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Nevertheless, we rely on the Council, in its wisdom, to take the right decision in order to ensure that the future budgets of the European Union are transparent.
The next item is the report by Cornelis de Jong, on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, on an EU approach to criminal law (2010/2310 (INI)).
Crime can only be fought by scrupulous respect for the state of law.
I fully support proposals to encourage an employment strategy across the European Union.
This includes Community export refunds.
A good number of infringement procedures have been initiated following the inspection missions in Member States.
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by saying how pleased I am that these two global forums have run their course without violence; we have experienced rather different ones.
Above all, we must afford efforts to sustain those less able to cope with challenges and opportunities of life, those who live with disabilities or life-threatening diseases and poverty.
I would ask for your active participation in this matter since, despite the passage of some years, problems are still increasing instead of decreasing, and the risks are increasing instead of decreasing, as was shown at the last NGO forum in Kishinev.
Research depends on scientists educated at leading universities.
I think it is an important step we are taking, even if each of the national systems is not especially influenced by it.
We do not agree that competition is a better answer than good cooperation between national railway undertakings to the problems in international freight transport or even passenger transport.
In recent years, as rapporteur for my group, I have been able to deal with this issue and I must say I am very happy that in this last session we are once more getting to the heart of the matter, namely the question of democracy in Turkey.
Therefore, I support the report, as in my opinion this will result in costly duplicate structures, which is demonstrated, among other things, by the fact that the individual supervisory bodies are based in different cities.
The three Republics participated in the 1972-1975 Pan-European Helsinki Conference as part of the Soviet delegation, and all three are part of the Council of Europe.
Given the Commission's general position on the needs of the outermost regions, its position here would appear to be contradictory.
Mr President, my group welcomes this report.
Europol comes into being next year in all probability, and will be able to start its work.
I was a teacher for 16 years and now, as an MEP, I have spent a lot of time in schools, colleges, and at conferences arguing for just this sort of action.
Just a few minutes ago, we saw the buck being passed between Italy and Malta, just as a few days ago we heard about the boat Pinar, which was at sea too long, leading to the deaths of those who probably could still have survived.
As for the reports in the media, it often happens, unfortunately, that a number of journalists simply copy from one another, and in the process two things are frequently entangled.
In preparing for this debate, I made a note of the set of measures and actions we have taken in the field of prevention, protection, pursuit and response to terrorist attacks.
And, secondly, it can only be put by a group or by at least 29 other Members.
I support the Council double-track approach, but I believe that the sanctions must be carefully targeted at and proportionate to the objective pursued.
On behalf of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, I drafted an opinion on Mr Gargani’s report, which focuses on simplifying the legislation and, in that regard, I should like to make three observations.
Can the Commissioner confirm whether that is or is not still the case?
Therefore, it should be greeted with satisfaction.
Lastly, decisions on Turkey's participation in the context of the current proposals do not, as we know, mean that Turkey can take part in the programmes straight away.
According to the European Labour Force Survey, there are 3.5 million workers there working more than 48 hours per week on a regular basis.
However, the EU enlargement process has, for too long, been dogged by pretend candidates.
I feel this is extremely important and do not think we should leave a debate on minors and adoption to six o'clock this evening, when we are unlikely to have a majority befitting such an important issue.
It is a most vulgar and reactionary plan, as the objective of the EED is to secretly finance EU agents, anti-revolutionary parties and organisations and various services, so that they can act when movements and grassroots uprisings start to gain ground, especially at times of major upheavals, along the same lines as the notorious US Endowment.
I hope there will be more of them than that.
I am in favour.
First of all, I shall deal with the Blue Card issue.
So I repeat, I ask that the vote against the extension of the current regulation be confirmed.
It is for just this reason that the new regulation on identification of beef and registration of cattle has assumed such importance.
Since we Flemings live within the Belgian federal state, we are experiencing first-hand how difficult, not to say impossible, it is to have good governance within a federal state.
I believe it is a step forward in the security of the continent.
We must, therefore, accept any initiative which may make us reflect on this issue.
I would remind the honourable Members that this is a time for specific questions to be dealt with in one minute.
If that is the case – and please tell me if it is – then the new Constitution will just be a pale and untenable copy of the Treaty of Nice.
Both the way they are raised and the way they are transported are of great concern to many consumers.
I should just like to make it clear that the matter I referred to was not a formal agenda item in the presidency visit.
I do not, however, think we need to give credence to the critical viewpoint that takes a gloomy outlook because we are in the midst of a crisis.
I hope that the plenary of the European Parliament will approve this group of amendments and thereby rectify the text adopted in the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market as a result of this unilateral approach favouring the people causing the damage.
But the scepticism which prevails in Europe will not change the fact that this innovative technology is being used throughout the world.
In our view, the European Union must therefore provide itself with the economic, political and institutional resources necessary to implement a strategy that would allow us to include these peoples and nations, if they so wish.
I would just like to follow up by asking whether the Commission Representation in Moscow has already got in contact with the families of the prisoners, or whether it could do so.
A fragmented approach has not produced any results so far.
I hope that the next Socrates programme produces more projects like that of Whitfield Primary School and maybe the next time you tuck into a bowl of soup, you will remember the educational value Socrates has across the Union.
Today I have the honour of doing the same in our European Parliament.
In particular, Hun Sen has warned that "war could break out" if the Khmer Rouge deputy premier Ieng Sary is put on trial.
The alternative to such an agreement is not, of course, that we have better human rights standards.
Now the Commission and Council are taking a restrictive approach in interpreting the Lisbon Treaty to allow themselves to continue with these centralised powers and, worse, to claim that the Treaty prevents a radical approach to decentralisation.
I voted for this report because I think that organised crime poses one of the major threats to both the European Union's internal security and citizens' freedom and security.
On the contrary: there is a need right now to show Europe’s citizens that Europe belongs to them.
It will significantly bolster the outlook for fiscal sustainability and euro-area sovereign debt and therefore enhance economic growth.
On the African continent alone, approximately 500 000 people depend on the banana sector for their living.
In recent years, this expenditure has never been totally exhausted and, in any case, it is not always spent on such urgent needs (excluding funding to the applicant countries, of course).
It is also aimed at promoting linkages between smaller projects, to make them a part of comprehensive strategy, and aimed at reducing the administrative burden, which is often seen as a barrier to small projects.
It was almost what I was expecting.
The compromise that has been achieved has not changed the essence of the new solution nor its innovative form.
How we deal with this community depends on us, and for this reason we must back increased EU support for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I therefore believe the House must continue to insist on this.
(DE) Mr President, I can follow on seamlessly here.
As you know, since 1965 Community legislation on pharmaceuticals has required medicines to obtain marketing authorisation before being put on sale.
I have been bullied and harassed by lobbyists.
The Lawal case been seen as a test case in and outside Nigeria.
At that time we had to give our position, at the time of the vote, and it was only a small last minute procedure, quite a poor one at that, which referred it back to the Committee.
The Turkish authorities outwardly declare efforts to change but in the real world, there is little change in society.
We need not only to work on water pipelines but also on proper management of available water.
Since 97% of the Lloyd's Names have accepted the renewal plan of 1996 and they have been able to reduce their liabilities by significant amounts, this issue has by and large been covered fully.
Our Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy was of the opinion that the proposals made with regard to structures were not appropriate.
What we have discovered to date tends to suggest that the Economic and Social Committee is not taking our demands seriously.
What do we need to do at European level to cushion the impact?
I ask you sincerely: is that what you want to see happening?
I can agree with you that victim support, especially healthcare, is one of the agreed priorities here, and I would like to inform you that the EU is at the forefront of these efforts through ECHO and development-funded health support actions.
I welcome this outcome, but no democrat can accept a procedure that is so obscure, so devoid of all democratic control - all the parliaments, the European Parliament and the national parliaments, are going to be presented with a fait accompli - and which has such unfair consequences for certain Member States, since some will pay two or three times as much as other, equally wealthy, States.
Lastly, and most importantly, is not the best way of helping the peace process to increase the European presence in the Middle East, its partnership with the Israelis, with the Palestinians and with their Arab neighbours?
Any such offer is made ex gratia, or in other words without admission of legal liability and without creating a legal precedent.
It represents a political commitment by the Council and Parliament to adapt the fourth framework programme as necessary to developments that have intervened since its inception.
This leads to falling timber prices, deprives us of natural resources and tax revenues and exacerbates poverty among people who are dependent on forestry.
That is the way to have a sustainable fisheries policy.
Rather, the Charter should be an independent declaration of rights.
Mr President, the situation in Iraq now presents us with the extremely difficult task of determining how the transition process will be legitimised and guided after the end of the war towards the free, democratic system founded on political, religious and ethnic diversity that we all wish to see.
I just want to say that for both of us this journey was something totally outside the normal political routine.
A policy should be implemented to boost economic growth and to support short- and medium-term demand, through a commitment to promoting output and jobs with a view to fostering economic growth, employment and social cohesion, and based on a sustained increase in public investment at national and Community level, especially in basic infrastructure, in professional skills and training, in research and innovation, in the environment and in support for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
I believe, therefore, that we have grounds for holding a debate on this matter, and I think that recent events have shown that this is not really clear for any of us.
We have to do something to reconstruct society vis-à-vis society and we, as Europeans, have a tremendous amount of work to do there, to bring these societies together, because they will have to live together.
The Commission will, of course, say that since then there have been signs of improvement here and there.
You have tirelessly promoted the cause of peace and encouraged dialogue between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
It therefore seems very wrong to me to pay European tax money for national decisions.
I wholeheartedly wish our southern neighbour a successful presidency!
It is in this context of the international community, all working together, that it makes sense to talk about observers, that it makes sense to talk about peacekeeping forces, because, otherwise, these things would not be feasible; and that is when it makes sense for us to talk about Marshall plans and economic contributions - which will have to be considerable, of course - and that we also talk about the full import of the rapprochement of the two peoples on the basis, amongst other things, of their educational systems.
Has this regulation been correctly transposed into national law?
Everyone seems to agree about the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises for economic growth.
It will attract investors’ interest.
First of all our mandate lies entirely within the European Union.
So if we want to create a positive environment for the development of electronic commerce and third generation mobile services, now is the time to make sure that the uptake of wireless Internet services is not hampered by huge amounts of junk mail which the consumer is paying for against his will.