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Arnaud Danjean | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, the report on the implementation of the European Security Strategy that we are presenting today is an annual document by Parliament that provides a kind of interim assessment of the European Security and Defence Policy and submits proposals aimed at improving the effectiveness and visibi... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you very much. I am delighted to be with you to discuss the big questions on Europe’s international agenda. I want to begin by thanking Mr Albertini and Mr Danjean for their excellent reports. You have underlined, if I may say, the number, range and urgency of the challenges we face. From strengthen... | null |
Nadezhda Neynsky | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to congratulate Mrs Ashton on her encouraging statement. At the same time, as the rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Budgets on the CFSP, I want also to underline that it is of core importance that she initiate an audit of past and present CFSP operations and CSDP civil missions in orde... | null |
Ioannis Kasoulides | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is frightening to imagine a nuclear device, small in size but potentially lethal for millions of people, falling into the hands of terrorists. Some years back, we could say that this was highly unlikely. We cannot say this any longer. Countries like Iran and North Korea are in the process of acquiring,... | null |
Adrian Severin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I hope we are agreed that we need a proactive foreign policy guided by our European common goals and based on our common values. This policy should recognise the indivisibility of security in the globalised world as it is a source of solidarity of interest both within the European Union and outside. Such ... | null |
Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, High Representative/Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen. Madam Ashton, first of all, allow me to welcome you and say that I very much hope that your excellent and powerful presentation today will indeed herald the end of a particularly difficult period for all of us, which began in Nov... | null |
Franziska Katharina Brantner | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, Baroness Ashton, we listened attentively to what you had to say. Unfortunately, we must observe that we will probably have to wait for some time yet before you develop plans for specific future projects from your essay on your principles, which we actually feel able... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Lisbon Treaty is now a legal reality in the international order, even if it lacks popular democratic legitimacy because most EU citizens, including Britain’s, were denied a vote in a referendum. Nevertheless, the ECR Group and British Conservatives are committed to positive engagement and to moving on... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, Mr Albertini already knows the reasons why my group is tabling a minority opinion on the report on foreign, security and defence policy. We are basically doing so, Baroness Ashton, because we have reached a conclusion. In the countries surrounding us, in the European Union, security and ... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Baroness Ashton, Mr Albertini’s truly excellent report contains a passage that I consider to be of great political importance: the part connecting the phenomenon of immigration to the policy of cooperation with developing countries. To control such enormous migratory flows by means ... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the fact that only very unspecific foreign policy goals were defined in the Treaty of Lisbon is coming back to haunt us now. There will probably also be a price to pay for the fact that, in Baroness Ashton, we have a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy without any real foreign pol... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if I might just give some comments directly on the issues and questions that have been raised. To Mr Kasoulides, on the Non-proliferation Treaty review, it is vital that it succeeds above anything else. We believe we have to take practical steps: a comprehensive test ban treaty should come into force; the... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, the Albertini and Danjean reports, as well as the motion for a resolution on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, show that important decisions will soon have to be taken and that we need to prepare for that. Allow me to single out a couple of further exam... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I address you, Baroness Ashton, as Vice-President of the Commission, but also as High Representative – as, in contrast to the foreign ministers, I assume that, as High Representative, you also have some degree of political responsibility to this House. Today marks 100 days since the Treaty of Lisbon ente... | null |
Andrew Duff | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think we all expected that there were going to be teething troubles in bringing the treaty into force and we might apologise for failing to include a clause on time travel in the treaty, but the thing we failed to expect and cannot accept is a breakdown of trust between the Commission and Council in set... | null |
Reinhard Bütikofer | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, I would like to thank Mr Danjean for his excellent report, in which he explains where we now are in relation to the common security and defence policy. He also explains which points we do not have agreement on. If Parliament adopts this report, it will have come further than the Commissi... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mrs Ashton, Mr President, an influential Russian military officer has stated that if Russia had possessed Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, the invasion of Georgia would have lasted about half an hour. Meanwhile, France is selling Mistrals to Russia, despite the fact that the Sarkozy plan has not been implemente... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Excuse me Mr Kowal, but you have spoken for one minute and 44 seconds instead of your allotted minute. | null |
Sabine Lösing | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, on behalf of my group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, I would like to make clear at this point that we are deeply concerned about the development of EU foreign policy towards militarisation and an increasingly interventionist policy. That is a dangerous development.... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ‘Chinese billions for the Balkans’ is a recent newspaper headline which certainly calls for a European response in this debate since, at the end of the day, the new Chinese investment initiatives are targeting countries which have already become members of the EU or those which aspire to that status. Cou... | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, let me briefly address two issues. First of all, the duty to provide assistance is clearly not compatible with Austria’s neutrality, and for that reason, it would be important to include the following points in this report. It must be stated, firstly, that the duty to provide assistance is not legally bi... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to take advantage of the excellent reports by my fellow Members, Messrs Danjean and Albertini, to speak up again in support of the key role of the High Representative. For the good of all, it is to be hoped that she, Baroness Ashton, realises how important her role... | null |
Kristian Vigenin | MEP | S&D | en | bg | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The report by the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Council’s annual report was drafted in a spirit of cooperation and dialogue, which is indicative of our approach to all strategic issues. A substantial part of the report is devoted to the ramifications of the Treaty of Lisbon. On this point, I would like to focus ... | null |
Pino Arlacchi | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the joint motion for a resolution on the Non-proliferation Treaty is a very important one, and the ALDE Group and I are very proud to have contributed to its elaboration. The resolution is holistic because it encompasses all the disarmament matters, from the NPT review conference to the issue of nuclear w... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative, as this Parliament’s rapporteur on Kosovo, I am very pleased to have heard you say that you consider the Western Balkans to be a focus of European foreign policy and that the European Union cannot afford to fail. You also said, however, that Bosni... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, where the EU can add value, and when it does not undermine our sovereign interests or compete with organisations such as NATO, we can support it. For the most part, this will mean adopting common positions on certain key issues and civil tasks in the field of humanitarian assistance or post-conflict recon... | null |
Nikolaos Salavrakos | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the report by Mr Albertini is indeed outstanding and I congratulate him on it. He is a serious person and always delivers serious reports. The presentation by Lady Ashton was equally important and outstanding. I believe that numerous foreign policy issues are covered, but I consider that everything refer... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Madam High Representative, I fear that what you have brought us today is a catalogue of areas for consideration or a catalogue of commonplaces. Unfortunately, your presentation contains very little in the way of strategic vision. For example, what action do you propose to ensure that we build a greater r... | null |
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the High Representative, Vice-President, and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Council under those three hats. She has three hats. Our reports refer to the old times. Your office, Baroness Ashton, was meant to be a new era, so I will refer to the new era. You are representing a newborn office, an ins... | null |
Maria Eleni Koppa | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Lady Ashton, we socialists and democrats believe in a European Union with a strong presence on the international stage, a Union with a common foreign policy which can speak with one voice in what is becoming a more and more complex world, a Union with a separate defence identity, which gives it independe... | null |
Norica Nicolai | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to pay tribute to the quality of the two reports from Mr Albertini and Mr Danjean. This proves that there are people with expertise in this Parliament. I hope, Mrs Ashton, that you will take advantage of this expertise, which is in all our interests. I would particularly like to highlight the recommendati... | null |
Paul Nuttall | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, please allow me to speak frankly as one Lancastrian to another, because this is not going very well, is it? It really is not. Earlier on, Baroness Ashton, you said that Europe needs a credible foreign policy. How can we have a credible foreign policy when it has an incredible High Representative? You seem... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | (It was not my turn, but I will continue anyway.) I would like to begin by congratulating Mr Albertini for the excellent report he has drafted, which highlights the role that the European Union needs to play on the international stage as a global player and lead actor. I particularly welcome the insertion of paragraph... | null |
Ioan Mircea Paşcu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the reports drawn up by Mr Albertini and Mr Danjean are very important documents coming at a crucial moment: the Lisbon Treaty has just entered into force, the EU has a new Parliament and transatlantic cooperation looks more promising. Mr Danjean’s report addresses the new security challenges facing EU me... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the motion which has been submitted for a resolution of Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy is intended, among other things, to establish military structures as part of the European Union. I appeal for the establishment of a special European Union defence council and military operations ... | null |
Ernst Strasser | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by warmly congratulating my two fellow Members on their reports, which have formed the basis for a very good debate with excellent results. There are a few guiding principles that I would like to mention. Firstly, on the common foreign policy: ... | null |
Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, yes, we need a common foreign, security and defence policy, but let us use it to obtain a world free of nuclear weapons. We know that that will not happen overnight; we have been fighting for this for too long to think that. However, perhaps we can succeed, together... | null |
Eduard Kukan | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The excellent reports from my fellow Members, Albertini and Danjean, include many inspiring ideas about how to streamline the main aspects and key opportunities in implementing the Common Foreign and Security Policy. I would like to stress that right now, when the concept for creating the European External Action Serv... | null |
Roberto Gualtieri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam High Representative/Vice-President, I would like to emphasise the fact that we are discussing three excellent documents drawn up by Parliament: ambitious documents that express clear stances, make clear-cut choices and are subject to broad consensus between the groups within t... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I congratulate colleagues Albertini and Danjean on their comprehensive and creative reports on foreign and security policy. The EU is bound to be a global player, as you said, High Representative, but with seven per cent of the world’s population and one fifth of GDP, it will be possible only on the b... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, High Representative Ashton has asked us this morning to change mental maps, to challenge resistance to institutional change and to avoid narrow defence of national interests. If Parliament means what it says on the CFSP, we have to send a clear message that we will support a strong, comprehensive and incl... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Union’s foreign policy is entering a new phase, as Baroness Ashton and Mr Albertini have said this morning. Article 21 of the treaty establishes objective principles. New positions are also created by the treaty, with a High Representative, a Vice-President of the Commission, a permanent President of... | null |
Libor Rouček | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, in my speech, I would like to point out the need to create a partnership with Russia. The EU States and Russia face many common challenges and threats. I could mention the fight against terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts in t... | null |
Laima Liucija Andrikienė | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome and support both reports and I congratulate both rapporteurs on those documents. Now for two points. Firstly, on the Danjean report, I would like to bring up an issue that has raised a lot of eyebrows in a number of EU Member States. I am talking specifically about the exclusive talks between Pa... | null |
Zoran Thaler | MEP | S&D | en | sl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam High Representative, I very much agree with you when you say that your key objective is a better and a more credible European foreign policy. That greater stability and security in the Balkans, our part of the world, is your key objective. We really cannot afford any failure in this regard. I therefore recommend... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Madam Vice-President, today you are sitting on the other side. If you switch round every month, that will be fine by me. As this debate draws to a close, a number of primary evaluations have become clear. We want you to be at the head of an External Action Service in which you – as a fellow Member said e... | null |
María Muñiz De Urquiza | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we believe that the new institutions need some time to establish themselves, but we also believe that we should not take our eye off the ball. What is important is not, as some are asking, for the High Representative to be present wherever the European foreign policy is involved. What is important is for... | null |
Krzysztof Lisek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ashton, I would like to express satisfaction at the fact that we can, today, discuss the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy with you. In spite of several voices to the contrary, I would like to say that I am certain that the majority of this House wish you w... | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to congratulate Vice-President Ashton on a speech with vision and substance. The problem that some people have with you, Vice-President Ashton, is that you are not a macho general or, indeed, a narrow nationalist. I welcome, in particular, your emphasis on the rule of law between countries and urge... | null |
Andrey Kovatchev | MEP | PPE | en | bg | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I believe that the reports by Mr Danjean and Mr Albertini mark a step towards our much needed common vision for the European Union as a global player in safeguarding peace and security, and I congratulate them on this. Dwindling defence budgets and the current economic crisis make it patently clear that if we want Eur... | null |
Ágnes Hankiss | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I wish to congratulate Mr Arnaud Danjean on this report, which is comprehensive and, at the same time, thoughtful on each individual question; for my part, I wish to speak on one point only. There are many countries among the Member States of the European Union, including my homelan... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, today I would like to congratulate both rapporteurs who have so brilliantly led this debate, a debate which has resulted in this document, or rather, the documents of both Mr Albertini and Mr Danjean, being approved. I would say that these documents have been approved at the right time, ... | null |
Piotr Borys | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Ashton, I speak, probably, for everyone present in this Chamber, when I say that foreign policy is one of the most important challenges before the European Union, and we would hope that, under your leadership, Mrs Ashton, the European Union will be a genuine regulator of foreign policy at world level... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, you have described Operation Atalanta in the Horn of Africa to combat piracy as a success. However, last week, there was a massive pirate attack on Basque, Spanish and French fishing boats, which forced the fishing fleet to leave the area and withdraw to places where they can be protecte... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, 58 people lost their lives on Sunday trying to exercise their right to vote in the Iraqi elections, and 140 were seriously injured. However, violence, intimidation, threats of attack and blackmail did not deter millions of courageous Iraqis from going to the polls. There have been repeated attempts to man... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton’s role is described in Article 18 of the Treaty on European Union as contributing to the development of a common foreign and security policy, as mandated by the Council, which, of course, contains the representatives of nation states. However, the same article states that she must be a Vic... | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | A coherent and effective policy is the main message of Mr Albertini’s report. I congratulate him on this report, as I do Mr Danjean. I would like to point out that there is also the personnel aspect to carrying out this work. The European External Action Service appears in the report, and despite the fact that this co... | null |
Jelko Kacin | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wish to pay my sincere compliments to both rapporteurs, Mr Albertini and Mr Danjean. I would remind you of a tragic event which took place in Belgrade on 12 March seven years ago. I am referring to the murder of Zoran Đinđić, former Prime Minister of Serbia. They killed him in order to stop the normalisation, democr... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, comprehensive reports usually require differentiated evaluations, and this is true in this case, too. Thus, I am in favour of a common foreign and security policy that deals with illegal immigration, visa fraud, criminal tourism and bogus asylum claims. I am also in favour of a common foreign and securit... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am concerned that the previous conferences have not produced tangible results in the area of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Such weapons and technologies have been proliferating. There is a growing risk of nuclear technology falling into the hands of criminal and terrorist organisations. The Union should act ... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like first of all to express my thanks for the contributions that have been made and say how much I thought this was an important and valuable debate in terms of our strategic direction. I want to say at the beginning that I agree completely with all honourable Members who spoke of the value and ... | null |
Gabriele Albertini | N/A | N/A | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I thank my fellow Members, so many of whom have spoken, especially those who approved the key parts of the report, praising and endorsing its content, but also those who expressed criticisms and who, above all, did so in a desire to overcome the regrettably tragic instances where force has been used, and to dream of a... | null |
Arnaud Danjean | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for all the speeches which, once again, have helped to enrich the debate, to enrich this report. I would like to reassure those who have voiced their doubts and, at times, their suspicions, about the fact that this report might open the door to more compet... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That concludes this item. The debate is closed. I have received six motions for resolutions(1)tabled in accordance with Rule 115(5) of the Rules of Procedure to wind up the debate. The vote will take place today. | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would first of all like to congratulate Mr Albertini for drafting this report. I am pleased that the amendments which I suggested have been adopted. Last week, the European Commission announced funding for 43 major energy projects, including four involving Romania. In the future, the Commission must give due importa... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is regrettable that the process of multilateral disarmament has been interrupted and that there has been no political will to resume it for several years. For this reason, the coming 2010 review conference between the parties to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty is of particular importance. As the motion for a r... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conference will be held in April-May 2010. It is important that the Member States of the European Union present a unified standpoint at that meeting and that they reaffirm all three pillars of the Treaty: non-proliferation of nuclear weapo... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I must say that I suspect the annual report on the Common Foreign and Security Policy for 2008 will not arouse such emotion as will our debate on the subject next year. For I hope that in a year’s time, we will know what the European External Action Service looks like, and this new service is, in... | null |
Kristiina Ojuland | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, some previous speakers have pointed out problems relating to the composition of the European External Action Service, which has begun work following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. I consider it extremely important to adhere to the principle of geographic equality in making up the EEAS and,... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The situation in the world is creating new challenges for EU foreign policy and requires a broader understanding of security problems. New powers have arisen and are becoming actively involved in global policy in various areas. Therefore, what is needed is dialogue at world level and the establishment of new principle... | null |
Traian Ungureanu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the Albertini report outlining the main aspects of the Common Security and Foreign Policy, especially the paragraphs concerning the development of the Eastern Partnership and European policy in the Black Sea region. The Eastern Partnership and the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly provide a suitable framework ... | null |
Janusz Władysław Zemke | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 annual report on the CFSP - The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy - Non-proliferation Treaty (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to make several remarks on the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy. In the European Parliament’s motion for a resolution, the main threats and challenges which Europe faces have been correctly defined. The problem is that we are not able to respond to them sufficiently, a... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | The next item is the vote. (For the results and other details on the vote: see Minutes) | null |
Robert Atkins | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, on a point of order, I think you would find that if you took the first vote at 12.00, people would then sit down and participate, rather than waiting for them to sit down and participate and then taking the vote. (Applause) | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | I am very considerate. | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I apologise for this intervention but as an MEP elected in Italy, I consider it my duty to offer, from this Chamber, a respectful and deferential greeting to my country’s President, Giorgio Napolitano, custodian of Italy’s constitutional values and national unity. In this Chamber, the Italian President s... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | We shall now proceed to the vote. | null |
Viktor Uspaskich | MEP | ALDE | en | lt | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to announce that I support this decision, although my card was not working to begin with and that is why I want to announce this. Now to the matter in hand. Ladies and gentlemen, the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a change to the annual accounting r... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, with the option of relieving micro-enterprises of the obligation to produce annual balance sheets, the European Parliament is clearly coming out in favour of the abolition of superfluous bureaucracy. With an EU-wide relief of approximately EUR 6.3 billion, we are also providing a tangible stimulus toward... | null |
Tiziano Motti | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I did not back the Lehne resolution. I regret this, because it concerned micro-enterprises, which are the backbone of the economy, but above all, I believe that the resolution, as it stood, created competitive differences between enterprises of the various States, and this is not wh... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am very happy to support the Lehne report, which will help to reduce the administrative burden on micro-enterprises. One of the things that comes up again and again when you speak with small businesses is the issue of over-regulation and red tape and of being smothered under a deluge of paperwork. They ... | null |
Vito Bonsignore | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mr Lehne for his report. The European Union looks closely at the world of business – as today has demonstrated – and, in particular, my group, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) has always included the backing of small and medium-siz... | null |
Philippe Lamberts | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the vote we have taken is remarkable in two respects. Firstly, because the three large groups decided to produce a joint resolution, which they submitted six minutes before the deadline, thus preventing the other groups from tabling any amendments to it. This closed a... | null |
Ramona Nicole Mănescu | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As is well known, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe was among the first to call for a more specific approach to the economic growth strategy. This is exactly why I would like to welcome the amendments which the EU 2020 strategy is introducing from this perspective. However, I feel that pro... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | A declaration was adopted by the Heads of State or Government during the informal meeting of the European Council held on 11 February to support Greece’s efforts to remedy its economic and financial situation. In addition, the topic of what the European Union will stand for in 2020, following on from the Lisbon Strate... | null |
Georgios Papanikolaou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is clear from the Council conclusions and from the debate which followed in Parliament in Brussels and from the stand subsequently taken by the competent Commissioner and the heads of several Member States that, in times of crisis and when certain Member States are facing serious economic problems, we... | null |
Viktor Uspaskich | MEP | ALDE | en | lt | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to talk about the EU 2020 strategy. In principle, we support any initiative that improves the situation in the European Union, but this does not mean that there is no room for criticism and improvement. In my opinion, this can also be said of the European Union’s 2020 strategy. Wheth... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am sorry but I think we have heard enough. Thank you so much, Mr Uspaskich. I have cut you off. | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted against the report, because the EU 2020 strategy treads the same unsuccessful neoliberal path as the Lisbon Strategy, which widened regional and social inequalities, increased poverty and unemployment and was the basic cause of the crisis in the European Union. We therefore need a radical change ... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union undoubtedly needs a new strategy which will help and allow us to construct our response to the economic and financial crisis. An important element of the strategy should be a strengthening of the free movement of people, and that of all groups: workers, business people, scientists, students and even... | null |
Vito Bonsignore | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the time has come for us to come of age politically. The crisis has shown that greater coordination and guidance is required from important and authoritative Community agencies, more resources are required for infrastructure projects and more focus on providing genuine support for small and medium-sized ... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The new EU strategy is, in fact, the younger brother of the Lisbon Strategy. If it follows its elder brother’s example, it will not pass its exams or qualify for anything. At the same time as the leaders of the European Union were talking about the necessity of adopting the Lisbon Strategy, the Member States were, in... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the EU 2020 strategy. I voted against it because it clearly professes faith in neoliberal economic policy. It clearly states that it condemns protectionist economic policy, in other words, the State playing a role in the economy. Yet the financial and economic world crisis has shown that we cannot leav... | null |
Inés Ayala Sender | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, as a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, I would like to say that I, of course, voted in favour of the EU 2020 strategy, because I felt it was important for Parliament to give its opinion. I do, however, have a reservation, which I would like to explain to the House, which is that the wording o... | null |
Ramona Nicole Mănescu | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against the Goldstone report even though, initially, this report seemed to be a well-intentioned initiative to analyse closely the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and identify the best solutions for remedying the situation in the region. However, I would have liked this report to be more objective, in keeping wit... | null |
Alajos Mészáros | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The authors of the report drawn up by Justice Richard Goldstone’s team are, in my opinion, internationally recognised experts whose insight and objectivity we have no reason to doubt. The report is non-partisan and balanced and therefore, we must create the conditions necessary for implementing its recommendations. I ... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In December 2008, Israel launched a brutal attack on the Gaza Strip, as a result of which more than 1400 people died, for the most part civilians, including 450 children. Using objective methods and a wide-ranging gathering of testimonies, the Goldstone report exposed these atrocities and itemised which rules of inter... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Goldstone report is too one-sided. Too many things have been laid at the door of Israel, and yet it was Hamas that was misusing civilian targets and civilians as shelters, arms depots and human shields. Unfortunately, Goldstone makes no mention of that whatsoever. Presumably, this one-sidedness is du... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted against the Goldstone report. I think it is a disgrace that the European Parliament adopted this report, albeit by a narrow majority, because this was a very biased move, and it has to be said that there was a considerable amount of internal disagreement in this House. I would like to comment on ... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-10T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Justice Goldstone certainly cannot be considered a paragon of objectivity. I voted against this report, because I have the impression that the report attempts to present the situation in the Middle East in black and white, showing Israel as the ‘Schwarz’ character – the villain. Actually, the situation is much more co... | null |
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