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Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As a result of the reforestation promoted by the regional government, along with initiatives by environmental protection organisations, recent studies show that the forests of Madeira have increased by almost 5 000 hectares in the last 36 years, an achievement that is all the more noteworthy because it goes against th... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-09-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I abstained from the final vote on the compromise resolution on the aftermath of the forest fires in 2009. This was because I note that the majority in this Parliament believes that combating forest fires at the European level should not be restricted to support and coordination but that, in reality, a kind of separat... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the debate on the oral question to the Commission (B7-0208/2009) by Mr De Castro, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the crisis in the dairy farming sector (O-0085/2009). | null |
Paolo De Castro | N/A | N/A | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the dairy farming sector is going through one of the deepest and most serious crises of the last few decades: the fall in the price of milk and the more general crisis in the dairy farming market have now become a source of concern throughout Europe. This is a cycli... | null |
Mariann Fischer Boel | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, would you allow me to use a bit more than the three minutes’ speaking time allocated to me, because on this important and serious issue I think three minutes would not actually be sufficient. First of all, I would like to say that I am very happy with the questions put by the Committee on Agriculture, ... | null |
Albert Deß | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is, of course, extremely difficult to summarise this problem in two minutes, but I will try to do it in the style of bullet points. The dairy sector is in trouble. Many dairy farmers are seeing their very existence under threat. The main reason for this is a huge... | null |
Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, the Commission and the Council have taken a long time to react to the serious crisis affecting the sector. We are all agreed on that. The terrible situation the sector is facing requires swift, decisive action, or we risk seeing the ruin of many thousands of farmers throughout Europe. My political group ... | null |
George Lyon | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as we have heard from other speakers, there is a crisis in the milk sector. There is no doubt that we must take action to alleviate their pain, but let me make it very clear that this is a short-term crisis which requires short-term market measures by the Commission, as outlined in the resolution. Let ... | null |
José Bové | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for months now livestock farmers have been warning the Commission and the Council of the gravity of the crisis. Tens of thousands of jobs have been destroyed in rural areas. The European Union had counted on growth in world demand. Its experts got it very wrong. The... | null |
James Nicholson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I feel very strongly that the Commission was very late in acting on this particular problem. They sat on their hands for too long, and many farmers have suffered grievously for that. We can either decide to help the industry, or we can decide that we will ultimately let our farmers go out of business: ... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, once again I can only regret the positions adopted by the Council and what has just been said here by the Commissioner, who persists in not getting to the bottom of the issue and not recognising the need to review the decisions reached on the dismantling of milk quotas. Instead, she wants to continue ... | null |
Giancarlo Scotta' | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to stress my doubts about the proposal to extend the 2009-2010 intervention period for butter and skimmed milk powder, since this proposal is in danger of turning short-term measures designed for the current crisis in the market into structural measures that would actually... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to thank the Commissioner for her words to us today. In my country, in Northern Ireland, the dairy sector is of vital importance. When the dairy sector struggles, the rest of the rural economy struggles. Currently dairy farmers receive just over 20 cents per litre for milk amid escalating ... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, when farm women start protesting you know there is a serious difficulty. At the weekend I met a group of Irishwomen called ‘Farm Women for a Fair Price’ and I think we should note the words ‘fair price’ because producers are not getting a decent or fair price – and that is what this debate is about. It... | null |
Stéphane Le Foll | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, I will be brief. I think that there are two parts to this debate. There is the immediate question of how we can extricate ourselves from this crisis. All measures, ranging from assistance for farmers to intervention measures, are necessary – in fact, absolutely necessary. We must endorse... | null |
Liam Aylward | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in the last 12 months the majority of dairy farmers in Ireland and across the European Union have been selling their milk for less than the cost of production. The livelihoods of dairy farmers are under serious threat. While the Commission’s decision to extend the intervention period for butter and ski... | null |
Oriol Junqueras Vies | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | ¡Bon dia! I am addressing this Parliament without being able to do so in my own language, Catalan, which is spoken by over 10 million European citizens. Today, on behalf of my Group, I want to express our solidarity with the whole of the agricultural sector, and in particular with the strike by milk producers and thei... | null |
Hynek Fajmon | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | – Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the crisis in the dairy produce sector shows that the entire European system of quota-based regulation is faulty and ineffective. What we need is not more regulation and manipulation of the quotas but the complete elimination of milk quotas. The opportunity to produce milk shou... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, listening to your statement has increased my concerns even more. The statement is not a sufficient response to the scale of the suffering being experienced by milk producers and farmers in general. The crisis is a structural one, and has not been caused merely by cu... | null |
John Bufton | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have major concerns for the dairy industry in the UK. I feel that the biggest problem lies with the retail industry, which is making huge profits off the backs of our dairy farmers. When we see what the supermarkets are charging consumers for milk, and then look at what the dairy farmer actually rece... | null |
Dimitar Stoyanov | MEP | NI | en | bg | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Commission is in an extremely upbeat mood again, bearing good news, but I fail to understand and cannot see anything good in thousands of tonnes of milk being thrown away in protest at the policy currently being pursued. The truth is that Mr De Castro and the other previous speakers are quite righ... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Many people have asked during this period, right from the start of the crisis, to freeze the increase in milk quotas. This type of measure would not only not provide a solution, but would be a mistake, at least from the following points of view. First of all, there is no basic economic link between the increase in mil... | null |
Ulrike Rodust | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, Council, I would like to begin by thanking my fellow Member Mr Capoulas Santos, who has made this resolution possible. Today we are talking about our dairy farmers and whether we are going to leave them in the lurch or deal with them in an honest manner. I do not believe that we should l... | null |
Britta Reimers | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the world economic crisis has thrown the global market off balance. As milk producers we are suffering the effects of prices having hit an all-time low. We are hearing over and over again that the adopted milk quota regulations should be amended. As a dairy farmer m... | null |
Richard Ashworth | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, can I compliment the Commissioner on her vision for the future of the industry, and may I say that I strongly support her intention to abolish milk quotas. I think this is the right decision to make. I also welcome her proposals to meet this current crisis as a sensible and appropriate way to support p... | null |
Esther Herranz García | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, you ended your speech by saying that there is a crisis in the milk sector, and yet you started by saying that all possible measures have already been taken and that the situation is being sorted out. You should know that it takes a wise woman to recognise that she was wrong. That is a sa... | null |
Iratxe García Pérez | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, today’s debate is vital so that we can express our concern about the crisis in the milk sector. We must sort out this situation, which is threatening the future of a large number of milk producers in the European Union. This is a European crisis that must be tackled from a European persp... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, yesterday in Wallonia over three million litres of milk were poured away by farmers disillusioned by the most serious crisis ever seen in the sector. They receive only 19 cents per litre. The crisis is caused by an over-abundant supply of milk, which is making prices drop sharply. Deregu... | null |
Wojciech Michał Olejniczak | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The action that has been taken – I have spoken today to Polish farmers and Polish product manufacturers – indicates that there has been an improvement, albeit not a significant one as yet, in the situation facing the dairy sector, but that there has been no change at all in the very difficult situation facing Polish a... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Those who have spoken before me quite rightly refer to the fact that we should not return to the quota system and export subsidies, but the policy which the Commission has pursued has completely failed. The crisis has not eased. This is why Mr Le Foll and I are proposing that we temporarily freeze the quotas, but only... | null |
Christel Schaldemose | MEP | S&D | en | da | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, thank you Commissioner for a good start – and a good introduction to the debate! I recognise that Europe’s dairy farmers are facing a crisis on a major scale, but I simply do not understand how my fellow Members can think that you, in the Commission, have not done enough. I would definitely like to ca... | null |
Georgios Papastamkos | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, the measures are without doubt inadequate. We propose other, more targeted interventions, especially for the mountainous and disadvantaged areas of the European Union, so that all the Member States benefit equally; interventions such as reinforced protection for designations of origin, n... | null |
Michel Dantin | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner – I would have liked to have been able to address the Presidency of the Council too – ladies and gentlemen, as you yourself acknowledged the other day, Commissioner, to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the price paid to dairy producers no longer covers the current costs... | null |
Antolín Sánchez Presedo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We cannot allow the milk sector to collapse. It is vital for our rural world, and for food security and quality. Futures markets and the medium- to long-term prospects of the milk and dairy products market in the European Union are showing positive signs. We must prevent these falling into a negative situation. We nee... | null |
Riikka Manner | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, you mentioned that there is no longer any question of a return to the quota system. Have we not seen what happened in the dairy industry after the Commission decided in the spring gradually to withdraw these quotas? That was a very poor and short-sighted decision. The complete withdrawal of quotas will d... | null |
Yannick Jadot | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I am an elected representative from a region in the west of France, where there is a very high concentration of dairy farmers, and I do not believe that you have acknowledged the tragic social situation they are experiencing today. Commissioner, when you speak of ‘producers’, what I hear is... | null |
Janusz Wojciechowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, our debate really has taken place in the shadow of dramatic events related to farmers spilling milk in protest. We are all deeply shaken by what has happened. I wanted to refer to a problem that was mentioned by my colleague, Mr Nicholson, namely the way in which large commercial chains and... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, you see as progress a 3% - 8% increase in the price of finished products such as skimmed milk and butter. In my view, this is an insult to our farmers. The main problem is the price at which milk is purchased from farmers. In the Czech Republic, for example, the purchase price is up to 25% lower than the... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, emergency measures are obviously needed, as the situation is disastrous. But is it not possible that the problem lies somehow with the basics? Surely there is a problem with a model or system where a huge quantity of soya is imported from Latin America, for instance, thereby increasing the oversupply in ... | null |
Astrid Lulling | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we saved the banks, because we had to. Now we are faced with a situation where we need to prevent thousands of farmers from going bankrupt in the short term because prices no longer cover production costs. However, we must ensure that we maintain our production potential in order to supply the population... | null |
Ricardo Cortés Lastra | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as the European Commission stated in its communication of 22 July, the situation in the dairy farming sector has deteriorated dramatically during the last 12 months. However, taking into account the huge impact of the crisis on dairy product prices, and in particular o... | null |
Mariann Fischer Boel | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all I would like to thank Members of Parliament for this very dedicated debate. I have actually listened very carefully. But of course I have also noted the different views that I have heard among the different Members of this Parliament. As regards the quota system; it seems to be the scapegoat ... | null |
Paolo De Castro | N/A | N/A | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank the Commission for deciding to come here to Parliament today to present new proposals on the crisis in the dairy farming sector. It is important for the parliamentary term that has just begun to be characterised by an interinstitutional dialogue between the Commissio... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | To conclude the debate, I have received seven motions for resolutions(1)pursuant to Rule 115(5) of the Rules of Procedure. The debate is closed. The vote will take place today at 12.00. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Luís Paulo Alves | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I come from an outermost region, the Azores, where milk production is the pillar of the economy, society and the environment. In recent weeks we met with the producers, their organisations and the processing industries. They all agree. It is crucial that the Commission should give a more effective and urgent global re... | null |
Béla Glattfelder | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The current dairy market crisis has been caused mainly by raising milk quotas. The European Commission and Member States’ governments are also responsible for the current grave situation affecting the dairy sector, as in 2008 they supported raising the quotas, resulting in the creation of milk surpluses and the collap... | null |
Jim Higgins | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Milk quotas need to be cut by between 5 to 10 per cent in order to push prices back up to a sustainable level. But quotas alone will not save the dairy sector. While the Commission is correct to adopt a long-term view, it cannot detach itself from reality - and the stark reality is that the agriculture industry, in par... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, last year the situation in the dairy sector declined dramatically. The producer price for milk fell, and at present many milk producers are having to sell dairy products at a price that does not reflect production costs. The survival of milk producers is now seriously under threat. Up until now it has no... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In order to tackle the particularly difficult economic circumstances currently confronting the dairy sector, strong action by the European Union is now urgently required. In common with the majority of the Member States, I believe that the solutions put forward by the Commission are unsatisfactory. Of course, I welcom... | null |
Ivari Padar | MEP | S&D | en | et | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Observing the present situation in the dairy market, it is clear that our sector is still largely unprepared to cope with the consequences of the global economic crisis. As a result, the development of the common agricultural policy should continue to be aimed towards improved competitiveness and, in the long term, le... | null |
Daciana Octavia Sârbu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Crisis in the dairy farming sector (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are currently going through the deepest crisis in the dairy sector, triggered by the global crisis, which is basically a result of a discrepancy between demand and supply. The fall in the prices of milk and dairy products primarily affects farms with low incomes. For this reason, I do not think that the quota syste... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Commission statement on energy security in relation to the Nabucco and Desertec projects. | null |
Andris Piebalgs | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, energy will definitely continue to be the focus of this Parliament for the next five years. At the same time, we have made good progress over the last five years in establishing a robust European energy policy with three goals: security of supply, sustainability and competitiveness. In achieving all these... | null |
Ioannis Kasoulides | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we all agree to speak with one voice and have a common foreign policy on the security of energy supply. It is acknowledged that the energy mix and energy supply differs among Member States according to geography and other distinct factors. So, diversification also covers supply. A diversified and intercon... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for your report. The question of security of supply for our citizens is becoming ever more important. In this context in particular, your portfolio will play an even greater role in future – and it will be important for the European identity, too. As you quite rightly said, divers... | null |
Johannes Cornelis van Baalen | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is an honour, as a newly elected Member, to address this plenary session for the first time. I do so also as a former member of the Lower House of the Dutch parliament and Deputy President of Liberal International, as I aim to see European politics, national politics and international politics as one.... | null |
Reinhard Bütikofer | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we are talking today about external energy security policy, we are, of course, aware of one particular fundamental truth, which has already been mentioned by Mr Piebalgs, and that is that the crucial front line in terms of energy independence is within the European Union. To put ... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have three brief points to make. Firstly, complacency over energy policy is putting us increasingly in the dangerous position of dependency on Russia. Where possible it clearly makes sense to coordinate our response, but any unified EU policy would inevitably be skewed by those countries that are alread... | null |
Helmut Scholz | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, energy security is quite rightly on the external policy agenda today. However, instead of securing power and influence and the last reserves of fossil fuels, instead of insisting on giving priority to dependency, we are, in my opinion, facing completely different challenges when it comes to... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we know for certain that demand for energy will increase and that European gas production is on a steady decline. It is crucial for the Member States, and therefore Europe, to implement policies to ensure an abundant, secure supply. Diversifying the sources and the transport network... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | On 13 July in Ankara, at the time of signing the Nabucco agreement, Mr Barroso said that the gas pipelines were made from steel. However, Nabucco is ‘cementing’ relations between the people involved in this venture, establishing a strategic link between the European Union and Turkey. Prime Minister Putin said that any... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, energy is a vital lifeline for the whole of society, for individuals and for the economy. It is therefore important for us in Europe to find common solutions, although it is certainly right for the energy mix to remain a national responsibility. This means that during ... | null |
Teresa Riera Madurell | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to highlight the timeliness of this motion for a resolution and also welcome the effort made by all groups to achieve a joint motion. Ladies and gentlemen, in order to prevent the reoccurrence of the situation of helplessness suffered by many of our citizens when Russia decided to cut off the gas ... | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have three great challenges in this area – security of energy supply, the inefficiency of our internal market in energy and the imperative of combating climate change. Desertec and Nabucco are central to meeting these challenges. If we succeed in developing high-voltage solar thermal power in North Afr... | null |
Franziska Katharina Brantner | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, energy security is for us to a large extent a question of energy independence, as many have said, and, as Mr Piebalgs said correctly, the most effective strategy is that of efficiency, savings and renewables. But we, as Greens, are also realistic and realise that, in the medium term, we will need gas supp... | null |
Konrad Szymański | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | From the moment when the agreements on the construction of the Nabucco and South Stream projects were signed, a great race began. Time will tell whether Nabucco will play its part in the European Union’s foreign and security policy. That is why I am surprised at the European Commission’s policy towards Russia with reg... | null |
Jacky Hénin | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the independence of our region’s energy supply and the security of energy installations and consumers ought not to go hand in hand with defiance of the interests of the peoples of the gas-producing countries and the transit countries, otherwise we risk generating conflict. Competition between gas pipelin... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, you are known for your pragmatism and sense of realism, but I would say with all due respect that I do not see the Nabucco pipeline as final or as quite such a given. Having examined the capacity of this pipeline, we have established that, in order for it to be viable and efficient, it need... | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Nabucco was Giuseppe Verdi’s first hugely successful opera. In harmony with the new Italian-Russian remix, South Stream, the energy project of that name is, however, in danger of being scrapped. When we consider that a supposed member of the Green party like Joschka Fischer has signed a lobbying contract... | null |
Pilar del Castillo Vera | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for being very clear in your explanation of the current situation in relation to Nabucco and its potential and viability – seemingly in the short term, according to what you said – and also for the information on the Desertec project. There can be no doubt that the Sun is an extra... | null |
Kristian Vigenin | MEP | S&D | en | bg | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is no coincidence that the issue of energy policy and energy security comes up quite often in this House, particularly following the situation early this year when several members of the European Union were virtually left without gas supplies. This was probably the breaking point... | null |
Fiona Hall | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to thank the Commissioner for reminding this House that there is also a demand side to energy security. The decision to take incandescent light bulbs off the European market will save the equivalent of the annual electricity generation of Finland. This autumn we are seeking agreement with the Counc... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have three main concerns with Nabucco. The project is being developed too slowly and in a lacklustre way, and we do not like the Commission’s position, reiterated by Mr Landaburu a week ago, which stated that the Commission is neutral between South Stream and Nabucco. The Commission should be in favour... | null |
Sajjad Karim | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Europe’s future depends on securing energy. As both the Nabucco Agreement and the Desertec initiative show, Turkey is an essential gateway, and in this regard I echo Mr Van Orden’s point. It is critical at this time to be building greater trust and deeper ties with countries who will be our energy partner... | null |
Marisa Matias | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have been listening carefully and would just like to raise three issues. The first is: what are we actually talking about when we talk about energy security and energy? Are we talking about people – people for whom we must guarantee equal access to energy and guarantee security so they are not left wit... | null |
Herbert Reul | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is not before time that the security of supply is recognised as a key energy policy issue. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as it is sometimes made to appear in political debates. We are talking today about two projects: Nabucco, a very tangible project that we ca... | null |
Marita Ulvskog | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is, of course, unacceptable for people in Europe to be without power in the middle of winter or for people to be forced into unemployment because the industries in which they work are unable to pay the high energy prices and are therefore forced to lay people off or even close down their operations. I... | null |
Adina-Ioana Vălean | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, everyone wants energy security, so why do we not have it? Maybe it is because there are 27 interpretations of what energy security means. Personally, I interpret it as meaning, among other things, diversifying the sources and moving away from our gas dependency on Russia. We do not have to look too far fo... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Listening to my fellow speakers, I wonder whether the citizens of the European Union are doomed to merely listen to our words. It is something we could have tested in January of this year, during the energy crisis. After all, we are adopting resolutions as we all feel that the Union is not coping with the issue of ene... | null |
Gabriele Albertini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with Commissioner Piebalgs. His statements just now confirm that South Stream is not Nabucco’s competitor but a further contribution to the diversification of Europe’s energy supply sources. Europe’s energy security is based on a variety of sources, routes and supply countri... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, if we are to address the problem of our energy security in a reliable and viable manner, we need a global strategy which responds to the need to differentiate energy sources and adopt common rules in terms of transit countries, because our dependence on a single energy source is as bad as o... | null |
Toine Manders | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to congratulate you on your integrated approach in this proposal. This diversification is very important and I would also like to concur with what my colleague Mr van Baalen said, namely that we need to consider all forms of energy, including nuclear power... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, energy is not an area over which the European Union has jurisdiction. Mr Piebalgs, congratulations on all that you are doing. Energy and access add up to war - sometimes in military terms, sometimes in political terms, and sometimes in economic terms. As for gas, we are going to have a gas war. We will n... | null |
Justas Vincas Paleckis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The ‘Nabucco‘ gas pipeline would allow Europe to feel strong and safe. However, not all countries in the Caspian region are following the road to democracy and not all can be trusted. Much depends on relations with Turkey. Even if, for the time being, there is no prospect of opening the door to that country’s membersh... | null |
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, as a Latvian politician, I know very well what it means for a state to be energy dependent. Although Latvia generates about one-third of its energy needs from its own renewable resources, the remaining two-thirds of our energy balance-sheet comes predominantly from one supplier state – Russ... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, allow me to express my thanks that I can speak in Hungarian in this House, which allows me to greet the Vice-President in this language. I would like to begin by saying that, if we look back at the last five years, Commissioner Piebalgs has probably become one of the most successful commiss... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, energy security is undoubtedly a fundamental priority that must be enhanced firstly by increasing energy efficiency and diversifying the suppliers, sources and supply routes, but above all by promoting the Union’s energy interests in respect of third countries. Now, the March Europe... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In 2008 the European Union posted a record commercial deficit of EUR 242 billion, mainly due to the increase in the price of imported energy. The Nabucco project pipeline will pass through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria and will provide the European Union with an annual supply of 30 billion cubic metre... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Nabucco will provide for a large part of the European Union’s demand for gas. However, what is even more important about this is the political aspect: it will eliminate our dependence on a single source. The recurring crises have highlighted that the current situation, with Russia as a single source and Ukraine as the... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, given the EU’s dependence on external energy supplies, securing its supply is an issue which must always form part of the EU’s external policy. In addition, all predictions agree that energy demand in the world will increase significantly over the next 25 years. Here in Europe, we have to reduce our high... | null |
Rachida Dati | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, as my fellow Members have just said, the recent gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine demonstrates the urgent need to increase the European Union’s energy security and independence. The European Union is still too dependent, particularly on its gas imports, since by 2020 it will probably ha... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the present resolution makes clear once again the need to develop a consistent European foreign policy, including from the point of view of the security of energy supply. A lot has already been said today regarding Nabucco and Desertec. As regards diversification of the sources of s... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Turkey has an important role to play in reducing Europe’s dependence on Russia. The question now is what price Europe is prepared to pay Turkey. In the meantime, Turkey is playing two hands and is seeking to benefit both from the Nabucco project and from South Stream. It is not in Europe’s interests. I c... | null |
Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Union needs suppliers whose business dealings remain transparent and who fulfil their obligations. The Energy Charter and the Transit Protocol are an attempt to establish a system based on clear principles. Russia’s recent indication of its desire to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty should be viewe... | null |
Matthias Groote | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I very much liked what the Commissioner described here today with regard to the Desertec project. This project has huge potential and its appeal indeed lies in the fact that it is made up of many separate small projects. This will create jobs and will prepare the way f... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the ECR Group supports the need for an EU common external energy security policy based on solidarity between Member States, but energy mix must remain a Member State competence. We must, of course, diversify away from overdependence on Russian oil and gas, of which even the UK, traditionally dependent on ... | null |
Alejo Vidal-Quadras | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the predictions indicate that, between now and the year 2030, gas consumption in the European Union will increase by more than 40% and that our own internal production will fall. This means that demand will not be met, even with all the projects currently in hand. As a result, we need all possible source... | null |
Derek Vaughan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the text put forward today by the various political groups and the earlier statement by the Commissioner, particularly the recognition of the need to diversify our energy technology and to secure our supply. But of course there is no one answer to ensuring our supply. All technologies must be co... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, the proposal for a decision mentions that the Russian company Surgutneftgaz, whose ownership is unclear, recently acquired a major stake in the Hungarian oil company MOL. I would like to say something more about this. I personally submitted a written question to the Commissioner following this tr... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2009-09-17T00:00:00 | 2009 | Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It seems that the ‘catch-the-eye’ system is working well and I am happy to hear that that is the case. We need a secure and diversified supply. We all agree on that. However, I think that too much of our discussion today has centred on a single issue: on warnings of a Russian threat. Such talk can have no constructive... | null |
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