What Alex spoke about.

21

Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Mr President, Europe should not compete at deregulation. Europe should not compete for the lowest price. We compete on quality. We should compete on fairness. Our rules make a fair internal market. When I look at your work plan, I am hopeful that we can make progress – meaningful legislation that makes a difference in the lives of our citizens. The quality jobs act should ensure that workers are p…

21

Oct

2025

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Delayed justice and rule of law backsliding in Malta, eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination (debate)

Mr President, I would like to ask a question to the Chairman of the LIBE Committee. In your speech, you said that judicial processes are still ongoing. Only one trial remains in this case of the persons who are accused of involvement in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and there is an ongoing trial, which the Government has nothing to do with. What are you proposing? I.e. do you propose, as C…

21

Oct

2025

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Delayed justice and rule of law backsliding in Malta, eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination (debate)

Mr President, I would like to start by quoting part of the Maltese Chief Justice's speech which he gave two weeks ago. He said, "I would like to thank the Minister of Justice who has always heard my suggestions on behalf of the Maltese judiciary. Suggestions to strengthen our courts. There has always been mutual respect between us, respect based on our respective constitutional roles." The words o…

21

Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Ms President, Commissioner, the recent ceasefire agreement should not only be empty words, but it must be an end to the brutal occupation and implementation of the two-state solution. The European Union is not just a humanitarian agency. The European Union must play a much more important role in ultimately ensuring that no other colonial protectorate is put in place, but we guarantee that Palestin…

9

Oct

2025

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World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

Mr President, Maria, a 9-year-old girl, who is currently hospitalised in Malta after she tried last week to take her life away from her hands. A 9-year-old girl after experiencing a number of videos on social platforms related to self-harm. Those are the challenges facing us, as a European Parliament, as a European Commission, challenges in order, ultimately, to ensure that we can avoid these trag…

9

Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, The Committee on Petitions is the only Committee in which citizens can participate directly in confrontation with Members of Parliament, the Commission and even in a number of cases directly with representatives of Member States. And it is the only committee that can give a direct response to our citizens. And, ultimately, I believe that this report of the deliberations…

8

Oct

2025

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Second World Summit for Social Development (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, a lot has changed in the 30 years since the first World Summit for Social Development. Millions of people were lifted out of poverty, but still, it is far from being eradicated. Even within the EU, we can see what the cost of living crisis did to the most vulnerable people within our society. If anything, inequality seems on the rise and the arrival of a class of ultra‑…

8

Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission, In every democracy, the rules must apply fairly, equitably to all, without any kind of exception. We know that European sovereignty is under threat in the digital sphere. Following the great efforts that this House has made during the past legislature, to push forward and approve legislation, which was the first in the world, which has put the Europe…

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Ms President, some pride I felt yesterday when on the Maltese Embassy, for the first time, I saw the Palestinian flag rise after the recognition that Malta formally made a few days ago at the United Nations of the Palestinian State. And I think that at this stage we are currently in it is important that before we start talking about a two-state solution, we call on all our Member States as soon as…

7

Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, allow me to ask you about your government's AI strategy to achieve digital sovereignty by 2030. Soon, we will be halfway through the evaluation of Europe's digital decade and unfortunately, we are not meeting our targets. We need to learn fast because the digital transition is not waiting and we need to catch up. The fact is that Europe has become overly dependent …

7

Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, at a time when protectionism continues to rise around us and we are seeing the effects of protectionism and market value that, ultimately, the United States is moving forward, I think it should open our eyes, make us more appreciative of the value of the European single market. A duty-free market between Member States. A market which, ultimately, also regulates the quality of the …

11

Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (A10-0140/2025 - Alex Agius Saliba) (vote)

Madam President, first of all I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming support to give a fairer deal to our consumers. Now, in accordance with Rule 60(4), I request referral back to the committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations.…

11

Sep

2025

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Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market (debate)

Ms President, Commissioner. In Malta we understand more the importance of the common market. And why do we do that? Perhaps more than other Member States. Because we are an island country that necessarily want to import the most essential products from the European continent on a daily basis. We can talk a lot about legislation, about streamlining the rules of the European internal market. But ult…

10

Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

Madam President, before I conclude, I would like to thank first and foremost to all the shadows that have collaborated to find consensus on this very important file. We have different political opinions; a different political background; we come from different Member States with very different realities, with specific interests, specific practices, also in the tourism industry; but still we came t…

10

Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, it is the worst possible holiday experience being stranded in a far-off place as a traveller because your travel organiser went bankrupt. Luckily, we have strong EU consumer protection in place that makes sure that travel organisers and their consumers are insured. Still, we as Parliament asked for an update to the rules for package travel. We need…

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

When discussing the state of the European Union, Ms President, we cannot ignore the state of the world around us. Our electorate is asking you to stop the murder in Gaza. The association agreement with the Israeli Government as a whole, not parts thereof, has been completely terminated. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide. This is contrary to our treaties. European…

10

Jul

2025

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European Citizens' Initiative 'Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures' (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, the European citizens' initiative is a strong reminder of the central role that citizens should play in European politics. When it comes to cohesion policy, the role of our citizens who are directly affected, ultimately, when it comes to this policy, when it comes to funds directly directed towards cohesion, is more crucial than ever. And today I will be speaking as a rep…

9

Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Vice-President of the Commission, I do not hesitate for you and those who are currently leading the negotiations with the US administration. It is impossible to work with an erratic and unreliable person like President Trump. Today he announces the tariffs and the next day he postpones them so that the next day he will also start threatening them again. Trade relations definitely don't work like t…

8

Jul

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Danish Presidency (debate)

Ms President, Prime Minister, there could not be a better moment for Denmark, one of the most digitalised countries, to take over the presidency of the European Union. The dispute over Greenland has shown that Denmark, whose country and the European Union are too dependent on American technologies. It is time to take concrete steps and strengthen our sovereignty over technologies. Digital competit…

18

Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Ms President, Finally, after twenty months this parliament has risen from sleep and we have the title that suits the Israeli State: genocide, shootings, killings of innocent people. Even now, we are seeing a situation where refugees who are queuing to be given a piece of bread, to be given a bottle of water, are also being killed while waiting for food. This is unacceptable and now is the time aft…

17

Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Ms President, Commissioner, when Europe found itself in an increpative position when the pandemic broke out, in this room we chose to make the necessary investments. The European Fund to recover from Covid has made it possible for our Member States to invest billions in our future, especially when it comes to the digital and environmental transitions. However, we must also be a bit critical of the…

17

Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Ms President, first of all a message to the far-right colleagues: child abuse is not committed on the basis of sexual orientation, child abuse is, unfortunately, committed by straight persons and even persons of different sexual orientations. That is, let's not try, we do not try to throw an ugly shadow on an important minority part of our society. As a father, it is one of the most worrying thing…

21

May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

I would like to start by sending first and foremost a message to far right colleague Anderson, who has just spoken: or is living in a parallel world, and has no idea of the enormous mental health problems our citizens are facing. Forty-six percent of European citizens, in the latest Eurobarometer survey, confirmed that they are facing mental health problems and so it is more urgent than ever that …

21

May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission, It is important for us always, when talking about the European Single Market, to keep in mind first and foremost the interests of European consumers, and therefore as a group of Socialists and Democrats, we have always pushed forward the idea, especially during the discussions on the European Digital Services Act, of having to level playing field: wh…

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May

2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

Mr President, The European single market remains one of the most important elements in the European project for our citizens. But it is important that this market continues to evolve, its rules continue to evolve, so that ultimately we can see that the realities of the most bordering Member States, islands, these same rules are also working in their favour. And here I would also like to talk about…