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Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are discussing a very important step, here – an important decision towards the liberalisation of postal services in the European Union and towards healthy competition. The directive on the completion of the internal market in postal services is such a decision. We must make every effort for the direct... | null |
Debora Serracchiani | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the completion of the internal market in postal services by the end of this year is an important step, but the Commission should carry out an impact assessment – as some of the previous speakers pointed out – on the postal market liberalisation in order to better understand citizens... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the issue of opening postal services up to competition has raised concern in many Member States about how their availability and quality might be preserved. For example, in a large but sparsely populated country like Finland, there is a danger that competition will only be of interest in the most densely... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, postal services are an essential instrument of communication. They play an important role in competitiveness and in the objectives of social, economic and territorial cohesion. Therefore, it is not acceptable that those who live in rural areas should not have access to services of the same quality that o... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in our modern societies effective communication services are crucial to the lives both of our businesses and of European citizens as a whole. From this point of view, the opening-up of the postal market represents a real challenge for this sector, at a time when techno... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | It is now time for the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure. | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | December 2010 is an important milestone in the creation of a common market in postal services in the countries of the European Union, which are opening up to all postal service providers, thereby boosting competition in this sector. Europe has been innovating in this sector since 1992, with the most recent directive b... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I myself questioned the Commission in June on the negative impact of the liberalisation of public services on consumers by emphasising that numerous investigations have uncovered serious shortcomings, most notably in postal services, such as price rises, a decrease in service quality and a ... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Commissioner, you told us that the directive gives leeway to Member States when implementing it in order to comply with social requirements, but I am asking you, as Commissioner, to make sure that those social requirements are fully respected. Yesterday in this Parliament we voted through the employment guidelines and ... | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Commissioner, all over Europe, people and workers in the sector agree on an undeniable reality: liberalisation of postal services, contrary to what was and is proclaimed by those who promoted and are promoting it, has led to a significant degradation in the services provided, and to an unprecedented attack on the righ... | null |
Evelyn Regner | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I have just taken part in the debate on better lawmaking. Postal market liberalisation is an example of a case where many of the negative consequences would not have arisen if – as in the report on better lawmaking presented earlier – an independent, reliable impact assessment had been carr... | null |
Inés Ayala Sender | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, in countries that are at the forefront of liberalisation such as Finland, the United Kingdom and Germany, there have been a succession of deficits, collapses of operators and massive job losses with no clear social alternative. The third postal directive was adopted with three essential con... | null |
Mario Pirillo | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner Barnier, ladies and gentlemen, moving from postal services run by the individual States to a postal service run for the whole of Europe is an initiative which will strengthen the various regions, and I support it. I would, nevertheless, call for a careful evaluation of costs, time frames and... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | I am surprised that, according to the Rules of Procedure, the author of the question does not have a specific time to respond to it and has to use the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure. Therefore, Mr Simpson, in my interpretation of the President’s management role, I am going to give you two minutes to respond to all the speec... | null |
Brian Simpson | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think the fact that you have had a lot of people willing to participate in the catch-the-eye debate shows the importance of this issue to Parliament, and that is what I want to stress to the Commissioner. I have heard the Commissioner’s response and, in some respects, I am gratified at what I have heard... | null |
Michel Barnier | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is very important, and I am grateful to you, Mr Simpson, for having initiated it. I wish to make two or three points before responding in slightly more depth. Firstly, as I said earlier and as everyone ought objectively to recognise, this reform, this controlled liberali... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place in ten minutes. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Liam Aylward | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | The deadline for implementing the internal market for postal services is approaching. However much this Directive will create additional competition in towns and cities, there is no doubt that it will seriously degrade the service provided in rural areas. 40% of the people of Ireland are rural dwellers and it is essen... | null |
Sandra Kalniete | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | The strength of the European Union lies in unity. The European Union is the world’s leading region, which has now been acting according to defined principles for over 50 years. We are strong, because we have been united and we have shown solidarity. The larger Member States of the Union have respected the interests of... | null |
Bogdan Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to start with Poland, which finds itself in a privileged situation, because it has been given a two-year transition period. I draw attention to this situation because we have been given, in this way, the ability to refine certain solutions and mechanisms which are in use in the other Member States. It sho... | null |
Jutta Steinruck | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Postal servicesVideo of the speechesPV | The experience of countries where liberalisation has already taken place shows that liberalisation of postal services is a downward spiral. Competition must not be played out at the expense of workers, in other words on the basis of pay and working conditions. We must retain high quality jobs in the European postal se... | null |
Sajjad Karim | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, 48 hours from now, as millions of Muslims will still be celebrating Eid and the world will be remembering the terrorist atrocity of 9/11, a Koran burning has been planned to coincide with this in Florida, USA. This act has been denounced by the US Administration and the Vatican. I hope this House will do ... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, irrespective of the merits of Mr Karim’s remarks, I fail to see how that was a point of order. If anybody else had stood up to make a statement, you would have asked them under which Rule they were speaking. Can you please tell me how that was a point of order? | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Voting timeVideo of the speechesPV | Mr Batten, it was a point of order, information to the House. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | The lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declarations): see MinutesPV | Colleagues, before you go I still have two announcements to make. The text is in Czech so I will read it in Czech. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | The lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declarations): see MinutesPV | Written Declaration (Rule 142) 0012/2010 proposed by Françoise Castex, Zuzana Roithová, Alexander Alvaro, Stavros Lambrinidis on the lack of transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content, signed by a majority of all members of the Parliament. In accordance ... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | The lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declarations): see MinutesPV | Mr President, I simply wish to welcome the fact that those of my fellow Members who did so added their names to the request to create the European Year of Combating Violence against Women. We believe this is very important, and we hope that the European Commission will take this statement into consideration. Thank you... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | The lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declarations): see MinutesPV | Colleagues, we now come to the explanations of vote. Those of you who do not wish to explain their vote please leave the House quietly so that we can proceed with the explanations. | null |
Giommaria Uggias | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, (…) a step towards greater understanding, on the part of EU citizens, of the texts that we adopt. There is still much that needs to be done, but it is important that we take these steps on an ongoing basis. Clearly we must find a way to balance the two different legal systems: the Anglo-Saxon system and ... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, simple, clear legislation that people can understand is extremely important for people’s acceptance of the European Union. However, sound legislation is also key to the functioning of the European Union. Simplification of the European lawmaking process should therefore be one of the fundamental concerns ... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, there are moments in this Chamber when the order paper is beyond parody. The report on ‘better lawmaking’ comes from the same institutions that have turned this part of the world into the most over-regulated and least competitive bloc on the planet, that have brought us the bureaucratic nightmare of the c... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In Slovakia today we are marking a commemoration day for the victims of the holocaust. Under the Slovak state more than 100 000 Jews, Roma, homosexuals and physically-disabled people were deported from Slovakia to concentration camps. Precisely for that reason I have today supported this motion for a resolution - of w... | null |
Joe Higgins | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I supported the resolution, which included the European United Left Group as a signatory. In singling out the Roma community in France for victimisation and expulsion, French President Sarkozy and his government have displayed the most disgusting cynicism. The crude use of a minority community of oppresse... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted first and foremost for my own political group’s resolution because it proposed solutions and not stigmatisation of a political option. Unfortunately, this motion for a resolution did not get through. As regards the motion for a resolution proposed by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Demo... | null |
Sergej Kozlík | MEP | ALDE | en | sk | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | External migration is a key problem for Europe. Every year 900 000 new immigrants arrive in Europe. The Roma issue is an internal problem for Europe, since the migration of Roma between the Member States can be counted not in hundreds of thousands but in thousands. However, that does not mean that it is not a serious ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted for the EPP resolution because the text of this resolution offered a constructive and comprehensive European solution to the problem of better social inclusion of Roma. Instead of using their serious social and economic situation as an instrument for politically motivated attacks against certain l... | null |
Jens Rohde | MEP | ALDE | en | da | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, we in the Danish Liberal Party chose to vote in favour of the joint motion for a resolution on the Roma, not because we do not think that the language in large parts of the resolution is rather too emotionally charged and its attacks unsubstantiated, rather it is because we believe that there is reason t... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I did not vote in favour of any of these resolutions because, as a matter of principle, I do not recognise the democratic legitimacy of the European Union, and I never will. However, it should, of course, be the right of sovereign nations to decide who can and cannot enter their territories, and on what b... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Through the adoption of the motion for a resolution on the Roma, the European Parliament and the European Commission have, in my opinion, correctly acknowledged responsibility for the situation of the Roma in the European Union. Based on the experience I have had in my own country, however, I would like to point out t... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted in favour of all members of the European Union having equal rights. That also includes the Roma. I understand that some, for example in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), believe that this motion for a resolution is too much of a tool of political action against Franc... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I listened carefully to what Mr Takkula said, but in fact some very large appropriations amounting to several tens of billions of euros have been opened, only EUR 9 million of which has been spent to date. With this motion for a resolution, I believe Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hortefeux, the French Minister for H... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am astounded at the frivolity with which the left in this House is juggling with terms such as ‘collective expulsions’, when we are talking about dossiers in France that are evaluated on an individual, case-by-case basis and about people who have received aid for voluntary return to their country of or... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we did not vote for the motion for a resolution by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), which is certainly more balanced, because of one key point to which we wish to draw your attention: the call for the European Commission, for Europe, to speed up the pr... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I did not support the approved motion for a resolution, because I do not think that it will contribute to a solution to the Roma question in Europe, and at the same time it will sour the political atmosphere between individual European Union states. Our inability to solve the problems of the Roma community can be summ... | null |
Janusz Władysław Zemke | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the motion for a resolution which gained the majority of votes in Parliament also received my vote. The resolution concerns an essential feature of the law, which makes it very clear that no sanction can be linked to nationality. Responsibility must always be of an individual nature, and that is a founda... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I just want to say that I fully support the motion on long-term care for older people. Given the current demographics, the issue of long-term care for older people is certainly a European issue, and while it is largely the responsibility of the Member States, nonetheless, because of the nature and the mag... | null |
Jarosław Kalinowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, in relation to the motion for a resolution on long-term care for older people, I would like to express full support for the attention being given to this matter. In view of the unfavourable demographic changes which are troubling Europe, immediate action in this area seems essential. As well as helping e... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, unfortunately this motion for a resolution was onesided, in my opinion. When we consider the situation in the Middle East, we should remember that there is one democratic state there with which we in Europe share the same values: Israel. Democracy, human rights and freedom of opinion are important value... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | How can one fail to vote for a report with a title such as this? How can one fail to emphasise the need to draw up legislation that is simple, transparent and comprehensible to European citizens? To be more precise, I clearly fully support this own-initiative report by Parliament, firstly because we should be constant... | null |
Zigmantas Balčytis | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Better lawmaking has become a prerequisite for the effective functioning of the European Union and can play an important role in ending the economic crisis and achieving economic growth. It is necessary for institutions’ activities to meet the expectations of citizens, companies operating in the internal market and na... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This initiative seeks to analyse application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, ensuring that these principles are respected in European Union proposals. Subsidiarity is a dynamic and evolving concept that allows actions of the European Union to be extended, if necessary, and limits actions when th... | null |
Robert Dušek | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | -The report of Mrs Geringer de Oedenberg is mainly concerned with the evaluation of the 15th and 16th Report of the EC on the improvement of the regulations encompassing the years 2007 and 2008, the third strategic study on the improvement of regulation of January 2009 and the Action Programme on Administrative Burden... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the report on better lawmaking because I advocate the need to create legislation for Europeans that is simple, transparent and understandable. However, it is important to make sure that administrative burdens are reduced and that economic, social and environmental impacts of all of the Commission’... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I fully support the ongoing effort to develop legislation for Europeans that is simple, transparent and understandable. Despite well-intentioned declarations, rigorous studies and clear reports from numerous institutions, the truth is that European legislation continues to suffer from the ills that are frequently poin... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This resolution tackles the subject of ‘better lawmaking’, which covers the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality that are indispensible to the proper functioning of the European Union, and includes, for example, the need for impact assessments of the lawmaking process, for the simplification and codifying of... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I recognise the importance of clear legislation, a reduced administrative burden for businesses, the quality of impact studies, the fact that they should be taken into account (which does not always appear to be the case, far from it), and above all strict compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportiona... | null |
Eija-Riitta Korhola | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The philosopher Schopenhauer said that we should use ordinary words and say extraordinary things. Many people, politicians and legislators in particular, do just the opposite, probably without realising it. It is for this very reason that the continued examination of legislative practice and its improvement will alway... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The only merit of this text is to call for an extension to the period of consultation for the social partners on the Commission’s legislative proposals. The rest is appalling: it welcomes the work of the group chaired by Edmund Stoiber, a club of businessmen advocating deregulation on the pretext of reducing administr... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The great complexity of the subjects handled by the EU means that, the majority of the time, the legislation adopted is overly elaborate and not intelligible enough to the great majority of the European public. That is why there is a need for legislation to be prepared that is simple, transparent and comprehensible to... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report claims that the role of the national parliaments is strengthened by the Treaty of Lisbon, but in actual fact the Member States have had to relinquish even more competences to Brussels. There are also de facto situations in everyday life which demonstrate that there are still problems in the legal sphere ac... | null |
Rolandas Paksas | MEP | ID | en | lt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the report on better lawmaking, because I believe that better lawmaking is a prerequisite for the effective functioning of the European Union and is one of our citizens’ rights which cannot be achieved without clear laws that the general public can understand. Better regulation in the European Union covers... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have strongly supported this report, which stresses the vital importance of making simple, clear laws that EU citizens can understand and emphasises that European institutions must respect the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality when formulating proposals. The report emphasises the Commission’s key role, a... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We strongly support the Commission’s report on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality since it provides for impact assessments of directives which are issued. These assessments, which must be carried out using serious, independent studies on costs and benefits, are vital in order to avoi... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Better lawmaking has become an essential condition for the European Union to function well and to correctly apply European law based on greater transparency, efficiency and consistent decisions. Correctly applying the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, now redefined after the entry into force of the Treat... | null |
Iva Zanicchi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of Mrs Geringer de Oedenberg’s report since it highlights the need to make simple, clear laws that EU citizens can understand more easily. Respect for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, the importance of appropriate impact assessments on legislative proposals, the reduction of admini... | null |
Luís Paulo Alves | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the resolution of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament on the status of the Roma population in Europe because I am deeply concerned about the steps taken by France against this community, and I am obviously in favour of the immediate suspensi... | null |
Sophie Auconie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | With regard to the debate on the Roma people, the message that I would like to send out is clear: we must put a stop to irrelevant controversies that concern only France, and speak instead as Europeans about a European issue requiring a European response. The current debate illustrates the difficulty we still have tod... | null |
Charalampos Angourakis | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The absolute hypocrisy of the political powers which support the European one-way street is expressed in the motions for resolutions tabled in the European Parliament, which shed crocodile tears about the situation and persecution of the Roma. The European Commission has decided, in the face of general reaction, to se... | null |
Mara Bizzotto | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The joint motion for a resolution tabled by the Left seeks to interpret Directive 2004/38/EC in a way that I consider to be completely wrong in political terms, and unlawful. The text of the directive is clear: there are limits to the freedom of movement in the Member States, and should it consider it appropriate, a g... | null |
Sebastian Valentin Bodu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The recent wave of expulsions of ethnic gypsies from France, neatly presented as voluntary repatriation, reignites the debate in Europe on an unresolved problem. Expelling these people to their countries of origin is obviously not going to resolve anything. They will return as soon as they can and no one can stop them... | null |
Jan Březina | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | - The return of over 8 thousand Roma from France to their country of origin – especially Romania and Bulgaria – is certainly a issue which is worthy of the attention of the European Parliament. I am not a supporter of rash judgments and threats but prefer the path of a thorough examination of the situation and its sub... | null |
Alain Cadec | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the motion for a resolution by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) on the situation of the Roma people in Europe. I believe freedom of movement is a fundamental right of European citizens, in accordance with Directive 2004/38/EC. This directive also sets out conditions to this fr... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am in favour of a constructive approach based on dialogue about cultural diversity and what that represents in terms of human wealth. Education is key to the integration process. By offering education and training we are combating exclusion, unemployment and discrimination. We are also guaranteeing a society that is... | null |
Carlo Casini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for Mrs Weber’s motion for a resolution on the Roma in Europe because of its balanced, constructive content. It is not enough to shout against discrimination, perhaps exploiting real and extremely serious problems for the purposes of party-political wrangling. Naturally, we need to firmly reassert the principl... | null |
Françoise Castex | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the adoption of this joint motion for a resolution on the situation of the Roma people in Europe. In view of the Commission’s inertia and the silence of its President, José Manuel Barroso, the European Parliament has taken a stand against the policy implemented by the government of the French President towar... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In contrast to my colleagues, I do not question the legality of expulsion decisions taken by the French authorities. All Member States may do this by invoking legitimate grounds for internal safety and maintaining the public order. What I do find regrettable is the associated discourse that seems to aim to accuse an e... | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I support this resolution which expresses deep concern at the measures taken by the French authorities and by other Member States’ authorities targeting Roma and Travellers and providing for their expulsion and urges those authorities immediately to suspend all expulsions of Roma. It further emphasises that mass expuls... | null |
Marielle De Sarnez | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This resolution had two objectives: the first is to point out the difficult situation faced by the Roma people, who are discriminated against throughout Europe in all areas of social and economic life, and the second is to denounce the growing stigmatisation of these people in several host countries which, for legal r... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The debate held by Parliament on the Roma issue has turned into a highly left-right political debate. None of the motions for resolutions put to the vote answered the pressing question of how best to meet the needs of the Roma people. It is quite clear that the Roma community is socially and economically discriminated... | null |
Harlem Désir | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The motion for a resolution on the situation of the Roma people is a major snub for Mr Sarkozy and a scathing call to order from the European Parliament. The stigmatisation of the Roma by the President during a speech on insecurity, the statements by his Minister for Home Affairs against the Romanians and the blatant ... | null |
Ioan Enciu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the approval of the motion for a resolution on the situation of the Roma people in Europe and violation of the law on freedom of movement. I think that the European Parliament’s position is extremely beneficial in Europe’s social and economic climate. Measures like those taken by the French Government must b... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted on the motion for a resolution on the situation of Roma and on freedom of movement in the European Union because I condemn the steps taken by the French authorities and by the authorities of other Member States regarding the Roma people and their expulsion. I hope that these authorities will suspend expulsions... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This motion for a resolution arises at a time of contradictory statements regarding the expulsion of members of the Roma ethnic group from French territory. I believe that this matter is too serious to be debated in a way that is more emotional than rational and deserves a different political climate allowing a debate... | null |
Carlo Fidanza | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The freedom of movement is a noble concept, but it is in danger of remaining an abstract concept unless it is accompanied by rigour and legality. Whoever denies these principles in the name of hypocritical do-goodery is responsible for fostering hostile sentiments against the Roma. The freedom of movement can never im... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The expulsion of the Roma by the French Government and other European Union governments is a reprehensible act. Unfortunately, this racist and xenophobic act, which seeks to distract us from the serious social crisis we are experiencing and find scapegoats, has not received immediate repudiation from the European Comm... | null |
Lorenzo Fontana | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The joint motion for a resolution tabled by the Members on the left is marked by repeated appeals to the idea of equality, but contradicts itself in several places. I have to put it on record that I am opposed to the document tabled in view of the fact that it postulates equality of rights between Roma communities and... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Although I voted in favour of the joint motion for a resolution, I would still like to make the following remark. My support for this resolution is in no way intended as an endorsement of certain extreme comments made during Tuesday afternoon’s debate. Given all the sensitivity that treatment of the issue in question ... | null |
Nathalie Griesbeck | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Appalled as I was by the measures taken by France to expel the Roma people (measures that had already previously been taken by other States), I immediately co-signed Parliament’s resolution, and I welcome its adoption. The events currently taking place in France are unacceptable. France is conducting, in full knowledg... | null |
Sylvie Guillaume | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the resolution on the situation of the Roma people in Europe as the text explicitly condemns the measures taken by the French authorities. The resolution reminds us of the right of all European citizens to move and reside freely throughout the European Union, and of the basic principle of equal treatment o... | null |
Estelle Grelier | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I have supported this joint motion for a resolution because I am convinced that we urgently need to condemn the policy of the French Government, which has deliberately stigmatised an ethnic group by associating it directly with criminality, for the sole purpose of diverting attention away from the difficulties with it... | null |
Lívia Járóka | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The motion for a resolution tabled by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and the Group of the Greens, as well as the Confederal Group of the European United Left also contains several unfounded and... | null |
Sandra Kalniete | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the motion for a resolution moved by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) because I consider that we must adopt and implement a common European strategy on the Roma issue, which would overcome the social and economic exclusion of the Roma people. The problems of minorities in Euro... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I and my ECR Group colleagues agree with much of this resolution and we remain wholeheartedly committed to providing equal rights, opportunities and the freedoms laid out within EU law for all people, regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. However, whilst we fully support the integration of the Rom... | null |
Véronique Mathieu | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | It is essential to impose a little order on this debate, in which a scandalous confusion reigns. Some of the remarks made in this House and included in this motion for a resolution are unacceptable. This Chamber should stop being a forum for political point-scoring about Member States’ national policies. France has be... | null |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Union needs to take strong action against the discriminatory and brutal policy of which the Roma are victims in France. Freedom of movement is not the prerogative of capital. The Eurocrats may not like it, but it is a right shared by all European citizens. It is the duty of all Europeans to defend the rig... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | For several decades, France has been an exemplary country in terms of integrating citizens originating from all over the world that had chosen the country as their destination. It should be remembered that Romanian citizens will only enjoy full freedom of movement in 10 countries of the EU, including France, from Janu... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against this joint motion for a resolution tabled by the left, the centre-left and the liberals in the House because President Sarkozy’s French Government must be asked to immediately halt the expulsion of the gipsy population. We ask the Commission and the Council to also act along the same lines. We condemn ... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | In the current Roma debate, I ultimately voted in favour of the motion for a resolution tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats). It demonstrates the problem in an objective manner and also proposes sensible solutions. The motion tabled by the Confederal Group of the European United Lef... | null |
Jan Mulder | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The Dutch People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) delegation voted in favour of motion for a resolution B7-0504/2010 on the expulsions of the Roma people. However, this does not change the fact that, in accordance with the Directives, people can always be forcibly repatriated to their countries of origin in ind... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-09T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the motion for a resolution initiated by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) as it proposes consistent, long-term measures aimed at resolving the Roma problem in the European Union. The PPE Group’s motion for a resolution also featured explicitly and directly the request for Roma... | null |
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