What Valérie spoke about.

6

Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we hear the sounds of corridors: the Commission would be close to approving the Hungarian and Polish recovery plans. But frankly, are we really going to send the President to shake hands with Viktor Orbán and his Polish sidekick? There are still anti-LGBTI zones in these states, areas that attack the most basic rights of Europeans because of what t…

14

Sep

2021

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Brexit Adjustment Reserve - Draft amending budget No 1/2021: Brexit Adjustment Reserve (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, empty shelves in supermarkets, a shortage of drivers, crippling administrative paperwork, basic necessities whose prices are soaring... While the consequences of Brexit are hitting the British hard, Boris Johnson voted last week a massive tax hike to refinance the British health system, the famous NHS. The same NHS that brexiters promised to refina…

7

Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Viktor Orbán tells us that his law is not homophobic. Who are we laughing at here? Who are we kidding? Of course this law is homophobic. Of course it will discriminate against LGBTI people. No one is fooled. Nobody. Your retrograde ultra-conservatism - you here, yours, to the right of this Chamber - undermines the rights of Europeans who demand nothing but to lo…