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Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this document as I believe it is necessary to continue the simplification of the regulation and the provisions of the common agricultural policy that started back in 2005. Farmers and other economic operators in the agricultural sector should be freed from red tape and requirements that are not necessary t... | null |
Mara Bizzotto | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Three years on from the CAP reform, we are now wondering how to adapt our agricultural policy to today’s challenges. The own-initiative report offers useful and widely shared suggestions for achieving the aim of an agricultural sector that combines quality and competitiveness. We must welcome the spirit of this report... | null |
Vito Bonsignore | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Farming has always been close to the heart of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), and we consider it a fundamental sector of the European economy. However, our farmers have too long been overwhelmed by bureaucratic and administrative burdens: it is time to lighten their load. I am, in fact,... | null |
David Campbell Bannerman | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We voted against this report in accordance with UKIP principles and on the basis that we support legislation only where it limits the power of the EU or returns it to nation states. Any amendments that we felt unnecessarily harmed British farmers were not supported, as were any amendments that expanded EU control in th... | null |
Derek Roland Clark | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | UKIP voted against the report on simplification of the CAP because, although the implementation of the report would make the policy more comprehensible, transparent and workable, simplifying farm inspection, adding to flexibility to payment arrangements and making it more farmer friendly, to do so is to keep the CAP on... | null |
Lara Comi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the report on simplifying the common agricultural policy, and I congratulate Mr Ashworth and the shadow rapporteurs on the excellent work they have carried out. We must take action to simplify the bureaucratic procedures and requirements imposed on farms, in order to reduce their costs and, at the... | null |
Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Farmers have always been the most ardent and steadfast supporters of European Union integration. They firmly believe that the CAP still is a common policy in the true sense of the term. In a globalised world, the European Union, with its Community market, must take uniform action in order to guarantee food supply secu... | null |
Mário David | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In general, I voted in favour of the efforts to simplify the common agricultural policy (CAP). This simplification should benefit farmers, enabling them to concentrate on producing safe, quality food, and also the national and EU authorities, by reducing the bureaucratic burden associated with implementing the CAP. Th... | null |
Robert Dušek | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The draft report on simplifying the common agricultural policy is a further step towards making the CAP simpler and more efficient. We must, of course, do much more to boost the competitiveness of European agriculture, retain and create additional jobs and support the natural development of rural areas. In this contex... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this report because I consider the simplification of the common agricultural policy crucial to the competitiveness of EU agriculture, the preservation of jobs and the sustainable development of Europe’s rural areas. The rules for checks must be simplified and made more accessible to farmers through help an... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The simplification of legislation is a goal that is essential to bringing Europe closer to the public. Simple and perceptive policies are necessary for those who have not mastered the Union’s code and do not speak ‘Europese’. That is why a policy as fundamental and permanent as the common agricultural policy (CAP) mus... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The common agricultural policy (CAP) must, on the one hand, ensure an adequate supply of safe food and, on the other, respond to such challenges as the conservation of rural areas, mountain regions, disadvantaged areas and the multifunctionality of European agriculture. The harmonisation of legislation must be accompa... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report has positive aspects, of which we would stress the following: the simplification of the common agricultural policy (CAP) must not mean less aid for framers and the dismantling of traditional instruments for managing markets; the need to amend the fines, not least when they relate to offences that are not t... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I fully agree that the simplification of the CAP should not result in less support for farmers and should not lead to the dismantling of traditional market management instruments. Furthermore, I agree with a deferral on the obligation of electronic sheep tagging. | null |
Jarosław Kalinowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Simplifying the principles which define the operation of the common agricultural policy is extremely important. The CAP should not be reduced just to the distribution of money. Personally, I would like greater resources to be directed to individual agricultural investors, who could more effectively modernise farms and... | null |
Cornelis de Jong, Kartika Tamara Liotard and Eva-Britt Svensson | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have voted against the Ashworth report on simplification of the CAP (A7-0051/2010), because of Paragraph 12. Farmers do not need more EU direct support; they need fairer prices for their products. However, I do agree with the essence of the report. The CAP is overly complicated and unnecessarily burdensome on farmers... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The common agricultural policy is an essential element of the European Union, whether we are talking about providing food for our citizens or about conserving and protecting mountain regions and rural areas, as well as the outermost or disadvantaged regions. I voted for this report because I support the need to simpli... | null |
Erminia Mazzoni | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Agriculture is one of the main resources in Europe, but it is also the sector that is most burdened by the grinding wheels of EU bureaucracy. Neither must we underestimate the impact of climatic and environmental factors that are, by their very nature, hard to predict and force the farming world to face new and diffic... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report has the merit of pointing out that the public service alone guarantees the independence and impartiality of inspections and of stressing the idea of agriculture as a public good. The insistence on the traceability of foodstuffs is also important, although clear labelling on their environmental footprint is... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is essential to simplify the common agricultural policy if the goal of a 25% reduction in the agricultural sector’s administrative burden is to be achieved by 2010. Bureaucracy is a serious impediment for farmers, who neglect their daily activities in the fields because they waste a great deal of time on red tape. ... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this report, which contains important provisions aimed at removing the red tape which affects Europe’s farmers, especially at the moment when agriculture is being hit very hard by the financial crisis. I would like to thank my fellow Members who voted for the amendments I tabled, thereby retaining the text... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The proposal to simplify the CAP is part of the wider process of reducing bureaucratic procedures, a process initiated some time ago by various EU Member States, to ensure more efficient and accessible services for citizens. This reform is also necessary for the agricultural sector, to allow farmers to save time and m... | null |
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report on the simplification of the common agricultural policy (CAP) examines an issue that has been of serious concern to farmers, who are the main beneficiaries of the CAP, and also to the European public in general, who find the CAP hard to understand because of the complexity of its mechanisms. The simplificat... | null |
Daciana Octavia Sârbu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the Ashworth report in favour of a simpler common agricultural policy which is also easier for farmers to understand. Administering the common agricultural policy is often excessively complicated. Consequently, it is of paramount importance to the whole agricultural sector to simplify it and make farmers’ ... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The simplification of the common agricultural policy (CAP) is crucial to making Europe’s agricultural economy more competitive, preserving jobs and encouraging their creation, and contributing to the development of rural areas. It seems essential to me for the Commission to seek to eliminate unnecessary bureaucratic o... | null |
Artur Zasada | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | By endorsing this document, we have given expression to our determination over simplification of the common agricultural policy. This process is essential to guarantee the right level of competitiveness in the European agricultural sector. It is obvious that by harmonising regulations, reducing bureaucratic burdens an... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report presented by Mrs Rühle is an own-initiative report aimed at studying ways of improving public procurement procedures in Europe, in order to obtain a more stable and transparent legal framework. The incorrect application of the rules on public procurement is, in fact, one of the most frequent causes of error... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I supported this report since a public procurement system that operates properly and transparently is particularly important for the internal market in order to promote cross-border competition and innovation and achieve optimal benefit for government institutions. The aims of the 2004 revision of the public procureme... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | A significant portion of the funds from Member States’ budgets is spent on public procurement. Therefore I agree with the opinion of the rapporteur that public funds should be transparent and open to public scrutiny. Public contracts must be awarded under transparent conditions whereby all stakeholders are treated equ... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome this resolution, which seeks to simplify public procurement rules, while simultaneously contributing to creating greater legal certainty. European initiatives on public procurement require coordination at European level to avoid inconsistencies and legal problems. Legal clarification of the conditions under ... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In 2004, the Commission carried out a revision of the public procurement directives, the purpose of which was to simplify the procedures, making public procurement more transparent, more efficient, more flexible and less bureaucratic. As the rapporteur says, ‘The main purpose of public procurement is the cost-effectiv... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Total annual expenditure on the public procurement of goods and services in the European Union amounts to EUR 1 500 billion, or more than 16% of EU gross domestic product. Against the background of the current economic crisis, public procurement directives must not make the process of awarding contracts slower or more... | null |
Françoise Grossetête | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | While I support the report’s objective of inviting the Commission to simplify public procurement procedures in order to save local government and enterprises from having to devote substantial amounts of time and money to strictly bureaucratic issues, I regret the wording of the second part of paragraph 9. I feel that ... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report throws a little light on the social and environmental standards that we must be able to integrate into invitations to tender; it also proposes recommendations to facilitate SME access to public procurement markets. Nevertheless, it has a major shortcoming on account of the explicit absence of any reference... | null |
Małgorzata Handzlik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Public procurement in the internal market of the European Union represents about 15% of GDP. Opening up the public procurement market is beneficial to the ordering institutions, because larger markets give greater opportunities for choice, and so for lower costs and better quality. How public money is spent is extreme... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of the European Union’s GDP. Its purpose is to purchase goods and services at the best price/quality ratio. European procurement directives delay the process of awarding contracts, make it more costly and restrict the public procurers’ scope for action. Unfortun... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Public procurement is a very delicate matter which deserves to be treated very seriously as it concerns public funds. Public contracts must therefore be transparent and completely open to public scrutiny so that they do not arouse suspicions of any kind. That being the case, public contracts must be awarded under tran... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Public procurement accounts for approximately 18% of Community GDP, and therefore has a key role to play in relaunching the economy and employment. Procurement also has a significant impact on small and medium-sized enterprises, which often act as subcontractors. In the current context, where the interaction between t... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am very glad the amendment proposed by the Socialists and Democrats Group has been rejected, which has allowed our group, Greens/EFA, to vote in favour of the Rühle report. | null |
Bernadette Vergnaud | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I condemn the ostrich politics of those who think that the European Court of Justice’s current case-law on service concessions is satisfactory and that there is absolutely no need to legislate. For years, the socialists have fought and campaigned to obtain framework directives protecting services of general interest, ... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is essential for European policies on development to be coherent. However, this report by Mrs Keller sometimes has a tendency to be either excessive or vague in its wording. Very clearly I say ‘Yes’ to EU policy coherence, but ‘No’ to questioning the commitments made by the European Union (and by France) within the... | null |
Sebastian Valentin Bodu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union is the biggest aid donor in the world. This year in fact, it is expected that the amount of development aid provided to non-EU states will reach EUR 69 billion, marking a 20% increase on 2008. The European Union has shown itself to be consistent with regard to the commitments it has undertaken towar... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In the face of the economic and humanitarian crisis that the world is currently struggling through, it is more urgent than ever for Union development aid policies to be processed in a way that is consistent and unified between themselves, and which is fully linked to the Union’s other policies on trade, the environmen... | null |
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Christofer Fjellner, Gunnar Hökmark and Anna Ibrisagic | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Swedish Conservative delegation yesterday (18 May 2010) voted against report A7-0140/2010 on the EU Policy Coherence for Development and the ‘Official Development Assistance plus’ concept (2009/2218(INI)). The primary reason for this is that we do not support the proposal for the introduction of an international t... | null |
Marielle De Sarnez | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | One billion four hundred million people in the world survive on less than EUR 1 per day. The European Union has a duty to combat this situation. That requires more efficient and effective development cooperation and assistance policies. Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments are still not being fulfilled sa... | null |
Lena Ek, Marit Paulsen, Olle Schmidt and Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We support the objective of this report for EU policy to be consistent with the Union’s aim of promoting development in low and middle-income countries. Yet Mrs Keller’s report talks, for example, of a developed services market and clear competition rules as obstacles to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The r... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union often comes up against paradoxes of its own creation and the incongruities that its policies bring about for the Member States and their citizens, as well as for third countries and their peoples. As the biggest development aid donor in the world, the European Union and the Member States must strive... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The subject of this report is very relevant, since we know that the EU’s policies and actions in several areas frequently contradict stated ‘development aid’ objectives. There are several significant and positive aspects, such as: calling attention to the tragedy of hunger at world level; pointing out the incongruence... | null |
Georgios Papastamkos | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I fully recognise the importance of EU development policy and of assistance to developing countries. However, I voted against the Keller report, due to the position it takes on the impact of EU agricultural export subsidies on the farming sector in developing countries, which is totally inaccurate. Moreover, the EU is... | null |
Evelyn Regner | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this report as it is a particular concern of mine that international free trade agreements should include legally binding social and environmental standards. I think it is particularly important for the European Union not only to apply the principle of the social market economy within the EU, but ... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted enthusiastically in favour of Franziska Keller’s report on Policy Coherence for Development, and I am very glad it was adopted by a majority vote. I deplore the negative vote of the EPP and ECR groups. | null |
Alf Svensson | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In the European Parliament vote, I voted against the report ‘The EU Policy Coherence for Development and the ‘Official Development Assistance plus’ concept’. Conducting a responsible, effective policy for development should be a key focus for the European Parliament. It is something that I, along with many others, wor... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am particularly pleased about the adoption of the report on EU Policy Coherence for Development and the ‘Official Development Assistance plus’ concept, which is an excellent report aimed at ensuring greater respect for developing countries. I especially welcome the adoption, by a slim majority, of paragraph 70, whic... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Given the current global economic situation, this report is extremely important as it seeks to make the Union’s policies more consistent in order for it to achieve the goals that it has set itself, such as the Millennium Development Goals. The EU is the biggest development aid donor in the world – the latest sums poin... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of this European Parliament own-initiative report, which responds to the European Commission’s analysis of penalties for serious infringements against the social rules in road transport. Today, differences exist between the Member States that adversely affect the fair functioning of the internal mark... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The penalty systems in the Member States of the European Union show wide disparities, and therefore the legal position with regard to international transport operations has become very hard for undertakings and especially for drivers to understand. The regulations and the directive on social rules in road transport cu... | null |
Jean-Luc Bennahmias | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Since 2006, a European regulation has obliged all road hauliers driving in Europe to respect the same maximum daily driving limit and to take rest periods in order to guarantee safety on European roads. Unfortunately, the way these measures are being applied is far from optimal: the penalties for an infringement are c... | null |
Sebastian Valentin Bodu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union’s concern about the absence of a uniform system for regulating road penalties at Member State level is justified. The enforcement of such penalties, at least non-financial ones, on all car drivers in Member States would lessen the confusion experienced by many hauliers or individual drivers as a res... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Infringements are a serious problem in road transport, which poses significant questions as regards border crossings. It is therefore important for the Commission to consider the situations in the various Member States, as well as what constitutes an offence in the different national legal systems and the respective p... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report prepared by the European Commission summarises the various types of penalty existing in Member States and demonstrates the differences between the systems adopted by each Member State in this area, concluding that the situation is unsatisfactory. It therefore calls on the Member States to apply the social r... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Road transport safety has always been a concern of the EU. The adoption of this resolution is another step towards eliminating serious infringements of the social rules in this area. Greater cooperation between Member States is necessary in order to create an easy communications network for all the sector’s profession... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Statistics show that heavy duty vehicles in particular are involved in a high proportion of traffic accidents. It is therefore that much more important the vehicle be in faultless condition. Drivers’ attentiveness falls almost as much as a result of tiredness as it does under the influence of alcohol. Consequently, in... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report by Mrs Ranner, whom I congratulate on account of her work, sheds light not only on the differences between fines in different Member States, but also on differences surrounding the types of penalty in highlighting the unsatisfactory nature of this situation for drivers and transport enterprises. I agree wit... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-18T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report by my colleague in the Committee on Transport and Tourism is an excellent initiative towards solving some of the existing problems regarding the road transport penalties applicable to serious infringements. The rules applicable in the case of serious infringements against the social rules vary considerably... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | The next item is: – the joint debate on mechanisms for strengthening economic order, – the Council and Commission statements: Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting [2010/269(RSP)], – the oral question to the Council and the Commission: What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the ... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, everyone is aware that we are living in a period of exceptional financial turbulence. This has been the case for a few months, and the origin does not go back a few months, but a few years, when the subprime crisis occurred in the United States. The origin was, therefore, a financial crisis in the privat... | null |
Olli Rehn | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I welcome this debate on the crisis response of the European Union and on the immediate and longer-term challenges of economic governance we are facing. I shall start with the immediate challenges and the crisis response. Ten days ago, the European Union took bold and necessary decisions to safeguard fina... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe has finally reacted. The Heads of State or Government have finally begun to deal with the problems by deciding, 10 days ago, on a support plan for our currency, the euro. This is a plan which accurately reflects the scale of European solidarity, thus contradicting all those w... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is taking place against the backdrop of a very serious situation which represents a threat to the European Union. We have decades of laissez-faire ideology behind us and these have been decades during which anyone who questioned the alleged superiority of the capitalist ... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I do not think that either nationalist or Marxist rhetoric is going to provide us with the solutions we need for this crisis we are going through. (Applause) What we are currently experiencing, Mr President, is not, in my opinion, a monetary crisis in the Union, it is not even a crisis of our single curr... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my Group has once again decided to take a positive approach to the financial stabilisation mechanism which was agreed at the weekend of crisis talks in Brussels almost two weeks ago. We are combining our support with a clear commitment to a more united economic and financial policy.... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, it has sadly become a characteristic of some of those who speak in support of the European Union to believe that the solution to every problem is more integration. This approach misses the point. What Europe too often lacks is not extra mechanisms to implement agreed policies, but rather the political wil... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, the most recent Council meetings indicate that far-reaching changes are under way. We are currently experiencing a process of governmentalisation of European policy. The Treaty of Lisbon praised the role of Parliament and the strengthening of that role. We have also spoken out in praise of this. Fundamen... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Commissioner, I should like to take this opportunity to thank you personally for your hard and effective work in connection with the economic crisis in Greece. I should also like to thank all the parties in Parliament for the support and solidarity they have shown Greece. I have three proposals and I should like, most... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mrs Tzavela, I did not interrupt you because you are from Greece, and this issue is very important, but because you spoke for more than one minute. Please keep to your time next time. | null |
Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, when you became President of this House last year, you said that you would treat all groups equally. I have noticed in this interesting debate that Mr Schulz ran two minutes over – all the groups ran over – but you picked on one group. Could you explain why this is? | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | I would like to say, Mrs Sinclaire, that I am watching the time. Those speeches did, indeed, run over by some seconds. The Member who was speaking a moment ago ran over by the longest, but I allowed this because she represents Greece, and it was also the opinion of someone who lives in Greece, and this matter seemed to... | null |
Francisco Sosa Wagner | MEP | NI | en | es | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, we had to be on the brink of the economic abyss in order for the Heads of State or Government to understand that the way forward is not more nationalism but more Europe. Some measures that have been adopted are aimed in this direction, such as the reduction in vetoing rights in the European Council or th... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, what I have learned is that, if Mr Daul’s farmhouse is on fire, you first have to put the fire out. Therefore, our group, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), fully supports the rescue package on which the Council and the Commission have decided. That a decision on a package to... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Wortmann-Kool is wrong in two respects. Firstly, we definitely do not want Mr Daul’s farm to burn down. We do not want any farm to burn down. We want to take precautions, that is our objective. Secondly, we very much support the measures that Mr Rehn has proposed. It is simply t... | null |
Adina-Ioana Vălean | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I would like to make a point on the situation in those Member States that are not members of the eurozone but which still share the same preoccupation. Political leaders in our countries have been selling the idea that EU membership should be seen as a guarantee against hard economic times, but reality ha... | null |
Philippe Lamberts | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, yes, we need responsible public spending. Yes, we need to balance our budgets. This requires responsible management of expenditure, and enough has been said about that for the moment. Yes, of course, this requires increased mutual supervision between equals. But, no, Members of the ... | null |
Derk Jan Eppink | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, the President-in-Office just asked whether there was an exit strategy from this crisis, and I would say yes, there is: it is called fiscal conservatism. The structural problem of ours has been that public overspending went on for too long. The public sector was out of control for many years. Even in good ... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, you will not be able to calm the financial markets without giving up a sacrosanct principle that you defend, which is the completely free movement of capital and so-called free competition, which really means unfair competition. Today, a great deal of money is being put on the table, but this is actually... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how long will the euro last in its current form? Are we perhaps headed towards its destructuring within a year or two? I do not agree with creating a new supplementary deficit of EUR 750 billion to cover an earlier one or that these measures are sufficient for building the socio-eco... | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I am opposed to the Council’s unacceptable anti-European approach. You are complaining about the crisis and you are now introducing an economic protectorate, while you bear the central responsibility for many of the causes of the crisis. You have not allowed regulations to be imposed when they were neede... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, firstly, the crisis highlights very clearly the limitations of the treaties, our own weaknesses, the double standards in dealings with the European Union, the deficits, the errors and the lack of seriousness. Secondly, it also indicates that anyone who does not do their homework is ... | null |
Udo Bullmann | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, Mr López Garrido, ladies and gentlemen, I have a very specific question which will allow us to emerge from the position of powerlessness and confusion that the crisis has left us in, with no one knowing how the crisis arose and how we can find our way out of it. Mr Schulz has referred to the highly criti... | null |
Marielle De Sarnez | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, this is probably the most serious crisis that has ever confronted Europe, which is why urgent action is needed; we have to take decisions, and good decisions at that, and we cannot wait until October. The rescue plan was the first decision taken and it was probably taken too late, but better late than ne... | null |
Pascal Canfin | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, Mr Rehn, as you know, there are two ways to reduce deficits. Expenditure can be cut or taxes can be increased. All States can cut expenditure at the same time, although separately, without needing any European coordination. However, to increase taxes and, more specifically, taxes on capital, companies, p... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, it is to be feared that the support package for Greece will not work. After all, no country in the world has ever managed to reduce a 14% budget deficit to 3% in three years. Greece will be no different. There is a great deal of opposition in Greece to the austerity measures, and so it is highly likely t... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, the biggest unemployment march in the last ten years is due to take place in Greece tomorrow. Greek workers are demonstrating against the measures taken by the government, workers who neither work less nor are paid more than their counterparts; you can see the data for yourselves. Mr Rehn, it is major hy... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, we can all recall the pompous presentation made by the Spanish Prime Minister earlier this year. However, Spain is now following Greece with a deficit of 11% in GDP. The EU bureaucracy immediately looks around to find someone to blame, but the fact is that it is this bureaucracy that is responsible for th... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, too rapid centralisation and Europeanisation, possibly also in relation to the introduction of a European currency, are part of the cause of the current problems. The fact is that the European currency simply cannot be a hard currency in the long term, because it has brought together very different natio... | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, on the day that we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Schuman plan, on 9 May 2010, the Council formally laid the Monnet method to rest, with the help of the Commission. For example, a legal basis for the financial aid has been chosen which prevents Parliament from becoming involved, namely Article 12... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, the current session of the European Parliament began a year ago, and there has not been a single plenary sitting in which we have not discussed the crisis. It is true that there is nothing more important for us to talk about than a crisis that has destroyed 20 million jobs in Europe. It is very important... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I would firstly like to thank the Commissioner and the Spanish Presidency for everything that has been achieved recently, albeit late. Sailing a ship through a storm is not easy. You have broken down more barriers in a fortnight than in all the previous years put together, and I want to encourage you to ... | null |
Kay Swinburne | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, we are in a situation of our own governments’ making; it is not as though rules were not there to prevent these crises happening in the first place. If rules such as the Stability and Growth Pact and the Maastricht criteria had been adhered to, we would not have the level of debt crisis that we currently ... | null |
Cornelis de Jong | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | nl | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, we need a coordinated European policy to address the consequences of the crisis; but Europe will have to stop being led by large companies, not forgetting the large financial institutions. Governments have twice had to bail out our financial institutions, without these institutions footing even part of t... | null |
Nikolaos Salavrakos | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy... | Mr President, I should like to say that, in theory, I absolutely support the proposals made by Mr Olli Rehn, whom I am bold enough to consider the political head of Europe and the person who deserves our special respect. However, what I want to say and point out is that a raging fever is as dangerous as hypothermia, b... | null |
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