What Alice spoke about.

12 Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Climate change, democracy in decline, another war on our continent, trade wars and major threats to our security. With Putin, Trump, Musk and Xi Jinping and company, the world desperately needs a counterforce. The EU must be that counter-force. The EU has the opportunity to be the answer to our common challenges. But the EU can only be that if it is a communit…

11 Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. We live in a time of powerful men. Men who conquer, men who use violence to get their will through, men who want to control both land areas and our life mothers. I am thinking of the girls and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are paying with their bodies and their lives in the shadow of men's wars over natural resources. I am thinking of the women i…

10 Mar

2025

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Parliament’s calendar of part-sessions - 2026

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I take the floor under Rule 39. The right to be who you are, to love who you want and to live your life free from discrimination is a fundamental European right. That right is clearly under attack. At this critical moment, the decision by the European Commission to announce the withdrawal of the horizontal anti-discrimination directive came as a shock. It also rep…

10 Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your In many areas of Sweden, violence is now a frightening everyday life. Politically deprived areas where society has left the walkover to the criminal gangs. We are all aware of the problems and everyone knows what are the tools to get to the problems. These are the same tools that the police, social services and schools have been calling for for m…

10 Feb

2025

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Situation in Sweden in the midst of the recent mass shooting in Örebro (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. The ten people who were murdered in the worst mass shooting in Swedish history are not anonymous figures. It was sisters and brothers, with dreams and ambitions. They loved their children. They were in love. They had favorite dishes. They were people. Teacher Aziza, housing supporter and mother of five Elsa. The baker Bassam, Salim who was getting married. …

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. There is much to say, and there is much to mourn. But one thing is for sure: Now is the time for the EU to take global leadership for the climate, for democracy, for human rights, for LGBTIQ people, for women, for investigative journalism and for minority rights. All this is threatened by Trump's far-right henchmen who are in the US, but who are also here in the …

20 Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Everyone knows that a truce does not restore decades of oppression, occupation, broken families and broken future. Everyone knows that a truce does not bring the dead to life, and a truce does not conjure away hatred between people. All those who say they want to put an end to the indiscriminate killing and want peace, they must also want to rebuild Gaza. We need…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. The fight for women's rights continues. For the girl who is forced to work instead of going to school, for the woman who is not allowed to leave her home without a man by her side and for you who hides your bruises. We would never be where we are today if it were not for the struggle of our grandmothers and now we must do the same for our sisters and our da…

18 Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your In the United States, a misogynist anti-democrat will soon be imprisoned in the White House. In Georgia, journalists are beaten by masked men and the Council of Ministers itself has been led for six months by the corrupt despot Orban. We live in a time when anti-democrats inside and outside our Union are challenging what Europe can and should be.…

26 Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

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23 Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. For over 30 years, Poland's ban on abortion has had horrific consequences for Polish women. For over 30 years, we have accepted that Europe has first- and second-class citizens. We have those who enjoy all human rights and we have those citizens who are deprived of their human rights. Now we have a UN investigation that shows what all of us who fought for a…

9 Oct

2024

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2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. We who live in democracies are in the minority, and we are getting fewer and fewer. Seven out of ten of the world's inhabitants live today without the rights and freedoms that many of us take for granted. Dismantling is done through conscious decisions, often by elected politicians. It may seem like small things: An organization criticizes the government an…

17 Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your If we do not act on the complete humanitarian catastrophe that is going on before our eyes, but normalise it, then who are we? What does international law really mean? A rules-based world order, humanity, humanity, empathy. There is so much that the EU Member States could have done a long time ago. Immediately impose an arms embargo on Israel. Pa…

25 Apr

2024

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Statements by the President

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Madam President, dear colleagues, in Stockholm yesterday, a group of people attending a lecture about how to stand up against fascism were attacked and abused by masked Nazis. The Nazis shall, of course, be held responsible for their awful actions. But, politicians in the Swedish Government, as well as in this Parliament, should be ashamed of cooperating and giving legitimacy to the far-right extr…

23 Apr

2024

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European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner Dalli! As rapporteur, I would like to conclude by underlining two points at election times. One is how well we cooperated between the different party groups during the work on this legislation, how we were supported and wetted and compromised during the negotiations. I know that many people want to consign the European Parliament to a troubled dis…

23 Apr

2024

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European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)

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Mr President, I hope you would agree that the EU is only socially just once we ensure access to rights and opportunities for all without discrimination. This week, I hope we will take a major step towards achieving this. With these two proposals, establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, we now have the chance to adopt measures that will…

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It is worth repeating: In this room and in every room where there are girls and women, there are also survivors. Men's violence against women has over the centuries become part of the norm of our societies. It is everyday life, as if it were a natural law for men to abuse, rape and kill women. We women have been forced to wear a shame that has never been ours, an…

22 Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. I am so grateful to all the women, the survivors, who, in the course of working on this legislation, have shared their terrible experiences and experiences. You have repeated that you are doing so to save others – to save those who are still in the hell from which you have managed to escape. It is thanks to the courage, strength and solidarity of you and other…

10 Apr

2024

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Order of business

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Madam President, dear colleagues, today I am ashamed – ashamed of this House and ashamed of our lack of humanity and solidarity. Today we will vote on the Migration Pact that will increase the suffering of people, of children, and set back asylum rights for decades to come. So, this Pact is highly controversial, and as elected representatives of the EU citizens, our duty is to honour democracy and…

14 Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. There are many reasons for an abortion. From the fact that pregnancy is life-threatening to the fact that you simply don't want to. There are many reasons, but there is only one to decide. It's not the church, it's not politicians, it's not parents, neighbors or partners. It is only the individual woman who should make decisions about her own body. Abortion right…

13 Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

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Mr President, thank you very much. It took almost six months, more than 30,000 dead, most of them women and children, and a court warned of genocide before a majority of the European Parliament’s elected representatives backed the obvious – that we are calling for a permanent ceasefire. There is something seriously wrong with humanity. Children are dying in Gaza, not just from bombs but from starv…

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, thank you very much. In this room and in all other rooms where there are girls and women, there are also experiences and experiences of sexual harassment and abuse. It hurts to note the normalization of this sick fact. It also hurts to note that all the different instances of society have more or less accepted that it is like this, and do far, far too little. In 2017, we broke the si…

28 Feb

2024

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The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Navalny's death is not just a tragic case far away. That a tyrant like Putin systematically silences his political opponents with the most vile methods concerns us all. The fact that, despite all the condemnations, we continue to support Putin by buying his fossil energy is a disgrace. We must move from all these beautiful words to action. We must ensure that Nav…

7 Feb

2024

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Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. In many ways, it would have been easier if all those who actually want to restrict the rights of LGBTIQ people spoke loud and wide about it. Too often there are many. And we would have seen that, it would have been obvious. They are often powerful too. Instead, the reality is the opposite, that they exist. They're in power. They are among us politicians. They'…

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. We live in a time when we need more. Especially those of us who have won the trust of many others. When elected politicians deliberately misinterpret, spread lies and conspiracy theories, they make up for the hatred and racism that, among other things, manifests itself in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and which slowly but surely leads to violence and death. …