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Oct

2023

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Madam President, from here we welcome the thousands of people who took to the streets on Saturday in 20 Portuguese cities for the right to housing, against increases in interest rates that stifle more than 1 million families, against the liberalisation of the rental market, for the reduction in the value of rents, against property speculation, for more public housing. These are demands that reinfo…

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2023

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Ensuring European transportation works for women (debate)

Madam President, transport is a central issue for people's lives and for the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of workers. It is important to recognise the importance of a policy to promote public transport for the improvement of the environment, health and quality of life and to promote mobility. It is essential that public transport policies respond to the needs of the population, workers, in…

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Oct

2023

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Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived (debate)

Mr President, since September last year we have been permanently working days in Portugal and have had the opportunity to meet thousands of people. The increase in the cost of living, with essential goods reaching prices that those who earn the minimum wage cannot afford, is what worries people the most. Housing, food, energy, communications. And while some, the workers, make sacrifices, the big e…

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Sep

2023

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Resumption of the sitting

Mr President, I invoke Rule 195 of the Rules of Procedure to report once again on the presence of rats and rats in our offices. It's the second time in a year that we've found rats and rats and their droppings in our offices. It is not only in ours, but in our floor there are also rats and rats and even in other floors, until the new floor of the Madariaga building, the presence of these animals h…

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Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

Madam President, every summer there is a resurgence of discussion about firefighters for their pivotal role in combating forest fires. In addition, they guarantee daily, among many other population support services, pre-hospital emergency services, rescue and rescue of victims of road accidents and the transport of non-emergency patients. We value the importance of the recent World Health Organiza…

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Sep

2023

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The future of the European book sector (debate)

Mr President, the promotion of books and reading is a fundamental axis of any policy aimed at building a cultural democracy. We advocate a real book and reading policy that covers the areas of book publishing, distribution and marketing, including support for small publishers and independent bookshops – which survive with extreme difficulty and many of them have even closed – and for booksellers a…

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Sep

2023

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Regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights (debate)

Mr President, we are here not to stigmatise or criminalise women in prostitution, but to fight for their rights. We consider that prostitution is a form of violence and exploitation that particularly affects women and girls and that its legalisation is intended only to legitimise this extreme expression of exploitation, oppression and violence. The pimps become entrepreneurs, legal cover is given …

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Sep

2023

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Guatemala: the situation after the elections, the rule of law and judicial independence

Madam President, we wish to recall that, despite Parliament's refusals to discuss the issue, the judicialisation and irregularities of the electoral process in Guatemala did not occur only after the elections. In fact, and among other things, there were several candidacies that were prevented from voting, already in the first round of the presidential elections, which took place on June 25, which …

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Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

Mr President, today we are debating the so-called New Agenda of the European Union for Latin America and the Caribbean which, as in previous years, Mr Borrell has dubbed 'rediscovery'. A strategy that, in our opinion, is fundamentally determined by the interests of the large economic groups of the countries that make up the European Union, which aim to exploit markets and resources, promote old an…

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Sep

2023

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Mr President, today exactly 50 years have passed since the fascist coup that overthrew the Chilean people's government, led by President Salvador Allende. At a time when some seek to whitewash fascism and its crimes and when deeply reactionary far-right and fascist forces are promoted, we must remember Chile's fascist military coup, Pinochet's cruel, violent and bloody dictatorship, the nefarious …

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Jul

2023

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The political disqualifications in Venezuela

Madam President, this resolution on Venezuela insists on the manipulation and concealment of facts and on deepening the interventionist strategy of the United States of America. For more than two decades, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been the target of aggression, interference and aggression by the United States of America, such as the orchestration of coups d'état, the creation of pup…

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Jul

2023

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

Mr President, with each passing day, social inequalities and injustices continue to worsen, workers and the people to be impoverished and those who exploit and speculate to see profits increase. There are still those who say that this is the right way to control inflation, but that is not what workers feel every day when they go to the market, when they receive the electricity or communications bi…

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Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Mr President, during our days in the country, we have been in contact with many small and medium-sized enterprises, especially small traders. Their activity is threatened by the lack of purchasing power of workers and people, rising costs in energy, bank charges, loans, but also communications, unnecessary bureaucracy and taxes that they consider disproportionate to large economic groups. And we m…

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Jul

2023

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Relations with the Palestinian Authority (debate)

Madam President, we have debated this resolution in the context of Israel's growing and brutal policy of aggression against the Palestinian people. Examples include the recent attack on the Jenin refugee camp: 12 dead, more than 100 injured, including children, the expulsion of hundreds of families from their homes. We condemn and demand an immediate end to Israel's violence against the Palestinia…

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Jul

2023

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Madam President, on 7 June, Dr Josef Skála, a militant historian of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, a well-known figure in the Czech Republic, was sentenced to 8 months in prison, conditionally suspended for 18 months, apparently for expressing himself in a radio programme on the basis of various studies and historical reports about the Katyn massacre, calling into question the version…

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2023

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Fostering and adapting vocational training as a tool for employees' success and a building block for the EU economy in the new industry 4.0 (short presentation)

Madam President, we are talking here about the promotion of vocational training because of a growing demand on the part of companies for a so-called Industry 4.0, which translates into jobs with high digital demands. Is concerned that vocational training may be a way of concealing the real numbers of unemployment and not promoting employment with rights; This can be a way of occupying those who wa…

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Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

Madam President, we are monitoring the potential for the renovation and innovation of energy networks, building stock, transport and other utilities, with a view to greater energy efficiency, but we are concerned that energy policies, particularly those relating to energy efficiency, may contribute to greater social exclusion and the worsening of the living conditions of citizens, with rising hous…

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Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, in Portugal, if we consider the last ten years, it was only in 2014 that there was no drought at the end of September. At the end of last May, 35% of the territory was in a situation of severe or extreme drought. The scenarios developed for Portugal with regard to climate conditions confirm growing concerns of populations and farmers and point to an increase in the frequency and w…

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Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Madam President, we are not insensitive to the legitimate desire to be a mother, but there are concerns that cannot be underestimated or ignored, such as the instrumentalisation of life and the human body, in this case the body of a woman and her reproductive organs. The economic exploitation of women's reproductive systems is very evident in the surrogacy business, conveniently called surrogacy. …

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Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, this report on food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture is long in rhetoric, but scarce in pointing out reasons and solutions. Even in what it should defend, "food sovereignty" is a concept that is not even mentioned. What poses a threat to food security and the resilience of our food system is the general orientation of the Common Agricultural Policy, the will…

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Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, this Parliament, like the European Union itself, continues the strategy of following the United States of America, of attempting to interfere and interfering in the political and institutional organisation of a sovereign country, of promoting direct support for the opposition and the application of sanctions, the consequences of which will have a direct impact on the lives of the peo…

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May

2023

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Mr President, 1 June is World Children's Day, the date on which Portugal marks the defence of children's rights. It is never too much to renew the strength of the almost secular proclamation that all children have the right to affection, love and understanding, adequate food, medical care, free education, protection from all forms of exploitation and to grow up in a climate of peace and fraternity…

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May

2023

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

Madam President, several products in Portugal are registered as protected names or geographical indications. In addition to wine from different regions and other spirit drinks, in the list we can find other agricultural products, such as potatoes, rice, olives, bananas or cherries, various types of sausages and cheeses, such as Serra or Ilha, traditional confectionery such as Loriga black cake, am…

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May

2023

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Impact of the interest rate increase decided by the ECB on households and workers (debate)

Madam President, at the end of last year, the Commission recognised the impacts on households of rising interest rates, minimising them by the alleged predominance of flat rates. They omitted the expected differentiated impacts that would weigh more heavily on countries with a predominance of variable rates, as in Portugal. Last Friday, Christine Lagarde said she knew that families in countries su…

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May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

Mr President, two years after the Porto Social Summit, we can ask: Do people live better? Do Americans live better? No, they don't live. As regards the fight against poverty, while the objectives of the action plan that emerged from this summit were already unambitious in 2021, it is now more than proven that they are clearly insufficient. There are more and more people in poverty, more and more i…