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Madam President, EUR 100 billion: This is the price that Europe has paid the most this year on fossil fuels because of the conflict in the Middle East. I repeat, EUR 100 billion. European money financing instability that we do not control, dependency that we do not want and an invoice that families do not deserve to pay. But it is possible to do different. Portugal shows that there is another way.

We are all democrats and, therefore, what we want is to work, and of course to work with the democrats and with those who defend the European Union. But, honourable Member, we must also be realistic and, if we have a programme and ideas, we must negotiate them with all the forces of this Parliament. If the honourable Member defines a health strand from the outset, we prefer and favour dialogue and

Madam President, I have taken good note of your words and I bring you figures. In the 90 seconds I have, the European Union spends EUR 1 million importing energy, more than EUR 120 million in the three hours of this debate. Investing in clean energy means investing in the economy. It's security, it's competitiveness, it's freedom. In 70 years, we have learned to circulate without borders, and we c

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the debate on China is all too often reduced to false choices: cooperation or confrontation, openness or protection, dialogue or firmness. But Europe does not have to be conditioned on these pairs. It needs a strategy that makes them compatible. China is the main source of our imports and the third largest destination of our exports. So yes, we nee

The honourable Member, being an institutionalist, has little confidence in the institutions and therefore little confidence in the ability of the authorities to do their job, namely the police, who have responsibilities in ensuring that the law is complied with. This is the first answer I have to give you. The second is that gambling addiction must be combated, and so I talked about prevention. It

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the possibility of having more money for the European Union budget from the gambling sector deserves to be studied with seriousness, pragmatism and a sense of responsibility. The growth of this sector is an unavoidable reality, but it is also unavoidable that many operators act beyond national borders and exploit regulatory differences and weaknesses in contr

Madam President, this debate is about urgency: 30 years of unfulfilled single market. We are tired – I am tired – of citing Draghi’s Letta reports, and the main conclusion is that the biggest reform Europe has to do does not require 1 euro of debt; It requires political courage to break down the internal borders that we have created ourselves and, in particular, the Council, which, unfortunately,

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that this debate shows that financial literacy is no longer a peripheral issue. First of all, I would like to thank all the shadow rapporteurs, all my fellow Members who have been actively involved in the construction of this text and these proposals, and also to congratulate the Commission on the alignment that exists in the direction of these prop

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, financial literacy is not a luxury for those who earn more, nor a subject reserved for specialists in the field, it is a condition of freedom for each of us. When someone does not understand the cost of a credit, the operation of the loan, the payroll, the risk of the investment or the difference between serious information and marketing Undercover, makes dec

Mr President, this week, Europeans, including millions of Portuguese, are paying another twenty cents per litre of diesel. Twenty cents that do not depend on us, that do not result from the choices of Europeans, but rather from decisions taken thousands of kilometres away, at tables where Europe does not participate in the discussion. And this is where the real problem lies: We remain vulnerable,

I thank the honourable Member for the question, but I have just explained in my speech what we have to do. We have to decide, but that is only possible if there are political parties committed to the European project and to European prosperity. And, sincerely and regrettably, I do not think that your political group is committed to finding solutions in order to have a more competitive, less bureau

Madam President, the time for reports has passed. Europe needs to decide once and for all whether to simplify, invest, scale or lag behind. We do not lose competitiveness due to lack of talent; we lose by context costs, bureaucracy, fragmentation, costly energy. But European companies, especially SMEs, startup and scaleupThey've had enough of diagnostics. They need a simplification shock: fewer re

Madam President, Europe has a single market, but European companies deal with 27 different national laws. This scenario has time, money and opportunity costs. This is why the 28th regime is so necessary. First, because it reduces legal and administrative fragmentation. A harmonised European scheme of the right size gives businesses, especially start-ups, at scale-ups and small and medium-sized ent