What Abir spoke about.

18 Sep

2024

EN Question

The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

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I would like to ask my esteemed colleague. I mean, he is really passionate about the women who have been killed, who have been raped by so-called gangs from the outside of other cultures and all of that, that he said – pretty much very racist. Do you feel as passionate about the men from your own country who rape, kill and abuse women? Should we also kick them out? And do you make the estimate tha…

18 Sep

2024

SV Speech

The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Madam Commissioner, I would like to thank you for your Viktor Orbán has repeatedly challenged the EU through his political decisions. He has blindly ignored our fundamental principles and openly demonstrated his role as Putin's megaphone and little errand boy in the Council and in the EU. He has clearly shown his contempt for everything the EU stands for. B…

17 Sep

2024

EN Speech

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, esteemed colleagues, it is very interesting that a government that is defined as democratic by the white Europeans actually has been given carte blanche to kill as many as possible. And still we call it a democracy respecting human rights. Two days ago, a document with 649 pages was released with the names, the ages, the ID numbers and the genders of the people who h…

16 Sep

2024

EN Speech

Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

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Mr President, madam Commissioner, esteemed colleagues, racism is racism, is racism. Our Jewish citizens are encouraged to fear their Muslim neighbours by extremists. Our Muslim citizens are encouraged to hate their Jewish neighbours by other types of extremists. The Jewish and Muslim minorities have more in common than ever possibly can divide us. If we sanction one kind of racism and hate and let…

23 Apr

2024

EN Speech

EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, colleagues, let me first establish some basic truths. The State of Israel has a right to exist, it has the right to defend itself, but Netanyahu does not equal the entire Israel. Palestinian children, men and women have the right to survive, to live, to thrive in peace and in dignity. Hamas does not equal the entire Palestine. Human rights is not a cake. One peo…

23 Apr

2024

EN Speech

EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

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Madam President, just a point of order. I want to make you aware of the statement given by my colleague calling Israel ‘a cancer in the Middle East’. I would like you to investigate this as an anti-Semitic speech, because I, myself, who is from the region, do not accept that kind of speech towards Israel.…

23 Apr

2024

SV Speech

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, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Colleagues! Being yourself is a human right. Yet people with disabilities are prevented from doing just that. I see it in politics. I see it in traffic. I see it in this house, in schools, in universities, in workplaces. We have built inaccessibility into our societies, and we have started from the majority norm, and now is the …

22 Apr

2024

SV Speech

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. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. If you leave 20 minutes from this house, you can buy a woman’s body – free to rape without any consequences. We are thus 20 minutes away from misery where women, girls and boys are exploited, used and used as a throwaway in a store. I hope you're uncomfortable with this thought, because that's the feeling we're going to carr…

22 Apr

2024

EN Speech

Approval of the minutes of forthcoming sittings

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Madam President, thank you. Allow me to give a big thank you to this House and to you personally on behalf of the Swedish people for always standing up for the hostages from Sweden, taken illegally by the Islamic Republic of Iran. And we have now taken also an initiative and I would like to kindly ask you to participate in signing a request and a demand to the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediate…

10 Apr

2024

SV Speech

Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen. I was forced to flee to my beloved Sweden as an unaccompanied refugee when I was 15 years old. There were no legal ways in. Today, there are no legal pathways to safety. We cannot leave this issue in the hands of the barbed wire right who want a closed Europe without heart or respect for international law. Nor can we leave …

10 Apr

2024

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, it is not about the agenda of today, but rather about the day: today marks the Eid of the many European Muslims that are celebrating. I just wanted to take this opportunity and send from this House of democracy to all European citizens that we do share this day with them and wish them Eid Mubarak on behalf of Parliament, the representatives of all people of the EU.…

14 Mar

2024

SV Speech

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. I cannot believe that, in 2024, I am standing here in the European Parliament, trying once again to defend the right of women to decide over their own bodies, in the only democracy in the world, where human rights and the rule of law should prevail for all. Yet men in different countries, conservative men in the EU, imagine that they have the right to decide over…

13 Mar

2024

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, it’s not just bombs that are killing children in Palestine. Mass starvation is a silent killer in Gaza. Premature babies die of malnutrition, newborn babies die because their mothers are too dehydrated to feed them, and there is no baby formula. Children die because their bodies start to break down due to lack of nutrition and clean water. Pregnant women die because they can no longe…

27 Feb

2024

EN Speech

War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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Mr President, there are no more words to speak about what is going on in Gaza. There are no more laws to break. There are no more appeals that we can do to what’s going on. The hypocrisy is obvious. Our collective humane has failed. We said that we won’t fail, but we are failing again. Human rights have a skin colour, and the darker you are, the less human rights you have. We have been tried to be…

27 Feb

2024

EN Speech

War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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27 Feb

2024

EN Question

War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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–Thank you so much for taking this blue-card, colleague Mandl. I have a question for you. You said that Israel was the only rule of law state in the MENA region, thus making it clear that Israel has to follow international regulation and international law. Where is it, your breaking point? How many more Palestinians have to be killed? What other atrocities can Israel do? Where is your personal bre…

7 Feb

2024

EN Speech

Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

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Mr President, Mohsen Shekari, 22; Majidreza Rahnavard, 23; Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 21; Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39; Majid Kazemi, 30: the list is very long of all the young people that have been put to death. These are the names of the heroes. Heroes who stood up though on the other side there were guns pointed at them. These are the names of the heroes who spoke up, though on the other side there…

7 Feb

2024

EN Speech

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

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, let me give you some pictures from Europe today. The Swedish party leader used artificial intelligence to address the Muslim and Arabic-speaking community in Sweden, asking them basically to leave Sweden if they do not totally give up on their culture and religion. And the Chair of the Justice Committee in the Swedish Parliament wants to forbid …

16 Jan

2024

EN Speech

Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, in an average school in Sweden, there are around 200 children. If Sweden were Gaza one school, full of children would be killed every other day. One school full of children would be bombed by the Israeli occupation forces to death every day. Since the Israeli war against Gaza, over 10 000 children have died. Many more are still missing, buried under collapsed buildings. Thousands hav…

12 Dec

2023

EN Question

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

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I was just wondering, did you really mean that the civilians in Gaza have anywhere safe to go when bombs are falling on them? Is that what you are saying? And did you also mean that the Palestinians are not worthy of our own state? Is that what you are saying? Because if that’s what you’re saying, you need to explain that really, really clear here in this Chamber because that would not mean that y…

12 Dec

2023

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, Mr Commissioner, let’s not choose sides. Let’s choose principles, always principles first and foremost. Let us choose international law. Let us choose the humanitarian law. Let us choose democracy and democratic values and rule of law. When I look at Binyamin Netanyahu, I see how his government, his policies have been for years feeding the movement towards Hamas. When I look at Hamas…

22 Nov

2023

EN Speech

Latest attacks against women and women's rights defenders in Iran, and Iran's arbitrary detention of EU nationals

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Colleagues, it has been more than one year since I cut my hair here in this very Plenary in protest, where the EU did not show the same courage as the Iranian women who were shouting on the streets on the top of their lungs, ‘Woman, life, freedom.’ (The speaker used a slogan in a non-EU language.) Still to this very day, the regime of the mullahs in Tehran are still arresting, arbitrarily detainin…

22 Nov

2023

EN Speech

Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, allow me to start by apologising to the children of Gaza on our disappointing positions so far. We have let them down. We have let their lives be taken away from them and not defended their equal right to life. And let me thank also Mr Borrell for finally raising his voice in a just way, standing up for all humans’ human rights, because something that has been very clear and strongly…

18 Oct

2023

SV Speech

A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. It's hard to explain to my three children what the world is doing right now. The images of all violence stick to the retina and it is difficult to sleep. But there is also Europe, a beacon of hope. There is also the EU; When we are united, we can change the world forever. We can leave footprints, become globally relevant, tog…

17 Oct

2023

SV Speech

Statement by the President

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Madam President, thank you very much. When thousands of people gather in a city for a football game – it is a time of joy. Yesterday was a time of sadness. Two of the Swedish fans who were in Brussels to watch the football game against Belgium will not come home. A terrorist took their lives just because they wore Swedish national team shirts. Exactly the same shirts that I usually buy in child si…