What Saskia spoke about.

16 Jun

2025

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

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Madam President, colleagues, I refer to Rule 39. Autocratic leaders and anti-democratic forces across our continent and worldwide are violently attacking minorities and vulnerable communities. There is no worse moment for the Commission to withdraw the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive, key legislation to protect all Europeans – older people, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQIA+ people…

7 May

2025

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Malta's Golden Passport scheme circumventing EU sanctions against Russia (debate)

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Mr President, European citizenship is not for sale. The golden passport system in Malta is illegal; the Court of Justice of the European Union confirms this and agrees with Parliament. This victory is that of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Let's pay tribute to him and his family. It was her investigative journalism work that exposed the corruptions and dangers of selling this type of passport, and she pa…

6 May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Mr President, the arrival of Trump reminds us of a lesson that Europe should have already learned from the pandemic: Our ultra-dependence on fossil fuels and global supply markets will eventually cause our loss. Europe must ensure its strategic autonomy, respond firmly and unitedly to any tariff increase without compromising on its laws and using the revenues of the tariff increase, as well as tho…

1 Apr

2025

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Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – defending religious freedom and security (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to pay tribute to all the victims of the conflict in the DRC, a conflict of which one of the origins is, of course, the minerals, the wealth of Congolese territory. It is known that the aggressor is Rwanda, which supports the M23 militias. We know that the European Union has blood on its hands today because it does not use all the levers, including political levers, t…

1 Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

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Madam President, 180 children died on 18 March, the day Israel broke the ceasefire. The number of people who have lost their lives in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023 thus amounts to 50,144. In addition, another 1.9 million people have been displaced without care, food or assistance. The situation in Gaza can be summed up in one word: genocide. Genocide, Mrs Kallas, of which the European Union …

1 Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, security is a matter of concern to all of us. That is why he is pleased that the European Commission is looking into it and communicating its strategy today. Ensuring the internal security of the European Union, however, requires a systemic approach, ranging from prevention to sanctions, rehabilitation, police, investigation and justice, as well as socio-economic responses. In the fa…

12 Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, 'if you are a parent in one country, you are a parent in all countries'. These are indeed the words of European Commission President von der Leyen in her 2020 State of the Union address. The European Parliament also agrees; It is for the mutual recognition of parenthood. However, since December 2023, the Council has been expected. Why are Member States playing with the future of 2 mi…

13 Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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Chair Lange, you said that Europe cannot impose its social and environmental standards on the rest of the world, and we have had the debates here in this House together. You were rapporteur for the sustainable development chapters reform under the last mandate, and together we decided that we would go for binding TSD chapters, which are completely absent in the current agreement with the Mercosur …

13 Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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Madam President, when, in Europe as in the Mercosur countries, farmers, associations, consumer protection associations, trade unions, academics and citizens oppose the trade treaty between the European Union and Mercosur, millions of people denounce these economic, social, environmental, climate and human impacts. It is an agreement dating back to the last century, Commissioner, it is not a New De…

11 Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Mr President, the M23 and Rwandan troops are once again spreading terror in the east of the DRC, causing thousands more to die and hundreds of thousands more to be displaced, and the bodies of women and girls being used as a real battlefield. The humanitarian situation was catastrophic and it was therefore imperative to secure a ceasefire and to bring humanitarian assistance to rural areas. Congol…

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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Account settlements, shootings, assassinations are multiplying on the streets of Europe, from Stockholm to Brussels. Unimaginable scenes that scare for our safety and that of our children. Organized crime affects communities in depth. It also poses a much broader risk to our democracies and the rule of law, both through its direct effects and through the liberticide responses that are currently be…

28 Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Madam President, children are the first victims of crises: from climate change to wars, from Valencia to Gaza, poverty, abuse, violence and difficulties in accessing education. Why? Because policies are not tailored to their needs and do not reflect their best interests. How can we tolerate the fact that almost 25% of European children, or nearly 20 million children, are at risk of poverty or soci…

26 Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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21 Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, you said so: Temu, Shein, AliExpress, Amazon and smaller platforms are flooding the European market with low-cost products. But behind these low prices, there are huge costs, including online manipulation techniques incentivising hyper-consumption or low-quality products that can be dangerous for health and safety. One survey even found that 80% of tested toys imported …

9 Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

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Madam President, drug-related crime is a real human, social and economic tragedy. It penetrates the most fragile strata of our communities and infiltrates our economies and the rule of law. The settling of accounts, shootings and assassinations are multiplying in our capitals, as in Marseille or Brussels. The stakes in terms of safety and public health are colossal. I hear you say, Commissioner, t…

8 Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, on the Audi Forest site, 3 000 people are now seeing their jobs threatened, 4 000 people including subcontractors. Thousands of people are on the spot. Their lives are being turned upside down by unwise industrial choices on the part of Audi and its leaders. The crisis in the automotive sector is also linked to the lack of a coordinated European industrial policy and strategic inv…

19 Sep

2024

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Possible extradition of Paul Watson: the danger of criminalisation of environmental defenders and whistle-blowers, and the need for their protection in the EU (debate)

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Mr. Speaker, preserving biodiversity on land and in our oceans is the guarantee of our own survival. To defend it, as Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson does, is to defend us all. Under an international arrest warrant, he is threatened with extradition to Japan for opposing the country's illegal whaling. His arrest in Greenland, on European soil, in a context where the use of judicial procedures to …

18 Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the fight against organised crime unfortunately becomes a priority for most of our governments only when gunshots are heard in our streets and the issue is the subject of media attention. Yet it has been years since European agencies have alerted our governments who have more or less knowingly ignored the problem and focused police resources on the fight agai…

16 Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

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Madam President, I extend my sincere condolences and wishes for recovery to the people of Solingen. Horror strikes again. All my solidarity goes to the victims and survivors of this attack. I am also thinking of the many victims of previous attacks who have learned to reconnect to prevent violent radicalization rather than suffer it, to unite rather than exacerbate racism and violence. Contrary to…

23 Apr

2024

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

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Mr President, the Energy Charter Treaty has already done far too much damage and has allowed far too many fossil fuel multinationals to obtain billions in state compensation. The European Union's decision to withdraw from this treaty is therefore a real victory for the protection of populations and the fight against climate change, as well as a victory against fossil fuel lobbies. This decision wa…

10 Apr

2024

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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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Mr President, human mobility has made the cultural and economic richness of our continent. But today, I ask myself the question: Where have the values of humanism and solidarity, which are the pillars of our Europe, gone? Europe, you, will yield to the rhetoric of the extreme right for whom it will never be enough to push back, never enough to lock children with their families at our borders, to l…

27 Feb

2024

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Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, five years ago this Parliament called for the repatriation of all European children detained in camps in north-eastern Syria. Returns have taken place in the meantime and I commend the work of the child, justice and security services that accompanied these returns. Today, experts are unanimous and positive about the reintegration of children, but also about t…

26 Feb

2024

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, indeed, last week, new colleagues were spied on using the Pegasus spyware. These new colleagues are added to the list of colleagues previously spied on – Greek and Catalan colleagues, colleagues from other parliamentary committees as well as an attempt to spy on our President. This is a threat to our fundamental rights, to our democracies, to European securit…

8 Feb

2024

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Multilateral negotiations in view of the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, 26-29 February 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, my speech today is inspired by a conversation with the daughter of farmers with lymphoma, a cancer most likely linked to pesticide exposure. "How to restore respect?" she asked me. Respect for farmers, their health and that of consumers. Respect for production, which requires fair remuneration, but also an end to food waste and greenwashing, respect for life and the lan…

6 Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, here is the first working tool for farmers: the earth. To ensure our food sovereignty and stop the haemorrhage of our countryside, it must be protected. However, the only response from Heads of State to angry farmers is the removal of an environmental measure. What do farmers expect? They expect to live with dignity from their work and be accompanied in their green transition. The…