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18

Oct

2021

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Employment and social policies of the euro area 2021 (debate)

Madam President, the guidelines for employment and social policies that have been issued by the European Union do not solve the problems faced by workers and the poor: poverty, unemployment, precariousness, low wages and high cost of living. On the contrary, these same policies and guidelines have sought to weaken the public response to the problems of populations, workers and the real economy. Th…

7

Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, sexual and reproductive rights go hand in hand with fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom, equal treatment, education, health or safety. All over the world we are witnessing attempts to impose retrograde and reactionary conceptions on women's sexuality and their role in society. They aim to impose a return to unsafe, clandestine, unprotected and dangerous abortions…

5

Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

Mr President, this debate is part of the operation of interference and destabilisation against Belarus that the European Union, its institutions and, in particular, some Member States are trying to carry out. The instrumentalisation of refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Iraq, who are on Belarus' borders with Poland and Lithuania, and who are destined for countries that are pa…

16

Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, once again the European Parliament is used as an instrument of the campaign against Cuba, aligning itself with the policy of interference and aggression of the United States of America, increased with Trump and now maintained with Biden against Cuba and the Cuban people. Hypocritically, they cry out for human rights while hiding the existence of the blockade imposed by the United …

13

Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, we are discussing the working conditions of platform workers here. They may come to speak of new forms of employment or new realities of the world of work, but the form of exploitation is the same, and old, remembering the squares, piecemeal remuneration and waving freedom in the form of flexibility to increase labour deregulation and precariousness. Digital platforms mostly resor…

8

Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

Mr President, the restrictions on mobility imposed by the COVID-19 containment measures have paralysed around 2/3 of global traffic, leading the sector to the biggest crisis ever, and support is needed to safeguard jobs, workers' incomes and the viability of businesses. It is true that many of these supporters came from the European institutions, but they were differentiated and discriminatory, je…

6

Jul

2021

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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)

Mr President, the Connecting Europe Facility 2.0 is essentially the revised and updated version of an instrument that pursues the European Union's usual political strategies. The privatization of public services, transport, energy, and communications, the divestment of equipment and infrastructure, the degradation and costly service provided to the populations and the precariousness of labor relat…