What Clara spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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Striving for a sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture: the way forward (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Valean, replacing Commissioner Sinkevicius, ladies and gentlemen: firstly, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs from all the political groups for their good cooperation, because sometimes it has not been easy, but with this report we have reached a good agreement, which I think is balanced. Ladies and gentlemen, despite advances in the aquaculture sector and f…

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Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

Mr. President, I want to join the public recognition of firefighters, public forces and people who have helped us throughout this summer to alleviate the effects of the fires, to end these fires. Ladies and gentlemen, since February, in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, I have been calling for a genuine debate on drought. We are now in it, unfortunately, when it is affecting the …

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Sep

2022

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Mr President, with this proposal we Europeans are no longer complicit in the destruction of forests: accomplices unknowingly, with our consumption. This proposal for a regulation seeks to curb the effect of consumption of certain products in the EU on global deforestation; To this end, the imposition of requirements on these products for their introduction and sale on the European market is an imp…

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Sep

2022

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New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 – Sustainable Forest Management in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you to the rapporteurs, Mrs Katainen and especially Carmen Avram, from my political group, for the work done. We have to welcome the proposal for a European Union Forest Strategy for 2030: I consider it a very important strategic instrument to achieve our commitments related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and restoration,…

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Jul

2022

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Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

Madam President, as everyone has repeated, most of us have a moral and ethical obligation to ensure food security worldwide, not just in Europe. But we are seeing that this war in Ukraine is bringing a lot of problems, especially for those productions to arrive. The change in transport routes, especially the blockade of ports, is bringing with it that this great production obviously does not arriv…

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Jun

2022

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Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (short presentation)

Madam President, I wanted to congratulate Mrs Roose, Pietro Bartolo and the other rapporteurs on this Article 17 report, because I think they have done a great job. What is said in that report is reality. In other words, it is not known what criteria the Member States have for determining the allocation of quotas. And a very clear example is the bluefin tuna recovery plan in my country: the distri…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Commissioner, in order for there to be responsibility and for the reduction in the percentage you want to reach 50% to be real, viable and feasible alternatives must be made available to farmers from the moment the reduction occurs. Why not advance the new regulations on new cultivation techniques, which would be a good way out, along with pesticides or other alternatives? Take th…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Commissioner Kyriakides, welcome to Question Time. The Commission has announced that we will soon have a regulation ─ I thought it would be a directive, but apparently it is a regulation ─ on a more sustainable use of pesticides, that is, on their reduction, as promised in the European Green Deal. This is a demand from society, no doubt, but, from the outset, I do have to tell you…

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Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that this is a very interesting report, with 93 points, all of which are of great interest. I would like to stress that the most important thing in today's debate is to put the islands at the centre. We need a European pact for islands because, if not, there are no specific policies. The only one there was the POSEI, and we saw in the reform how it wanted t…

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May

2022

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A sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of fisheries and aquaculture (short presentation)

Mr President, the blue economy represents a large segment of our economy, it affects industries and sectors. I think that this view made by my colleague Isabel Carvalhais is very timely, and I would like to congratulate her on it, because it completes the part of the Commission communication where little was said about fisheries and aquaculture. I think it's important, and over the last decade we'…

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May

2022

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

Mr President, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship are very important elements for a society to move forward. In order for a society to achieve its competitiveness index, as in the European Union, it is essential that this momentum be given. Also for job creation. But here we see again how there is no gender equality: There is a big gap and a big difference between men's and women's entrepreneurs…

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May

2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to congratulate Mrs Schmiedtbauer and all the rapporteurs, especially Eric Andrieu, from my political group, who have done a great job with this report, which concludes here with tomorrow's vote on the new EU action plan for organic farming, which is a continuation of the previous one, which lasted from 2014 to 2020, and which sets out 23 new proposals. …

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Apr

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say that we are all appalled by the latest massacre we have seen, that of Bucha, and by so many others. A few months ago we were commemorating in the European institutions that the success of the European Union – the great success – was that there had been no war for 70 years. We were commemorating it and saying: If the European Union has succ…

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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)

Madam President, Commissioner, this is a debate in which we wanted to call for the urgency of an action plan in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The first thing, obviously, is to meet the humanitarian demand, of course, of Ukrainians; But secondly, we have to ensure food supplies in Europe, of course, and also in the rest of the world. That is why we welcome the Commission's action plan, …

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Feb

2022

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Implementation report on on-farm animal welfare (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we are talking about a report, I am saying this because, listening to some of the honourable Members... This is a report on the welfare of farm animals. Nothing to do with transport or slaughter; those are other reports that we have already discussed. I think it is a good report, Mr Decerle, and I would like to congratulate you on your work, as well as my colleague C…

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to thank the two rapporteurs, Mr Buda and my colleague Isabel Carvalhais: I think they have done an impressive, very difficult job during these 18 months, and I want to support the agreement of the rapporteurs, and to support the agreement of the rapporteurs we have to vote on the two amendments that have been tabled by both; I say this to complete that …

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Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Vice-President, Commissioner, this is a very important debate - all of you have highlighted it - the basis of which is an agreement, a very important agreement, with the Digital Services Act. When there is a great agreement, even if there are nuances, that is the result of a great work. I think the work done by the rapporteurs is unbeatable, but let me highlight the very great work d…

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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)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we ended the debate on a lengthy process with one of the most profound reforms, in my opinion, of agricultural policy, which manages a third of the Community budget, and possibly – we will see what happens – one of the shortest, 2023-2027. This reform has added to income support, which is very important in agriculture, increased social, environment…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, today we conclude, with this debate, the European Parliament's opinion on the Farm to Fork Strategy, and legislative documents will arrive in the coming months. First of all, I would like to thank all the speakers and our technical teams for their excellent willingness to work together. I would like to point out that the potential problems and difficulties that these changes will …

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Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union's relationship with the United States is, without a doubt, very important to us. But, ladies and gentlemen, we are already of legal age and we have to bet on ourselves and have a foreign policy of our own. The main objectives of the European Union must be our international priorities. We need a clear strategy. President Biden, for some of us -…

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Sep

2021

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Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to mention at the opening of this plenary session what is happening in my region, in Andalusia: a really exceptional and large fire in Sierra Bermeja, in Malaga. Already, unfortunately, a firefighter has died; There are two also very serious. There are more than 1,600 people evicted from their homes and almost 8,000 hectares burned. I want - and I f…

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Jul

2021

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Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and the conservation of Southern Ocean biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, Antarctica is certainly an area to be protected for the environmental reasons put forward by all previous speakers. There are the many reasons. Therefore, what we want is for this resolution to give the support and political support that I hope will provide a definitive impetus for the declaration of these marine protected areas. The Antarctic Ocean is rich…

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2021

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European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would first like to congratulate the negotiating team, the rapporteur, Mr Mato, and most especially, among all the shadow rapporteurs, Manuel Pizarro, our shadow rapporteur, who has done a great job with the entire negotiating team. We are finally voting on the approval of this Fund, the smallest of the European Structural and Investment Funds, which we hope will, …