What Dita spoke about.

Mahsa Amini was just 22 years old, with her whole life ahead of her. Her brutal death at the hands of the morality police, for simply not wearing a veil correctly, left not just Iranians, but the whole world, devastated and indignant. The images we see daily from Iran are horrifying. The brutality of the regime against protestors is unacceptable. Women in Iran are courageously risking their lives

Madam President, dear Presidents, dear Prime Ministers, dear Ministers, dear colleagues, 24 years ago Václav Havel addressed this Parliament and spoke about European identity and enlargement. He spoke of turning Europe’s turbulent history into one of a profoundly fair and peaceful order, based on the principle of equality and cooperation by all sides, where understanding and general consensus guid

Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, it is now two weeks since we heard the name of Voice of Europe. An investigation by Czech authorities revealed that it was a pro-Russian influence operation in Europe. The huge amount of content it created using elected officials as mouthpieces have been seen as a credible source for months. It is scandalous that, despite Voice of Europe being

I declare adjourned the session of the European Parliament.

The next part-session will take place on 10 and 11 April 2024.

The minutes of this sitting will be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of its next sitting. If there are no objections, I shall forward the resolutions adopted at today’s sitting to the persons and bodies named in the resolutions.

That concludes the explanations of vote.

The next item is the explanations of vote.

The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 171)

The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on healthy lifestyle and active ageing in the EU (2024/2622(RSP)).

I should like to inform you that, pursuant to Rule 47(2), the President has declared admissible a proposal for a Union act on the repeal of legislation derived from the European Green Deal, submitted by Jorge Buxadé Villalba and three other Members. This proposal is referred to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, as the committee responsible, and to the Committee on Ag

The minutes of yesterday’s sitting and the texts adopted are available. Are there any comments? As there are not, the minutes are approved.

Mr. President, Rocío San Miguel, Hernández Da Costa, Juan Freites, Luis Camaro, Guillermo López, Emil Brand and many more are in prison only because they think differently from the dictatorial regime or simply because they worked for presidential candidate María Corina Machado. These are just some of the many examples of the brutality of Nicolás Maduro's regime. The European Union must respond fir

We thank you, Commissioner. I have received one motion for a resolution to wind up the debate1. The debate is closed and the vote will be held tomorrow. (The sitting was suspended at 10.12) _____________ 1 See minutes.

The next item is the debate on a Commission statement on the creation of a European initiative for an annual designation of European capitals for children (2024/2621(RSP)). I would like to inform Members that there will be only one round of political group speakers, therefore no catch-the-eye procedure, and no blue cards will be accepted.

We thank you, Minister. With that I will close the debate. Written statements (Rule 171)

The next item is the debate on Council and Commission statements on the need to address the urgent concerns surrounding Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia (2024/2620(RSP)).

Before we start the debate, I would like to warmly welcome the special guests today who are in the gallery: Valeriia Halych, who was deported to Russia and, thankfully, returned to Ukraine, her mother Nataliia Halych, as well as Andrii Chernousov from ‘Voices of Children’ and Olga Pustovit from the ‘Center for Civil Liberties’ in Ukraine. (Applause) They are here with us as a testimony of Putin’s

The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on the need to impose sanctions on the import of Russian and Belarusian food and agricultural products to the EU and to ensure stability of EU agricultural production (2024/2657(RSP)).

The debate is closed.

The next item is the debate on the Oral Question to the Commission on the adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for 2023 (2024/2573(RSP)).

The debate is closed.

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, AI is the future. It will be the next industrial revolution, as we use it to innovate and to make lives better. We only have to look to the fight against cancer to see the great benefits that AI can bring to our society. 61 % of Europeans feel the same. We need AI innovation in Europe. We need to embrace this tool and not hold it back out of fear. There are risks, bu

Madam President, Commissioner, more than a thousand political prisoners, social violence, 88% of families living in extreme poverty, thousands of Cuban doctors and professionals forcibly working abroad, the systematic and unpunished violation of human rights: that's today's Cuba. Six years after the entry into force of the Agreement between the European Union and Cuba, whose key point was the impr

The next item is the debate on the report by Nacho Sánchez Amor, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (2023/2118(INI)) (A9-0424/2023).