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Edite Estrela
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted for the report on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Cataluña automoción/Spain, as it will allow complementary aid to be given to the Catalonian workers affected by the consequences of major changes to the structure of the world economy, along with assisting the reintegration of th...
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Diogo Feio
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
When I think about the crisis that has hit this sector, I remember hearing the former prime minister of Spain, José María Aznar, recounting how the former president of the United States of America, George W Bush, was astonished to learn that the foremost Spanish export was not an agricultural product, but cars. This w...
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José Manuel Fernandes
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The proposed aid plan for 1 429 former employees of 23 manufacturers of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers in the region of Catalonia, Spain, is urgently required for the technical and professional development of a large number of Europeans who have been directly affected by the current global economic and fin...
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Giovanni La Via
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted for the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in favour of Spain because I consider that instrument to be a valuable resource for the support of workers in difficulties on account of the economic crisis. The EGF was set up in 2006 to provide practical support to workers made redundan...
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Willy Meyer
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
es
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of this report on using funds from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) for the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, specifically for the 1 429 redundancies that have been made from 23 businesses operating in NACE Revision 2 Division 29 (manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trai...
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Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Given that Spain has submitted a request for assistance in relation to 1 429 cases of redundancy in 23 companies operating in NACE Revision 2 Division 29 (manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers) in the NUTS II region of Catalonia, I voted in favour of the resolution because I agree with the Commissi...
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Raül Romeva i Rueda
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Spain has requested assistance in respect of cases concerning 1 429 redundancies in 23 enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division 29 (manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers) sector in the NUTS II region of Catalonia. The application fulfils the eligibility criteria set up by the EGF Regula...
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Silvia-Adriana Ţicău
MEP
S&D
en
ro
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
In January 2010, Spain submitted a request to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in view of the redundancies made by 23 firms in the Catalonia region involved in the production of road transport vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers. I voted for the European Parliament resolution on the mobilisat...
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Angelika Werthmann
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
This mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund will benefit 1 429 workers in the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The Commission proposed that, in this particular case, an amount of EUR 2 752 935 be mobilised from the fund in order to ...
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Peter Jahr
MEP
PPE
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I am very pleased that the European Parliament has today decided to support numerous people who have been adversely affected by globalisation. However, the European funds must now be provided quickly and with no red tape, so that these people can find a new job as quickly as possible. This is an important and highly v...
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Crescenzio Rivellini
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I should like to offer my congratulations on the excellent work carried out by Mrs Matera. Today, I have voted in favour of the four requests for funding for workers who have lost their jobs in Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was set up in 2006 with a ceil...
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Luís Paulo Alves
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I welcome this report, which arranges the implementation of this convention and the recommendations adopted by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), allowing the adoption of control and enforcement measures for all fishing vessels which are being used, or are intended to be used, in fishing-oriented ac...
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Vito Bonsignore
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I would first like to offer my compliments to the rapporteur. I voted for this report because I agree that the scheme of control and enforcement adopted by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries must be transposed into EU law. I generally welcome the new regulations on t...
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Maria Da Graça Carvalho
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
It is vital for the European Union to establish an EU system for preventing, deterring and eliminating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The proposed regulations should integrate measures which set out the fishing opportunities and the associated conditions in EU waters, and, for EU fishing vessels, in wate...
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Lara Comi
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
It is methodologically correct to review and update the content of conventions, as has been done on this occasion. At the same time, however, it is appropriate to question Parliament’s role in this review. Apart from formal issues, the functioning of bodies associated with the European institutions must be constantly ...
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Edite Estrela
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of the report on a system of monitoring and enforcement applicable to the area of the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries (NEAFC) as it introduces a new scheme of monitoring and enforcement measures to ensure the conservation and balanced use of fisherie...
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Diogo Feio
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Given the importance of fisheries for Europe (both as an economic activity that generates jobs and wealth, and for its role in feeding people), we should always look very carefully at any regulation that seeks to impose new and more stringent obligations on European fishermen. The current proposal aims to update EU re...
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José Manuel Fernandes
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of this document because I share the view that the system of monitoring and enforcement adopted by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries (NEAFC) needs to be carried into EU law. Among the new rules, I would like to point out the monitoring of illegal a...
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João Ferreira
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The proposed monitoring system includes provisions to promote compliance with conservation and enforcement measures for vessels from non-contracting parties, and thus ensure full compliance with the conservation and management measures adopted by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atla...
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Pat the Cope Gallagher
MEP
ALDE
en
ga
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, to which the Community and the EU have now become a contracting party, came into force in 1982. The aim of the convention is to ensure the long-term preservation and maximum use of the fisheries resources of the North-East Atlantic...
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Giovanni La Via
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted for the report on the proposal for a regulation laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, to which the EU is a signatory, because I believe that that scheme needs to be incorporated i...
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Marisa Matias
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is crucial in order to preserve the sustainability of fisheries resources, along with ensuring greater fairness and equality in the distribution of wealth. The very existence of the fishing community depends upon these conditions. The control of all fishing...
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Willy Meyer
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
es
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The European Parliament has stressed on several occasions that full priority should be given to measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing applied by regional fisheries organisations (RFOs). Consequently, the rapporteur considers that the control and enforcement scheme adopted by the North-East Atl...
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Alexander Mirsky
MEP
S&D
en
lv
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Cooperation in North-East Atlantic fisheries means primarily fair quotas for all participants in the process. The legal basis that is being introduced, to apply to all participants, must be based on logic. No one must have exclusive rights to exploit Atlantic fish resources. I voted ‘for’ in the hope that the legislat...
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Andreas Mölzer
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Rising incomes and improved infrastructure lead to a higher consumption of fish in developing countries, too. The quantities of fish caught are already increasing yearly and will therefore continue to grow. Studies have shown that increasing fish stocks in the oceans and inland waters are mainly a result of aquacultur...
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Wojciech Michał Olejniczak
MEP
S&D
en
pl
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The report mentions the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, which came into force on 17 March 1982. The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (the NEAFC) was established to ensure control over the recommendations laid down in that document. The report stressed the imp...
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Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The proposal for a regulation by Parliament and the Council establishing a system of monitoring and enforcement applicable to the area of the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries (NEAFC) is of paramount importance in view of the updates to the EU regulations for implementi...
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Raül Romeva i Rueda
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, to which the EU is a contracting party, was approved by Council Decision 81/608/EEC and entered into force on 17 March 1982. Control and enforcement measures can be adopted to ensure that this convention and the recommendations adop...
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Oreste Rossi
MEP
ID
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I am in favour of this report because, although Europe has capped or actually banned the catching of various species of fish, there is a large number of illegal fishing vessels that not only catch protected fish but do not even comply with EU directives on worker protection. Adoption of this report means that the new ...
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Luís Paulo Alves
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Given the importance of this convention in contributing to the consultation, cooperation, optimum use, rational management and conservation of fisheries resources in the Northwest Atlantic area, along with promoting international collaboration in order to improve the sustainable management of marine resources based on...
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Edite Estrela
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of the recommendation on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the adoption of the amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries on behalf of the European Union, since the amendments offer a positive contribution to the reformulation of th...
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Diogo Feio
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Given the importance of fisheries for Europe (both as an economic activity that generates jobs and wealth, and for its role in feeding people), we should always look very carefully at any regulation that seeks to impose new and more stringent obligations on European fishermen. In this case, however, we have a proposed...
null
José Manuel Fernandes
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of this document because I share the view that the system of monitoring and enforcement adopted by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries needs to be carried into EU law. Among the new rules, I would like to point out the monitoring of illegal and undecl...
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João Ferreira
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The main objective of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) is to contribute to sustainable management and the conservation of fisheries resources in the area of the NAFO Convention, based on cooperation between states. We support and value the principle of international cooperation and collaboration in...
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Pat the Cope Gallagher
MEP
ALDE
en
ga
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries was signed on 24 October 1978 in Ottawa and came into force on 1 January 1979. The main aim of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) since then is to engage in consultation and cooperation in order to achieve maximum u...
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Willy Meyer
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
es
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries was signed in Ottawa on 24 October 1978 and entered into force on 1 January 1979 after the instruments of ratification, acceptance and adoption were deposited with the government of Canada by the seven contracting parties. The primar...
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Andreas Mölzer
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
We were already considering optimum utilisation and rational management for the conservation of fishery resources a good 30 years ago. Now, the regulations of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) are to be revised, not only to harmonise them better with other regional agreements and international instr...
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Claudio Morganti
MEP
ID
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
This proposal updates the EU legislation transposing the scheme of control and enforcement adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Commission. A new procedure is adopted with the aim of improving control and enforcement of its recommendations on fisheries and, in particular, encouraging vessels of non-contracting ...
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Wojciech Michał Olejniczak
MEP
S&D
en
pl
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Mr Wałęsa’s report refers to amendments to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, which was signed on 24 October 1978 in Ottawa, and came into force on 1 January 1979. NAFO, namely the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, has the task of ensuring the rational manag...
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Alfredo Pallone
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Wałęsa report amends the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) Convention of 1978 and represents a step forward for cooperation and management of fisheries resources in the north-western Atlantic. I voted in favour of the amendment to the convention because scientific research improves international coo...
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Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The main objective of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) is to ensure the rational management and conservation of fisheries resources in the area of the NAFO Convention. The EU is one of the contracting parties in this regional fisheries organisation (RFO) and, like the other contracting parties, at ...
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Crescenzio Rivellini
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I must congratulate Mr Wałęsa on his excellent report, and I would like to recall and emphasise the fact of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in December 2009. In the context of the powers newly acquired by the Committee on Fisheries, the European Parliament should be well represented during subsequent nego...
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Raül Romeva i Rueda
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries was signed on 24 October 1978 in Ottawa and came into force on 1 January 1979 following the deposit with the government of Canada of the instruments of ratification, acceptance and approval by seven signatories. The priority objective...
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Oreste Rossi
MEP
ID
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I am in favour of the recommendation on the comprehensive revision of the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, inasmuch as it incorporates modern concepts on fisheries management. The changes include streamlining measures, on the one hand, and clear definitions of the resp...
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Luís Paulo Alves
MEP
S&D
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Companies should be prevented from changing permanent jobs to atypical work, which leads to a lack of job security. This situation is even more serious if we take into account the increase in undeclared female workers, and the fact that many women have no choice but to accept precarious jobs. In spite of this, women a...
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Roberta Angelilli
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The Europe 2020 strategy proposes bringing the employment rate for the 20-64 age group up to 75% and reducing the number of people at risk of poverty. To achieve these objectives it would also be appropriate to take action against all forms of precarious employment, including unwritten work contracts, those of less th...
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Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
MEP
S&D
en
lt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I welcome the fact that the European Parliament initiated this important report on precarious women workers. It is primarily women who work in precarious employment, who often do not even enjoy compulsory minimum social standards for workers. Women tend to take poorly paid jobs where they can reconcile work and family...
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Vito Bonsignore
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I congratulate the rapporteur on having drawn attention to an aspect of the employment world that still results in excessive gender differences. The economic and financial crisis has undoubtedly worsened conditions for precarious workers, especially women, who bear most of the burden of precarious work. This is confir...
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Lara Comi
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Within the European Union, a merely descriptive term such as ‘precarious women workers’ still contains two forms of discrimination, both of them very serious. The first concerns the issue of women’s work, which has been addressed from a modern, sustainable viewpoint in another dossier in this part-session. The second ...
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Corina Creţu
MEP
S&D
en
ro
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of combating precarious work, which has been a growing feature of the economic crisis. This will help eradicate more effectively the lack of job security, the low level of wages, in most cases, not declared for tax purposes, the lack of social protection for people employed on a casual basis, as well...
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Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă
MEP
S&D
en
ro
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I believe that Member States must campaign to be able to offer women jobs and the option of unionised protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non-discriminatory working environment. I think that Member States must penalise the imposition of obstacles to trad...
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Proinsias De Rossa
MEP
S&D
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I support this report, which highlights that precarious work disproportionately affects women workers. Indeed, this is further evidence for the need to enhance maternity and paternity leave provisions to enable women and men to strike a balance between work and family commitments. Precarious work refers to a type of no...
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Diogo Feio
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Precarious work is not a gender issue, although it can be particularly high amongst women, and any view that tries to reduce it to a gender issue is simplistic. As I have already argued on several other occasions, inflexible models of labour law are proven to have failed. The example of the United States shows that fl...
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José Manuel Fernandes
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The current economic and financial crisis has increased the problem of poor female workers who often find themselves in a particularly vulnerable position in terms of work, as they have to juggle work with family commitments. I voted in favour of this report as I agree that there is a need to combat this problem, urgi...
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Ilda Figueiredo
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
We voted in favour of this own-initiative report which highlights the aspect of gender in unstable employment, denounces various situations and insists upon a set of measures to combat discrimination against women. Overall, it is positive, but it contains some contradictions and statements with which we disagree. The ...
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Nathalie Griesbeck
MEP
ALDE
en
fr
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The day after the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and social exclusion, I resolutely voted in favour of this report on precarious workers. It is a fact: despite positive developments in terms of male/female parity and gender equality, women are still more vulnerable than men when it comes to employmen...
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Jarosław Kalinowski
MEP
PPE
en
pl
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Women’s working lives and their career paths are often hampered by the stereotype of women as weaker, less resistant to stress and likely to become pregnant at any moment, and who, as a result, might take sick leave and other kinds of leave more often than men. This also makes it more difficult for women to find work,...
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Giovanni La Via
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of the report by Mrs Thomsen because I feel a revision of the legislation on working conditions for women involved in precarious work is now needed. In most countries, there has been a change in the conditions that prevailed until some time ago, whereby many more women were engaged in precarious work...
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
MEP
NI
en
fr
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
In the context of work connected with Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the report by the socialist Member, Mrs Britta Thomsen, is meant to be generous in terms of social progress. As usual, however, this type of report is full of rather vague, blanket proposals that are actually unacceptab...
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Marisa Matias
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Precariousness affects not only working conditions and relations, but also the very stability and quality of life for workers. Precariousness affects more women than men in Europe, thus exacerbating gender disparities at work, particularly in terms of social rights and wages. This situation is even more severe in dome...
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Willy Meyer
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
es
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of the Thomsen report, which tackles the issue of precarious women workers, as I am concerned about women being particularly hit by the consequences of the economic crisis. The crisis has had a greater impact on precarious jobs, which are largely done by women. I support this motion for a resolution ...
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Louis Michel
MEP
ALDE
en
fr
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I support the report on precarious women workers because I cannot conceive that in the 21st century, major differences persist in relation to women in the European Union with regard to employment opportunities, quality of work, income and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. Unfortunately, the over-represe...
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Alexander Mirsky
MEP
S&D
en
lv
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Unfortunately, the disparity between men’s and women’s pay manifests itself especially at a time of crisis. We need to significantly expand the scope of this discussion and then to draw up specific proposals for regulating labour relationships for working women. We must additionally introduce social guarantees particu...
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Andreas Mölzer
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
These forms of employment are a problem predominantly experienced by women, as the incompatibility of a career and a family forces many women into these precarious work situations and makes poverty inevitable later in life. In this regard, we must not overlook the fact that men are also affected by these forms of work...
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Claudio Morganti
MEP
ID
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Companies have reacted to the current economic and financial crisis by cutting temporary jobs, such as fixed-term contract workers, and have hired personnel or employees on other kinds of non-permanent contract. The resolution would have had my support if it had not encouraged employers to take specific steps to integ...
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Wojciech Michał Olejniczak
MEP
S&D
en
pl
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The rapporteur defines the concept of ‘precarious work’ as forms of employment with a low level of job security, low pay, a lack of social protection and employment-related benefits, a lack of protection from discrimination, limited prospects for advancement on the labour market or collective representation, or a work...
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Alfredo Pallone
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I voted in favour of the report by Mrs Thomsen. During an economic downturn such as the one we are currently experiencing, certain groups of workers always pay the highest price. Precarious workers are, in fact, facing this crisis without the safeguards that other workers can enjoy. Furthermore, within this category, ...
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Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
MEP
PPE
en
pt
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Precarious jobs are an important factor in social instability that is deteriorating significantly at present, with high unemployment rates that are still rising in several countries, including mine, Portugal. Traditionally, all forms of insecurity or volubility in employment hit female manual workers first and hardest...
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Rovana Plumb
MEP
S&D
en
ro
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The current economic and financial crisis has also seen a rise in the number of precarious jobs being carried out, especially by women. The permanent jobs which have been lost during the economic recession will certainly not be restored, but will be replaced by atypical and very atypical labour contracts. This will re...
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Crescenzio Rivellini
MEP
PPE
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I should like to offer my congratulations on the excellent work carried out by Mrs Thomsen. All too often, women have to accept working conditions that are anything but decent. A close watch therefore needs to be kept on the situation of female workers, particularly those who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Women who r...
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Robert Rochefort
MEP
ALDE
en
fr
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Workers on low – undeclared or informal – wages, workers with no right to social protection or to work-related benefits, workers with no prospect of promotion on the labour market … The number of so-called precarious workers is increasing as a result of the present economic crisis. There is a large gender divide among...
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Raül Romeva i Rueda
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
This was a crucial report and I am glad the EP has adopted it, mainly because it points out the gendered nature of precarious employment and recalls the shift in the labour market from standard to non-standard types of employment, making it necessary to prevent non-standard types of employment from becoming precarious ...
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Oreste Rossi
MEP
ID
en
it
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
Women are being hit harder by the current economic crisis precisely because they are a more sensitive category, in that their work is normally not confined to the workplace but also extends to the home and family. Most precarious work is done by women, who therefore find themselves with no job security, on low pay and...
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Joanna Senyszyn
MEP
S&D
en
pl
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
I endorsed the report on precarious women workers. The economic crisis has contributed to destabilisation of the labour market. Employers have reduced employment or have employed temporary workers, offering them inferior financial terms. The waves of redundancies, too, have meant that many people have found themselves...
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Angelika Werthmann
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The most recent studies have indicated that 31% of employed women work part time, compared with only 8.3% of employed men. Part-time workers have a lower income and, consequently, receive lower pensions than those in full-time work. Within teams, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to team work, which also manife...
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Marina Yannakoudakis
MEP
ECR
en
en
2010-10-19T00:00:00
2010
Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV
The ECR Group firmly and consistently believes that decisions relating to social policy and employment law should not be made at EU level but at Member State level by national and local governments. We recognise that a minimum standard of treatment of workers in the workplace is important and are pleased that the Europ...
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Edit Herczog
MEP
S&D
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV
Mr President, yesterday, we had a discussion on the budget. It was clear during the debate that the report by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) had not been received by the relevant services. We checked the issue. The report was completed and sent properly, so probably some mistakes occurred during ...
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV
We will do what you want. It is great. The beginning of today’s discussion is fantastic!
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
The next item is the joint debate on the following: - Council and Commission statements on preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November), - Council and Commission statements on preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October), - report A7-0267/2010 by Mrs Berès, on the financial, economic and social cri...
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Olivier Chastel
EU Council President
N/A
en
fr
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, Mr Barroso, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Council, I would like to thank you, Mr President, for the opportunity to talk about the preparatory work being carried out within the Council for the next European Council. This European Council will have a busy agenda. Its focal point will...
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José Manuel Barroso
EU Commission President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, today, we are debating first of all the issues that will be addressed next week by the European Council. I will concentrate on what I believe are the most important topics: economic governance in the European Union, of course, and externally – apart from the very important summit with the US and also the ...
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Pervenche Berès
N/A
N/A
en
fr
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, Mr Chastel, Mr Barroso, the financial, economic and social crisis that the world has been in for several years now is going to cost USD 60 trillion worldwide, which is the equivalent of one percentage point of annual growth. We have to do something about it. It will result in an 11% unemployment rate in ...
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Diogo Feio
N/A
N/A
en
pt
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Rehn, I should like to congratulate you in particular on the positive dialogue that Parliament has held with the Commission. Representatives of the Council, I should like to start by thanking everyone who has worked on this report and made it possible, especially all the shadow rapporteurs...
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Marta Andreasen
N/A
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, in my opinion on Mr Feio’s report on governance and the stability framework, I emphasised three points. The first was the need to be serious about sanctioning Member States that breach the Stability Pact. Just a couple of days ago, the French Prime Minister and the German Chancellor even agreed to change ...
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David Casa
N/A
N/A
en
mt
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
There is no doubt that the European Union was exemplary in the way it chose to proceed with the regulatory and supervision measures. This is reflected in the new supervision package which allows for certain systematic risks to be identified and for this to be done in a timely manner. On the other hand, when it comes t...
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António Fernando Correia De Campos
N/A
N/A
en
pt
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we all acknowledge that monitoring of the short- and long-term macro-economic variables in the European Union has failed, not least regarding budgetary frameworks and accumulated national debt. The crisis has made all the more pressing the need to strengthen the single market, takin...
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Martin Schulz
MEP
S&D
en
de
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, if you look at your list of speakers, you will see that the next speaker is my colleague, Mr Jáuregui Atondo. Before he takes the floor, please permit me, as chair of our Group, to inform the House that this morning, Mr Jáuregui Atondo, was appointed by the Spanish Government as its Minister for the Pres...
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Ramón Jáuregui Atondo
N/A
N/A
en
es
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, I would like to thank my friend Mr Schulz very much. I only have one minute to tell you that I believe that in the last few months, Europe has made extraordinary progress in terms of economic governance. Curiously, the summit between France and Germany the day before yesterday also opened the door to a n...
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Joseph Daul
MEP
PPE
en
fr
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the common thread between the meetings of the European Council and the G20 is the need to make the necessary adaptations after the financial crisis. For the European Union, these adaptations consist of putting our respective national and EU public finances in order and protecting ou...
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Martin Schulz
MEP
S&D
en
de
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, I would like to quote a passage from the statement made by the Heads of State or Government at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh held on 24-25 September 2009 – in other words, a year ago. The Heads of Government committed themselves at that summit to the following: ‘To launch a framework that lays out the pol...
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Guy Verhofstadt
MEP
ALDE
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, perhaps I may begin where Mr Schulz left off. Maybe we could ask for a convention now if they want to change the treaty. Normally, what we have to do is to ask for a convention. That is the first thing to do, but things are not that far advanced, I think. What we need now is to make an urgent deal in the ...
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
fr
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, Mr Chastel, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Verhofstadt has worn himself out today! However, what he had to say is important, as was Mr Schulz’s speech. I have my own thoughts for you also. Do you all know the film ‘Jules et Jim’? Well, there is a woman – Mrs Merkel. We know who Jules is – it is Mr ...
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
As you can appreciate, I have been quite flexible about the timing, partly because all the speeches have been very agreeable as well as very powerful – the IMF, casinos and cholesterol – all great fuel for this discussion.
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Michał Tomasz Kamiński
MEP
ECR
en
pl
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
We have all been recounting various anecdotes during these debates today, which also brought an historical association to my mind. For 18 years of my life, I lived in a country of real socialism, where Party congress after Party congress kept setting new economic targets and the citizens of my country – and the same g...
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Patrick Le Hyaric
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
fr
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, Mr Chastel, Mr Barroso, if I have understood you rightly Mr Barroso, we are starting from completely opposite analyses, since you said that the economic crisis is behind us, whilst our group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, believes that it is getting worse. To resol...
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Nigel Farage
MEP
ID
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, well President Barroso, you are certainly flexing your muscles, using the powers given to you by the Lisbon Treaty which you pushed through using illegitimate means. You now do everything you can on the world stage and within the EU to acquire all the attributes of statehood. Nowhere could that be more ap...
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Martin Schulz
MEP
S&D
en
de
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, I have a question for you, Mr Farage. Perhaps you would be so kind as to answer it for us. You are so concerned about the British tax coffers. Just like me, at the beginning of this term of office, you had the option of choosing from which coffers your daily allowances would be paid: from the UK coffers ...
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Nigel Farage
MEP
ID
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, I think we ought to do away with this notion of European money. Prior to there being a direct tax, there is, as we speak today, no such thing as European money: it is our money. We are a massive net contributor to this European Union for no single economic benefit in return whatsoever! It is our money!
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José Manuel Barroso
EU Commission President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, I do not usually intervene, but there is a point of order that I want to make. It is not the first time that Mr Farage has said when addressing me ‘You have not been elected’. I have certainly not been elected by you, but I have been elected by this Parliament. (Applause) I was elected by this Parliament ...
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Francisco Sosa Wagner
MEP
NI
en
es
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Preparations for the European Council meeting (28-29 October) - Preparations for the G20 summit (11-12 November) - Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken - Improving economic governance and stability framework in the EU, in particular, in the euro zone...
Mr President, we will see if I can bring a little calm to this fierce debate. It is regrettable that along with the European Union, some of its Member States are still part of the G20. Despite this anomaly, which certainly weakens Europe’s image in the world, it would be good if at least there was an overall common po...
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