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President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you very much, Mr Barroso, for your statement. I would like to say that when it comes to the European Commission’s efforts on behalf of our European Community, the Commission has a huge ally in the European Parliament. Most Members support these efforts and the view of the Commission that it should take on more r... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I just wanted to congratulate the Commission and its President, José Manuel Durão Barroso, on the ambitious, very pro-European programme that he has presented here today, which is clearly in line with the objectives of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and with the programme of the trio of pre... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for your statement on behalf of the Council and your support for the Commission’s programme. I would like, once again, to thank Mr Barroso, all the Vice-Presidents of the Commission and the Commissioners for their presence. This testifies to the fact that the Commission places great importance on cooperation ... | null |
Elena Oana Antonescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Commission’s work programme for 2010 is an ambitious and flexible multiannual programme setting out the following main objectives: tackling the crisis and supporting Europe’s social market economy, drawing up a citizens’ agenda which puts people at the heart of Europe’s activities, developing an ambitious... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Currently, Europe is facing increasing unemployment and almost 17% of Europe’s inhabitants are living below the poverty line. Each day, many Europeans, even those in employment, are struggling with poverty and do not have opportunities to enjoy life to the full, as the recession is even pushing many people on middle i... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Commission work programme for 2010 consists of 14 pages of the usual commonplaces and platitudes. It is right that Europe must respond jointly to the crisis. However, this is a crisis which was only able to have such a negative effect on Europe because of Commission policy and unrestricted liberalisation in all ar... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Commission work programme for 2010 has established the right priorities. As well as modernising ways of working, which will be a decisive factor in stimulating the economy, and increasing the involvement of European citizens, the Commission is focusing primarily on combating the financial crisis. It is important t... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I congratulate Mr Barroso on the ambitious Commission legislative and work programme for 2010. Unfortunately, time is running out – there are already only eight months left. In spite of this, I hope the priorities will not be only empty promises. The strength of the programme is its measures for combating the crisis. ... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate on the Commission’s programme is particularly important because it coincides with the beginning of a new era in the European Union. The need to adopt measures at this time of crisis that can address the challenges in the long term makes it imperative to prioritise job creation, regulation of the financial m... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2010 (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU’s primary concern is to combat the economic crisis and support its social market economy. The EU unemployment rate hit 10% at the start of the year, with the rate of youth unemployment even reaching 20%. The increase in the employment rate is closely linked to the EU’s industrial policy. What legislative initia... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Commission statement on coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti. | null |
Kristalina Georgieva | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to express to all the honourable Members in this Chamber great appreciation for the attention this Parliament continues to pay to Haiti. Before passing the floor to Andris Piebalgs, who will inform you about the reconstruction and development of Haiti, let me outline the four main humanitaria... | null |
Andris Piebalgs | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, at the New York International donors’ conference, the European Union pledged EUR 1.235 billion. We are the largest donor to Haiti’s reconstruction so, in this way, we will also be the largest contributor to the government of Haiti’s action plan for reconstruction. I am also proud about the manner in which... | null |
Gay Mitchell | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank both Commissioners. There are three points I want to raise. The first is the method and measures to be used for measuring the reconstruction needs of Haiti. The second is to ensure that the commitments we are making will be met, and the third is to talk about property rights and the ... | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The situation in Haiti is far from being stabilised, as both commissioners, Mrs Georgieva, who was in Haiti at the end of March, and Mr Piebalgs have emphasised. The same statement is also made by the humanitarian workers who are in situ distributing aid and helping with the reconstruction process. Although the situat... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the approach of the hurricane season in Haiti means that it is vital to maintain the humanitarian efforts and that other emergency measures are likely to be required. First things first, it is important to provide for sufficiently robust shelters, in sufficient quantities. This measure is relevant given,... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of my political group, and also on behalf of our group’s coordinator, Mr Deva. I would like to stress the extremely important fact that international aid to Haiti at the moment is actually almost three times higher than the Haitian Government and the UN had hoped. This aid is to t... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioners, we must ensure that the promises of donations made at the donors’ conference henceforth materialise as actual funds, and also actually reach their intended recipients. Of course, I do not believe that this is enough to rebuild Haiti in a lasting way, even though we owe the people of Haiti ... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, shortly after the disaster, an assessment was carried out in order to establish aid priorities. However, I hear from a reliable source, namely a Dutch NGO, that very little, if any, local expertise was drawn upon. To me, that seems to be the first prerequisite if we are to gain the support of the local p... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you also to the Commissioners for the common sense they have shown. A great deal has certainly already been done, but I think I can say, also, that we cannot leave it at that: a very long-term programme – almost a permanent programme, I would say – is more necessary than ever ... | null |
Enrique Guerrero Salom | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, commissioners, I would first like to express my condolences and thanks to the families and colleagues of the four Spanish soldiers who died last week in Haiti. They were specialist officers from the Spanish army, but they went there as simple soldiers as part of the international aid effort and were doin... | null |
Louis Michel | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should first of all like to congratulate the two Commissioners responsible for these matters on their speeches and on their constant concern to be extremely responsive. So, congratulations! The earthquake in Haiti has resulted in a surge of solidarity and fraternity on an exceptional and very justified... | null |
Michèle Striffler | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioners, at this very moment, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in emergency camps and, with the rainy season and the hurricane season approaching, the situation really is urgent. Faced with the countless humanitarian actors on the ground and in the absence of state capacity, every p... | null |
Kriton Arsenis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioners, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti highlighted and, unfortunately, continues to highlight the problems with the European mechanisms for responding to international humanitarian crises. We need to create fixed funding mechanisms. In essence, we still do not have fixed headings in the European... | null |
Ria Oomen-Ruijten | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioners Georgieva and Piebalgs, after the enormous tragedy in Haiti, we need to look to the future, as you have both noted. The donor conference in New York a fortnight ago raised EUR 7 billion or, at least, that was the amount which was pledged. On the basis of the Haitian Government’s action plan... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank Mrs Striffler for raising this matter at today’s sitting, and Mrs Georgieva and Mr Piebalgs for their statements. I think many of the measures proposed in the resolution on Haiti which we adopted in February are a step in the right direction and can be the basis for rebuilding a cou... | null |
Philippe Juvin | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Europe has contributed millions of euro, tents, food, soldiers and doctors. That is all well and good, but actually I would like to quote Jean-Yves Jason, mayor of Port-au-Prince, who, in February, used the word ‘disaster’, not to refer to the consequences of the earthquake, but to describe the complete ... | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am satisfied with the outcome of the meeting of the donor countries because the large sums made available are an excellent result. Even more important, however, was the guiding principle behind the use of the funds, namely not just to build back, but to build back better. Haiti mu... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The earthquake in Haiti was immediately followed by international humanitarian assistance. In addition to the American and Canadian military, I must also applaud the rapid and efficient deployment of groups from Slovakia and the international Military Order of Malta. Not many countries provided rapid and effective aid... | null |
Franziska Keller | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I thank the Commissioners for their presentation and for all the effort they are putting into the Haiti case. I also agree that it will be good to focus on the whole island. Even if I am very critical about the whole of the Union approach, I might very well agree with your ‘whole-of-the-island’ approach. ... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the EU has helped Haiti, which is a good thing, but this disaster has clearly shown, in my opinion, that the EU must have rapid reaction groups for humanitarian action, and that we must develop civilian crisis management. It is not enough to give money; the EU should also be able to take rapid action in ... | null |
Kristalina Georgieva | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with your permission, I shall leave a bit of time for Mr Piebalgs to take on some of the long-term reconstruction questions. This has been very useful and very encouraging for us. Before I turn to the questions, let me join Mr Guerrero Salom in expressing sympathy to the families of the four Spanish soldi... | null |
Andris Piebalgs | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as usual, if I had just one wish in my political life, it would be to have more time in Parliament to answer the questions I am asked. I will not be able to answer all the questions put today, but I will go through some of them. The support of Parliament is very important for the Commission, because Haiti... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. (The sitting was suspended at 13.10 and resumed at 15.05) Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is now time for us to carry out an interim review of the aid effort in Haiti. The main questions that we need to ask ourselves are as follows: How quickly and effectively was and is the aid being provided? Does the aid support sustainable development in Haiti? How was the entire aid effort coordinated? How was the ... | null |
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Coordination of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Haiti (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered here today to discuss European coordination of aid for Haiti. Meanwhile, international commentators are criticising our uncoordinated action. Three months have already passed since the tragic earthquake, and it would appear we are still unable to work out a common position on sup... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | The next item is the Question Hour with the President of the Commission. Questions on any subject on behalf of political groups. Then the second part of the sitting – questions on the employment situation in the European Union. | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, the Centre for European Studies, the problems suffered by Greece, the Europe 2020 strategy and the search for answers to the financial and economic crisis all clearly indicate to us that in taking the necessary measures, we will soon reach the limits of what is possible under the existing tre... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | It is true that, quite surprisingly, some national politicians are making an intergovernmental reading of the Lisbon Treaty. The Lisbon Treaty was agreed precisely to increase the European dimension; to reinforce the powers of the European Parliament; to make it easier to take decisions by qualified majority voting; an... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Rehn proposed a package in Madrid which has not yet been adopted, but which involved a discussion of sanctions right at the beginning of the debate. In my opinion, we should not start our discussions with sanctions on the Member States, because that would be putting the cart before the horse. Instead we should esta... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | As you said, Mr Karas, there is no decision yet. There was a first debate with the Finance Ministers and, in fact, the Commission will present a communication next month on reinforced economic governance. We aim to reinforce the preventive and corrective arm of the Stability and Growth Pact. We will make proposals for ... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is the so-called no bail out clause, in other words, the ban on Member States of the EU taking on the debts of other Member States. What is your view of the fact that the aid package put together for Greece will now result in countries such as the Fede... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | It is true, Mr Schulz, that the Lisbon Treaty does not allow the so-called ‘bail out’ of Member States. The solution found so far – which has not yet been activated because it has not yet been requested – is, according to the Commission, fully in line with the treaty. I want to underline this. I know a debate is going ... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, I understand that you are attempting to avoid answering my question, because it is an unpleasant one. Therefore, I will repeat it. There is at least a possibility that Member States which can borrow money on better terms than those on which they are lending it will be able to profit from the debts of anoth... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I have been speaking about this matter with those leaders and others for many weeks, so I can tell you very frankly, Mr Schulz, that unfortunately, the only solution possible was this one. The Commission had asked from the beginning for a more concrete signal of solidarity with Greece, of course, always respecting the ... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the Commission, first of all, as far as the no bail out clause is concerned, the treaty does not say that. The treaty says that a Member State cannot be forced to take on debts. The treaty does not say that it is forbidden to take on debts. This must be made clear, or else it just becomes a ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Firstly, Mr Verhofstadt, and also in response to Mr Schulz, let us be absolutely clear and honest with ourselves: if there are questions that you want to ask Mrs Merkel, you must ask them. I am not here to reply on behalf of Mrs Merkel. I am here to reply on behalf of the Commission. Let us be clear about that. Let us... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I ask the Commission President whether the European Monetary Fund idea will form part of this proposal? | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, to give a concrete answer on that point, I can tell you that our position tends to go against the idea of creating a new institution within the context of economic and monetary union. From my own perspective at least, I am not sure that this is a good idea, but I can tell you – personally speaking, since... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, I would have liked a Commission President who simply says to ask Germany to lend at the rate at which it has to borrow, which is 3%. You could at least say so publicly. That would form part of the debate in Germany, but you are incapable of saying these simple things. I would like to ask anot... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Cohn-Bendit, there is no doubt about that, and I have the greatest respect for Parliament. I might add that is why the Commission, and more specifically, Mr De Gucht, obtained permission, from our partners in these negotiations, to make public all the texts from the negotiations. As you know, they are... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, let us avoid playing with words: whether or not you asked for it, unless you make transparency public, you cannot continue with the negotiations, given that you have the Treaty of Lisbon. The issue is therefore not that you asked your partners to publish the reports for Parliament; you have t... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | You spoke about the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. I am very much in favour of the European Parliament’s role being strengthened in this area as well, and the text to be made public tomorrow, for which we had to obtain permission from our negotiating partners, is the text of the negotiations, the draft neg... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | In March, the European Commission announced it would conduct another review of the Working Time Directive, after the previous review fell. It was Parliament’s insistence on scrapping the national opt-outs from the directive which led to the stalemate. As we will all recall, UK Labour MEPs in the pockets of their trade ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not yet have a draft legislative proposal in my pocket. It is too early, at this stage, to have fixed ideas about the substance of any changes. As you know, there is a consultation paper that is deliberately open in tone. I also want to hear the social partners’ views. The new rules should protect wo... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I understand that President Barroso does not want to prejudge the outcome of the Commission’s consultation. However, there are a number of people in the EU – not least the three million people in the UK who currently take advantage of the opt-out – who will be looking for a commitment from him that, during an economic ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | You are very kind, Mr Kirkhope, but apart from Britain, there are, in fact, also 26 other Member States in the European Union, so you will understand that while we are very receptive to the concerns you have expressed, I also have to listen to other legitimate concerns. This is a very difficult issue and an extremely s... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, you have spoken about your work programme and it has been discussed in Parliament. You have said that you want to follow up on the critical remarks. I have one question. Recently, we have spoken a great deal about the crisis and how to overcome it. However, I have the impression that very little has change... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Just today, in the work programme, we have presented our action in the financial sector. We have done a big part of it, but another important part remains to be done. I think the Commission proposals were the right ones. In fact, I regret that, in some cases, the level of ambition has been reduced by Member States, for... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, I have another brief question. The chair of Deutsche Bank, Dr Ackermann, is a difficult man to make an impression on. He has recently said outright that he wants to make returns of 25%. Do you not think that this flies in the face of the measures taken by the Commission and the individual governments? He i... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I am sorry, I did not follow the statements by the Chairman of Deutsche Bank, and I cannot comment on something I am not aware of. | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Because the financial crisis was a credit crisis and a banking crisis that took place and emanated from the large commercial banks – the Royal Bank of Scotland, IKB, Fortis and the like – do you accept that the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, as well as being highly damaging to the UK, is a misdirected ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Absolutely not. I think it is a very good initiative that aims precisely to restore some confidence in what is a very important sector of our financial markets. I think it is in the interests of the financial sector to have credibility. Let us be honest and open about it. There is now a problem of credibility in the fi... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | How will the AIFM Directive, aimed at alternative investment fund managers, restore confidence in the financial sector when the problem is with the big commercial banks? That is my question. | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I am sorry but I do not agree the problem is only with the big banks. In fact, the problem created in the United States was not created by big banks only. It was also created by non-commercial banks, by investment societies, by hedge funds as well. So we do not agree with that analysis that it was created by big banks.... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European External Action Service will be responsible to the High Representative. The role of the High Representative, according to Article 18, is to conduct the European Union’s common foreign and security policy, as mandated by the Council. The Council, for all its faults, at least contains represent... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I do not agree. We are not there. In fact, as you know, the creation of the institutional position of High Representative/Vice-President of the Commission is one of the most important innovations of the Lisbon Treaty and the idea is to put together what typically we call intergovernmental competences and Community comp... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I can see the internal consistency of what you are saying as a Euro-integrationalist, which I am not. But, in fact, what you are suggesting is that we should actually go beyond the Lisbon Treaty, which is bad enough, and almost cut out the Council which, as I say, for all its faults, at least contains representatives o... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I could never suggest that the Commission go against the treaties, because it is its duty to ensure that the treaties are respected. What I am really asking Member States to do is to respect the treaty, and all the institutions have to respect the treaty. The treaty strikes a balance and that balance has to be respecte... | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I come from the south of Italy and in our region, the economy is based on small and medium-sized enterprises, on the textile, clothing and footwear manufacturing industries, and on agriculture. Today, this type of industry is in serious difficulty because of the influx of goods from... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I understand your concern and it is a very legitimate concern, and I would like to say a word about the small and medium-sized companies, which in fact are, as you know, the most important driver for job creation in Europe. Now, how can you respond to this problem of competition coming from other parts of the world whi... | null |
Georgios Papanikolaou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, to pick up on the references made earlier to the handling of the Greek problem, all of us who are closely following developments in and the handling of these problems realise, and many of us have the feeling, that the Council has elbowed the Commission aside. The Commission was, from the beginning I thin... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | The issue of employment, as you know, is dependent on the overall economic situation. Let us be completely clear about it. We cannot restore the levels of employment that we had before the crisis before we come back to more growth in Europe. That is why we are concentrating our efforts on the new sources of growth and,... | null |
Frédéric Daerden | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the Commission, the employment situation in Europe is very worrying, as my fellow Members have just pointed out. In 2009, 2.7 million people in the euro area lost their jobs. Furthermore, the poverty risk rate for the population with a job has risen to 8% of workers in Europe, not to mention... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | All the issues you have raised are dealt with in the 2020 strategy, Mr Daerden. I already talked about decent work in my political guidelines, just as I talked about the existence of a genuine industrial policy for Europe – not the old industrial policy, but a policy aimed at providing Europe with sustainable industry... | null |
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, over the last few years, unemployment has increased throughout all the countries of Europe – albeit in different forms from one country to the next – and is destined to increase further. Economists all agree that it will take at least two years for the tentative signs o... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | You are basically right in your analysis regarding the situation in the labour market. In fact, the situation is continuing to deteriorate, even if it is at a more moderate pace than in the past. We are also starting to see more consistent signs of stabilisation in some Member States. But it has been nine months since ... | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Last week, the European Climate Foundation launched its ‘Roadmap 2050’. This plan shows three pathways by which the European Union could cut its CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, in line with our Kyoto aspirations. We could do it at little more than the cost of business as usual. We could become almost entirely sel... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I am aware of that report of the European Climate Foundation and, indeed, under the 2020 strategy, we have proposed a resource-efficient Europe flagship initiative whose aim is precisely to decouple growth from resources, giving Europe a competitive advantage compared to other international partners. This objective was... | null |
Helga Trüpel | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Several recent announcements of new IT tools, like Google Books or iPad, would facilitate access to cultural content in digital format, notably the so-called ‘e-books’. However, most of these initiatives come from the US. What is the Commission doing to promote digitisation of our cultural heritage on the European cont... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | The European Digital Library, addressing the challenge of putting online the collections of our national libraries, museums and their archives, this is a major task of our times digitising, making available, preserving the wealth of our culture. Yet we have to do it without jeopardising the rights of authors and publis... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, I would like to know what, in your opinion, will be the effect on employment in the aviation sector of the airspace closures which have lasted for several days now? Today, on the front page of the influential newspaper, the Financial Times, it says the closures, which have affected nearly 7 million passeng... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | First of all, regarding the issue of the funeral, I want to keep it completely separate from the rest. I had a great respect for President Kaczyński. I worked in a very loyal manner with him. I did everything to be present at his funeral. I was present at all the ceremonies that I could attend marking the deaths of Pre... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, according to official statistics, unemployment in the European Union fluctuated between 8 and 9% between 2000 and 2006, to the glory of the Lisbon Strategy, which talked of full employment. The Commission states in a recent report that unemployment will reach and go beyond 10% in 2010, a ‘soc... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | We are not forcing anyone to take any measures. Regarding Greece, decisions were taken by the Greek authorities, but you will certainly understand that this situation of macro-economic imbalances in the Greek economy is very negative for growth and also for employment. It is clear that without a restoration of confiden... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | My question refers to the volcanic eruption which will, of course, have an impact on particulate matter and CO2 emissions. Do you believe that it is possible to evaluate what levels of particulate matter should be taken into account in future in order to prevent jobs being put at risk? Our air quality directives provi... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | This volcano problem is certainly beyond the control of the European institutions or the national governments. It happened and now we have to react to its consequences. Regarding the aviation industry, we have already said that we are looking at what we can do, also based on the precedent that was already there after 1... | null |
Piotr Borys | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, in the 2020 strategy, you have presented very ambitious rates of increase of employment, from 63% to 76%, and a reduction in unemployment among early school leavers to 10%, but also an emphasis on education, which is the key to development, so that in the future, 40% of European citizens will have complete... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Yes, you know we have proposed education as one of the targets in the EU2020, including fighting against early school leaving and having more tertiary education. We believe it is impossible to discuss European competitiveness without addressing the issue of education. That is why we are trying to convince all Member St... | null |
Jutta Steinruck | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Yesterday, the media told us that the Opel plant in Antwerp will close. This is just one of many examples of jobs being lost in Europe. Next Thursday, the European industrial trade unions will be holding a day of demonstrations throughout Europe. They are calling for jobs and the future of Europe as an industrial base... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | The employment guidelines are very much dependent on the overall economic growth, but we intend to reinforce the employment aspect in our EU 2020 strategy. In fact, we have four guidelines: increasing labour market participation and reducing structural unemployment, developing a skilled workforce, promoting job quality... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, unemployment and exclusion among young people are a big problem. As you have said, 20% of young people are unemployed. The problem is also that while many people are now being laid off, a large proportion of those laid off are over 50. At the same time, however, people in some Member States... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I want to win this competitiveness battle globally. One thing is sure: we need more people, working more and longer – and I would add, better, in a more competitive way. There is no contradiction between having longer working lives and having some immigration to Europe. In fact, it is quite extraordinary, but today, th... | null |
Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, you said in your speech, today, that a priority for the Commission in its employment policy is, among other things, to help graduates and young people be effective in entering the labour market. We know the unemployment rate in this social group is currently very high. In Spain, it is currently almost 40%,... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Youth unemployment is the most dramatic problem now in terms of unemployment in Europe because it is more than 20%. That is why we have announced three concrete initiatives: ‘Youth on the move’, ‘Youth employment’ and ‘New skills for new jobs’. ‘Youth on the move’ to improve efficiency and equity of European education ... | null |
Elisabeth Schroedter | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, I have to disagree with you. You said that Europe 2020 included measures to exploit the potential for the creation of green jobs in the European Union. That is not true. You have simply failed to include this in the strategy and I am wondering why. It is obvious that if you want to generate employment, the... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | I have to remind you that it was the Commission that launched the climate change and energy package and that we have highlighted the great potential for the creation of jobs in some sectors of the so-called greening of the economy and that, certainly, the priority for the future is such, one of the most important targe... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, a lot has been said here about young people, which is only right. There is another group of people that are being affected very severely by this employment crisis, and that is women. That is, at the moment, when national economies are going into debt and the Member States are cutting their budgets, these... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | For women, it had risen to 9.3% by February 2010, compared with 9.8% for men, so lower than for men. It is true though, as you said, that in the future, female employment may give cause for more concern, as some of the sectors which will be most affected by the upcoming fiscal tightening are precisely those more depend... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Question Hour with the President of the CommissionVideo of the speechesPV | President Barroso, thank you for your answers and for being present during Question Hour here at the European Parliament. I think it was interesting. Thank you, colleagues, for being active during the last hour. We will also meet next month during Question Hour with President Barroso. | null |
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