Sandra PEREIRA

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Sandra PEREIRA

MEP · Portugal

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All Speeches

197

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

3.9h

≈ 235 min

Average speech length

1:18 min

≈ 1.3 min · not ranked

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10

May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, the role of farmers is to produce food and to ensure food security and sovereignty. And if, in fact, they are concerned here with the ecosystem and agriculture, then let us move forward with policies that guarantee the means to support small farmers and agro-ecological farming practices. Family farming and the small and medium-sized farmers with whom we have been in contact, in the d…

9

May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

Madam President, in Portugal, in the first quarter alone, there were almost 7000 complaints and five homicides for domestic violence, a daily newspaper reported yesterday. Structural phenomena of violence against women persist and require specific, articulated and integrated prevention, protection and eradication measures. Among the necessary measures, we highlight: strengthening the material and …

8

May

2023

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Mr President, the links of scientific workers in Portugal are characterised by serious and protracted precariousness, regardless of academic degree. There are many who work through scholarships after scholarships, without access to any labour law, mortgaging their future, waiting for the contract that, if it comes, has an expiry date with no horizon in sight. This is the prevailing logic in scienc…

8

May

2023

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Schools scheme for fruit, vegetables, milk and dairy products (short presentation)

Mr President, with support for the distribution of milk, fruit and vegetables, this European Union school scheme has a nutritional and educational character that can encourage children to consume diverse products. In addition, it can be the main meal of many children who have little at home to eat. It would also be important to ensure that the products supplied under this scheme are preferably loc…

18

Apr

2023

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

Mr President, the situation in the Mediterranean Sea, with many thousands of dead, is a matter of great concern and continues to worsen. The European Union's policies have contributed to this, in particular the increasingly selective, restrictive and inhumane migration policies, by the externalisation and militarisation of borders, by a whole new market that is growing in defence and border securi…

18

Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

Mr President, five months after the coup d'état in Peru, which led to the ousting of the President-elect, Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian workers and people continue firmly on the streets of the country, in defence of freedoms and democracy, to demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the convening of early elections and the convening of a Constituent Assembly. The police and military crackdown on pr…

18

Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

Mr President, the various recommendations that the Commission makes to the Member States on energy storage, as part of the announced reform of the energy market, bring nothing new. Throughout this package, the European Commission not only fails to address the specific problems resulting from the liberalisation of the sector, but may also exacerbate them. It is striking that the European Union, bot…

17

Apr

2023

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Mr President, next week we are celebrating the 49th anniversary of the April Revolution. It was at dawn on April 25, 1974 that the long fascist night that oppressed Portugal and the Portuguese for 48 years came to an end. A dictatorship that subjected the people to poverty, misery, hunger and war to sustain the fortune and opulence of a minority that condemned the country to illiteracy and backwar…

30

Mar

2023

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Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)

Mr President, the mountain gave birth to a mouse. Another pompously announced and long-awaited directive which, after all, makes little or no progress in combating the gender pay gap. In some cases, by legitimizing them, it can even perpetuate them. This is the case for the 5% difference between the average pay levels of female and male workers. After all, some disparity is even acceptable. Let's …

29

Mar

2023

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Mr President, workers, pensioners and their families experience a serious and unfair increase in the cost of living, with constant and unbearable price increases, with inflation above 8% in 2022 in Portugal, without the corresponding increase in wages and pensions. This situation, which leads to the impoverishment of those who live by their work, contrasts with the greatest profits of the century …

29

Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, once again the Council overlooks the difficult situation facing millions of workers and families every day in the face of the continuing decline in real wages, the brutal increase in the cost of living and the accumulated loss of purchasing power. While you take smiling pictures of your propaganda, you remain impatient about the deterioration of the social and economic conditions …

15

Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

Mr President, the title of this debate could not be further removed from reality. Growing social inequality is also a result and consequence of the political choices of the European Union. See, among others, the country-specific recommendations addressed to the Member States in the context of the European Semester, or the so-called financial assistance programmes which, under the pretext of defend…

14

Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

Mr President, minimum income policies must be temporary, transitional in nature and ensure a minimum level of income that allows those who are most deprived and vulnerable to live in dignity. The introduction of minimum income schemes in all Member States of the European Union, consisting of specific measures to support people whose income is insufficient and to guarantee the right to health, educ…

14

Mar

2023

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Data Act (debate)

Madam President, this proposal for a regulation on access to and use of data is another piece of work for the deepening of the digital single market. This data market aims at appropriating diverse data, favouring digital giants and using them to leverage their profits. It is also not disconnected from the agreement concluded with the United States a year ago for the flow of transatlantic data, whi…

13

Mar

2023

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Mr President, we have long been denouncing the brutal speculation promoted by the big economic groups, which flourished in the shadow of the pandemic and grew disproportionately under the pretext of war and sanctions: energy, banking, armaments, large-scale distribution. New data is known every day – more and more profits. The Commission, the Council and the ECB know that this is the case, as rece…

13

Mar

2023

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Madam President, we have no doubt about the potential that building renovation in the Member States of the European Union could have in saving and reducing energy consumption, promoting improved air quality, reducing emissions, reducing costs and increasing the resilience of energy systems. We argue that priority should be given to the most vulnerable consumers and lower-income households in all i…

16

Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the small agricultural producers in Portugal, those who still resist, feel the consequences of the foreign policy promoted by the European Union, under the pretext of war and sanctions, making evident the dependence of foreign trade on energy or chemical compounds and also the impositions of a CAP that despises small and medium-sized agriculture, which is based on the promotion of ag…

14

Feb

2023

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The EU priorities for the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

Mr President, the living conditions of many women remain difficult. They are the ones who, on average, work longer hours, either in professional tasks or in homework. We know that working women are confronted with a difficult articulation between professional demands, the care of children and the organization of domestic life. We are concerned that teleworking, rather than helping, can create an i…

14

Feb

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

Mr President, violence against women remains an undeniable scourge. Complaints about dating violence increase. Women continue to be victims of physical or psychological aggression and many end up tragically dying at the hands of their companions. Girls and women are still victims of sexual exploitation and prostitution. Harassment and labour violence continue to exist. If we look at access to sexu…

13

Feb

2023

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Madam President, the coup that led to the ousting of President Pedro Castillo in early December in Peru has since sparked protests in that country. The Peruvian people took to the streets and went to Lima to demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the convening of early elections and the convening of a Constituent Assembly. The demonstrations have continued for more than two months, despite the p…

1

Feb

2023

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Mr President, more and more work and tiny wages do not guarantee fundamental rights, such as the right to housing. The increase in the cost of living is so severe that today we see families that, working, are forced to share the house or return home to their parents, or even face life in a situation of homelessness. We cannot accept the social model in which inflation, accompanied by real estate f…

18

Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

Madam President, the coup actions carried out by the most reactionary and fascist forces in Brazil, in a process that has been led by Bolsonaro and that undermines Brazil's democracy, deserve our firm and vehement condemnation. The main objective of this assault on the federal institutions of Brazil, promoted by major economic interests, some military sectors and important media, was to disrespect…

18

Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

Mr President, deregulation, liberalisation and precariousness are the face of a policy that sees new technologies as a renewed and modern opportunity for increased exploitation, the destruction of workers' rights, and the expansion and concentration of capital. The business model promoted by multinational platform companies can only please this neoliberal European Union. The so-called Uber files, …

18

Jan

2023

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An EU strategy to boost industrial competitiveness, trade and quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, in today's debate on industrial strategy, we wish once again to recall how, in countries such as Portugal, we have witnessed for decades the destruction of the productive apparatus and the accentuation of the depopulation and desertification of vast areas of the country, sacrificing the essential foundations for a genuine process of economic and social development. This situation …

17

Jan

2023

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“The Road to 2023” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership (debate)

Madam President, this strategy, the path it is trying to take and its objectives can easily be explained by the content of Vice-President Borrell's recent statements. That is, a neo-colonial strategy, aimed at creating new dependencies and serving only the interests of large economic groups and their eager thirst for profit, to the detriment of the workers and peoples of Latin America and the Cari…