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Inés Ayala Sender | N/A | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in my concluding speech, I would like to thank Commissioner Šemeta and the Commission services responsible for development aid and humanitarian aid for their diligent and effective cooperation in this process. I also wish to give the Spanish Presidency due recognition for the efforts it is making in this... | 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 should, of course, like to thank all my fellow Members who have spoken about my report, particularly Mr Itälä, Mr Gerbrandy, Mrs Herczog, Mr Geier, Mr van Dalen, Mrs Schaldemose, Mrs de Lange and Mr Vaughan. I believe that everything has been said, although I must express my surpr... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | N/A | N/A | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Geier, who has noticed that I sometimes say what I think. I must say I am going to learn wonderful things from the Council’s representative – a Spanish minister who always disappears when he knows the Council is going to be criticised. He was not here at the beginning when I spok... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wish to thank, firstly, the shadow rapporteurs, who really cooperated very effectively with me in order to draft this report, and, secondly, all the members of the Committee’s secretariat, because this was a very demanding task. I also wish to thank those Members who have spoken during these debates, a... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should add briefly that the services have informed me that they have quickly gone through the minutes of recent years. During the last legislative period, the Council adopted a position and appeared in the debate once, and that was only in a second reading, because the discharge had originally been postponed in 2009 ... | null |
Ivo Belet | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this House has to be a paragon in terms of financial transparency and internal budgetary control. We cannot be hard enough on ourselves in this regard. In such a large parliament, with so many Members and members of staff, things cannot work perfectly all the time. Wherever there ar... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | 2008 Discharge (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Generally, we are pleased to see the current state of affairs regarding the budget of the European Union. However, there is still room for improvement. Significant improvement, I would say. Ceterum censeo, France has decided to sell a Mistral class warship to Russia; we believe that She will sincerely regret that actio... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on SWIFT. | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, last month, on 24 March, the Commission adopted a recommendation to the Council to authorise the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the United States for an agreement whereby finance messaging data are made available to the US Treasury Department i... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the collection of TFTP data is important in the fight against terrorism. We know that TFTP data has been helpful to prevent terrorist attacks in Europe, like the 2006 liquid bombs at Heathrow Airport. The TFTP is therefore important, not only for the US, but also for Europe. I recently met US Home Secreta... | null |
Simon Busuttil | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the first thing that should be said is that this Parliament wants an agreement. Of course this Parliament does not want an agreement at any cost, and the devil is in the detail. This is what we shall be discussing today in this Chamber. After the vote in February, two clear lessons were learnt. The first ... | null |
Birgit Sippel | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to contradict those who have spoken so far on one point: I am not interested in arriving at an agreement as soon as possible, but in achieving one that is as good as possible. Quality must come before timeframe. I would like to make one other preliminary remark. The European Parliament has a... | null |
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I, too, very much welcome today’s debate where Parliament will set out its expectations with regard to the negotiations directives. The fact that Parliament will not vote on its resolution this week is clearly very unfortunate but it should not, and I repeat, it should not inhibit Council from going ahead... | null |
Jan Philipp Albrecht | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank the Presidency and you, Commissioner Malmström, for what you have said. The Presidency has rightly said that the TFTP agreement on the exchange of SWIFT bank data is about principles. It is about fundamental constitutional principles, it is about the protection of privacy – Article ... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the ECR Group supported the Council’s original agreement on SWIFT with the United States and its terrorist-financed tracking programme for the transfer of financial messaging data, subject, of course, to certain safeguards. We repudiated at the time the anti-Americanism, both latent and overt, that charac... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, once again, we are discussing the Commission’s and the Council’s mandate in relation to the SWIFT project. The draft mandate being submitted to us today certainly takes up some of the demands made by the European Parliament in its resolution of September 2009, but many points remain... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, may I take this opportunity to highlight the legitimacy of your point that the European Parliament must not forget, either, the role and the importance of the Italian language, of the use of the Italian language, which has contributed so much to European culture. Returning to the su... | null |
Ernst Strasser | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) want an agreement. We want a good partnership with our American friends, above all, in the area of security. We want a good agreement and we want this agreement very soon. We should emphasise that thi... | null |
Kinga Göncz | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to recall that, contrary to earlier negative expectations that preceded Parliament’s negative vote, there have, in fact, been several positive developments as well, and it seems that there will be a better than expected agreement between the European Union and the United States; if all goes well, it will ... | null |
Sarah Ludford | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, clearly, the Commission has listened. The draft mandate is indeed a clear improvement on previous agreements, though my colleagues have highlighted aspects where our concerns remain. I will not repeat those concerns apart from thanking my colleague, Mrs Hennis-Plasschaert, for all her hard work for the Pa... | null |
Judith Sargentini | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, resolution or no resolution, I believe that the Council heard us loud and clear last time and knows full well what it has to do. This Parliament is concerned about fundamental rights and the protection of citizens’ privacy and also about data protection. These are fundamental rights, and a simple cost-be... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the United States is the only world superpower today. It is an absolute and multidimensional superpower – cultural, military and economic. We are fortunate that this superpower is friendly to us and is based on the same values and foundations upon which the European Union is built. Therefore, we should a... | null |
Eva-Britt Svensson | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | sv | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank the Commission and the Council for the progress that has nonetheless been made since February, when Parliament did what was only right – in other words, rejected the SWIFT agreement. Parliament now has greater opportunity to make demands as regards the content of the agreement. An i... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In February, we refused to ratify an agreement on processing and transmitting data contained in financial reports for the purposes of a US Treasury programme to monitor terrorism. The reasons for the refusal were clearly listed and they include in particular: – breaching the fundamental principles of data protection l... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr López Garrido, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in this House, I supported the agreement concluded between the European Union and the United States on mutual judicial assistance. I did so because I consider transatlantic cooperation to be very important in general, and particularly so in the area o... | null |
Emine Bozkurt | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, the draft mandate proposed by the European Commission is a step in the right direction. The fight against terrorism is our priority. It is therefore important to put a new agreement in place as soon as possible on the exchange of financial data with the United States, but ... | null |
Alexander Alvaro | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you, Commissioner Malmström. The negotiating mandate before us shows, above all, that the Commission and Parliament are again taking the same line and that cooperation has at least got off to a good start. The fact that the European Parliament rejected the agreement in February – and I address this... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Our debate is taking place literally two days before a meeting of ministers of the 27 Member States of the European Union on the same subject. Therefore, and let us say it directly, our position is potentially a form of political pressure. We are discussing this problem at a time when the fate of the negotiating manda... | null |
John Bufton | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is shocking to me that this Commission is still insisting on passing sensitive financial information on millions of innocent European citizens, including those from the UK, despite Parliament and the Civil Liberties Committee rejecting the proposals. The issue here is not how we can better manage SWIFT... | null |
Monika Hohlmeier | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, unlike the previous speaker, I would expressly like to thank both Commissioner Malmström and Commissioner Reding for their intensive efforts to take up the issues that have been raised by Parliament, as well as the problems that we see and have seen in the area of data security and ... | null |
Tanja Fajon | MEP | S&D | en | sl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Terrorism remains one of the main threats to security in the European Union and we need to start negotiations with the US on the transfer of banking data as soon as possible, but not at any cost. A new agreement must provide greater protection of the personal data of European citizens. We need a better agreement, one ... | null |
Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ever since the end of the Second World War, it has been important to us Liberals to emphasise the transatlantic links between the US and Europe and to highlight our cooperation in various areas. However, as in all partnerships, complications and difficulties can arise, and we have to overcome these. One ... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We will all agree – there can be no ambiguity on this issue – that the fight against terrorism is a shared fight in which the European Union must play a full part. Yet it is just as crucial for us MEPs to ensure that the rights of European citizens and, in particular, the right to protection of personal data, are resp... | null |
Nathalie Griesbeck | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament took a very important step two months ago when it rejected this interim agreement. Without going back over this matter, since I am the 27th speaker this afternoon, I should just like to stress that some people very poetically described this phas... | null |
Ioan Enciu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Union acknowledges the particular importance of exchanging information globally in the fight against terrorism. MEPs in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament support any action which may result in preventing and halting terrorism. MEPs have been elect... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the trial of strength that our Parliament has embarked on with the Commission and the Council on the draft SWIFT agreement may be a good thing, provided that the collection and transfer of data relating to banking transactions are used exclusively for counterterrorism purposes. Just about everyone has me... | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome this debate in advance of the Council’s formal consideration of the Commission’s proposed mandate. I also welcome the acceptance by the Commission of many of the concerns expressed by this Parliament when we rejected the interim agreement as inadequate. Regretfully, due to circumstances beyond o... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As you are well aware and has also been stated today, the fight against terrorism is a common cause in Europe. Anti-Americanism is not a common cause in Europe. This is why, especially based on what one of my fellow Members was saying before me, I do not believe that a statement which has blatantly expressed anti-Amer... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe there are a few things that are beyond dispute, like the transatlantic partnership – since it really is the foundation of our foreign policy – the common fight against terrorism and also the cooperation of the EU institutions. However, the fact also remains that with the T... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, one of the crucially important questions is whether bulk data – that is everyone’s information – should be handed over or whether data should be confined to identified individuals. There is, of course, an intermediate position. Population groups associated with terrorism at a particular time could be targ... | null |
Zuzana Roithová | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, detecting the financial flows of terrorist networks is a highly effective instrument in the fight against terrorism. In February, the left rejected a provisional agreement without even proposing another suitable framework for security units, thereby complicating the work of the police and the judiciary. ... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today’s debate shows that civil rights and the fight against terrorism are not always easy to reconcile. The SWIFT agreement that is being discussed again today underlines the problem of protecting our civil rights while, at the same time, investing in the security of our world comm... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the fight against terrorism is important, and the EU must be part of this. We cannot do this by trampling on human rights, however. Respect for human rights is one of the most important European values, and it should be a unifying factor in transatlantic cooperation too. It is important that transatlanti... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr López Garrido, Mrs Malmström, I wish to congratulate the authors of the motion for a resolution on the conclusion of the agreement between the United States and the European Union on the transfer of financial data to combat terrorism. This resolution reiterates, in a balanced way, not only the require... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to start by saying to Mr Seeber that I was in fact present this morning at the debate to which he was referring. Even though I had not been officially invited, you, ladies and gentlemen, asked me to come and I came: I was present and spoke in that debate. Perhaps it was he who was not here, ... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think this has indeed been a very constructive debate. We have listened carefully and are taking due notice of everything that has been said. The Council answered quite a lot of the questions that were raised, and I will just add a few things because it is important that we get as much clarity as pos... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (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 |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | SWIFT (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the new SWIFT mandate for the EU-US agreement as part of the terrorist financing tracking programme, especially as the Council and Commission have learnt the lesson from the past and included Parliament’s stringent demand in negotiations, which is that higher standards should be applied to data protection. H... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the Passenger Name Record (PNR). | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in accordance with the Treaty of Lisbon, the Council Presidency submitted to Parliament two agreements on the use of passenger name record data, known as ‘PNR agreements’, one dating from 2007 with the United States and the other from 2008 with Australia. We have asked Parliament to give its approval ... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the importance of collecting PNR data is acknowledged by a growing number of countries in the world, including EU Member States. They use such data to combat terrorism and other serious crimes. To ensure that basic principles of data protection are respected and that PNR data is only used for specific ... | null |
Axel Voss | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, with the analysis of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, as with SWIFT, an attempt is being made to reconcile the fight against global terrorism and serious crime with the fundamental rights of all to the protection of privacy and information self-determination. We must a... | null |
Birgit Sippel | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, there are a few basic things I would like to say about this agreement. There are, by all means, similarities with SWIFT, but also differences. If the European Parliament had to vote today on the Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement, we would have no other option but to vote no. That is quite clear. T... | null |
Sophia in 't Veld | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as rapporteur I would first of all like to thank the shadows for their excellent, pleasant and fruitful cooperation resulting in a joint resolution. Of course, this is not the final stage, as our talks on the topic and the text will continue. Today we consider the request for consent by the Council on ... | null |
Jan Philipp Albrecht | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I do not want to repeat what my fellow Members quite rightly said before me, but rather make a few general remarks. I do not know whether you have ever seen the film Minority Report. If not, then I would recommend that you watch it. In this film, law enforcement agencies of the future use a so-called ... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am not an illustrious film critic, as the previous speaker is. I would not like our debate to be a debate about cinema. Coming back specifically to the subject of our discussion, PNR data transfer should, in fact, be something obvious. It used to be that this data was gathered for commercial purpose... | null |
Eva-Britt Svensson | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | sv | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in contrast to previous speakers, I would like to compliment Mr Albrecht on his comparison with the world of film. I believe it is important from time to time to allow culture to highlight society’s criticisms and it is something we could learn from here in Parliament. I would also like to thank the r... | null |
Simon Busuttil | MEP | PPE | en | mt | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to make three brief comments. First of all, we have just been talking about the SWIFT agreement and we said that it taught us certain lessons. I believe that one such lesson was learnt by Parliament, namely that greater power brings about greater responsibility. I believe that the strategy adopted by Parl... | null |
Saïd El Khadraoui | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr López Garrido, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the debate on Passenger Name Record (PNR) data is very similar to the one we have just held on SWIFT. Basically, we are talking about the quest for a healthy, acceptable balance between security and the protection of privacy. Both are important, of... | null |
Judith Sargentini | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The tension has indeed eased a little, ladies and gentlemen. Mrs in ’t Veld has drawn up a splendid resolution, one that is embraced by the Commission and the Council. That is excellent in itself, and I agree with her: I think it very prudent to state at this juncture that we are drawing up a single clear guideline fo... | null |
Cornelia Ernst | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, freedom over the clouds, as the singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey once sang, will come to an abrupt end with the agreement with the USA on the retrieval of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data. In August, a member of our group staff experienced first hand the effects the restriction of this freedom is alread... | null |
Manfred Weber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, Mr López Garrido, I too would firstly like to make a short comparison with the SWIFT debate. I was quite delighted to hear the representative of the Council talk of dedicated objectives in negotiations for this new SWIFT agreement. I am therefore quite surprised by the sort of effect and... | null |
Tanja Fajon | MEP | S&D | en | sl | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I firmly believe that all Members of the European Parliament are aware of the importance of timely and accurate information in ensuring the safety of their many journeys. Today, as we face air traffic chaos, the scale of the daily movement of passengers is much more obvious to us all. Unfortunately, the financial loss... | null |
Eva Lichtenberger | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today we have before us the second dossier of an agreement with the USA that is beset with huge problems in matters of data protection. That actually brings me to the confirmation of the proposal by our European Data Protection Supervisor, Mr Hustinx, who said that it would make sense to once and for ... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr López Garrido, Mrs Malmström, we have shown our concern about the transfer of PNR data to the United States. Such data may be kept for years after the safety checks have been carried out, and there is no legal protection for anyone who is not a US citizen. The agreements we have concluded with both Australia and Ca... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The protection of personal data is one of the fundamental rights of European citizens. The Treaty of Lisbon strengthens previous provisions thanks to the legal and mandatory nature of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Any personal data must be processed in accordance with Directives 46/1995, 58/... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to make three comments by way of a conclusion on our part in this important debate. The first concerns the point raised by Mr Weber as to whether Europe can or should have its own passenger name record data system, and what scope it might have. We are in favour of there actually being a g... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, yes, I have seen the film Minority Report. It is a good and interesting film, quite scary, and this is not what we are trying do with this. I think this has been a very interesting and constructive debate and I agree that there are similarities with the SWIFT or TFTP discussions. It is about fighting s... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Passenger Name Record (PNR) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Commissioner, for this collaboration; I hope it will be fruitful. The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the first part-session in May. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the debate on the oral question to the Commission by Mr Áder and Mr Tőkés, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), on the ban on the use of cyanide mining technologies (O-0035/2010 – B7-0206/2010). | null |
János Áder | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Fellow Members, very important decisions have been taken in the European Union over the past few years aimed at protecting our environment. I would mention just the decision regarding biodiversity or the Water Framework Directive. The EU’s Water Framework Directive makes Member States responsible for protecting water ... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, honourable Members, my colleague, Commissioner Piebalgs excuses himself. Unfortunately, he cannot be here with you today, so he has entrusted me with the task of taking this debate with you. Thank you for this opportunity to explain the Commission’s position on the use of cyanide for gold extraction in... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am pleased that Commissioner Malmström is here, but in this case, I would rather have seen her colleague Mr Potočnik, the responsible Commissioner, because this problem is for him to solve. I would like to say first of all that Europe produces 0.73% of the world’s gold and that gold is currently bei... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament unreservedly supports the ban on the use of cyanide mining technologies, because I would like to call the Commissioner’s attention to the fact that it is not enough for the Commission to act after the event. Unfortunately, in ... | null |
Michail Tremopoulos | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | el | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this is a very important topic that we are debating, because cyanide is an exceptionally dangerous substance. We do not accept what the Commission representative has said about there being no safe techniques. We consider that the three current investment plans to mine gold using cyanide in Greece shou... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, on behalf of the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, I wish to say that we consider the matter to be extremely serious; it needs immediate action and this is no time for obstruction. The Commission and the position which it is maintaining are relaxed and the directive is ... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The representatives of EU bodies often like to place great emphasis publicly on protecting the health of our citizens and protecting nature and the environment. It is therefore striking that European regulations are almost suspiciously inconsistent when it comes to the use of a highly toxic chemical substance, cyanide... | null |
Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu | MEP | NI | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We must agree that the ban on the use of cyanide in mining will become a priority issue for the environment not only in Romania, but throughout the whole of Europe as well. More than 25 major accidents and discharges have occurred worldwide between 1998 and 2006, making it increasingly obvious that cyanide has been po... | null |
Zuzana Roithová | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, at a time when we are marking the tenth anniversary of a large-scale environmental catastrophe involving the escape of cyanide into European rivers from a Romanian gold mine, we are voting on a resolution in which we demand an EU-wide ban on the extraction of gold through the use of cyanide. This... | null |
Kriton Arsenis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, after Chernobyl, we all understand the nuclear risk. In 2000, however, the second biggest environmental disaster in the history of Europe – perhaps even in the history of the world – was caused by the accident at Baia Mare in Romania, to which numerous members have referred. One hundred ... | null |
Theodoros Skylakakis | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commission, the gold is sitting there; it cannot escape. What we are being called upon to debate is when, how and with what environmental impact we decide to mine it. If an investment is implemented with the use of cyanide, the repercussions are irreversible, because the gold is gone and the slurry, w... | null |
Jan Březina | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I decided to speak on the topic in hand because I followed in detail events surrounding the prospecting and opening of the Mokrsko and Kašperské Hory deposits in the Czech Republic, where finely dispersed gold was to have been extracted through cyanidation. At that time, in the mid-1990s, we cons... | null |
Alajos Mészáros | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | First, I would like to thank the initiators, namely Mr Áder and Mr Tőkés, for raising this very serious issue. I would like to support as strongly as possible the draft resolution on a general ban on cyanide technologies in mining throughout the European Union. Anyone who experienced and saw the results of the environ... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to begin by thanking the Commissioner for the balanced position which she presented in opening this debate. Technologies which use cyanide are hazardous. However, there are also other technologies which are just as hazardous, for instance, the production of nuclear technology. There are regulations, stand... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | bg | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the use of cyanide compounds in the mining industry is obviously an issue which no one can be indifferent to. We are aware of the legal measures which the European Union has adopted. They convey a clear message: we must continue to guarantee a high level of protection for people’s h... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I agree that tailings dams such as the one that caused the accident in Baia Mare in 2000 should not be created. Finland is a big gold producer by European standards. The new mine in Kittilä is the biggest in Europe with a yearly production of 5 000 kg of gold. Now we have to remember one scientific fact; ... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I believe that the initiative on banning the use of cyanide-based technology in gold mining is unjustified. There are a number of European legislative acts in force in this area, as already mentioned earlier, which have increasingly tightened the regulations on the conditions for using cyanide, starting right from the... | null |
Csaba Sógor | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Allowing or banning mining ventures that use cyanide raises sensitive issues in certain Member States. First of all, we must establish that solving this problem cannot be held hostage to political intentions and interests. Assessing the danger of pollution is a matter for experts, and if there is such a danger, then i... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as I come from the gold country of Northern Lapland, I want to make my contribution in this debate. Just as Mrs Essayah said in her excellent speech, gold is dissolved by using cyanide, and this is happening in closed processes in Finland. In the Kittilä goldmine, which is fairly close to where I live, o... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the speeches by Mrs Roithová, Mr Březina and Mr Mészáros really convinced me, since they described how there was similarly indiscriminate exploitation in the country in which they lived previously, namely Communist Czechoslovakia, how there has been a change in attitude and how today, they are the ones w... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I agree that every measure must be taken at European Union level to reduce the purported risks from using toxic, hazardous substances such as cyanide. However, banning these substances must not be viewed as the only solution. Toxic, hazardous substances are used in many industrial processes other than mining. Apart fr... | null |
Michael Theurer | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as Mr Takkula has just said, cyanide technology is a common method in mining. However, as we have heard, it is highly dangerous. The disaster that Mrs Băsescu just mentioned contaminated the Danube at the time and shocked us all, and you know that I campaign strongly for the Danube ... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Cyanide extraction techniques are associated with a high risk of environmental damage and therefore also pose a threat to human life and health. Cyanide leaching of precious metals such as gold is banned in a number of Member States, but the risks of a natural disaster involving contamination of surface waters goes be... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | A chemical substance which has got out of control and escaped into the environment causes serious problems, but we have more than 10 million chemical substances. We also have an even higher number of sites where work is carried out using chemical substances. We could discuss here in the European Parliament millions of... | null |
Traian Ungureanu | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with all due respect, can I say that this debate is largely misdirected. The subject before us is a very curious matter. It reignites an accident that took place 10 years ago. Why? Why has there been this long silence? And why now? Why a debate now? If we follow this pattern, we could and should ban anyth... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would briefly like to clarify as my fellow Member perhaps misunderstood as a result of the translation. I know Baia Mare very well and know that it is not in the former Czechoslovakia, but in the north of Transylvania. I know it really well. That was a translation error. I merely alluded to the speeche... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you for this debate. I will, of course, make sure that Mr Potočnik gets a full account of it. We share your concerns about cyanide. It is, of course, a very dangerous toxin and we are aware of that. But let me assure you that the Commission has drawn conclusions from the terrible accident that happe... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the May I part-session. I wish you a safe journey to your homes. Let us hope that it will not be interrupted by a volcano or anything or anybody else! Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Daciana Octavia Sârbu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | On 30 January 2000, the dam surrounding the tailing pond containing waste from the company Aurul in Baia Mare, Romania, cracked, allowing approximately 100 000 cubic metres of contaminated water, containing 100 tonnes of cyanide and heavy metals, to spill out. This spill resulted in the drinking water supply being cut... | null |
László Tőkés | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-04-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies (debate) Video of the speechesPV | During the past two years, I have voiced on several occasions, both in the plenary sessions of the European Parliament and in its various forums, the dangers of cyanide-based mining. In addition, I wrote a letter to Mr Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for the Environment, on the matter of the mining ventures in Romania (Ro... | null |
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