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President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the report (A7-0111/2010) by Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the EU strategy for relations with Latin America (2009/2213(INI)). | null |
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | N/A | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, I would like to say that the report, as adopted by the committee, on the one hand, acknowledges the efforts made by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union – which I do not see in this Chamber, which surprises me given that we are talking about a Latin American matter – and, ... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Honourable Members, I am pleased to be back at the European Parliament and I am looking forward very much to this debate on relations with Latin America. I would like to begin by thanking Mr Salafranca for his excellent report. I think it illustrates very well the convergence of views between our two i... | null |
Catherine Grèze | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, against a backdrop of financial, social and environmental crisis, the European Union has a role to play, a role of cooperation for development, ahead of the Madrid Summit. As the official champion of human rights and development aid, it must take up its many challenges in Latin A... | null |
Pable Zalba Bidegain | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, I firmly believe that we must see Latin America as a hugely important trade partner. We believe that negotiations should be reopened for the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, which affects 700 million people and will be the most ambitious bi-... | null |
Emilio Menéndez del Valle | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mrs Ashton, first of all, allow me to congratulate Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra on the very successful outcome of his report. You are aware that the May summit is an excellent opportunity for driving forward relations between the two parties. The Spanish Presidency is to be congratulated on the work it... | null |
Vladko Todorov Panayotov | MEP | ALDE | en | bg | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mrs Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, I first of all wish to express my delight at the huge contribution made by Mr Salafranca to the development of relations between the European Union and Latin America and at the exceptional role he has played in compiling this report. The strategic partnership between ... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to speak in Spanish, at least for the first part of my speech. I would also like to acknowledge the process that has taken place in the negotiations since Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra’s report was first tabled and what we have achieved now. I think it has been a good process, as you have a... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, High Representative, I congratulate Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra on an excellent report on the EU’s strategic relationship and partnership with Latin America. After the 2004 enlargement to central and eastern European countries, the EU has understandably refocused the CFSP towards the east, i.e. Russia,... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | With regard to Mr Salafranca’s valuable report on the EU strategy for relations with Latin America, I would like to request that the Council and the Commission, who are both now represented in the person of Baroness Ashton, take urgent action on three issues. My first point is that we need to demand the full cooperati... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra’s report contains many interesting things. It is very comprehensive. Europe cannot turn away from relations with a unit which, as Recital J of the report recalls, consists of 600 million people, accounts for 10% of world GDP and to which we are connected by special historic... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would first of all like to congratulate Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra on his excellent work on this report. The European Parliament is currently sending out a clear message about strengthening relations between the European Union and Latin America, all the more so as the EU-Latin America Summit is going to take plac... | null |
Ramón Jáuregui Atondo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I, too, would like to congratulate Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra. I think that this is a very important report. I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that there are millions of reasons why we should consider Latin America to be a very important continent for Europe: there are millions of Europeans ... | null |
Gesine Meissner | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, Mr Salafranca, as a member of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, I am very pleased about your report, because it is really important for us to continue to strengthen the relationship between the European Union and Latin America. We have made a great deal of progress since... | null |
Edvard Kožušník | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | My fellow Member, Mr Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, mentioned at the outset here that Europe and Latin America share very similar values. There is nevertheless one exception. In March, we discussed here the situation in Cuba. When negotiating EU strategy concerning relations with Latin America, Cuba, as a significant playe... | null |
John Bufton | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at the beginning of the debate, Baroness Ashton kindly said that she would respond to any question. Baroness, I would urge you please to answer my following question. Proposals documented by the Committee on Foreign Affairs include negotiations for the establishment of a Euro-Latin American Charter for... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a biregional strategic partnership has been in place between the European Union and Latin America since 1999. The basic principles of this partnership include respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, together with the right to education. However, it is a fact that these... | null |
Marietta Giannakou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I wish to congratulate Mr Salafranca on his highly integrated and substantiated report. I also agree with the Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative on the importance which she attaches to these efforts to forge a closer partnership. It is a fact that there have been develop... | null |
Emine Bozkurt | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in recent months, Latin America has increasingly been taking on a more clear and concrete importance in the eyes of the European Union, after years of receiving too little attention from the EU. The European Commission brought out a communication positing both regions of Latin America as global player... | null |
Liam Aylward | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I welcome this report and I commend the rapporteur on his excellent work. I would like to draw attention to trade affairs between the European Union and Latin America. It must be ensured that trade affairs are discussed on a level playing field. European farmers and producers must adhere to many rules... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I will try actually to keep to one minute. Perhaps Francis Fukuyama was wrong when he said that liberal democracy is the end of history, but he was surely right in his assertion that liberal democracy is the best thing which can happen to people. If only everyone really did live in such conditions. Un... | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The strategy for promoting relations with Latin America has proved to be invaluable between the time of its launch and now. This strategic partnership has added further consistency to relations between our regions and facilitated the funding of projects and programmes in excess of EUR 3 billion during the last 10 year... | null |
Emma McClarkin | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as a member of EuroLat, I commend the Spanish Presidency and Mr Salafranca for emphasising the importance of our relations with Latin America. Climate change and global warming should remain a priority on the political agenda between the EU and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and a com... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the strengthening of relations between the EU and Latin America, which is one of the priorities of the Spanish Presidency, since it benefits both sides and can bring advantages for the Member States of the EU and the countries of Latin America. Latin America has enormous human potential, with more than 600 m... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would also like to take the opportunity of this debate to highlight a subject of great concern, a situation that we became aware of just a few days ago that relates to Colombia. It has been discovered that the Colombian state security services are directly implicated in persecution, creating false w... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, after more than 300 years of colonial rule and after the continent became an arena for the cold war, Latin America has now become one of the world’s emerging regions. The fact that the Russian president Mr Medvedev has visited Central and South America is a clear indication of the fact that he is attempt... | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union and Latin America developed a strategic partnership some time ago with the aim of achieving an effective partnership between the two regions. I would remind you that bilateral summits have been held regularly since 1999, and this year will be no exception. In fact... | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I just say that I would like to add my compliments on the work that has been done and the comments that have already been made. However, there still remain, as some people perhaps point out, some difficult questions on the issue of Colombia and its human rights record. In the absence of one or two of ... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to begin – as honourable Members have done – by again congratulating Mr Salafranca for the excellent report and also – as he has done and as others have done – to thank the Spanish Presidency for the work that they, too, have undertaken in not only pulling together the work for the summit but... | null |
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra | N/A | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank all my fellow Members for their speeches. I would like to say to you, Mrs Ashton, that the fundamental element that will ensure that these relations move forward in the coming years will be the mobilisation of political will. Political reasons were behind the ministerial dialogue in... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the first part-session in May. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Union is Latin America’s number one trading partner and the second largest trading partner in the case of Mercosur and Chile. European Union Member States also provide the largest source of direct investment in Latin America. However, relations between the European Union and Latin America go further than ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the joint debate on the following: - the report by Mr Liberadzki, on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control, on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2008, Section III – Commission and executive agencies (SEC(2009)1089 – C7-0172/200... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I note that the Court of Auditors is absent from this House. We need the position of the Court of Auditors to make matters clearer for us. Do we have an explanation for this absence? I also note that the Council’s seats are empty, even though we are going to be dealing with discharge to the Council, abou... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Colleagues, it is not necessary for the Council to be here. They are not obliged to be here, but we did of course expect the Court of Auditors’ highest representatives. They are not here and we are very surprised, as it is certainly not a problem of transport. It is not so far from Luxembourg and they can travel by car... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to say to you that, without knowing the reason why, we understand that the Court of Auditors is absent, that it does an outstanding job of auditing the European institutions. I do, however, object to the Council’s absence because we need debates with it, particularly where discharges relati... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, we can, in any case, begin the discussion. What is important is that we can start our work. | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to mention that we should not only be blaming the Council. The Secretary-General of Parliament is missing. The discharge has something to say to the Secretary-General about Parliament, so we would be extremely happy if he were with us today as well. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am sure the Secretary-General will be here – there is no doubt about that. | null |
Jens Geier | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Good morning Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to repeat that, in my opinion, it is rather difficult to conduct a debate in the absence of those to whom we are supposed to grant discharge, with whom we want to discuss the reasons why we are granting discharge or are postponing discharge or whatever else... | null |
Inés Ayala Sender | N/A | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have here today an important task to perform for the discharge of the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds (EDFs) and the part of the Tenth EDF corresponding to 2008. This is, moreover, a critical time, when major institutional changes are taking place and also when various global disa... | null |
Bart Staes | N/A | N/A | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have been asking myself what discharge really is. Discharge is a parliamentary procedure, a public procedure; it is a critical scrutiny, in public, of financial management. I was responsible for carrying out this exercise in respect of the European Parliament for the 2008 financia... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Šemeta, it has to be said that in all the institutions with which I have been involved – the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, which is absent today, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor – there has g... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We must keep to the allotted time. I have some information. We have had contact with the head of cabinet of the President of the Court of Auditors, and we also checked our last debates at the European Parliament in 2008 and 2009. The Court of Auditors was not present during our discussions and neither was the Council. ... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I can fully accept that the European Court of Auditors is not here today, but what you have just said about the Council’s absence, including in recent years, merely demonstrates that this is a structural rather than an occasional problem. This is typical of the Council’s behaviour when it comes to the re... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you very much for your careful presentation of the facts concerning previous years. However, I would like to underline very firmly that the Treaty of Lisbon has entered into force, and this increases the European Parliament’s role. In relation to this, we are entitled to expect, for reasons which a... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, when we go through the discharge procedure and vote on it, the European Parliament will take full responsibility for the year 2008. This is the moment when we take the responsibility from the Commission, the Council and other institutions onto our shoulders. It is not only a formality but a very important... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are used to the Council’s seats being empty. It is therefore not the first time; let us not be hypocritical. Once again, I find this regrettable. As regards the debate, I am in favour of it going ahead. Moreover, subject to your administration’s assessment, I do not think we have the power to amend th... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I will contact both the Court of Auditors and the Council today. I will present our expectations for the future in relation to the Council and the Court of Auditors very firmly, and say that they should be present at such meetings. I will also speak to Mr Zapatero in person about this, because he ... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Šemeta, Mr López Garrido, I am very pleased to see you and to address you – welcome. In the period 2000-2010, we have seen a 610% increase in EU contributions to the decentralised agencies. The contributions have increased from EUR 95 to 579 million, even though the staff numbers of those agencies inc... | null |
Algirdas Šemeta | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, allow me to thank the Committee on Budgetary Control and, in particular, the rapporteur, Mr Liberadzki, and his fellow rapporteurs on the reports they have produced and for the recommendations to grant the discharge to the Commission for the 2008 financial year. I would also like to thank Mrs Ayala Sender... | null |
Michael Gahler | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in the financial year 2008, payments to the tune of around EUR 5 billion were made in areas of policy that the Committee on Foreign Affairs is responsible for. In retrospect, the continued underfunding of category IV is clear. The Court of Auditors established some inaccuracies and considers the Commissi... | null |
Ingeborg Gräßle | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have already had an interesting morning together. Actually, I wanted to make a completely different speech. I will not do this now because I believe that we cannot simply ignore what happened today. We are dealing with the fact... | null |
Jutta Haug | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would just like to address one point, a point that really is a scandal. I am talking about the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the ECDC in Stockholm. Since May 2005, highly qualified people there have had to work in an absolutely hostile environment. Until now,... | null |
Wim van de Camp | N/A | N/A | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there is not much left to say about the 2008 budget of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection; the discussion in committee and in the reports has already shed a good deal of light on matters. We saw a rather substantial under-execution with regard to Solvit in 2008, but this will correc... | null |
Inés Ayala Sender | N/A | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I ask you to treat the first part just as a point of order, because I would like to know before the end of this debate whether Parliament invited both the Court of Auditors and the Council to attend this debate, and I would like to know about or receive the documentation. I would also like to know whethe... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am in two minds about whether to take the floor. I am sorry for these points of order. I should like first to welcome the Council and to thank the Minister for joining us. I believe, Mr President, that it is customary to invite the Council to take the floor after the Commission has spoken. However, the... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We will reach an agreement with the Council on whether it thinks there is a need to speak. | null |
László Surján | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Discharge is a legal act, and I think that the Committee on Regional Development has no reason to argue against giving a discharge. At the same time, discharge is also a political evaluation. It clarifies whether we have reached the goals which we set for ourselves in 2008, and whether we have obtained sufficient valu... | null |
Edit Bauer | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to call to mind that according to Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, promoting the equality of men and women is one of the fundamental values of the European Union, one which every EU action must respect and that should, therefore, also be capable of being monitored in the d... | null |
Gay Mitchell | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, from a development perspective, the importance of budgetary discharge is in assuring taxpayers across Europe that the money is being spent efficiently and effectively in the developing world, in terms of aid effectiveness, as well as matching our 0.7% target for ODA contributions. We need to use our curre... | null |
Ville Itälä | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, to begin with, I want to thank the Council, and I appreciate the fact that the Council is present, because the question is whether the Council really wants to take responsibility for spending taxpayers’ money, and whether the Council wants to show some respect for Parliament and for cooperation. Therefor... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin with a word of thanks. The outstanding and thorough work by Mr Staes and the Court of Auditors of the European Union have made it possible for us to prepare a careful accounting for the use of the 2008 budget as regards Parliament. I also owe thanks to my fello... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am a great fan of the British rock band Genesis. They have a fantastic track called ‘Dance on a Volcano’, and this track came to mind this week, which has been rather dominated by volcanic ash. Not that the song made me want to go dancing in Iceland; instead, it came to mind in connection with this mor... | null |
Bart Staes | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, ladies and gentlemen, I am now speaking on behalf of my group and not as rapporteur for Parliament’s discharge. I shall have another opportunity to do that later. I should like to raise a few issues. The first concerns the Commission’s discharge. This is a question to both... | null |
Richard Ashworth | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I speak on behalf of the British Conservative Party, who will again this year vote against discharge of the budget. This is a position that we have consistently taken, and we will continue to do so until we see greater urgency applied to the achievement of a positive statement of assurance by the Court of... | null |
Søren Bo Søndergaard | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | da | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this debate is about us, as EU parliamentarians, taking responsibility not only collectively, but also individually, for how the EU’s funds were used in 2008. When the debate is over and the votes have been cast in May, it is us that our citizens will hold accountable. Let me state one thing straightaway... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the discharge is one of the most important acts that we are responsible for. We are effectively being called to approve the way in which the European taxpayer’s money has been spent and we have to base our decision on the report by the European Court of Auditors. The auditors’ report for 2008 only clears ... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there is a problem, because on the notice board, I see the name of Mr López Garrido, who is going to speak on behalf of the Council, but he is going to respond to what I said about the Council’s budget and their failure to implement the budget and other documents – words which he did not hear, because he... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Czarnecki, I ask you to take the floor on a point of order. | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wanted to say, very briefly, that I would like to give the minister a chance to respond to my criticisms, and that I would like to have a minute to repeat them. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | You were right when you said that Mr López Garrido is on the list of speakers. We shall see. He has just the same freedom to speak as you do. | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe that all members of the Committee on Budgetary Control are agreed on one point, to be precise, the fact that we need solutions for the EU agency system. For that reason, I would like to propose eleven approaches to a solution. They could enable us to save EUR 500 million every year, without aff... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am delighted to be here at this debate, even though I was not formally invited. I was not formally invited by Parliament to attend this debate. Despite that, when I learnt that this House and some of its Members were asking for my presence here, it was my great pleasure to come straight away to attend ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you Minister. Thank you very much for so kindly complying with our request. That gives me cause to say that the Commission never receives a formal invitation to this sitting either. I have been a Member of this House for a while and I have noticed that in cases like yours, when the Council is represented here – e... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Šemeta, Mr López Garrido, thank you once again for joining us. My first words will be to thank my fellow Member, Mr Liberadzki, since I am speaking on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) concerning the granting of discharge to the European Commission. I should also... | null |
Barbara Weiler | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, representatives of the Commission and, above all, the Council, ladies and gentlemen, we hear this every year in the debate on improvements in the implementation of the distribution of European funds: more accurate and more efficient control of expenditure in all bodies and institutions, more transparency... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you very much, Mrs Weiler. Ladies and gentlemen, I have just checked again in the rules of procedure: we are not supposed to sing songs in plenary, without first asking the Conference of Presidents. However, we are allowed to congratulate a colleague. Mr Chatzimarkakis, whose birthday it is today, has the floor f... | null |
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr President, that was very kind. Commissioner Šemeta, the adoption of the reports on the budgetary management of the European bodies and institutions is one of our most important obligations as representatives of the European people – it is our sovereign duty. The question of what Europe has done with taxp... | null |
Ashley Fox | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, yet again, this Parliament is being presented with substandard accounts and being asked to discharge them. These are accounts which the Court of Auditors has refused to give a positive statement of assurance – accounts which still fall short of being legal and regular. The auditors have said – again – tha... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, given the high error rates, I do not approve of granting discharge to the European Commission. We are still not doing enough to simplify the rules, particularly those for the Structural Funds. Four independent advisory boards have presented a proposal, to which the Commission has yet to give a satisfacto... | null |
Monika Hohlmeier | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I should like to discuss the problems with development aid that are nearly always emphasised by the Court of Auditors and to thank Mrs Ayala Sender for her good cooperation that was remarkably pleasant. Firstly, there is often the problem of budget support. That means ... | null |
Jens Geier | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, I am delighted that you are here and so demonstrate the Council’s recognition of this important debate. Ladies and gentlemen, we all know this little trick: if you want to embarrass someone, ask them a question with a wording like, do you still actually smack your children... | null |
Olle Schmidt | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, although many problems remain, control and auditing of the EU’s funds has improved and is becoming increasingly thorough. We are seeing the results of this, which is pleasing – but more can be done. Our motto should be not to waste a single cent. Where the development funds are concerned, the EU is the w... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Staes report contains a very important paragraph entitled ‘Members as public persons’. This title is very apt. Each Member of this Parliament is a public person, and must be able to answer to the public at any moment for how he or she works and, in particular, must be able to justify how he or she ha... | null |
Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Personnel Selection Office, or EPSO, is an interinstitutional unit responsible for selection of staff for the European Union institutions. I am very pleased that the discharge reports have taken up this topic. Efforts are necessary to investigate and eliminate the geographical disproportions among candida... | null |
Ivaylo Kalfin | MEP | S&D | en | bg | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my view on the discharge of responsibility by European agencies. Allow me, first of all, to pass on the apologies of my colleague, Georgios Stavrakakis, who was unable to come to the debate on this matter, even though he worked on the report... | null |
Markus Pieper | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few comments about the use of European funds in the enlargement process. Here we had to evaluate a special report by the Court of Auditors on the use of pre-accession aid for Turkey. As the Committee on Budgetary Control, we are very disappointed by the findings of the report by t... | null |
Christel Schaldemose | MEP | S&D | en | da | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to talk today about Parliament’s discharge report. We have in front of us what I believe is the most thorough, most critical and most forward-looking European Parliament discharge report ever. That is a good thing. I would therefore like to thank Mr Staes for such a constructive piece of wor... | null |
Esther de Lange | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a great deal has already been said in this debate, and so I should like to confine myself to two points. The first is Parliament’s discharge; after all, if you want to monitor others, you have to take a particularly critical approach to your own budget. Mr Staes has presented a report on this that I woul... | null |
Derek Vaughan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wanted to speak on the European Parliament’s discharge and first of all to thank the rapporteur for the excellent work he has done, and the hard work he has done, along with many others. I think it goes without saying that everyone in this Chamber wants improvements to openness and transparency and want... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to say I was happy that I only had to travel to Strasbourg this week and not to Brussels, because Strasbourg is much closer for me and therefore it was a great advantage to be able to travel unhindered despite the interruption in flight connections. My sec... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to begin by mentioning the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2008, Section III – Commission and executive agencies. We welcome the voluntary initiatives launched by Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom in producing national management statements.... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if we want a European Union that is accepted by its citizens, then it is crucial that citizens also know what is being done with the money they pay in taxes. Therefore, Mrs Schaldemose’s demand for more transparency is perfectly justified and I believe this is where the European project stands or falls. ... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a few words on the particularly critical discussion concerning the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance for Turkey. This has increased steadily since 2002, although Turkey is taking more steps backward than forward. The latest special report by the Court of Auditors reveals major problems. Funds were ... | null |
Daniel Caspary | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, would like to address the issue of pre-accession aid. The Court of Auditors says clearly in its report that it is not in a position to prove the proper utilisation of funds on the basis of current programmes. The European Commission has therefore established programmes that ... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I represent a party that is opposed to the whole EU project and to our country’s membership of the EU. This might lead people to suspect that we would object to the discharge of accounts regardless of the evidence. I would like to reject that suspicion. Whilst our default position would be to object to th... | null |
Christa Klaß | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing discharge of the 2008 budget, but discharge is always an opportunity to look ahead and I feel that in this context in particular, we must focus on the many agencies that we have introduced. We certainly must provide these agencies with financial resources but we mu... | null |
Algirdas Šemeta | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to stress once more the Commission’s commitment to pursuing the progress we have made over the last years in order to further improve the quality of spending. I will, of course, look carefully at the discharge decisions that the European Parliament will adopt in two weeks’ time, and the Commi... | null |
Jens Geier | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, so that the Minutes are correct, I represent rapporteur Bogusław Liberadzki, who, like many others in this House, has been a victim of the transport problems this week. I am very happy to do so and would like to use the opportunity to go over a few of the remarks made during the debate. For a start, Comm... | null |
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