Ana Catarina Mendes
Country
Portugal
Group
S&D

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What Ana Catarina spoke about.

All Contributions
73
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
2 h
120 min
Average speech length
1:48
Rank: 60 / 696

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73 Speeches

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Cutting costs and unnecessary reporting obligations now – concrete next steps to deliver swift relief for EUʼs entrepreneurs (topical debate)

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France, Italy and Belgium: Latest anti-democratic violence by radical far-left groups, implications on public order and the legitimate right to protest (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, calling the young people who are demonstrating selfish and refusing to listen to the cry of the street is a sign that a government that has lost the north and does not know what it is doing has given up on the young. The answer to these words of the Portuguese Government are the thousands of young people on the streets, orderly and peacefully defending their

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, I welcome the presence at the heart of European democracy, precisely to tell you the pride of 40 years of Portugal's integration into the European Union and how we have been able to consolidate our democracy, give new opportunities to our citizens and bring development to our country. And that is why I demand from this bench, Prime M

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The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Ceuta is Europe, and I think we should refocus the debate. This debate has three essential dimensions. Firstly, we cannot ignore, after this morning's debate, that what happened in Ceuta was a hybrid attack on a ‑ Member State and an external border of the European Union. A hybrid attack that instrumentalized immigrants, that spread misinformation

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Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that it is particularly appropriate to discuss this report on International Democracy Day. This is not just a day to celebrate, but to continue to deepen and defend our democracies. And at a time when democracies are facing various challenges, such as disinformation, manipulation, foreign interference, increasingly sophisticated digita

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we have recently had the opportunity to speak in the Commission. I would like to welcome the action plan, even though it was only at the beginning of this debate. I want to welcome the presentation because it is another tool that helps us all understand how Member States should respond with artificial intelligence and more cybersecurity. And no, I have not brought a Uto

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

Mr President, Mr Cunha, imagine thousands of students waiting for the results of the national examinations because of a computer failure of the services of the Ministry of Education in Portugal. You don't have to imagine, it's happening. My question is: it is not worth talking about big speeches about innovation, it is necessary to have responsibility and that the public administration respects th

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Protecting EU citizens’ data from hybrid threats: the Lithuanian case (topical debate)

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

Madam President, Madam Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the biggest challenge facing the European Union today is how to adapt our societies to artificial intelligence, how to have artificial intelligence at the service of our democracies, how to reduce our external dependencies and how to bet on a European digital industrial strategy. This implies – from my point of vie

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, fundamental rights are our common ground and indeed our political identity. And this is not a detail. I would like to congratulate the rapporteur and the ‑sombra rapporteurs on the excellence of the report, but it does determine that there is increasing pressure on the rule of law. Civic space is shrinking, hate speech is growing and the essential

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of external threats and geopolitical instability, defending a safer Europe is defending a defence policy that is truly European. That means, in my view, two things: removing the barriers that continue to fragment our defence market and investing in common projects that strengthen our capabilities. Today, the European defence industry

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, to defend a humanist view of migration is to reject a simplistic view of 'us versus them' and of this need to regulate migratory pressure. Migration is part of Europe's history, its future, its present, and it is part of the human reality that demands responsibility, solidarity and solidity. Colleagues, S&D has approved and supported and worked har

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is an important day in this Parliament, when we are discussing the competitiveness and strategic autonomy of our internal market and, above all, to stop having an internal market that is fragmented and where it is not possible to boost all the innovation, knowledge and talent that we have in the Member States. start-ups — which is a movemen

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, this is a very important debate, it is an absolutely essential debate. The European Union is built on the fundamental values of human dignity, equality, respect for human rights and non-discrimination. And yet, despite this solemn commitment, today we are witnessing a worrying increase in discrimination across Europe, affecting people on

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of S&D, I want to welcome the European Commission's communication on the resilience of our democracies, because it identifies threats, proposes a way to strengthen institutions and civic participation. But, Commissioner, as I told you yesterday, we need clear commitments to equality, social cohesion, sustainable finance and democratic acc

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, S&D is very clear that the Migration Pact has been presented as a historic step, but unfortunately both the report is late and all the news that comes, including your speech (I am sorry, Commissioner), are still shrouded in opacity, with no clarity as to the values, no clarity as to the solidarity mechanism and no guarantees that it wi

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Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements (A10-0197/2025 - Jörgen Warborn) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you do not need to send messages to S&D, because S&D is well aware that the compromise reached within the framework of the democratic platform is not perfect, but guarantees the essentials: human rights, environmental protection and stability safeguards for our businesses. The Socialists and Democrats have been at the forefront of these negotiations, and we h

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Mr Oliveira, I have just said that this is a programme with good intentions and few achievements. My party leader said so here a moment ago, too, but I would like to agree with you. We need a real, concrete and workable housing programme. We know that housing is not just a problem for our Member States. In Portugal, we have a crisis at this very big time. The increase in the price of housing is 35

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have three very brief notes. The President of the Commission has spoken about competitiveness and I would like to warn that this competitiveness is not at the expense of our fundamental values, but that it is guided by a clear social and democratic compass. This means not confusing simplification with deregulation, reducing our high social and en

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