What Hélder spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, let us look at the current situation. Today in the European Union, 80% of small and medium-sized enterprises face difficulties in finding workers with the right skills. And it is expected that by 2035, around 60% of employment opportunities will require intermediate qualifications provided by technical and vocational education. Despite this evidence, vocational educa

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe will not have innovation without the talent to sustain it, nor will it have a voice in the world without the culture to project it. The cuts proposed by the Council for the 2027 budget, compared to the Commission proposal, are, in our view, unacceptable: €150 million in Erasmus+, a programme that shapes true European citizens, and

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, protecting children in the digital world begins by preserving their right to grow up, learn and discover the world beyond a screen. The figures demonstrate the urgency. The latest data from the European Commission show that teenagers spend an average of 4.5 hours a day on the internet on weekdays and 6 hours a day on weekends. This reality clear

Mr President, Commissioner and dear colleagues, European competitiveness begins long before people enter the labour market. It begins at school. Today, 46 % of European small and medium-sized enterprises struggle to find workers with the right skills. More than half of EU companies see this shortage as an obstacle to investment. We cannot allow a skills shortage to hold back European growth. This

Madam President, rapporteur, Commissioner, this reform of the European Union Customs Code is clearly an important step towards preserving the Union's internal market, protecting European consumers and, above all, promoting the competitiveness of European businesses. As rapporteur for the Committee on Budgets on this regulation, I welcome the overall result achieved, but especially the introduction

Madam President, today I do not accept blue cards because I am trying to protect our Commissioner, Piotr Serafin, in the level of this plenary, because it is too much.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, ensuring adequate and predictable funding is one of the main factors in ensuring the success and effectiveness of the European budget. The introduction of new sources of revenue is key to enabling the Union to respond to the new needs and current expectations of citizens, but also businesses. In order to implement the traditional and new politic

Madam President, Madam High Representative, there are policies that are done by words and there are policies that are confessed by gestures. And when it comes to defense, gestures don't lie. The reduction of the American military presence on our continent, particularly from Germany to the eastern flank, is evidence of a trend and not of chance. It is therefore not up to Europe to regret it. We hav

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, ladies and gentlemen, the discharge procedure is clearly a fundamental moment of democratic control over the use of European taxpayers' money. Regarding the budget implementation of the year 2024, the Committee on Culture and Education highlights the remarkable acceleration in the implementation of the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe programmes. I emphasise the Eur

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, ladies and gentlemen, to define the next multiannual financial framework is to choose clearly the kind of European Union we want to build. In this draft report, the European Parliament advocates an ambitious budget, but at the same time a realistic budget. As draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education, I would like to highlight the increa

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the war has returned both to our continent and to our neighbourhood. With it, we realised very late that supply chains are extremely vulnerable and external dependencies have clearly revealed ‑se a real risk to our security. Faced with this reality, one thing became ‑ evident: we cannot continue with the fragmented European defence market, where

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, in these challenging times, we must ensure that the European Union budget remains a real investment tool. In this context, education, culture and youth have a central role to play in leveraging the competitiveness of the European economy, promoting territorial cohesion, economic and social cohesion and safeguarding principles, rights, but above all European valu

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, drones are today a turning point in European security and defence. In Ukraine, its use has already demonstrated a decisive impact on the battlefield and has dramatically accelerated innovation cycles. Europe needs to keep pace with industrial scale, clear rules and predictable investment. For smaller Member States, this means a realistic way to cre

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the future of democracy is at stake in Honduras. The elections of 30 November 2025 had results proclaimed by the National Electoral Council, and the results were clear. Nasry Asfura was announced as president-elect, and this result must be respected. We therefore call on the current president, Xiomara Castro, to continue to give express and also cl

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let us begin with the essentials: the fight against piracy online It is not an attack on the citizen trying to watch a football match, nor does it boil down to economic losses. It is clearly a matter of safety, consumer protection and public trust. Today, piracy online It is recognized as an intellectual property crime, increasingly linked to organ

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there are coups born out of the ambition to conquer power and coups born out of the fear of losing it. In Guinea-Bissau, on 26 November, we witnessed an assault on popular will on the eve of the proclamation of the election results. We therefore unequivocally condemn the military’s seizure of power on 26 November and the interruption of the elec

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this resolution deals with something very specific: how we adapt existing European programmes to a profoundly changed security and defence reality. Many in this house have already identified the problem: Europe needs to produce faster, Europe needs to innovate better, Europe needs to reduce its dependence on third countries and reduce its bureaucra

Madam President, today I don't accept the blue card question because Mr Oliveira only publishes the questions and he never publishes the answers. And it's the third time. Dear Colleague, in English: That's not fair. I don't take it today.