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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for your presence. First of all, I would just like to recall, with due regard for the Rules of Procedure, that my colleague Javier Moreno would have liked to participate in this debate, but that, because of an air transport problem, it has not been possible. I would also like to join in the condolences and solidarity expressed by this House to the families …

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mrs Pereira, I have decided to address this question to you because you are a left-wing woman, we come from the same tradition. The left has always been internationalist, it has never been a defender of the nation state; I have never seen it in the writings of Marx or Engels. However, you have here made a closed defense of the veto, of national sovereignty as the paradigm of political action. I fi…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, thank you, above all, to the colleagues who have drafted this important resolution, which has my full support, supported by five groups in this House. In 1950, on May 9, the Schuman Declaration was known. Six European countries pooled coal and steel. And that Declaration said twice, not just once, that this European Coal and Steel Community was the first step in establishing a Europe…

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič and his team and, of course, the rapporteur for this report, Paulo Rangel, and the other members of the negotiating team for this excellent report, which is also very timely, as has been said. Tomorrow we will also vote on the resolution that we have all negotiated to activate Article 48, which should lead us, we hope, with the supp…

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May

2022

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The fight against impunity for war crimes in Ukraine (debate)

–Mr President, thanks in particular to Maria Arena, the author of this resolution, who I fully support, particularly the initiative to set up this special court to try the crime of aggression, not because we want to weaken the International Criminal Court; We have also requested financial support for it. We have recently learned that the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments will provide such fun…

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

I know, you ask me, that Mr Sandro Gozi is a dear companion and a dear friend and I know that it is absolutely possible. He did it: working for Europe when he was in Italy and working for Europe when he is in France.…

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Madam President, thank you, Vice-President, for your presence in the debate and also for what you have done by co-chairing this conference with these very good outcomes. They are clearly pointing to the need to improve the competencies, the capabilities of the European Union to act in very important fields, but also to improve the degree of democratic legitimacy, and the participation of citizens …

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Yes, Mr Dzhambazki, you have said that there is no European identity and I would like to ask you about that. I think it does exist. Don't you think that characters like Beethoven, like Molière, like Cervantes, elements like Greco-Roman culture, like the contribution of the intellectuals of the Renaissance, of the Enlightenment, make up the European identity?…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, thank you to all the colleagues who have spoken in this lively debate. The report, at least, has the courage to have generated such an intense and dynamic debate. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you – as the Vice-President said in her last speech on whether Members elected on a European list would be responsible to those who elected them, leaving the question open – t…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, thank you for your presence and thank you also to the colleagues who remain in the Chamber. Many and sincere thanks also to my colleagues in the negotiating team of this bill: Sven Simon for the EPP, Guy Verhofstadt for Renew, Damian Boeselager for Verts/ALE, Leila Chaibi for The Left and Fabio Castaldo for the NI, for their excellent contributions and excelle…

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Apr

2022

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Mental Health (debate)

Mr President - dear Rainer - according to the OECD, the number of people suffering from anxiety and depression has increased substantially since March 2020, even, in the case of Spain, my country, for example, has doubled. This is something that many Members have already commented on: the impact of the pandemic, now the impact of the war. But I think that the question of mental health, the stigma …

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Apr

2022

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

Madam President, the violations of the right to seek asylum and the non-refoulement of refugees and migrants at various European borders are highly accredited by NGOs – many of them – investigative journalists, the UNHCR, OLAF itself and even by evidence held by Frontex itself and parliamentarians who have carried out different missions. However, Commissioner Dalli, I do not know how to tell you, …

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Apr

2022

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much for your good pronunciation. I also thank the Commissioner and the colleagues that have intervened, some of whom are still with us now, Ms Cicurel, Mr Ademov, Mr Polčák. I thank them for having expanded on the ideas in the report and around this report. I couldn’t elaborate on all of them in my introduction. Ms Cicurel reminded us of the importance of transforming…

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Apr

2022

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

Mr President, thank you to Commissioner Dalli, although we obviously thought that the police station responsible for the sector, Mariya Gabriel, would come. But we are equally happy with his presence. And, of course, thanks to the shadow rapporteurs for this report, Mr Fourlas, Mr Cicurel, Mr Salima Yenbou and Mr Pernando Barrena, because they have made a decisive contribution to the report, as ha…

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Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, thank you for your presence and for your intervention. More than one million Ukrainian children are in the European Union. We do not know how long the conflict will last and their right to education must be guaranteed, in any case. But it is also important to note that this education is deserved by all refugee children fleeing wars, whether they are Ukrainians…

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Mar

2022

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Role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism (debate)

Madam President Charonzová, Commissioner Gabriel, congratulations to the rapporteur Salima Yenbou, who has made a magnificent report, because, indeed, we need to do much more from Europe in the fight against racism. We can see racism as the worst form of border, worse than a physical border: a mental frontier which we have to break down with the same energy with which we in Europe have, fortunatel…

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Feb

2022

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

Madam President, the European Year of Youth must be a success. We are therefore on the side of this demographic group that is calling on us to put an end to labour exploitation through unpaid traineeships, as so many honourable Members have already said. Success also means giving this European Year of Youth a lasting legacy. That is why, together with 86 MEPs from the main pro-European groups, we …

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative Josep Borrell, thank you not only for the report you have conveyed to us, but for the line you have been following towards Russia for more than a year: a line of firmness, clarity, always open to dialogue, but from a clearly uncomplex position. In that sense, much has already been said in this debate about how we have use…

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Dec

2021

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Negotiations ahead of Parliament's first reading (Rule 71) (action taken)

Mr President, this is a very quick point of order. I would just like to remind the honourable Members that today, 15 December, marks the 20th anniversary of the Laeken Declaration. It was a very important statement that I want to briefly recall because it paved the way, as you will recall, for the Convention on the Future of Europe, the Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon. The Honourable Member,…

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Dec

2021

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European Year of Youth 2022 (debate)

Mr President, thank you to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel for being with us today and for having negotiated with Parliament the proposal for the European Year of Youth, and thank you to the rapporteur, Sabine Verheyen. The truth is that we would have liked to have received the proposal a little earlier. In this way, we should not have had to launch this accelerated procedure. We agree with the idea. …

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Nov

2021

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Statute and funding of European political parties and foundations (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President Jourová, thank you very much, first of all, to the honourable Members, and friends, Rainer Wieland and Charles Goerens, for this magnificent own-initiative report, which seems to me to be very politically sound and which should help the Commission to prepare its legislative proposal. I believe that the Socialist Group, very well represented by Gabriele Bischof…

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Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much, Mr High Representative, for your statements. I wanted to add a few brief considerations. We all agree that what Lukashenka is doing is instrumentalizing migration flows. But I am really surprised by the unwavering adherence that we are hearing from some Members of the Polish Government today. I do not know if you remember that very recently we had the Polish Prim…

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Oct

2021

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, President Biden once said: Don't tell me what you value. Tell me what your budget is and I'll know what you value. And indeed, it's something I believe in, too. This Parliament aspires to a budget that is precisely in line with our values and with our rules. For this reason, I am pleased that we have reached an agreement to introduce a reserve for Frontex of EUR 90 million with co…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Madam President von der Leyen, Prime Minister, I am not going to comment - if I may say so - on the nationalist coven you gave us in the morning, but I will go to the question of the primacy of Community law. I'd like to ask you, Mr. Prime Minister, what kind of club you think you've gotten yourself into. I am sure that you should at some point, at the time of Poland's accession, hav…

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Oct

2021

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The situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the cultural sector and its workers were already starting from a very precarious situation before the COVID-19 crisis, but the necessary containment measures have, as other colleagues have already said, generated a real catastrophe. In some sectors the destruction has been almost complete, with losses of up to 90% in the performing arts sector in 2020, or 75% in the cultural sector. …