What Alice spoke about.

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Nov

2022

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

Madam President, Commissioner, some things seem so self-evident, so obviously the right thing to do that we tend to believe that they will eventually just happen, that the persons with the most and the best qualifications take the seat in the room is one of those things. There are those who want to reduce the long battle to make sure women have a seat at the decision-making tables of companies to …

10

Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Racism and discrimination are a reality that characterises people’s entire lives – their upbringing, their schooling, their opportunities and their daily lives. Racism does not only affect individuals. It affects all of us, whole societies and whole countries. Racism stands in the way of development. There are those who live and act in the belief that racism is n…

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Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Ideas are like energy. They don't disappear, they are transformed. Our responsibility is to understand which ideas provide the conditions for life and community, and which ideas create divisions, which build suspicions between people, which turn into hatred, which slowly but surely destroys. The nationalist ideas that were given space and emerged at the beginning…

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Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It started with Jina Masha Amini, but the detainees, the injured, the murdered have many more faces and as many names. The perpetrators, murderers and accomplices – there are also many. But we know who they are and what they should be held accountable for. Then there's the rest of us, who are on the sidelines. We who can choose to live our lives as usual or do wh…

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Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. There are things in the world around us that we can say we didn't know or that we knew very little about. The situation of many Roma in the EU is not one of those things. For decades, we in power have received a report after a report describing in black and white all the grey scales of misery – from systematic discrimination in housing queues and the labour ma…

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Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues and visitors! This year we had to fight to find out the truth about the state of fundamental rights in our Union. The truth about the rise of racism. The Truth about Discrimination. The truth about the threats against journalists and investigative media. We had to fight the far right in this Parliament in order to be able to write down the facts at all…

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Jul

2022

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Intersectional discrimination in the EU: socio-economic situation of women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent (A9-0190/2022 - Alice Kuhnke) (vote)

Madam President, thank you very much. united in diversity. That is the motto of the European Union. Those of us who sit here, however, do not reflect the diversity that exists among the citizens of the European Union. This is partly because not everyone has the same opportunities to take their place and raise their voice. Many are discriminated against, and we know that discrimination is intersect…

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Jul

2022

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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. We live in a reality where many women do not decide for themselves whether they want to have sex or not and therefore cannot decide for themselves whether they want to get pregnant. In addition, there are many reasons why you want to interrupt a pregnancy. Whatever the reasons behind the desire to have an abortion, it is often a difficult decision – sometimes …

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Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Firstly, we must be convinced that it is a fundamental right to decide when, where, how and if you want to become pregnant. Secondly, we must understand and act on the fact that the rights and opportunities that generations of women before us have fought for for decades are under threat. Abortion resistance is growing. Third, we scientifically know how to redu…

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Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Are all EU citizens equally valuable? If the answer is yes, then why do we allow millions of Poles not to have the same rights, freedoms and opportunities as the rest of us? Polish activists fighting for fundamental human rights risk being accused, prosecuted and brought to justice because of the Polish judicial system, which even the European Court of Justice…

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May

2022

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

Mr President, thank you very much. Those who have tortured, injured and killed civilians in Ukraine must be brought to justice and severely punished. Sexual violence and rape are crimes that have been committed and are still being committed in Ukraine. It is used, as we know, to threaten, humiliate, humiliate and harm, and we know that it is mainly girls and women who are the victims. At the same …

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Terry, You have managed to rally Parliament behind the important and big thing that we should not accept that the situation of the rule of law in the EU continues to erode. Instead, with this report, you and we are demanding that we do more, that the Commission do more. For it is with sadness that we note that behind the two countries that are leading th…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

What our fellow Member is expressing is racism, and the fact that we are sitting here and accepting that this is being expressed in our House, in our Parliament, in Europe is shameful. I hope that there are many of us who protest against this and do not normalize what is going on now. Everyone heard what she said. Act, do something!…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. We have tools and there is money, but it is obviously sad that there are far too many people in power who do not want to change the fact that Roma in the EU live more than others in poverty, live without electricity, water and sewage, do not go to school, do not have work, have major health problems and in many countries are not even registered as citizens even t…

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Apr

2022

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Dear colleagues, We know that in Afghanistan, girls are being stopped from going to school. We know that women are prevented from working, and we know that they are also not allowed to travel without the company of male relatives. All this while more than 24 million Afghans are dependent on emergency humanitarian assistance, …

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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, thank you very much. Commissioners! Colleagues! I just got back from Ukraine and Poland. Together with Polish volunteers, I visited an area northwest of Lviv, around the small town of Javoriv. Ukraine's future is on the run. In the surrounding villages, the population has increased, doubled, tripled, by the people – including many children – who are now displaced in their own country…

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Mar

2022

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The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The textile sector has a major impact on the climate, the environment and human rights. This is precisely why we need rules and guidelines on how to reduce all the negative impact that is currently a fact. We have tried to influence the Commission to present a holistic approach, which is also what industry players demand. We have done everything we can to ensu…

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Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. People are running for their lives, families are splitting up, children are being killed, live, just a few hours away. whereas reality has shown that the EU’s slippery asylum and migration policies, focusing on closed borders, returns and cooperation with states that do not respect democratic rules of the game, are not sufficient; This policy has played its part.…

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Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner Dalli! We know that those who contribute least to climate change are the ones who suffer the most from its consequences. The poor are hit harder than the rich, and the majority of the world's poor are girls and women. They are the poorest in the world. They are the poorest in the EU. They are the poorest in Sweden. It is the single mothers who are pr…

16

Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Today's ruling is a strong and clear message to the governments of Poland and Hungary, as well as to all other leaders in the EU Member States who feel tempted to violate fundamental rights and democratic principles. Your attempts to break our common rules harm our societies and violate our values. Your policy undermines opportunities for journalists, judges, …

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Jan

2022

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. The European Union is not only the richest region in the world, it is also the region in the world that enjoys the most and the greatest freedoms. It is a fact to be proud of. It is a fact to defend. We cannot, we must not accept that the EU is made up of an A and a B team: a law that has the right to en…

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Jan

2022

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Short presentations by the candidates for election to the office of the President

Mr President, dear colleagues, I was 10 years old the first time I picked up the phone and a Nazi told me that I didn’t belong in Sweden, where I was born and raised. He said he would kill me and my family if we didn’t leave the country – my home country. The threats never stopped, but my fear became anger and my anger became political action. I am European. I am elected by the people. A Member of…

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Dec

2021

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Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. In Poland, a total ban on abortions has been in place for a year. Large parts of the country are covered by so-called LGBTIQ-free zones, and now the Polish government is pushing for the introduction of a national register where women, pregnant women, should be registered and monitored. It sounds like a scene from a dystopian TV series, but that's the reality f…

15

Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, We have a lot of problems in Europe. We are facing enormous challenges. Then you choose to make a hen out of a feather, when you should instead speak plainly about the growing inequality in Europe, about poverty in Europe, about racism and discrimination in Europe, about gender equality that is repeatedly threatened. You should spend time highlighting how right-wing populism syste…

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Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (continuation of debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Every day, women are beaten, raped and killed or murdered by men close to them. Every day, children are also subjected to the abuse that it is actually also to see and hear their mother being subjected. We can keep talking about it being like this. Or we decide to do more to stop it. It is possible, but it requires us to use the tools that are available, that wor…