What Lina spoke about.

24 Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, digitalisation opens up many opportunities for Europeans, including for their territories, but it can also generate exclusions and increase inequalities that we undoubtedly have to combat from public policies and also with greater democratic participation. This roadmap for the 2030 digital decade aims to strengthen European digital sovereignty, which is undoubtedly a…

22 Nov

2022

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, despite what we have heard here today from some political groups that women still have to be trained, that we have to wait, I would like to point out that decades ago there have been more women than men graduated from European universities. Plus, with better grades. There are more women than men with secondary and tertiary education of working age. And yet we don't g…

21 Nov

2022

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Implementation report on the European Innovation Council (short presentation)

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Madam President, this report enjoys an important consensus among all political groups because we are all aware of the importance of bridging the innovation gap we have with other regions, especially now that we have to advance in resilience, in strategic autonomy and also undertake the green and digital transitions. We really need the implementation of the EIC to be ambitious and transformative, a…

17 Oct

2022

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, poverty is certainly immoral and that a rich territory like Europe has 95 million people – 21.7% of its population – at risk of poverty and social exclusion should shame us. In addition, this poverty is perpetuated from generation to generation, especially for women. There are many poor workers, who have also been poor for a long time, especially in the neighborhoods…

15 Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we have been discussing for some time the difficulties that people, and also SMEs, have to face in this turbulent context in which they operate, especially with the rise in prices and the lack of basic supplies or labour in some sectors, as well as competition with the greatest market power and the greatest ability to relocate that large companies have. SMEs are not …

13 Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the proposal for adequate minimum wages is a good one for Europe and it is about social justice, especially for women, who are 60% of minimum wage earners in the European Union, when we only represent 46% of the workforce. We are talking, therefore, about closing the gender gap in wages, income, pensions, wealth, and fighting women's poverty and child poverty, as wel…

4 Jul

2022

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Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, as the Commissioner and the Members who preceded me have said, gender discrimination and women's poverty speak for themselves, the data speak for itself. But, in addition, in these data the real poverty of women is statistically undervalued, since poverty is measured through the family unit, without taking into account intrafamily gender inequalities. This underestimates the real …

4 Jul

2022

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Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs, the teams and the political groups for their work and their commitment to a problem, that of poverty, which affects the whole of Europe and is of increasing concern to European citizens, as the latest Eurobarometer shows. Poverty is immoral and, in a rich territory such as Europe, it is simply incomprehensible.…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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Madam President, it is precisely in the United States - champion of democracy and individual freedoms - that a basic human right such as the sexual and reproductive rights of women is about to be annulled, alluding to legal causes, but especially by the long hand of the anti-gender and anti-women movements that are coming to the Supreme Court of the United States and also, unfortunately, to Europe…

5 May

2022

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The impact of the war against Ukraine on women (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the consequences of a war are terrible and disproportionately affect women, girls and boys, who, in addition, also on this occasion, account for the majority of those who have left Ukraine. We need to ensure their care and inclusion in our social, health and education systems and make the necessary funds available for it to be done with dignity. In particular, the Eu…

6 Apr

2022

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Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world (debate) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I wanted to use this debate on the global approach to research and innovation to vindicate the importance of academic freedom in advancing knowledge. Because the university must be a space for debate and critical analysis. And we need to respect that academic freedom to ensure that function. And the first thing we have to do in Europe is really respect it, because th…

23 Mar

2022

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Roaming Regulation (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to congratulate the negotiating team which, after complex discussions, has reached a balanced compromise that ensures the continuity of roaming for another ten years, preventing that achievement from being interrupted for consumers. Roaming policy, such as at home or roaming, is a European achievement that we must continue to defend so that…

8 Mar

2022

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Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020 (debate)

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Mr President, first of all, thank you very much to the rapporteurs for their work: there is no doubt that gender mainstreaming in all policies and throughout the policy cycle is the best strategy we can pursue to advance gender equality, and to this end its inclusion in the European Parliament is essential because we also have a responsibility to set an example for many other parliaments. The real…

16 Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, according to the United Nations, women, girls and boys are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster than men, and it is not because, as has been said here, there are biological differences but because women are still, or continue to be, more of the priority responsible for the creatures, and that makes us more vulnerable. Also because we have access to fewer re…

20 Jan

2022

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we know that responsibility for health falls within the competence of the Member States, but the Union is playing an increasingly important role, as we have seen, in harmonising the rules to combat COVID. It is even working on the implementation of a European Health Union, but I wonder if it is also about women's health, about our sexual and reproductive rights. Face…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to congratulate my colleague Christel Schaldemose and her team for their hard work in these months. We all have to be aware that it has not been easy to try to advance the democratic control of the digital field with clear rules that put the common good before the interests of the big platforms. We are facing a very complex leg…

16 Dec

2021

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MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions (debate)

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Mr President, we know that sexual harassment is like an iceberg from which only the dot is seen and all or most of it is hidden; We also know from the first survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights that, in a single year, one in four citizens has been the victim of sexual harassment, although we should say citizens, because 90% of us are women. As with gender-based violence, we k…

15 Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, the fact that the topical debate in this last plenary session of the European Parliament revolves around an internal document of the Commission that no longer exists shows that, with all due respect, the proposal of the European People's Party in this case has been unserious. I can assure you that the European right, especially coming from a Sp…

10 Nov

2021

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European Partnership on Metrology (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to start by stressing that today is World Science Day for Peace and Development, so I would like to highlight the intrinsic value of research for our societies and, as the Commissioner has referred to, that it has a significant participation of women. I do not want to miss this opportunity to remember that support and investment in science is not a luxury, …

18 Oct

2021

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Employment and social policies of the euro area 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, thank you very much to all the political groups, shadow rapporteurs and teams for the magnificent work they have done on this file. Today, we are discussing the proposal for employment and social policies in the euro area in 2021. I would like to stress once again that this is the starting point for laying the foundations for that new Europe, for that n…

4 Oct

2021

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The impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 73% of mothers who were victims of physical and sexual violence by their partner say that at least one of their sons or daughters was aware of that violence. Violence that represents a serious social problem, that creates physical and psychological traumas in the victims and that, without a doubt, is an emba…

13 Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, at the beginning of September we saw a shocking photograph: While Hurricane Ida caused severe flooding and dozens of deaths in the United States, a food delivery worker continued to work, pedaling with difficulty with water up to his waist. It is a shocking image, but also outrageous, and that helps us to face the new emerging inequalities, such as that of workers wi…

7 Jul

2021

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Review of the macroeconomic legislative framework (debate)

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Madam President, we are facing a new moment, a new economic narrative, a new fiscal era, and we cannot miss the opportunity to build a new Europe, a new economic and social framework; and we need it urgently. In this new roadmap, social rights and equity must prevail in the design of macroeconomic policies and their short- and long-term effects must be taken into account. To the macroeconomic cond…

7 Jul

2021

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A new ERA for Research and Innovation (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, the European Research Area must be a solid framework for strengthening Europe's scientific and technological capacity and consolidating a common area of research and innovation focused on excellence and geared to all talents and, of course, contributing to social well-being. To this end, it will be vital, first of all, to improve the conditions in the development of the research care…