What Alicia spoke about.

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Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, the situation in Nicaragua is only getting worse, no matter how much Mr Ortega intends to sell the opposite. On February 9, he released 222 political prisoners. A gesture that, although it could have been a first step to improve the situation in the country, turned out to have a very high cost. He then stripped all of them of their nationality – Nicaraguans by bi…

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Apr

2023

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Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, rules such as the de minimis regulation are necessary to preserve the internal market. Limiting the aid that a government can give to its companies should help to avoid unequal competition between Member States. But when we look at the effect that this regulation has de minimis in the economies of the EU islands, we see a paradox: the limits set do not allow States t…

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Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, it is clear that we are very concerned about the situation in Peru. As Mr Borrell has rightly said, it is an important and serious feeling. We hope that stability and social peace will return so that the country can continue to advance in its development and in the fight against poverty and inequalities. It is necessary for all actors to respect the country's ins…

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Apr

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Legacy of the European Year of Youth

Mr President, Commissioner Gabriel, when we designated 2021 as the European Year of Youth, we aimed to empower European youth by putting them at the centre, increasing their participation and listening to what they had to tell us. These young people have already spoken and spoken clearly and forcefully in forums such as the Conference on the Future of Europe. They want stable contracts, decent wag…

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Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, when Uber's files came to light last July, we were able to check the modus operandi used by certain large multinationals: Believe yourself above the law and use ethically questionable tactics to influence the democratic process. The stark reality shows that work platforms like Uber have developed through a business model based on social backsliding and undermi…

13

Dec

2022

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A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, Minister, the pandemic, Putin's war and what this war has meant for the rising cost of living are calling into question the strength of our social protection systems. And what are the most direct consequences? Unacceptably high levels of poverty and inequality in Europe and especially among children from more vulnerable households. If we want to break the cycle o…

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Oct

2022

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I can no longer agree with the conclusion you have just made. We agree that, in these employment guides, we have taken into account the green and digital transitions, and many other issues that directly or indirectly affect the labour market. Or are you going to tell me, the gentlemen on the right, that children who are at risk of exclusion and poverty are not because t…

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Oct

2022

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, before I begin, I would like to thank all the people involved in this report for their work. When I started working on it last June, we set ourselves three main objectives: the first, to protect workers; also strengthen, of course, the welfare state; and third, to ensure that the green and digital transitions were socially fair and left no one behind. The COVID-1…

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, Commissioner, the Ortega-Murillo couple did it again: In Nicaragua, he persecutes people for their ideas, and his last victim has been the Catholic Church with the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez. What's next? What else are they gonna do? In Europe we do not forget what is happening in Nicaragua and we have shown this in the harsh resolutions that we have been drafting. We contin…

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Jun

2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

Madam President, Commissioner, in recent months we have witnessed the clear instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua: a new attempt at repression by, exclusively, the Ortega regime against an ever-peaceful opposition. The Nicaraguan courts have dedicated themselves to issuing absolutely disproportionate sentences against political prisoners in processes that are clearly cor…

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Feb

2022

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, today the European Union is surely a better region in many respects than it was thirty or forty years ago. Young people live in a reality richer than that of our parents, healthier, more globalized and freer. However, let this progress not lead us to deception. If we asked anyone under the age of thirty or th…

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Jan

2022

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Empowering European Youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, Mr Secretary of State, we are talking in this debate about empowering the European youth, that generation – my generation – that we grew up marked by the disastrous austerity policies defended by the right in the financial crisis and its consequences: unemployment or precariousness. Because yes: Despite the fact that unemployment figures are al…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, we all know: The elections, it has already been said, of November 7 in Nicaragua were a farce, a pantomime that sought to humiliate the Nicaraguan democratic opposition and also its people. But that day the opposition was noticed with a silence that rumbled throughout the country. The dictatorship of Ortega, Murillo and theirs are an elite that parasites the i…

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, Commissioner, Europe has to choose: Either we are an autonomous actor in the world, reducing the tension of dangerous bloc politics, or we join it. I believe that both this Parliament and the Commission are clear that we want to design and pursue our own global strategy to strengthen the multilateral order. But the right, especially the Spanish, seems to forget about this when it …

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Sep

2021

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Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, a little over a year and a half ago society was beginning to face its greatest challenge to date. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economies and labour markets called into question the strength of our welfare and social protection systems. We have managed to adapt and we are moving forward, partly because we have left behind the erroneous conservative p…

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Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, a couple of months ago, a servant in this House argued that labour mobility in the European Union should move towards a freer, fairer and safer model. However, the practices we have seen in the aviation sector in recent years are not only far from being an advance for all workers in the sector, but are contrary to European law: wages below the inter-professional minimum…

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, in recent weeks we have witnessed a wave of blatant repression in Nicaragua. We haven't seen anything like this in Latin America since the 1970s. Mr Ortega, Mrs Murillo, how can it be that you have ended up instituting a regime of terror very similar to the one you fought yourself? How can it be that, in the face of an opposition that has always been peacef…