What Dubravka spoke about.

Mr President, honourable Members, thank you very much for your interventions today. I will try to reply to some of your concrete questions or to comment. To Mr Orlando, I want to thank him for pointing out the breadth of the pact – it is not only about migration; this is very important. To Mr Gambino, and also there is another colleague, who spoke about Mattei Plan. It is completely aligned with t

Mr President, honourable Members of the European Parliament, two weeks ago, I was in Split, Croatia, for the MED9 Summit. The nine leaders welcomed the pact as an opportunity to give our partnership with the South greater weight. Honourable Members, today it is your turn. I warmly welcome you, the rapporteur, Mr Zingaretti and the shadow rapporteurs for the importance given to this pact. Your repo

Mr President, since this is the last session of this semester, maybe I can also speak a little bit more freely, if freedom can be compared at all. I am representing here my colleague, Mr Várhelyi, who is in charge of this file, but I will try my best to defend our position. You know that I am Commissioner for the Mediterranean, but I am also Commissioner for demography, so I understand what is goi

Mr President, dear Members, first of all, my thanks go to the honourable Members who tabled this oral question, especially MEP Buda. The Commission recognises in our livestock strategy, which we just adopted this Tuesday, by-products such as wool or manure are not a waste, but rather a resource that has value and serves multiple purposes in a circular bioeconomy. This happened this Tuesday. By ena

Madam President, honourable Members, thank you for your valuable remarks and for your recognition that this proposal is a good step in the right direction. 'EU Inc.' is a corporate‑law proposal, which is part of a broader strategy to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy. Yes, we want to remove complexities and we want to simplify but not lower our standards in combating tax evasi

Madam President, honourable Members, in March this year, the Commission adopted the proposal for the 28th regime corporate legal framework – 'EU Inc.'. The 'EU Inc.' initiative is a key measure aimed at enhancing Europe's competitiveness and improving the business environment for EU companies. As part of the broader instrument, it includes limited ancillary tax measures designed to support busines

Madam President, Minister, honourable Members, let me please restate once again: the Commission's position is unambiguous. Any attempts to illegally access data of citizens is unacceptable. The follow‑up and investigations into any alleged illegal use of spyware are, in the first place, a matter for national authorities. Nonetheless, European Union law provides a comprehensive and clear set of saf

Madam President, dear Members, the Commission has seen the media reports. Our position is very clear. Any attempts to illegally access data of citizens is unacceptable. Any alleged illegal use of spyware is, in the first place, a matter for national authorities to investigate. Mindful of their competence in that matter, European Union law provides clear and comprehensive safeguards. The European U

Madam President, honourable Members, the case of Maria Shahbaz is deeply troubling. Maria was reportedly 13 when she was taken from her family in Lahore, converted to Islam and married to an adult man. Her father went to court arguing that she was a minor and could not lawfully consent. Yet the proceedings did not deliver the clear child-protection response that such a case demands, including unde

Mr President, honourable Members, at the end of this debate, the European Union would like to express its solidarity with the victims of massacres and abductions committed in Nigeria, as well as with their families enduring grief and suffering. The European Union strongly condemns these cruel attacks targeting vulnerable populations across the country. Nigeria has been facing systematic and insecu

Mr President, Vice-President, honourable Members, as we speak, the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan stands on the brink of catastrophe. About the size of Poznań, Lyon, or Lisbon, and home to one of Sudan's largest universities, it shelters some 500 000 people, including more than 100 000 who have already been displaced at least once this year. Today, all of them are in dang

I have replied to all of you. I especially want to thank Mr Sánchez Amor, because I need your support for this. In the next MFF, we want to have extra money on top of our budget. The Team Gaza initiative is being launched and we would like to have this in our budget. It is very important, but we cannot do it without you. You are the ones who decide on the budget in the end. So we are trying to bri

Mr President, honourable Members who are left in this room, I was listening carefully to each of you, and I heard each word which you said during this meeting. Our speaking slots are not enough to elaborate on this very difficult topic. One-minute speeches are not enough to discuss this topic. I have to say that I am here representing High Representative/Vice-President Kaja Kallas. So I will quote

Mr President, honourable Members, thank you for the opportunity to discuss this crucial issue. The persistent crisis in Gaza and in Palestine more broadly obliged us to act. During my recent visit to Ramallah, I met Palestinian Vice-President al-Sheikh and Prime Minister Mustafa. The Palestinian Authority finances were under pressure, which affected the banking sector and access to finance of the

Mr President, honourable Members, I would like to encourage honourable Members to support the Commission Delegated Act on indirect land-use change and to vote against the tabled objection. In the latest review, it was found that both palm oil and soy beans qualify as feedstock with a high risk of indirect land-use change and therefore the Commission was obliged to revise the delegated act accordin

Mr President, I was listening carefully. First, many of you asked about financing. So I will start with financing controls. All of you know that financing is accompanied by strong controls and conditions. So we are screening all partners, contractors, subcontractors against EU and UN sanctions lists. For example, for school rehabilitation projects we use satellite images and we are monitoring to v

Mr President, honourable Members, the recent developments in Syria reflect the challenges that country is still facing one year after the fall of Assad's regime. The fighting between the Syrian transitional government and the Syrian Democratic Forces led to a changed geopolitical landscape in Aleppo and north‑east Syria, with major gains for Damascus. The handling of the situation in the north‑eas

Mr President, thank you very much. I was listening carefully to your questions, to your statements. First, following the State of the Union address of President von der Leyen, a number of measures have been proposed to Member States, and they remain on the table. It depends on the Member States. On the West Bank – I already said at the beginning, but I can repeat – I can agree with you that while

Mr President, honourable Members, there have been a number of important developments over the last few weeks, and I am pleased to say that, as the European Union, we are engaging substantially and contributing to peace and stability in the region. We had, as you might know, the first meeting of the Palestine Donor Group on 20 November in Brussels, and it was a milestone event. The meeting was co-c

Madam President, thank you very much for this very fruitful debate. This debate shows how important the Mediterranean is. So, we heard a lot of different ideas, but I have been listening carefully and where all of us agree, or the majority of us agree, is that the Mediterranean is an important region, that the Mediterranean should be a bridge and that the Mediterranean should not be the region of

Madam President, honourable Members, thank you very much for having this debate tonight. When we look at the Mediterranean region, a lot has happened. We have witnessed war and destruction and many lives lost. But more recently, positive and encouraging developments have had the upper hand. Fragile as it may be, there is a ceasefire in Gaza, including a long-term peace plan. And just last week, we

Madam President, dear Members, I want to thank all the Members who have supported this very important initiative. I would also like to thank the Polish and Danish Presidencies for their work. You know that we can take an important step in the fight against migrant smuggling today and in our efforts to control our borders and stop illegal migration. But of course, this is only one step. On 10 Decem

Madam President, dear Members, first of all, I would like to congratulate rapporteur Lenaers, but not just him, but also the shadow rapporteurs and all the others who have worked diligently on this file. According to Europol, as you rightly said, the estimated worldwide profits from migrant smuggling amount to between EUR 4.7 billion to EUR 6 billion annually. That is a global figure, but a lot of

Mr President, I was listening carefully to all your interventions, but I can agree with the last speaker: yes, I agree that we should speak with one voice, but let us clarify. First of all, everybody was mentioning the European Union; what is the European Union? All of us are aware the European Parliament is very important, but there is the Commission, which I represent here today, and there is al

Madam President, dear colleagues, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, thank you for providing the opportunity to follow up on the debate which we had on 7 October, and to address the major developments which took place in the meantime. As you know, the situation is evolving rapidly, yet it remains deeply fragile – in particular, with regards to the ongoing dynamics in Gaza and its br