What Maria spoke about.

15 Mar

2023

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Women activism – human rights defenders related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Although there are, of course, a large number of states in the world where women's activists stand up for women's rights, including the right to abortion, today we are looking in particular at Poland. Because there it happened that activists were convicted, activists who helped women in their need, not to have to carry out a pregnancy ag…

19 Oct

2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

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Dear Mr President, Commissioner! There is no peace with hunger, we all know that. Fighting hunger is peace policy number one. But in the shadow of this crisis that we currently have, in the shadow of it, party politics is also being made now. It is claimed that hunger will be satisfied if we give up 4% of wasteland here in Europe. It is said that hunger is satisfied if we do not observe the crop r…

4 Oct

2022

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Access to water as a human right – the external dimension (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, No help comes as directly to children as good water policy. No problem is doubled as bad water policy. This means: Water is very special, if we see this as a fundamental right, as a human right, a child's right. It is about health, it is about nutrition already in infants, it is about physical and mental development – all this is based on good water. But it i…

5 Jul

2022

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Addressing food security in developing countries (debate)

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Mr President! Hunger in the world keeps us all busy. We have 10 fingers. We have ten fingers to do ten things about it. Point 1: Immediately set all levers in motion that the wheat comes out of Ukraine. Unblock the ports. This has to be done. We urgently need a ban on speculation on food – worldwide. We urgently need a debate on tank – plate – trough. The plates need to be filled more – less the t…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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.– You speak clearly to me as a man – to me as a woman. They talk to me as a man who can make a jump, who can have sex, who can have unprotected sex, but never has to pay the same price for it. You talk to me as a man who thinks he can put himself in the position of a woman. I can only say that it is the time when you, as a man, have to remain silent, because it is about something that you would n…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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Madam President, Violence has many faces. Withholding age-appropriate sexual education is a form of violence. Withholding contraceptives is a form of violence. Withholding medical help during and after childbirth is a form of violence. Withholding information about abortion is a form of violence. Withholding medical services in the form of abortion is a form of violence. A society that is medicall…

23 Mar

2022

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MFF 2021-2027: fight against oligarch structures, protection of EU funds from fraud and conflict of interest (debate)

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Madam President, Victims are the whole of Europe. The victims are all of us. The victims are taxpayers and taxpayers. I am speaking from the AGRI area. The victims are, of course, the normal farmers who want to get subsidies and need subsidies. Who are the perpetrators? The perpetrators are a small group, a small greedy group that cannot get its neck full, a small greedy group that on the one hand…

23 Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, I think we all agree: People, institutions, big companies exploiting war – that is despicable! It is despicable to use war to gain one's own advantages. But I would also like to make it quite clear here in this House: It is despicable for the EPP to use the war to push through its own agricultural agenda. It's despicable! I would like to mention this word here, because it is about…

20 Jan

2022

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Why did we even set up a committee of inquiry on animal transport here in-house? Because the scandals were screaming to the sky, because it was no longer possible to cover up what was happening here in Europe, and because you knew you needed a committee, a special place, to take care of animal welfare. There have been persistent infringe…

14 Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, It is a sad truth, but it is a truth that the whole world has drastically strayed from the zero hunger course. The course cannot be held at the moment. Our progress in fighting hunger is declining, and in fifty countries hunger is a serious, very serious, or even a serious problem. It has already been mentioned: It's about conflict, that's often th…

13 Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, For the S&A/D Group as FEMM coordinator, I can only say: We stand absolutely behind you and will support every step you take in this direction to protect women online from violence. Usually people talk about topics as if they were so side-by-side. There is the topic ‘Violence against women’, there is the topic ‘Pay gap’The problem with paying. There is also the …

25 Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (continuation of debate)

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Mr President! I speak as a European, as a woman, as a mother, as a grandma, and I want to make it very clear: Whoever does not share the values, whoever does not share the content, whoever does not share the mandates of the Istanbul Convention, cannot be part of this EU. Because this EU is a promise, especially a promise to women. The Istanbul Convention is something of an anthology. The Istanbul …

23 Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Today is the day of reckoning. Billing means: This agricultural policy package is on the table – the whole package, the many, many pages, the many small indents. We, who have worked together, know these thousands of pages. There is a lot of content packed in it. When we vote today on this big package, we have to make it clear that we can only focus on the big picture…

7 Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, It happens every day. It happens every day that women in this world get pregnant unintentionally. And it happens exactly every day worldwide that there are groups and groups that think they can access and say exactly in this situation: “We are not by your side”. Texas is for us an example, an example of an insanely backward-looking situation, namely to put press…

15 Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Dear Mr President, dear Commissioner! Perhaps I have not quite understood one of you, or I would ask you to put this into concrete terms again. You were talking about the world community at the beginning. You talked about good chances for everyone. They talked about hunger, about food crises. But I think you have repeatedly drawn the wrong conclusion, namely that Europe must feed the world. We don…

15 Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, If you still need reasons to vote in favour of the report on which we are voting today and tomorrow, I would like to give you a few reasons. Reasons that simply represent everyday life in Europe. Structural violence: social conditions that restrict women, unequal power relations, unequal life chances, assigned role situations and, of course, the denial of possible access to aborti…