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Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The EU’s accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was already advocated in the Treaty on European Union; the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon made it obligatory. Accession will strengthen protection of human rights in Europe and submit the Union’s legal s... | null |
Rafał Trzaskowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I support the report, most of all because it extends the system of protection of human rights in the European Union and gives it greater credibility in the eyes of its citizens. When it is not possible to appeal at national or EU level, when a petitioner is refused permission to institute proceedings, or when an actio... | null |
Viktor Uspaskich | MEP | ALDE | en | lt | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, as you are aware, respect for human rights is a fundamental value of the European Union which is anchored in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. There is no doubt that, if everything is done properly, EU accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and ... | null |
Geoffrey Van Orden | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am supportive of the ECHR while recognising that judicial interpretations of certain provisions of the convention have created obstacles to the deportation of terrorist suspects. This needs to change. Notwithstanding any statements of respect for the position of Member States in relation to ECHR, EU accession to the ... | null |
Sebastian Valentin Bodu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The organisation of the International Criminal Court conference in Uganda is an important sign of this international institution’s acceptance across the continent of Africa, especially as the Court’s initial investigations, after it was established in 2002, were launched here. No one can deny the importance of such an... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union has been a firm advocate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and all its Member States are sharing in its accession to this important court. I hope that the State Parties are able to live up to their responsibilities and that the result of the Kampala conference is an ICC that is better able t... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The EU is a staunch supporter of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which promotes universality and upholds the integrity of the Rome Statute with a view to protecting and consolidating the independence, legitimacy and effectiveness of the international judicial process. The proof of this is that the EU is system... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I note with satisfaction that the resolution proposed by Parliament on the review of the Rome Statute requires the crime of aggression to be officially included as a war crime and that no jurisdictional filter will be necessary to determine whether such a crime has been committed. Yet how can this new legislation be i... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I feel bound to express my agreement with the motion for a resolution on the Review Conference on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda. Europe itself sprang from the need to put an end to the expressions of racial hatred that reached a peak in the atrocities of the Second World War. ... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I enthusiastically voted in favour of the resolution and I am especially glad that the oral amendment by my colleague had been adopted, i.e. to include ‘indigenous people’ in the list of groups that need special attention. | null |
Sabine Wils | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2010-05-19T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the motion for a resolution on the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kampala, Uganda, as it contains very crucial and important points and requests regarding the ratification and the implementation of the ICC. Therefore, I voted in favour. But I want to express... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The first item on the agenda today is the report by Vincent Peillon, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the Union for the Mediterranean [2009/2215(INI)] (A7-0133/2010). I will give our rapporteur the floor for four minutes. | null |
Vincent Peillon | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to start by expressing my warmest thanks to all my colleagues who were involved in this report; this truly is a collective piece of work. We reached 28 compromises; compromises which enriched rather than watered down the strategic vision that we wanted to impart to this report, to our commi... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is my pleasure to address you today on the Union for the Mediterranean and the report prepared by Mr Vincent Peillon. This valuable contribution by the European Parliament is particularly timely as it outlines some of the key challenges facing the Union for the Mediterranean in the months to come – and... | null |
Marielle De Sarnez | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, without doubt, the Barcelona Summit is an uncertainty. Without doubt, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is echoing, but never mind. The UfM is the only possible response we have at our disposal for speeding up development in the southern countries, strengthening links between them and improving dialogue o... | null |
Niki Tzavela | N/A | N/A | en | el | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in our report on the Euro-Mediterranean market, we confirmed that we recommend maintaining and developing the basic infrastructures which make an economy a single and cohesive economy and it is interesting that now, with the economic crisis, the present economic situation illustrates quite clearly that t... | null |
Marietta Giannakou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr Vincent Peillon and the rapporteurs from the other committees, Mrs De Sarnez and Mrs Tzavela, for their reports. The report on the Union for the Mediterranean is important because it focuses on immediate and quantifiable targets. Their results may be very specific, because... | null |
Raimon Obiols i Germà | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, what I liked best about this report – and I would like to congratulate its author, Mr Vincent Peillon – is that it is precise and specific. If only the precision of this report extended to its subject, that is, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). This is because the least that can be said is that in t... | null |
Ivo Vajgl | MEP | ALDE | en | sl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Vice-President, Commissioner Füle, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Peillon, for his constructive, open and creative involvement which has resulted in this report. I hope that it will be of interest, not just to those of us who have helped draft it, but to others, as well. The report deals wit... | null |
Malika Benarab-Attou | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Union for the Mediterranean has never been as vital to our future as it is today. Together we have tried, in the report on the UfM, to support a different vision of our Mediterranean. More than just a simple free trade zone, it is a Union founded on the common civilisation of pe... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Union for the Mediterranean faces real obstacles and what I am asking of the European Union, of all the institutions and of Parliament, is determination, considerably more determination, when it comes to trying to overcoming these obstacles. The first and most important of these – there is no doubt a... | null |
Nikolaos Salavrakos | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I must congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Peillon, on the valuable report which he has presented to us. We all know that the Mediterranean basin is a point at which many cultures meet; at the same time, however, it is a nerve centre and a ‘boiler’ which has been bubbling for many years now. Climate change, ... | null |
Louis Bontes | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In 2008, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, announced that he had had a dream of a Union for the Mediterranean. This Union was supposed to give a new impetus to the objectives of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, objectives which are based on mutual recognition of common values, such as democracy, the rule of law, g... | null |
Salvatore Iacolino | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Euromed region constitutes a strategic area of EU policy: we cannot deal with fundamental issues such as the environment, religious values, culture, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, security and migration flows without the responsible assistance of the third co... | null |
Pier Antonio Panzeri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that we are taking an extremely significant step forwards by adopting this report, and it will be very useful with a view to the Barcelona Summit of 7 June, a summit which, as we know, is set to be difficult given the deadlock in negotiations between the Israelis and the Pal... | null |
Niccolò Rinaldi | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for years, an independent researcher, Gabriele Del Grande, has been posting on the Internet the number of people dying in attempts to cross the Mediterranean in boats managed by organised crime groups. His meticulous tally-keeping has reached 4 200 victims, 18 of whom ... | null |
Takis Hadjigeorgiou | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I should like to start by thanking Mr Peillon for the work he has done. The report calls on the Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean to establish open dialogue, within the framework of mutual respect and understanding, by promoting human rights and freedoms, and that is something that we support. At the sa... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, own-initiative reports are usually just hot air, but if adopted they are an expression of the political will of the European Parliament. This report proposes the setting up of a union of 17 non-EU countries with a parliamentary assembly and a secretariat with funding for projects of a truly ambitious natu... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, when the Union for the Mediterranean was founded almost two years ago, the intention, as we know, was that it should be linked to the Barcelona Process in order to create a closer relationship between the Mediterranean countries and the EU. However, this process has obviously come to a standstill because... | null |
Dominique Baudis | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in the follow-up to the Barcelona process, the Union for the Mediterranean is an opportunity to develop our relations with the countries to the east and south of the Mediterranean basin. As the excellent report by Vincent Peillon emphasises, we cannot neglect either the potential of this region or the ri... | null |
Maria Eleni Koppa | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to start by congratulating the rapporteur on his very comprehensive report. The Union for the Mediterranean may make a decisive contribution towards the creation of balanced Euro-Mediterranean relations and towards strengthening trust between countries in the area. The Mediterranean should ... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you very much for squeezing me in, as I was held back by an emergency meeting of the Enlarged Bureau of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Thank you for your understanding. Mr President, paragraph 5 of Mr Peillon’s report rightly dwells on the need for a just and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a preliminary clarification: in my view, either a representative of the Presidency of the Council, or, perhaps, of the current French co-presidency of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), should have spoken in this debate today; their absence is deeply regrettable. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a priorit... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Let me just apologise for the Council. The representative of the Council could not be here today because it is Thursday morning and the debate on this report was originally scheduled for Monday. | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to ask you to call in the trialogue for the Council always to be represented here on Thursday morning. In the case of some Council presidencies, and I will not name them for reasons of modesty, the representative was even here on a Thursday afternoon. I think that the Council should be prese... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, I will do that. I was simply attempting to explain what the Council said. I will do that. Thank you very much. | null |
Josefa Andrés Barea | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, on behalf of the Committee on International Trade, I should like to thank Mrs De Sarnez for the way she has worked with us. Today, more than ever before, there is a need for the Union for the Mediterranean, for support for major projects and for institutional development. Today more than ev... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today the proximity of the Mediterranean peoples is seen in particular, as pointed out by Mr Rinaldi, in terms of the pivotal phenomenon of immigration. This should be considered a priority factor by the European Union, because migration flows can and have given rise to problems at ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Colleagues, please keep to your time. It is 10.57, and at 12.00 we have the votes. | null |
Mario Pirillo | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the forthcoming summit of the Heads of State or Government on 7-8 June in Barcelona is clearly an important occasion for the practical launch of the Union for the Mediterranean. It therefore constitutes an extraordinary opportunity to lay down the lasting foundations for real and st... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wish to say that, nearly two years after the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean, it is time for us take stock of this new federating project and also reflect on its prospects for development. From this perspective, I think that the report drafted by Mr Peillon is welcome and I, too, would like to join my fell... | null |
Roberta Angelilli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one of the European Parliament’s political priorities must be to help make the forthcoming Barcelona Summit a full success, following two years of deadlock since the Paris Summit of 2008. There are many goals, which have also been mentioned today, from tackling illegal immigration t... | null |
Olga Sehnalová | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Union for the Mediterranean is undoubtedly also a courageous inter-cultural project, the success of which depends, among other things, on a willingness to overcome different cultural and social traditions. Cultural diversity leads to mutual enrichment if its impulses are perceived openly as an opportunity and not ... | null |
Lara Comi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the European Union must provide greater support to the Union for the Mediterranean project in both political and financial terms. The summit of the 43 Heads of State or Government within the Union for the Mediterranean will take place on 7 June in Barcelona and, as th... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Sarkozy’s proposal for a Union for the Mediterranean was the highpoint of the French Presidency of the EU. Since then, it appears to have lost some of its lustre. This may not be a bad thing, because the EU is itself developing a robust and successful southern dimension of its own Neighbourhood ... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Mediterranean has been the cradle of European culture and the driving force behind it for millennia and, therefore, I very much welcome this joint approach. However, the Mediterranean region is also a bridge for almost unrestricted immigration into the EU. In our opinion, one of the most important pr... | null |
Raffaele Baldassarre | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, despite the creation of the Union and the holding of the summit of Heads of State or Government, we still lack a clear definition of EU Mediterranean policy and a long-term strategic vision for the development and stabilisation of the region. Yet the Mediterranean has ... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will leave aside the most pertinent question this morning, and that is: how on earth are European taxpayers going to pay for all of the apparatus and secretariat that has been talked about and proposed in this House this morning? I want to give my view that there is no doubt that stability in the Medite... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it was indeed a good and inspiring discussion. I agree with those who say that we lost a lot of time, particularly in building a secretariat. I shall come to that in a second. We are still facing some very important questions: how to make sure that whatever is going on around the Middle East process does ... | null |
Vincent Peillon | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to make three brief comments. Firstly, we have not been lacking in respect for anyone, especially not people who might be victims, but we considered that compassion, moral indignation and insults do not add up to a policy. Secondly, we have not, of course, ignored the conflicts... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place today at 12.00. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and Eastern Partnership are two cooperation initiatives intended to consolidate the European Union’s neighbourhood policy. I believe that the European Parliament needs to monitor developments with these initiatives closely, particularly at the present juncture when global geopolit... | null |
Erminia Mazzoni | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Barcelona Process stalled for political reasons, first and foremost, because of the regional conflicts in the Mediterranean area, but technically, it is still alive, as shown by the major integration projects that the Union is supporting with its own funding and by the progress made in defining the institutional s... | null |
Tokia Saïfi | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This report on the Union for the Mediterranean marks the interest and investment of the European Parliament in dialogue between the two sides of the Mediterranean. The inauguration of the seat of the UfM in Barcelona and the designation of its first Secretary-General are a vital step in specifying the projects to be i... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Union for the Mediterranean (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Union for the Mediterranean, which was founded almost two years ago on the basis of the Barcelona Process and under the leadership of France, still faces many challenges. The political dialogue between the EU and its southern neighbours is not restricted simply to the subjects of migration and economic agreements.... | null |
Evgeni Kirilov | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs and all the colleagues who contributed to the elaboration of this important report which outlines the need for an EU strategy towards the South Caucasus region. The South Caucasus is not only a region in the immediate neighbourhood of the Union – ... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am pleased to participate in this exchange of views with the European Parliament on the European Union’s relationship with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the three countries of the South Caucasus. I already had a very good discussion on the South Caucasus with the members of the Foreign Affairs Commit... | null |
Metin Kazak | N/A | N/A | en | bg | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as coordinator for the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I had the opportunity to present the opinion of the Committee on International Trade on the need for a European strategy for the South Caucasus. I know that this report is complex and sensitive in man... | null |
Anna Ibrisagic | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we will be voting today on a report on the need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus. This is a very important subject. Given the prevalent political situation in the region, it is crucial for the EU to play a more active political role. As shadow rapporteur for the Group of the European People’s Pa... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, firstly, I would like to thank Mr Kirilov very much for his comprehensive work, which, as has already been said, has made a valuable contribution to our strategy in this region. When I was in the region recently, in Tbilisi, someone from another country in the area said that regional cooperation was a co... | null |
Norica Nicolai | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As shadow rapporteur for the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I believe that this report provides an important starting point for a coherent approach to the Caucasus region and provides a quality benchmark for the reports which we will have in the future. For this reason, I wish to congratul... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, like the previous speakers, I would also like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Kirilov, for his good work and for the high quality of the report, which is extremely comprehensive. I would like to touch on a few points which have not yet been highlighted, but which are very important to me. It is, unfortunatel... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as the Kirilov report makes clear, the countries of the South Caucasus are strategically important to our Union, not least in terms of energy security, e.g. Caspian oil and gas production and transit through the countries of the region. Sadly, however, this region remains paralysed by frozen conflicts, th... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to congratulate Mr Kirilov on the excellent work he has carried out in a field full of difficulties, but also opportunities, such as that of relations between EU countries and the countries of the South Caucasus. Europe has embarked on an interesting Eastern Partner... | null |
Dimitar Stoyanov | MEP | NI | en | bg | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to begin by informing you, ladies and gentlemen, that the rapporteurs, Mr Kirilov and Mr Kazak, belong to parties which automatically vote in the Bulgarian National Assembly against acknowledging the Armenian genocide. Against this background, it is not strange that, as Mr Tannock also said ... | null |
Iuliu Winkler | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe that democratisation, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights are the cornerstones on which our future relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia have to be built. Cross-border cooperation at regional level in the South Caucasus will also increase this region’s potentia... | null |
Adrian Severin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the report by Mr Kirilov speaks about the need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus. Indeed, I believe a strategy is needed, but a strategy needs goals and goals pre-suppose a clear geopolitical identity. Perhaps we have to work on our geopolitical identity to define it better. What are our goals in ... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As permanent rapporteur of the European Parliament for Armenia, I should like to emphasise the need to define a clear and effective European Union strategy for the South Caucasus. We have great hopes for this region as we build a free and democratic Europe. To do this, we must very consistently support the countries o... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, on 9 May, President Buzek and 20 000 people celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Robert Schuman declaration here in Strasbourg. Against this background, I would like to say that the South Caucasus is faced with two alternatives. One is to become something like the Balkans before the First World War, bu... | null |
Justas Vincas Paleckis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to thank my colleague, Mr Evgeni Kirilov, for his thorough and very significant report. The European Union calls on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to do everything they can to ensure that these countries become stable, peaceful and really democratic states where human and minority rights are guaranteed a... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This is an important step for the European Parliament towards opening the door to nations which are obviously European, such as the Georgians and the Armenians. Frankly speaking, it is a step which certainly is overdue. It is a pity it did not happen two years ago, when Georgia became the object of Russian military in... | null |
Krzysztof Lisek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are undoubtedly European states, they are undoubtedly European nations. These states are members of the Council of Europe and take part in many international missions in cooperation with the countries of the European Union. The European Union must recognise the fundamental right of all ... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Bearing in mind the importance of the geopolitical situation of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in relation to the European Union, Turkey, as a European Union candidate country, Russia and Iran, it is necessary to devise a European Union strategy for the South Caucasus, focused on promoting economic growth, political ... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Georgia and Armenia, and this is stressed by the authors of the report, are dynamically and successfully implementing a European strategy, a neighbourhood policy strategy. We ought to respond to this, and we should, in every case, take account of the specific character of specific countries in the South Caucasus. This... | null |
Andrey Kovatchev | MEP | PPE | en | bg | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome Mr Kirilov’s report, which highlights the need for the European Union to play a more active role in the South Caucasus, a region of significant geopolitical importance. The positive development in the South Caucasus is of benefit to both the neighbouring Black Sea region, for which the European... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, there are eight requests to speak under the ‘catch the eye’ procedure. There is not time for everybody because we must proceed to the vote. I am, therefore, going to allow only six Members to speak. | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The report on the South Caucasus is a good report. I would like to stress that in the report, particular attention is drawn to the role of the European Union as a mediator and a promoter of values but, above all, as a promoter of cooperation between the countries of the region. The problems which we have to solve are,... | null |
Ioan Mircea Paşcu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, today we are debating a very important and well-drafted report on an important area close to the EU, the South Caucasus. The area motivates perfectly the general recommendations of the EU security strategy. It is strategically located; it allows for the transport of Caspian oil and gas towards the EU; and... | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I congratulate Mr Kirilov and Mr Kazak on their work. If our relations are seen purely through the prism of our need for oil and gas, we will exacerbate tensions and fail to achieve security in other senses. It is the need for peace and economic development in the South Caucasus which should drive our pol... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I, too, would like to congratulate Mr Kirilov and thank him for his cooperation in drafting the report. I wish to emphasise two points. The first one concerns the issue of democracy. Bernd Posselt was saying earlier that the countries in this region need to cooperate. These countries can cooperate if Azerbaijan, Georg... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in order to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russia for its supplies of energy, we should take natural gas from the Caspian basin through the South Caucasus to the EU. This will give the Caucasus a key role. This region is not only the world’s largest transit point for the trade in gas and oil. It is also t... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Armenian Government representatives yesterday warned me that the report on the need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus, in the section dealing with the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, includes formulations which do not conform to the official EU position as set out in the provisions of the declaration adopted by ... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the last speaker, Mr Paška, made a very important point. I would like to make three very short remarks. Firstly, I believe that we have a strategy, through the Eastern Partnership, to get these three countries closer to the European Union – and, in fact, they are saying ‘as close as it gets’. Secondly, I ... | null |
Evgeni Kirilov | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, once again, thank you very much for the comments and for the fruitful cooperation we had in the process. Thank you for all the comments and for the support I received from the majority of the colleagues who spoke. I would like to thank the INTA draftsperson, Mr Kazak, for the constructive ideas presented ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. We will now proceed to the vote. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In adopting this report, the European Parliament reaffirms the particular importance of the South Caucasus to the European Union, as well as the need to devise a strategy for this region. The three countries in the South Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, are part of both the Black Sea Synergy and the E... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The situation in the South Caucasus region needs especially now a proactive approach by the European Union with the Lisbon Treaty providing the EU with a mandate to become much more engaged and present in the region. The full-scale Russian military invasion of large parts of Georgian territory in August 2007 dramatical... | null |
Marek Siwiec | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The conflicts in the South Caucasus have reached a very dangerous ceiling, where we have got used to the idea that they are intractable conflicts. Whatever efforts are made – whether real or feigned – are only intended to create a certain kind of fog in the negotiations, which will certainly not lead to resolution of ... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It was about time to discuss a strategy for the Caucasus, and this strategy should not close its eyes to the unpleasant processes ongoing between Ukraine and Russia. The case concerns the prolonging of the lease of the Sevastopol naval base up to 2050. The statements by Russian leaders that the Black Sea fleet will nev... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, this morning, a meeting of the Conference of Presidents was held. We finished the conference 10 minutes ago. We discussed very thoroughly the questions of organising the vote on the resolutions on the Europe 2020 strategy. As you very well know, it is a strategy which is intended to bring our citi... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you for your statement. I should like to add that our Hungarian friends are in the same situation as our Polish friends in terms of floods. We therefore have the same thoughts for our Hungarian fellow citizens as for our Polish fellow citizens. (Applause) I endorse your presentation. In a crisis si... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Schulz would like to speak against the proposal. | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, at the beginning of his speech, Mr Daul referred to the difficult situation in Hungary. Many countries are currently experiencing problems. For example, the people of Slovakia have been hard hit by flooding. We have a strong feeling of solidarity with the citizens of all the countries affected by hardshi... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | I would also like to thank Mr Daul and Mr Schulz for calling attention to the fact that there are also floods, today, in other parts of Europe. You are absolutely right, and expressions of solidarity are due to all the affected countries and all the people of Europe who are today facing danger. | null |
Jan Březina | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the water flooding into Poland is flooding from the Czech Republic, where it caused enormous damage in the first stage of these floods. The Czech Republic is also part of the European Union. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Amendment of the agendaVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I was talking about this a moment ago, when I thanked Mr Daul and Mr Schulz. Thank you, too, Mr Březina, for drawing attention to this. We have disastrous floods. Thank you very much. | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am very pleased that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were mentioned in the report on delivering a single market to consumers and citizens. Paragraph 46 rightly states that access to finance is their greatest problem. That is correct, because it is still easier to secure financing of millions ... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Closer dialogue between universities and businesses will, in my opinion, contribute to economic growth. I am alarmed at the increasing unemployment among young people. The uncertain employment situation faced by young people often discourages them from starting a family or makes them want to postpone it excessively, a... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | ga | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of this report and it was the right thing to do. As regards nuclear energy in general, however, I would like to say that many citizens are confused by it, and in my own country, almost everyone is against nuclear energy due to the terrible disasters which occurred in Sellafield and in C... | null |
Sergej Kozlík | MEP | ALDE | en | sk | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Community provides financial assistance to Lithuania, Slovakia and Bulgaria to support their efforts towards fulfilling obligations connected with the withdrawal from operation of first-generation nuclear reactors. The financial assistance for operational withdrawals which was provided to Bulgaria up to 2... | null |
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