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Pat the Cope Gallagher | MEP | ALDE | en | ga | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, which will be held in Ireland on the second day of October this year, will be one of the most important events to occur during the period of the Swedish Presidency. Ireland has received legal guarantees in a range of policy areas and this is helping greatly to alle... | null |
Jacek Protasiewicz, | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would very much like to thank Prime Minister Reinfeld for including in his priorities the need to develop cooperation with our Eastern neighbours. I would also like to thank him for Sweden’s engagement in development of the Eastern Partnership. In this context I would like to point out that in the next... | null |
Fredrik Reinfeldt | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I hope I can return a little of the time I borrowed earlier. (The President briefly cut off the speaker) I know that you are waiting for a vote. Allow me to thank you for having represented your respective party groups very well. I note your eagerness and the expectations that there are of the Swedish Pr... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We also count on constant discussion and keeping in contact with the Presidency. It is very important for the European Parliament. It is the beginning of our term of office and we must do many things, and this is a very good starting point: the Swedish Presidency. Thank you very much, Prime Minister. I would also like ... | null |
Bairbre de Brún | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | ga | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the Swedish Presidency’s proposal to focus on questions of policy instead of constitutional questions during its presidency. However, the Council has decided to ignore the democratically expressed will of the Irish people, and they have made a decision to force the Treaty of Lisbon through. Unfortunately, th... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The incoming Swedish Presidency has many challenges but the greatest is the need to ensure that the EU respects the sovereignty of the Member States and does not ride roughshod over the democratic rights of the peoples of Europe. Far too often the concerns and interests of our peoples are ignored in the headlong rush t... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The anti-social programme of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union represents a dangerous step forward in the expansion of neoliberal policies. It reflects the relentless pursuit of these policies, despite all the evidence, by the leaders of capitalism in the European Union, who are forgetting th... | null |
Lívia Járóka | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the incoming Presidency and would like to express the hope that as the third member of the Council troika, Sweden will continue the work which was started during the Czech and French Presidencies in the area of Roma social integration. There were many factors which hampered the outgoing Czech Presidency’s wo... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Stockholm Programme, which is a priority for the Swedish Presidency, must provide support in reinforcing the area of freedom, security and justice, as well as in promoting economic activity during the current crisis, especially in view of the possibility of the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force. The success of th... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The EU is facing huge challenges nowadays: the economic and financial crisis, the alarming rise in unemployment and climate change. The unemployment rate in the EU is 8.9% at the moment, while 19% of young people under the age of 16 and 19% of elderly people are exposed to the risk of poverty. People are losing their ... | null |
Georgios Toussas | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | el | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation of the work programme of the Swedish Presidency (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The priorities of the Swedish Presidency mark an escalation in the anti-grassroots attack by the EU, the aim of which is to safeguard the ongoing profitability of euro-unifying capital by shifting the burden of the capitalist recession on to the working class and grassroots classes. The Swedish Presidency is seeking t... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on Iran. | null |
Carl Bildt | EU Council President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is an honour to be able to stand here for the first time. I expect to be here numerous times during the coming six months to address different issues. The issue on our agenda at this time is Iran. Before going into the substance of that issue, let me just express our heartfelt condolences to Iran on th... | null |
Catherine Ashton | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this is my first opportunity to congratulate all the honourable Members on their election to the new European Parliament. I can say, on behalf of the Commission, that we very much look forward to a constructive cooperation with you, including of course on some of the most pressing international challenges... | null |
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to reflect the tone of the debate in the extraordinary meeting of the outgoing Committee on Foreign Affairs, which met last Wednesday because there was no time to convene the new committee. Everyone knows the facts all too well, so I will not dwell on that. The Union has a duty to stress the univer... | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, whatever people feel about the outcome of the Iranian elections, there is no doubt that tens – hundreds – of people have been injured, tens of people have been killed in the protests that have taken place since the elections in that country, and thousands of people appear to have been detained as politica... | null |
Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Iran is a large country with a large and predominantly young population, a long and eventful history and an impressive culture. What is more, Iran is located in one of the most sensitive areas on the planet. For all these reasons, but also out of compassion for our fellow human beings, let us not be indifferent to the... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, when a people wants to free itself, it inspires our admiration and our solidarity. Such is the case for the Iranian people. It is true that those elections effectively ended before they began, but, even in those electi... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, while we sit here debating the recent uprising in Iran, do we realise that over 50 of the student leaders, the protestors who were arrested, have been taken out and hanged by the Iranian authorities, that over 200 people were killed on the streets, including Neda, who has become an international and very ... | null |
Helmut Scholz | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left is deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Iran. We, too, condemn in the strongest possible terms the brutal mistreatment of demonstrators. We are extremely concerned about the fate of numerous pe... | null |
Fiorello Provera | MEP | ID | en | it | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, congratulations on your election. The repression of citizens who contest the election results, the censorship of the media and the persecution of the opposition confirm the absence of democracy in Iran. We find similar situations in other countries too, such as China, but there is further cause for conce... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as a human rights lawyer with 20 years’ experience internationally, let me ask this Parliament, in order to have legitimacy and credibility, to scrutinise the human rights situation in the Third World and other non-EU countries, but also, please, to take a much closer look at the situation of democracy, t... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I am here to talk about Iran, and I would first like to join in expressing my condolences for the victims of this morning’s plane crash. Ladies and gentlemen, I agree with many of the ideas that have already been expressed regarding the situation in Iran following the electoral proc... | null |
María Paloma Muñiz de Urquiza | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, I was going to start my first speech to this plenary by welcoming the fact that the debate on the situation in Iran was not brought on by Iran’s prominence in the media, which has been superseded in turn by China, Honduras, the G20, etc. Un... | null |
Anna Rosbach | MEP | ID | en | da | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament has discussed the violations of human rights by Iran on many occasions and we are, in fact, doing so again today. We will not change the appalling behaviour of the dictators by words alone. It is time for tangible action. The brutal slaughter of a people who ... | null |
Nick Griffin | MEP | NI | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, last year I served as a monitor at commemorations for the 1956 revolution in Budapest. I can confirm that Dr Morvai is right to criticise those who fret about Iran while ignoring human rights abuses here in Europe. I trust that no ECR Group members here will be hypocritical enough to condemn Iran for the ... | null |
Filip Kaczmarek | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the death of innocent people is always a tragedy. If, however, they die in defence of values such as freedom or truth, we can say that their suffering is not in vain – as is the case with the recent victims in Iran. Things have become very bad, when a regime shoots at demonstrators, puts opponents in pri... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful to the Swedish Presidency for its observations before our debate, which I feel were balanced and also able to make us understand the responsibility that we are being asked to fulfil. I should like, in this sense, to make an observation that stems from my having seen, a... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a crucial change has taken place in Iran. Our first conclusions, therefore, should be that Iran is not and will not be the same again. It is because millions of Iranians have refused to be hostages of their clerical rulers. They have demonstrated an amazing courage in challenging the dictatorship. The iss... | null |
Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobinska | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as the situation in Iran escalates and the violation of democracy also presents a danger to the stability of the whole region, we have to express our concern and condemnation – but declarations must not only be symbolic and empty. Some European leaders are talking about new sanctions to be imposed on Iran... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it certainly is necessary to monitor the progress of the electoral process in Iran, although the beginning of a solution to the conflict should be a declaration by the authorities in Iran that they will stop using force, and that they will free the imprisoned opposition activists, defenders of human righ... | null |
Maria Eleni Koppa | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to express my deep regret about the tragic aircraft accident which occurred today in the province of Qazvin in Iran. The debate here today is a necessity following the events which ensued after the elections on 12 June. However, I think that we must hold it within the right framework. We mu... | null |
Michael Gahler | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think it is good that we are having this debate in the first week of the new Parliament. Unfortunately, our group chairmen have rejected a motion for a resolution. I ask myself who we are actually paying attention to here. A resolution would have been helpful to the dissidents in Iran if we had confirm... | null |
Ulrike Lunacek | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, last week – to my great pleasure as a new Member – in a meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee we heard a talk by Mr Makhmalbaf, an Iranian film director, who told us very plainly that before this election Iran had 20% democracy, but after the el... | null |
Pier Antonio Panzeri | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when debating foreign policy issues, such as today’s issue involving Iran, there is always the risk, as we know, of lagging slightly behind the events taking place. However, there is no doubt that the European Parliament, if it wants to, can play an important role in urging Europe a... | null |
Alejo Vidal-Quadras | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, in the last few weeks we have been moved by the repeated demonstrations of heroism and the bravery of the people of Iran, who have confronted the machine guns and truncheons of their tyrants with their bare hands. The large numbers of women leading the demonstrations is an unmistakeable expression of the... | null |
Ria Oomen-Ruijten | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | May I start by warmly welcoming the new President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Bildt. I am aware, of course, that he is about to face a number of very busy months, as the problems of the world are going to be resting, more than anywhere, on his big, broad shoulders. Mr President, when it comes to Iran I have the follo... | null |
Enrique Guerrero Salom | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would of course like to start by condemning the events in Iran and the repression by the Iranian Government, but I want to join with those who have advocated that we should combine pressure from the European institutions with maintaining dialogue and the negotiation process. History and experience have... | null |
Magdi Cristiano Allam | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Iran today represents the principal threat to international security and stability: on the one hand, by violating the United Nations resolutions it is pursuing its objective of equipping itself with atomic weapons and, on the other, it is repeating its desire to physically destroy t... | null |
Philippe Juvin | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wish to take the floor to call on our Parliament to declare itself clearly in favour of financial and technical sanctions against Iran. Of course, there are a great many arguments against sanctions, since they will have consequences for the lives of Iranian citizens. However, the worst thing for Irania... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the appalling Iranian theocratic dictatorship is already guilty of many crimes against its own people: from hanging Baha’is to hanging homosexuals and now apparently hanging 50 innocent protestors. So we should hardly be surprised by the mere stealing of an election through wholesale electoral fraud. I be... | null |
Carl Bildt | EU Council President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I have listened very attentively to the different assessments and views expressed. This is, as has been pointed out, a most important debate on a most important subject. I think it can fairly be said that we stand united in our assessment of what has been happening, what we have seen on the television scr... | null |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, please excuse me, but I have just been given a piece of information, and I should like to share it with the Council and with all my fellow Members. Natalia Estemirova, who was a candidate for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize, was kidnapped this morning in Grozny and is being held by unknown kidna... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. | null |
Richard Howitt | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this is just to put the record straight, as my name was cited by my colleague, Mr Tannock. I did not call for EU observers last week and, indeed, earlier in the debate I was very clear in saying that, should the circumstances have justified it, the European Union would have been able to send an observer m... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Iran (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Τhe next item is the Council and Commission statements on China. | null |
Carl Bildt | EU Council President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, another debate of, needless to say, some importance. And, although the subject is China, it of course takes place against the background of some significant developments in Xinjiang in the western part of China. I know that these events have been followed by many Members of this Parliament as well as our ... | null |
Catherine Ashton | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is a sign of the importance that this House attaches to our strategic relationship with China that this debate has been scheduled during your inaugural session. I yet again welcome the opportunity to contribute with a brief outline of the perspective of the Commission on behalf of my colleague Benita F... | null |
Elmar Brok | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with the basic substance of what was said by the previous speakers from the Council and Commission. I too am of the opinion that we should continue the One China policy to achieve the cohesion of China as a unified state, and... | null |
Adrian Severin | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Chinese people are completely right to ask us why the European Parliament has put the situation in China on the agenda of the first part-session of its new mandate. Our answer must be clear: this is because China is very important to us and not because we think that our role is to teach China or to im... | null |
Graham Watson | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this House has long been critical of the People’s Republic of China for its treatment of ethnic minorities. The Uighurs of Xinjiang Province have suffered more than most, particularly since the occupation of East Turkestan by the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The People’s Republic claims that it doe... | null |
Helga Trüpel | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, I condemn the violence on both sides, both on the part of the Han Chinese and on the part of the Uighurs, and I mourn for all the innocent victims. However, this is not a conflict where the two sides are equal. The Uighurs are a suppressed people numberin... | null |
Charles Tannock | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, for centuries the Uighurs have eked out a perilous living in an inhospitable part of a vast country. Most of them are peaceful followers of Islam. However, sadly some of the local population in recent years have become increasingly radicalised by terrorists in league with Al-Qaida. China has never been to... | null |
Bastiaan Belder | MEP | ID | en | nl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The call to jihad has already gone out both inside and outside Xinjiang, and now the bloody clashes between Han Chinese and Uighurs on Chinese territory threaten to escalate dramatically, both in China and beyond. The local Christian community is straining absolutely every sinew against the dangerous religious dimensi... | null |
Laima Liucija Andrikienė | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ‘violence’, ‘a high number of casualties’, ‘hundreds dead and wounded in China in the uprising in Xinjiang province’: those were the alarming reports we received 10 days ago. In Xinjiang, the internet was blocked completely, limiting communications into and out of the desert region. Taking into account wh... | null |
Véronique De Keyser | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the outbreak of violence in the autonomous region of Xinjiang is being severely repressed by the Chinese Government. The clashes between Uighurs and Hans have taken the official death toll to 186, but the bloodshed continues. This violence is being presented by China as a mere interethnic conflict betwee... | null |
Tomasz Piotr Poręba | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the way in which protests have been dealt with in Xinjiang province has provided further confirmation of the authoritarian nature of the Communist authorities in Beijing. At least 180 people are now dead and 1600 injured as a result of the most significant ethnic conflict to take place in China in recent... | null |
Bernd Posselt | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, today’s debate proves once again that the Council is the weak point of the EU. This House has adopted a very clear position on human rights and Lady Ashton has given an impressively clear speech on behalf of the Commission. However, from the Council I have heard only that they condemn both sides for the ... | null |
Evelyne Gebhardt | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one thing needs to be stated very clearly: there is a unified system in China and we do not want to allow this system to break up. We respect the Chinese system. However, that does not mean ... (Interruption by Mr Posselt) We respect China’s unified system. However, that does not me... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I congratulate Mr Bildt on a very balanced speech just now. I believe in the borders of the nation state as recognised by the United Nations and so oppose separatist-related violence everywhere in the world, be it in Kashmir, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, where I was born, Northern Ireland, where I got bombed... | null |
Csaba Sógor | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The question is where do we stand on this issue? Are we on the side of China or Tiananmen Square? Are we on the side of China or Tibet? Are we on the side of China or the Uighur region? Are we on the side of 1.2 billion Chinese or 8 million Uighurs? Are we on the side of repression, the introduction of an alien way of... | null |
Emine Bozkurt | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I have listened to the introductions from both the Council and the Commission and maybe it is to do with the interpreting, but I have not heard the word Uighurs once, and it is, of course, the Uighurs that we are discussing today. There are hundreds of dead whose passing we regret, and many more wounded besides. The E... | null |
Reinhard Bütikofer | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are having this debate on the basis of the universal nature of human rights, but also on the basis of the need for a global partnership. A harmonious society has been mentioned. That is one of the slogans of the Communist Party of China, but it is also something more: it reflects a deep hope of the Ch... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it would be a great mistake to place China in the same category in this debate today as we discussed Iran. The EU enjoys a very good relationship with China and I think we have to take care that our discussions on the recent events in Urumqi are accurate and based on fact. The incident that took place on ... | null |
Sabine Lösing | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think that this conflict is very often presented in a very one-sided manner. I agree with the previous speaker that in the present case it is frequently a matter of attacks on Han Chinese by Uighurs and indeed that some of these attacks are racially motivated. (Heckling) I read an interview with a Uigh... | null |
Carl Bildt | EU Council President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I think this debate has really reflected the complexities of the issues that we face. What has been addressed here are issues ranging from the different system that China has and the evolution of that particular system, the importance that we attach to human rights and the need to help China develop in th... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Helmut Scholz | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2009-07-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | China (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Conflict resolution for millions of Uighurs in China – dialogue not condemnation. We lament the bloody clashes, the dead and wounded in Xinjiang-Uighur. The actions of the police and security forces were excessive and harm the Chinese Government’s goals of growth and stability. At the same time it is wrong to accuse C... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-07-16T00:00:00 | 2009 | Announcement by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | (After the speech by Mrs Harms, see item 4.1). Yes, Mrs Harms. Regarding the matter that you have just mentioned, I must inform the House that President Buzek has made a public statement, which I will read to you. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-14T00:00:00 | 2009 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | Just over a fortnight ago, I took part in the ceremonies at Westerplatte to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. That war plunged Europe into terror, claimed millions of victims and divided our continent for nearly half a century. We should never forget that war and violence c... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year. | null |
Hans Lindblad | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is a tremendous privilege for me to be here today. It makes me feel very humble and I am delighted to have the chance to present the Council’s draft general budget to you. Europe is facing considerable challenges. The economic situation looked significantly more worrying six months ago, but it seems t... | null |
Algirdas Šemeta | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is a great pleasure for me to have an opportunity to speak to you this morning. I know that the first stages of this budgetary procedure – in particular the July conciliation – took place in a very positive atmosphere, and I hope we can build on this cooperation in the coming weeks. We still have some ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr Šemeta, for presenting the position of the Commission, and also for keeping to time, which is very important. I would like to say that this is an initial discussion. We are now going to discuss this in the Committee on Budgets and in other committees, and the main discussion will take place in a few weeks... | null |
László Surján | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I am going to speak in my mother tongue because I am hoping for a Europe where this act is a natural right in every parliament, not to mention in other areas of public life as well. In that Europe, there is no law preventing anyone from using their mother tongue, not even in Slovakia. I also expected that the current ... | null |
Vladimír Maňka | N/A | N/A | en | sk | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Secretary of State, Commissioner, we can surely agree that when drawing up the European Parliament’s budget, we must focus on our core mission, which is legislative work. Issues unconnected with this must be excluded from the budget as much as possible. We will discuss the final form of the budget today ... | null |
Alain Lamassoure | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, may I first of all congratulate Mr Šemeta on the confirmation obtained yesterday of his appointment as Commissioner responsible for the budget. We are convinced that we will enjoy the same quality of relations with him as those which we established with his predecessor, and we wish him a political career... | null |
Hans Lindblad | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have heard from both the Commission and the European Parliament that we will have several difficult issues to deal with during the autumn. Hopefully, we will have some easy ones to deal with, too. One of the most difficult issues is going to be the recovery plan and how it is to be financed. At the sa... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Presentation by the Council of the draft general budget for the 2010 financial year (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. I would like to congratulate the Commissioner on his appointment. Commissioner, great careers await commissioners from Lithuania. We wish you much success, both in the Commission and in the future. Your predecessor is, today, the Head of State in Lithuania. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on immigration, the role of Frontex, and cooperation among Member States. | null |
Tobias Billström | EU Council President | N/A | en | sv | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, issues concerning migration are always topical in the EU’s work. An important element in dealing with migratory flows is border control. Free movement for people within the EU and the absence of controls at internal borders bring a shared responsibility and an increased requirement for proper and effecti... | null |
Jacques Barrot | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | fr | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, migration is a priority issue that will be keeping the institution very busy, and I wish to thank Mr Tobias Billström, who is well acquainted with this problem. We are in the process of drafting an immigration policy based on three pillars: respect for the right of asylum, the fight against illegal immig... | null |
Simon Busuttil | MEP | PPE | en | mt | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Thank you, Mr President, I would also like to welcome Minister Billström and, in particular, the Vice-President of the European Commission, Jacques Barrot. Allow me Mr President, to congratulate and thank the Vice-President of the European Commission for the considerable and genuine efforts that he has undertaken in t... | null |
Juan Fernando López Aguilar | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Billström, Commissioner Barrot, I agree with the importance and support the emphasis that both the Presidency and the Commission have placed on identifying this as one of the most influential dimensions of globalisation that needs a European response. This is an area in which Europe can make sense, by... | null |
Sonia Alfano | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you Mr Barrot and Mr Billström. Back on 31 August, I tabled a priority question to the Commission. It is true that the number of migrants reaching Italian and Libyan shores has fallen, but this is because the number of dead which the Mediterranean Sea continues to receive has ... | null |
Hélène Flautre | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the last time we held a debate after a tragedy in the Mediterranean was on 1 April. You will recall that many hundreds of migrants perished off the Libyan coast. We had called for an investigation. To date we have received no information concerning the circumstances of that tragedy. Since then, as you kn... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the Commission’s joint EU resettlement programme certainly has noble ambitions, which aim to encourage greater cooperation between national governments regarding the resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers. However, as a British Conservative, I do remain worried about its implementation. We do not wan... | null |
Willy Meyer | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | es | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Billström, Commissioner Barrot, the start of this legislative term offers us an excellent opportunity to rethink our immigration policy. We currently have an immigration policy that is based on manifest hypocrisy and cynicism. We say that the European project would be impossible without migrant worker... | null |
Gerard Batten | MEP | ID | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the measures under discussion are part of the existing so-called area of justice, freedom and security, of which immigration is a part. This is about a common immigration and asylum policy and, however much the British Government may lie to the British people, we know that they intend that Britain should ... | null |
Louis Bontes | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Frontex is not working. The budget for Poseidon, the operation currently under way, is EUR 11 million. This is pointless. It is money down the drain. Direct returns and a crackdown on the countries that make this immigration possible is the only solution. The common asylum and immigration policy is not i... | null |
Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission, President-in-Office of the Council, the challenges in terms of migration remain the same, as too does our commitment to overcome them. These challenges are as follows: the first is to move towards a common migration policy; the second is to greatly improve the organisati... | null |
Claude Moraes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, no one underestimates the enormous difficulties of creating the balance mentioned by the chair of our committee, and of the migration pressures which face the European Union and the pressures that we face in the Mediterranean. Yet again this summer, we have been reminded of the harsh reality faced by migr... | null |
Sarah Ludford | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the British press, assisted to such a conclusion by paranoid and Euro-sceptic MEPs, has scaremongered that a future Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, which Mr Barroso has accepted at the proposal of the ALDE Group, will force the UK to accept more asylum seekers from across Europe. This is not true. As... | null |
Franziska Keller | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not really share your enthusiasm about Frontex. We have heard reports from Frontex as well as from Member States that they have violated human rights, the right to non-refoulement and given no possibility for refugees to apply for asylum, and those violations of human rights are done in the name of t... | null |
Ryszard Czarnecki | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We want to fight immigration. It is a great problem. In the meantime, our notice board and computer are going wrong. Let us tackle the things which we can really tackle effectively. Migration is, of course, one of the greatest problems facing Europe today. What is more, it is a problem not just for us politicians, but... | null |
Rui Tavares | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Billström, Mr Barrot, we have no choice regarding the Geneva Convention and human rights. Our only option is to comply with the conventions that we have signed. The law is clear: sending refugees who arrive on European shores to countries that have not signed the Geneva Convention on refugees is a violation of the ... | null |
Roberta Angelilli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, frankly I am annoyed that certain Italian fellow Members have not wasted the opportunity to reopen the same old controversy, with the sole aim of attacking the Italian Government. When it comes to immigration, we should no longer engage in ideological manipulation, but go to the hea... | null |
Stavros Lambrinidis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Minister, Commissioner, Parliament has urgently called for cooperation at European level with immigrants' countries of origin and transit. These countries do not only include Libya. They also include Turkey. Apart from being a country of origin and transit within this framework, Turkey is also a candidate country. In ... | null |
Hélène Flautre | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2009-09-15T00:00:00 | 2009 | Immigration, the role of Frontex and cooperation among Member States (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this gives me an opportunity to clarify two small points which, I believe – and as one of my fellow Members said just now – highlight the hypocritical nature of our policy. The first point concerns the Dublin agreements. Commissioner, you know the situation in Calais well; you know that, in Calais, many ... | null |
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