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A sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of fisheries and aquaculture (A9-0089/2022 - Isabel Carvalhais)

Mr President, I also supported this report because it clearly opposes harmful fishing practices, be they driftnets or bottom trawls. We must no doubt limit these harmful practices, and this is what is becoming of this report in our legislation. We already have completely dead territories of our seas, where there is practically no life. The current need for fisheries regulation, which is already ap…

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Amending Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants (A9-0092/2022 - Martin Hojsík)

Mr President, I supported this report. I think that this report represents a positive step forward in protecting the health of the citizens of the European Union. These persistent organic substances have a negative impact on human health and I welcomed the extension of the amendment of those concerned Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Our …

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (A9-0083/2022 - Domènec Ruiz Devesa)

Mr President, I have also made some reservations about the reform of the electoral system for the European elections, but I will start positively. I appreciate a number of concrete developments, the unification of the basic conditions for the exercise of the right to vote for both candidates and European political parties, as well as voters. For example, the fact that they will know their candidat…

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Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation (debate)

Mr President, I believe that we need a solid legal basis for dealing with such sensitive personal data, which is why I welcome this proposal for a regulation and the rapporteur's report. It is clear that we are facing a wide range of cyberattacks, as we have already discussed in the previous debate, and we need to respond to new terrorist challenges. Of course, there are many ways to react. Since …

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Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

Mr President, I have listened with interest to the Commissioner's speech and I am very pleased that she is aware of the challenges that these two sectors of our economy are facing. It is undoubtedly necessary to direct our TNT networks towards Ukraine, to strengthen our routes and, of course, cross-border traffic within the ring of regions around our external border with Ukraine. At the same time,…

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, I too join my colleagues in calling for the unacceptable nature of these attacks and, of course, for increasing the resilience of our cyber security. Unfortunately, we kind of see our weakness and European cybersecurity in practice. Certainly every EU Member State is vulnerable and we have seen these attacks in practice. In my country, it's not just attacks on government agencies, it…

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, I would like to devote one minute to the need to end dependence on Russian gas, because the war in Ukraine has undoubtedly shown our weakness and dependence on the dictator and his soldiers, who are capable of committing incredible atrocities in Ukraine. That is why this dependence is still unacceptable, I would like to stress this. And for us, the task is to grow our own self-suffic…

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Reaching women's economic independence through entrepreneurship and self-employment (short presentation)

Mr President, I would like to acknowledge the report by my colleague, Pernille Weiss, because she has raised a number of issues. Of course, equality between women and men is a fundamental value for us, but I would also like to highlight the propositions presented here by my colleague. Women's entrepreneurship supports their emancipation, of course their economic status, and OECD countries have a b…

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Persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion (short presentation)

Mr President, I also agree with the call of my colleagues, because freedom of religion and, of course, the associated freedom of expression are fundamental human rights and violations of those rights are unacceptable. Likewise, it is unacceptable for believers to be attacked in a way that restricts their human rights or even directly interferes with their freedom and their lives. All these crimes …

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Madam President, I am convinced that we need this action plan and I thank the rapporteur for a very good report. It is not only a question of pesticides, fertilizers, the impacts of these substances on biodiversity, but also, of course, the resilience of the whole system, because the current system is really not resilient and does not promote our food self-sufficiency. This objective should be see…

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the marginalisation of communities: This means that someone is overlooked. How can anyone in the European Union be overlooked? When you hear the situation of Romani children, it really breaks your heart. Hunger, disease, poor access to health, education, lack of affordable housing and, of course, work. What are we missing? Community work with this population, with these…

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Increasing repression in Russia, including the case of Alexey Navalny

Mr President, Ukraine and the war crimes of Bucha, Irpina, Mariupol are indeed images from hell, from Putin's hell. Russia is a country of injustice. Putin and the leaders of this regime are undoubtedly also representatives of war crimes, and Navalny surrendered to them. He repeatedly volunteered for them. Actually, I'm sorry to say this, but he kind of spat in the face of Putin's regime for all o…

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The situation of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Guatemala

Mr President, Commissioner, fundamental human rights are undoubtedly guaranteed for all, including in Guatemala. We see violations of these fundamental human rights here, and many people in Guatemala are suffering. We must not close our eyes to this, they are journalists, they are human rights defenders. Violations of the rights of members of the judiciary are particularly exceptional. We really m…

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Human rights situation in North Korea, including the persecution of religious minorities

Mr President, Commissioner, we see staggering war crimes in Ukraine and we should not forget, however, crimes in totalitarian states such as: North Korea. Killing, torture, imprisonment, of course inhuman treatment, and now also killing all members of the religious minority. These are real state murders. There can be no talk of religious freedom in North Korea. We know that the citizens of Korea m…

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (A9-0269/2021 - Zdzisław Krasnodębski)

Mr President, I also supported this report because it highlights bottlenecks in the creation of the Energy Union and the possibility of transferring energy from one place to another in the European Union. It's about our security, it's about our self-sufficiency. So far, we have rather seen and perceived nationalism in the field of energy management. We haven't seen any energy purchases here. We ha…

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Protection of the rights of the child in civil, administrative and family law proceedings (A9-0033/2022 - Adrián Vázquez Lázara)

Mr President, we discussed this report at our meeting yesterday. It is intended to ensure respect for the rights of the child and its full weight in civil proceedings in particular, but also in other types of proceedings. First of all, I would like to draw attention to one more point for which I have decided to support this report unequivocally. The report also avoids bottlenecks, for example in c…

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Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0045/2022 - Cyrus Engerer)

Mr President, I was only hesitant as to what point this was. I supported Mr Engerer's draft report on this point because I believe that no other course of action was actually possible. I have considered – or it is clear – that this allowance scheme needs some revisions. And I know that the European Commission will present them very soon. However, the aim of this Commission proposal, which was exam…

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I would like to say that European citizenship, which we have already established for 30 years, really calls for the preservation of its values. The challenges we face are also very serious. It is the climate challenge, the challenge of the new digital age, we know what fake news we face in all these challenges, even in the vaccinations that until recently were considere…

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Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

Mr President, I would also like to express my disappointment at the outcome of this summit. In the face of this bloody conflict in Ukraine, we may have expected more from China. In the second key priority, which concerned our environmental joint commitments, I had been skeptical there before. It must be said that we do not see too much shift in Chinese attitudes, and it is a great pity. But what w…

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

Madam President, the situation in Afghanistan is incredibly frightening for women. Killing, torture, utterly inhuman treatment, discrimination, segregation. I join the call of all my colleagues and the horrors they have depicted in their speeches. And I have to say that the shame in this room poured over me after hearing from one of my colleagues in the ID faction that this action belongs to the c…

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, the monstrous acts of the aggressor in Ukraine call for the establishment of a special international criminal court. This court must punish the abominations that took place in Bucha, Irpina, Mariupol and other cities of Ukraine. But it must also, of course, punish those improprieties that have been done at the expense of the representatives of the self-governments. I want to talk abo…

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Protection of the rights of the child in civil, administrative and family law proceedings (short presentation)

Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteur for presenting this very important report. I think it is very balanced. Indeed, this justice should be child-friendly at all stages of the proceedings concerning their rights. Every child must be heard regardless of their social, economic and ethnic origin and enjoy all rights. There are a number of other aspects. This procedure must be conduct…

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Madam President, let us put an end to our dependence on Russia! Let's summarize the facts first. Russia is the aggressor in the event of an unprecedented conflict taking place just a few hundred kilometres from the borders of the European Union. The attacked country is Ukraine, but it defends itself heroically and I want to bow to it from this place and also the courage of the local people. We wou…

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Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

Madam President, welfare cannot be an empty concept. We have already made significant progress, but more needs to be done, and I am very pleased that the Commissioner sees it that way, and I thank my colleague Daniel Bud for his work on this report. I quote from the recommendation: ‘All conditions necessary to guarantee the welfare of animals during transport must be ensured at all times’. I agree…

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2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Mr President, congratulations on your re-election. Vážená paní komisařko, mohu opravdu s radostí přivítat tento návrh, který Komise předložila. Návrh tohoto nařízení je nepochybně posunem, plným posunem v 21. století. Realizuje zásadu, podle které můžete nejen poskytovat služby kdekoli na území Evropské unie, ale také je můžete samozřejmě konzumovat, a to v digitálním věku. Také přináší žádoucí oc…