What João spoke about.

We condemn any violation of human rights, whether in Thailand, in any EU country, or in any other part of the world. When the situation in Thailand has been largely ignored in recent years by the EP, it is at a time of rapprochement with the People's Republic of China that this resolution emerges, cynically instrumentalising migration and Uyghurs (who have been detained for ten years in Thai deten

Mr President, Commissioner Hoekstra, one of the objectives under discussion at this COP31 is to increase the share of electricity in the world's final energy consumption to 35 % by 2035. This objective requires an energy policy that enables each State to exploit its energy production, distribution and supply capacities and resources in the most balanced way and in accordance with its social and ec

Mrs Borrás Pabón, after all, the extreme right wants to speak out against energy prices, but it does not want to confront the interests of multinationals in the energy sector, because, after all, one never wants to 'kill the owner's hand'. The problem is precisely that. The extreme right is no alternative to anything. When it is necessary to defend the interests of the peoples, you shrink whenever

Mrs Borrás Pabón, you are making a critical reference here to energy costs, particularly for households and small producers. I will ask you a very simple question. There is a way to solve this problem, namely through public control of the strategic sector and price control by the States so that prices are not set as well as the multinationals in the energy sector understand. My question to you is

Mr President, when we discuss the circular economy, we should be discussing an economy geared to meeting social needs, an economy geared to balance, the use of natural and productive resources, short chains of production, distribution and consumption, support for small producers and consumers, with a view to producing and consuming locally. The problem is that all this is contradictory to the poli

Mr President, the contribution that the Erasmus programme can make to the consolidation of democratic values is undeniable, by placing education at the centre of the fundamental aspects of structuring the democratic system and also by allowing the broadening of the experience of young people to create the space for the consolidation of those democratic values. But it is also necessary that, under

Mr President, that's a very difficult choice to make. I'll take the catch-the eye, then.

Mr Mazurek, education is the foundation of any democracy and the sharing of experiences and exchanges between young people only strengthens the democratic conception that our youth must have ingrained. I understand that the extreme right is against these values, against the Erasmus project, because it allows, on the basis of this sharing of experiences and values, to effectively strengthen the pos

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, I would like to highlight two aspects of this report by the European Court of Auditors which we feel are absolutely essential. First, the criticism of the model of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, from which the national RRPs came, for the concentration of power in the European Commission. It assumes almost absolute power in the management of the funds, wit

The far right is very concerned about the living conditions of the people, about the problems of living costs, about the problems of housing, but this really only serves as a pretext, because there is zero concern. Where was Mrs Meloni's government at the European Council meeting to raise these peoples' problems? The far-right government of Mrs. Meloni of Italy agreed to these conclusions, agreed

Mrs Tavares, you referred to the multiannual financial framework and that is what I wanted to ask you a few questions about. Is the problem simply that there is a shorter budget, or is it also the problem that resources are geared towards militarism, towards the arms industry, rather than towards cohesion policy, to meet the needs of economic, social and territorial cohesion? Is the problem merely

Honourable Member, you know that the problem is not how long meetings take. The European Council could be meeting two weekends, a month in a row, which, with the political orientation that these meetings have, would not bring out anything that would solve the problems of the peoples. Because that is the question. Naturally, the governments represent the Member States and should bring to those meet

Madam President, Mr Costa, 27 Prime Ministers and Heads of State enter a room accompanied by you and Mrs von der Leyen for a meeting of the European Council. Fourteen hours after the meeting began, they announce the conclusions. There is no measure to stop the rise in the cost of living, to control prices, to face the accumulation of profits of multinationals and economic groups. There is no propo

Madam President, Commissioner Mînzatu, we reject the neoliberal approach which looks at vocational training as compensation for dismissal, or at workers' qualifications as an instrument for increasing labour exploitation by appropriating greater shares of the wealth created. Vocational education and training must be linked to a fairer distribution of wealth, including through wage increases. We al

Mr Buła, you referred to the issues of education, vocational training from the point of view of the education system, and that is precisely what I wanted to ask you a question about. I wanted to know whether or not you agree that it is necessary to counteract the logic of social segregation in the approach to vocational education from the educational system. Should we or should we not refuse syste

Madam President, Commissioner Kallas, when the International Criminal Court persecuted Netanyahu for the genocide in Gaza, Donald Trump said that the Court was not created to persecute our friends, it was created to punish our enemies. Since then – sanctions against the Court, sanctions against judges – Donald Trump has done everything against the ICC. And what this confirms is that the ICC was no

Mr President, Mrs Ribera, the policy of facilitating mergers and concentrations is tailored to the great European powers and their monopoly groups. It is a policy of concentrating wealth, of concentrating productive, economic and financial capacity, of accentuating the domination of European powers and multinationals over peoples and states. And I want to ask you four questions: What role is reser

Mr President, the European Union is increasingly a federal political project with its back turned to the people and oriented towards war, the arms business and the favouring of multinationals. The budget for 2027 is the last budget of the current Multiannual Financial Framework and shows this way. Social, cohesion and public investment policies are sacrificed to pay for options to promote militari

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the people fill the street because they have reasons for discontent and protest, because they cannot stand the increase in the cost of living, because they cannot stand to see their wages and pensions fail to cope with rising prices, while economic groups accumulate a profit of millions. Because they can not stand the lack of access to health, which subjects

Mr President, Mr Terheş has now come here to defend small and medium-sized enterprises. What crushes small and medium-sized enterprises are the big economic groups, the banks that the far right does not want to stand up to and whose privileges it does not want to challenge. But, Mr President, on the subject we are dealing with, it is a good thing that criteria are set for reducing packaging, parti

An environmental impact project. Fourth and last, the society of my country, Galicia, is standing up against these projects. Commissioner, we want the voice of our people when we decide on critical raw materials. That is why I met a week ago with the European Commission itself to discuss this issue, always on the side of my country's interests. Merci, João Oliveira. Thank you, President. Mrs Roose

Mrs Kulmuni, one of the main problems with this regulation on critical matters is that it does not safeguard the interests of the people targeted by natural resource extraction projects. The ability to produce profoundly negative impacts on the lives of communities is a concern that should be safeguarded. In Portugal, we have in Covas do Barroso an example of a lithium extraction process that is c

Mrs Bentele, the concentration of decision-making capacity in the European Union in relation to critical raw materials leaves the European powers in charge of these decisions. And, of course, this is to the detriment of all the other countries that are part of the European Union. The honourable Member speaks to us about the dispute over raw materials with the United States or China, but the point

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, poverty is the consequence of an economic system in which wealth is distributed unfairly and unequally. Poverty is not only a lack of income, it is also a denial of political, economic, social and cultural rights. To eradicate poverty, we need to change policies, but we need to start by taking hypocrisy out of the way. It is necessary to remove hyp

Madam President, Commissioner Fitto, the strategy for islands and the outermost regions must be a genuine policy of economic, social and territorial cohesion. A policy that guarantees the populations of the islands and the outermost regions living conditions equivalent to those of those living on the mainland. The reality in the Azores and Madeira, in Portugal, is a good example of this need. We n