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Jul

2022

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The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Madam President, it has been a month since English journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira were brutally murdered in the Amazon they sought to protect. Two lives that join hundreds of other lives that in recent years have been mown down for opposing the predation of the forest and its natural resources. The devastation of Brazilian natural biomes by fire, pollution and machi…

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2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, taxonomy is part of an approach that we disagree with. It is part of a process of financialization of the environment that involves, among other things, channeling significant financial flows to emerging businesses around the environment. According to the proponents of this market approach, the virtuosity of these businesses will lead to the achievement of environmental goals. The pu…

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2022

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EU action plan for the social economy (debate)

Mr President, the EU Action Plan and the report we are debating here are based on a premise that we cannot agree with: Calling the social sector the social economy. A political and ideological option, deliberately taken, which aims to commodify the provision of social care. The role of charities and cooperatives is undeniable. But both should not replace, but complement, the public responses of th…

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Jul

2022

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Common European action on care (debate)

Mr President, for decades right-wing policy choices and the prevalence of deficit and debt criteria over social justice have dictated public disinvestment in the social functions of the state, the de-responsibility of the state in promoting well-being and protecting populations, and the commodification of care, both in health and education. The absence or lack of an adequate, universal and free pu…

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2022

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Madam President, following the decision of the extradition court to the United States of America and the subsequent assent of Secretary Pretty Patel last Friday, Julian Assange appealed to the Supreme Court against his extradition order. Yesterday, on the day he turned 51, the last ten years in captivity, there were expressions of solidarity all over the world, including in Lisbon, where we were, …

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Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)

Madam President, the fight against poverty and social exclusion is inseparable from the eradication of the specific discriminations that affect, for the most part, women and children. To this end, specific social measures are needed as regards access to affordable housing, transport, justice and energy. We believe that the right to work is an essential condition for economic independence, the prof…

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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)

Madam President, setbacks and progress in the way societies have looked at abortion are inextricably linked to setbacks and progress in the female condition. Abortion must be seen as a public health problem and as an issue intertwined with women's fundamental rights. Women's struggle for access to sexual and reproductive rights and the dominance of their sexuality is a secular struggle that has en…

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Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

Mr President, the current situation shows that security of energy supply must not be dependent on market contingencies which, as you have seen, threaten it. In the absence of public control of the sector, where market conditions are not attractive for private actors to supply the minimum levels deemed necessary for reasons of security of supply, States are called upon to pay the bill. If it is the…

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Jun

2022

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Madam President, since 2009, we have asked the European Commission seven times about fuel price formation, more specifically about the reliability and reasonableness of a fuel pricing process, which gives a private company the power to determine fuel prices on the market. Referring at some point to ongoing cartel investigations, we wanted to know the conclusions of those investigations and the ext…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

... yes, we are internationalists but we are also defenders of the sovereignty of each people, and of each people deciding what their future will be. And what this project has shown us, also by its federalist, militarist and neoliberal matrix, what has happened, are the asymmetries of development between different states, the issue also of increasing inequalities and the issue of the prevalence of…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, I recall in this debate the process of the Convention on the Future of Europe, which would lay the foundations for a so-called European Constitution. A farce that was then exposed by the rejection in several referenda, and the European Union disregarded the results of these processes of popular suffrage, then imposed the Treaty of Lisbon. They now intend, in general terms, to repeat …

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2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

Madam President, the European Parliament continues its policy of complete adherence to the United States' ingerencist and destabilizing strategy in Latin America. This new resolution against Nicaragua and its people is yet another demonstration of how this Parliament does not hesitate to misrepresent the facts in order to cover up an unacceptable policy that is contrary to the principles of the Un…

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2022

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

Madam President, in my country, Portugal, after years of fighting for women's rights, voluntary termination of pregnancy was finally decriminalised in 2007. Since then, the number of IVGs has progressively decreased and it is estimated that 40% fewer abortions have been performed in the last ten years. Those who oppose the decriminalisation of IVG in the United States or in Europe know well that b…

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2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Mr President, Vice-President Timmermans said here that this emissions reduction package should leave no one behind. I said this knowing that the insistence on perverse market solutions, which are not only questionable as to the effectiveness in reducing emissions but also burden workers and populations, contributing to the increase in the cost of living, as the Commission itself acknowledges, just…

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Jun

2022

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Madam President, worsening living conditions, rising housing costs, the loss of purchasing power of families and rising interest rates make it urgent to protect the homes of many families and prevent them from becoming homeless. In this sense, States should assume themselves as promoters of public housing and promoters of urban construction and rehabilitation policies to extend the provision of pu…

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Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, the reality of island regions within the European Union is diverse and presents structural disadvantages in relation to continental territories because of their size, low population density, seasonal demographics, high topographical variation or poor connectivity. These structural features call for a positive distinction between public investment policies that enable greater terri…

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, the European Union's sanctions policy sacrifices the interests of the countries and peoples of Europe and contributes to the escalation of confrontation, hindering the path to peace. The case of gas is paradigmatic. The packages of sanctions adopted were followed by an even sharper speculative increase in the price of gas, which had already been rising in previous months, and the peo…

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May

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Madam President, last Friday Tatjana Ždanoka, a Member of this Parliament, was arrested in Riga with other Protestants who were demonstrating publicly and peacefully against the demolition of a memorial to Soviet soldiers in Victoria Park. His detention deserves repudiation by this Parliament. From here we express our solidarity with Tatiana and those who do not give up defending the historical tr…

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May

2022

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Prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (debate)

Madam President, this debate and the accompanying resolution are yet another piece of the systematic exercise by the European Union and its institutions of cynical instrumentalisation of rights and values to seek to impose their dominance over sovereign states. Not by chance, the resolution ignores the policy of interference by the United States of America and the European Union in Belarus, insist…

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May

2022

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

Madam President, I would like to begin by highlighting the role of women in the defence of peace, calling for an end to a war that should not have begun through a political solution to the conflict, with the aim of an immediate ceasefire that the escalation of confrontation does not provide. Among the different types of violence to which women are subjected is violence in the context of war, in an…

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Madam President, I would like to remind you that, some 20 years ago, a process similar to this was initiated which now ends, even in name, the so-called Convention on the Future of Europe. This process eventually resulted in a so-called European Constitution enshrining the neoliberal, federalist and militarist policies of the European Union, which was rejected in referendums. And what has the Euro…

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May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

Madam President, artificial intelligence, as a representation of the technological and scientific advances we are witnessing, must be put at the service of improving the living conditions of workers and peoples. It must be at the service of peace, development, wealth creation and well-being. But this is not what this report advocates. On the contrary, it focuses on the sacrosanct market with the a…

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2022

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Mr President, yesterday thousands of workers took to the streets on the occasion of International Workers' Day. They denounced the serious increase in the cost of living, whether in fuel, energy or food. It is necessary to tackle, once and for all, the speculative rise in prices by the big oil companies, the big distribution groups and other economic groups that are driving up the prices of essent…

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2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Madam President, organic farming can play an important role in mitigating the effects of climate change and restoring biodiversity. We advocate a short supply chain approach, not subject to market orientation, but to people's food needs and their ability to produce the food they need. Quotas of agricultural land under organic production vary significantly across the European Union and there is no …

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Apr

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Roma communities have been victims of racism, xenophobia, prejudice and stereotypes for centuries. Europe’s history is tainted by persecution and discrimination against Roma communities, hostility and expressions of hatred in public and political discourse against them. From the Inquisition to Nazi-fascism, to the present day, there are too many examples of the marginalization of the…