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Britta Reimers | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioners, I would like to congratulate Mr Cadec on his successful and balanced report. I would also like to thank him for his excellent cooperation. There are major challenges involved in regulating the import of fishery and aquaculture products into the EU. With a volume of 12 million tonnes and a ... | null |
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not have much time, so I would like just to underline one of the themes of Mr Cadec’s report. Fish should not be treated in the same way as other industrial products, but should come under the WTO trade rules which apply to sensitive products. EU trade policy pays little attention to the specific na... | null |
Catherine Trautmann | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to congratulate our fellow Member Mr Cadec on his excellent work. The text put to the vote today marks a certain change in the way our institution views the concept of free trade. Without being protectionist, the line defended here may be described as less naïve. We all agree that European p... | null |
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Europe is currently the biggest European market for fishery and aquaculture products, importing approximately 60% of fish consumed. Community production of fish is not and cannot in the near future be enough to satisfy the demand for these kinds of products, and importing them has become a ... | null |
Josefa Andrés Barea | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner Damanaki, Commissioner De Gucht, thank you for being here at this debate on a very important report on the import arrangements. Fishing is an important issue, in relation to which two essential issues need to be emphasised: the fact that we are not self-sufficient, and the fact that unfair c... | null |
Robert Atkins | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I rise again to suggest through you to the Conference of Presidents that someone needs to get their act together. We were told originally that there would be votes at 12.00. This has moved by five minutes every five minutes. People have planes to catch; it is inconvenient; it makes a mockery of Parliament... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We indicated that the votes would be postponed until 12.15 or 12.20, so please let us carry on with the answers from our Commissioners. I am sure that we will be able to vote at 12.20. | null |
Maria Damanaki | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I cannot get a grip, but what I can do is to be very brief. I would like to say that we are taking care of all the concerns mentioned by the Members. As Mr De Gucht and I have already mentioned, we are trying to find a balance. We need a viable fisheries sector and we have some obligations to the WTO and ... | null |
Alain Cadec | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I consider the behaviour of our fellow Members completely disrespectful and unacceptable in a Parliament such as ours. What you are doing here is scandalous. You make me feel ashamed. All you are worried about is voting and going home. We are working on an important report, so at least have the decency t... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-07-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate) Video of the speechesPV | By way of explanation, Mr De Gucht did not reply because of the noise in this room, so I would like to apologise to both our Commissioners for the noise. The debate is closed. The vote will take place shortly. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I declare the sitting open. The next item is the statement by the President of the European Commission on the state of the Union. As you remember, we talked yesterday about the problem of attendance at the most important plenary debates in Parliament. The Bureau considered this problem yesterday, and is of the same opi... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, it is a great privilege to deliver the first State of the Union address before this House. From now on, the State of the Union address will be the occasion when we will chart our work for the next 12 months. Many of the decisions we will take in the next year will have long-term implic... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President Barroso, thank you for your presentation on the State of the Union. | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Presidents of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the chairs and the presidents are happy this morning, and you have demonstrated that you can be present without penalty. Well, that is indeed democracy. Thank you to all of you. (Applause) What is the state of the European Union? What have we d... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the agenda item is entitled ‘Statement by the President of the Commission on the State of the Union’. Today, we have heard about a work programme, and an ambitious and committed one. We have heard little about a stocktake, about the actual state of the Union. What then is the state ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Schulz, for your speech. Now Mr Verhofstadt will speak on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the State of the Union means, first of all, looking back and learning the lessons of the past, and then looking to the future. Let us be honest with ourselves and say that last year was a very difficult year for the Union. It was a difficult year for the Union because there were big problems, but little u... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will do the same as Mr Verhofstadt: I will use all my speaking time at once. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that Mr Schulz and Mr Verhofstadt have pointed out the fundamental difficulty of our situation, and I regret that you have not had the clear-headedness or truthfulness to point it ... | null |
Michał Tomasz Kamiński | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I will begin with some good news for Mr Barroso, the kind of news on which he may even be congratulated. His appearance today has been valued higher than tickets to the next Sting concert in Prague, which cost less than EUR 150. However, I will begin with a story. Mr Barroso, in Poland there is a popular story which t... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, you have provided an impressive insight into the tasks of the various policy areas. Nevertheless, you, and all of us here, have to admit that the trust of European citizens is fading. Mr Verhofstadt has drawn our attention to this and so I will not address the matter in any more detail. These... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this grand occasion, Mr Barroso’s State of the Union speech, does not quite put him on a par with President Obama. There is one fundamental difference, Mr Barroso: President Obama is elected, and you are not. Forty-eight million people watched his address, and here in the European Parliament we even have ... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, perhaps I might also be permitted to use both of my speaking times together to speak for three minutes. The European project – if we are debating the state of the Union – seems to many people right across Europe to be in serious jeopardy in four respects. The prosperity and the social security of Europe ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have listened to you all very closely and with great interest. I have tried to see which, essentially, were the fundamental questions. In substance, I believe that, at least, the majority of this Parliament clearly wants more Europe, wants the Community method and wants more ambition. No specific criti... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will use my two minutes to try to go back to the questions and answer them. I will not make any personal attacks. You know me: I will not make them and I have never made them. First, regarding the budget and what we have agreed together, the vast majority of Parliament agrees that we need our own budge... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to make a brief comment with regard to the two points mentioned by Mr Daul. Firstly, we are agreed that we need our own resources. We are fighting together for these resources of our own, but because unanimity is required and because we probably will not get a unanimous decision, there will ... | null |
Michał Tomasz Kamiński | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, if you thought I was criticising you because you try to take account of the needs of every group, let me assure you that my statement was not meant as criticism. I value your diplomatic abilities in this area, and I think that maintaining a balance between the various Member States is even more difficult. ... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to come back to what Mr Barroso so rightly said against racism and xenophobia. However, in this regard, I would like to say that I am still not satisfied with the debate about the Roma, which we will, of course, continue this afternoon. There are side issues being debated that are extremely ... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the row over the Roma in France is, of course, caused directly by failing European Union policies. It was a huge mistake to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the European Union whilst there were millions of Roma in those countries being heavily discriminated against. It is no wonder that, now they are pa... | null |
Olivier Chastel | EU Council President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Presidency of the Council, I would also like to welcome the speech by the President of the Commission on the state of the Union. This important speech has come at the right time. It allows us to put all the European subjects back on the table following a... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, although the speeches by the group leaders this morning have differed greatly in tone, one thing is clear, and that is that many of the policy actions announced by the European Commission can count on broad support in this House, as all of us together advocate the Community method. Many more discussions ... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, since the international financial crisis and economic downturn, new divisions have emerged in the European Union. There are no longer any grounds for making distinctions between old and new Member States. President Barroso has not mentioned the reason why the gulf is beginning to deepen between the easte... | null |
Reinhard Bütikofer | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, you have presented us with a lot of fine words. I hear your words, but I ask myself: where is the action? The Roma, for example. It is not important to me that you criticise Mr Sarkozy in particularly strong terms. What I would like to know is, what are you going to do, what is the Commission... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as the President of the Commission acknowledges, belief that the EU is a good thing has fallen substantially, and many people believe their Member States have not benefited from membership. We should be worried, but I fear that the Commission is under pressure from those who believe that the solution to e... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, there can be no doubt that many governments spend the night taking apart what the Commission creates by day. It is therefore important for the Commission to add its own timely contribution to a correct interpretation of the principle of subsidiarity, so ... | null |
Catherine Trautmann | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the state of the Union for us today, in France, is that the citizens, the people, and also the streets are rumbling with discontent. Our fellow European citizens are experiencing an unprecedented crisis of confidence, and they have decided to march to the beat of refusal and demands, but also of hope. Wh... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, while I was listening to Mr Barroso’s speech, it was a speech about a work programme. I thought that perhaps it was a problem for the EU that no analysis of the state of the EU could be made within the EU. There were a lot of excellent objectives mentioned in the speech but nothing very concrete. I am th... | null |
Eleni Theocharous | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, sometimes you do see us, up here, at the top of the Himalayas. President of the Commission, your vision of a Europe of justice, freedom, democracy, prosperity and a high standard of modern political morals is very important. I wish I had time to analyse what Mr Kaminski said, but time is too short. This ... | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to say this to Mr Barroso: you are wrong. You cannot have sound proposals without analysis and retrospection. You are also wrong in that you cannot have both the fiscal consolidation that we are currently implementing and growth with jobs. We are failing to learn the lessons of history. The ... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should have liked to have heard Mr Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, also speak in this debate. In my view, the state of the Union should also reflect the institutional reality of the Union. Indeed, since the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, we have witnessed a kind of ‘presidentialis... | null |
Rui Tavares | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, there is no point in making speeches about the state of the Union if, at a time when one of the fundamental principles of the Union is under attack, the President of the Commission’s response is tepid, timid and weak. Mr Barroso, your first reference to what is happening to the Roma in France was more or l... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, if we were in Italy, we would have described your speech as ‘Christian Democrat’; in other words, designed to appeal to everyone. Are four million jobs available in Europe? If so, let us give them to our unemployed who, as you know, amount to tens of millions, to ... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso has spoken of sustainable growth. In fact, we have seen negative growth. He spoke of increasing the proportion of people in employment, whereas that proportion has fallen. He speaks of increasing the competitiveness of European goods and services. However, the EU, like each of its Member States... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Most Member States are facing deficit- and debt-related problems. Legislative proposals have been drawn up at European level. These proposals need to be finalised and implemented. Only a common financial policy and European economic governance can resolve the current situation. I hope that the new legislation will mak... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Your report set out a very ambitious and committed programme for the forthcoming period and the European Parliament will surely look forward with anticipation to the measures you mention in the report. A minute is a very short time, and I would like to say only that the European Parliament – the Members of the Europea... | null |
Glenis Willmott | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the President of the Commission talked about sustainable growth and a target of 75% employment across the EU, a goal we would all agree with. Yet across the EU, drastic cuts in public services are adding to the numbers of unemployed, taking money out of the economy and reducing essential services. How ... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, President of the Commission, you emphasised very strongly how important it is, with regard to the question of the Roma, to tread carefully and not to talk loudly and openly about what is happening in France. Mr Barroso, I expect you and your Commission to be much clearer on this matter. Of course, it ... | null |
Miloslav Ransdorf | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have a message for President Barroso. The Dakota Indian tribe have a saying: ‘If you are sitting on a dead horse, dismount.’ Your recommended 20-20-20 policy (the 20-20-20 targets) is just such a dead horse. Putting this saying into a European Union context, our behaviour is the opposite to that of these Indians. We... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, in your report on the state of the Union, you placed particular emphasis on the future economic management of Europe, perhaps because Europe is still not managing to keep pace with the dynamically developing economies of Asia and America. You see a way out of this difficult situation in the measures descri... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it has been an interesting debate. I should just like to point out, however, that there is a crisis of confidence, and perhaps the President of the Commission should acknowledge this very deeply. There is a crisis of confidence in democracy because the public believes that there has been a failure of e... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly, I must emphasise that many of the aspects that have now been brought into the debate are important ones in this context. We need a new dynamism. We must make a stand for the European Union, for our goals and for our values. The future begins today, not the day after tomorrow. Therefore, a goo... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Europe needs to convert its good intentions into actions, Mr Barroso. The role of the leadership provided by the permanent President of the Union must be acknowledged because he has played a decisive role in the agreement on financial supervision. This is the way forward for the Member States to agree... | null |
Malika Benarab-Attou | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, President Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, the situation imposed on the Roma – their expulsion and the denial of their right to free movement in Europe – is unacceptable and goes against European values. However, this situation is but the symptom of a more serious and more general problem. It is merely ... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly, I should like to welcome the Belgian Presidency of the Council and to commend it on its speech. I believe that Parliament’s aim in holding this debate on the state of the Union was also to launch our programming exercise. That is why we must also focus on legislative work. As you know, in Eur... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That concludes the debate on this item. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I really appreciated President Barroso’s address on the State of the Union, which looked forward to what is to come. However, it is a pity that the question of relations with the Member States was not addressed with a view to giving citizens the assurances they need that these strategies will really be implemented. Ou... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Announcements like the one that the President of the European Commission made here again today, saying that the worst of the crisis has been overcome, are taking place just as often as the relentless denials of the reality that confronts us. The fact is that the European Union is still mired in a deep crisis, with no ... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In his speech just now, Mr Barroso also mentioned the main priorities for action in the area of energy policy. Please allow me to make three remarks in this regard. First, we agree that infrastructure projects are indispensable. However, we still do not see what level of Community resources the European Union will set... | null |
Edit Herczog | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is good news that the current economic situation of the eastern Central European region is now also receiving a more favourable assessment. However, it would be premature to believe that the crisis is now completely behind us. Hungary’s economic prospects have also improved. At the same time, the evaluation of the ... | null |
Stavros Lambrinidis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Barroso, the cost of ending the crisis should be divided fairly and an end to the crisis cannot be sought unilaterally by making cuts which will inevitably push up unemployment in certain Member States (thereby benefiting the economies of certain other Member States). On the contrary, what we need is equitable deve... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The main concern which citizens have at the moment is how to overcome the economic crisis and its adverse effects. This is why I am strongly in favour of European economic governance being established, which can help us exit the crisis. The EU’s institutions must have effective resources available for taking action. I... | null |
Kristiina Ojuland | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President of the Commission, your speech today was amazing. It reminds me of the ‘good old Soviet period’, when there was always a greater density of speeches when the economic situation got worse. We still hear ‘let us increase, let us grow, let us improve’. Instead of ‘Communist Party’, you are using the term ‘Europ... | null |
Czesław Adam Siekierski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The first ever State of the Union debate is behind us. There is no doubt that it was much needed, and it is to be hoped this initiative will be continued in future years. I do have reservations, however, concerning the progress and content of the debate itself. Firstly, I think Mr Barroso made very little reference to... | null |
Catherine Stihler | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Whilst I welcome the President of the Commission addressing Parliament, I must criticise his stance on the plight of the Roma in France. Omitting to mention the French administration’s decision was wrong. | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Europeans are living through dramatic times, with an extremely high rate of unemployment, very weak economic growth and fragile public finances. Moreover, they do not really feel close to the European project and the work of the European institutions. This situation will only be turned around if our fellow Europeans c... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | State of the Union (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU operates a social market economy. The EU’s economic and social development equally depends on having a competitive open market, as well as on the number and quality of jobs capable of providing a decent living. The economic and financial crisis has had an enormous impact on EU jobs. Unemployment has risen at an... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - MaliVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Touré, Your Excellencies, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I present to you, today, His Excellency Mr Amadou Toumiani Touré, President of the Republic of Mali, and his wife. This is not the first time Mr Touré has visited the European Parliament, but today w... | null |
Amadou Toumani Touré | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - MaliVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso, Madam High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Commissioner for Development, honourable Members of the European Parliament, honourable Members of Mali, I should like to begin by congratulating you, Mr Buzek, on your appointment as President of the European Parliament but, ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - MaliVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you. You said that you welcome the political dialogue between the European Union and Mali. We say the same: we welcome political dialogue. You spoke about reforms in your country. These are necessary everywhere, including in our European Union. You referred to building political compromise for a bet... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September. | null |
Didier Reynders | EU Council President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the meeting of the ECOFIN Council, which has just taken place in Brussels, has enabled us to make progress on two issues, by adopting the European Semester, within the framework of budgetary consolidation and of the new budget monitoring procedures, and also by endorsing the agreement reached during a... | null |
Michel Barnier | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, honourable Members, I, in turn, after Mr Reynders, would like to say a few words about our approach to this Ecofin Council meeting. I will do so on behalf of my fellow Commissioners, Olli Rehn and Algirdas Šemeta, who participated in this work with me. Four points marked this meeting, as the Belgian m... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, on behalf of the European People’s Party, I would like to say that we are very pleased with the agreement reached on a system for European banking supervision. That is an important milestone. A number of Member States initially dug their heels in, but our rapporteurs have been steadfast and, thanks to... | null |
Udo Bullmann | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Reynders, Commissioner, congratulations on your supervision. Parliament has worked hard on this issue and you have also played your part, which is why the results are so good. We must always look to new tasks and, unfortunately, I must point out that good results are still a long way off in other a... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to thank the Commission and the Belgian Presidency for having helped us get EU financial supervision on track. I know we are now thanking one another but I should like nonetheless to emphasise that it was fortunate that Parliament pointed out, last December, how the Member States, while ... | null |
Sven Giegold | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly, this is indeed an important moment for Europe because we seem to have reached an agreement on supervision. We have achieved a lot by working together on this issue. I would like to express my thanks to the Belgian Presidency, the Commission, Mr Barnier, and my fellow Members from the various ... | null |
Kay Swinburne | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to begin by congratulating the Belgian Presidency on its negotiating skills, and Commissioner Barnier and his team for finding solutions on supervision. But I would like to turn to those unresolved issues of financial transactions at yesterday’s ECOFIN. I seem to spend a lot of my time in ... | null |
Miguel Portas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ecofin has decided to launch the European Semester, which is aimed at ensuring consistency between European economic policy and national budgetary policies. My question is this: have they given any thought to democracy? I am all in favour of coordination. I accept goals for the deficit, and I would even like to see su... | null |
Hans-Peter Martin | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, I should like to start by paying you a compliment. It is obvious that you are willing. The question is just: Are you allowed to be willing? With regard to the process that you are pursuing with such enormous dedication, I would call on you urgently to make the matter clear to our citizen... | null |
Jean-Paul Gauzès | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, first of all I should naturally like to add my congratulations on the good result obtained in the area of supervision. As Mrs Goulard reminded us, Parliament’s effort has not been in vain, and in December something new and unique happened: a statement was issued by the four coordinators ... | null |
Anni Podimata | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commission, yesterday’s decisions by the ECOFIN Council, in conjunction of course with the agreement on a new effective system of financial supervision, are essential steps towards the new economic governance which we envisage. However, we face a broad challenge today. No one can or should stop the im... | null |
Jens Rohde | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I want to thank and support the Commission and the Council for their work on ensuring adequate financing from the financial sector. There are, however, a couple of issues. We support introducing a form of coordinated stability level and a fund, but when it comes to the financial transaction tax, we are... | null |
Derk Jan Eppink | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, allow me to welcome Mr Reynders. I hope everything is well with you. As regards the bank levy, I do not, in principle, have any problems with it at all. I just wonder how it is supposed to work in practice. It reminds me of a bus: everyone wants to get on it, but everyone wants to go in a different di... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Reynders, I have five points to make. Firstly, I must say that I find it regrettable such an important Ecofin meeting as yesterday’s was held at the same time as the address by the President of the Commission on the state of the Union. I would expect better coordination. If we are all... | null |
Elisa Ferreira | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, the coordination of efforts for the European Semester which was discussed yesterday at Ecofin is a positive step in itself, but it is only one part of the picture. Growth and employment need to be priorities, as well as fulfilment of the Stability and Growth Pact. The creation of the Eur... | null |
Vicky Ford | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I welcome the agreement on the supervisory architecture. I know that my colleagues have not found it easy to reach that agreement. It has been a delicate balancing act between protecting markets from cross-border risks and yet also maintaining national governments’ responsibilities. The Commissioner ha... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as my fellow Members have indicated – Mr Gauzès just now and yesterday during the State of the Union debate – we need more Europe. More Europe to create growth and employment, to regulate the markets and to reduce inequality. This is the contention of my g... | null |
Antolín Sánchez Presedo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to congratulate the Presidency on the unanimous adoption by the Council of the compromise reached with Parliament and the Commission on the supervisory package. We have been working with the Spanish and Belgian Presidencies and have managed to complete our task with an ambitious compromis... | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to thank Mr Reynders and Commissioner Barnier very much for their support on the supervisory package, which sometimes felt a bit like trying to push a boiled egg through a tea-strainer, but finally we got through it. I hope our work on Solvency II and its implementing measures will be mor... | null |
Liem Hoang Ngoc | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday, the ECOFIN Council approved the principle of the European Semester. As a federalist, I can only welcome such progress. However, coordinating budgetary policy is one thing; defining their content is another. That is why strengthening the Stability and Growth Pact is a s... | null |
Sławomir Witold Nitras | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am very pleased with the compromise on establishing a financial supervision system. The European markets did, indeed, need these mechanisms. Something which I, personally, am very pleased about is the emphasis given to the role of the European Central Bank. We are, I think, safer under the new arrangements. The expe... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is not only the Stability and Growth Pact which is in need of reform, but also the economic and social model as a whole. The economic and social model, a particular feature of the European Union, is proving to be untenable at the moment. Initially regarded as a driving force for economic growth, as well as for soci... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the decisions made yesterday by the Ecofin Council are unacceptable. While speculators continue to help themselves to scandalous salaries and effective taxation of financial transactions remains elusive, with tax havens flourishing, they have seized the opportunity provided by the crisis to launch the... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, thank you for that speech. Only a couple of years ago, there was a doctrine of extreme liberalism in Europe, which proposed that policy only confuses the workings of the markets and that the markets decide everything. Now we are in a situation where policy is important. Policy decides issues and it is... | null |
Michel Barnier | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to thank each and every one of you for what you have said with regard to the collective outcome achieved in the area of supervision. I should like to return to what Mrs Ferreira just said about our citizens being shaken, affected by all these financial, economic and social crises, withou... | null |
Didier Reynders | EU Council President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I should first like to thank you and to thank all the speakers who have expressed their approval of the agreement on financial supervision. As many people have said, this has been a joint effort by Parliament – particularly by its rapporteurs – the Commission and the Council. As ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
António Fernando Correia De Campos | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Yesterday, the Ecofin Council made two correct decisions which correspond to views that the majority in Parliament have held for months. The first decision was on the macro-prudential supervision of the financial system, under the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), along with the micro-prudential supervision of bank... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The new regulations for the internal financial market are to be welcomed because they mean improvements and greater security for the investor. The financial markets have been working across international borders for decades, which is why the financial authorities must finally start to operate on a cross-border basis t... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate on the statements by the President of the Commission and the Council on the ECOFIN decisions proves that the entire political face of capital is reflected in the strategic choice of the monopolies to shift the burden of the capitalist crisis on to the working and grassroots classes. Injections of artificial... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-08T00:00:00 | 2010 | Protection of animals used for scientific purposes (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the recommendation for second reading by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (06106/1/2010 – C7-0147... | null |
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