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One blow leads to another and if we do this, citizens and businesses will go under in the name of a false and extreme environmentalism which, in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, is just a way of raising money indiscriminately.
As far as trafficking in human beings is concerned, we need to strengthen the action taken by the Union, especially in cases where the victims are able to benefit from international protection.
Mr President, yesterday was Holocaust Day in Israel.
This can be seen, once again, with this resolution.
It is in that frame of mind that we have submitted some amendments which we hope the rapporteur will accept, although we have already had some replies, not all of which were positive, but, in any event, I think those that have been accepted can improve this report even further.
We must continue to respond.
This debate must look at the problem of passengers' rights under these exceptional circumstances, and the need for an emergency plan, which also requires transparency - as Mrs Bilbao said - in the European Union's actions, so that there can be structural reforms, which means strengthening the trans-European rail networks in Europe.
For me, this name is a symbol of modern European transport which, thanks to new information and communications technology, will become even safer, more ecological and more efficient.
That report concludes that a reduction of the total guarantee proportion to 50 % is compatible with maintenance of the highest level of solvency available so far for the EIB.
It is a policy which undermines the economic foundations of those countries in which most energy is derived from coal.
There are many reasons for the wage gap.
There is no reason why these people should be disadvantaged merely because they say quite openly, ' I live as I am, and I would like to have the same opportunities and the same options as other people' .
That is why you should support the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market's line when we vote on Wednesday.
The European Union should also call upon all of the Member States to consider renaming those streets and squares which are named after controversial heroes, such as Tito in Yugoslavia, who were accountable for many post-war killings, by virtue of their roles at the time.
To put it in nautical language: when it comes to financing seaports, the bulkheads are closed.
The Commission came to the Committee on Fisheries and said 'We have no way of negotiating a new agreement so we shall just extend it for another year'.
on behalf of the PSE Group. - (NL) Mr President, AIDS is still an ongoing tragedy, not only in developing countries, but also in Europe, not only among homosexuals and drug users, but also among heterosexuals and the totally abstinent, and so I should like to extend warm thanks to our rapporteur.
That is something quite different, with a focus on quality and not just on quantity.
I would like to draw attention to two aspects that have scarcely been mentioned this evening.
That is why the problem that exists in the euro area - as some of you have already stressed, by the way - is genuinely a problem of relative competitiveness.
This being the case, the Communist Party of Greece will be voting against the directives.
Are we to continue to do this, and how are we to look at this issue in broad outline?
However, we repeat our reservations with regard to the Treaty of Lisbon, which we oppose, and the proposed increases in funding for the CFSP.
Voluntary monitoring is a very soft option.
Do you share this view?
What is different, though, is the reaction to the Court of Auditors' negative verdict.
I am surprised at the tone of this debate.
According to information received from the International Monetary Fund, however, it is clear that additional external financing will be required to eliminate the further financing deficit of EUR 150 million.
The proposed amendments go further, in allowing more general environmental considerations such as the long-term effects on the environment of the products or services purchased to be taken into account at the award stage.
I am proud of this.
I am not necessarily convinced that is the case, but there does seem to be some evidence to that effect and that is another issue that will obviously have to be addressed as well.
Thank you, Mr Aparicio Sánchez.
Based on an intergovernmental initiative which has proved successful, the European Heritage Label has all the requirements also to continue in the same vein when it becomes an EU programme, not to mention that it also benefits from the experience acquired through other similar programmes, the most notable being the European Capital of Culture, which has an unquestionable impact.
Could you give your estimation as to what you think we can get from Syria as regards its relationship with Lebanon as well as its occupation of that country and its support for Hizbollah?
Thanks to Parliament, the wording has been tightened in a number of areas.
(ES) (Start of speech with microphone switched off) I feel that a Europe in which the borders have disappeared and in which there is an increasing amount of supranational crime needs to have more ambition from the point of view of responding to the problem of supranational crime.
The first is the national hydrological plan, against which there is strong opposition in your country, Mr Aznar: 400 000 people protesting in Madrid and 10 000 in Brussels, as well as 25 000 individual complaints to the Commission cannot be ignored, and we will make this matter a priority in our work.
In a school report, these figures would be interpreted as a fail, a downright fail.
In fact, consumers are going to have to pay so that they can obtain a clean car on the market, with no guarantee that it will be cheaper, just as in the present situation.
The next one is scheduled for 24-26 January in Brussels.
This takes us well beyond the simple checking of people against watch lists, for which APIS data – i.e. name, date of birth, nationality and passport number – is quite sufficient.
Terms and conditions of employment are regulated by collective agreements for both permanent and temporary employees.
The report emphasises the role of culture in Community politics, and also the role of cultural education in the development of personality and a sense of identity.
Following the objective report and recommendation of the UN Standards Envoy Mr Eide, the talks on the future status of Kosovo are about to begin.
The main consideration, however, is that it will only be through a synchronous cut in emissions that we can guarantee an overall reduction, instead of simply moving them about from one place to another, doing more to increase total emissions.
Although great efforts have been made, these are difficult negotiations because the Commission has to persuade third countries not only to readmit their own citizens but also to allow citizens on their way back to other states to pass through those countries.
The ECB very quickly made adequate funds available, thereby preventing a cross-border collapse.
There is no point in organizing major information campaigns on this subject if we, Europe's democratic representatives, are prevented from participating due to no fault but our own!
You are aware of that, Mr Ombudsman.
We are quarrelling with the United States.
By setting the highest achieving Member State as an example to others, this trend can be promoted further.
It drastically cuts spending in the agricultural sector, completing the application of the anti-farming reformed CAP, thereby wiping out more small and medium-sized farms and, at the same time, cutting hundreds of jobs.
I support this report because I think that supplementing the Multiannual Financial Framework after 2013 is a viable solution, which involves making changes to the current structure.
Nor has that been raised in the Council's interim discussions of the communication.
After analysis of this reply, and further written and oral clarifications provided by the UK authorities, the Commission services consider that the new arrangements are compatible with the requirements of Directive 73/239/EEC - that is to say the First Non-life Assurance Directive, as amended.
Our assistance to the continent as a whole should be set in a coherent framework.
I do want closer cooperation between the European Union and the United States of America, but that cooperation must be based on mutual respect for citizens' rights.
After three years all national data were to be made available to the Commission for a new overview.
None of the Member States concerned took any steps to restrict or prohibit energy drinks in their own territory.
That is why we believe we must maintain the balance in the Commission.
Our examination of this document went exceptionally well.
in writing. - Conservative MEPs abhor discrimination in all its forms: we have tabled our own amendments to this report to make this crystal clear.
The third concern is that we need to carry out a graduation process, in other words to deal with cases in which we are withdrawing the benefits of the GSP from countries with a high GDP, for products in which their competitiveness has been demonstrated by the relative level of their share of the market.
A few suggestions that may be included in such a strategy are, for example, that the Council could develop its own human rights indicators that could be used in connection with trade agreements.
Now, that is a gross distortion of the treaties which are neutral as regards where aid or money should come from to assist the aviation industry.
No, they are not.
Access to medicines will be a key issue at Doha in a few weeks' time simply because developing countries feel hugely disadvantaged by rules which are applied universally, even though countries are of unequal strength, both economically and institutionally.
the need for groups to represent one-fifth of the Member States, thereby discouraging convergence in the European parliamentary area;
The Committee on Budgetary Control is quite tough with regard to any Commission spending, so I can assure you that taxpayers' money is very much valued and is spent with good purpose.
Deeds and not words.
Adoption of this regulation finally guarantees due protection of the rights of over 500 million European citizens.
On the other hand, the business plans should not be over prescriptive at this stage.
It is therefore the responsibility of the European Parliament to shake up the Council and the Commission.
Our responsibility as politicians is to ensure that there is no giving way on the rights of individual consumers.
We have worked very closely with Brazil and Mexico on Strategic Partnerships and with Chile on the Association for Development and Innovation.
To all intents and purposes, the textual conflicts in the Rule cannot be resolved through interpretation alone, given the importance of the matter of the procedure.
I would like to thank the Swedish Presidency which, for the first time ever, has succeeded in bringing about a public debate on animal ethics in the Council of Ministers.
(PL) Madam President, on the eve of the EU-Russia Summit, and in the context of negotiations on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, it is important for the EU not only to speak with one voice, but to show Russia its unity and solidarity in practice.
European industry is not doing well and it is pointless for some Member States to grant the automotive sector subsidies, which I am incidentally totally opposed to.
The committee’s compromise proposal can, I think, be approved as it is. Finally, I wish to point out to the Commissioner that she obviously misinterpreted the committee’s opinion of this matter.
This is because such rights, more often than not, turn out to be outside the scope of Community law, as you have just rightly pointed out.
Reference has been made to some studies that go in the other direction, but my advice is that those studies are old studies and the more modern view is in accordance with the view that I have just expressed.
That is a double refusal.
You will know from the support for my report last year that colleagues have taken a very deep and intensive interest in the whole package of reforms and we have given you strong support for them.
The Serbian Members of the Bosnian Parliament could not accept either the wording of the resolution or the compromise proposals.
The UN and the European Union have rightly made their aid conditional on respect for human rights.
The way I see things is very simple: it is about respecting the Treaty of Lisbon, and respecting the current treaty, for that matter.
Perhaps there is no longer any urgency.
(FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall answer this series of questions, which all, or more or less all, seek to question or probe the European Commission.
We hope that these will bring more substance to this matter.
The Commission has already issued, on 10 May, a decision allowing areas in set aside to be used for grazing animals in nine independent communities in Spain.
I should like to thank the European Parliament and the mission for their extremely important contribution to the Conference and for the important part which they played throughout the negotiations and to say that the Commission is satisfied with its contribution and its efforts to support the presidency.
To be even more explicit, in order to have adequate security we do not just need safeguards for people’s fundamental rights, but also actual development of the European area of justice.
And the reality of the situation calls upon us to do more, really to mobilize at every level.
Remember that 13 years ago, we were excited by the fever of reunification; we celebrated the creation of the single market and single currency, and the idea to make the EU the most developed region in the world by 2010 did not seem at all ridiculous; in fact, we took it very seriously.
In fact 12 Members voted for and 12 voted against.
Firstly, there is the issue of the internal market.
Now that the debate on this first EU budget in euros is coming to an end, Mr President, we can say that we are satisfied to have drawn up a rigorous and well-balanced budget for the other institutions, one which does justice to the budgetary efforts made by the Member States.
Although it has not been implemented for several years, it remains in the Yemeni penal code.
By means of a policy which affirms both asylum seekers and immigrants, we can get on top of organised crime and the human tragedies for which traffickers in human beings are responsible.