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David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, every one of us is influenced by the circumstances in which we live, and you too will have been told before coming here to Brussels: ‘remember that you have a big responsibility, that we have a big responsibility’, that of making your country better. We know that our c... | null |
Mário David | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Three or four weeks ago in Portugal, Prisa – a Spanish company that is a known supporter of the Socialist Party and majority shareholder of the television channel TVI – ordered the cancelling of the evening programme Jornal Nacional de Sexta-Feira. Mr Sassoli, I would like to ask you whether the Group of the Progressi... | null |
David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for your question, because it gives me the opportunity to explain myself. I did not have this opportunity in the time that was allocated to me. (The President asked the Members to allow the speaker to continue) As I was saying, I am glad you asked me the question because it gives me the opportunity to say th... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Colleagues, if there is going to be such a discussion in the chamber, I shall not give permission for blue-card questions. It is my decision. I am sorry, but we must be much calmer about the whole issue, otherwise the rule will be no blue cards. I do not want the sitting to be disturbed. Please behave properly. | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, is right to say that the European Parliament is not the place for settling disputes between political parties within Member States, or for opposing decisions taken by the national parliaments. The problem in Italy – and I believe that Mr Napolita... | null |
Cristiana Muscardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, just to follow up the statements made by Mr Sassoli – who stated in this House that the text that we are to vote on in Strasbourg will be changed – I think it is pointless to debate a text that the proponents themselves have already declared they will change. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mrs Muscardini, that was not really a procedural request, so I would ask that we observe the rules of procedure. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to give the floor to everyone who raises a blue card. I am entitled to do this, and we must move on with our discussion. | null |
Judith Sargentini | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, people may think that I will speak in Italian, and people might want to make this an Italian debate, but I am Dutch. I am a Dutch Member of this Parliament and I am very frustrated by the idea that we are talking here as if the issue were an internal Italian debate. The point is not the way that things ar... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, it is not only Italy which is a great and wonderful country. The representatives of 27 wonderful countries sit in the European Parliament – if I can just add to what Mr Sassoli has said. I think it is somewhat of a paradox that I, an anticommunist opposition activist, who never supposed he ... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of the press and of information is a fundamental and inalienable right, because it is part of human development. Moreover, it is, as you said, Mrs Reding, recognised by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights on pluralism and Article 51 of the Cha... | null |
Francesco Enrico Speroni | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Union is an area of freedom and of democracy: Italy is no exception, even where information is concerned. Were it not enough to consider the countless publications on sale in news-stands, or to see the wide range of television channels available, including local channels, one need only analy... | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we need a revolution in democracy. Mr President, would you be sitting here today if, in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, Italian conditions had paved the way for Belusconi-isation? What we are concurrently discovering, however, is that it is not only Italy that is a problem, but that a Belusconi-is... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the television images of this empty Chamber will be the best judge of the contrivance and the sham that is this debate. In fact, in 2004, a debate was held in this House on freedom of information in Italy. We passed a resolution in which the proponents declared themselves to be alarmed by the situation i... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to ask Mr Mauro something. In preparing this debate, I spoke with him a number of times. He was in my office yesterday, and we have a very, very cooperative relationship. That is why I feel able to ask the following questions without a surge of emotions. Can you imagine that the reason for t... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am most grateful to Mr Schulz. I would stress that, if there is one debate that we will not only not evade but would also happily take part in, so that we can also discuss the role played by Mr Murdoch, for example, it is the debate on media concentration in Europe. And, above all, of course, we want t... | null |
Claude Moraes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as expressed by Martin Schulz just now, from the perspective of the Socialist and Democrat Group, this is a debate which is not just about Italy. I, too, am not an Italian speaker. Our group feels that media pluralism is not just an Italian issue. All Member States are involved, and all Member States of t... | null |
Sonia Alfano | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to address the Commissioner, who maintained that it is not the job of this Parliament to resolve certain issues. I would point out, however, that it is the job of this Parliament to ensure that the Treaty and the Member States’ constitutions are respected. ... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in my opinion, freedom of the press in a country can only be properly assessed by considering every aspect of the question. This should include a thorough analysis of the markets, including the advertising markets, and of the habits of the population, like the average time spent watching TV, distribution ... | null |
Potito Salatto | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have held up my card three times now, and you have not given me the floor, whereas you have given it to Mr Schulz. I shall therefore now address my question to the speaker and to all those who have taken the floor, irrespective of their political group: have they enquired as to whether the centre-left ... | null |
Indrek Tarand | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That is an interesting question. It takes historical research: have the centre-left governments done anything about it? In my speech, I pointed out that the centre-left party is doing the same as Mr Berlusconi is doing in Italy, so the debate is about Europe, about freedom of speech and about threats to freedom of spee... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to inform Mr Salatto that unfortunately, I cannot give the floor to everyone who wishes to put a blue-card question. It would make the debate overrun. I am sorry. | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning I really heard everything being thrown at the Italian Prime Minister except for the fact that, thanks to his entrepreneurial activities, he provides jobs for tens of thousands of people. Excuse me if that seems a negligible factor at a time like this. Those who maintain... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I see that, fortunately, I am not the only one who very much questions this rather absurd initiative, the apparent purpose of which is to brand Italy a country where freedom of information is fundamentally under threat. Evidently, the socialists have quite a few problems with there being at least one Eur... | null |
Manfred Weber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the light of Mr Mauro’s persuasive speech, suddenly even Mr Schulz has conceded that it would be a good thing for us to talk about Europe as a whole now. Alas, the title of today’s debate is Italy. I can absolutely see why many of you have no interest in talking about Europe as a... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Reding, this debate can have only one purpose: sending a powerful political message in favour of freedom of expression and its quality assurance check, which is pluralism of information. It is also important to send the message through Europe, and therefore at European level. I agree with those who h... | null |
Gianni Vattimo | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I will try to be brief. Italy is truly a champion of liberty, indeed of libertinage – so to speak – as one can infer from reading its newspapers, which Mr Berlusconi wants to gag, which he is suing because they reveal, among other things, his personal relationships, through which channel he also choos... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this has not been a thrilling day for the European Parliament; it has been wasted on a pointless debate, when we all know that there is no country in Europe that has more freedom of expression and of information than ours does. However, when the left governed Italy and a party such as mine, despite be... | null |
Carlo Casini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to rationalise an apparently ambiguous feeling that I have after this first stage of the debate, because I fully subscribe to the strong words spoken by my chairman, Mr Daul, but I also subscribe to the words of Mr Sassoli who should, by all rights, be a political op... | null |
Gianluca Susta | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, people who seek to label as anti-Italian, subversive and communist anyone who calls for a set of rules on communication and freedom of information that respects pluralism, and which is characterised by a clear separation between the fortunes of those who assume important institut... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like quickly to point out that the subject of this debate – and the speeches by Mrs Reding and Mr Daul have clearly shown this – is our idea of Europe. It is not a Member State that we are targeting; it is the question of knowing whether we are applying the treaties, whether we are applying th... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is strange that, when we talk in this House about freedom of expression in Italy, we continually exceed the speaking time, and thus indirectly censor the next speaker. I shall therefore try to keep strictly to the speaking time allocated to me. I have to say that I would consider it far more approp... | null |
Simon Busuttil | MEP | PPE | en | mt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I do not blame anyone who is following this debate for thinking that this is not the European Parliament, but the Italian Parliament. Yet this is not the Italian Parliament and therefore it is not the right place to carry out these essentially national political debates. We are all aware of the Italian Prime Minister’... | null |
Maria Badia i Cutchet | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the European Union has a duty to guarantee the pluralism of the media. The debate on freedom of the press concerns the pluralism of ownership of communication media, their structure and procedures for the appointment of their heads, relations between politics, business and the media themselves, and ac... | null |
Sarah Ludford | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is surely not a coincidence that last week, the British Conservatives won the support of Rupert Murdoch and yesterday they voted to suppress this debate on press freedom. While the new ex-Communist Member States have made great progress towards a free press, the media domination enjoyed by Silvio Be... | null |
Salvatore Iacolino | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Italy Article 21 of the Constitution and Article 3 of Law No 102 of 2004 define the scope of press freedom and set its limits: the press must be objective, thorough, fair and impartial, always safeguarding human dignity, in line with the principles laid down by t... | null |
Rita Borsellino | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is not my intention, nor that of my group – which supported and wanted this debate – to transfer Italian internal political diatribes to the European domain. The issue of freedom of information concerns us all: it concerns the European Union, which can and must r... | null |
Sophia in 't Veld | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have to confess I was rather shocked by the statement of Commissioner Reding because, indeed, the Member States are primarily responsible for ensuring respect for democracy and fundamental rights. But you are wrong if you say that the EU has no role to play here. First of all, there is Article 6 of t... | null |
János Áder | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we heard Mr Verhofstadt telling us an hour ago that we must join together to protect the values of freedom, and I have to tell you that I agree with him. Freedom of speech is an important fundamental right. This has been the view voiced in the debate so far. I also agree and firm... | null |
Debora Serracchiani | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am aware that, on 30 September, the Commission presented a study on the indicators of media pluralism in the Member States. However, in 2008, this House adopted a report by Marianne Mikko in which the European Commission and the Member States were asked to safeguard, and I quot... | null |
Clemente Mastella | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the motion against the alleged attack on press freedom in Italy reflects the choice, I feel, of a politically oblique and unsound path. Moreover, some of the strong words, tinged with anger and a touch of hatred, seem to me to have clearly got out of hand. It is very strange, how... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, as a former journalist, I too never imagined that today, 50 years after we started building Europe and shortly before the Treaty of Lisbon enters into force, we would be debating certain basic principles and values on which the European Union has been built and founded. Values such as in... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, many of you will have read ‘The Trial’ by Kafka: it is a fictional work but it is what is happening today in my country, a country of great democratic traditions, with a government elected by the sovereign people, but in which an attempt is being made to undermine the democratic ... | null |
Cătălin Sorin Ivan | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Freedom of the press is never given adequate protection against abuse. Every time a State President or Prime Minister of a European Union Member State attacks journalists, even if only because they disagree with them, the European Commission, European Parliament and everyone of us must respond. In Italy a Prime Minist... | null |
Elisabetta Gardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to confirm that, in Italy, freedom of the press does exist and is stronger than ever. Those are the words of a great journalist, Giampaolo Pansa, who, for many years, for decades, was one of the most prestigious names writing for the newspaper La Repubblica, part of ... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2008, the Berlusconi Government granted a total of EUR 206 million in direct contributions to the press and to radio and television stations. As luck would have it, most of those millions went to the four main left-wing newspapers. Freedom of the press in Italy has, in the Ber... | null |
Victor Boştinaru | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this is not only a debate among Italians: this debate is, first and foremost, about Europe. Mr Berlusconi is certainly not the only example of someone breaching the basic regulations governing the mass media. Traian Băsescu frequently behaves in an aggressive, undemocratic mann... | null |
Cecilia Wikström | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a long time ago, the well-known Swedish writer August Strindberg said: ‘You have power, I have words, I have words in my power.’ However, this is not the case today for the writers and journalists in Italy who are systematically denied the right to express themselves freely. Over the last three years, 20... | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today’s debate really is incredible, because in Italy freedom of information is a guaranteed and recognised constitutional right. Others before me have provided information on the number and the political bias of the newspapers published in Italy. For the benefit of the non-Itali... | null |
Mary Honeyball | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I too would like to join the calls for a European directive on freedom of information, freedom of the press and media pluralism. Although this has been a debate about freedom of information in Italy, as other speakers have said, there are serious issues in other countries in the European Union. One of ... | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | mt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I come from Malta and therefore, as you can imagine, Italy is a neighbouring country we have been following for many years. In matters relating to freedom of expression, my country also looks to Italy because it is a clear example of democracy. Therefore, to delve into this internal issue, which is what the Italian so... | null |
Stanimir Ilchev | MEP | ALDE | en | bg | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Madam President. I will speak in the language of one of the countries criticised in this chamber today, Bulgaria. If I were a journalist in Bulgaria at the moment, as I once was, I would probably choose one of the two diametrically opposed statements made as a heading on the front page of any newspaper. One... | null |
Viviane Reding | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I think that this debate was very important because it made very clear that there is a strong agreement in this House, a strong agreement that the freedom of the press does not have an if or a when, it is the basis of our European Union. We have to defend it, it is a fundamental value, we have to speak... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, please accept my apologies on behalf of the House for the noise during your speech in response to the Members’ comments. | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, before I make my personal observations, I would like to start by raising a point of order. I do not believe that any member of the Commission or the Council, or even of this very House, should be expected to address the House in the conditions that Mrs Reding faced just now. It is just not acceptable!... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have just one more point to raise, which concerns the whole of Parliament: on Tuesday 18 September, upon leaving the European Parliament at 23.00, Mrs Niebler was brutally attacked; she was thrown to the floor. She had her telephone, her money, her credit cards and all her papers stolen. What is mor... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Daul, unfortunately, as you said, there have been episodes of this kind on numerous occasions, and therefore I obviously regard them as unacceptable. The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the second October part-session. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is extremely difficult for an MEP to see a democracy such as Italy have the finger pointed at it, as this debate is intended to do. Freedom of the press is a fundamental freedom enshrined in Article 21 of the Italian Constitution. In Italy, there are private and public newspapers reflecting all political tendencies... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Freedom of expression is enshrined among the democratic criteria which we have laid as the foundation of the European Union. Every Member State must assume its responsibility and comply with the Copenhagen criteria, including in the political domain. However, I believe that the European institutions must not be used, ... | null |
Tiziano Motti | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | To declare that freedom of information is denied in Italy is an instrumental and opportunistic offence against one of the West’s greatest democracies. Freedom of information is denied in those countries in which the dictatorial regimes prevent their subjects from expanding their knowledge of daily events by choosing w... | null |
Daciana Octavia Sârbu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Freedom of information in Italy (debate) Video of the speechesPV | ‘Freedom of the press is essential to a democratic society. To uphold and protect it, and to respect its diversity and its political, social and cultural missions, is the mandate of all governments.’ This is Article 1 of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press. Mr Berlusconi seems not only to be defying one of th... | null |
Jan Březina | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Czech Republic was among those initiating the submission of the draft Council Framework Decision on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings, and this shows that the Czech Republic attaches considerable importance to judicial cooperation. In view o... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted against this report, but not because I oppose the exchange of information between national authorities on criminal proceedings. It is a good idea to find out whether there are parallel ongoing proceedings for the same facts in other Member States. What I do strongly oppose, however, is the fed... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted for the resolution. I am glad to see that both Europe and the most powerful countries do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation we are all in and are not looking for a ‘one size fits all’ approach. The crisis has been caused by a number of complex and interrelated factors, and there... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, we propose very seriously to exacerbate it. The cause of the financial crisis was excessive state intervention: first in the sense that interest rates were deliberately kept too low for too long, a political rather than a market decision – one in which all the central banks were complicit – and then in... | null |
Lena Ek | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I have two comments on the recent voting on the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. I regret, and I think it is deplorable, that there is so little on solving the climate crisis in this resolution and also in the material from the G20 Summit. There is also mention of the Tobin tax, which I think might be a new w... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I gave my support to this resolution as I believe that it is time for all the players to take their responsibilities and to fulfil their commitments to the developing countries. It is true that the global, economic and financial crisis has hit hard even the most developed economies, but we must not for... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I supported this report because I think that there is a need for a new paradigm in the world – a new paradigm in which we shift from completely money- and profit-centred decision making to human being- and community-centred decision making, and from the logic of competition to the logic of justice. I s... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of this resolution. The global financial and economic crisis has indeed affected all countries, but it has had a particularly devastating effect on the poorest. The crisis has negatively influenced all of their sources of financing, and they are unable to maintain what they have achieve... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, I voted for the resolution and also for the amendments to bring in the Tobin tax. This was on grounds of personal consistency, because back in 2002, when I was a member of the Basque Parliament, it adopted a resolution saying that we considered it necessary to tackle the phenomenon of international ca... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, may I congratulate you on the deft, adroit and sensitive way in which you have exercised the prerogatives of the Chair. For fifty years, European trade and agricultural polices have caused preventable poverty in the Third World. We have simultaneously excluded produce from countries where often agricul... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Madam President, the hypocrisy and inconsistency of this House continue to amaze me. On the one hand, this resolution rightly states that it is a shame that the best and most talented people are leaving developing countries, and that this brain drain is harmful to their economy. On the other, there is support across t... | null |
Edward Scicluna | MEP | S&D | en | mt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Much of the work that this Parliament and other governments carry out in this field is in the form of ‘fire fighting’. Prevention efforts are made in the light of climate change. However, we also need to work on underdevelopment as a form of prevention. Many of the immigration problems that we face are not political b... | null |
Elena Oana Antonescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the request made by Italy for aid in relation to accessing the European Union Solidarity Fund for rebuilding the Abruzzo region, extensively destroyed by the earthquake in April 2009, based on humanitarian considerations for a country in trouble. Bearing in mind the reason why this instrument exis... | null |
Louis Bontes, Barry Madlener and Laurence J.A.J. Stassen | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) is in favour of emergency assistance, but it is for the individual Member States, not the European Union, to provide such assistance. | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In April 2009, an earthquake occurred in Italy that caused a great deal of damage. It is for this reason that the Commission proposed the mobilisation of the ESF in favour of Italy. The events that took place in Italy were tragic indeed. I am therefore in agreement that the mobilisation of the ESF is justified and have... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the Böge report on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund in favour of Italy because I believe that the European Union must respond, as quickly as possible, to the country’s request for help, in order to mitigate the tragic consequences of the earthquake that struck the Italian region of Ab... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As I have had the opportunity to say before, I believe that solidarity between Member States and, in particular, European support for countries that have been the victims of disasters, constitute a clear sign that the European Union is no longer just a free trade area. By adopting special aid instruments, such as the ... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The report approves the European Union Solidarity Fund in favour of Italy, following April’s earthquake, which claimed the lives of 300 people and caused very significant damage. It is estimated that the total direct damage caused by the earthquake is more than EUR 10 million, and has been classified, in accordance wi... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted today in favour of the Böge report on mobilising the Solidarity Fund for Italy. I welcome the fact that this report was included on the agenda, in spite of the difficulties. Parliament’s administrative body must anticipate in the future situations like the one we have today. Technical reasons cannot be used to... | null |
David Martin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of Amendment 7. I am pleased that services have been organised quickly to hold the vote, and I hope the funds required in Italy are made available as quickly as possible to provide speedy and effective assistance. | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I wish to congratulate Parliament on having blocked, at my request yesterday, the vote on mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund for the Abruzzo earthquake, which happened in April, causing very serious human and material loss. There was really no reason to postpone, even for only two weeks, a vote that has such a signif... | null |
Daciana Octavia Sârbu | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The effects of the Abruzzo earthquake were devastating and tragic, and the funding which we approved today cannot, of course, compensate for the terrible loss of life or the physical destruction of communities caused by this natural disaster. However, the funding from the EU Solidarity Fund will make a real difference ... | null |
Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In the face of a tragedy in which people have lost their loved ones and, in many cases, all of their possessions, and a beautiful town of great antiquity has been ruined, support for such a proposal is a gesture of plain decency. The EU Solidarity Fund is an example of effective, common EU action in a case when one of... | null |
Derek Vaughan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the positive vote releasing funding for the Abruzzo earthquake victims. Our reaction to natural disasters, such as the devastation we saw in Italy, must go beyond the realm of politics. Acting to help victims of this catastrophe rebuild their lives, homes and futures is surely something that any Member of thi... | null |
Elena Oana Antonescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Improving judicial cooperation in criminal proceedings between authorities which have parallel competences is a particularly important measure. If the actions which have led to an offence being committed fall under the jurisdiction of two or more Member States, the criminal proceedings must be conducted under the most... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for this report, as matters of conflicts of jurisdiction must be settled as effectively as possible by striving for consensus. We should be pleased that the ne bis in idem principle is ensured in the area of states’ courts. It is regrettable that the report does not lay down methods of settling conflicts of co... | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In a further globalised world and a situation in which there exist 27 Member States in the EU, the possibility of there being some conflict in jurisdiction is great and could cause difficulty. Hence, I have voted in the affirmative. | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I believe that it is essential to make criminal proceedings more efficient, while the correct administration of justice must be ensured. This framework decision will contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction, ensure that proceedings are started before the most appropriate jurisdiction, a... | null |
Göran Färm, Anna Hedh, Olle Ludvigsson and Marita Ulvskog | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We Swedish Social Democrats chose to abstain, as we believe that it is the Member States themselves that should decide which authorities should be considered competent in consultation procedures. We also believe that Eurojust’s involvement should be complementary and secondary in relation to the Member States and that... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Coordinated action by Member States on the prevention and resolution of conflicts in the exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings is essential for more effective justice when conducting proceedings of this type. Therefore, it is desirable to concentrate criminal proceedings that affect various jurisdictions in... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We voted against this report because of the strengthening of the role of Eurojust that it aims to establish. From a legal standpoint, the Council’s draft framework decision better safeguards the justice of the decisions taken, above all, because it clearly guarantees the ne bis in idem principle: that a person may not... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The ne bis in idem principle – where the same person cannot be tried twice for the same crime – is a fundamental principle of law within a democracy. I myself am a victim of a violation of this principle in France, as I am still being prosecuted by order of the government in an affair in which I have, nonetheless, bee... | null |
Ian Hudghton | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the Weber report on the prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings. Serious criminal activities have an increasingly cross-border nature and the EU has an important role to play in combating such activities. Clearer procedures for the exchange of info... | null |
Eva-Britt Svensson | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I decided to abstain on the final vote. Although, in the block vote, there are some good amendments on human rights (e.g. Amendments 6 and 15), there are also amendments which move Member State competences to Eurojust (e.g. Amendments 3, 9, 16, 17 and 18). I believe that these should remain with Member States. | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The creation of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis may prove to be essential for preparing the future of the EU. The experience of its members is essential for the pursuit of the tasks and proposals that will be presented by this Special Committee. I believe that the list of members inc... | null |
Regina Bastos | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am pleased with the agreements concluded at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. I am sure that they are a step in the right direction. The immediate priorities must be to ensure the robust and sustainable growth of the real economy, guarantee that the credit and capital markets are functioning well, support and promote em... | null |
Dominique Baudis | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The world is faced with a contradiction that will be difficult to resolve. On the one hand, the economic crisis and its social consequences require urgent measures to restore job-creating growth. That was the agenda of the G20 in Pittsburgh. On the other hand – and this will be the challenge for the Copenhagen confere... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union needs stricter financial market supervision, for which one institution would be accountable (G20). It is important to ensure long-term fiscal stability so that future generations do not have too great a burden and to create more jobs and protect people from the impact of the crisis. It is particular... | null |
Pascal Canfin | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Verts/ALE Group voted in favour of the resolution on the G20 for several reasons, among which: – by referring to the need to develop new indicators which go beyond GDP, the EP gives a clear signal that ‘economic recovery’ must not be based on a ‘business as usual approach’, which is in line with our request to deve... | null |
Maria da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-08T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The G20 has committed itself to reaching an agreement at the Copenhagen Summit and it is essential that the EU continues to play a leading role in the negotiations in order to establish a far-reaching, equitable agreement. The agreement in Copenhagen may drive economic growth, promoting clean technology, and ensuring ... | null |
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