What Alicia spoke about.

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (continuation of debate)

Article 7 TEU aims to ensure that all EU countries respect the common values of the Union, as enshrined in Article 2 TEU, including the rule of law. The European Parliament has always been very active in addressing the challenges related to the rule of law in the EU, in particular by adopting resolutions that initiated the above-mentioned Article 7(1) TEU procedure for both countries. Since then, …

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Jul

2026

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

Madam President, protecting people from heat waves also means protecting workers; because the preparation for heat waves begins by not forcing anyone to choose between their salary and their health. Therefore, it is incomprehensible that the Popular Party in Spain proposes precisely to cut benefits to those who are on leave, as if doctors did not have criteria or as if, for example, suffering a he…

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2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, is it not ironic that this morning we are talking about competitiveness, while, in one of the richest and most stable regions in the world, one in four children lives at risk of poverty? Poverty is not just childish, poverty is inherited. It is inherited because the parents of these children work in jobs that do not allow them to reach the end of the month, a…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Madam President, today we are talking about the competitiveness and productivity that our single market in Europe should have, but we ignore a fundamental issue for many regions. How is a nurse going to stay, a teacher, any worker in general, where working is no longer equivalent to being able to live? The right to be able to stay in our land, in our neighbourhoods, the right to a life, to decent …

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Feb

2026

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Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, we Socialists deeply believe in the European social model: social and fiscal justice, wealth redistribution and strong and quality public services. That's the way: ensure, for example, that no child lives in poverty and that housing ceases to be a luxury and becomes a fundamental right. But Europe shows signs of fragility: workers who do not make ends meet, y…

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Jan

2026

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A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President Mînzatu, lately we have been talking a lot about defence, and rightly so. However, social cohesion in Europe is also under threat, and the response is not the same. Europe shows critical symptoms of the deterioration of its social welfare and, as a society, we cannot afford to have poor working people or thousands of people without the certainty that tomorrow …

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Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (debate)

11

Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this summer's extreme heat is not an anecdote, but a real threat hitting millions of people across Europe. It hits workers, who suffer from thermal stress, and entire families, who see their bills skyrocketing because their homes are poorly isolated: Sustainable and efficient housing not only protects the planet, but makes it more affordable, and also saves lives. Denyi…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, we have before us an unprecedented housing crisis. What do we do when millions of young people in Europe cannot start their vital projects? When the most vulnerable families spend more than half of their salary on rent or when neighbors are expelled from their neighborhoods? At this point, the Union not only has a chance, but it has an obligation to act. And how…

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Jul

2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, no one wants to be made invisible, no one wants to be locked up or segregated. However, this is what millions of people with disabilities and also older people continue to suffer in Europe. All of them have the right to live wherever they want, with whomever they want and however they want, because independent living is not a luxury, but it is a right, even as we age. D…

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May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, mental health must be at the centre of the social debate, just as it must also be at the centre of public policy. We're not just talking about numbers, we're talking about lives: young people who do not see the way out, exhausted workers, people trapped in a system that chronicles their malaise; Because, like it or not, that discomfort has a lot to do with work, precari…

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Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, restructurings to dismiss while distributing benefits? Of course not, industrial transition with decent jobs? Yes, and it's possible. Restructuring cannot be the excuse for precarious employment or weakening collective bargaining. Therefore, we demand that workers have a voice, that companies that receive public money invest in quality employment and that the…

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Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, I would like to ask the honourable Members of the right whether what they want is an economy where working people are pieces to use and throw away, always forced to recycle without any guarantee, or whether what they want is a society with decent jobs and rights. We are seeing that what this right wants is to impose competitiveness as the only objective, regardless of the social i…

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Apr

2024

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Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

Mr President, the memory of justice and reparation are the basis for ensuring that the dignity of our societies does not forget the victims of any dictatorship in Europe. And today in Spain, with the will to destroy the laws of democratic memory, we see these principles endangered. The inconsistency of the Spanish Popular Party reaches such a point that, for example – I will come to you with truth…

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Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Schmit, I would like to start with three stories which, unfortunately, are no exception. Julia: three years as an intern until she got her first employment contract. I read: two years of traineeship, the first of which was without pay. And Martina: trainee in a company with 50% of its workforce covered by trainees. They all have something in common: are part of the 52…

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Jan

2024

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Addressing urgent skills shortages and finding the right talents to boost job creation (European Year of Skills) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, when we designated 2023 as the European Year of Skills, we aimed to anticipate and prevent any working people from falling by the wayside. But this means that the burden of being prepared to change from one job or sector to another cannot rest solely on the shoulders of these same workers. I would like to recall that the mismatch between skills supply and demand is m…

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Jan

2024

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Quality jobs in a competitive future-oriented social market economy (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I ask whether it is not paradoxical that the right has called for a debate on quality employment and a social and market economy, when it has been systematically boycotting any new initiative to improve precisely the quality of employment in the European Union. Because we have plenty of examples: from the exploitation of trainees to platform work to a right to disconnec…

13

Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, more than 40% of young people in Europe feel stressed or anxious most of their time. And it is time for you to understand that permanent uncertainty prevents us from building our lives. The European Union must defend the rights of young people. I myself have wanted to contribute to it during these years, but today there are many who say they are worried and do nothing f…

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Dec

2023

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Attempt of coup d’Etat in Guatemala (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, last Friday we witnessed, once again, the efforts of the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor's Office to annul the validity of peaceful elections that took place in a transparent and well-organised electoral process, as concluded by the European Union election observation mission, among others. The latest events are nothing more than the culmination of a plan that ha…

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Oct

2023

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Mental health at work (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the last year, one in four workers in the European Union has suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety. As you can imagine, the data are even more alarming among young people – one in two young people declare poor mental health, plus all those who do not, of course. Now I ask them: bearing in mind that the right to disconnect from work does not exis…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, as many of you will know, I am a Member of the Social Democratic Group, young, Spanish and from the Balearic Islands. And few things are more important to me than demanding the right to decent housing. Although everyone comes here and says that they are concerned about housing, I would recommend that, at least, the right does not believe it, because, when it governs, it literally …

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Oct

2023

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Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived (debate)

Mr President, this debate allows us to focus on real life, on people and on the anxiety caused by not being able to reach the end of the month due to the high prices of electricity, rents or basic foodstuffs, among many other examples. But it also allows us to contrast two models: the model of the right, based on the defense of savage capitalism and the elites, and the social democratic model, whi…

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Sep

2023

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Guatemala: the situation after the elections, the rule of law and judicial independence

Madam President, Commissioner, on 20 August the people of Guatemala demonstrated their commitment to democracy and voted for change. The progressive binomial Arévalo-Herrera, whom I wish to congratulate from this rostrum, won the elections forcefully. However, there are those who not only do not accept the result, but actively promote actions that undermine the results and Guatemala's own constitu…

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Jun

2023

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, EUR 7 218 is the estimated amount that a young person who has been on an unpaid traineeship for six months in the European Union no longer earns. In a Union in which only half of the 4 million young people who do traineeships every year receive some form of compensation for their work, I am constantly surprised that the right and far-right of this House seem nostalgi…