What Alice spoke about.

23 Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The complex issue of ensuring demand for labour as well as eliminating exploitation and the more or less slave-like conditions of the labour market we call the black labour market has been on the EU agenda for decades, but a few significant steps for change have been taken. whereas the lack of legal pathways, especially for migrants working in middle- or low-wage…

20 Oct

2021

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The rise of right-wing extremism and racism in Europe (in light of recent events in Rome) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Being a democrat comes with the task of reacting instinctively to those who, with threats and violence, try to intimidate other people into silence. We elected representatives have a special responsibility to be at the forefront of the fight against racism and extremism. We shall give concrete expression to the zero tolerance of democratic resistance towards t…

19 Oct

2021

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. Madam President, thank you very much. Mr. Prime Minister! Every day that goes by without the EU acting, we allow the Polish Government to restore Polish democracy. It is unacceptable that the European Commission does not use all existing means to do its job of guarding and defending the EU treaties. We may be frustrated that the Polish government is lying without…

7 Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

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Mr President, thank you very much. Last year we condemned the Polish Government's attack on abortion rights and we showed solidarity with the tens of thousands of brave Poles who took to the streets to protest the policies of the right-wing conservative government. Today, a year later, it's time again. In Texas, the same forces as in Poland have gained ground. The new abortion law that has been pa…

4 Oct

2021

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The impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner. In Sweden, one in ten children live in a violent family and are forced to see a parent abused. No child should be forced into contact with a parent who threatens, insults, strikes or kills. It's not harder than that. The new child peace crime that we have had to fight for in Sweden makes it criminal to expose the mother to her children or her partne…

15 Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Listen to me now: One in three women in the EU has ever been subjected to violence. One in three women! So crazy is the reality we live in. Men's violence against women is everywhere. In every place. In every room. It is violence that hurts, that creates insecurity, that divides families, that kills. The fact that the EU, based on the principle of gender equal…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Everyone knows that the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan became a nightmare on the day the Taliban took power – a life without human rights, without the ability to move freely in the streets and squares, a life without having to choose how they want to live. All of us who have listened to women in and from Afghanistan in recent weeks have heard the desp…