What Eider spoke about.

Topical debate raised by ECR, shortly after the Prime Minister of Italy, Georgia Meloni, has violated the rights of homosexual families (of women) by indicating to the Ministry of the Interior that they do not register (or delete) the non-pregnant mother from the registration in the municipalities of minors born by surrogacy or artificial insemination. The far right attacks LGTBIQI+ rights in a ca

Mr President, Commissioner, enlargement – especially after Russia’s war against Ukraine – has returned to the top of our political agenda. That is why the final approval of this growth and reform plan for the Western Balkans is so important. With this EUR 6 billion for 2024-2027, we once again demonstrate our commitment to this region and give a definitive impetus to a much-needed reform agenda to

Mr President, this is the umpteenth debate of this legislature on the violation of the rule of law in Hungary, an issue that has been at the forefront of our list of concerns and also at the forefront of our actions during these five years, because this has been the legislature in which we have approved the mechanism of conditionality of funds to respect the rule of law, undoubtedly a key instrume

Madam President, this is the end of the debate we have had on three fundamental dossiers. One of them is the revision of the multiannual financial framework; As we said, this is the first time in history that the multiannual financial framework with more funding for the programmes has actually been revised. Another one is the Ukraine Facility; This is finally a structured plan to help Ukrainians r

Mr President, Commissioner, two years have passed since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and in these two years the EU's support for Ukraine has been unequivocal and unwavering. From a humanitarian point of view, we have not only sent humanitarian aid, but Europe has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war. From a military point of view, both the EU and most

Mr President, the fact that there was no agreement last December on the revision of the multiannual financial framework was not good news. We have to make urgent budgetary decisions, because fundamental policies depend on it. We can start with the most obvious: financial support to Ukraine. With no agreement in December to mobilise EUR 50 billion, we will have to pull once again imagination and ex

Mr President, on 10 November we had the Conciliation Committee meeting at which we reached the budget agreement for 2024 and I would like to start by congratulating the rapporteurs, the European Commission and Commissioner Hahn and, of course, the Spanish Presidency for their work and for their efforts to be able to achieve this agreement. A much-needed agreement to start a year that will be full

Madam President, Commissioner Hahn, today we are debating a proposal on new resources for the European budget and it is a first step, but it is obviously very insufficient. NextGenerationEU, Ukraine, Gaza, enlargement, strategic autonomy, immigration, support for businesses, young people and farmers, investments in new energies ... are needs of the present. And, to our mind, yesterday the Commissi

Mr President, Commissioner, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, today we bring to the debate this Parliament's position for the 2024 budget. We propose increases to strengthen the green and digital transitions, to improve the competitiveness of the economy, to support small and medium-sized enterprises, to develop the Union’s strategic autonomy, to increase the Erasmus programme, to further

. – Mr President, the truth is that I think we have already said everything about the content of the Mechanism. There was a good basic proposal from the European Commission and I believe that with the work we have done between the political groups we have substantially improved the Mechanism. So I would like to use this minute and little I have left to thank especially my co-rapporteur, Mr Gahler,

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine we have mobilised funds to support Ukraine politically, economically and socially. Continuing this support is a priority and it is therefore absolutely necessary and urgent that we approve this new mechanism of EUR 50 billion in loans and grants. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has caused mult

Madam President, Commissioner, Secretary of State, I have only two minutes to convince the 27 countries of the Council of the need to revise the multiannual financial framework, to provide it with more resources to deal with all the challenges that lie ahead with dignity. In this review we are not talking about being ambitious or preparing for the future, we are talking about giving urgent respons

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, the economic and political context in Hungary is certainly not a good thing and this, in part, is a direct consequence of the actions and omissions of the Orbán government. The European Union has rules and, above all, more than that, it has principles and values of which we are very proud. If these are respected, we are in a winning situation: wins the country

Mr President, Commissioner, I have to admit that I am passionate about tax. I am passionate because I believe that taxes are the basis of politics. They are the ones that allow public policies to be financed and investments to be made. They are the ones that allow defining the development model. They are the ones that allow redistributing wealth to reduce inequalities, to protect the most vulnerab

Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that, after these years of shocks, what we are asking for when we look at 2024 is for it to be a quiet year. And, as a Parliament, what we need next year is to approve the maximum number of proposals and close with good note a legislature that has been obviously complicated. Because we are talking about key proposals that will define our transport network, ene

Madam President, thank you all very much for this debate. I would like to take these last few minutes to thank Siegfried and Dragoş, my co-rapporteurs, once again for the great work they have done and all those who have collaborated in the REPowerEU negotiations. Just over a year ago we put forward the recovery plan, which marked a milestone in the European response, in European policy, and in thi

Madam President, Commissioner, exactly one year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine by declaring a war with terrible human, geopolitical and economic consequences. The increase in energy prices has caused this year a rise in prices in food, supplies and products, with very negative consequences for families and companies. But, as with the pandemic, we have put in place a shock plan, in this case to lower

Mr President, Commissioner, today we are taking a very important step in the construction of Europe, we are moving forward in a crucial debate for our future because we are making progress in obtaining new resources that will allow us to reimburse the NextGeneration, an unprecedented plan that was launched to fight the effects of the coronavirus and now to fight the consequences of the war. This i

Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, we can start from different points of view, we can have different views or nuances, we can even have different strategies, but there is nothing that can justify a different conclusion. Listening very carefully to the Commission's assessment, I understand that we have come to the same conclusion: the Hungarian Government does not respect the rule of law and t

Madam President, Commissioner, I absolutely share your conclusions on the debate we have had. The first thing is that, as I said in my speech, we have to be able to balance the energy emergency with the climate emergency and I believe that, there, the proposal made by this Parliament with regard to the principle of 'do no significant harm'. It's pretty balanced. In any case, the important thing is

Mr President, Vice-President Dombrovskis, Commissioner Gentiloni, in February 2020, a virus paralysed the world and tested the resilience of our health systems, education, research, even our institutions. At the beginning of the pandemic the responses were uncoordinated and insufficient, until, little by little, the governments were agreeing actions and from the Union we also began to take the fir

Madam President, we absolutely share the need for this Parliament to speak once again, because I believe that we have already spoken many times about what we consider to be happening in Hungary and how the conditionality mechanism should be applied. Moreover, in October, also in Strasbourg, we positioned ourselves as Parliament on the Commission proposal sent to the Council and on what we believed

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, it has been many times that this Parliament has consistently condemned the Hungarian Government's lack of respect for the rule of law. And, in fact, in the previous plenary session we adopted by a large majority a very strong resolution in this regard. But now it's time to take action. Thanks to the impetus of this Parliament, we have the conditionality mechan

Madam President, after the Council’s last decision we need to update our report. So I would like to present an oral amendment that is supported by the PPE, Renew, the Greens, The Left and the S&D. The oral amendment says, ‘Regrets the Council’s decision to approve Poland’s NRRP; reiterates the Parliament’s position that no payment under the RRF can be made in relation to Poland’s NRRP before ...’

Madam President, Commissioner, I too have been so proud that, as a Parliament and as a Commission, and I suppose as a Council, we all have approved the recovery plan. And here we have seen unanimous support and, in addition, a very positive assessment of the effects that this has had. I also believe that we have seen, in this debate, the commitment on the part of Parliament to follow very closely