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Othmar Karas
MEP
PPE
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, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, this debate shows one thing: the Deauville deal hinders us from overcoming the crisis, the Deauville deal is a backward step for the European Union and the Deauville deal shows us that neither member of this charming couple has learnt anything from France and Germany’s i...
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Stephen Hughes
MEP
S&D
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, as we have heard, the task force chaired by Herman Van Rompuy has now produced its report. It contains proposals for crisis resolution and budgetary discipline: in other words, only part of the picture. I would emphasise that these are only proposals. I am sure the ECOFIN Ministers who dominated the proce...
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Olle Schmidt
MEP
ALDE
en
sv
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 last year has shown that the EU can take important decisions in difficult situations. Unfortunately, the last few days have been a disappointment. When the EU needs clear and stringent budget rules, France and Germany hesitate. This causes us concern. Our message is: leave Mr Rehn’s proposal alone! I would like to...
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Pascal Canfin
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 Barroso, Mr Rehn, I genuinely hope that you will look at the work done by the European Parliament on the subjects we have been dealing with today – the Berès report and the Feio report – because, of course, we are now working as colegislators on economic governance. I can tell you that together with f...
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Roberts Zīle
MEP
ECR
en
lv
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...
Thank you, Mr President, Mr Barroso (who has left the Chamber). First, I should like to thank the rapporteur, my fellow shadow rapporteurs and the chair of the committee, Mr Klintz, for the compromise that we at last managed to arrive at. I shall only speak in relation to two items in the report, with which I am not s...
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Ilda Figueiredo
MEP
GUE/NGL
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, the declarations by Germany and France in the so-called Deauville agreement are unacceptable and show the true faces of those who are calling the shots in defence of economic and financial interest groups. These declarations also demonstrate impatience, arrogance and aggression towards the response of th...
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Juozas Imbrasas
MEP
ID
en
lt
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...
I would like to say a few words about the work of the Special Crisis Committee. It really has done a great job and has made good recommendations and proposals. Of course, ideally, there would be a place for all of these in the documents being drafted by the Commission. It is essential that the Commission does not forg...
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Krisztina Morvai
MEP
NI
en
hu
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 was the case in the previous major debate of this week here in the European Parliament, namely, the debate on poverty, the politicians of the European Union are once again surprised and sad to see that the situation of Europe’s citizens is not improving, but rather constantly deteriorating. Poverty is growing stead...
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Corien Wortmann-Kool
MEP
PPE
en
nl
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, despite some positive signals, the risk of the crisis worsening has not gone away. The banking system remains unstable and a number of Member States face the threat of government deficits getting out of hand if nothing is done. Therefore, we urgently need an economic union. Mr President, the task force h...
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Sergio Gaetano Cofferati
MEP
S&D
en
it
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 crisis has had a very great impact on society in all European countries. If we look at the consequences from a social viewpoint, we swiftly reach the conclusion – one that is driving much of the Commission’s work – that the worst is yet to come. Unemployment is set to increase a...
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Wolf Klinz
MEP
ALDE
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, ladies and gentlemen, at the height of the financial crisis, the G20 countries promised joint action to stabilise the financial markets. Today, two years later, we are still a long way away from a global answer. In many instances, the measures adopted pursue national interests and considerations. The ini...
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Kay Swinburne
MEP
ECR
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, the combined topics of this morning’s debate have a strong common theme of our continued response to the financial crisis and to finding ways to make our management of the risk more effective, whether it be risk management of public debt, risk management of our financial markets and products, or the risk ...
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Nikolaos Chountis
MEP
GUE/NGL
en
el
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, speaking on the Berès report on the crisis on behalf of the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, in order to explain why we shall not be voting, I wish to say, as there is a surfeit of historical references, that today’s text, compared with the initial text submitted by the r...
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Mario Borghezio
MEP
ID
en
it
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 should have listened to the advice of the Nobel laureate, Maurice Allais, who called for a clear separation between business banks, credit banks and speculative banks, in accordance with the principles of the Glass-Steagall Act, which is not discussed in this report. As far as th...
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Sirpa Pietikäinen
MEP
PPE
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, it is only two years since the financial crisis broke out and only six months since the Greek issue, and we are seeing all willingness fading away in our nation states. Today, we have a clear message from the European Parliament in the Berès report and the Feio report. We need more current economic and fi...
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Udo Bullmann
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, Mr Chastel, Commissioner, this could actually have been a time of great answers, but in hindsight, it does not look like it. What is on the table for the so-called reform of the Stability and Growth Pact is no great answer; once again, it is the lowest common denominator – the small morsel that could act...
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Ramon Tremosa i Balcells
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, the current financial crisis offers the opportunity to make clear headway in the process of European integration. I want to focus my intervention on the creation of a European common treasury for the eurozone countries. This would be a clear improvement of the institutional framework for European economic...
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Ivo Strejček
MEP
ECR
en
cs
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...
If you have been listening to this debate here from early on, then I think that all those who say that the European Union is at a crossroads are correct. On one side, are those who advocate a strong Community approach. On the other side, it is fair to say, are a minority in this Parliament who think that the European ...
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Jürgen Klute
MEP
GUE/NGL
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, economic governance as it is being developed here focuses solely on savings and competition policy. As has just been mentioned by the honourable Member from Spain, the problem of Germany’s orientation towards exports has not been addressed at all. Yet this is clearly a central problem, both in the euro a...
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Jean-Paul Gauzès
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, Mr Chastel, Commissioner, in 1968, our fellow Member Mr Cohn-Bendit’s friends wrote, ‘words, not deeds’ on the walls of Paris. Today, citizens are asking for the opposite: deeds, not words. We are hearing a lot of words, but our fellow citizens are not seeing results. The European Union’s slowness to res...
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Elisa Ferreira
MEP
S&D
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, Commissioner, I should like to start by thanking Mr Feio for his cooperative efforts and the spirit of compromise with which he has imbued his report. However, the conclusion that we reached was that on certain issues – and this also happened with financial supervision – Parliament is able to unite and t...
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Vicky Ford
MEP
ECR
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, better economic governance is required with earlier warnings and earlier actions. Traditional debt and deficit targets have been breached by many countries, but would not have warned us about the crisis pending in Spain or Ireland. Other measures are needed too. Economics, however, is not an exact science...
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Danuta Maria Hübner
MEP
PPE
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, as usual, there is both good and bad in our reality and in what we do. It is important to understand the past and the causes of the crisis, and I think the Union has done its homework on that, but today, the focus must be on the future. The global and European economic governance we build is for tomorrow,...
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Robert Goebbels
MEP
S&D
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, Europe is in a bad way and the world is not fairing any better. Earlier on, the President-in-Office of the Council stressed that globalisation means we have to act at European level and at international level. However, if we look at what is going on in the European Union and interna...
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Regina Bastos
MEP
PPE
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, I will begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs Berès, on the report we are discussing today, as well as everyone else who worked on it. As part of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis, I made a contribution on the issue of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), stres...
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Liisa Jaakonsaari
MEP
S&D
en
fi
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, Commission President Barroso said at the start that economic governance has made such very rapid progress that just two years ago, no one could have even forecast it. That is correct, and that is why it is always worth checking to see if the train is on the right tracks, when speed is not an end in itsel...
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Iliana Ivanova
MEP
PPE
en
bg
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...
In the report from the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis we call, above all, for a European response, strong political and intellectual leadership with a European dimension, far-reaching integration and completion of the single European market for the benefit of European citizens. We reach...
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Ivaylo Kalfin
MEP
S&D
en
bg
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 economic recession hit Member States with varying degrees of severity. However, the difference does not extend beyond the borders of the euro area, which might be assumed to be the case from an economic perspective. Unfortunately, the single currency has not resulted in economic alignment so far. In fact, precisel...
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Frank Engel
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, the crisis is far from over and the unrest in countries such as France is a witness to this. In Europe, I think the crisis has become one of integration. A perfect example, once again, is the ‘Deauville deal’, which undermines the Community method and is a reflection of the delusions of grandeur still ha...
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Burkhard Balz
MEP
PPE
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, without wishing to appear presumptuous, listening to the debate here this morning, I think we can conclude that some amount of work has been done in recent months. The Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis has also completed a great deal of work in the past year. That is apparent...
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Antonio Cancian
MEP
PPE
en
it
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, I listened to the various speeches this morning very carefully but I believe we could do with shedding a little more light to distinguish between instruments, that I incidentally consider to be well-defined and aligned, and strategy and our internal unity as the European Union. As f...
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Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš
MEP
PPE
en
lv
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, Commissioner, members of the Council, in the last two years, very many people in the European Union have suffered, suffered directly as a result of the crisis. No small number of people in my own country, Latvia, have also suffered. A 20% reduction in economic turnover, and an equally steep increase in u...
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Gunnar Hökmark
MEP
PPE
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 should be clear about one thing, namely, that the global economic crisis is mainly focused on the US and European economies. There are high levels of growth in other parts of the world, but not in Europe and not in the US. More than anything else, this is rooted in overspending and lack of grow...
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Theodoros Skylakakis
MEP
PPE
en
el
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, the Berès report on the economic crisis, which is the subject of one of our debates today, notes in paragraph 32 that some Member States, obviously implying my country, Greece, do not currently have opportunities to create real recovery plans and that all the options until the year 2012 are limited to pu...
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Seán Kelly
MEP
PPE
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, one minute it shall be. There were two statements made here this morning that I want to focus on. One by Danuta Hübner when she says that Europe does not exist in a vacuum, and the second by Mr Chastel who said Europe cannot grant all concessions alone. I think it is time for the European Union to get tou...
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Jan Kozłowski
MEP
PPE
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...
I would like to begin by expressing my satisfaction with the report on improving the economic governance and stability framework of the Union, and my gratitude for the outstanding work the rapporteur, Mr Feio, has put in. I am convinced that new initiatives, such as the financial supervision package and the European S...
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Gilles Pargneaux
MEP
S&D
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, to begin with, I would just like to say a few words about the Franco-German proposals. I think our reaction should ultimately be a positive one. We are often saying that since 2007, our Franco-German engine has been missing. At the same time, it is regrettable that there is an element of enslavement for ...
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Monika Flašíková Beňová
MEP
S&D
en
sk
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...
Crisis is a very complex phenomenon; so allow me just a few comments since there is little time. Firstly, too great an emphasis is placed on the criterion of public debt within national economies when other indicators are equally important. At the same time, a certain amount of public debt is inevitable in times of cr...
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Anneli Jäätteenmäki
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, I propose that in future, we have one representative for economic issues. We should have a high representative for economic affairs in the same way as we have a High Representative for Foreign Affairs. In future, we could merge Mr Rehn’s and Mr Barnier’s posts. On another issue, it is a shame that we cann...
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Sven Giegold
MEP
Greens/EFA
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, yesterday evening, I was really suffering with Mr Rehn during the press conference when I saw how he had to present this deal, which was not really based on his proposals alone. After what we learned from the supervisory package, I think we have seen how Parliament and the Commission can work together in ...
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Miguel Portas
MEP
GUE/NGL
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, as the Franco-German directorate is no longer seated in this Chamber, I will direct my three questions on the recent frenzy of penalties to the Commission and Council. The first is on the idea of deposits with interest: how on Earth do you rationalise adding one deficit to another deficit in order to com...
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Andrew Henry William Brons
MEP
NI
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, we have been promised economic growth, but the competition that European countries face from the developing economies will lead to the destruction of the manufacturing bases and jobs of our countries. We can only compete with them by driving down the living standards of our workers. We must reject globali...
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Alajos Mészáros
MEP
PPE
en
hu
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 experienced the most serious social and economic crisis in the history of the European Union, the chief causes of which include global inequality, lax financial regulation and the permissive financial policy of the United States. I think that the European Union was a little late in responding to the consequenc...
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Antigoni Papadopoulou
MEP
S&D
en
el
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, the European Union is indeed at a crossroads. The international economic crisis has limited growth and exacerbated unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. The rescue measures were positive, despite serious weaknesses. However, we clearly need more Community solidarity and coordination between nationa...
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Philippe Lamberts
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, I would like to address the Commission and the Council, simply to highlight the three failings, as we see it, in the European governance proposals. The first failing is that there is extremely strict discipline concerning deficits and debt and extremely loose discipline concerning investment, and I am th...
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Constance Le Grip
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, I should like to focus my speech on the preparations for the forthcoming G20 summits. The previous speakers have said everything there is to say on European economic governance, the need to strengthen European economic governance, to strengthen the Stability and Growth Pact, and to involve the European P...
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Petru Constantin Luhan
MEP
PPE
en
ro
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 effects of the crisis seem to be far from over at the moment. This is why I would like to remind you, in this context, of the important role played by the economic and social cohesion policy and, last but not least, of the absolute prerequisite which it represents. This policy has become a key feature of the econo...
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Rachida Dati
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, I should first like to congratulate our colleague, Mr Feio, on the quality of his report and the ambitious proposals that it contains. This also demonstrates that the European Parliament is playing a full part in a debate that is decisive for the future of Europe, and we can only be...
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Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
MEP
S&D
en
lt
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 financial, economic and social crisis has affected every citizen of Europe. However, the hard times have highlighted even more the fact that the various national economic recovery plans were poorly coordinated and not effective enough. Furthermore, certain Member States really did not have opportunities to create ...
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Andreas Mölzer
MEP
NI
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, scarcely have we half regulated the financial sharks of the stock market monopoly than we are faced with the problem of a global race to devalue currencies which, despite China’s slight accommodation today, has not yet been averted. Something that is anathema to us in Europe – namely, devaluation or inte...
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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, I should like to thank Members who spoke for their contribution. I should like to reply to two or three of those speeches. First, to Mr Zīle. I think that what he said is very important when we come to reform cohesion policy. We must make an assessment of this cohesion policy, to establish whether, over ...
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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, I should like to start by thanking all the Members who have been contributing, even those yet to speak before the end of the debate. It is time to move from words to actions. From now on, following this vote, which I hope will be in favour, Parliament will have its own position on the subject of economic...
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Olli Rehn
EU Commissioner
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, let me start by thanking rapporteurs Berès and Feio and the honourable Members for this very substantial and substantive debate. I do appreciate that the volume of the contributions corresponds to the importance of the issues discussed. I want to make a few comments, responses and remarks on the debate an...
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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, I shall be brief and begin by thanking the two rapporteurs, Mrs Berès and Mr Feio, on behalf of the Council. They embody Parliament’s involvement in a subject area as important as this. I should also like to say that I urge you to analyse without delay initiatives in relation to economic governance – Com...
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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 debate is closed. The vote will take place today, Wednesday, 20 October 2010. Written statements (Rule 149)
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Paolo Bartolozzi
MEP
PPE
en
it
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...
I would like to express my appreciation for the important contribution that this work will make in identifying a set of measures to be taken to overcome the current crisis and prevent the possibility of further crises. After the limits of a system of self-regulation were highlighted to a worrying degree by the recent ...
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Elena Băsescu
MEP
PPE
en
ro
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 current economic crisis proves that the economic governance model currently used in the EU has not worked sufficiently well, thereby failing to achieve full convergence between Member States. This situation requires an improvement in the economic framework and the development of ambitious monitoring instruments wh...
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Dominique Baudis
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...
The financial, economic and social crisis has now been raging for two years. It has resulted in an unemployment rate of more than 10% in the EU and in the risk of a new recession. This is a crisis that we are unable to bring under control. The next G20 summit will take place on 11 and 12 November in Seoul, under the P...
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Ivo Belet
MEP
PPE
en
nl
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, one of the most eye-catching features in these recommendations is the tax on financial transactions. Such a measure will enable us to kill several birds with one stone: it is an effective instrument against speculation and the revenue will enable us to address government deficits and the funding for pres...
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George Sabin Cutaş
MEP
S&D
en
ro
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 regulatory structures which existed prior to the economic and monetary crisis in the European Union and United States showed a lack of consistency and were overwhelmingly based on disparate macro-economic analyses. Due to the lack of any global consistency in these regulatory structures, countries responded off th...
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João Ferreira
MEP
GUE/NGL
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...
Once and for all, the EU and its leaders will have to recognise that the severe crisis we are experiencing did not come from the US! It is a systemic crisis resulting from capitalism in its current phase of development – neoliberalism. In view of this, the crisis in the EU comes from the very foundations of the EU its...
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Louis Grech
MEP
S&D
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...
We are in the middle of a crisis, which has, to a large degree, damaged the financial, economic and social sectors and has had a negative impact on the integration process of the internal market. The single market might be the necessary catalyst to initiate a real European economic and financial recovery from the crisi...
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Marian-Jean Marinescu
MEP
PPE
en
ro
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 economic recovery is under way in Europe. However, the climate remains uncertain. Global economic recovery is still fragile, with the pace of the process varying from country to country. The top priority is still to create a stable basis which will systematically promote sustained, balanced economic growth. To thi...
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Alexander Mirsky
MEP
S&D
en
lv
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...
In the situation that has developed, the major and most important thing is to find a diagnosis and the causes that led us to the crisis. People in various EU states have experienced the fall-out from the crisis in different ways. It is essential to pinpoint the mistakes, malpractice and unprofessional conduct of natio...
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Sławomir Witold Nitras
MEP
PPE
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...
I would like to thank Mr Feio for his work on the draft report. It seems to me that we are returning to business as usual rather too quickly as far as the threats facing Europe are concerned. We are not giving proper attention to the warning signals from the financial markets, or from people such as President Trichet,...
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Alfredo Pallone
MEP
PPE
en
it
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 word ‘crisis’ comes from the Greek word Krino that literally means ‘to decide’, ‘to choose’. It therefore indicates a moment that separates one stage from another. We must look beyond and consider the past in order to implement the structural changes that will make our small and medium-sized enterprises more compe...
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Richard Seeber
MEP
PPE
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...
The economic and financial crisis has revealed all too clearly the shortcomings and weaknesses of the existing instruments and methods for coordinating economic and currency policy. In the past, some Member States, particularly France and Germany, were too hesitant at introducing stricter regulation. Overcoming the ec...
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Jutta Steinruck
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...
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the G20 Heads of State or Government have been meeting regularly every six months to discuss economic and financial issues and to bolster cooperation in order to achieve stable and sustainable growth for the world economy for the benefit of all. However, I believe that, in order to ...
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Silvia-Adriana Ţicău
MEP
S&D
en
ro
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 EU, with its 500 million citizens, accounting for 7% of the world’s population, produces 30% of the global GDP. The latest statistics show that the EU posted a trade deficit of EUR 17.3 billion in August 2010. During the first half of this year, the EU recorded the highest increases in exports with Brazil (+57%), ...
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Janusz Wojciechowski
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...
Yesterday, in Łódź, Poland, an employee of a European Parliament constituency office was murdered at work. He was my assistant, Marek Rosiak. What the murderer said while he committed the crime left no doubt that his motive was hatred for the Law and Justice Party, Poland’s main opposition party. The hate campaign wag...
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Ria Oomen-Ruijten
MEP
PPE
en
nl
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 have just shown how dignified we, as a Parliament, can be. However, on entering the Chamber just now, I was, first, harassed by people who think that we ought to sign certain resolutions and, then, surrounded by balloons promoting certain amendments. Mr President, I find such behaviour detrimental to ...
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Gerard Batten
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, may I ask you to make a ruling please? We see that balloons are displayed in the Chamber. Can you make a ruling on whether that is permissible or not. If it is not, may they be removed? If it is, my colleagues and I have some very tasteful UKIP balloons in purple and yellow which we would like to bring al...
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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...
Dear colleagues, we will vote today on this very important issue. This issue is connected with your demonstration here. I ask you to leave this demonstration until the vote, which will be in about 40 minutes’ time. I ask you to do that. It is a small gesture for all of us. Generally speaking, I support you, but please ...
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-20T00:00:00
2010
Formal sitting - Mid-term address by Jerzy Buzek, President of ParliamentVideo of the speechesPV
Colleagues, I have a short speech, as I promised you one year ago. We are at the mid-way point of my Presidency. At the very beginning, I promised that I would inform you of my activities. As the President of the European Parliament, I represent all of you. Wherever I go, whatever I do, I have always felt the honour an...
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Mario Pirillo
MEP
S&D
en
it
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during the night of 18 October the town of Paola, the birthplace of Saint Francis, was hit by a violent rainstorm affecting the whole of Calabria: huge damage was caused to public buildings, private homes, water and sewage networks, and electricity and telephone networks, not to men...
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Opening of the sittingVideo of the speechesPV
Of course, we are taking good note of the information you have provided us with. We would like to express our solidarity and our concern about the disaster that has hit Calabria and, naturally, all the members of this Parliament declare their support to those affected in that beautiful region of Italy and Europe.
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President
EUROPARL President
N/A
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
The first item is the Commission statement on implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova.
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Štefan Füle
EU Commissioner
N/A
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, when looking at EU-Moldova relations, I believe it is uncontroversial that we have achieved a lot of progress in record time, but domestically the country still faces many challenges. The referendum of 5 September was meant to resolve the political deadlock by changing the rules for electing the President...
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Monica Luisa Macovei
MEP
PPE
en
ro
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
The purpose of this debate is for us to discuss the reforms carried out by the Republic of Moldova during the last year and the progress made on the path to European integration. This country has been on the European Union’s agenda for a year because it has met its commitments. I would like to mention some of those co...
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Adrian Severin
MEP
S&D
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, the Republic of Moldova has a single option – between ‘Transnistrialisation’ and ‘Europeanisation’. That is to say between an oligarchic past of a Soviet nature and a future of security, prosperity and social justice. Moldova’s development has so far been negatively influenced by its internal political in...
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Graham Watson
MEP
ALDE
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, eighteen months ago this House was shocked by the brutality of the events in Chisinau. A few weeks later, we had the great pleasure of welcoming here in our gallery the leaders of the democratic political parties from that country, embarked on a new path. We shared the enthusiasm of Moldova’s people for a...
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Tatjana Ždanoka
MEP
Greens/EFA
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, we welcome the progress made by the Republic of Moldova and hope that the forthcoming electoral process can further consolidate the democratic institutions and ensure respect for the rule of law and of human rights in Moldova. We know that there is broad support for Moldova’s future EU membership – not NA...
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Charles Tannock
MEP
ECR
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, no one is disputing that Moldova has a long way to go before it achieves its ultimate goal of joining the European Union, which is a goal that my group, the ECR, supports. It remains one of Europe’s poorest countries, despite being in the WTO, and, as such, is vulnerable to organised crime, human traffick...
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Bastiaan Belder
MEP
ID
en
nl
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, this debate demonstrates Europe’s commitment to the divided Republic of Moldova, and I am extremely pleased about that. In my country, the Netherlands, citizens have for many years been developing some inspiring social initiatives offering young people from Moldova genuine prospects. In this context I wo...
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Traian Ungureanu
MEP
PPE
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, there is ample proof that Moldova’s commitment to European values and standards is genuine and effective. Moldova is actually the best example of implementing pro-European policies among our Eastern neighbours. In actual fact, Moldova’s euro-credentials make it fully compatible with Western Balkan states....
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Iliana Malinova Iotova
MEP
S&D
en
bg
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
The challenges Moldova is currently facing, which are also part of our overall objective, include strengthening the multi-ethnic state, its identity, the political settlement of the Transnistrian problem and Moldova’s membership of the European Union as an autonomous, independent state. The visa liberalisation process...
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Cristian Silviu Buşoi
MEP
ALDE
en
ro
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
As a member of the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Delegation, it has been a pleasure for me to follow Moldova’s positive progress and I can confirm that the Republic of Moldova’s commitment to the European path has been very clearly demonstrated during the last year. I would like to remind you at this ...
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Adam Bielan
MEP
ECR
en
pl
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Ten days ago, I had the opportunity to visit Moldova as part of a special delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs with, amongst others, fellow Members Mrs Macovei and Mr Watson. We were in Moldova at an extremely important moment for the country – several weeks after the unsuccessful constitutional referendum o...
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Elena Băsescu
MEP
PPE
en
ro
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
I too would like to thank all those who have made this debate possible. It is our duty to look towards the Republic of Moldova with a sense of great responsibility, especially now with the elections approaching. The government of the Alliance for European Integration has shown through the special effort it has made th...
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Kristian Vigenin
MEP
S&D
en
bg
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
I am pleased that the European Parliament is devoting its time to discussing the situation in Moldova, a country which is essentially European. In this respect, we must say that the ruling Coalition for European Integration actually contributed a great deal to the process of bringing Moldova closer to the European Uni...
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Cristian Dan Preda
MEP
PPE
en
ro
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Romanian imperialism is how Moldova’s Communists describe the interest being shown and speeches being made by MPs in Romania regarding the situation in Chişinău, regardless of whether it is President Băsescu or MEPs. In other words, the Communists in Chişinău would like Bucharest to shut up. In my own view, I must say...
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Marek Siwiec
MEP
S&D
en
pl
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Let us ask ourselves why we are devoting so much attention to such a small country which lies in the vicinity of the Black Sea but does not have access to it. Perhaps the reason we are talking about Moldova is because it is a small country where two worlds meet. One of these, which once symbolised the Soviet Union, is...
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Eduard Kukan
MEP
PPE
en
sk
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
The progress Moldova has made so far indicates that this country could become an example of a success story of a participant in the Eastern Partnership of the European Union. The current pro-European government led by the Alliance for European Integration presented the citizens of Moldova with a clear and important po...
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Laima Liucija Andrikienė
MEP
PPE
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, Moldova has come a long way since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact divided Europe into spheres of influence and Moldova became part of the USSR. Moldova today is an independent state. It is true that it has many problems. At the same time, it is a democratic country on the way to European integration, so today...
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Ioan Mircea Paşcu
MEP
S&D
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, Moldova is the last piece of ‘Latinity’ outside the EU. History has played a big role in that. However, through the neighbourhood policy and Eastern Partnership, Moldova’s prospects of first getting closer, and then being admitted, to the EU after fulfilling the required conditions are improving. The curr...
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Andreas Mölzer
MEP
NI
en
de
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, when we have considered the Balkans in the past, for example, when we focused on the problems of Kosovo or Bosnia, we have tended to overlook Moldova. The EU should long ago have taken on the role of mediator in the conflicts involving Moldova and its neighbours. It is regrettable that Moldova has now re...
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Andrzej Grzyb
MEP
PPE
en
pl
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Commissioner, I had the opportunity to observe the re-elections in Moldova. When we talked to the representatives of the then opposition parties, we saw great desire for change. That change has taken place. The current prime minister, Mr Filat, speaking at the time as a representative of the opposition, clearly declar...
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Mario Pirillo
MEP
S&D
en
it
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, last weekend I travelled to Chişinău, in Moldova. I attended a convention, organised by the Minister for Culture, on Moldava’s integration into Europe with particular reference to culture. I very much appreciated the great desire for growth, especially through a series of initiatives ranging from the con...
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Andrew Henry William Brons
MEP
NI
en
en
2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, the number of natural recipients of EU funding is currently just under half the total membership. As we extend membership to more and more and even poorer eastern states, the proportion of net recipients will increase to perhaps two-thirds. This will self-evidently be at the expense of current net contrib...
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Štefan Füle
EU Commissioner
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2010-10-21T00:00:00
2010
Implemented reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova (debate) Video of the speechesPV
Mr President, I very much appreciated this debate. I appreciate the timing of this debate and most of all I appreciate the overall clear unity of the message and support of this distinguished House. The Republic of Moldova is at a turning point in its history. The Commission has been active in helping the Moldovan Gove...
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