What Margarida spoke about.

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2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis

Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, Commissioner, I would like to point out that the European Commission's guidelines for the revision of the economic governance rules, from our point of view, go in the right direction. They take account of a significant part of the political principles adopted by this Parliament. But they need more ambition and we need to know the details. My quest…

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, yesterday we discussed the strategy for setting up NextGenerationEU. Today we are debating our own resources for the Union budget. Without new own resources or NextGenerationEU It won't be a success. They are key to ensuring the repayment of this common debt and the Union's ability to build new similar instruments in the future. There is a binding interinstitutional agr…

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

Madam President, at the end of this debate I would like to remind you that we have 60 % women graduates, we have a majority of doctors who are women, and we only have 8 % board chairmen. Something doesn't work well. We have already realized that, in political participation, quotas were decisive and today there are far more women in politics than there were before the adoption of quotas. That is wh…

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

Madam President, Colleague José Manuel Fernandes, Colleague Valérie Hayer, Commissioner, three, four years ago, no one could have imagined that we would be here today taking stock of the European Commission's strategy in issuing debt in order to gradually build up debt. And anyone who proposed to constitute debt was considered a utopian or a utopian. But I would like to congratulate the Commission…

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the regulation is adopted in the Council without Orbán's vote. It has not given its support to the conditionality of the rule of law and is doing everything to block, postpone the implementation of this mechanism. Commissioner, the European Commission is the guardian of the Treaties. I am well aware of his longstanding commitment to respect and respect for the rule o…

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, REPowerEU is a key instrument in the immediate future to mitigate the effect of the rampant increases in energy prices. We cannot ask citizens for additional efforts to pay for the costs of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. It is a tool to build the necessary strategic autonomy of the European Union. It is an instrument for accelerating the internal energy market…

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Mr President, the joint purchase of gas, the taxes on the extraordinary profits of companies during this phase are positive decisions of the European Council. But, as Iratxe Garcia Pérez said, it was the missed opportunity. We have to be prepared for the time of the decision, because it cannot be the citizens who pay the costs of this war and we cannot abandon the citizens. We know the timing of t…

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Commission, Council, we were pleased to hear President von der Leyen listing measures that will now lead to lightening the energy bills of Europeans and the progressive construction of the European Union's energy autonomy. Necessary but late and still unambitious measures. It implied that the Commission could further develop RepowerEU. Are we moving towards the necessary union for…

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Impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration flows to the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Union has received millions of refugees fleeing the war caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A huge wave of solidarity that touched us all. Did everything go well? No, no. Students, particularly Africans, who attended universities in Ukraine had more difficulties. I know that the Commissioner is committed to speeding up these processes, but European soli…

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Oct

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, it has not been two years since we concluded the negotiation of the 2021-2027 MFF and its shortcomings are already many. We were faced with COVID. We have built a European response anchored in the European Union budget. We now have a new reality: Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Now, if we want a European response to the imp…

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Outcome of the Commission’s review of the 15-point action plan on trade and sustainable development (debate)

Mr President, President, Commission, the Commission has finally done its job. Strengthening sustainable development in the European Union's trade agreements is an old ambition of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. Today, with this debate, we want to strongly encourage the Commission to generalise this principle in new agreements, but also in existing agreements. The European …

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, about ten years ago I was in Iran. Our guide, a young woman, shared with us the terror in which the young women lived. It was enough that a lock of his hair escaped out of his veils. They were confronted day by day, leaving home, leaving university, with the so-called spontaneous groups of defense of morality. We have not forgotten the cost of the 1979 Revolution to Iranian women, wh…

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Madam President, President, Minister, Commissioner, it should not be necessary to remember: European democracies are founded on fundamental values, including respect for the rule of law. But, yes, we have to! Some countries are out of the norm. They even try to convince us that they have a different concept. But we all know, the rule of law is: separation of powers, independence of the judiciary, …

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, thank you, Madam President Von der Leyen, for your presentation on the State of the Union. In his presentation he listed a number of new initiatives: a European Hydrogen Bank, a European Sovereignty Fund, a new SME programme, a mental health programme, new energy initiatives and additional capacity for the Civil Protection Mechanism. My question is whether, in the proposal for a r…

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Renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – a new agenda for the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in recent months the European Union has been watching Ukraine and the economic and social impact of the war. It couldn't be any different, but that can't make you forget other priorities. The Mediterranean is a geopolitical imperative, a strategic partner, including in building the European Union’s energy autonomy, and RePowerEU is there to support new projects under…

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Interim report on the 2021 proposal for a revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner, tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on the report on the European Commission's proposal to revise the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF 2021-2027). The Commission has rightly proposed the creation of the Social Climate Fund. This revision of the MFF is now objectively necessary and urgent, but, as we have already seen, stemming from the new political and econo…

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2021 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the EIB plays an essential role as the public bank of the European Union: the Climate Bank. The Green Bank. I would like to congratulate the institution in the person of its President. The EIB has done well. I give examples: sustainable finance as an operational model, with 43% of climate-related loans; almost EUR 95 billion on climate change, social cohesion and dig…

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The EU and the defence of multilateralism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the proof that multilateralism is not dead is evidenced by the last meeting of World Trade Organisation ministers three weeks ago in Geneva. Would we have liked to have gone further in the compromises? Yes, yes. But robust compromises have been reached. There was a political will, supported by 164 countries, to reform and modernise the WTO. The WTO is an essential mu…

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Indo-Pacific strategy in the area of trade and investment (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, rapporteur, the relationship between the EU and the Indo-Pacific, whether geostrategic or commercial, has become even more important. This relationship must be based on universal values, respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Building on the multilateral international order, based on rules such as reciprocity and mutual benefit, with a modernised Wo…

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Adoption by Croatia of the euro on 1 January 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Croatia's accession to the euro is a sign of unity and increasing integration into the European Union, a further enlargement of the monetary union and the strengthening of the euro as a global currency. The single currency continues to be seen as a solid project for the future and provides greater security and stability for Member States. Croatia has fulfilled all the a…

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

Mr President, I would like to remind you that we have often or systematically been subject to vetoes or threats of vetoes by several Member States of the European Union. It happened with the signing of the Paris Agreement by Poland, so that the European Union could sign on behalf of the European Union, with the negotiation of the multiannual financial framework, with Poland's acceptance of this Gl…

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Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

(start of intervention with microphone off) “...” I raise three points today. The first, the war in Ukraine, has not reduced, cannot reduce our post-COVID RRF ambitions in terms of climate and digital transition and more cohesive economies and regions. Second, the European Commission’s necessary proposal to create RepowerEU revolutionises the MFF and the RRF. I mentioned this in a previous debate.…

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A new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labour (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, forced labour is a serious abuse of human rights. Women, children, but also men, are victims of forced labour in many countries, on all continents, as you pointed out in your initial speech. It must be fought and finally eradicated. Without action and concrete action there will be no results. The European Union must use all the instruments at its disposal for this fight…

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, convening this convention is the logical consequence of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the only way we have to respect our commitments to our citizens. But that requires more political ambition and that requires not doing more of the same. But I wanted to raise two points. Firstly, the need and possibility of further exploring the doors opened by the Treaty of Lisbon, in ter…

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

Madam President, the European Commission, as guardian of the Treaties, has a responsibility to enforce Community law. First of all, and this is what we are talking about here today, the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. Poland is currently in a complex situation. Polish society, like other countries in the region, is making a brutal effort to integrate around 4 million citizens fleeing the wa…