newsitems EU Parliament biggest Group (EPP) Chair Daul to EuroFora: Debates on EU Agriculture/Food from 1/2012
EU Parliament biggest Group (EPP) Chair Daul to EuroFora: Debates on EU Agriculture/Food from 1/2012
*Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- Replying to an "EuroFora" question on the "G-20" Summit's breakthroughs on Agriculture and the forthcoming EU Financial Perspectives 2013-2020 including Strategic choices on Cohesion and Agriculture policies, the President of EU Parliament's biggest Group of MEPs, that of ChristianDemocrats/EPP, Joseph Daul, anounced his intention to launch "Serious Debates" on such Topical issues, which include "Food Safety", from the beginning of 2012, even if final Decisions might have to wait a little bit longer, until all EU's draft Budgets' figures are known. Meanwhile, however, Daul hailed EU's recent agreement on Food Aid to Poor People, stressing that "the time has come to show that EU takes care not only of Banks, but also of People in need" :
- "As you know, last week, at the G-20 (Heads of State/Government Summit in Cannes) there were, for the 1st time, certain breakthroughs made on Agricultural policy : They concerned f.ex. he Regulation of Speculation in (Global) Markets on Agricultural Products, the exclusion of Exports' Blockades in case of (local) crisis, the Support expressed for (Food) Reserves, , for the time being; in regions others than Europe, where there are Risks concerning Food, etc.", "EuroFora"s Question started by reminding.
- However, "EU Parliament, apparently, (i.e. as we've been told : See "EuroFora"s questions and EU Press Officer's reply on this point, yesterday), isn't going to express its views on (EU) Agricultural policy and on the Financial Perspectives but only, perhaps, in the middle of next year (2012), or at least in a few Months". In these conditions, "do you think that, meanwhile, interesting Debates could take place inside the EU Parliament in order to support, eventually in the immediately forthcoming weeks of months, the promotion of such kind of positions, which seem very Differend from what was the case in the Past (G 20 Summits), in a potentially positive way ?", "EuroFora" asked Daul.
-----------------
- "I won't make a Speech on (EU) Agricultural policy, even if I could", started to reply to "EuroFora"s question Daul, smiling.
- "But, on the (EU) Agricultural Policy, I would like, first of all, to hail what happened yesterday, concerning (EU's) Help to the Poorest people : You know that I've been very much committed to the Help towards the Poorest People, which had to be adapted to the New Situation, where we (EU) don't have no more any Surplus (in Food), unfortunately or fortunately, according to what side anyone might take, and, therefore, we (EU) had to find another solution, so that, finally, Last Night, we extended for 2 Years the existing system".
+ "In the mean time, as you said, I hope that we(EU)'ll have a New Budget for Europe, and that the Budget's line on Social (policy) will settle this issue"
- "But, already, I'm very glad that we (EU) succeeded to find a Solution before Winter time, and I've said to (EU's) Heads of State/Government of the (ChristianDemocrat)/EPP goup, when I met them recently : - "We (EU) have taken enough care of Banks. Let's now take care also of the Poorest People !", Daul summed up.
- "Because, otherwise, our (EU) Citizens would not have understood if People would have started to Die from Hunger on January, when it's the coldest period of the year, that we (EU) made more for Banks, than for Poor People. : I personaly believe that very much", he stressed.
---------------
+ "As for the (EU) Agricutural Policy (itself), we (EU Parliament) are going to discuss, very seriously, from January - February (2012), here, in (EU) Parliament, there will be Debates on the Common Agricultural policy".
- "What I'll ask to all other Political Groups, is to decide (only) when we'll definitively know the Budget". I. e. "we (EU Parliament)'ll do our work, we will show what we want for (EU's) Agricultural policy, (early enough : i.e. from the Beginning of 2012), but we'll take (final) Decisions when we'll know (EU's) Budget definitively". Because, EU's "Agricultural Policy and Budget are interlinked", Daul stressed in conclusion.
- "That's the EPP (Group's) position, but we'll have the Time, largely, to discuss on all those issues about (EU's) Agricultural Policy from the beginning of next year" (2012), he observed optimistically.
------------------------
++ -"As for Food Safety, I don't know if you are following that, as I do, very closely, but you'd better have a look, (on that matter) :, - F.ex. "look at the augmentation of the (Prices of) Raw Materials. Why MercoSur is blocked for 2 Years ?", he wondered.
- " MercoSur is blocked, because it doesn't need, no more, to export Beef's Meet and other products in Europe, since they found another buyer in the Global Market. That's why they don't want to discuss on a Global level about Services and Industrial products. These are things which are going to Change on Food Safety in the World", Daul warned.
***
Main Menu
Home Press Deontology/Ethics 2009 Innovation Year EU endorses EuroFora's idea Multi-Lingual FORUM Subscribers/Donors FAQs Advanced search EuroFora supports Seabird newsitems In Brief European Headquarters' MAPs CoE Journalists Protection Platform
BRIEF NEWS
- 00:00 - 02.06.2021
- 00:00 - 18.10.2020
- 00:00 - 19.06.2020
- 00:00 - 18.05.2020
- 00:00 - 20.04.2020
- 00:00 - 02.02.2020
- 00:00 - 09.12.2019
- 00:00 - 27.11.2019
- 00:00 - 16.11.2019
Popular
- Yes, we could have prevented Ferguson riots says World Democracy Forum's Young American NGO to ERFRA
- Spanish People Elect CenterRIGHT Majority with 1st Party and Total of 178 MPs (6 More than the Left)
- Pflimlin's vision
- The European Athletic "Dream Team", after Barcelona 2010 Sport Championship Results
- Source Conseil d'Europe à ERFRA: Debatre Liberté d'Opposants à Loi livrant Mariage+Enfants à Homos ?
- Head of BioEthics InterGroup, MEP Peter Liese : "Embryonic stem cell research reaching its END" !?
- Spain: Jailed Turkish Terror suspect with Explosive,Drones,Chechen accomplices stirs Merah+ Burgas ?
- UN Head Ban Ki Moon at CoE World Democracy Forum : - "Listen to the People !"
Latest News
- Test Photos (f.ex.+ Invit to EU + Korea Peace meeting)
- EUOmbudsmen Conference 2022: Digital Gaps affect People's Trust threaten EF Project on EU Future ?
- French Election : Black Out on Virus, but Obligation for Fake 'Vaccines" Challenged
- Both French Presidential Candidates point at "Humanism" in crucial times...
- France : Zemmour = Outsider may become Game Changer in Presidential + Parliamentary Elections 2022
Statistics
Visitors: 67817733Archive
Login Form
Syndicate
Other Menu
They voted to "freeze" UK Government's draft to put People in jail for 42 Days on "anti-terrorist" suspicion without charge, or they abstained. Don't they look suspect ?
-------------------------
CoE's debate on UK controversy stirs PanEuropean check of anti-terror suspects' imprisonment
Former Leftists of the Sixties would boil in hot water if they heard PACE's debate on the controversial 42 days detention without charge, currently drafted by the British Government :
A "Socialist" Government, a Socialist PACE Rapporteur and a Socialist Chair of PACE's Legal Committee, opposed a .. "Conservative" amendment (supported by .. Liberals, Democrats, etc), to freeze the measure, in order to protect Citizens' Freedom, by "waiting" until CoE's Venice Committee checks its conformity with Human Rights' principles.
"Left"'s support to Conservative-Lib.Dem's criticism, wasn't enough to obtain a majority, nor to make things as they were back in the good old days, when "Left" and "Right" had a clear meaning, as "liberty" and "restrictions"...
Conservatives and most Democrats were joined by the Left in voting for the "freeze", as well as Liberal Paul Rowen, while Socialist MEP Ivan Popescu, an experienced MEP from Ukraine (PACE Member since 1996-2008) abstained. But most Socialists, added to a few Liberals and EPP's Right, voted against.
Fortunately, someone inside PACE had the wise idea to shorten the Debate for less than 1 Hour, and put it on the Agenda only at the end of an exceptionally busy day, towards the end of the Evening, when most MEPs had already gone to taste wins and foods at various Receptions all around Strasbourg's "European" area : As a result, not even 42 MEPs weren't present..
Socialist Lord Tomlinson accused the leaders of the PanEuropean Assembly, in its highest body : the "Bureau", to "lack wisdom" by deciding to hold a Debate on an issue that neither the Socialist Chair of the Legal Committee, nor its Socialist "reluctant Rapporteur", did "not want to do", ...
Finally, everybody (critics and supporters alike) was happy to agree, in substance, that the controversial measure "may" gravely violate Human Rights, and therefore, PACE asked Legal Experts of Venice Commission to check UK Government''s plans.
But this might take more than .. 42 Days to do, since PACE's Rapporteur asked the Experts to enlarge their study in a PanEuropean comparison of all that is happening on "anti-terrorism" legislation in 47 CoE Member Countries, including Russia, Turkey and Azerbaidjan..
Bad lack : "The existing 28 days’ detention without charge in the UK is, in comparison with other CoE member countries, one of the most extreme : In Turkey, the period is 7,5 days, in France 6 days, in Russia 5 days, and in .. the U.S. and Canada just 2 and 1 days respectively", denounced Democrat MEP Ms WOLDSETH from Norway..
"Numerous respected human rights organisations, including Liberty and Human Rights Watch, have expressed serious concern" "The proposed legislation ...could easily lead to extensive abuses. ...Detention for 42 days means six weeks in which one is taken away from one’s family, friends, home and livelihood only to be let off without being charged. That will destroy lives and isolate communities", she added.
- "3 years ago, the UK Government sought to increase the period of pre-charge detention from 14 days to 90 days. Not long before that, it had been only 7 days. There was a vigorous debate ...and a ...compromise was reached of 28 days. We have to ask whether there are proper safeguards in place to extend the period to 42 days. I suggest that there are fatal flaws", reminded British Conservative Clappison.
- "What sort of society holds someone in detention for 42 days and does not have to tell the person who is in prison why they are there, or explain the suspicions that arose and led to their detention? What sort of society believes that that is the way to treat its citizens? That is an appalling injustice, ...A 42-day detention period will not make the UK safer. Instead, it will be the first step to giving in to terrorists; it is saying that we are prepared to sacrifice our democratic rights and the principles for which we have stood for centuries", criticized British Liberal Michael Hanckock
"Comments made ...by Norwegian delegates are unfortunate", replied British Socialist MEP Ms.Curtis-Thomas, accusing them to "besmirch the reputation of our police force, which is one of the Best in the World", as she said, believing that "there are significant safeguards ...to ensure that individuals are not subjected to unlawful detention"
PACE "has serious doubts whether ...the draft legislation are in conformity with the ...case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. A lack of ..safeguards may lead to arbitrariness, resulting in breaches of ... liberty and ...right to a fair trial". PACE "is particularly concerned that: ..the judge ..may not be in a position to examine whether there exist reasonable grounds for suspecting that the arrested person has committed an offence;"; that "... representation by a lawyer may be inappropriately restricted or delayed;" that "information on the grounds for suspicion of a person ...may be unduly withheld.. ;" that this "may give rise to arrests without the intention to charge;", and; in general, that "prolonged detention without proper information on the grounds for arrest may constitute inhuman treatment", says Klaus De Vries' Report, adopted with 29 votes against zero.
Records don't say if it took him 42 Days to draft his Report, but, at least, he knew why...