Members of the European Parliament are calling for Juncker clear signals

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Members of the European Parliament are calling for Juncker clear signals

EU Commission President Juncker today holds his second state of the Union speech. It looked better: Due to the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis and of the dispute to the economic policy atmosphere of crisis prevails.

Before the speech, on the situation of the European Union, the pressure on Commission President Jean-grows-Claude Juncker, the community a way out of the crisis. The CSU MEP Manfred Weber demanded strong signals for growth and security. The left group head of MEP Gabi Zimmer called on Juncker to clarify social Standards of the EU. “The European Union needs a decisive change of policy,” said the SPD chief Udo Bullmann.

Juncker (article image) in the morning in the European Parliament in Strasbourg with his annual keynote speech to the deputies. The Luxembourg Christian is likely to enter into a Democrat on the consequences of the expected withdrawal of the UK from the EU. The British had voted in June for the Brexit, but the London government has provided no official withdrawal request.

It is also expected that Juncker explained to the members the decision of the Commission for an extension of the agreed a year ago billion-dollar investment plan. Also on the continuing refugee crisis, he is likely to take. Several EU States refuse to, the Plan for the redistribution of refugees within the EU. In view of these problems of crisis in the community for months.

Manfred Weber

Weber, leader of the European people’s party and to a politician of the same political family as Juncker, said the German press Agency: “Europe must focus on the Essentials and, in these areas, but is also consistent with the balancing act.” Specifically, he pleaded for a renewal of the 2014-launched EU investment programme to mobilize to support 315 billion euros of public and private funds. Also for the trade agreements Ceta with Canada and the TTIP with the USA, Weber made itself strongly. In security policy, he supported the proposal, all of the entries and Exits are to be shown in Europe, similar to the USA with the Esta-System.

Green group leader Rebecca Harms welcomed the informal summit on Friday in Bratislava, and also praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had traveled to prepare, among other things, to Eastern Europe. Ready-made answers are not expected from the Meeting, said Harms in Strasbourg. With a view to the Brexit vote as well as elections in Austria and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, it said: “There are fractures within the European Union, and the need to be edited.”

“Nationalist phrase-maker have too much room”

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SPD politician bull man urged the EU Commission to set a clear course. “Nationalist Turkey currently have too much room,” because answers to pressing questions were missing. Also bull man campaigned strongly for increased investment and turned against “austerity at any price”.

The Left-politician in the room criticized the fact that to learn more about Juncker’s speech in advance, more from the media than from official rounds, “because it is exactly the expression of the lack of democratic understanding, what not to feel, Yes, only deputies, but also the many citizens.”

Donald Tusk

Meanwhile, European Council President Donald Tusk warned the heads of state and government, to ignore the Lessons from the withdrawal of the vote of the British. Many EU citizens asked themselves similar questions and wanted to get out of Europe for protection and stability, wrote Tusk in the letter of invitation to the summit on the future of the EU.

He criticised the fact that Europe had hesitated in the refugee crisis, to long, to protect its borders. The British had voted at the end of June in a referendum for withdrawal from the EU. The heads of state and government of the remaining 27 countries meet in the Slovak capital of Bratislava about choices for the future of the EU without the UK.

It would be to adopt “a fatal error, that the negative result of the referendum in the United Kingdom, represents a specifically British Problem,” wrote Tusk in an unusually long, five-sided inviting me letter to the summit. The Brexit vote would also be “a desperate attempt to answer the questions of millions of Europeans every day.”

In the case of Doubt opposite Europe, migration has been a crisis, “the turning point,” said Tusk. “The Chaos last year at our borders” and hundreds of thousands of refugees on the way through Europe, had generated “a sense of threat for many Europeans”. You have to have to wait a long time until has been tried, the situation about the closure of the West Balkan route and to get the EU-Turkey agreement is under control.

stu/fab (afp, dpa)