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Order of business

Madam President, as you’ve already mentioned, on Wednesday night a 19—year—old extremist shot two people in front of a gay bar in downtown Bratislava and injured another. The attacker did not know their names. He didn’t know the victims personally. All he knew was that they were members of the LGBTIQ community. That is the sole reason why they had to die. The Slovak police are now investigating th…

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Approval of the minutes of the sitting and agenda of the next sitting

The next sitting will take place tomorrow, Thursday 6 October 2022 at 09.00. The agenda has been published and is available on the European Parliament’s website.

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The EU’s response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (RC-B9-0416/2022, B9-0416/2022, B9-0417/2022, B9-0418/2022, B9-0419/2022, B9-0420/2022, B9-0421/2022, B9-0422/2022)

This agenda item is closed.

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Explanations of vote

The next item is the explanation of votes.

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The Dutch childcare benefit scandal, institutional racism and algorithms (debate)

This concludes the debate.

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The Dutch childcare benefit scandal, institutional racism and algorithms (debate)

The next item is the oral question to the Commission The Dutch childcare allowance, institutional racism and algorithms scandal (O-000028/2022 - B9-0025/22).

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The recent humanitarian and human rights situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, notably that of children

This concludes the debate. The vote will take place tomorrow. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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The recent humanitarian and human rights situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, notably that of children

The next item is the debate on six motions for a resolution on the recent humanitarian and human rights situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, in particular the situation of children (2022/2858(RSP)).

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Membership of committees and delegations

The EPP group has notified the President of a decision relating to changes to appointments within a committee. This decision will be set out in the minutes of today’s sitting and shall take effect on the date of this announcement.…

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The Media freedom crackdown in Myanmar, notably the cases of Htet Htet Khine, Sithu Aung Myint and Nyein Nyein Aye

The debate is now closed and the vote on this item will take place tomorrow.

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Composition of political groups

I would inform you that Dace Melbārde is no longer sitting with the non-attached Members. She joins the PPE Group as of today, 5 October 2022.

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

I have received five motions for resolutions to wind up the debate. This concludes the debate. The vote on the resolution will take place tomorrow. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Dear colleagues, just to apologise, but blue cards will not be issued as we are running out of time and we need to start voting soon.

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Vladimir Putin is losing his aggressive and brutal war. And the attacked Ukraine, along with Europe, which supports it militarily and financially, wins. And so we must not be mistaken or intimidated by Putin's threats, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mobilization in which more Russians have fled than have entered. Even with the illegal annexation of territories over which Russia i…

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, dear colleagues, this House made it quite clear last month Hungary is no longer a full—fledged democracy. The Council and the Commission should now acknowledge this quite obvious reality, especially when discussing the protection of billions of EU taxpayers’ money. I have no doubt that the Commission triggered the conditionality mechanism involving up to a third o…

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Illegal detention of the opposition leader in Bulgaria (topical debate)

The debate is over. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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Illegal detention of the opposition leader in Bulgaria (topical debate)

The next item is the thematic debate (Rule 162 of the Rules of Procedure) on the illegal detention of an opposition leader in Bulgaria (2022/2832(RSP)). The catch-the-eye procedure will not apply to this debate and no blue cards will be accepted. Mr Manfred Weber will be the first to speak.…

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Composition of committees and delegations

Before we move on to the next point. There's an announcement. The ECR Group informed the President of Parliament of its decision regarding the change in delegation appointments. This decision will be recorded in the minutes of today's sitting and will enter into force on the day of this notification.…

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Thursday 15 September 2022. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, if there's one takeaway from this annual report, it is that our Member States are violating core values of respect to the core fundamental rights and freedoms. And the European Union cannot do much about it. The COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021 made it fairly obvious. The volume of human-rights violations described in this report proves that little is being done or ca…

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Well, my dear colleague unfortunately, corruption in a systematically major scale is what the Hungarian Government is perpetrating with all of our money, all of European Union’s money. And it’s not me saying it’s OLAF saying it. It’s the actual European Commission mechanism for conditionality is precisely a response to systematic corruption with European Union funds that is taking place in Hungary…

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, I’m afraid that four years after triggering Article 7, one thing has become clear, and that is that Mr Orbán has chosen kleptocracy over democracy, Putin over Europe and corruption over the rule of law. Now all of us have to live with the consequences of the weakness of the Council for years, which has allowed Mr Orbán to undermine our founding values. Now we are in …

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I am afraid that all the crises and problems we have experienced in recent years can be nothing compared to what the energy crisis can cause. Because it will not only affect selected sectors or only vulnerable groups, it will affect everyone and it will affect everything. If we do nothing, in some countries household energy bills can reach completely absurd drastic f…

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we can no longer really be naive, and we must openly admit that Vladimir Putin is at war with the whole of Europe and is fragmenting our democracy from within. It does so with the sole aim of destroying the European project, the European rules, because they are a threat to it. And it does not do so alone, it does so with the help of an entire network of extremist ind…

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EU initiatives to address the rising cost of living, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

Mr President, thank you Mr Vice-President, Mr Commissioner, dear colleagues, the cost of living crisis is indeed affecting everyone and especially low income households. But I would like to focus on one group in particular, and that is young people. Because for too many young people in too many Member States, even obtaining their own housing has now become an almost impossible problem, an impossib…