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President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-17T00:00:00 | 2010 | A catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna (thunnus thynnus) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place in a few moments, at 12.00. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Nessa Childers | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-17T00:00:00 | 2010 | A catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna (thunnus thynnus) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As we are all aware, the over-fishing of Bluefin tuna continues to occur despite repeated warnings from international bodies as to the perilous condition of their stocks. Two years ago, scientists at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) recommended an annual fishing quota of 15 000... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to give you some brief information. This morning, I returned from a two-day official visit to Russia. It was the first visit to this country by a President of the European Parliament for 12 years. In Moscow, I met President Medvedev, the Speaker of the Duma, Boris Gryzlov, the Speaker of the Federation Cou... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission: Conclusions of the European Council meeting held on 17 June 2010. | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this was the first meeting of the European Council since I became its President that was not dominated by immediate urgency. It was a normal meeting and the decisions we took were of considerable significance, not least in terms of dealing with the ongoing economic situation and looking beyond the crisis ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, only a week ago, we met in Strasbourg to prepare for the European Council and the G20 summit in Toronto. In front of this House, I said that in the face of the current economic problems, growth is the answer and that this growth has to be smart, sustainable, inclusive, that it must build on fiscal consoli... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Barroso, President Van Rompuy, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) is pleased that, during your tenancy, the European Council has made important progress towards the necessary improvement of European economic governance and common engagement within the G20. After all,... | null |
Marita Ulvskog | MEP | S&D | en | sv | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a full 14 000 barrels of oil a day are currently gushing out straight into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil is now spreading along the beaches of the US. It is approaching the beaches of Mexico. In northern Europe, there are people who are concerned that the Loop Current off the coast of Florida will carry th... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, let me first say that it goes without saying that the Member States of the Union have to play an important role, a vital role, in the economic strategy of the Union and of the eurozone in the coming years. But the most important question today is another one; namely, who will carry out the control and who... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to say that I was rather disturbed to hear you emphasising how normal last week’s summit was. This is simply a continuation of the misguided approach taken last week. We should not pretend to ourselves that we have achieved a state of normal... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Council rightly focused on the reform of Europe, something which my group is dedicated to, but I first want to say something about Iran. Iran ought rightfully to be one of the most respected powers in the Middle East. It has a long history and a talented and innovative people and we would muc... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the results of the meeting of the European Council on Thursday of last week must be measured against the global and European challenges that we are facing. Will it be possible to eliminate the causes of the unprecedented crisis in European financial markets at the beginning of May or at least to start ta... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Van Rompuy for his speech. I think it gave us a great insight as to why so much is failing inside the European Union today. Mr Van Rompuy, you said the summit had happened, that the euro crisis had gone away, that we had stepped back from the edge of the precipice, and then you g... | null |
Barry Madlener | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to start by expressing my pleasure at the result of the elections in the Netherlands, in which my party, the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), increased its number of seats from nine to twenty four. We have therefore followed our success in the European elections with a splendid victory in the... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have been listening very closely to my fellow Member claiming that this Parliament is no parliament at all, but rather a ‘pseudo-parliament’. I wonder, then, what he is doing here and who is paying his salary? | null |
Barry Madlener | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I can give a very clear answer to that. What we are doing here is doing battle with people like you and making sure that the European public hears the truth about this money-wasting Parliament. We are bent on putting a stop to your constant desire for enlargement. That is why we won the elections, and ne... | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not have a major problem with certain types of criticism. I have a problem with the general approach, and I will explain what I mean. When I was here in February, when we discussed the results of the first informal European Council, there were significant doubts over whether we... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, regarding the specific question that was put to me in terms of the financial supervision package: this financial supervision is indeed a flagship of European reform because the whole set of new arrangements depends on the new architecture. For instance, we have proposed that the credit rating agencies can... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, we are not looking today at the events of the last few months. We must keep to the subject in hand. We are considering the results of the Council meeting. What sort of an era are we living in? I expected to see a little more self-criticism today with regard to our actual weaknesses and mor... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Van Rompuy, fortunately, the 2020 strategy has kept the objective of poverty reduction. Our concern is that the budgetary consolidation strategies may go far too far in certain areas and may weaken the foundations of poverty reduction by undermining public service funding methods, which ar... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Van Rompuy, you have no doubt all heard the absolutely outrageous words of BP’s CEO, who said: ‘I would like my life back’. Now I get the impression that at the moment in the European Council, there are governments which would like to act as if there had never been a crisis and which would... | null |
Edvard Kožušník | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Van Rompuy, Commission President Barroso, I am a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. We have seen Professor Monti, who you asked to draw up the so-called Monti report, several times in the Committee. I personally said that the report was very ‘sexy’, but I had serious doubts as t... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Firstly, with regard to fees applicable to banks and financial transactions, I must say that I would prefer there to be less talk and much more bargaining power, as we have already seen what the result of the G20 will be: we will be pioneers, but without any results. Secondly, I would like to say something about the e... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In the introduction, item 11 of the conclusions of the European Council talks about taking account of the specific situation of euro area countries in reinforcing preventative instruments for achieving the objectives of the Growth and Stability Pact. These instruments include the new European stabilisation mechanism. ... | null |
Nick Griffin | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the EU’s strategy for jobs sounds good, but the reality behind the scenes is very different. To take just one shocking example, the forthcoming trade agreement between the EU and India will have a devastating impact on Indian agriculture and pharmaceuticals. Indians are rightly worried by this threat to t... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to talk about financial supervision, which is the only real tangible manifestation of this ethereal idea that we call economic governance, and I must say that we are in a real ceremony of confusion. Just this morning, the rotating President of the Union declared that we are close to an agree... | null |
Michael Cashman | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have ninety seconds and it is not a great deal of time, but I want you and the House to reflect on this. I speak as the rapporteur on the mid-term review of Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations estimates that in ninety seconds, by the time I sit down, 45 people will have died in the developi... | null |
Sharon Bowles | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if I may address President Van Rompuy of the European Council, I am pleased to see you here and, as Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, I must say I would rather like to see more of you in committee, in your task force role, because when you come up with ideas, any multilateral survei... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President of the Council, it is an honour and a joy to see you. May I say that your sober approach to issues at this time has been valuable. The last Council in Germany accepted that the Union needs some form of economic governance; however, it refused to accept France’s reasonable proposal that this governance sho... | null |
Martin Ehrenhauser | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to make a few brief comments on fundamental issues relating to the Europe 2020 strategy. We can definitely say that progress is being made when the efforts to promote growth are linked with the goal of sustainability. However, what we must not forget is that this does not solve the basic pro... | null |
Danuta Maria Hübner | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, fiscal and financial reforms – pivotal as they are – are not a substitute for structural change and competitive growth policies. That is why, firstly, I would like to address briefly the role of cohesion policy in the delivery mechanism of the EU 2020. In its conclusions, the Council sent us a clear messa... | null |
Ramón Jáuregui Atondo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Barroso, I agree with you on something that I think must be said, that, at last Thursday’s meeting, the European Council did take some very important decisions that were unthinkable only four months ago. I think that we have to have the courage to say this. I think that, as has always b... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to begin by welcoming the decision made by the European Council last week to give the green light to initiating negotiations with Iceland. In fact, a huge majority in Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs voted today in favour of my report on Iceland’s application to join the European Union. My fellow... | null |
Stavros Lambrinidis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, since the euro was introduced, the economies of the North and of the South have diverged instead of converging. The main reason is that they were very differently structured. The South was based on services, on the agricultural sector and on tourism, while the North was based on heavy industry and export... | null |
Íñigo Méndez de Vigo | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, when you attended a meeting of the European Economic and Social Committee, Mr Van Rompuy, you used a beautiful image. You said that in the economic and financial crisis, we had wanted to build life rafts during the voyage. This was indeed the case, as the Economic and Financial Affairs Council that prece... | null |
Catherine Trautmann | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Van Rompuy, you told us earlier that Europeans must be firm and united if they are to succeed at the G20, and that the European Union’s credibility on the international stage is at stake. However, what is at stake, above all, is the Union’s credibility in the eyes of its citizens, who expe... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, it is often said that necessity knows no law. Faced with the crisis, one obvious fact, rather, one necessity has become inevitable, that of innovating and being creative. In this respect, I am delighted with the step taken by the European Council, a step that I hope will eventually be a le... | null |
Gianluca Susta | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, ladies and gentlemen, as I am one of the last people to speak, I would like to offer you some words of comfort. In my opinion, you were right to point out here that you do not represent the governments, but Europe and the European Union itself: an affirmation that is obvious, though not fo... | null |
Gunnar Hökmark | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think we can all welcome the conclusions and goals set by the European Council. I have three points that I would like to comment on. The first one is about the euro. I think if we enforce what has been set up with ‘foreseeable and automatic sanctions’ for those who are not following the rules, then we w... | null |
Paweł Zalewski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the recent crisis in Europe has shown what a big problem it is that, despite the Treaty of Lisbon, Europe is not sufficiently integrated in the area of economic governance. Europe is, however, a whole – a problem for one, two or three countries is a problem for all of Europe. Therefore, it is good that t... | null |
Jutta Steinruck | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Van Rompuy, it is important that we all work together to promote growth and employment and attempt to eliminate the causes of the crisis. However, our goal must be to learn from our previous mistakes and not to make those mistakes again. One subject which we must not lose sight of and whic... | null |
Isabelle Durant | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I obviously wanted to address Mr Van Rompuy, who has just left. Nevertheless, I wanted to point out to him, and point out to everyone, that if he is asking us not to make caricatures, then I would suggest that he does not succumb to them either, because some of us here are, without doubt, his best allies... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I listened closely to the speeches by Mr Van Rompuy and Mr Barroso, and they both said that they hope to collaborate as closely as possible with Parliament given the challenges ahead: governance, financial and banking regulations and the Europe 2020 strategy. It is also a good thing... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Council, Mr Van Rompuy, used a term in his speech, namely ‘gradual’, which describes, perhaps better than any other, the efforts being made at this time. Gradual means that the degree of Member States’ goodwill is not identical; gradual means that the positive t... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, some of the people who asked me these questions are no longer here. Anyway, I will respond. First of all, regarding the role of the European Parliament in the Europe 2020 strategy. That has been a concern of many of you, including Corien Wortmann-Kool who has been a very important leader in this Parliamen... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the Council’s decision to approve the EU 2020 strategy in the form put forward by the Commission. This new European strategy for employment and economic growth will have a key role to play in refocusing recovery policies. It will support the introduction of medium- and long-term reforms, including the reform... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I agree that the new European Union strategy for economic growth and job creation adopted last week at the meeting of the European Council will help Europe recover after the crisis and become stronger at EU and international level, by increasing competitiveness, productivity and social cohesion. However, it is most re... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Besides what we already knew from the written account of the Council’s conclusions on 17 June, what the President of the Council has mentioned here demonstrates that they want to use the crisis to take a leap towards federalism as a tool for achieving the objective of strengthening capitalism, as part of an imperialis... | null |
Cătălin Sorin Ivan | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU system of economic governance was the main topic of today’s debate with the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. There is support within Parliament and the Commission for the implementation of more reliable measures guaranteeing the security of the European economic zone. The only unknown facto... | null |
Sandra Kalniete | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The current financial crisis has demonstrated that without sufficient regulation, the activities of the financial sector can have serious consequences. I strongly support the decision taken at the European Council to introduce a system of taxation and supervision of financial institutions designed to induce them to li... | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I wish to make two comments on the summit’s agenda. One key theme is connected with policies since the Copenhagen meeting. The Commission has repeatedly proposed that switching from a 20% to a 30% reduction target would now be somewhat more favourable, because of the economic recession. This is very weird logic: the n... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU 2020 strategy is an important document in terms of the European Union’s development. We can consider the approval of the European targets as the starting point for implementing the strategy. However, we must not forget that we are in the midst of an economic and financial crisis. The continuation of this crisis... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The agreement reached last week is a step in the right direction. The initiatives undertaken by the individual States will be ineffective unless we have coordinated action at EU level. We need European economic governance, robust financial supervisory authorities, shared rules and initiatives in order to restore growt... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The 2020 strategy has been adopted. It leaves much to be desired, but its ambitious goals fill us with optimism. The effort and commitment of Member States will determine whether the new strategy will share the sad fate of the previous one or whether it will contribute to building a modern EU economy able to compete i... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council adopted five principal objectives for economic growth and employment on 17 June 2010: achieving a 75% employment rate among the population aged between 20 and 64; improvement in research and development conditions and the allocation of 3% of GDP to this sector; a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas em... | null |
Rafał Trzaskowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The crisis affecting Europe today has shown that no country can now manage on its own. Today, even the biggest economies in the European Union are ever more strongly declaring themselves in favour of strengthening EU mechanisms, and our efforts, too, should take us in this direction. However, there must be no talk of ... | null |
Wałęsa, Jarosław Leszek | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As we have seen, many different and important issues were addressed by the Council last week during the 17 June meeting. I would appreciate a moment of your time to concentrate on what was discussed concerning the Millennium Development Goals. Ten years ago, the European Union agreed to eradicate world poverty in all i... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-05T00:00:00 | 2010 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | To begin with, I have several comments and items of information. As you know, Europe has, once again, been struck by a flood disaster. This time, a flood in Romania has already taken the lives of at least 25 people, and thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes. Four European Union countries have alre... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The first item is the statements by the Council and the Commission: Review of the Spanish Presidency. I would like to give a warm welcome to Mr Zapatero, who will speak on behalf of the Council. Mr Zapatero, you have the floor. | null |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am attending this debate to report to you and to take stock of what the Spanish rotating Presidency has accomplished in these six months. When I attended at the beginning of this term, I explained to you that I had two main objectives during this political period. The first of the... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members… Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Spanish Presidency and the last six months have been a very special time for the European Union. Firstly, it has been a period of profound transition, with the recent entry into force of a new treaty, which has given new powers to this Parliame... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Presidents, Prime Minister, the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union has attempted to find a place for itself in a new institutional context, between the new President of the Council and High Representative and the European Parliament’s increased power as a European colegislator in its own right. At... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall begin with a personal, albeit very important, observation. Mr Zapatero, political logic dictates that I should be glad when Angela Merkel is sad, and that I should normally share in your gladness. Tomorrow evening, however, the reverse will be the case, for Mrs Merkel and I ... | null |
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if football does not count, I, too, shall now make a footballing analogy. The Spanish Presidency seems to me a little like Fernando Torres’s World Cup. It began with high expectations, but hitherto, it has been a rather disappointing tournament. I hope in all honesty that as far as Fernando Torres is con... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I shall make no remarks about football. I know you are all too clever for that. I shall only say it is a pity that Ghana has been eliminated. We can all agree on that, can we not? Good. The attitude in this House to the statements made today – namely, that we are all satisfied – surprises me. We have ind... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this Presidency took office at a critical time with much at stake. As the first rotating Presidency which would also chair the European Council and the General Affairs Council, it could have given shape to a new kind of Presidency, developing constructive relationships with the President and the High Repr... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, Mr Barroso, look, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, if there is no change to the underlying economic orientation of the Union, whoever holds the rotating Presidency is destined to dismantle the European social model. That is the plain truth. That is the reason for the general strikes in Greec... | null |
Marta Andreasen | MEP | ID | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to address Mr Zapatero. You have exercised the EU rotating Presidency in the same way you govern your country, Spain – that is, with your back to your citizens. Today, I am coming back here to remind you of the infamous Spanish land-grab, a matter which I first brought to your attention in J... | null |
Francisco Sosa Wagner | MEP | NI | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, you made an error in your approach. You thought that you were actually going to preside over Europe and have an influence on the gear-wheels that make the complex European machinery work. You came to believe this because that is what you let people around you announce, that the wor... | null |
Jaime Mayor Oreja | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, these first six months following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon required and merited a change in political attitude. If the economic and financial crisis has been a consequence of the move away from the ‘real’ economy and the disordered development of the ‘unreal’ eco... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, over 25 years, Spain has held the Presidency-in-Office of the European Union four times, and, as on the last three occasions, it did so this time with intensely pro-European dedication and responsibility. Above all, it did so with results. It has never held the Presidency in such a difficult context as n... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Rodríguez Zapatero, the crisis has forced us to take economic governance measures with regard to the financial supervision package, which collapsed yesterday, at half-past one in the morning, the creation of the rescue fund, the roll-out of the European External Action Service and the Europe 20... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have to tell you that this Presidency has failed us in a fundamental way as, instead of being committed to a Europe of peoples and citizens, as we had hoped, it has carried on being committed to a Europe of states and markets. We did not expect results – after all, it is not your fault in particular, b... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it seems to me that it is very difficult to evaluate a Presidency which set itself very ambitious objectives. Perhaps one of the problems of this Presidency was those ambitious objectives, and alongside this there was the fact that the Presidency came at the time when the Union’s institutional system was... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as things turned out over the last six months, the Spanish Presidency had little time left to perform its duties and we should perhaps not be overly critical. Nonetheless, in practical terms, I should like to point out two blatant omissions on the part of the Spanish Presidency. Firstly, you wasted a maj... | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish Presidency was half a year of missed opportunities. In January, Mr Zapatero came here like a bullfighter who wanted to bring the financial market to its knees, yet in the end, we found out that he had no sword for the task. The Spanish Presidency has left no enduring tr... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Langen, would you be so kind as to address the same criticism that you have directed to Mr Zapatero also to Chancellor Merkel? That would assist the inner coherence of your argument. (Applause) | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Schulz, we are not in the German Bundestag here, and neither are we in Germany. It is the Spanish Presidency that we are discussing. Mr Zapatero said he has accomplished everything in good faith. The reality is different. Naturally, I shall make this opinion clear to the French and German Governments; I have alread... | null |
Linda McAvan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Prime Minister Zapatero has had some difficult issues during Spain’s Presidency, and these are testing times for Europe, but I am pleased that he also kept focus on other pieces of legislation which are important to citizens – a breakthrough on cross-border health, agreement on organ donation and politica... | null |
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, in January, you said you were coming to relaunch the European Union, but it is Europe that has forced you to change your autarchic policy against the crisis. The situation with regard to the Spanish economy in 2010 is reminiscent of that in 1959. As then, the immobilism of the Span... | null |
Oriol Junqueras Vies | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, despite your promises of January this year, Spain has not led the way out of the crisis or shown leadership with regard to the European Union’s external influence. Specifically, what happened to the Euro-Mediterranean summit or the summit with the United States? When will Kosovo be... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Spain has been truly fantastic this year, President Zapatero, but not your Spain. Indeed, it is the Spain of Del Bosque, Casillas and Villa which has been fantastic this year and not the Spanish Presidency of the Union, which has, for too long, appeared completely remote and disinte... | null |
Jens Geier | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Zapatero, from the point of view of those in charge of budgetary control in this House, the Spanish Presidency has made history. We are grateful that this Presidency has succeeded in removing the discharge procedure for the Council from the sphere of obscurity. Previously, the Council has ... | null |
Luis de Grandes Pascual | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, I would have liked to have made a different speech today, believe me. You set out six months full of ambition, and set the bar so high with your claims that, when these are compared with what was actually achieved, disappointment was inevitable. What is certain is that you have not... | null |
Zita Gurmai | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, although the EU got its new legal framework by the end of 2009, it was the task of the Spanish Presidency to make Europe move and to make the framework work. The Spanish Presidency delivered what was expected concerning the most important institutional issues. We did not agree on everything but we began t... | null |
Jan Olbrycht | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Zapatero, evaluation of the Spanish Presidency is of particular importance to us because it is the first Presidency under the new Treaty of Lisbon, and this is important for us, for example the Poles, because we are preparing for the Polish Presidency. I would like to ask if the state of affairs which... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Spanish Presidency has coincided with a deep financial and credibility crisis in the Union. This crisis has hit the country holding the Presidency very hard. The deficit of trust in the EU economy and common currency is rooted in the huge debt burden, which is still looming large in the way of life: l... | null |
Joe Higgins | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the policies implemented by the EU institutions during the Spanish Presidency were disastrous for the working-class people of Europe. We saw an abject capitulation to the sharks in the financial markets, whereby predatory banks and hedge fund pirates were allowed to exercise more control over economic pol... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I believe that we must applaud the particular efforts made by the Spanish Presidency during this extremely difficult period. One important achievement is the creation of the European financial stabilisation mechanism, which envisages financial support being granted to states in exceptional circumstances, up to a limit... | null |
Glenis Willmott | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to congratulate Mr Zapatero on the many successes he has had during the Spanish Presidency. Earlier, we heard criticism about issues relating to Spanish property. It is true that this affects many thousands of Spanish citizens and ordinary people who have chosen to make Spain th... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Zapatero, the six-month Spanish Presidency came at a special time – a difficult and an experimental time. This was the first time a Presidency had operated after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which redefined and reassigned its competences. Against a background of political, economic an... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is common knowledge that the Spanish Presidency was highly problematic. Instead of seizing the bull by the horns in the traditional Spanish manner and pushing through the necessary new regulation of the financial markets and the rating agencies quickly and courageously, the Spanish Presidency took ref... | null |
Danuta Jazłowiecka | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we began this year full of fear because of the global crisis, but also full of hope, because of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. In January, the Prime Minister of Spain presented ambitious plans to be realised during his leadership. Unfortunately, not a great deal of this proved possible to ... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to congratulate Prime Minister Zapatero and the Spanish Presidency, as they were able to fully focus on Europe in spite of the difficult political and economic situation at home. On behalf of the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency, I would also like to thank the Prime Minister for implementing the ... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, firstly, I must say as a football fan I am delighted to see three European Union countries in the last four of the World Cup, and I can say without fear of contradiction that if my country, Ireland, were involved, we would be in the last four as well! Regarding the Spanish Presidency, I think that the dyn... | null |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | EU Council President | N/A | en | es | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank all of you, ladies and gentlemen, for the interest that you have shown in the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. This interest seemed to me to be more in line with a desire to be in or speak in the Spanish Parliament rather than the European Parliament during so... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | pt | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will be very brief. The questions were essentially directed at the Prime Minister of Spain, but I would just like to take this opportunity to reflect on a point of concern expressed by various honourable Members. I am thinking of my fellow Members, Mr Daul, Mr Schulz, and Mr Lambsdorff. It is an instit... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Barroso. Once again, I would like to thank the Spanish Presidency and Mr Zapatero. That completes this item. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Review of the Spanish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I note the work done by the Spanish Presidency, taking into account the particularly difficult circumstances which marked the first half of this year. Firstly, the Spanish Presidency’s mandate coincided with a period of transition to a new institutional structure as a result of the Treaty of Lisbon’s entry into force.... | null |
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