What Mónica Silvana spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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Humanitarian situation after the devastating floods in Pakistan and the climate crisis (debate)

Mr President, Mr Ambassador of Pakistan, climate change has caused a new humanitarian crisis with unprecedented dimensions – more than 30 million people affected. However, from the European Union we still do not have defined how we are going to protect people displaced by the climate and without defining the figure of the climate refugee. What would the European response be like if we designed it …

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Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

Madam President, indeed, this report speaks of political will and coordinated work between institutions to put an end to Roma settlements. In Madrid, one of the richest communities in all of Europe, is located, just 14 kilometers from Puerta del Sol, one of the largest Roma settlements in Europe, the Cañada Real. We are talking about the necessary coordination of the Community of Madrid to put an …

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Oct

2022

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AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, next year the European Union will be examining the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and we must come up with the duties we have done. The European Parliament should be in this follow-up mechanism to the Convention. This European Accessibility Centre is heading in the right direction; I thank Mrs Langensiepen for her work on this rep…

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you, Commissioner Ferreira, for your resolute commitment to cohesion and constant work with this Parliament. Both the 8th Cohesion Report and the one addressing border regions as integration laboratories are useful tools to respond to the demand of our mayors. Cohesion policy is an excellent instrument because of its flexibility in crisis situations, but let us re…

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Jul

2022

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Addressing food security in developing countries (debate)

Mr. President, let's talk about hunger, without technicalities. Nothing more frequent for those who eat several times a day and, at the same time, nothing more distant for many of us. This is perhaps the biggest failure we have as a civilization, with more than 193 million people suffering from hunger and 24,000 people dying a day. Even if the European Union delivers, we are not achieving the SDG …

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, we are talking about democracy, but if a democracy does not include people with disabilities, it will be incomplete. We have to remember that there are 14 Member States where even more than 400 000 people cannot exercise this fundamental right. With this reform of the European Electoral Act we would make Europe 400 000 times better. In Spain we have done it: We have reformed the Elec…

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Apr

2022

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are debating and voting on the third resolution on the situation in Afghanistan, the second since the Taliban took full power in the country. We must keep our eyes and heads on Afghanistan, which is suffering from one of the world's greatest humanitarian crises. Eight months is only getting worse and almost 95% of the population does not have enough food. Th…

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Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

(start of off-mic intervention) ... equality is not a privilege of European women. That is why we welcome the adoption of the third European Union action plan on gender in foreign policy. We welcome the figures given by the Commissioner, on 78% of NDICI-funded projects, but with a gender perspective, but remind her, from the Committee on Development, that it is urgent to prioritise women with disa…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, we agree that the summit raises many expectations and that it is a unique opportunity to lay the foundations for a renewed and equal partnership between the European Union and the African Union. The visit of the President and several Commissioners to Senegal is a good sign, but Africa is a very diverse continent, with very different characteristics. We need…

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Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are not delivering on the 2030 Agenda or the major summits we talk so much about, let alone Goal 2. Malnutrition starves millions of children while in some rich countries we spend more money on diets and weight-loss treatments. That is the contradiction before which this Parliament cannot remain indifferent. It is positive that the last Summit was led by some of the …

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Dec

2021

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New orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Lenarčič, as you well know, the pandemic paralysed almost everything, except climate change and its effects, which cause terrible humanitarian crises in the most impoverished countries – many of them considered as middle income, but we must continue to work with them. In this report we underline the cooperation between humanitarian action, development, disaster risk redu…

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Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (continuation of debate)

Madam President, vaccination is the best example of inequality in the world. We are not delivering on the 2030 Agenda, leaving people behind. Reinforcement punctures in rich countries go much faster than vaccination in poorer countries. There are more people vaccinated in Europe with the booster dose than in developing countries even with the first dose. Therefore, this is a scandal that we must s…

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Oct

2021

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Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the use of these funds, over the years, sheds some light, but many shadows: lack of transparency and information, little interaction with civil society and few independent monitoring mechanisms. In Colombia, the situation has not improved in five years and the peace agreement has not been implemented. The Africa Fund has been used to restrict immigration rather than …

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Jul

2021

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EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) (debate)

Madam President, the Committee on Development is working on a report on corruption and human rights in international cooperation. That is why I wanted to bring some lines to the debate. The aim must be to target individuals, businesses, without punishing countries and their people at the same time. To change things, ladies and gentlemen of the Council, we must set the target on the money that abus…