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Marielle De Sarnez | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the next Council will take place at a time of crisis which is worrying and destabilising our fellow citizens. Austerity plans are proliferating in a confused manner in the Member States, and those in charge are losing themselves in vain semantic quarrels. Well, we really have to get away from all this... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | On the order of business for tomorrow’s European Council meeting, place has been found once again for a discussion of the Commission’s Europe 2020 strategy. The Council will also give consideration to a competing project called ‘Europe 2030: Challenges and Opportunities’, prepared by the Reflection Group or the ‘group... | null |
Nikolaos Chountis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Barroso, Mr López Garrido, I have listened to you yesterday and today babbling on about smart and sustainable development. Mr López, I have listened to you talk about an historic step. I get the impression that you have lost your sense of European social reality or that you are consciously indiffer... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at the risk of becoming tiresome, I would like, with all due respect, to come back to the proposal I made yesterday about a new economic development initiative, European Mega-Projects, separate from the major trans-European networks and separate from PPP projects. Would you consider the question of is... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the agenda talks of a new strategy for jobs and growth – by which they mean loss of jobs and negative growth! GDP fell by 4% in 2009, and 10% of the workforce – 23 million people – are unemployed. What will be the European Council’s remedy? More immigration! Look at the European pact on asylum and immi... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to compliment the Commission on the proposals it has presented – those of Commissioners Rehn and Barnier – and the direction it has chosen, as the financial markets are still putting the European Union’s decisiveness to the test. To the Council, I would say that Parliament will be challe... | null |
Udo Bullmann | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr López Garrido, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask you to pass on a message to the other members of the Council. The time for the policy of excuses is over. It is important that you do not decide tomorrow that Parliament should adopt the supervisory package and the hedge funds package more quick... | null |
Adina-Ioana Vălean | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at this stage we can agree that the intergovernmental method has shown its limits. We must be more ambitious and courageous and set up real joint economic governance. Economic coordination – in order to achieve an economic pillar alongside a monetary one – and, ultimately, a genuine economic union are ... | null |
Zbigniew Ziobro | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the free market is something which is of great value. When there are insufficient regulations to guarantee its proper functioning, and there are no institutions which safeguard these regulations, a problem arises and a crisis inevitably follows. This can be seen clearly, today, in Europe. It can also ... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are debating the way out of the relatively complex economic and financial situation in Europe. We are looking for culprits in the banks and rating agencies. I am not saying that they did not contribute to our current problem, but let us take a look at ourselves – whether we have not contributed to this situation th... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Barroso, Minister, there is an important person missing today: Mr Van Rompuy. We are not preparing for a meeting of the Council; we are preparing for a meeting of the European Council. I will never get used to the fact that it is the Council. This is nothing against you, Minister; the fact is that ... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this is an important debate preparing for the European Council and participation in the G20 in Toronto, with a very ambitious agenda involving recovering from the crisis, the specific agenda for the G20 on economic governance of globalisation, and the response to the Millennium Development Goals and c... | null |
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the meeting of the European Union Council is taking place at a crucial moment and is of fundamental significance. We need profound reform of the system of governance at the level of a Union of 27 Member States, and not only at the level of the 16 members of the euro area. We are united by much more th... | null |
David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the crisis is deep and Europeans are asking us for one thing: to put politics back in charge of the economy. This is the responsibility that we must take on by revitalising the Community method, safeguarding our currency and promoting measures to protect our citizens and provide ... | null |
Paulo Rangel | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, first of all, along the lines of what Mr Daul and Mr Langen have said, I would like to say that it is essential to have economic governance of the Union, but this economic governance must be centred in the Commission. That is the first point I would like to emphasise. That said, we cannot just focus o... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | This crisis is the result of too much liberalism and has put an end to the illusion that democracy and the market could solve all the world’s problems. The question that the next Council must answer is this: has the European Union done everything it should have done and at the right time? I hope the Council has the co... | null |
Marietta Giannakou | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the dilemma persists. While Europe needs strong governments in order to move forward, economic globalisation needs weak governments in order to get by. The 2020 strategy for employment and growth is certainly one instrument for investment in education, knowledge and excellence and, at the same time, f... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Two years after the outbreak of the crisis, economic growth has started, albeit slowly. The situation continues, however, to be extremely fragile. Dealing with the enormous state budget deficits and indebtedness of Member States demands extremely disciplined budgetary policies and savings everywhere. There is no room ... | null |
Ernst Strasser | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, many of the previous speakers have dealt with the issue of the financial and deficit crisis. I would like to talk about the Council’s conclusions on the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum. Mrs Reding and Mrs Malmström have proposed a broad package of measures in this area which deserves our suppo... | null |
Michael Cashman | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, can I just say in relation to migration flows that you will never solve the problem of migration flows or have a strong enough border unless you deal with the causes why people feel they have no option but to leave the countries in which they live, often in the most appalling circumstances. That is why... | null |
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we know that in times of crisis, various solutions are both possible and necessary at the family level. Those families, for example, whose income has fallen below their expenditure, that is, rather, whose income is falling below their expenditure, must reduce their expenditure. For those families, how... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am going to keep to my time limit and be very specific. I am going to tell the Council and the Commission exactly what they need to do in a week’s time if they want an agreement on the financial package. The major premise is that the future is looking brighter than it was a while ago, but there are ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to make three points. Firstly, the great majority of this Parliament and the Commission are united in stressing the enforcement of the Community method. I support this approach, but we should be aware that it is the Commission that has to perform economic governance, not necessarily the Co... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In addition to the question of international financial regulation, the agenda of the G20 summit will also include global climate change and, as a related matter, the carbon tax as well. The European Commission is itself devoting increasing attention to introducing this tax in the European Union, and the accident at th... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Barroso, Mr López Garrido, ladies and gentlemen, firstly, I would like to ask you to make a clear commitment to Europe as a community at the summit and to reject the proposals for a new intergovernmentalism, which come, in particular, from Germany and France. Secondly, I would like to call on the C... | null |
Jutta Steinruck | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, of course we need economic governance and, of course, the Member States must consolidate and restructure their budgets. However, what we are now seeing is a radical reduction in the social budget. Unemployment and poverty are increasing and people do not understand why banks and companies are receivin... | null |
Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at tomorrow’s meeting of the Council, I would urge the European leaders to agree to commence accession negotiations with Iceland. I am hopeful of a positive outcome and that Member States will not allow the Icesave issue to delay the beginning of the process. In July 2009, Iceland presented its applica... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the citizens of Europe expect the EU to have a strong international presence at the summit in Toronto and to come up with clear results, such as restrictions on derivative products and hedge funds, a bank levy for large banks based on the balance sheet total, for example, and clear limits on the exorb... | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, it seems to me that all Member States should be included in this process of combating the crisis, and the Community method, which we talk so much about, is of value here, and we should not be establishing new entities or new institutions. The European Commission has a full mandate to become the authority w... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Much has already been said in the debate today, so I will try to restrict myself to just a few issues, as I only have one minute. We all agree with regulations, we all agree that it is our duty to adopt proposals which should limit financial speculation and submit the financial sector to greater overall control. It is... | null |
Constance Le Grip | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Europe has often made progress as a result of the crises that have confronted it, and this is what has been happening very recently. That said, even if Europe was able to react – a little late, it is true – it is no less true that the sovereign debt crisis has brutally revealed the fact that we lack r... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council meeting scheduled for this month also intends to discuss the topic of Member States’ national objectives and their consistency with the EU 2020 objectives. The methods and directions which will be followed by states certainly play a crucial role in relation to the objectives, while the regions wil... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the European Commission’s efforts to establish an instrument to stabilise Europe’s financial situation, which would help both countries within and outside the euro area to overcome financial difficulties and also aims to reform the system of economic management. Practice has shown that monetary union alone d... | null |
Salvatore Iacolino | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the worsening of the budget situation of the majority of the Member States is plain for all to see, as is the rise in unemployment within the European Union. Indicators are pointing to a level of alarm that could result in social alarm. In April 2010, statistics indicated that th... | null |
Derek Vaughan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, creating jobs and growth is a noble aim. The question is how we achieve them. I fail to see how we can achieve them by cutting spending quickly and deeply. Unfortunately, it seems that many Member States, through political dogma, are intent on doing this. In the UK, despite lower debt and growth foreca... | null |
Antonio Cancian | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I was only too happy to follow this debate this morning. The crisis is pushing us towards decisions which, perhaps, seemed impossible in the past. I wanted, however, to put a question to Mr Barroso who spoke of growth, growth and more growth, and, of course, also to Mr López Garr... | null |
Diego López Garrido | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I thank Mr Barroso for his recognition and encouragement of the Spanish Presidency of the Council. I thank him very much for his kind words. I really must say – and I am not just saying this to return his praise – that the way that the Commission has worked has been extraordinarily significant, effici... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you Mr López Garrido. Indeed, it is we who would like to thank you very warmly. | null |
Olli Rehn | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, let me thank you first of all for a very substantive and responsible debate and for your draft resolutions on Europe 2020 and economic governance. I also want to thank you for your support for the work the Commission has been doing, especially in the fields of financial market reform and the reinforcem... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have received eight motions for resolutions(1)tabled in accordance with Rule 110(2) of the Rules of Procedure. The joint debate is closed. The vote will take place on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Faced by the deepening economic and social crisis – a bitter reproach hanging over the EU and the economic and social policies that it has been pursuing – the Commission and the European Council are showing signs of unprecedented shamelessness. In fact, the declared objectives of ‘recovering from the crisis’, ‘growth’... | null |
Louis Grech | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Before the final adoption of the EU 2020 strategy, the European Council should strengthen the structure of the EU 2020 and define a clear set of political priorities, realistic targets and deadlines that ensure the achievement of a green, knowledge-based, and social market economy in Europe by 2020. The new strategy sh... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Although the debate focused on the EU 2020 strategy and economic governance, the European Council will also most likely discuss Iceland’s application to join the EU. Bearing in mind the Commission’s view on Iceland’s EU accession (of 24 February 2010), as well as the report which I am drafting at the moment and which ... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council is again going to discuss the strategy for growth and jobs and the fight against the crisis – the EU 2020 strategy. These matters need to be discussed together, because they are related to each other in the short, medium and long term. It is a good idea to point out some of the causes of the diffi... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU is faced with the effects of the economic and financial crisis, along with the social impact of the rise in unemployment, climate change and demographic challenges. The demographic challenges and impact of the economic and financial crisis are jeopardising the sustainability of pension systems, thereby increasi... | null |
Iuliu Winkler | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Preparations for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) - Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU today is facing a crucial challenge: it has to make the choice between the approach based on the national interest, strongly promoted by some of the Member States, and the common aspiration that the EU should remain a major global player. The upcoming G20 summit should trigger a moment of reflection: if we want ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June). | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am delighted that we have a chance today to talk about the outcome of the last EU-Russia Summit in Rostov-on-Don. It was a good summit, it was pragmatic and constructive in character and it confirmed Russia’s desire for a stronger relationship with the European Union. At the summit, we launched the P... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you very much for your statement, Baroness Ashton, and also for the way in which the summit was organised. It has become clear, and this was said at the summit, that people are concerned about many of the developments in Russia relating to t... | null |
Adrian Severin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, EU-Russian relations have a strong strategic attribute, being characterised not only by our economic interest, but also by the objective of close cooperation in various international areas. Geographically, Russia is, and will remain, the European Union’s closest neighbour, and will continue to play a p... | null |
Kristiina Ojuland | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, the EU-Russia summit that took place in Rostov-on-Don raised hopes of a breakthrough in mutual relations, especially as regards economic cooperation and also, more widely, international cooperation with Russia. With respect to this, however, when developing relations, we think it is i... | null |
Werner Schulz | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have a poor resolution on an inconclusive summit between the EU and Russia on the table in front of us. In the light of President Medvedev’s efforts to modernise Russia, we must keep explaining to him that modernisation is not just a technical issue. Although we fully understa... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, given Russia’s physical proximity to the EU and its trillion-dollar economy and huge natural resources, particularly gas, the EU’s strategic relationship with Russia is of vital importance. My group acknowledges that Russia has a key role to play internationally as a permanent member of the UN Security... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | WelcomeVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of informing you that, within the framework of interparliamentary meetings, a delegation from the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China is on a working visit to the European Parliament for a few days on the occasion of the 29th EP-China interparliamentary... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | We shall resume the debate on the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June). | null |
Helmut Scholz | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, in the European Parliament, we frequently discuss the relationship between the European Union and the Russian Federation. I have signed Parliament’s joint motion for a resolution on behalf of my group, despite the limited nature of the statements relating to the results of the recent ... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Russia will be an extremely important strategic partner for the European Union, and it is therefore vital to reach a broad partnership and cooperation agreement. This agreement is a priority for our foreign policy because it would create the appropriate forum for comprehensive co... | null |
Jean-Marie Le Pen | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, I am pleased at the new dynamic that has been created by the launch of the partnership for modernisation, and I am pleased at its pragmatism. This new partnership, if nothing else, would at least have the benefit of emphasising the extent to which Russia is an inevitable geopolitical ... | null |
Ria Oomen-Ruijten | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Ashton, I should like to start by thanking the fellow Members who have cooperated with me to bring about a good, clear resolution. Our resolution contains many strong criticisms of the summit in Rostov-on-Don. Like some commentators, we attribute the paltry result to Russia’s... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, I would like to thank you for your clear and open report which demonstrated how important it is to enter into a partnership with Russia. I would like to see a strategic partnership developing. However, I must also say that Russia is a partner which unfortunately does not always comply... | null |
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, my group agrees with what Mr Swoboda has just said. We would like to have a strategic partnership with Russia. However, we are also of the opinion that we do not have a partnership of this kind, simply because it is not yet possible to develop one on the basis of the values which we c... | null |
Heidi Hautala | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fi | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would sincerely like to thank the High Representative who travelled to Rostov-on-Don and the whole of the EU’s Working Group on Human Rights. I am very pleased that you raised these issues, because, as you said, there are positive signs but also causes for concern. In my view, the European Parliamen... | null |
Jacek Olgierd Kurski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Moscow has realised that without modernisation and wide-ranging access to Western technology, it has no chance of approaching the European average in terms of development. The European Union should take advantage of this. However, this is not happening, as is testified by the rather poor result of the EU-Russia Summit... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ever since the time of Tsar Peter the Great, Russia and Europe have interpreted and applied the concept of modernisation differently: a material approach versus a more comprehensive interpretation involving both material and immaterial aspects. This became clear once more following the most recent EU-... | null |
Krzysztof Lisek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is very good that we are talking with Russia. We need to conduct a dialogue with Russia, and all sensible people will support this. The European Parliament, too, will support dialogue with Russia. Russia is changing, at least this is what we hope. We hope – as President Medvedev has said – that in Russia there will... | null |
Knut Fleckenstein | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, the EU-Russia Summit has produced reasonable results, in particular, as far as specifying the details of the Partnership for Modernisation is concerned. I very much welcome the fact that dialogue between the civil societies has been seen as a priority in this par... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Union’s relations with Russia have to be a two-way street. It is obvious that we are giving Russia essential know-how for technological development, while they have to guarantee us an improvement in the climate for EU business to invest there, as well as legal stability. I greatly regret that duri... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the importance of relations with Russia for the European Union is obvious: it is a powerful neighbour, a strategic economic and energy partner, and a permanent member of the Security Council. Russia now seems to be more peaceful and settled, thanks to the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the U... | null |
Kristian Vigenin | MEP | S&D | en | bg | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | I appreciate your efforts to call the Chamber to order, but it is not going to work. It is clear that the volume of noise is only going to rise. Madam Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative, I wish to thank you for appearing at this meeting before our Parliament. We followed the results with particul... | null |
Inese Vaidere | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, undeniably, we must continue and develop our cooperation with Russia, but the new European Union partnership agreement must be much more precise and legally binding. Cooperation in the area of modernisation must be bilateral and proportional. As the coordinator of the Subcommittee on Human Rights... | null |
Ioan Mircea Paşcu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, to my mind, in terms of results and consequences, the German-Russian Summit of 5 June 2010 could prove to be more substantive than the Rostov-on-Don EU-Russia Summit. Certainly, security matters, Transnistria included, should be discussed between the EU High Representative and the Russian Foreign Minis... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, many things were not achieved at the EU-Russia Summit. The Partnership for Modernisation which was agreed upon exists only on paper and it is unclear whether it is based on a partnership agreement or a cooperation agreement. Not to mention the fact that no timeframes and no specific projects were iden... | null |
Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I hope that those who want to listen to the conclusion of this debate are able to do so. I am going to just concentrate on the few key points that I think a number of honourable Members have raised and, to begin with, the relationship between the partnership for modernisation and the political cooperat... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have received six motions for resolutions(1)tabled in accordance with Rule 110(2) of the Rules of Procedure. The debate is closed. The vote will take place on 17 June 2010. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | The partnership for modernisation agreement signed during the summit held in Rostov-on-Don lays the foundations for better cooperation between the European Union and Russia in the areas of the economy and investments. This may give some impetus to continuing economic reforms and establishing democracy in Russia. On th... | null |
Cristian Silviu Buşoi | MEP | ALDE | en | ro | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the outcome of this EU-Russia Summit as I feel that things are heading in the right direction. Russia has adopted a more constructive attitude than in the past, while, on the EU side, Baroness Ashton and President Van Rompuy of the European Council have successfully represented the EU. However, I would like ... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Questions of energy security were less prominent on the agenda of the EU-Russia Summit that took place two weeks ago than had been the case in the past. This does not mean that there have been no developments worthy of mention in recent months. Not long ago, the question of the merger of the Russian Gazprom and the Uk... | null |
Sandra Kalniete | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | The development of relations between the European Union and Russia is hampered by those serious problems associated with the fundamental principle of democracy and adherence to human rights in Russia, the independence of the courts and the mass media from the political executive, repressive measures taken against repr... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Rostov Summit seems to lack any significant result. The modernisation programme looks like a nicely packaged substitute for the absence of substantial long-term cooperation. None of the official results addresses directly Russia’s notorious failure to apply the rule of law. True, President Van Rompuy raised the hum... | null |
Jiří Maštálka | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | The 25th summit between the Russian Federation and the European Union provides an opportunity to ask whether the regular rhythm of such meetings does not lead to them being undervalued and poorly prepared. I do not want to undermine the importance of meetings between top EU and Russian representatives in terms of deve... | null |
György Schöpflin | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | Russia still sees the West as primarily responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the chaos of the Yeltsin years. However, Russia faces a number of intractable problems, which ought to impel it towards the West, but Moscow’s dislike of the EU persists. First, Russia’s leaders have converted it into an energy... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the EU/Russia Summit (31 May - 1 June) (continuation of debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am astonished at the conformism of the compromise resolution on the conclusions of the EU-Russia Summit, which talks so little about the subject of human rights. I fear that this way of dealing with the problems regarding Russia brings nothing of use to future EU-Russia relations. Furthermore, France has sold a Mist... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | The next item is the vote. (For the results and other details on the vote: see Minutes) | null |
Robert Atkins | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not wish to delay the House long, but we have 43 pages of votes to take now. How much longer are we going to put up with the ridiculous state of affairs where this House cannot get its voting procedures in order? We were told we would start at 12 noon. It is now going to be 12.50. It will be a long t... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, I would just like to point out that the vote was scheduled to take place at 12.30. We are however running 20, but not 40 minutes late. I would also like to congratulate, on behalf of the whole House, Mr Fidanza, who recently got married. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We shall now proceed to the explanations of vote. | null |
Jarosław Kalinowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Baltic Sea is a European asset which we all share, so it is important to take steps which will allow us to protect it from ourselves. That may sound paradoxical, but some branches of the economy, such as industry, agriculture and fishing – if they are managed badly – can adversely affect the Baltic’s biosystems. T... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to Estonia on joining the euro area. I am pleased about every new member of the euro area, because a common currency is an important integrating factor. Nevertheless, I would like to remind the Commission at this point that there are stability criteria which mus... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have faith in the euro as a currency, and, of course, as the Estonian representative, I supported the adoption of the report and the adoption of the euro from next year. Our budget deficit is small and our public sector debt is one of the lowest in Europe. The government has made cuts wherever it can. The result – a... | null |
Laima Liucija Andrikienė | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of the report, and first of all I would like to congratulate Estonia on the decision by the European Parliament to allow its entry into the euro area on 1 January 2011. The euro has experienced some serious challenges today; however, Estonia’s entry into the euro area should be a clear m... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the drafting of the report we have adopted today has been a painful experience. As you know, last year we completed the analogous report on granting the Council discharge only in November. This shows that on the matter of supervision of the budgetary expenditure of this fundamental institution of the Uni... | null |
Ashley Fox | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am deeply concerned about the recent statement made by the European Council President claiming that Member States agree to submit their budgets to the Commission in advance of their national parliaments. This was simply incorrect and it was a clear attempt by Mr Van Rompuy to bounce Member States into a... | null |
Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted against this report, not because I do not believe in translation of criminal proceedings – it is, of course, very important that there is correct interpretation and translation in these proceedings. However, what this actually does is purport to add greater competence under the ECHR. The United Ki... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I and my colleagues in the UK Independence Party abstained on this vote, but not because we have any objection in principle to there being proper translation services for those finding themselves in foreign courts. But to vote for this would mean endorsing the Stockholm Programme and the harmonisation of ... | null |
Nicole Sinclaire | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted to reject this report and I am delighted that this Chamber has rejected it. I represent the West Midlands in the United Kingdom, one of the worst areas of unemployment in the United Kingdom. What people do in the West Midlands, as they do across the UK, is that we start small businesses; indeed mo... | null |
Clemente Mastella | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted in favour of this report since I think that European consumers have the right to know what is in the food they eat. The Commission proposal for the reformulation of the EU’s provisions on food labelling is clearly intended to meet the requirements of better lawmaking. Of cou... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, of course consumers have a right to know what foods contain. However, anyone who believes that the new labelling regulations will jolt Europe out of its complacency or that people will eat more healthily as a result is barking up the wrong tree. What we need is dietary advice and education, not only for ... | null |
Mario Pirillo | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted against the amendments in the Sommer report which introduce the so-called ‘traffic light’ system. I believe that indicating fats, salt, sugars, saturated fats and energy content by means of a simple system whereby they are associated with a value would not give consumers cor... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I had my hand up to speak in good time during the speech on the previous report too (by which I mean Mrs Bauer’s), and once I finish my contribution on Mrs Sommer’s report, then I will also talk about that. I also submitted a written request, so it was not my fault that I did not get a chance to speak. N... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-06-16T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I appreciated Mrs Bauer’s work. I am on this committee, and I saw how much effort she made and how much time she spent. In my opinion, there is no point in including the self-employed in this regulation, because the second regulation, namely number 51, will cover them, and in this respect, overregulation is not a posi... | null |
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