What Maria-Manuel spoke about.

Gender—based violence is an epidemic that has been ignored for too long. One in three women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. If a similarly serious problem affected one third of all men, I am sure it would have already have been appropriately addressed. That said, I am glad to see the report on gender—based violence come to a vote, and I want to thank

Madam President, in Europe there are people trafficked for forced marriages, for illegal adoption, for prostitution, for criminal activities, to be forced to work – even today, here, we have just discussed forced labour – and even to be surrogates. There are more than 7 000 victims of trafficking in the European Union every year, most of them women and children, regrettably. It is to end this mark

Madam President, I want to thank very much all colleagues for their intervention. The fight against forced labour must unite all of us in this Parliament. The European Union will finally have an instrument to address this practice, an instrument that is good for the victims, but also for the responsible European companies that protect their workers and suffer from unfair competition and dumping. H

Madam President, today, around the world, 28 million people are trapped in the hands of human traffickers or sometimes states that force them to work for little or no pay. 12% of them are children. This business of human misery is thriving, despite international efforts to end it. Almost 100 years after the adoption of the landmark Forced Labour Convention of 1930, the International Labour Organis

Madam President, we have all been through the hassle of having a home appliance that stops working, a broken mobile phone, a radio that stops tuning. What do we do then? Shall we throw it away? We want a quick and efficient solution to restore the functioning of our equipment, avoiding waste and the additional costs of its replacement. Avoiding answering the question, we throw away, buy a new one.

Mr President, I never thought I would have to come back to this issue since, in 2007, I contributed to the victory of yes in the referendum on the decriminalisation of abortion in Portugal. I repeat: Abortion is no longer a crime, it's what we voted on. The rest is individual freedom. No woman is obliged to have an abortion, but if she so decides, for reasons that are her own, she must be able to

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by making it clear that the refusal of entry of a delegation from the European Parliament by the Cuban authorities is reprehensible and that it is unacceptable for any country, whether Cuba or any other country, as has already happened, to dictate the composition of our delegations. While this incident is worrying, turning it into a diplomatic c

Mr President, Commissioner, intangible assets such as trademarks, designs, models, patents and data are increasingly important in today's knowledge economy. IP-intensive industries account for almost half of total GDP and more than 90% of all EU exports. One of the most important types of patents are so-called essential patents, i.e. patents protecting technologies that have been declared essentia

Mr President, Commissioner, it is now possible, through the use of artificial intelligence, to create fake propaganda videos that are almost indistinguishable from real videos, the so-called . It is also possible to use personal data to adjust lies and fake news to those who will hear and read them. Under this regulation, the use of personal data for the purposes of political advertising will only

Madam President, in her State of the Union speech in 2020, the President of the European Commission announced a proposal to ensure that a child never loses his or her parents legally when moving from one Member State to another. This is currently the case because the parenthood of a child from rainbow families is not recognised in all Member States. In December last year, Parliament adopted its po

Mr President, Commissioner, poverty is not gender-neutral. Some 383 million women live on less than $2 a day. It is estimated that the next generation of women, the next, will still spend an average of 2.3 hours more per day on unpaid care work than men. Without forgetting the economic dependence resulting from the lack of access to education, privilege still denied to women in some parts of the w

Madam President, Commissioner, we talk a lot about platforms and those that promote hate speech and disinformation online, but we must not forget that these phenomena do not affect everyone equally. As in the world offline, victims are usually the most vulnerable and those who cannot defend themselves. That's why we have numbers like this: one in ten women in the European Union has already been th

Mr President, Commissioner, there is no doubt that Global Gateway has been instrumental in the development of infrastructure in various parts of the world. Let me pay special attention to Latin America, where we have more than 130 investment projects focused mainly on digital infrastructure development and sustainability. As I have heard from the other side, it is, however, important to simplify a

Mr President, Commissioner, when I was in Venezuela at the European Union Election Mission in 2021, what I heard most from civil society was a huge desire to participate in elections, not to boycott them, and to express their protest through them. To respond to this legitimate and democratic aspiration, elections must be free and there will only be free elections in Venezuela when the disqualifica

Mr President, Commissioner, I have heard in this Parliament two positions that seem equally questionable to me. One holds that all regulation is a burden on businesses. The other considers that data should be protected at any cost and never shared for any purpose. The proposal we are debating shows that both positions are incorrect. The use of interoperability makes it possible to share data secur

Madam President, Commissioner, unfair competition has many causes and always harms our businesses, especially the smallest ones. But I want to focus today on just one: forced labour. We know that the major competitor of the European solar industry is China and we also know, thanks to reports such as those from the University of Sheffield Hallam, that the Chinese solar industry uses forced labour o

Mr President, Commissioner, in 2019, Ecuador was one of the safest and most peaceful countries in Latin America, with a murder rate of six deaths per 100 000 inhabitants. Unfortunately, the Ecuador we are talking about today is the most violent country in the region, with a rate six times higher than four years ago and plunged into a wave of violence, due to drug trafficking, which culminated in t

Mr President, Commissioner, if we all choose the most environmentally friendly product, if we decide to repair it when it is damaged, instead of replacing it, we will contribute to a sustainable environment and influence the market to change with us. But we can only do this if the information available about the product is reliable, without trying to go green which is not. And we will only be able

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank you for your speeches and also my colleagues from the various political groups who have spoken here today in support of this report. We are not talking about surrogacy business, and anyone who tries to divert the debate is because they did not have the courage to say here that they do not care about these children and even less about their families

...the kind of family you're part of or the way you were born. However, today in the European Union, a child can lose his or her parents – legally, of course – when moving from one country to another. This is because the law applied to recognise parenthood is not the same and because some Member States still do not recognise certain families, such as those composed of same-sex couples. In practice

Mr President, Mr High Representative, the attempt by the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor's Office to annul the results of the presidential elections is unacceptable, as are the accusations against the President-elect and the Supreme Electoral Court. Faced with this sad third-category novel, orchestrated by a group of prosecutors on the basis of ridiculous arguments, the intention of a coup d’état see

Mr President, if I have a problem in a Portuguese court, for example a family matter or even a criminal matter, which requires a witness who resides in France, Germany, Sweden or another Member State, I run the risk of seeing the case be delayed long before she is heard. It turns out that if justice isn't swift, it often won't be justice. With this regulation we will facilitate the use of videocon

Mr President, the growing importance of digital in our lives, cyber violence, creates another serious problem for women. One in ten, often young people, have experienced harassment or virtual harassment, or blackmail practices known as ‘revenge porn’, where explicit sexual images or videos are shared without their consent. We therefore need a greater effort at European Union level to ensure that t

Mr President, it is very important that the United States and the European Union work together to promote their economic resilience and security. So we have to align our approaches on very concrete issues. We need, for example, to combat practices that distort competition, such as the circulation of products made with forced labour. The United States already has very ambitious legislation in place

Commissioner, X is, in mathematics, the letter that best symbolises the unknown. It is therefore a very suitable new name for the platform we previously called Twitter. It is unknown because we are less and less aware of the direction of the platform. What kind of content is being promoted? What kind of moderation is being done? The unknown can be resolved, in particular, with the use of two tools