What Paulo spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, this is the last budget of the current multiannual financial framework, so it should be the bridge to the future of the Union. And to this end, we need to respond and realise that Europeans in general, and many young people in particular, whose talent we cannot waste, face many difficulties associated with the high cost of living. We need to ensure productive capacit

Mr Vice-President, your uncompromising defence by the outermost regions is well known and I believe that, this time, in the negotiation of the next multiannual financial framework, we have had what is an unprecedented position of the three governments, Portugal, Spain and France, in the uncompromising defence also of the outermost regions in the next multiannual financial framework. How do you ass

Mr President. Mr Vice-President, the proposal for the next multiannual financial framework has forgotten the specific features of our territories. I therefore congratulate the Commission and you, Mr Vice-President, for correcting this mistake by presenting these strategies. Azoreans and Madeirans are interested in the right to stay, guaranteeing an adequate cost of living, affordable housing, empl

Madam President, we cannot ask our fishermen more and more and offer them less and less ‑ to continue fishing. That is the main message of this report. I want to talk about who is at sea, who at dawn faces bad weather and puts life at risk, fuel costs, bureaucracy and uncertainty, but despite all this, continues to provide food for our families. European fishermen comply with numerous environmenta

Madam President, the summer of 2026 left a clear message: Heat waves, fires and drought are no longer just a problem in southern Europe. Extreme heat is associated with more than 35,000 deaths in the past year. They are destroyed communities and territories, lives lost. I thank the firefighters, security and health forces, farmers, volunteers and all those who have been and still are in Portugal o

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Union's new anti-drugs strategy cannot repeat two mistakes: forget the emergence of the fight against synthetic drugs, ignore that its western borders begin in the heart of the Atlantic with the Azores and Madeira. It is through the Atlantic that routes increasingly exploited by international drug trafficking networks, with boats, have passed. drones and

In fact, I do not think I have been able to really understand the issue, but I note that the data are obvious. We are talking here about a report on the issue of carers and they are mostly female. Eighty percent of caregivers are actually women. And that is why we must ensure that these women do not give up those who are their rights as citizens, do not give up what is fair remuneration for their

Mr Meleti, let me also praise the excellent report here for my good friends, Eleonora Meleti and Rosa Estaràs Ferragut. Mr Oliveira, you are absolutely right. That is why we are so committed to a cohesion policy and we do not want to let this cohesion policy die, because we believe in genuine territorial development of the regions, quality and local public services that will keep people in these r

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe will only be fairer when it takes care of the other, and if it stops dedicating itself to the other, it will no longer mean losing. I therefore greet all the caregivers, formal or informal, who give themselves to those who need them most and are vulnerable. Care is a collective good, not a private responsibility. Therefore, my gratitude and gratitude. Caring shou

Mr President, first of all I would like to thank our rapporteur and all the shadow rapporteurs for this important report. And yes, of course yes, I agree: nothing like a participatory process of co-management of our quotas of access to the sea by our fishermen as a guarantee of success – and this is what the Portuguese Government has been doing. In fact, what we saw was an excess of ambition in th

Mr President, Commissioner, 'those who dominate the seas dominate the world', said Mahan, who also knew that maritime power is not born of decrees - it is born of the people who see their livelihood in the sea, who know it, who work in it, generation after generation. It is this heritage that we must integrate into maritime spatial planning, which must reconcile environmental, economic and social

Madam President, the firm leadership of the President of the Government of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, even in the face of populist and demagogue movements, by not wavering or retreating, after years of work and dialogue with the various players in the fisheries sector and the blue economy, in the definition of marine protected areas – meeting five years in advance the very targets set by th

Honourable Member, thank you for your question. I disagree. In agriculture, with this proposal, which we hope will be approved today, we will have about EUR 40 billion more than we currently have. In fisheries, we will have more than EUR 1 billion of what we currently have. In the outermost regions, in POSEI Agriculture, which is so important, we will have EUR 3 billion more than we currently have

Mr President, Commissioner, have no doubt. Anyone who votes against this report today will be voting against European farmers, against European fishermen, against our regions and rural areas, against our outermost regions, such as the Azores and Madeira. You can't do more with less. And when we talk about defense, we have to ask ourselves: What is it that defends us? When we talk about competitive

Mr President, Commissioner, if there is no consent, rape is a crime, and this consent must be explicit, informed and given in complete freedom. Here I also mean total freedom, total consciousness, total waking state. We need a robust legal definition that ensures that this concept is harmonised at European level and that, of course, it is shared by all ‑ Member States, because the rights of indivi

Mr President, what we are seeing in Portugal is exactly a profound reform of the labour market. New times, times of urgency, times of emergency, times of competitiveness, really require new rules. What you said was an initial proposal from the government which has already been reformulated and which is now in the context of social dialogue and which we hope can be improved. And here, we cal

Mr President, Commissioner, in the European Union, women work between 54 and 67 days of grace per year for men. They earn on average 12% less and the value increases in the highest positions and STEM areas. As a result, they receive about 25 % lower pensions and pensions. They continue to take on most unpaid care, which is still under-recognised, and also in health and education.

Mr President, Commissioner, combating sexual harassment cannot be optional or forgotten, as has been the case in Spain with the Sánchez Government. Respect and dignity are an imperative, but clearly not what happens in this socialist Spain. We cannot, one day, call for zero tolerance of sexual harassment and, the next day, sweep reports under the carpet and forget the victims, because it is not co

Madam President, Commissioner, I welcome all the dynamism that you have employed in the sector with excellent results. I would highlight, among others, the regulation on unfair cross-border commercial practices, the so-called 'wine package' and also this second simplification package. And, here, let me also thank you for all your support in transforming my proposal to be able, for the first time,