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PT Written Statement

The social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine - reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (debate)

The socio-economic impacts of the invasion of Ukraine are becoming increasingly profound and cross-cutting, affecting not only the European Union but the whole world, focusing on the most vulnerable populations, territories, economies and societies, and affecting the global system, its structures and sustainability chains. The final outcome of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine's …

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Apr

2024

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Situation in Haiti (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Haiti is a politically and institutionally shattered state in the hands of organised people with a population exposed to brutal suffering. In particular, since 2018, the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the devastating earthquake of 2021 and the permanent escalation of violence have led to a context of profound humanitarian catastrophe. Violence, food shorta…

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Apr

2024

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EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, the condemnation of the international community in general, and of the European Union in particular, of the abuses of international humanitarian law by the Israeli defence forces in the Gaza Strip, has risen in tone and has even led to the adoption of a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. However, on the ground, the numbers of civic and huma…

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Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

Mr President, Commissioner, we cannot run the risk of trivialising the destruction and brutal suffering induced by the deliberate non-application of the most basic rules of international humanitarian law by the State of Israel in the Gaza Strip. As I have said in many speeches in my capacity as the European Parliament's standing rapporteur for humanitarian aid, the State of Israel has the right to…

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Mar

2024

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The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I rise because of the impossibility of the author, Udo Bullman, rapporteur in the Committee on Development. Despite the announcement in June 2023 of the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with Tunisia and the inclusion of a €150 million budget support package for macroeconomic reforms, the European Commission only launched the process of adopting this special…

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Feb

2024

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Rising inequalities in the world (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, rising inequalities are both the consequence and the root of a global disorder that serves the most powerful and stifles the dignity of peoples' rights. As radical nationalist tensions that open the door to authoritarianism and isolationism grow, we know from empirical evidence and scientific knowledge that major global problems such as climate change, endemic poverty, …

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Feb

2024

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The current situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a multifaceted conflict of enormous interregional complexity, aggravated by the occurrence of excessive rainfall and flooding. More than 6 million people are displaced in the country, 80% of whom have been forced into displacement by war and insecurity. In the Eastern region the situation is worsening, …

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Feb

2024

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, commitment to human rights, democracy and social justice is the strongest geopolitical pillar of the European Union. The example of our multilateral partnership of dialogue and peace served to design a soft power that has become a global benchmark. But now? Now it's not enough. As this report shows, the past few years have been marked by deep setbacks in all these ar…

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Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Madam President, I address you and congratulate you on the lucid and courageous positions you, together with High Representative Josep Borrell, have taken on the ever-increasing political and humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. As the European Parliament's standing rapporteur for humanitarian aid, I condemn the repeated abuses of the principles of international humanitarian law practiced on t…

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Feb

2024

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Recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria

Mr President, Commissioner, the figures of the massacre carried out by armed groups on 24 December last year, Christmas Eve, in various locations in the State of Plateau, Nigeria, speak for themselves: 335 dead, 171 wounded, 18,725 displaced, 409 houses destroyed. The motivations for what happened are complex. Religious, ethnic and territorial factors have been added to endemic poverty, environmen…

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Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, on the same day that we pointed out and discussed in this plenary the situation created by the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, we also assessed two years of implementation of the Global Gateway initiative. I recall this, here and now, because the Global Gateway initiative is a key pillar in consolidating the geopolitical positioning of the European Union …

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Feb

2024

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Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Haiti is just another example of a country that meets all the conditions to be classified as a failed state. And despite all efforts, this is how it can and should continue to be classified at this time. There are too many interests and too many interested in sowing failed states across the globe. States that are markets of impunity, but at the same time scenarios of th…

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Jan

2024

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The threat of famine following the spread of conflict in Sudan

Madam President, Commissioner, the implosion of the Sudanese democracy transition agreement, which had Sudan's armed forces and rapid response forces as its main guarantors, has generated a large-scale armed conflict. The extreme violence has led to a humanitarian catastrophe, which, while not being a forgotten crisis, has nevertheless been overshadowed by other, more mediatised crises, such as th…

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Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the words are all spoken, the numbers are known, the risks widen every day. We know how it all started: the terrorist attack perpetrated on 7 October by Hamas was intolerable. But we also know what has happened and shouldn't happen. The State of Israel has the right to defend itself and prevent future attacks,…

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Dec

2023

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The Maasai Communities in Tanzania

Madam President, Commissioner, when speaking for the first time in plenary on issues relating to the rights of peoples in Africa, I cannot but recall the memory of our colleague Michèle Rivasi, who died suddenly on 29 November. I am sure she would join us in calling here on the Tanzanian authorities to respect the will of the Massai people to live in their ancestral lands and not to force their di…

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Dec

2023

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European Defence investment programme (EDIP) (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office, Commissioner, Parliament has been quick to approve and negotiate EDIRPA in order to strengthen the competitiveness and efficiency of the European defence technological and industrial base, and to agree by urgent procedure to implement the regulation for the production of ammunition, known by the English acronym of ASAP. When approving these programmes, Parl…

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Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Health Data Space (EHDS) is a very important initiative. With its implementation, more and better health care can be provided to those in need, including by promoting this space as an essential component for the development of the health union; through the implementation of a mechanism of opt out, where applicable, for access to secondary health data; by…

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Dec

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials is a fundamental condition for the European Union to be able to implement a strategy of open strategic autonomy and to be a global benchmark in this multipolar and multilateral way of consolidating its independence as a precondition for healthy and purposeful independence. I welcome the broad consensus r…

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Nov

2023

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The unlawful detention of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger

Madam President, Commissioner, since July this year Niger has been living under the authority of a military junta led by the head of the presidential guard, who spearheaded the coup d'état that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Since then, with the president deposed under house arrest with limited access to medical care, the country has been living with a plan imposed by the military to see the con…

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Nov

2023

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Innovative humanitarian aid strategy: spotlight on current and forgotten crises (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, when, as the European Parliament's standing rapporteur for humanitarian aid, I started the process of drafting this report, I knew that it addressed a key issue in order to continue to ensure the principles of humanitarian law to all those in need of emergency aid or urgent support in the face of multiple vulnerabilities. I knew, we all knew, but I had not, nor could…

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Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

Madam President, according to UN figures, more than 10 000 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October: 2 550 women, 4 104 children, 596 elderly; More than 25,400 were injured. In total, about 1,400 Israelis and foreigners were killed in Israel. According to the Israeli authorities, the vast majority of them in the early days of the Hamas attacks. From the outset, the United Nations, through i…

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Oct

2023

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New European innovation agenda (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Innovation Agenda is gaining more and more importance, because it is the foundation of the option of open strategic autonomy, which aims to enable the Union to be globally competitive, to be able to define its own policies, to lead the green transition, the digital transition, in an inclusive way and focused on the primacy of people, on the sustainability o…

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Oct

2023

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Outcome of the SDGs Summit (18-19 September 2023, New York) – transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030 and beyond (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, an increasingly unequal world, plagued by conflicts, disasters, forced displacement, unworthy living conditions, needs to resolutely focus on human development and sustainable development if we are to push forward a stage of reinvention of today’s society, making it fairer and more resilient. In terms of commitments to action, the New York Summit marked a turning poi…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, a geopolitical Europe is one that can affirm in the world the shared values and multilateral philosophy that is part of its DNA. A Europe of peace, freedom and democracy must strengthen its partnership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, but it must not neglect its strong relations with the South Atlantic and the Global South. The post-Cotonou Agre…

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Oct

2023

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Energy Charter Treaty: next steps (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the Energy Charter Treaty was signed in Lisbon in 1994. Portugal is the depositary of this Treaty and, nevertheless, decided on 28 September to abandon it. And it did good. Almost 30 years have passed since the Energy and Technology Treaty was signed and we are now in a new era. At the end of 2022, this Parliament adopted, by a clear majority, a resolution recommendi…