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Jean-Paul Gauzès | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I welcome your determination. Europe has begun to put in place effective regulation, but Europe must not find itself isolated. Close international cooperation is necessary, and this is exactly what we expect of the G20. It must pursue the reforms, which were initiated at previous meetings, ... | null |
Alejandro Cercas | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner Almunia, Mrs Malmström, I would ask you not to forget in Pittsburgh that we are experiencing not only a financial and economic crisis of unprecedented dimensions, but also a huge social crisis with devastating effects on those most in need, on those who only have their job, on small entrepreneurs, and on ... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I agree with many of the points that have been made, but must qualify some others. I agree that it is too soon to take away the patient’s crutches, but that it is time to get him ready to walk without them. We still have to absorb excess liquidity in the markets, correct the imbalance in public f... | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I thank the Commissioner. I especially agree with him on his Charter for Sustainable Economic Activity. I think this is what we must take to the G20 but I do not agree that we should use all our capital to focus on bankers’ bonuses. I think this is a distraction in many ways although it should be dealt wi... | null |
Kader Arif | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the crisis that we are going through is profound and long lasting. It is therefore urgent and absolutely essential to put in place the necessary regulations and supervision of the financial sector and the banks, to prevent an even more drastic repeat of today’s crisis. The financial... | null |
Ramon Jauregui Atondo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mrs Malmström, Mr Almunia, I will give you three ideas in one minute. Firstly, we need more Europe. This is because, given the global situation, Europe must be united and strong. If we fail to achieve this, Europe will not count and will not be involved. Secondly, we need more State. This is because, in addition to de... | null |
Rachida Dati | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Mr Almunia, first of all, on 3 September, Germany, the United Kingdom and France reached an agreement, spoke with one voice to express a European consensus on the matter of the supervision of traders’ bonuses. On Thursday, the 27 members of the Council will meet to prepare for the G20. I encour... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In my opinion, what you have presented here is a rather ambitious plan, which you want to present to the G20. I am concerned, however, as to what the conclusions of the G20 will be and what the real effects will be on society, since the results that have filtered through at the level of EU Member States are so far nei... | null |
Pascal Canfin | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, you spoke of the governance of the IMF. I would also like to know if you intend to raise the issue, at the G20, of the conditionality of the money that the IMF lends to states. We have seen that what were previously very liberal conditions have not been changed, and this applies in particular to the loan... | null |
Vicky Ford | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the G20 came up with many sensible responses: the need to rewrite financial regulation and supervision, and the need to act in a coordinated fashion. Our national politicians are saying one thing, but here in the EU we seem to be doing another. The detail of the regulation that is already being considered... | null |
Enikő Győri | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to approach this subject from one of the perversities of the crisis. Hungary’s citizens were shocked that, while the country is currently subsisting on aid from the IMF and EU, following seven years of socialist government, Hungarian banks’ half-year profits reached two-thirds of their p... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | There is a clear message from what has been said so far, namely, that in order to regain the trust of ordinary citizens, we must take action against bonuses and tax havens. I would like to ask Commissioner Almunia and Mrs Malmström about when the European financial supervisory authority proposed by the Hungarian Prime... | null |
Corinne Lepage | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, the very ambitious programme you have presented to us is interesting, but do you not think that we ought to tackle the issue of the advantage that is still to be gained, today, by favouring very short-term transactions and very short-term profitability over the medium and long ter... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank all the Members who have contributed to this debate. I feel there is a very high level of agreement in this House about what is important in the European position and which issues we must concentrate on ahead of the G20. The EU now speaks with a clear, coordinated voice on the inter... | null |
Joaquín Almunia | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe we are all agreed that, in the current situation in which we still have to tackle huge and extensive challenges as a result of the crisis, the success of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit and the belief that, as a result of these meetings, we will start to find and apply solutions to the problems and c... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the first October part-session. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is expected that the approaching G20 Summit will place a predominant emphasis on the Copenhagen climate talks. There are still many undecided questions standing in the way of a post-Kyoto agreement. Allow me to express a few thoughts I have on this subject. Number one. Instead of vague long-term promises, we need b... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Five years ago, on their accession to the EU, every new Member State committed to adopting the euro. At present, four of them have already achieved this. The other countries have drifted and are lagging behind in this area due to various economic policy considerations and mistakes, not to mention that the economic and... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the market economy is a good slave but a bad master. Recently, though, the roles have become rather confused. It is the custom at international conferences to speak trivia, but now we need action, and fast. The world now has a historic opportunity at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit to agree once again on the r... | null |
Wojciech Michał Olejniczak | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh will be taking place practically on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank. This is the background against which world leaders should operate. The repercussions of the crisis have been felt by the inhabitants of almost every part of the globe. The primary aim of the ... | null |
Sirpa Pietikäinen | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | On Monday this week, it was a questionable honour to work on what is a sort of anniversary: exactly a year before, the investment bank Lehman Brothers had collapsed. The collapse is regarded as having actually precipitated the current deep global recession and the financial crisis. At a point in time so close to the a... | null |
Catherine Stihler | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I agree with those who spoke about the need for a global co-ordinated approach. This is essential if we are to change the power structures of the global financial system. However neither the Commission or the Council made comment about the concept of 'living wills' for the banking sector. This week marks the anniversar... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council statement on SWIFT. | null |
Beatrice Ask | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in the overall fight against terrorism, the key question is how are such activities financed. Preventing the financing of terrorism and tracking clues that such transactions may leave behind can both prevent terrorist crimes and be important in the investigation of such crimes. In order to do this, we ne... | null |
Jacques Barrot | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, I would firstly like sincerely to thank Mrs Ask for giving us a summary of all the developments concerning SWIFT and of the negotiations under way with the United States on the continuation of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme, the TFTP. I myself had the opportunity, during the... | null |
Ernst Strasser | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ask, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the US is an important partner in the fight against terrorism. However, on the question of sensitive data in particular, we want European regulations on data security, on civil rights and on the individual rights of our citizens as far as data is concerned, in... | null |
Claude Moraes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, SWIFT has clearly become a testing ground for getting the balance right between our cooperation with the United States, fighting terrorism and protecting our fundamental rights. When, in our resolutions of 2006 and 2007, Parliament asked for the mirroring site of SWIFT to be moved from US to EU soil, it w... | null |
Sophia in 't Veld | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, after all these warm words, I am going to put a cat among the pigeons! I am not going to say anything about the content, as I think it is self-evident that what has been negotiated is in line with European standards of legal protection and the protection of personal data, but I do now want to get a coupl... | null |
Jan Philipp Albrecht | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Presidency and the Commission talk constantly of strengthening civil rights and of a Europe of the citizens. In fact, however, fundamental rights are being eroded and proper public debate on them frustrated. Every effort is being made to exclude parliaments and hold back information. This sort of unt... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour for me to speak for the first time in this House on behalf of the millions of Europeans who want a different Europe. The SWIFT affair is symptomatic of the security blunders imposed in the name of terrorism, where utter contempt is shown for the most fundamental... | null |
Beatrice Ask | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you for these important points of view. I will try to answer some of the questions in the short time available. The first question that arises is, of course, how we can guarantee that the US will abide by the agreement. I would like to say that first we have the Bruguière report, which provides a g... | null |
Jacques Barrot | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would simply like to confirm the remarks made by the Minister, who, incidentally, has drawn a very clear conclusion: if we did not really have the data protection assurances we need, for the lasting agreement that the Presidency will have to negotiate and for which the Commission will lend its support,... | null |
Sophia in 't Veld | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have a small point of order. I note that once again we are not getting replies from the Council to the questions that we put. I asked why the Council waited for two years, until the very last moment, to decide on this deal, and I would also like to know – and we can get the answer in writing – why the n... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. (Vote: 17 September 2009) | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area. | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am delighted to have the opportunity to present one of the main priorities of the Swedish Presidency – the development of the strategy for the Baltic Sea area. This proposal was largely inspired by the initiative taken by the European Parliament back in 2005 in a cross-party working group led by Christ... | null |
Paweł Samecki | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to start by thanking Parliament for having included the new strategy for the Baltic Sea region on the agenda of its plenary session. The high visibility this provides for the strategy is extremely welcome. Of course, it is not a complete surprise to me that Parliament is taking such an intere... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the PPE Group congratulates the Swedish Presidency on its leadership in starting to implement the Baltic Sea Strategy (BSS). This strategy reflects a fundamental change that took place in this region five years ago. Since 2004, the Baltic has become the EU’s internal sea. That is why the Union needs a com... | null |
Constanze Angela Krehl | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted that the Swedish Presidency has put cooperation in the Baltic Sea area at the top of its agenda. There is no need for argument here: we need to protect resources and we, too, need to help protect the climate and nature. On the other hand, we must also f... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my group is very happy that the Commission has drafted the EU’s first Baltic Sea Strategy document. This is also the first strategy document of its kind for this region and we hope that it will serve in particular to speed up the process of cleaning the eutrophic Baltic Sea. The region’s problems can bes... | null |
Satu Hassi | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is excellent that the Commission has drafted a proposal for a Baltic Sea Strategy and that Sweden has added it to its agenda. I hope that Sweden will acquire something more tangible in its efforts to protect its marine environment, mainly in the areas of agriculture and shipping.... | null |
Marek Gróbarczyk | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to draw attention to the fact that in its guidelines, Europe’s Baltic Sea Strategy was supposed to promote a comprehensive programme for the development of this part of Europe, inter alia by establishing the most natural and shortest transport routes to balance out the development of the cou... | null |
Rolandas Paksas | MEP | ID | en | lt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In exactly 2564 hours, the reactor at Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania – the last remaining independent energy source in Lithuania – will be shut down. Europe has already invested EUR 200 million in the safety of this power plant. To decommission it today, European States will have to contribute another EUR 8... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in theory, projects such as these on the regional promotion of cross-border cooperation are to be welcomed and make a great deal of sense. However, strategies often have the disadvantage that, although targets are set and even reached, sustainability is ignored, even during implemen... | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | What a macroregion needs is a coordinated policy of sustainable development. This is what the European Parliament, and then the Council, believed in 2007 when it recommended that the European Commission draft a Baltic Sea Strategy and an action plan. Here I would like to underline the role the then Commissioner Mrs Da... | null |
Diana Wallis | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think it is wonderful that both the Commission and now, especially, the Swedish Presidency, has breathed life into Parliament’s ideas and ambitions in this fragile area. We all know the problems to do with the environment of the Baltic Sea and the specific economic difficulties of the area. But this Par... | null |
Isabella Lövin | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am delighted that environmental issues are a main priority in the new strategy for the Baltic Sea area. The Baltic Sea is suffering two major acute environmental problems. The first – overfertilisation – has already been mentioned by Mrs Hassi. The second problem is overfishing. Researchers are entirel... | null |
Oldřich Vlasák | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it was already agreed during the last parliament that the Baltic Sea region was suitable for a pilot project aimed at implementing an internal EU strategy for the macroregion. I consider it appropriate that this strategy, which is based on the aim of a more consistent application of... | null |
Anna Rosbach | MEP | ID | en | da | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are discussing a 1 200 km gas pipeline beneath the Baltic from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany through an ecologically sensitive inland sea where there is a large difference in sea bed levels, through an area where undetonated explosives from two world wars, as well as poisonous chemicals fr... | null |
Inese Vaidere | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mrs Malmström, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the formulation of a strategy for the Baltic Sea region is a very important achievement for Parliament, in which the members of the Baltic intergroup have played a leading role. This strategy is comparable to the Mediterranean strategy which, in its time, stimulated r... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, five years ago, the Baltic Sea effectively became an internal sea of the European Union. Today we are debating a draft strategy which will allow us to unleash the huge dormant potential of the region, a project which was the initiative of the European Parliament. However, not all the recommendations of t... | null |
Danuta Maria Hübner | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is indeed a unique European regional policy initiative and a pioneering project. Innovation-driven prosperity, the environment, accessibility in terms of transport and energy connections, and security and safety are the four major areas for joint work by all partners who are involved in preparation of ... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Union became aware of the Baltic Sea issue quite late on. A total of 100 million people live by its shoreline, and then there is Russia, which is important. This strategy will have a strong environmental dimension, and this is only right, because the environmental problems of the Baltic Sea ... | null |
Riikka Manner | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, the Baltic Sea as a region is special in many ways, and so I am very pleased that Sweden has made this strategy one of its priorities during its Presidency. It is important that we take the strategy forward and thus also implement it. Not only does the Baltic Sea have a very stron... | null |
Tatjana Ždanoka | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as an MEP elected in Latvia, I welcome the fact that the first example of a strategy for a macroregion concerns the Baltic Sea area. Nevertheless, in my opinion, a number of Community objectives have been forgotten here – for instance, a high level of social protection. Some of the region’s Member States,... | null |
Ville Itälä | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wish to thank the Commission and the Swedish Government for the very active role they have played, and I believe that the Baltic Sea Strategy is a good and important one. Without proper financing, however, the project will not succeed. In that case, all this will end after the strategy has been adopted... | null |
Victor Boştinaru | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the idea of a strategy for the Black Sea region as a pilot project for the macro-regional strategies. Initiatives of this kind allow the coordination of EU policy instruments in order to have a coherent, stable and sustainable development of the regions involved. On the occasion of the last Coun... | null |
Werner Kuhn | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, Commissioner Samecki, as a newly elected member from Mecklenburg-Western-Pomerania, I very much support the development of a Baltic Sea Strategy and the associated action plan. The Commissioner referred earlier to the flagship projects, 80 in total. Our common objectives are, of course, to... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank all the Members for the great level of support that you have given us for our continued work on the Baltic Sea Strategy. It is only natural that we should be supported by the European Parliament, because in fact you were the founding fathers of the whole idea of a strategy for the B... | null |
Paweł Samecki | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all I would like to thank the Members of Parliament for their comments and remarks on different aspects of the strategy. Your level of commitment demonstrates that the strategy will be a subject of interest in the forthcoming years, which is good. I will be unable to respond to all comments and i... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank Sweden, the country to hold the presidency, for having had the courage to make its own region, the Baltic Sea, and matters relating to it, such a major topic in its programme during its EU presidential term. It is fitting that the Baltic Sea Strategy that we have been preparing for ... | null |
György Schöpflin | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Baltic Sea Strategy promoted by the Swedish Presidency is very welcome. It could readily assume a model function for other European macroregions, like the Danube basin. There is, however, one aspect of the development of the Baltic Sea region that demands urgent reconsideration. This is the Nord Stream sea-bed pipe... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | EU strategy for the Baltic Sea area (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Baltic Sea Strategy announced in June 2009 aims to establish it as a region which is environmentally friendly, prosperous, easily accessible, attractive and secure. This is particularly important in the context of the increasing challenges facing the Baltic since the EU’s enlargement in 2004. It is important to ta... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, yesterday the President, quite rightly, made much of respect for the Community method. This method guarantees the involvement of all Member States, and Community institutions, in the decision-making processes, and this from the very beginning. The G4’s way of tackling the banking and financial crisis in ... | null |
Crescenzio Rivellini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after my speech I will say a few words in Neapolitan (Part not transcribed in this document, since Neapolitan is not an official language). I will do so not for reasons of local colour, but to attract political and media attention to our emergencies: the emergencies of southern Ital... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, time has, perhaps, habituated us to the hollowness of the ritual that we have just carried out. Familiar as we are with the EU structures, we have ceased to see how anomalous, how outrageous, it is that we have supreme executive and legislative power in the hands of an unaccountable and unelected bureaucr... | null |
Syed Kamall | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, like my previous colleague who spoke earlier, I would like to say that I also have my reservations about Mr Barroso being re-elected as President of the Commission. After all, he more than anyone is committed to further European integration, often against the will of the peoples of Europe. But he did come... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I opposed the joint motion for a resolution on forest fires, despite the fact that I agree with European countries cooperating voluntarily to prevent, fight and repair the appalling damage caused by forest fires. However, I object to the creation of European Union bodies that would exercise power over Mem... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I abstained in the final vote on this resolution, although I did do so with some reservation and a number of doubts, as this text does, without doubt, include many positive elements, things that no one can really oppose. I am thinking, for example, of the support for reinforcing the Member States’ civil ... | null |
Maria da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | President Barroso has made Europe the world leader in the fight against climate change. The European Union is the only international bloc that has a clear, consistent negotiating position for the Copenhagen conference. The political guidelines for the next Commission outlined by President Barroso present an ambitious,... | null |
Françoise Castex | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | For the sake of political consistency and out of respect for our electorate, I voted against the re-election of Mr Barroso. In the five years of his mandate, Mr Barroso, who harnessed the support of certain EU countries for George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, has never been able to revive the European Union or to strengthen... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am pleased to say that, as a Portuguese and a Member of the European Parliament, I voted in favour of the re-election of José Manuel Durão Barroso as President of the European Commission. I believe his performance during the previous mandate, which was beset by so many political, financial and social difficulties, a... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the result of this vote, which brings Dr José Manuel Durão Barroso back to the European Commission Presidency. Portugal is proud to have a Portuguese of such recognised ability and quality as Dr Barroso at the head of the Commission. It is even prouder to see the value of his work during his first mandate, f... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The political guidelines for the next mandate of the Commission, which have just been tabled, reveal its President’s intention to continue pursuing the main lines of action that were included in the guidelines of the mandate that is now ending. Those guidelines lie at the origin of the deep economic and social crisis ... | null |
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We would all like to see a stronger Europe, and for people to be better off! You do too, judging by the ‘Political guidelines for the next Commission’ which you presented to Parliament. Yet more is expected from a candidate for the future head of the Commission: he is expected to say how he intends to achieve this, ra... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Like my friends representing the national movements in Europe, I am one of the 219 MEPs who voted against Mr Barroso. He is a likeable and cultured man, but most of all he is the symbol of the failure of the European Union. He has failed to save our economies and our jobs from unfair global competition; to help Europe... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Today I voted against Mr Barroso’s candidacy for three essential reasons. Firstly, his own track record in the last five years: a Presidency which was weak, conservative and liberal, immobile in the face of the crisis, incapable of stimulating a coordinated recovery, and exclusively attentive to the wishes of the Head... | null |
Jacky Hénin | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The election of the President of the European Commission is an extremely important act, and the citizens of the EU should have the right to know their representatives’ choice. Personally speaking, I regret and condemn the secret ballot procedure that leads to a complete lack of accountability. Moreover, as I can find ... | null |
Cătălin Sorin Ivan | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | At the end of the five-year term (2004-2009), the assessment of the European Commission’s activities does not cast President Barroso in a favourable light. Based on this fact, it seems necessary to abstain from voting, especially at a time when a negative vote would be an unwise political decision, given the lack of a... | null |
Astrid Lulling | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of appointing Mr Barroso as President of the European Commission. I have come to this decision for four reasons. The European Council unanimously proposed Mr Barroso’s candidacy. In my understanding of democracy, election winners can claim the right to choose one of their own. There is no other choic... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, the President of the European Commission, is responsible for the current situation of financial, economic, food and environmental crisis in which Europe is immersed. To date, no one has recognised his error, and the blame has instead been placed on the United States. To date, the Commission has tried to bu... | null |
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The work carried out by President Barroso over the last five years was characterised by great pragmatism, seriousness and firmness in the way he looked after Europe’s top interests. His world leadership in combating climate change, the timeliness of increasing Europeans’ involvement with the oceans through the launch ... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Like 381 of my fellow Members, I supported Mr Barroso’s appointment as head of the Commission. I did so for many reasons, not least because some people are levelling particularly unfair accusations against the candidate. I hear some dream of a new Delors, while they forget that we have changed the world… and Europe. T... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | A strong, ambitious Commission Presidency is essential for Europe to regain its position as world leader by seeking a balance between economic and political goals on one hand and social and territorial cohesion on the other. Priorities must be defined pragmatically but without neglecting the values that lie at the ori... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the re-appointment of Mr Barroso as President of the European Commission as, for the past five years, he has been the very symbol of a Commission that chose to disregard the democratic rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon and did so contemptuously and in a particularly arrogant fashion. Mr Barroso also re... | null |
Derek Vaughan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Although it is not the norm for me to abstain, I felt that, for today’s vote on the election of the President of the Commission, abstention was the right choice. I accept that Mr Barroso has made some concessions, for example, on the issue of social impact assessments. However, Mr Barroso has failed to show commitment ... | null |
Bernadette Vergnaud | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against Mr Barroso’s candidacy, above all, because I believe in a genuinely political Europe, which cannot be satisfied with a Commission bound by the desiderata of big business. I also believe that one cannot campaign by calling for another form of European leadership only to then give a blank cheque to a cha... | null |
Dominique Vlasto | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Although the vote on the President of the European Commission is secret, I would like to express publicly my support for the candidate from our political family, José Manuel Barroso, and sincerely to congratulate him on his re-election. As the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) won the European... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the European Parliament resolution of 16 September 2009 on the forest fires of summer 2009. This resolution follows numerous others highlighting the frequency, the seriousness, the complexity and the impact of natural and man-made disasters in Europe, the number of which has increased rapidly in the last f... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, conditions of extreme drought and forest fires in southern Europe have been growing both more frequent and more intense. Immense damage has been caused in terms of loss of human life (11 people have died just this summer), reduced economic activity and environmental degradation, particularly through an ... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Southern Europe has been the victim of disasters (drought and fires) that have threatened human lives, economies and local ecosystems and are contributing to the gradual abandonment of extensive areas that were once populated, worked and cared for. Rather than being a problem for one country or another, this issue and... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The reason why I voted in favour is linked to the need for effective solidarity and the immediate mobilisation of financial resources, so as to be able, with all due urgency, to tackle the socially and environmentally tragic situation that has befallen the areas and communities affected by this summer’s fires. I belie... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Once again this summer, forest fires have devastated the south of France. Like our other European neighbours, our citizens have found themselves battling flames, these disasters resulting in both material damage and human suffering. This is why I have advocated the setting up of an independent and permanent European r... | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, in Monday’s debate on the forest fires during the summer of 2009, I said that natural conditions will alter with climate change. That is a fact that cannot be contradicted. It does not, however, explain environmental disasters, especially if the same phenomena recur every few years. We can and must be be... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In Greece, 130 000 olive trees were destroyed by the fires, as well as many hectares of vines, cattle, beekeeping holdings, storehouses, stables and a large number of greenhouses and houses. In Spain, 95 769 hectares have been burnt by forest fires, causing 11 deaths and estimated losses of EUR 395 million. The social... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, the summer of 2009 was marked by devastating forest fires in southern Europe, which caused huge material and ecological damage. It was clear in this context that arsonists, who profit by destroying forests, are encouraged by shortcomings in or the lack of forest registers, or by poorly defined land use.... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We must say straightaway that preventing natural disasters and adapting to climate change is not an easy task. Even if the European Union fares somewhat better than other regions of the world with the creation of a strengthened civil protection mechanism and the financial godsend represented by the Solidarity Fund, mo... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the resolution on forest fires. So far this year, over 200 000 hectares of forest have been destroyed by fire in the European Union. That is more than in the whole of 2008! In Poland, the coefficient of the threat of forest fires is one of the highest in Europe. In April 2009, the number of fires ... | null |
Catherine Stihler | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Today's debate on forest fires in welcomed. The devastation to many sites of natural beauty is a loss to us all. We must show solidarity with our colleagues and help the countries affected. | null |
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