What Annika spoke about.

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, the fight against all forms of violence against women and children is one of my struggles during this term of office, and I am delighted that we have finally reached an agreement on such a serious issue. I would also like to recall some figures. More than half of women in the EU have already experienced sexual harassment. One in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence…

14 Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

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Mr President, the Commission Work Programme for 2024 remains fragmented compared to its previous commitments, in particular those on the phasing out of cages. This reform alone would benefit more than 300 million animals, provided that it guards against two perverse effects. On the one hand, all meat imports, including from Ukraine, must comply with EU standards, otherwise we will only have shifte…

12 Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

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Mr President, I am delighted that we can vote for a genuine text in favour of women’s rights in this institution, which is often disconnected from the challenges faced by women, such as the growing insecurity linked to the spread of multiculturalism, throughout Europe. In a European Union where more than one in three women has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence and where one thir…

7 Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I wanted to begin this speech by pointing out some improvements over the texts of previous years. Indeed, this resolution includes the need to tackle harmful traditional practices such as child marriages, forced marriages or genital mutilation, which, I would remind you, are imported into our soil. I also welcome the will to improve working conditions in the predominant…

17 Jan

2024

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Gender aspects of the rising cost of living and the impact of the energy crisis (debate)

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Madam President, Europeans are suffering the consequences of the European Union's poor responses to the various crises we are going through, especially women, who are the hardest hit. Crises that could have been an opportunity to learn from past mistakes to restore the sovereignty of the Member States, strengthen their cooperation and improve the well-being of their citizens who call for these str…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, as a member of the Committee on Women's Rights, I wanted to speak about what women suffered in this attack. Yesterday morning, May Golan, Israel’s Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women, spoke for the first time in a French media outlet to testify about the abuses and sexual violence perpetrated on her fellow citizens by Hamas terrorists. The description of the facts com…

19 Oct

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative 'Fur Free Europe' (debate)

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Madam President, after a life of misery in cramped cages, fur animals are gassed, electrocuted, poisoned or hanged before being skinned, sometimes still conscious. Beyond this abomination, these farms also present a danger of developing zoonotic diseases. Indeed, mammals bred for their fur easily contract pneumonia. These viral diseases can mutate and contaminate humans. Last August, the Finnish a…

17 Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as has been said – and underlined – at the moment, the Commissioner’s 2024 work programme again rejects any reform on animal welfare, with the exception of the transport of live animals. Most revisions to animal welfare legislation are therefore abandoned. However, the Commission had undertaken to propose the same revisions. It had also undertaken to take into account t…

2 Oct

2023

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Ensuring European transportation works for women (debate)

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Madam President, this text calls for making transport safer for women by relevant means such as sufficient public lighting, bus stops in visible places, the presence of alarm signals and staff on board buses or the possibility of dropping off on demand at night, which is an excellent thing. However, I would like to recall some alarming figures to describe the daily lives of millions of women. In F…

13 Sep

2023

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Regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights (debate)

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Mr President, this report on the regulation of prostitution in the European Union seeks to harmonise the different laws of the Member States on the so-called ‘Nordic’ or ‘abolitionist’ model, which consists of decriminalising prostitutes and criminalising clients. However, this model, adopted in France in 2016, still does not seem to prove itself, because prostitution persists, evolves on the Inte…

13 Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, I shall ask you briefly about your future arbitrations also in the field of animal welfare. Your services normally make their copy around November, but the press indicates that the package of proposals on animal welfare could be sent back to the next Commission, i.e. after the European elections. I would therefore like to know whether the recasti…

13 Jul

2023

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Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021 (debate)

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Mr President, the lack of transparency on the part of the European institutions reached its peak in 2021, when the Commission refused to properly search for the texts exchanged between the President of the Commission and the CEO of Pfizer. In addition to the administrative complaints pending before the European Ombudsman and the CJEU, we are also informed in this case that Mr Baldan, an accredited…

10 Jul

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing’ (debate)

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Madam President, experiments on animals to test cosmetics have been banned since 2013. But in 2020, the Commission, in the Symrise cases, forced manufacturers to test cosmetic components on animals by invoking the REACH Regulation. So we need to get out of the rut. I have already had the opportunity to present solutions to the Commission, including the possibility for the European Chemicals Agency…

11 May

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Finning – Stop the trade" (debate)

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Mr President, the , as has been mentioned before me, consists of cutting up the fin of the living shark before throwing its body into the sea. It is a barbaric practice that is not part of our customs and customs. This is why, in Europe, it has been banned since 2013. Yet the EU is still one of the largest exporters of shark fins. The European Commission is once again very permissive with regard t…

30 Mar

2023

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Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)

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Mr President, this report mirrors most of the texts we vote in the European Parliament: It has laudable goals, but often disconnected from reality. We cannot judge a text by its title: we need to assess it in its entirety. How are we going to explain to our business leaders who are struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and are being swept away by commodity price inflation that we are no…

16 Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

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Madam President, in order to save bees and farmers, and I would add consumers, pesticides must be reduced, which requires replacing them with agroecological techniques such as crop mixing and longer rotations in order to limit the development of pests; restoration of the bocage to favour useful predators; biocontrol to promote natural pest enemies and use plant or pheromone biopesticides, or servi…

14 Feb

2023

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The EU priorities for the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, in this resolution I am sorry to see that you have overshadowed certain priorities for women. The text we are going to vote on is partly disconnected from the daily lives of women and girls. Indeed, not a word about increasing insecurity in Europe, street harassment or radical Islam, factors aggravated by massive and uncontrolled immigration. Nor does the resolution mention the diffi…

22 Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

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Madam President, I am delighted that an agreement has finally been reached for the adoption of the directive on the participation of women on boards. I invite you to support this reasonable text put to the vote today, which aims to give the Member States the necessary means to achieve a more balanced representation of men and women among the directors of companies listed on stock exchanges. This d…

19 Oct

2022

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Fighting sexualised violence - The importance of the Istanbul Convention and a comprehensive proposal for a directive against gender-based violence (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the debate we have today is unfortunately more topical than ever, as we learn with horror of the torment suffered by little Lola just a few days ago in France. So yes, it is high time to effectively combat sexual violence, starting with violence against our children. Just last week, I met determined women who had the courage to testify about the sexual abuse …

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, this regulation aims to reduce the impact on the environment and human health of the use of batteries. That is why we will support it. In addition, by increasing our requirements, especially for electric vehicle batteries, we will avoid misleading advertising that portrays these vehicles as more virtuous than they are. This will significantly improve consumer information in this a…

8 Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

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Mr President, your proposed action plan aims to make the European Union the voice of women's rights in the world. When it comes to fighting femicide, child marriage, genital mutilation, human trafficking and sexual violence, I fully share and support these goals. This text, however, seems to me ideological and raises questions. Indeed, its main objective is to require that 85% of all new EU extern…

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, the mistreatment documented by animal welfare associations and relayed by the media, the appalling shipwrecks of trash cargo ships or the odysseys across all seas have moved our fellow citizens. They have their eyes on us, because this committee of inquiry is a unique opportunity to improve the fate of the animals transported. All political groups, more or less, now recognise that…

16 Dec

2021

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An EU ban on the use of wild animals in circuses (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is high time to ban wild animals in circuses. Firstly, because the use of endangered species in circuses scuttles the fight against illegal trade and poaching. We cannot really control the origin of animals, nor control the births and deaths of these animals. There is also the issue of accidents regularly involving tamers, employees, or even the public. But there is …

16 Dec

2021

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MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions (debate)

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Mr President, fear must change sides, but the fight against sexual harassment must not turn into obsession or widespread suspicion. The taboo of reporting sexual harassment, especially in the workplace, must be broken, perpetrators must be punished, but let's stop considering men as a global threat. Your text states that gender-based violence originates in sexism, gender stereotypes and male domin…

13 Dec

2021

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Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)

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Madam President, I very much regret not being able to vote in favour of this text, not being able to support the proposals on gender equality which, if they were not instrumentalised, should be able to obtain unanimity. Obviously, I support the objectives of ‘equal pay for equal work’, better care for maternity leave, additional measures to deal with domestic violence or the fight against traffick…