What Ana Miguel spoke about.

8 Oct

2026

PT Speech

EU strategies for islands, coastal communities and outermost regions (debate)

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Madam President. Commissioner, Portugal has always known that Europe does not end where the earth ends. It was from the Atlantic that our country was made and it is in the Atlantic that Europe today finds one of its most decisive borders. Madeira and the Azores are more than Portuguese islands in the ocean, they are Europe in the Atlantic. They broaden our presence, project our sovereignty, put th…

15 Sep

2026

PT Speech

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

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Mr President, three days earlier, the President of Ceuta did what Sanchez did not do: You've done your duty. And the answer he got was that he wouldn't call again. Can ‑se consent to the third State deciding, on the basis of its political convenience, when to open or close pressure on an external border of Europe? Eighty thousand people do not appear near a border by spontaneous generation. Is San…

8 Jul

2026

PT Speech

Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

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Mr President, maritime narcotrafficking in the Atlantic is developing rapidly and is putting increasing pressure on the borders of the European Union. We talk about more organised, more aggressive, more sophisticated networks, with a direct impact on our internal security and our responsiveness. The recent operations in Spain and Portugal, in which we regret the deaths of Guardia Civil and the GNR…

8 Jul

2026

PT Question

EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

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Mr President, the European Union already has more than 118 000 hectares burned this year by the beginning of July, above the average for the last 20 years. Portugal knows that these numbers are not abstractions. You know what it means to see villages surrounded by flames, you know what it means to evacuate populations in a hurry, what it means to lose homes, businesses, farms, forests, fertile soi…

7 Jul

2026

PT Speech

EU-Mexico (joint debate)

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Mr President, the EU-Mexico Agreement is much more than a trade agreement. It is a strategic choice. Mexico is the European Union's second largest trading partner in Latin America. More than 45 000 European companies export to Mexico, many of them small and medium-sized enterprises that will benefit from clearer rules, greater predictability and new investment opportunities. In an increasingly fra…

16 Jun

2026

PT Speech

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

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20 May

2026

PT Speech

Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, in recent months young people in Europe have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism. They were 12, 13, 14 years old. Many had no criminal record, only a mobile phone or a computer and someone on the other side of the screen knowing exactly how to reach them. They were approached, manipulated, recruited, in the silence of an app, a forum, a game or an encrypted conve…

19 May

2026

PT Speech

Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, Madam High Representative, Cuba is the lie of a communist revolution that promised dignity and gave up misery. The lie of a regime that speaks of people while arresting the people. Today, in Cuba, almost everything is missing – light, food, medicines, hope – but there is one thing that is never missing: repression. There is no shortage of political police, no shortage of arrests f…

29 Apr

2026

EN Speech

Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth (A10-0123/2026 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, this is a proud moment for the Parliament. It sends a powerful message: no woman should be forced to choose between her career and embracing the beautiful, yet desirable, experience of maternity. We recognize the basic, medical and physical dimension of pregnancy, ensuring that the merit and commitment of these women are not erased by a temporary physical condition, so that they c…

11 Mar

2026

PT Speech

Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

PT Speech

Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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10 Feb

2026

ES Answer

Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

PT Answer

Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

PT Speech

Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

PT Speech

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, we have said this many times: There is no immigration policy without law enforcement. And today, in the European Union, only 20% of return decisions are complied with. It's not a technical detail, it's proof that the system fails. The Pact on Migration and Asylum is necessary, we support it, but it is not enough. Without effective returns, the pact is rhetorical; withou…

20 Jan

2026

PT Speech

Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, for too long Venezuela has been held hostage by a man who mistook the state for its mirror. He tortured to rule, persecuted to stay in power, exiled to silence, and made misery a deliberate mechanism of social control. The country was abducted, democracy is abducted, international law is abducted. Venezuelans have chosen another path. They voted, they decided, whenever they were a…

26 Nov

2025

PT Speech

The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

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25 Nov

2025

PT Speech

Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, who can guarantee that the choice of the future of Europe will be free, informed and immune from invisible manipulation? That is exactly why this debate is urgent. We live in a time when algorithms decide what we see, even before we know what we're looking for. We live in a time when foreign interference has become a constant, methodical and highly sophisticated strateg…

24 Nov

2025

PT Answer

Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

PT Speech

Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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13 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Proxy voting in plenary for Members during pregnancy and after giving birth (A10-0214/2025 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, this is a very important day for us, for Parliament. We, as a Parliament, are ready to take an important step for mothers who want to be pregnant and to also play a role in politics.

12 Nov

2025

PT Answer

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

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Madam President, I would firstly like to thank the honourable Member for his question, because it gives me the opportunity to explain the portrait left by the Socialist Government, which the honourable Member has supported on immigration. It was eight years of a socialist government that left Portugal with a chaotic system of expressions of interest that quadrupled the number of immigrants and tur…

12 Nov

2025

PT Speech

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, we have failed for years. Too improvised, too many emergency summits, too many promises evaporated. And my country, Portugal, was no exception. For years we lived with open doors, without control, without criteria, without knowing who entered, how he did it, for what purpose. They called it solidarity, but it was a lack of political courage to distinguish right from …

23 Oct

2025

PT Speech

Breast cancer: the importance of screening (debate)

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Madam President, breast cancer requires science, research and early screening. slogans. It requires respect and non-use. It is therefore deeply regrettable that the left has chosen to turn this debate, which should unite us in empathy and responsibility, into a stage of political attacks on Andalusia. Cancer has no political colour and fighting requires respect. Because, ladies and gentlemen, to g…

22 Oct

2025

PT Speech

First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I could start this speech in many ways, but I choose to do so in the only way worthy of this Parliament: with deep respect for the victims. 230 people died in a modern European country with technology, resources, promises of security and speeches of progress. They died in garages, they died in cars dragged by the current, they died in circumstances that no warni…