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Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like here to thank the representatives of the Commission and the Council for their opinion on the failure of human rights protection and justice in the Congo. The situation is indeed dramatic and drastic, and I think it was very well described by my colleague, Véronique De Keyser, in her speech. Despite this, ... | null |
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still very worrying. It is particularly alarming that violence and a readiness to resort to violence are continuing to increase despite the presence of the European Union and the United Nations. We have been engaged in various missions in Congo for man... | null |
Judith Sargentini | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as Europeans, we ourselves are partly to blame for the misery we are seeing in the eastern DRC. That there is still a very great deal of money to be earned by rebels selling precious metals like coltan for the telephony industry and the computer industry is due to the fact that we continue to buy them in... | null |
Jan Zahradil | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this year is the Year of Africa and we remember here a whole host of countries which, fifty years ago, won independence from former colonial powers. However, when we look at development in some of these countries after those fifty years, unfortunately, we do not have many grounds for optimism. The same h... | null |
Kinga Gál | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights, I strongly condemn the happenings of recent months in the Congo. In the 21st century, it is an inadmissible fact that killings, rape and child abuse are commonly used as a weapon of war while UN forces are present in the area. In the last five years, the n... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, earlier this year, Denis Mukwege, a gynaecologist from Panzi in the DRC, came to our European Parliament and told us that the at least 200 000 rapes which have taken place in his country over the last fifteen years are too brutal to be described as such, and should instead be called sexual massacre, and t... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the EU must hold itself responsible for standing by when defenceless women and children continue to suffer at the hands of gun-toting rebels and army men. It is time to move beyond rhetoric. We must take concrete measures to provide on-the-ground support to bolster the DRC security forces in conjunction w... | null |
Barbara Lochbihler | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I can only concur with the criticism and the condemnation of this brutal massacre, as well as the criticism of the UN mission that it failed to do all it could to prevent this massacre. Nevertheless, it is to be welcomed that the newly established position of Special Representative for Sexual Violence in... | null |
Paweł Robert Kowal | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are talking about this because we are alarmed by the situation in Congo, and because the people who live in that country have no guarantee of fundamental human rights. We are, therefore, horrified by the fact that the reports of observer organisations about respect for human rights are particularly alarming in the ... | null |
Peter Šťastný | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I can be counted among those in the very long line who sharply condemn the heinous crimes that took place in early August of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Every society protects their weak and most vulnerable, so to hear such horrible news must be devastating to every decent human b... | null |
Thijs Berman | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, rape has become a daily weapon of war in the eastern DRC, with thousands of victims every year. The actual number is far higher than we know, because the women are unable to assert their rights and therefore often do not report what has happened. Rape is a seriously traumatising crime which results in de... | null |
Fiona Hall | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, today’s debate is focused on the terrible events which have occurred in the east of the DRC, but Member States continue to maintain that it is safe to return Congolese asylum seekers to Kinshasa because the capital is far removed from the insecure areas to the east. Unfortunately, the facts suggest otherw... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Fifty years after gaining its independence, Congo is a country which is still engulfed in a state of war and unremitting conflict, and is a country which, today, has been given the macabre name of the rape capital of the world. The shocking events of the last two months and the rapes of hundred of women and children –... | null |
Barbara Matera | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a situation persists of armed conflict, extrajudicial executions, violence against women, utter violation of children’s rights, enlistment, maltreatment, violence against minors, mass evacuations, arms trading and exploitation of vast natural res... | null |
Ana Gomes | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in April 2008, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the militia leader Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes such as enlisting child soldiers and the mass murder of civilians. Instead of handing him over to the court, the Kabila government promoted him to a top position in the Congolese ... | null |
Marietje Schaake | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is really unspeakably sad that the gravest crimes against humanity took place under the eye of the international community and the UN. We, here in the EU, need to step up our efforts and work together more effectively to make sure that the UN acts in line with the fundamental values that we know here i... | null |
Mariya Nedelcheva | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, all armed conflicts have disastrous consequences. However, a conflict that has lasted as long as the conflict in Congo, an army partly composed of children, and rape used as one of the chief weapons of war, all show that we are facing the utter denial of the rule of law. The most re... | null |
Corina Creţu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Parliament is adopting for the third year in succession a resolution on the violation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a sign of major concern about this issue, but we have to admit, of ineffectiveness as well. We condemned back in 2008 the use of rape as a weapon of war. Now we ... | null |
Antonyia Parvanova | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we cannot avoid focusing our attention today on the situation of women in Congo. We all know that women and children are the most vulnerable population groups in conflict zones, and that women are the ones suffering the most from the devastating consequences of the current events. Rape is becoming uncontr... | null |
Anne Delvaux | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if the truth be known, in taking the floor today, it occurred to me that my previous speech on the subject, which I made almost a year ago, still has relevance. I spoke of extreme urgency, combating impunity and reassessing the MONUC mission. The same statements are being made and repeated, as are calls ... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, according to the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, every year, there are 15 000 rapes in the Congo, the majority of which are used as a weapon of war against women and girls. Since July of this year, more than 500 rapes have been recorded and the United Nations has not t... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo is a country that has undergone decades of exploitation and violence, as has already been stated many times, but it is worth repeating once more: violence that currently affects women, in particular and, unfortunately, children as well, as documented... | null |
Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Today’s debate on the Democratic Republic of Congo shows irrefutably the huge scale of the human rights problem in that country. For many years, the world’s media have been constantly sending reports about the crimes being committed there. The Democratic Republic of Congo is the scene of the worst of crimes against fu... | null |
Alf Svensson | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we do not need to keep on citing the atrocities that the Congolese people have been, and are being, subjected to, and it is clearly a disgrace that the international community has not been able to put a stop to it. This disgrace also spills over to the EU and the European Parliament and to our Member Sta... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We have spoken many times in the committees of the European Parliament and at the plenary sittings here in Strasbourg about what is happening in the Congo, and as we describe the situation, I find myself quite unable to reconcile it with the name of the country, which is the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rape of w... | null |
Marc Tarabella | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, on that day, soldiers attacked the village where Nadine and her family lived. They ordered her brother to rape her in front of the entire village. When he refused, they killed him. Then the soldiers forced her to drink her own urine before killing her three children aged four, two and one. They raped her... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Margot Wallström, the United Nations special representative for violence against women and children in armed conflict, called the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘the rape capital of the world’. It is actually true that if we look at the figures made available to us by various organisations, we can only see barbarity, ho... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would also like to thank the honourable Members for their interventions, new ideas and new proposals. I would like, too, to thank them for describing the situation in the Congo in such concrete terms, because we need to remind ourselves of how difficult the situation in that country still is. A very cle... | null |
Olivier Chastel, on behalf of Catherine Ashton | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, I would like to make three additional points in reply. First, as regards MONUSCO, many of you have referred to its role, or rather its passiveness. We have warned against the premature withdrawal of MONUSCO on several occasions in order to avoid a vacuum and the possibility of even greater dete... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have received six motions for resolutions(1)tabled in accordance with Rule 110(2) of the Rules of Procedure. The debate is closed. The vote will take place during the first part-session in October. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Conclusions of the European Council, adopted on 16 September, state that it is very important for the EU to be prepared to strengthen cooperation with Africa and to strive to reduce violations in the areas of international human rights law and humanitarian law. In terms of human rights violations, particular atten... | null |
Joanna Senyszyn | MEP | S&D | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The forthcoming EU-Republic of South Africa and EU-Africa summits have to be a turning point in bringing to an end the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rapid implementation of international measures to oppose the violation of human rights is imperative. In this region, slaughter, rape and murder have been... | null |
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are dealing, today, with the lack of respect for fundamental standards of international humanitarian law in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a country which appears to be democratic in name only. I would like to condemn vigorously the mass rapes committed recently against women and children, as well as all other ... | null |
Zbigniew Ziobro | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unquestionably one of the most cruel of the last decade. Despite extensive pressure from the international community, the situation has not improved in the slightest. Testimony to this are the continued reports bringing information of brutal violations of fundamental... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, you are an excellent President of this House, but I would like to protest about the people who plan our work here. We have known since last week that there was very little on the agenda today. Why then can the people planning the work not be so flexible as to give us better speaking times? I would gladly... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV | I take that comment very seriously. I have Mr Rouček with me, who will now chair the discussion, and will certainly be able to add time to your speech as necessary. Maybe not five minutes if the time allocated is two minutes, but let us say that we can exceed the time of the speech by 50%. This is a lot. If someone has... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, we know that you are a good President. Nevertheless, I would ask you to stick to the set timetable. I have a group of visitors, but I would like to speak during catch-the-eye. If you now allow Mr Posselt, Mr Brok and Mr van Nistelrooij to speak for five minutes then I will not be able to do that. Perhaps... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV | That is correct, you are right, but in individual cases and at special request, we will extend the time somewhat. I would like to ask Commissioner Štefan Füle to begin our discussion. Mr Füle, please take the floor on behalf of the Commission. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement by the Commission on the future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument for the cross-border cooperation programmes budget. | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, cross-border cooperation has been one of the main innovations under the Instrument for European neighbourhood policy. Back in 2006, we adopted a regulation which, for the first time, saw the full transposition of EU cross-border cooperation experience in an external relations environment. We wanted the ne... | null |
Lambert van Nistelrooij | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, in 2005 and 2006, within Parliament and with the Commission, we cooperated quickly and intensively on achieving the objectives of the European neighbourhood policy, including the objective of cross-border cooperation for citizens living in the regions concerned. To do so, we had to be very ... | null |
Evgeni Kirilov | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ensuring a stable and prosperous neighbourhood is the first priority of European foreign policy. It is in its neighbourhood that the EU can best exercise its soft stabilising power. It is also there that it needs to assess strategies and possibly replace them with other more relevant forms of engagement. ... | null |
Kristiina Ojuland | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Commissioner mentioned among other things his concern over the delays in presenting and launching the cross-border cooperation projects. I would like to point out that there are five land border programmes involving the Russian Federation as a partner country operating within the framework of the ENPI... | null |
Malika Benarab-Attou | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as part of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), two out of thirteen cross-border cooperation programmes are dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin. The first is the cooperation programme for the Mediterranean Basin. With the new generation of Eur... | null |
Konrad Szymański | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | After the experience of the past few years one thing is clear – cross-border cooperation within the context of the neighbourhood policy does not work. It has not been a success. Beyond a doubt, we must clarify the responsibilities of individual administrative institutions dealing with regional development, the neighbo... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the evaluation of the implementation of the European neighbourhood policy is not surprising. The evaluation is quite positive in view of the concerns of those who are currently governing Europe. Everything is fine. Trade is developing, so the most important thing is being preserved. Granted, this evaluat... | null |
Derek Roland Clark | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, what is the Commissioner thinking about? Has the Commission been asleep for the last two years? Here we are, at a time of economic stringency, despite what Mr Van Rompuy said this week. There are millions out of work, some newer Member States have still not got the promised financial package, and Germany ... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in my opinion, if doubts are now starting to be expressed more or less openly in many Balkan countries about their own accession perspective, it serves to demonstrate the weaknesses of the European neighbourhood policy, as the countries of the Western Balkans that have a European perspective and those co... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this subject is a classic example of where regional policy and foreign policy coincide. In this regard, we need to show the necessary flexibility to enable us to implement regional policy – including with the experience of regional policy that we have within the Europe... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner Füle, I agree with my fellow Members, like Mr Brok who spoke before me, who say that cross-border cooperation has considerable potential. I was a member of the national Parliament from a constituency on the Hungarian-Serbian border for almost 15 years, or, to be exact, my work brought me close to this are... | null |
Riikka Manner | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, crossborder cooperation programmes are and will be absolutely crucial to improved and closer cooperation in the EU border regions. Administering these programmes under the heading of external relations, however, has proven problematic, and the special features of crossborder cooperation a... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, including its cross-border cooperation programme, is a very important Community initiative combining features of international and inter-regional cooperation. It deserves our continued support as it allows regions situated near the outermost borders of the Europea... | null |
László Surján | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, the Commissioner said that fundamental national interests prevent the development of desirable cooperation with certain countries. I accept that there may be such interests, but I believe that governments in favour of confrontation rather than cooperation have misinterpreted their fundament... | null |
Carl Haglund | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as mentioned earlier in this debate, Russia chose not to take part in the cooperation in the context of the European neighbourhood policy, presumably because it feels that it was not treated in a sufficiently respectful manner. Instead, we have developed this strategic partnership, which unfortunately is... | null |
Jacek Olgierd Kurski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Until now, the Eastern Partnership has been the first and only foreign-policy initiative from my country, Poland, which has been accepted by Brussels and the whole European Community. Its real political sense lies in attracting six post-Soviet states to the Union. In documents establishing the programme this is not me... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you for your generosity, Mr President. Someone once said that borders are wounds that have been created by history. Nevertheless, borders are necessary. Everything has limits, and naturally the European Union must have limits, too. I was a leading advocate of enlargement, and I still am. South-Eastern Europe mus... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as the former rapporteur for the ENP in the last Parliament, I would say to Commissioner Füle that I remain sceptical as to whether one can really combine Morocco and Moldova under one policy umbrella. To an extent, the Eastern Partnership developments and the Euromed/Barcelona Process reflect my concerns... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Good neighbourly relations form the basis of the decent coexistence of nations. Financial resources invested in improving relations between nations and neighbouring states result in improved co-existence, calm and peace in the regions, and – when put to good use - economic growth as well, stimulated by greater trust i... | null |
Elena Băsescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to take this opportunity to mention the 2007-2013 Joint Operational Programme Romania-Ukraine-Republic of Moldova. Funding for this programme is provided by the EU via the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. Three projects submitted by Chişinău Municipal Council involving public lighting, t... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, I believe that expanding the Union eastwards, for which I know you have an excellent sense and understanding, is one of the most important obligations on the part of the European Union. This is because it is linked not only with our moral obligation but also with our political interest, and because expan... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, at the last change of government in Kiev, Ukraine, I noticed and closely observed an increasing reinforcement of the Russian and Ukrainian secret services, and even some interconnection. Ukraine is situated between the European Union and Russia. Historically, the strong Russian influences i... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Cross-border cooperation is one of the most important means of creating a united, extended Europe, without any division lines. An important role is also played in this by the Joint Operational Programme, the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument and the 2007-2012 Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Romania-... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, if you really want to know what somebody is up to, you must listen to him telling you what he is not intending to do. The European Union’s description of its neighbourhood policy sounds like an old man of questionable character armed with a bag of sweets explaining how innocent his motives are. The Europe... | null |
Jan Kozłowski | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | To begin, I would like to thank the Commissioner for his factual presentation and to express my conviction that not only the analysis prepared by the Commission setting out the experience gained between 2007 and 2009 but also today’s discussion will contribute to the improved implementation of the strategic aims of cr... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Parliament has constantly campaigned for an increase in the financial package for the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. However, there are obstacles impeding its implementation due to complicated procedures and a lack of flexibility in the regulations for applying the European Neighbourho... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I am sure that we would agree that, on account of its size and significance, Ukraine is the most important country in the area covered by our neighbourhood policy, and I am really dismayed to see the developments in the domestic political situation there in recent months – it is indeed a ba... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, this is not the first time I have addressed you, but for the first time I have received many questions which actually go beyond the framework of the original question. I welcome that and hope that I will be able to explain. Coming back to the original questions with which we started ou... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written Statements (Rule 149) | null |
Dominique Baudis | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Future allocation of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) for the cross-border cooperation programmes (CBC) budget (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Cross-border cooperation is essential for our neighbouring countries. How is it possible to have a prosperous and sustainable economy if the borders are closed? It provides better border security and intelligent management of migratory flows. However, some of our neighbouring regions, such as the Maghreb, do not know ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statement from the Commission on the import of Laogai-made goods into the EU. | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members of Parliament, the issue raised in this question is indeed one that concerns fundamental human rights, which are core values of the European Union and which are also central to the Union’s external action. I can assure you of the Commission’s fundamental attachment to human rights, as w... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is fortuitous that we are holding this debate in the same part-session as the deliberations regarding the forthcoming EU-China summit. The issue of laogai camps has repercussions for both trade policy and human rights policy. I would like to focus on the human rights aspects here. Prisoners in China’s... | null |
Karin Kadenbach | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to preface my remarks by saying that the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament is very interested in constructive relations with the People’s Republic of China. Your response today disappointed me a little, however, because it ... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there are more than a thousand camps, according to the estimates of the NGOs, 3 to 5 million people imprisoned, almost all of whom are accused of endangering the security of the State, and allegations of organ trafficking. Even if this list is not exhaustive, it is nonetheless very concerning. The forced... | null |
Marek Henryk Migalski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, I would also like to join those who have said that your speech was rather disappointing, as this issue should be a key issue for us. There are approximately 7 million people in these camps. These people are very often subject to repression due to their religious or political views. Our moral and politica... | null |
Marie-Christine Vergiat | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we all know what the democracy and human rights situation is in China. We have just been talking about the European neighbourhood policy. These two matters have something in common: economic realism prevails. In the eyes of those who govern Europe, China is first and foremost a big market. We should not ... | null |
Lorenzo Fontana | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, your words are certainly not what we expected as we were waiting for a stronger reaction on this issue. We cannot allow human rights to be subordinated to the economy, otherwise the existence of the European Union no longer makes sense. There are millions of people in ... | null |
Daniel Caspary | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are all aware that the laogai network is the front for an intolerable system of enforced labour camps in China. The very existence of these labour camps is intolerable, but I find it repellent that many of the products manufactured there find their way into our shops. These labour camps are not just u... | null |
Gesine Meissner | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, you have stated that human rights are core values in the European Union. Last December, we proudly signed off on the Treaty of Lisbon and the legally binding Convention on Human Rights associated with it. What you have said is absolutely correct and of vital importance: we must defend these... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to add a few figures to those cited by my fellow Members: there are more than 1 000 certified laogai camps, between 40 and 50 million prisoners have spent time in the laogai since 1949 and in particular there are 314 commercial companies linked to the laogai. The laogai... | null |
Cristian Dan Preda | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As you are aware, Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates the right to a fair trial. Obviously, laogai, which is re-education through labour, blatantly violates this right. As my fellow Members before me have stated, laogai camps do more than this. They subject prisoners to torture and degra... | null |
Cristiana Muscardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, those who worship the god of money do not care if that money has blood on it. The Chinese Government uses the manpower of these people under inhumane working conditions and continues to export goods with blood on them to Europe. I do not think that the moral issue will help the Euro... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, we should not forget that a substantial part of China’s economic rise is due to the prison economy. The laogai system has been the most important tool of massive political oppression and has included since 1949 about 50 million inmates. Even today there are up to five million detainees. Most... | null |
Martin Kastler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, incarcerating people in labour camps because they do not share the same views as a governing regime is a crime against human dignity. Slave labour camps, re-education camps and internment camps – these are all anachronisms that have lost none of their repugnance in the 21st century, wherever in the world... | null |
Michael Theurer | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, my fellow Members have explained that it is an urgent human rights issue that the import of these products into the European Union should be halted. I am also of the opinion that, in the context of such inhuman conditions, the question arises as to whether these products are being sold at d... | null |
Eva Lichtenberger | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you very much Mr President. Commissioner, you said: in the context of relations with China, this is a very delicate subject. That is clear. In my opinion, however, partners who do business together and who establish a partnership on a global level, must not only hammer home their own values in negotiations, but ... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, China is an economic capitalist wonder but it is essentially a brutal one-party Communist state. One of the more unpleasant facts is the forced ‘re-education’ through labour camps, or laogais, to which millions of dissenters or political opponents – from Uighurs to Falun Gong practitioners and, in the pas... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Laogai camps, named after the Chinese words ‘lao’ – meaning ‘re-education’ - and ‘gai’ – meaning ‘labour’ – began to be established in China shortly after the communist takeover in 1948. Almost 50 million Chinese have been imprisoned in the camps since their inception, and only half of these ever returned home. Ac... | null |
Nick Griffin | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the prospect of being jailed for thought crimes is shocking. Unlike most of the people here, I can tell you that from personal experience. The British Government has tried to jail me three times under anti-free-speech laws that state that telling the truth is no defence. So I am very sympathetic to Chines... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, whether or not it should be permissible to sell goods which prisoners have been compelled to make must depend on whether the prisoners have committed real offences, as distinct from political ones – of course in China we know exactly what the offences are – on whether the judicial system is fair and, cert... | null |
Štefan Füle | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, honourable Members, China’s economic development is unparalleled in modern economic history, and it is playing an increasingly important role on the world scene. This role also entails responsibilities, such as respect for fundamental rights and core labour rights. It is crucial for the Chinese leadership... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-23T00:00:00 | 2010 | Import of Laogai-made goods into the EU (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | On Monday, Hungary experienced the greatest disaster in the country’s history. A spill from a reservoir containing highly toxic red sludge cost the lives of at least three people. Many hundreds have been injured. On behalf of the European Parliament, I would like to express our solidarity with the families of those who... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Order of businessVideo of the speechesPV | The final version of the draft agenda as drawn up by the Conference of Presidents at its meeting of Thursday, 23 September 2010, pursuant to Rule 140 of the Rules of Procedure, has been distributed. By agreement with the political groups, I would like to inform the House of proposals to make the following changes: (The... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Order of businessVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the EPP always welcomes good and thorough discussions on social topics during our plenary sittings, but they have to be well prepared. That was the reason why it was initially decided by a majority decision in the Conference of Presidents that the proposal from the Social Democratic group to discuss servi... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Order of businessVideo of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mrs Wortmann-Kool, for your explanation. This means that this item is entered on the agenda, but that the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) has abstained from voting. The majority of the other political groups wanted this item to be included in the agenda. (The order of business was ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - Timor-OrientalVideo of the speechesPV | Welcome to the European Parliament, Mr President. Welcome once again after 18 years. | null |
José Ramos-Horta | N/A | N/A | en | pt | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - Timor-OrientalVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I will start by remarks in English, and then I will switch to Portuguese, and then back to English. I would be able to address you in five of the European languages, but I will not do that because I will get confused myself, so I will stick to two: English and Portuguese. I am gratef... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-06T00:00:00 | 2010 | Formal sitting - Timor-OrientalVideo of the speechesPV | Thank you very much, Mr President. Eighteen years ago, as leader of the opposition in East Timor, you showed great courage and great vision. Today, you are the President of a free, democratic, independent country. Congratulations to you, Mr President, and all the best to your country and your people. Thank you for your... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-10-07T00:00:00 | 2010 | EU cohesion and regional policy after 2013 - Future of the European Social Fund (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We apologise for the slight delay caused by the traffic. I would recommend that everyone walk to Parliament for three reasons. The first reason is to arrive on time. The second is because it is healthy. The third is that it causes less pollution. So, let us all walk to Parliament! The next item is the joint debate on t... | null |
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