What Lídia spoke about.

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Feb

2024

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European Central Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, President Lagarde, 2023 was a year of fighting inflation, which, as we know, particularly affects lower-income families. We are now seeing the results of monetary policy and a decline in inflation which, we all hope, can continue and stabilise at the 2% target over the medium term. Good news that is still not enough. Households continue to face major difficulties in meeting their cla…

6

Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

Mr President, four out of five young people in the European Union have taken a traineeship to enter the labour market. In addition, in Portugal, companies hire more than half of the trainees they host. These data demonstrate the importance of traineeships for the start of young people's working lives. But it is possible to do better, much better. As we know, many traineeships are limited to admini…

6

Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

Mr President, Europe is ahead of any other power in the fight for climate change. We have done more than any other, but this result is mainly due to people, Europeans, our companies, because emission reductions are not made by decree. And now we are being asked to make an additional effort: The overwhelming majority of the 90% reduction effort will be made by 2040. But the effort to safeguard the …

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Feb

2024

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Instant payments in euro (debate)

Madam President, there are, in fact, few European laws that have as much impact on our lives as those that regulate payments. Almost every day we buy a product or hire a service. And of course, we pay. That is why we need payments in Europe to be safe, easy and fast. In fact, we really need them to be instantaneous. This Regulation therefore goes in the right direction: ensure that our payments, o…

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Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

Mr President, an accident that could not have happened happened. A freighter has lost, near the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, more than a thousand bags with small plastics, known as pellets, that are giving to the coast, especially in northern Spain, in Galicia, since the beginning of this year. This was an accident that neither the Portuguese Government, nor the Regional Government of Galicia, …

17

Jan

2024

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Quality jobs in a competitive future-oriented social market economy (topical debate)

Mr President, decent wages, less taxes and quality jobs – this is what we want for Europe and what we want for each of our countries. A social market economy requires economic growth based on innovation and knowledge, better working conditions and poverty reduction. For this, education is essential. In the age of artificial intelligence and digitalisation, we cannot overlook the most important tre…

22

Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

Mr President, Spain is not silent and neither are we. This Parliament cannot be the refuge of those who evade justice. And it cannot be the stage for those who want the disintegration of Spain and the destruction of the Constitution. This is a European debate. The Sánchez agreement violates the Constitution, but it also violates European treaties and values. It is against the rule of law because i…

22

Nov

2023

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Reducing regulatory burden to unleash entrepreneurship and competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, we all know what companies need, because the diagnosis has already been made. We have too much legislation, too much taxation and red tape, and too little simplification, too little competitiveness and too little funding. What we have left in words has been lacking in concrete actions to support small and medium-sized enterprises, the 24 million engines of our economy. We need to …

21

Nov

2023

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Union certification framework for carbon removals (A9-0329/2023 - Lídia Pereira) (vote)

Mr President, I would like to thank all the political groups and all the assistance provided by the advisors and the assistants of the teams for this very good result on such an important file. In light of that, I would like to ask the referral back to the committee for interinstitutional negotiations according to Rule 59(4).…

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Nov

2023

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Union certification framework for carbon removals

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to thank the Commissioner for his words on this report and I would like, first of all, to thank the entire negotiating team, the political groups, and in particular the assistants and the , who were instrumental in the outcome of this process. And the message I would also like to convey or leave is that we have been able to start from quite div…

20

Nov

2023

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Union certification framework for carbon removals

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this initiative that we are discussing today represents a crucial step in our ongoing fight against climate change. The need for a Union Certification Framework on Carbon Removals aligns with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and our commitment to achieve collective climate neutrality by 2050. Moreover, with the speed at which we are reducing emissions, with…

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Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

Madam President, the number of deaths due to climate change or serious damage to property and nature increases every year. There is no planet B, but we still don't do enough for the planet we have. Europe leads, but it cannot do on its own what is needed to save the planet. We must demand more from other economies, such as India, China or the United States, without historical relativism or concess…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, the housing situation is a real calamity. In Portugal, children live with their parents until the age of 40, elderly people sleep on the street, families are not able to pay the rents or benefits of their homes. In Portugal, a public school teacher named Rui Garcia is sleeping in a van because he can't afford a room. This is the result of the failure of the policies of the Sociali…

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Oct

2023

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The 10th consecutive increase in reference interest rates decided by the ECB and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, today's debate is important, but only if we look at the figures, because otherwise it is opportunistic if we look at who proposed the debate. Today we are beginning to see inflation fall, albeit timidly, but we are still far from the target. We are still above 4% and if we look at food we more than double that figure. In the long run, they are unsustainable numbers and, in the immedi…

13

Sep

2023

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SME Relief Package (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has made it a priority in this Parliament today to make life easier for small and medium-sized enterprises. The creation of a special envoy is an important political signal, but we need to go further. Three key ideas: pay the hours, finance the companies, simplify the activity. We need to tackle …

12

Jul

2023

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Need to adopt the “Unshell” Directive on rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

Mr President, the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion is a priority, at least in speeches. The problem is that, all too often, these words do not translate into concrete actions. And today we are here precisely because the Council insists on not deciding on the Unshell Directive. The same is to say that national governments are not interested in regulating the misuse of shell companies for lar…

12

Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

Mr President, at a good time this Parliament is speaking to people, people who, all over Europe, suffer difficulties with the provision of their credits or with the increase in the cost of living and with tax burdens that strangle their financial freedom. Over the years, it has always been the middle class and, by the way, small and medium-sized enterprises that have paid for the crises. The irres…

12

Jul

2023

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Tax the rich (topical debate)

Madam President, this debate is the perfect picture of the socialists' objective alliance with the far left. What we already know well in Portugal and Spain has come to Parliament: an alliance that is more electoral than anything else, but that has a clear ideological affinity when we talk about taxes. Inflation remains high and households face difficulties in paying their credits. We are not crea…

11

Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Thank you very much, Honourable Member, for the question and I will return the same question. I wonder whether you have also read the law and understand that this law is a regulation, that it has numbers and that it has objectives that are the same for all Member States. And so the ecological conditions of Portugal are not the same as the ecological conditions of an Eastern or Nordic country, or F…

11

Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Madam President, the proposal for the Nature Restoration Law has been rejected in this Parliament by the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on the Environment and the Committee on Fisheries. These three committees were clear in saying that this is a bad proposal by socialist Commissioner Timmermans. And if it can even be a well-intentioned bill, the truth is that it is an insufficient and eve…

15

Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is drought and it will get worse. Because we always have water available at our taps, we don't have the majority of the population worried. And by not having the majority of the population concerned, the governments and the Commission are also unconcerned. And if they have little concern, they have even less action. After all, for example,…

14

Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

Madam President, the Pandora Papers revelations prove that the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion is failing. All the millions lost in these schemes are millions taken from national budgets, taken from health, education, justice or quality public services and create a clear fiscal injustice between those who benefit from these schemes and the taxpayers who comply. Taxpayers who are increasing…

14

Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

Madam President, Europeans deserve transparency, clarity and truth in political discourse. The eurozone entered a technical recession in the last quarter, inflation remains unaffordable for household budgets and uncertainty still hangs, unfortunately, over the outcome of the war that claims lives on Europe's doorstep. This is the scenario that shows that promoting investment is no longer a priorit…

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May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 95% of Portugal is sea and our history is deeply linked to it. The oceans and their biodiversity and resources are goods that must be preserved and protected. They are, moreover, a matter to which we owe more attention, not only here in Parliament, but in society as a whole. Its role in the balance of the planet is crucial, for example in the absorption of CO2. …

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I could easily be quiet and silent during the time of my speech, in line with what many people do on this subject. But no, I choose to speak because I would not forgive myself if I did not, and I do so – not just for myself, but for the next generations of Europeans and for the next generations of any other geography. And I speak because, despite what this House…