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Apr

2022

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Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world (debate) (debate)

Madam President, if we want to talk about research and innovation, we must necessarily talk about their agents, researchers and their working conditions. Many of them experience the uncertainty of the renewal of the research fellowship, the fixed-term contract, the outcome of the tender and the funding of a project. What they need is stability in a bond. To publish the results of their research, s…

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Apr

2022

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Data Governance Act (debate)

Madam President, the proposal put forward raises a number of doubts and concerns which do not allow us to accompany it. I only list a few that are not properly safeguarded. The trend towards digitalisation of administrative law and the subsequent development of the interoperability of systems, allowing the interconnection of freely accessible databases or databases with different levels of access,…

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Madam President, the measures on energy issues announced by the Council leave the essential aspects of the energy market untouched, including the wholesale pricing methodology, which is responsible for brutal differences between production costs and consumer prices, ensuring huge profit margins for private oligopolistic groups. The current situation highlights not only the need to regain public co…

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2022

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

Madam President, women and girls are a particular target of the Taliban and their absolute reactionism. They are denied the right to work, individual expression, autonomy, divorce, and the right to education. The attacks on women are a structural attack on Afghanistan's development, but they did not begin when, in August last year, the Taliban retook power from the void left, after 40 years of int…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, we have been advocating that the development of energy infrastructure should be aligned with national energy plans and should contribute to the existence of a high-quality public energy supply service at fair and affordable prices for all. The current situation is characterised by escalating sanctions that harm all peoples and speculative prices that weigh on the pockets of citizens …

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2022

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Mr President, the rising cost of living that workers and the people are feeling alarmingly is one of the biggest problems facing my country. If, on the one hand, strong and urgent measures are needed to curb the rise in prices for essential goods such as food, on the other hand, it is important to increase wages so that workers do not pay the inflation bill with their own wages. In this context, i…

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Mar

2022

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Madam President, despite the rain of recent days, much of Portugal is still suffering from severe or extreme drought. With sanctions on the pretext of war and criminal speculation, rising prices and shortages of raw materials further stifle small and medium-sized farms. It is therefore important to support farmers and mitigate the increase in production costs, starting with the fight against the s…

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2022

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A new EU strategic framework on health and safety at work post 2020 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, accidents at work, occupational diseases, safety and health issues at work are not inseparable from existing working conditions, precariousness, the rhythms of work imposed, or the deregulation of working hours. The right to safety, hygiene and health at work is a social right of workers which requires respect for the right to physical integrity, the prevention of accidents, occupati…

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Mar

2022

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Madam President, women's rights are to be fulfilled, to be continued and cannot be merely propaganda for an equality to be achieved. On International Women's Day, we affirm that we need to move forward in the fight against unemployment and job insecurity by valuing women's careers and socio-occupational status, increasing wages for all workers and achieving equal pay between men and women. Progres…

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Feb

2022

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Protection of workers from the risks relating to exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxins at work (continuation of debate)

Mr President, workers are subject, not always consciously, to the deterioration of their working conditions, their health and, ultimately, the loss of their lives. Protecting workers must be a matter of priority in principle and we cannot accept that, in the 21st century, this concern is not yet central. It is essential to guarantee the protection of workers, the increase of their rights and safeg…

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Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

Mr President, in Portugal and in the European Union the devaluation of women's skills persists. The wages, pensions and pensions that women receive are the lowest, they work the most hours and they suffer the most from precariousness, unemployment, income inequalities, social insecurity and poverty. The deterioration of the social situation also has implications for affective stability and is not …

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Feb

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

Mr President, a student youth, a working youth, a creative youth, a youth with a transformative force: young people need another Europe. A Europe where they can assert the right to have rights, the right to have a better life. A Europe where public, free and quality schools are a reality for all. Where precariousness is eradicated and gives way to employment with rights. Where access to culture, s…

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Jan

2022

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Empowering European Youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery (debate)

Mr President, young people cannot be a rhetorical device. Their problems and aspirations should not be used as a mere propaganda tool. Obstacles to education, lack of access to decent and affordable housing, unemployment, job insecurity, deregulation of working hours, low wages, unpaid internships or so-called training grants that are perpetuated over time are part of the reality of too young peop…

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

Madam President, access to sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy, is a decades-long struggle for women. In practice, this defence and its implementation are in conflict with the guidelines and policies of the European Union which have promoted and promote the financial suffocation of public services in some Member States, particularly in the area…

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Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Mr President, digitalisation processes and digital services offer great potential for development in various spheres of human activity, including economics. Reality, however, has already shown that this means has served to increase the exploitation of workers or the phenomena of alienation and social and behavioral conditioning of individuals for the benefit of profits and the predominance of larg…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Mr President, we are talking again today about Cuba, the third time in the last six plenary sessions of this Parliament. It illustrates how the instrumentalisation of alleged human rights violations can be used as a weapon of interference. They may change the name of the debates and the titles of the resolutions, but the goals are the same as always. On the one hand, calling into question the achi…

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Dec

2021

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European framework for employees' participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive (debate)

Mr President, in labour relations there is one part, that of the employer, who holds almost all the power from the outset, and another, that of the worker, who merely sells his strength. One cannot speak of democracy at work without addressing this relationship, which is inherently unequal for workers with precarious and unregulated employment relationships, instability, low wages, lack of safety …

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Dec

2021

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Madam President, the answer to the structural problems faced by some countries, such as Portugal, is not the adoption of so-called 'structural reforms imposed by the European Union', but a policy that focuses on national production. Only in this way can we stop being a country dependent on the surpluses of the great powers, a deficit and an eternal debtor that underestimates the internal market an…

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Dec

2021

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Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)

Madam President, women's rights, in particular the right to live a life in dignity, are fundamental rights that must be promoted by public policies. Exercising rights and participating equally is a legitimate aspiration of women, but the exercise of these rights, as well as participation on an equal basis, remains to be fulfilled. The vast majority of women continue to be deprived of the appreciat…

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Dec

2021

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Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)

Madam President, today in plenary we are discussing the work we have carried out for months on the report on gender inequalities in the European Union for the period 2018-2020. Women remain the main victims of existing inequalities, the gender pay gap, poverty and precarious work. We believe that economic independence is crucial for women's empowerment and for achieving equal participation in soci…

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Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (continuation of debate)

Mr President, violence at work, domestic violence, dating violence, lack of access to sexual and reproductive rights, female genital mutilation, psychological and sexual harassment, prostitution or the commodification of a woman's body as a sexual object: different forms of violence against women that have to be recognised as extreme expressions of inequality and discrimination manifested in humil…

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Nov

2021

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A European Action Plan Against Rare Diseases (debate)

Madam President, many thousands of people in the European Union are affected by rare diseases, requiring a comprehensive response. I have been following the difficulties that pass the about 500 families that in Portugal are affected by familial amyloid paramyloidosis, also known as the disease of the little feet, a rare hereditary and degenerative disease for which there are few responses. This is…

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Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, the brutal rise in energy prices goes hand in hand with the choices made by the European Union. The consequences of the liberalisation and privatisation of the sector, the maintenance of oligopolistic markets, where cartelised prices and adopted methodologies ensure astronomical profits, or the creation and functioning of the carbon market, are being felt by consumers, especially the…

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Nov

2021

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Mr President, the European Union presented itself in Glasgow at COP26 with the false image of the climate champion. The approach to climate change, whether in the field of combating or in relation to adaptation, is characterised by the inadequacy and inadequacy of measures, out of step with genuine social justice objectives and with questionable environmental results, based on market-based solutio…

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Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

Madam President, we reject any tendency to commodify knowledge, education and research and oppose the vision emanating from the policies of the European Union. As in the conception of the so-called European Higher Education Area or in the Bologna Process, concepts such as mobility, lifelong learning, recognition of skills, qualifications, diplomas and titles are mentioned, concealing that this pro…