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Burkhard Balz | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, as the shadow rapporteur from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) for the European Central Bank annual report for 2008, I am very happy with the report that is in front of us now. As a result of the close and effective cooperation with the rapporteur Mr Scicluna and, above all,... | null |
Gianni Pittella | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, Mr Trichet, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the king has no clothes! The gravity of the situation has been accurately described. Now it is useful to concentrate on the treatment, and the first step of this treatment can only be European economic governance, in the absence of which the economic system... | null |
Sharon Bowles | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, we have had a heavyweight week in committee with the President of the ECB, the President of the Euro Group and the nominee for ECB vice-president. We all agree that stronger surveillance of Member States, with accurate statistics to enable early intervention, is a key requirement. Work on this has started... | null |
Michail Tremopoulos | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | el | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, may I start by saying that this is an important report, which strikes a worthy compromise between the tensions in the European Parliament. It identifies elements of social cohesion which are not present in similar debates in the European Parliament. We should also like it to signal an important turning p... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, Mr Rehn and Mr Trichet were quite right to talk about the situation today. The Greek position in the euro area is very shaky and, as far as I can see, the answer lies with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These days, the IMF is the right organisation to help Greece out of the crisis. If that does n... | null |
Charalampos Angourakis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I should like to start by wishing my fellow countrymen the very best for 25 March. The capitalist crisis has resulted in a spiralling deterioration in the living standards of the workers. At the same time, it has given capital an opportunity to step up the application of anti-labour policy choices. Under... | null |
Godfrey Bloom | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I appear to have been living in some sort of parallel universe here, hearing about the success of the euro. Let us bring it all down to earth just a little bit shall we? Unemployment, youth unemployment in the Iberian Peninsula and many eurozone countries is chronic. It has been at 30-40% for years. Nothi... | null |
Corneliu Vadim Tudor | MEP | NI | en | ro | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The mafia is the major cause of the crisis. I will give you a few examples from my own country, Romania. Believe you me, as a writer and historian who runs a daily newspaper and a weekly magazine, I know very well what I am talking about. Since 1990, approximately 6 000 companies valued at EUR 700 billion have been pr... | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, warmly for his very successful work over the last six years. Of course, I would also like to thank the rapporteurs for submitting a report that has been given majority support. Mr Rehn, I would like to re... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, allow me to start by congratulating the two rapporteurs on the excellent work they have done at a particularly difficult juncture. The work of one of the most crucial summits is due to start shortly and there is still much talk raging around the so-called Greek issue and around if and to what extent we s... | null |
Olle Schmidt | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Trichet, the euro is ten years old and it has largely passed its tests, even though the current turbulence is not over yet. I am certain that, already today, we will see the first important step towards a European solution, with or without the International Monetary Fund. We share a comm... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I shall avoid the military language which the previous speaker used. The language of war does not suit the style of banks. I am a representative of what is probably the only political group in this Parliament which has attracted the majority of its members from outwith the euro area. Only two are in euro... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I agree with my fellow members who said that the crisis is not over. The economic situation in numerous countries is clearly negative. Unemployment is increasing in most countries. The measures being taken to address deficits are exacerbating the crisis. Mr Trichet and Mr Rehn – and I am speaking institu... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the situation in which Greece and the euro area have deservedly found themselves is regrettable. Financial assistance for Greece should come primarily from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF has itself said that it is in an excellent position to help Greece. The establishment of a European Mo... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the report has one serious flaw: it does not name those responsible. And yet, we will not be able to put an end to the economic crisis in Europe until those responsible have been identified. Let us finally tell it like it is: the crisis was not caused by people living off their wage... | null |
Antolín Sánchez Presedo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the crisis through which we are struggling is the worst in eight decades and the most significant since the launch of the Community project. It started with the North American subprime mortgage crisis and, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it is now in its third phase, after leaving Europe with ... | null |
Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the economic crisis has had a negative impact on Member States all over the European Union. Unemployment rates have increased dramatically all over the Union, and it is young people that are suffering the most. The public funds of many Member States have declined as a result of this crisis. To deal with ... | null |
Zbigniew Ziobro | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the widening crisis in the euro area shows the dangers which may face economic projects that are not backed up by economic calculation, but are based on ideological assumptions, especially when integration includes the economic integration of different Member States which have different economic conditio... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have read the reports with some surprise, and the speeches I have heard this morning only strengthen my beliefs. With a few exceptions, it is still a matter of budget restrictions, containing inflation, and the Stability and Growth Pact, even though 20 of the 27 countries no longe... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The report on the annual management of the euro area and of public finances in 2009 analyses in detail the management of the EU during the global financial and economic crisis. The decline of economic output in various EU countries has led to a dramatic rise in unemployment and a growth in the debts of European countr... | null |
Enikő Győri | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Ladies and gentlemen, in the course of its activities in 2008, the European Central Bank was faced with unprecedented challenges as the world economic crisis wound its way into Europe in September 2008. The financial crisis turned into a crisis of the real economy as the capital markets froze up due to mistrust, and f... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | It comes as no surprise that the exceptional measures which had to be adopted by the European Central Bank at a time of crisis feature at the heart of its annual report. Against this backdrop, I think it is appropriate for the European Central Bank to continually increase liquidity provisions to banks in the euro area... | null |
Roberts Zīle | MEP | ECR | en | lv | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Thank you, Mr President and Commissioners, last December, in Strasbourg, Mr Almunia, who was then Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, said that barring any significant developments, next summer, Estonia would be invited to join the euro area, with effect from 2011. Well, there have been some significant de... | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, 2008 was an extremely important year for the European and indeed the global economy. It was the year that was characterised by a great deal of uncertainty as regards the extent of the crisis, which only seemed to worsen. A great deal of uncertainty was also present with regard to the time it would take fo... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, unfortunately, due to another engagement President Juncker is unable to join us as usual. Quite clearly, I am sorry to hear this. Here we have two very good reports that enable us to go more deeply into our discussion at a critical moment for the euro area. Mr Scicluna’s report allows us to lay the found... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, in the wake of the financial crisis, public debt has become rapidly worse, even if, in many countries, they are beginning to turn off the taps of recovery. Having dealt with an acute economic crisis, we need to focus very closely on the long term and serious imbalance in public finances. We have had the ... | null |
Olle Ludvigsson | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I would like to highlight three main points in the reports that we are discussing. Firstly, we should not devote the debate on public finances to issues relating to austerity alone. We also need to focus on what we can do to initiate growth and combat unemployment. In many countries, cuts in public expen... | null |
Frank Engel | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, 2009 was, without doubt, the most difficult year for the euro since its introduction, but it was also the most useful. Without the euro, the European Union would have sunk into a war of competitive devaluations against the backdrop of the crisis. In 2009, monetary instability could have weakened the poli... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, a crisis is a disease which usually ends not only in recovery, but also strengthens and creates mechanisms of resistance. It may also lead to what are known as complications, and even to certain kinds of permanent impairment of the body. Let us think about how this illness, which we call the crisis, aros... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Trichet, I would like to thank you very much, not only for what you have done in recent years, but also for your approach in recent weeks. You have been competent, independent and consistent. You and your staff have been a calming influence in troubled times. Mr Rehn, you have ma... | null |
Danuta Jazłowiecka | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, last year was an extremely turbulent one for the euro area. It began with Slovakia’s entry to the Eurogroup, and ended with huge economic and financial problems in Greece. During this period, the world experienced its biggest economic crisis for years. Discussions are currently under way on how to cope w... | null |
Alajos Mészáros | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | I am grateful to the Commissioner, to the President of the ECB and to the rapporteur for having taken an open and highly professional approach to this problem that concerns us gravely. Indeed, it is alarming that despite all our efforts, the rate of unemployment and the level of state indebtedness keeps rising in almo... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The way out of the complicated economic and financial crisis was not as effective as we had hoped. When the crisis began, the Member States’ programmes of support for banks were not coordinated with joint conditions set down at European level and some banks used additional funds allocated from the European Central Ban... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the rapporteur, Mr Scicluna, said that the ECB had tried to expand liquidity, but that liquidity had not been passed on by the banks to their customers. That is true outside the eurozone as well as inside it. My party is pleased that the UK remains outside the eurozone. A state’s currency must reflect the... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | We have been able to observe during this crisis that the fluctuations triggered by interest and exchange rates have come up against a single currency which has properly shielded the euro area. The single currency has not provided a solution to all the internal and external imbalances which have occurred. However, the ... | null |
Karin Kadenbach | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, Mr Trichet, I would like to thank you very much for the part of the report which warns against excessive cuts in wages with the aim of reducing deficits, because low incomes result in a fall in economic growth. I want to thank you for this paragraph, because I believe that this not only slows down econom... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the current economic and financial crisis, which is also a structural crisis, is forcing us to impose long-term controls and to introduce cautious budgets. Globalisation is compelling the euro area to play an effective role with regard to financial policy. However, this must not hap... | null |
Jean-Claude Trichet | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, I have to say that I have been addressing Parliament for six and a half years now, and this is the first time that I have noted so many speeches, so many analyses, so many suggestions and so many proposals. I am very impressed by the wealth of what we have just heard and very impressed also by the divers... | null |
Olli Rehn | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, first, I would like to say thank you to the Members for a very serious and substantive debate. I have listened to your views very carefully. I can conclude from them that there is strong and broad support for an effective reinforcement of economic governance in the euro area and in the European Union as a... | null |
Edward Scicluna | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, a few points first. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the ECB for its cooperation and availability in responding to my various queries. Secondly, I would like to thank my fellow shadow rapporteurs for their joint team work in agreeing to amendments to this report and thus widening the agreemen... | null |
Sven Giegold | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, following this debate, I would like to make three quick points. Firstly, looking at the different opinions here in the House, we do not have the same opinion on the question of imbalances. There were differences which were quite clear and I think we have to be careful. In particular, I would like to addre... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place on Thursday, 25 March 2010. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Cristian Silviu Buşoi | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | There are lessons to be learnt from the current eurozone crisis. The economic crisis is also responsible for the eurozone difficulties, but I believe there are also structural weaknesses of EMU that we should address in order to avoid future crises. For the ECB to be able to take efficient action supporting employment ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | We should proceed from one central fact – during the most severe economic crisis that Europe has known, the euro has been an anchor of stability and credibility. Without the functioning eurozone, overcoming the crisis would have been much slower and uneven. This applies also for those Member States which have not yet j... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The activities of the European Central Bank have, since its inception, been a subject of constant criticism from the left, and not only throughout the EU. The first cause of this justified criticism is the objectives of the bank. Since the main objective of the bank is to ensure that inflation does not exceed 2% and t... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | The European Union as a whole and the euro area in particular are in a grave situation. Greece is on the verge of bankruptcy and Spain and Portugal are also in difficulties. Because of the seriousness of the situation, new proposals are constantly being made. On the one hand, people are talking about giving the Europe... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | In the context of the European Central Bank annual report, I would like to highlight the disturbing change in financial policy which has resulted in far too many dollars being printed without it being possible to come anywhere near covering their value. The accompanying current or forthcoming devaluation of the dollar... | null |
Kristiina Ojuland | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | ECB annual report for 2008 - Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (debate) PV | Mr President, the debt crisis in Greece has raised questions about our ability to maintain the stability of the euro area. I am convinced that the strength of the single currency will be guaranteed if the rules we have agreed upon are followed in every single Member State. It has been said that, as well as Greece, the... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | Second European Roma Summit (motions for resolutions tabled): see MinutesPV | Mr President, through a ruling given on 19 March, the Court of Justice of the European Union has just declared that the majority of our Parliament violated a clear rule of law by refusing to defend my immunity on the basis of Article 10 of the international protocol, as requested by my foreign colleagues, led by Mr Ro... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-03-25T00:00:00 | 2010 | WelcomePV | Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to inform you that, as part of our series of interparliamentary meetings, we are being visited by a delegation from the Parliament of Tunisia headed by Mr Salah Tabarki, Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Foreign Affairs of the Tunisian House of R... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Ten days ago in Moscow, more people died at the hands of terrorists. We share the pain of the victims’ families, and hope that those responsible for these attacks will be found quickly and tried. The European Parliament condemns and has always condemned acts of violence of this sort. Today marks the 70th anniversary of... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Approval of the minutes of the previous sittingVideo of the speechesPV | The Minutes of the sitting of 25 March 2010 and the documents which were adopted are available for viewing. The Minutes have been approved. | null |
Francesco Enrico Speroni | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Approval of the minutes of the previous sittingVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, you have remembered the victims of the attacks in Russia. Only recently terrorist attacks also took place in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, countries which – like Russia – are outside the European Union. I think it is only right that we remember those victims too. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Approval of the minutes of the previous sittingVideo of the speechesPV | You are right, Mr Speroni. I agree. With these introductory words, we in the European Parliament also refer to events of this kind which are happening throughout the world. We remember all victims with great pain. We also sympathise with the victims’ families and friends, and with the countries where these things happe... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission: Conclusions of the European Council held on 25-26 March 2010. | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, dear colleagues, today I report back to you on the first formal meeting of the European Council that I have had the honour to chair. As you know, that meeting had on its agenda our economic strategy for Europe 2020, and our strategy for global negotiations on climate change. That agend... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, last month the European Council had to deal with an important agenda under very demanding circumstances. After intensive and earnest debate, it not only agreed on the essence of the Commission’s proposals for the Europe 2020 strategy on growth and jobs but it also decided on a mechanism to ensure financia... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Van Rompuy, Commission Vice-President Šefčovič, the European Council was dominated by the problems in the euro area and the EU 2020 strategy that aims to put Europe back on the path of growth and jobs for our citizens. All the Heads of State or Government agreed to strengthen the European econo... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to start by thanking Mr Van Rompuy for the eagerness of his communication with Parliament, which is a good sign of his personal commitment. What you actually had to tell Parliament – which relates to decisions taken by the Council, not by you personally – is deeply disappointing for us. Let ... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to make two remarks on last month’s Council. The first concerns the mechanism which the Council decided on for Greece and about which I have serious doubts. I hope that I am wrong, but I do not think that it can work for the simple reason that it is a system of bilateral loans and not a syste... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must admit, when I heard Mr Van Rompuy’s speech, I asked my neighbour, Mr Lambsdorff, to pinch me, because I had the feeling that either I was not in the real world or the President of the European Council must not be. I say this because, in my view, the only positive that resulte... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the crisis in Greece of course dominated the headlines following the European Council but the meeting itself also took important first steps in the Europe 2020 initiative. My group, the ECR, wants the euro area to succeed for those who choose to be its members. It is now vital for the European economy as ... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is a good thing that the Heads of State or Government were able to agree an emergency package, but this is hardly a really European solution. The German Government has, for tactical electoral reasons – with regard to North Rhine-Westphalia – gone quite far down the road of populism. The agreement, the... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are in the presence of a great man today – the President of Europe. He is a man so important that he is beyond criticism, beyond reproach; he is the king of the modern political class. He is the modern-day Zeus, and he intends to rule us from Mount Berlaymont – and woe betide anybody that questions his... | null |
Barry Madlener | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President. Mr Farage, again you have spoken on behalf of a great many Europeans who do not like this Europe, for which I thank you. This debate is a big sham. The new bogus President Herman Van Rompuy, who was appointed in back rooms, has congratulated President Barroso and the Commission on the financial rescue of... | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I will be fairly brief. There are some basic truths of which I must remind you. The first truth – and I have heard it now and again here, but not enough for my liking – is that the problems we have to address first appeared in a country with budgetary irregularities. These must be c... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Van Rompuy. Thank you for your straightforward reply to the remarks which were made. There were critical remarks, which we all heard. They are necessary in such a discussion. We are talking about a matter of the greatest importance. We are not only talking about how to get out of the crisis or how to help... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I also want to react to the initial discussion. I would like to thank Parliament for its many excellent ideas, for its very good proposals and also for the constructive criticism we receive in this House, because it helps us further in our work. Both the President of the European Council and I have been v... | null |
Gunnar Hökmark | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all I would say to those of us who would like to invent new institutions, new rules and new funds, I do not think we can solve the problems that have come from not respecting rules by creating new rules. We need to respect the rules we have. One of the big lessons to be learnt from this crisis is... | null |
Gianluca Susta | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I listened with interest to the introduction by the President of the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission, and I have to say that I am not convinced by the conclusions. I am not convinced by the conclusions of the March European Council, because we are witnessing a decli... | null |
Lena Ek | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there are two key words that are devastatingly missing in the Council conclusions, and they are ‘transparency’ and ‘courage’. Firstly on economic governance: if we do not have the courage and the transparency to work with the true facts, with true statistics and the truth, and act accordingly among friend... | null |
Derk Jan Eppink | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy is at the podium; as leader of the Belgian delegation in the European Conservatives and Reformists I should like to welcome him to this House. I wish to ask something about the EU 2020 strategy. I agree with you that the big question over the next 10 years will be whether or not Europe can ... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the value of the decision by the European Council which we are debating was seen yesterday: following a statement by an unnamed member of the Greek Government, a news agency stated that Greece did not want any involvement on the part of the International Monetary Fund. A new orgy of speculation, with bor... | null |
Mara Bizzotto | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, economic policy coordination, growth, employment, innovation, social inclusion: those are the slogans of the new 2020 strategy, that is, the one which, after the Lisbon Strategy, is supposed to guide Europe towards the end of the crisis that is weakening Europeans’ spending power an... | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Swoboda, you talked of solidarity and about how you should not wait until a crisis breaks out before you inform good friends about a problem. For me, that gives rise to the question of why you did not inform your socialist friend in Greece of the problem in advance. Did you actually not know anything ... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Šefčovič, firstly, on the question of form, Mr Van Rompuy, it was customary for the President of Parliament to take the floor, but, in the minutes, in the record, there is no mention of a speech being made by him. Was he not invited, or is this an error in the minutes? I wanted to know ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I was invited to the European Council meeting to give an introductory speech, which is available on the internet – I can send it to you by e-mail as well. I hope it will be taken into account; I presented the position of the European Parliament, of course. We had a discussion on the same day about the crisis in Greece ... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the European Council, I have four comments. The first concerns the mandate of the working group that has been entrusted to you with regard to the excessive deficit procedure and the crisis: do not settle for that agenda because, if you do, you will overlook our needs. What we need today is e... | null |
Malcolm Harbour | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to address my comments to Mr Van Rompuy as one chairman to another. I have noted, as chairman of the Committee on the Internal Market, that the one thing that is clearly absent from the targets are any targets for the Member States to complete the internal market, which should be the centre-piece o... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the decisions by the European Council highlight once again the fact that the European Union is an imperialist, transnational union of capital. Approval of the guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy and the ‘alleged’ Community economic support mechanism are two sides of the same coin. They signal a ‘rall... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is stating the obvious to say that the 2020 objectives do indeed merit consideration; most of them, at least. If a European incentive is useful to some Member States for internal political purposes, to help them take the necessary measures, I cannot see any problem with that. Yet what is quite astound... | null |
Marietta Giannakou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is a fact that economic union did not follow monetary union. However, economic union would possibly mean doing away with different political views and different political factions. In the present case, the decision taken on Greece in terms of the involvement of the International Monetary Fund was, of ... | null |
Kathleen Van Brempt | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President Van Rompuy, you will not be surprised that both I and my whole group are very disappointed with the results the Council has produced. You said in your reply a little while ago that the Council is keenly aware of the balance of the Commission proposal in economic, ecological and social terms, but the results ... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Van Rompuy, I have two preliminary remarks to make. First of all, as an Austrian MEP, I would like to offer my truly heartfelt thanks for the fact that you paid a visit to Austria over the last two days and also engaged with the national parliamentarians, who have already had the opportu... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Othmar Karas is, of course, from Austria, but he was talking on behalf of Herbert Reul. | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the European Council, I have two messages: one of concern, and one of demanding encouragement for the work that lies ahead. Concern over the inadequate nature of the response and that it be genuinely European in scale; concern about the involvement of the International Monetary Fund and the ... | null |
Danuta Maria Hübner | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we cannot anticipate crises and nor will we be able to prevent another one from happening in the future. We are in pretty good company on this, if that is any consolation. However, our punishment should be to learn the lessons that the crisis has given and to use all the opportunities it has generated. Fo... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a fortnight ago, the Heads of State or Government decided to set up a new European solidarity mechanism to support economies with serious economic difficulties, such as Greece, and to safeguard the stability of the eurozone. This was, without doubt, an important decision which we hoped, and we still hope... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am going to try to say two new things on the subjects with which the European Council has been dealing: the 2020 strategy and the regulation of the financial markets. As regards the 2020 strategy, all of us here have been saying for quite some time that one of the reasons for the relative failure of th... | null |
Csaba Őry | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to make two remarks. The first may appear to be technical in nature, but in fact is more than that, and the second point goes to the substance of the matter. I see from the review that the employment directives are an integral part of the 2020 strategy, which the Council is seeking to adopt in June. This ... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | ga | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there is much that I would like to say on this subject but I do not have the time. Therefore I will speak about the moral crisis. Mr Van Rompuy said that the Council discussed the moral crisis, but he did not elaborate; I would like him to so do. As an example, in my own country the Anglo-Irish Bank and... | null |
Kriton Arsenis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, many people are saying that it is not Greece, it is not the eurozone, it is the European Union that will ultimately be judged on these developments in times to come. Following the Council decision in March, no European country is at risk of bankruptcy. However, I agree with my fellow Members who proposed... | null |
Norica Nicolai | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, a huge number of us are unaware that a new spectre is looming over Europe, namely, that of populism. We forget that, as a form of political governance, this may be one of the causes of the moral crisis which we are all talking about, underlying the economic crisis. However, this is about us and the poli... | null |
David Campbell Bannerman | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my French is not very good – pardonnez-moi – but I do understand that the French word ‘gouvernement’ means government in English. I thought that was easy to understand. However, it does not seem to be easy for the British Labour Government or for President Van Rompuy. They seem to think it means governanc... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Europe 2020 strategy has ambitious goals and specific figures. Apart from the fact that we were a long way from achieving these goals even with the Lisbon Strategy – for example in the research and development rate – the question must be raised of whether many of these goals make sense. The Europe 20... | null |
Monica Luisa Macovei | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, two matters: first, accountability, which is vital to solve this situation in Greece. The Commission needs to clarify the flow of information with Greece. The Commission must report to Parliament in detail about the macroeconomic information received from Greece, as well as the methodology applied and the... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wish to thank the honourable Members for their speeches, questions and proposals. I would like to answer telegraphically some of those questions. I agree with those MEPs who have been calling for respect for the rules. I am sure that, if we respected them better, we would not be in this situation. We wo... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This is a crucial debate for us, so it is necessary to sit here and discuss further. | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall be very brief following on from what was said by the Vice-President of the European Commission. There are just a few points that I wish to stress. Firstly, the famous mechanism put in place for the Greek crisis, as it has been called over the last few weeks and months, unfor... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (25-26 March 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am quite sure that not only Ms Van Brempt but also at least 300 other colleagues are listening in their rooms, because there is the opportunity to listen to the debate there. At least eight committees of the European Parliament work directly with the 2020 Strategy, and the rest indirectly, so we are highly committed ... | null |
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