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Jacky Hénin | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2009-10-20T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We dare to speak of a Schengen acquis, but as someone who lives in Calais, I can confirm first-hand that, while the Schengen agreements have benefited the free movement of capital and goods, they still present a number of problems. Beyond the pleasant utopia of a Europe without borders, we are faced every day with the... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission on preparation of the European Council. | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, next week, we have a meeting of the European Council. We have a comprehensive agenda, which includes many issues that affect the welfare of us all. We will be discussing the issues of combating climate change, finding ways to lead the EU out of the financial and economic crisis, promoting energy security... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I broadly agree with the lines expressed by Cecilia Malmström on behalf of the European Council. Let me highlight two main issues: the Lisbon Treaty and all institutional matters on the one hand, and the fight against climate change and the prospects for Copenhagen, on the other. First of all, I think thi... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) expects the next European Council to bring to an end the overly long period of uncertainty over the European institutions and to provide the necessary impetus to establish the new Commission and also the stable President... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, Mr Barroso, before I look at the institutional issues, I would like to make a brief remark about Copenhagen. You are completely right, Mrs Malmström, and Mr Barroso has reinforced this, that one of the essential decisions which we now have to make concerns Copenhagen. We need binding objec... | null |
Zoltán Balczó | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Swoboda, you mentioned that the Czech Republic was reassured at the time of its accession that there was no need for concern about the Beneš Decrees as they were not valid. Are you aware that the serious consequences of these decrees are still valid? Therefore, if we have rule of law here, and we regard the whole o... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Swoboda, could you comment on that? | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have become heavily involved in this issue, because many Sudeten Germans live in Austria and I recognise their rights, hardships and worries. However, we must finally lay the ghosts of the past and look to the future. The future is not about the Beneš Decrees. It is about a free Europe with free citize... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ‘the train has already travelled so fast and so far that I guess it will not be possible to stop it or turn it’. That is a quote from President Klaus and it is probably the only time that I agree with him, that the train has already travelled so fast and so far that it is not possible to stop it or turn i... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, Mr Barroso, on the subject of the Czech Republic, I would first of all like to say that I feel that Mr Klaus is a very bad loser and that his actions represent a particular kind of political impertinence. I would like to ask you very, very urgently not to respond to a bad loser who obvious... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Colleagues, please keep to the allotted time. Your speeches are very important but nevertheless, I have another request for a blue-card question. I am not going to take every blue card because we must go ahead with our discussion. In a few minutes, there will be another request; if it is a Rule 149(8) request, I will t... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I first of all congratulate the Swedish Government on its Presidency in general and particularly on the way it has attempted to advance the very important issues of climate change and dealing with the economic and financial crisis that faces us. I think Mr Reinfeldt and his government deserve our than... | null |
Lothar Bisky | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, Mr Barroso, there has been much speculation over staffing issues during the last three months and over the possible entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which my group has rejected for three good reasons. In simplistic terms, firstly we want priority to be given to a social Europe rat... | null |
Nigel Farage | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Barroso said this morning that all Member States had democratically ratified this Treaty. That is not true. The British people have not had a say on this, despite being promised it, and until we get a referendum on this, I will refuse to recognise the legitimacy of this Treaty. (Protests) Now all eyes ... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is disappointing – but not unexpected – that the Council and the Commission are determined to push ahead with the Lisbon Treaty. I know that it might not be popular in this House, but it is my genuinely-held belief that in the United Kingdom, there should be a referendum on the Treaty. I do not underst... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, thank you for giving me the opportunity to make a few comments now, even though I will, of course, remain here until the end of the debate. I would first like to address Mr Verhofstadt. No, I do not think that it will be possible to stop the train either. I hope that the train will enter the station very... | null |
José Manuel Barroso | EU Commission President | N/A | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think that the Chairman of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), Joseph Daul, and Mrs Harms have asked some very important questions. How can we ensure success at Copenhagen, especially when other partners are not making the same effort? In fact, there are difficulties, becaus... | null |
Othmar Karas | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Farage is now leaving. I hope that there is no one in this Chamber who hates what he has implied about us. Hate goes against the European ethos, and egoism, protectionism and nationalism are the greatest enemies of the Community of the European Union. Secondly, I hope that there ... | null |
Jo Leinen | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the demand from Václav Klaus for an addition to the Charter of Fundamental Rights is both arbitrary and superfluous. However, it is easy to oppose, because the charter refers only to EU law and applies only to the future. Therefore, if necessary, the Council should make a political declaration. In a few ... | null |
Marielle De Sarnez | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to ask three questions. Firstly, there is the issue of climate change. Everyone can see that the European Union has a special duty to lead the nations of the world in Copenhagen. To do this, we must be demanding and ambitious as far as goals are concerned, but we must also acknowledge the de... | null |
Gerald Häfner | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Treaty of Lisbon is on the home straight and it is now time to look to the future. We must make Europe more social, more environmentally friendly and more democratic. We have a lot of catching up to do in these areas in particular. I would like to see a Europe in which the citiz... | null |
Oldřich Vlasák | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to respond to the previous speech. It is absolutely clear that the next meeting of the European Council will be dominated by institutional questions and the process for ratifying the Lisbon Treaty. In the debates on the future direction of the EU... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the statements by the Council and the Commission on the forthcoming European Council summit signal an escalation in the anti-grassroots policy of the European Union and of the governments of its Member States, with a new all-out attack on the working classes. The primary objective of the European Union a... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the big problem for the Member States is, as Mr Bisky said earlier, the crisis in jobs. Youth unemployment is 24% in France, 25% in Italy and 39% in Spain. Nevertheless, we can be sure that the European Council meeting will be saturated with a colossal triumphalism in the context of mass unemployment. Thi... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, any debate about the signature of the Treaty of Lisbon is superfluous until we have clarified with each other what our most fundamental values are. Allow me to give you a few examples relating to the largest disenfranchised minority in Europe, which is the Hungarian c... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | There are certain speakers in this Parliament who, regardless of the topic being discussed, talk on the same subject, not always in an appropriate manner. The first priority during the European Council meeting must obviously be to find a solution so that the Czech Republic can finalise the procedures for ratifying the... | null |
Liisa Jaakonsaari | MEP | S&D | en | fi | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I agree with Mr Marinescu that the forthcoming Council should find a solution to two issues. One is completing the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, and the other is new cures for the economic and financial crisis. We are presently living through the deepest crisis in Europe’s economic history. This ... | null |
Silvana Koch-Mehrin | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström, Mr Barroso, Mrs Wallström, I am guessing, Mrs Malmström, that you have so many subjects to discuss that you would rather have two weeks than two days for the summit next week. These are subjects which are of genuine importance to the citizens of Europe, such as the economic crisis and how ... | null |
Oriol Junqueras Vies | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to point out that I am unable to make my speech in Catalan since it is not yet an official language, even though it is the language of more than 10 million European citizens. For that reason, I am speaking today in Italian. The Finnish Government recently recognised th... | null |
Martin Callanan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, there will be many important issues discussed at the European Council, but from my point of view, one of the most important is the future of the Lisbon Treaty. Many speakers in this debate have spoken, without any apparent irony at all, of the Lisbon Treaty bringing increased democracy and accountability ... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too should like to make a few points which, in view of the possible entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, must be developed, and also, I would say, above all, in the light of the very significant effect of the German constitutional court’s recent judgment on the Treaty of Lisb... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with regard to the subject of illegal immigration in the European Union, I would like to point out that there has been a significant and very serious increase over the last year. According to the Commission, the number of illegal immigrants recorded has risen by around 63%. In 2008, 62 000 sets of finger... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Wallström, Mrs Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, the Treaty of Lisbon must now enter into force and be implemented quickly. More than ten years of debates among the institutions are enough. Now, at last, we need these instruments in order to be able to help the citizens of Europe. Particularly during ... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Brok, you mentioned 10 years of debates about the Lisbon Treaty. Has it occurred to you that, in the 10 years of debates, you and your colleagues have simply failed to convince enough people, and that is why you and your colleagues have had to resort to the blatant manipulation to which I referred earlier to get the... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to say to my fellow Member that the institutional changes resulting from the Treaty of Nice, the Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon have always had the broad support of the people of Europe and the broad support of the majority of European states. There have always been individual states which... | null |
Libor Rouček | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to make a few comments ahead of the European Council meeting concerning the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in my own country, the Czech Republic. The Czechs have given a clear ‘yes’ to the Lisbon Treaty through their elected representatives in both chambers of parliament. All of the public opinion poll... | null |
Fiona Hall | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Swedish Presidency and the Commission both refer to the importance of an EU agreement on the financing of climate change measures for developing countries. I agree. But the offer on the table from the Commission is a smoke-and-mirrors proposal which developing counties have every reason to question. M... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to make three comments on the forthcoming Council meeting. Firstly, the Irish ‘yes’ vote is, in my opinion, primarily a result of the financial crisis, while the banks were rescued a year ago with taxpayers’ money. Now the bankers will once again be receiving record salaries. The EU will cer... | null |
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with the Lisbon Treaty approaching, we expect the October European Council to make progress on one of the priority issues – the European External Action Service. The European Parliament has consistently called for the creation of a genuine common European diplomacy. The EAS has the potential to ensure the... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, more than four months after the election of this European Parliament, you are going to convene a European Council at a time of indecision for the European Union, with a Commission which is still in place to deal with day-to-day matters. If we do not want to drive... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, firstly, I am pleased to see my former colleague Cecilia Malmström here, particularly in light of the convincing ‘yes’ to Lisbon in Ireland, followed by the signature of the democratically elected Polish President. I think these two further endorsements will, I hope, facilitate the Swedish Presidency to p... | null |
Wim van de Camp | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is good that the European Union is savouring the success of the Irish referendum for a while. We should also count our blessings that an important step has been taken towards the Treaty of Lisbon. Of course, we are all concerned about the Czech Republic. We shall await the court ruling with respect, b... | null |
Gianluca Susta | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the time has come for this House to stop the endless debate on the Treaty of Lisbon, which we have still heard going on today. I believe that we must respect the wishes of this Parliament, of the great European countries, of the 27 and of the 26 that have ratified thi... | null |
Johannes Cornelis van Baalen | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is extremely important to fight the economic crisis, and that also means helping the small and medium-sized enterprises. We must be committed to the outcome of the Stoiber Committee, and I want to hear from both the Commission and the Council whether they are committed to this process and what we are g... | null |
Gunnar Hökmark | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, it is nice to see you here. I would like to mention two things ahead of the European Council summit. The first point I would like to raise concerns the climate. I think it is important to go into the negotiations with the goal that the best solution to the issue is a solution that... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the positive outcome of the Irish referendum makes the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty more plausible and imminent than ever. This is good news, as it means that we will finally have institutions that are able to take action. First of all, they will be able to help us emerge from the crisis and add... | null |
Brian Crowley | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in our debates about these summits, you will find if you go back over 10 years that many ideas, many similar plans or proposals have come forward from Members within this House, from members of the Council and also from Commissioners, and, if anything, the last year has proven one thing to me, namely that... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, with the Lisbon Treaty about to enter into force, this is an historic moment to concentrate first of all on Europe’s common future and common good. I am afraid that it is not the best opportunity to use these last moments to advance national interests, playing on the nerves of other partners. Global chall... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to make two brief points. The first is about the Treaty of Lisbon: following the ‘yes’ vote in Ireland and the signing by the President of Poland, it is expected that the Constitutional Tribunal of the Czech Republic will deliver its opinion and President Klaus will do what he should, and sign the Treaty.... | null |
Gay Mitchell | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, within a generation, the population of the European Union will be about 6% of the world’s population. We are not far beyond that now, which is why we simply cannot continue to rotate the presidency of the European Council every six months and have up to five different people speaking on foreign affairs-re... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The most important item for the forthcoming Council meeting will be to complete the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and to bring the Treaty to life. The process ushered in by the Lisbon Treaty will strengthen the Union both internally and in a global context. Strengthening the position of the Union is closely connec... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, be brave, be brave, be brave, that is the recommendation that I feel like making ahead of the Council meeting and, for this reason, when it comes to debating the nominations for the new commissioners, the new European Union Foreign Affairs Minister and the President of the European ... | null |
Zuzana Roithová | MEP | PPE | en | cs | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Lisbon Treaty is a key issue. The jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court is consistent and I do not believe that the Court would have found next week that the Treaty was inconsistent with the Czech constitution. I doubt, however, that the President will end his obstruction. The Czech Republi... | null |
Georgios Papastamkos | MEP | PPE | en | el | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my speech will concentrate on three points. First point: the economic crisis. The crisis indiscriminately hit all the economic systems, both the strong and the less strong. If we interpret ten years’ experience of EMU in light of the economic crisis, it is clear that economic policy needs to be more euro... | null |
Peter Liese | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mrs Malmström and Mr Barroso have covered the subject of climate change and the preparations for Copenhagen. I agree with everyone who says that the Council must draw some ambitious conclusions. However, I would advise against looking only at the industry which has been covered by the Emissions Trading S... | null |
Vytautas Landsbergis | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Barroso mentioned here yesterday, in his nice response to Mr Farage, that in the EU we need the President of the Council to be a true European. I am sure both of you and many here share that view. Do we also need somebody in that position who would be a true ‘Gazpromian’, like Gerhard Schröder, ... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Treaty of Lisbon has not yet been ratified, and is still only a draft political document. This means that, in the European Union, we remain bound by the principle of unanimity. Every country has the right to declare reservations. The President of the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus, is acting within the... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council will be invited to adopt the strategy on the Baltic Sea region. I believe that this provides a good model for the European Union’s future strategy on the Danube region. The Danube region covers 10 states, six of which are Member States of the European Union, with a population of 200 million. This ... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Minister, Madam Vice-President of the European Commission, my question concerns the application of the Treaty of Lisbon, especially the promise made to the Irish people to have one Commissioner per country. In December 2008, it was agreed that the European Council would take the appropriate legal measure... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this coming Council should give absolute priority to changing the liberal policies that have led to the severe economic and social crisis. This should be the time to face up to the poverty experienced by around 80 million citizens of the European Union, including more than 30 million workers whose wages ... | null |
Enikő Győri | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, according to some rumours I have heard, there is an idea going around about how to possibly get the Czech Republic’s President Klaus on board, which is to somehow incorporate the Beneš Decrees into the Treaty of Lisbon afterwards. I would like us to guard against this kind of legal jiggery-pokery... | null |
Rachida Dati | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to continue with the argument from my speech yesterday on the preparations for the Copenhagen summit, and then mention yesterday’s Ecofin meeting, which was not hugely successful. I was questioning you on the responsibility we have as industrialised countries to behave in such a way that dev... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my question is aimed at the Presidency-in-Office of the Council. You know that the central issue regarding the future Presidency of the European Council is knowing whether he or she intends to prefer the Community method in all circumstances. Do you think this criterion should be made a precondition of t... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we always talk about the ‘economic and financial crisis’ in quotation marks. Why do we not refer to a structural crisis? All of this began with a genuine banking crisis which included the investment banks. This is one industry, but the entire world economy suffered as a result. | null |
Romana Jordan Cizelj | MEP | PPE | en | sl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Ladies and gentlemen, the conference in Copenhagen will soon be upon us and yet we have only moved a small step forward since last year’s conference. We ought to have achieved a great deal more and acted with greater determination. We find ourselves struggling, not only with the financing, but even to make a commitmen... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council is undoubtedly an important body and it should therefore resolve fundamental issues. The number one issue is to provide work that can ensure people a decent standard of living. I am surprised by the succession of meaning... | null |
Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to mention the challenges we must face and overcome in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, namely, establishing a proper, joint migration and asylum policy; effective control of our external borders; an effective integration and repatriation policy, a Eurojust that is credible and tru... | null |
Robert Goebbels | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my question is very simple. We have a newly-appointed President for the new Commission, but when will we have this new Commission? In these difficult times, it is impossible to work with a Commission half of whose members are already packing their bags. We need a new impetus in Europe – we need this new ... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, one of the lessons to be learnt from the recent referendum in Ireland is that a good PR campaign makes a big difference. In June 2008, the Irish people voted against the Lisbon Treaty. A little over a year afterwards, they voted by a two-thirds majority in favour. Did the European Union have a much greate... | null |
Petru Constantin Luhan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my name is Luhan, not Luman. I warmly welcome the fact that the political groups are in support of promoting the ratification process. To ensure that the European Union can operate efficiently, we need the Treaty of Lisbon and we need it to come into force as soon as possible. At the moment, the Czech Re... | null |
Cecilia Malmström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your questions and comments. We often talk about a citizens’ Europe, the people’s Europe, and then we interpret this to suit our own political purposes. There is actually nothing wrong with this, but if we ask the citizens ‘what do you want from Europe?’, then the citi... | null |
Margot Wallström | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, thank you very much for this lively and interesting debate. It is very clear that the sense of urgency about the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty is tangible in this House and in this debate. As you will understand, the Commission, like Parliament, is eagerly awaiting the entry into force... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | There is fevered speculation that Tony Blair may be appointed the first President of the European Union under the Lisbon Treaty/European Constitution. Nearly thirty-eight thousand people have signed a Europe-wide petition opposing his presidency. It is easy to understand why. As Prime Minister of Britain Mr Blair has s... | null |
Ivo Belet | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we assume that the agenda of the forthcoming European Council will also include the economic crisis, in particular the situation with Opel. The acquisition of Opel and the massive national State aid promised in this connection is more than a test case for Europe; it is about the credibility of the Europe... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | One of the prime objectives of the next European Council will be to ensure the success of the UN Conference on climate change, which will take place in Copenhagen in December. The Council’s conclusions on the EU’s position in the Copenhagen conference are fundamental for ensuring that the EU speaks with one voice. It ... | null |
András Gyürk | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We are hoping that by the final October session of the European Council at the latest, the final obstacles will have disappeared preventing the Treaty of Lisbon from coming into force. This agreement may, in many respects, inspire the European Union to have a more efficient decision-making process. I would like to hig... | null |
Iosif Matula | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Preparation of the European Council (29 and 30 October 2009) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The impact of Ireland’s approval of the Treaty of Lisbon is making itself felt across the whole European continent. The purpose of this Treaty is obviously to simplify the decision-making process after the EU’s expansion towards the east. Against this background, the message conveyed by our partners in Ireland is in s... | null |
Antonio Masip Hidalgo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I hope that Mr Berlusconi will be prosecuted by the judicial authorities for the crimes he has committed, and that his domination of the press will end. Certain MEPs, who did not vote in favour of the conviction, should stop turning a blind eye, as what is happening in Italy, with respect to freedom, is ... | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the resolution drafted by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats together with other groups, because freedom of information, freedom of expression and diversity of opinion must be ensured in all of the Member States of the European Union. Freedom of information is the foundation ... | null |
Crescenzio Rivellini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ‘what a caterpillar calls the end of the world, the entire world calls a butterfly’. That thought by a Chinese philosopher is of relevance in this debate, if we consider that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize despite attacking the hostile television coverage he received, and here we are discussin... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Let us send a message to those liars in Hungary who claim that Jobbik has and can have no place in the European Parliament, saying that the votes of the three-member Hungarian Jobbik delegation determined that Italy could not be condemned here today by the unjust, discriminatory forces present. This is the first thing... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, Europe, too, has noticed that the Italian opposition has become delirious, imagining things that do not exist. Of course, we cannot rejoice at this because we would have preferred to have come to Parliament and talked about the real problems for which people are asking us for solutions, but we can take c... | null |
Siiri Oviir | MEP | ALDE | en | et | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | There are several ways to destroy media pluralism and feed biased information to the population, and to prevent diversity of opinions. One possibility is to monopolise the media economically through ownership, but this is not the only one. Monopoly of information can be achieved, for example, by filling appointments i... | null |
Carlo Casini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all I wish to correct my first and second votes – I meant to abstain, but I made a mistake because I acted in haste and pressed the wrong button. My first two votes are abstentions from the whole day’s votes. The statement I am making is this: there is a grave original sin in the proposal that h... | null |
Carlo Fidanza | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, this debate has shown us how the Italian left is increasingly far removed from the sentiments shared by our people. There has not been an uprising among Italians; there has been a political manoeuvre by a judicial, publishing and political elite to invalidate a verdict legitimately delivered by the peopl... | null |
Lena Ek | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I will quote John Stuart Mill and then I will continue in Swedish. ‘If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.’ Italy is part of the European cradle of democracy. It ... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am not impressed by Mr Berlusconi’s political and moral leadership and, unfortunately, Italy is not top of the list of countries when it comes to freedom of the press. However, freedom of information and of the press is primarily a matter for Italy itself. The Italians themselves must take action on th... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, freedom of information is a very important issue and, for my part, I voted in favour of it. We must remember, however, that freedom also entails responsibility, and we in Europe need critical and transparent communications. We need to ensure that this is also the case in the future. European history show... | null |
Chris Davies | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Union claims to embrace fine principles about freedom and democracy, and they are all restated and reinforced in the Lisbon Treaty, but time and again we turn a blind eye to blatant transgressions taking place in one Member State or another. We do not point the finger at those who fail to sup... | null |
Philip Claeys | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I, too, am delighted that the resolution has been voted down, as it is unacceptable for this House to be misused to conduct a political witch-hunt against a specific politician. It is equally unacceptable for this House to style itself a kind of European Big Brother on this, an inquisitor-general who dir... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, it reflects no credit on this House that the whole of our agenda today, the whole of our vote, should have been taken up with a matter that ought never to have come to the floor. It lies beyond the purview of this Parliament and is within the prerogatives of one of our Member States. I hold no particular ... | null |
Syed Kamall | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think all of us in this Chamber are concerned about media pluralism. We all want to see greater media pluralism right across the EU. I have concerns about media pluralism in a number of Member States. I have concerns about media pluralism in a number of countries outside the EU, but about which the Soci... | null |
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe that this Parliament’s democratic vote has unquestionably demonstrated something that everyone knows to be true, namely that there is freedom of information in Italy. You see, what the left were trying to do was to look for topics to raise objections about – why? Because, as I already said in B... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am very pleased with the outcome of today’s resolution because Italy is a Member State of the European Union and to include it individually in a motion before us would be somewhat superfluous. However, I hope that in the future, we have an opportunity to discuss freedom of information, freedom of the pr... | null |
Aldo Patriciello | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, as usual, we find ourselves discussing and voting on issues exclusively of national interest and relevance in the European Parliament, and thus not in the Italian Chamber of Deputies or in the Italian Senate. Once again, after the immigration-related accusations made against the Italian Government in thi... | null |
Luís Paulo Alves | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the resolution by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament on freedom of information because I believe that press freedom is one of the pillars of the free and democratic society which I support, and whenever it is at risk, as in Italy at present... | null |
Jean-Pierre Audy | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of changing the title of the draft resolution on freedom of information in Italy, following the European Commission’s statement of 8 October 2009, to delete the word ‘Italy’. Even if the situation in Italy is extremely worrying due to a continuing conflict of interest between the ownership and/or con... | null |
Liam Aylward, Brian Crowley and Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-10-21T00:00:00 | 2009 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Today we voted on a variety of resolutions and amendments. In essence, there were proposals before us which condemned the running of media services in Germany, Portugal, Hungary and Italy. As members of the leading party in the Irish Government, we have consistently opposed proposals put forward in the European Parliam... | null |
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