we need its proper enhancement and even more than that. The European Social Pact and European economic governance might be part of this ‘more’, but all these parts require mo... | null |
Silvana Koch-Mehrin | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Spain is now taking on the Presidency of the European Union for the fourth time. You know what it is to cooperate with the European Parliament in a very wide range of situations. We now have the Treaty of Lisbon, which means that the European Parliament ... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Presidency wishes to accelerate accession negotiations, including with Iceland. My group does not oppose that country’s accession per se, but the uncertainty about the repayment of the Icesave loans to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands is too great at present. Iceland and Icesave have been taking great risks ... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, you know as well as I do that growth of production in Europe will be slow and lacklustre over the coming years. Given this, I fail to understand why you are insisting on the withdrawal of the Stability Pact in its original form, or with the shrinking of public investment and social spending. I w... | null |
Enikõ Gyõri | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Among the joint objectives, I would like to highlight overcoming the economic crisis and the creation of new jobs. We are all aware that there are signs of recovery appearing in some countries, but this is not reflected in the overall employment situation. What the citizens of the European Union really need is jobs. T... | null |
Marita Ulvskog | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for a strong social agenda – you have our full support on that. I have two questions. The first concerns the Copenhagen Summit. It was a failure and the question now is how can we regain the initiative as regards the fight against climate change? Can Spain pave the way for a binding climate agreement in Mexi... | null |
Diana Wallis | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank the Prime Minister for his very sincere and European speech at the opening of Spain’s Presidency. This is normally a moment to be polite, and my colleagues know I am always very polite, but I have to return to the issue of the many British citizens and other European citizens who are... | null |
Evžen Tošenovský | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Prime Minister, in the programme of priorities for your Presidency, you also mentioned, in the chapter on transport, the Galileo project. The Galileo project ranks among the European Union’s biggest and most complex projects. During the Spanish Presidency, this project should already be scheduled into its implement... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, President Barroso, Commissioner Almunia, I, too, wish to focus on the EU 2020 strategy, as the need for Europe to work for its citizens and their jobs is greater than ever in these times of crisis. You have announced that EU 2020 is an important priority area, but a... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The programme you have presented is very ambitious – it may allow the European Union to make quite a lot of progress and, since I have had the opportunity to meet several members of your government, I know that they are professionally very capable and well-prepared to implement this programme – my congratulations. I a... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-01-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Presentation of the programme of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, one of the changes the Prime Minister spoke of this morning is the Citizens’ Initiative. Indeed, I think it is fitting that one of the countries whose citizens voted ‘yes’ to the constitution is the country that will start the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. Indeed, many times when I was canvassing f... | null |
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