What Saskia spoke about.

21 Oct

2021

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2019 Discharge: European Border and Coast Guard Agency (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Frontex is the most funded European agency – from EUR 6 million in 2005, its budget increased to EUR 543 million in 2021, i.e. ninety times more resources. And Frontex's budget has inflated along with criticism of it. These criticisms have turned into an investigation by the European Parliament, a report by the Court of Auditors, reports that no longer even incl…

21 Oct

2021

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Announcement of voting results

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Mr President, I find myself forced to go back to the stages of this dossier because it is so little debated, whereas it contains a concentration of the debates that drive us in this House: artificial intelligence, mass surveillance, indiscriminate collection of data, including non-suspects, exchanges of such data with third countries and private companies. The starting point of the reform is the d…

6 Oct

2021

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Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

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Madam President, Pandora's Box was opened in 2013. Since then, ten more scandals have been uncovered thanks to the same consortium of journalists, revealing a system of systemic fraud by offshore companies, the complicity of many governments and the continued inability to monitor and ensure transparency. These revelations have led to a strengthening of anti-money laundering legislation and tax tra…

5 Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to restore trust and make sense of globalisation, transatlantic collaboration must also take place on the human rights front. This is what the Picula report proposes through the development of a common toolbox. In this context, there is an urgent need to tackle the eradication of child labour. For the first time in 20 years, child labour has increased w…

4 Oct

2021

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The role of development policy in the response to biodiversity loss in developing countries, in the context of the achievement of the 2030 Agenda (debate)

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Mr President, the excellent report by my colleague Michèle Rivasi points to the inconsistencies in our European policies and their decisive impact on our southern partners. Our development policies, climate, agricultural but also trade, must aim at one and the same goal: the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the European Commission does not sufficiently integrate the impac…

15 Sep

2021

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The Pegasus spyware scandal (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, with the Pegasus scandal, spyware revealed once again by journalists and NGOs, we are entering a new era of surveillance. A surveillance that escapes the public authorities and becomes the fact of private companies whose search for profit makes them accomplices of governments, unscrupulous regimes. Journalists, political opponents, human rights defenders, law…

14 Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

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Mr President, floods and fires have claimed many lives this summer, causing tens of thousands of euros in damage and leaving indelible traces. While the climate crisis has been widening the north-south divide for years, it now also marks the social divide within our countries. In Pepinster, the floods hit the poorest families first. The social impact of the climate crisis is frontal. Victims, the …

8 Jul

2021

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Labour rights in Bangladesh (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Bangladesh is ranked among the ten worst countries in terms of workers' rights and trade union rights by the International Trade Union Confederation. The conventions on the organisation of work are not respected. The rights of workers, trade unions, freedom of expression, freedom of association and child labour are not respected. I know that the IL…