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Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Right-wing governments in Europe continue to design tax rules that are directly tailored to the rich. In my country, Sweden, taxes are reduced for those who earn the most, while schools, health care, care are reduced. In Sweden, we have abolished wealth tax, property tax and we subsidize wealthy households with household services. The art of slaughtering a wel…

14

Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Madam President, first of all, let me be clear, there are many ways to make a family and have kids: with a lover, with a friend, within a couple or outside a couple. You can be heterosexual. You can be homosexual. You can be two parents, three parents, you can be multi-parenting. There is truly a rainbow of families in Europe and they should have the protection to move freely around in Europe. The…

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May

2023

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Breaches of the Rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary and frozen EU funds (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It has now been several years since the Council launched the Article 7 procedure against Hungary, and since then the situation for democracy, the rule of law and human rights has worsened. Hungary is no longer a fully-fledged democracy, and the EU has therefore strangled EU money for it. That's welcome. Just around the corner is a Hungarian presidency of the Coun…

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May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

First of all, Chair, I would like to report this as a form of hate speech, and I want you to look into it, because the way that groups of people are described amounts to a danger to them and fuels hate in this House. It cannot be accepted. Secondly, I must say that today we are happy that the EPP Group apparently will support in the vote tomorrow that the EU is adhering to the Istanbul Convention.…

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May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. It is an important day today, when we will have the opportunity to ratify the Istanbul Convention, the best international instrument we have to combat gender-based violence. That convention states that violence against women is a violation of our human rights. That convention states that violence against women, and gender-based violence, is based on structural…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It is very welcome that we have a body like the IPCC, where scientists give us clear, clear knowledge of the situation. That's especially important because we now have an extreme right and a nationalist right trying to trump Trump in the United States with their climate denial. Then we need the IPCC, and the message is crystal clear: We need to speed up the reduc…

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Apr

2023

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Universal decriminalization of homosexuality, in light of recent developments in Uganda (debate)

Mr President, the proposed Ugandan bill imposing the death penalty for consensual same—sex relations is simply horrific. Death for being who we are. Death for loving another person that the majority doesn’t think you should have the right to love. And the very process of driving bills like this is dangerous. It releases an avalanche of hate, violence, scapegoating. It’s life—threatening already wh…

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Apr

2023

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Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. whereas the indictment of Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an important indication that there is no impunity for the horrific war crimes committed for more than a year in Ukraine; The concrete crimes for which Putin and his associates are being prosecuted are the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. Ukrainian authorities repor…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. When this Parliament was elected in 2019, it was after hundreds of thousands of young people had taken to the streets and demanded that we do more, that we do everything we can to change climate action. The left has long demanded tougher action, both at the Swedish level and at the EU level, when it comes to coping with the climate. We demand that those who pollu…

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Mar

2023

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Resumption of the sitting

Mr President, my point is the following. Yesterday we had the formal sitting for the International Women’s Day, a day that is very cherished for many of us in this House. And the silence from the highest leadership by Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, who was there, and even from our own Roberta Metsola, on the fact that in Poland a woman has been convicted for helping another woman to access …

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Mar

2023

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

Madam President, Justyna Wydrzyńska was just yesterday convicted in a Polish court for helping another woman to access a safe abortion. It is dramatic. It’s a shameful first case in Europe. Helping another woman can never be a crime. And still there was not one single word from any of the EU’s highest responsible representatives at the formal sitting marking International Women’s Day this morning.…

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Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, President. 26,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean since 2014. They have names, they have families, they were someone's loved ones. If we take it in, then we realize that the answer must be more rescue, more life-saving at sea. In addition, they must be hailed who are actually out there saving lives. Instead, we see governments blaming and p…

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Jan

2023

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EU response to the protests and executions in Iran (debate)

Madam President, ‘Women, life, freedom’. These protests that were started by Kurdish woman have grown to a revolution. Women and men in Iran are showing extreme courage. The protests have grown to an enormous mobilisation. People are continuing to protest, risking their lives and freedom, for freedom. The regime has answered with only violence. Protesters are being jailed, tortured and even execut…

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Jan

2023

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Swedish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. I and many others had been looking forward to the Swedish Presidency. Sweden has long been known to be at the forefront of gender equality, climate and democracy issues. But with this right-wing conservative government leaning on a far-right party rooted in Nazism, many with me have had their expectations dashed. It is actually a government whose prime ministe…

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Nov

2022

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Legal protection for rainbow families exercising free movement, in particular the Baby Sara case (debate)

Mr President, my two children have two mothers. We belong together as a family, with love, of course, but also legally speaking. It took some years, some painful judicial and administrative procedures, but we are lucky to be recognised as a family with two legal parents, two mothers. This is not the case for Baby Sara. She’s turning three this December, and she’s stateless in Europe in 2022. So wh…

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Nov

2022

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Eliminating violence against Women (debate)

Madam President, there are many forms of violence against women and girls, and there is too little being done to stop it. One cruel form of violence is to deny a woman the right to decide freely over our bodies and our sexuality. Forced pregnancies and a lack of access to abortion care are still a reality in Europe in 2022. We have countries here like Poland, where we have an abortion ban and wher…

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Nov

2022

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Over ten years of attacks on democracy and the rule of law, of attacks on LGBTQ activists, of attacks on human rights defenders. Since 17 inadequate reforms, and not even these, Orban's government can live up to. Commission, the result must be: no money. No money will go to this government. Because unless this money is frozen, there are comrades across Europe …

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Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Racism and discrimination are structural in our societies, not an exception. Some examples of this are migration and refugee policy. Refugees and migrants are made scapegoats and are made in the extreme right's narrative to the root of all evil. whereas non-white people are left at sea without being allowed to land and seek refuge in Europe; It's devastating. It …

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Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (debate)

My thoughts and hearts go out to the families and loved ones of Juraj and Matúš. My heart goes out to all my LGBTQI siblings in Slovakia who, rightfully so, feel scared and threatened. We in the European Parliament, we stand with you and we stand up for you. But the kind of hatred that ends up taking lives does not appear from nowhere out of the blue. We all know this. We know that this kind of ha…

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Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Madam President, I am just back from the beautiful city of Budapest, where we were several hundred people gathered for three days of activism and mobilising for lesbian rights, for women’s rights, for LGBTI rights, for democracy, for equality, for a vision and a future of democracy, where it is restored in Hungary and where it is protected everywhere in Europe. And we all know that we are 12 years…

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Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Madam President, here we go again, debating and highlighting the situation in Hungary. I wish we would not have to but the situation when it comes to the independence of the judiciary, media, fundamental rights, women’s rights, refugee’s rights, LGBTI rights, everything is going in the wrong direction. Democracy is under attack in the heart of Europe. Their view of democracy is that if you win an …

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President-in-Office of the Commission, Madam President, thank you very much. I look with great seriousness and great concern at the time we live in. In my country, Sweden, we look to have a government that rests on a right-wing nationalist and racist party. At the end of the year, my country, Sweden, will take over the EU Presidency. What will it mean for EU climate policy to be dependent on…

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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)

Madam President, if unwanted pregnancies was something that happened to men, we would have an abortion clinic in every town, every village – several of them. They would probably be quite nice places, maybe cosy, where you were met in a very nice way, could have a chat, could have a talk, and where you would be received with no shame, no stigma, no judgement. That’s the way it should have been. Ins…

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2022

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

Poland already has a total ban on abortion, and now you’re making a mass register of pregnant women. For me, this is dystopian, it’s totalitarian, it does not belong in a democratic society. You are treating women like cattle. How dare you? How dare you?…

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2022

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

– Ms Fitzgerald, I know that you have played a very important role in Ireland, where we never thought that we would have that positive development. You managed in Ireland to legalise abortion care in a country where everyone thought it would be impossible; it was so conservative. We still see today in this Chamber that in the right wing groups there is a lot of resistance. That’s where the resista…