What Eugenia spoke about.

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Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that the climate changes and changes our territories and our lives. In Spain alone, in 2022, the average number of fires increased fourfold. And, in the Mediterranean ecoregion, the fire season grew by 54%. This year we are facing a drought that is the worst for at least five hundred years. The problem is not conjunctural – it has already been said here – an…

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2022

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Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

Madam President, cereal prices are rising and fuel, transport and logistics costs are rising. In addition, there are those who take advantage of and speculate on agricultural and food products, precisely because markets allow this type of behavior. This severely affects farmers and families with lower incomes in Europe, but also whole countries, which may end up facing famine situations. We need t…

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Jul

2022

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Common European action on care (debate)

–Mr President, Commissioner, we are all needy and unfinished beings, we have all been children and hopefully we will all be old. It is time to assume that we owe a debt of bond to those who care for us and have cared for us. A debt that is not only material, but also affective, and of which women are fundamentally creditors. In Europe, more than 7.5 million women have left the labour market to car…

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Jun

2022

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

The right to abortion is free when it can be exercised, and it cannot be exercised in a lot of public hospitals because, I insist, in most of them or in many of them conscientious objections are practiced that are clearly illegal, as is known and has been discovered for a long time, so that most of these women have to be referred to private centers where they have to pay for abortion.…

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Jun

2022

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

I am not aware that these women receive funding for abortions; rather they have difficulty aborting, as we already know; especially in public health, because many doctors object, without having the right to object any health institution in its entirety. Many of them have to travel many kilometres from one place to another in order to be able to have an abortion – something that is recognised as th…

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Jun

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, 86 million women may see their right to abortion limited in the United States: 26 states threaten delusional "fetal heartbeat" laws and some already provide for succulent stimuli for whistleblowers and prison sanctions for those who fail to comply; In these states there will be no funding to guarantee sexual and reproductive rights, because the Supreme Court ruling must be joined …

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

Mr President, the European Parliament is the only institution of the European Union whose members are directly elected. However, the areas in which the right of initiative can be exercised are extremely limited and show an imbalance between the bodies that needs to be corrected. The Council refuses to negotiate the right of inquiry, has greater legislative capacity – despite representing national …

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May

2022

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

Mr President, Commissioner, two hundred thousand comfort women or comfort women were turned into sex slaves by the Japanese army before and during World War II. Many were killed, others committed suicide and the survivors were stigmatized. In the former Yugoslavia, systematic rape and forced pregnancies were used as a form of ethnic cleansing. The genocide against the Yazidi community at the hands…

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May

2022

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

Madam President, we are experiencing moments of uncertainty, we have been facing the pandemic for two years and we have managed to make social Europe stronger, but the monstrosity of war has caused the ghosts of economic austerity and the far-right nightmare of safe enclaves (religion, the nation state and the conventional family) to return. Europe is again torn between the politics of hope and th…

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Apr

2022

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

Mr President, the Roma community is discriminated against in Europe and has been criminalised since time immemorial. Now, with the brutality of the war, it seems that, far from being tempered, that criminalization is hardened and aggravated: In Ukraine, Roma are the target of military groups and militia on both sides of the conflict, and we know that human losses have been recorded, above all, in …

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2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, the rule of law is systematically violated in Poland and Hungary. We've been denouncing him for years. Infringement proceedings were launched in 2017 and 2018 for lack of judicial independence and, in the case of Hungary, for strangling the press. But we cannot suspend their right to vote in the Council unless they themselves agree, because the sacrosanct rule of unanimity applies…

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Apr

2022

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

Madam President, I have a 12-year-old daughter. She could have been one of those demonstrating in Afghanistan to go to school. One of the beaten, arrested or disappeared. He still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up, but he cultivates his dreams and imagines endless possible worlds. There is nothing more sadistic than controlling women by amputating their futures from childhood; robb…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, exceptional measures for exceptional situations. The primary sector has been loss-making for years and is now facing escalating prices for fuel, electricity and fertilisers. An escalation that is already translating into unemployment, shortages and food crisis. It was necessary to throw a rope to grab without losing the north and that was the initial idea of this res…

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Mar

2022

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

Mr President, in any revision of the legal framework on safety and health at work, it must be borne in mind that women workers are largely excluded. That is why I want to put forward two very simple proposals. First, we must give a firm response to workplace harassment, a phenomenon that, far from being circumstantial, illustrates a structural problem of our workplaces, fueled by tolerance, the im…

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, if one good thing has brought the dramatic exceptionalism that we have been experiencing for two years now, it is that it has opened a window of opportunity for the development of policies not aligned with the ordoliberal orthodoxy that has hitherto dominated the economic governance framework of the European Union. This is well illustrated by the very suspension of the Stability a…

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Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

Mr President, today is 8 March and we have to stop and think, once again, about the challenges facing women: ending sexist violence, guaranteeing sexual and reproductive rights, promoting women's leadership and supporting gender-responsive humanitarian action, for example. And we will work on it, even if the far-right forces, who also sit in this Parliament, are determined to prevent it. I say thi…

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Mar

2022

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Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020 (debate)

Mr President, for years now, gender mainstreaming has ceased to be a novel tool for promoting equality between women and men. The World Conference on Women, held in Nairobi in 1985, called for its implementation and, ten years later, the Platform for Action adopted in Beijing adopted it as a strategy to combat without palliation the multiple and intersectional discrimination suffered by women. Tod…

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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, Commissioner, that workers must be protected against diseases and, in particular, against occupational diseases, is a right recognised in the very Constitution of the International Labour Organisation. I would like to draw particular attention to women, because they have been the great neglected ones in terms of the prevention of occupational risks. The report we are debating today h…

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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 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, tackling the climate crisis from an eco-feminist approach should be a priority at the next session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Women suffer the most from the effects of the climate emergency for several reasons: they are the world’s leading food producers, although they own less land than men and, when they own it, their holdings are smaller…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation report on on-farm animal welfare (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner. It is clear that the centrality of animal welfare on which the Farm to Fork strategy bets, for example, responds to an ethical question, but not only. While animals are endowed with the capacity to suffer, we have some duties contracted with them, the most basic of which is not to torture them. That an animal is not a stone, as Jeremy Bentham said more than two centu…

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President, more than 90% of abortions performed in Spain since 2010 have been referred to private clinics, largely due to the abusive use of conscientious objection. A few days ago, an ultra-Catholic association placed advertisements in several Spanish cities encouraging prayers in front of abortion clinics, that is, making a public appeal to harass women who come to these centers to termina…

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Dec

2021

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MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions (debate)

Mr President, one in three adult European women has experienced physical or sexual violence and 55% have been subjected to some form of harassment. Not only do women and girls suffer from it, but they represent 90% of victims of sexual harassment and this form of sexist violence limits life and violates women's rights. That 75% of women in skilled professions have been sexually harassed explains, …

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Dec

2021

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Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

Madam President, it seems that the European Parliament is in Warsaw, because we have already lost count of the debates that have taken place in this House on Poland. A few weeks ago, the Polish Constitutional Court declared that part of the European Convention on Human Rights was incompatible with the Polish Constitution. It seems that this was his response to the ruling of the European Court of H…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, I do not know if many of you will have noticed the message on the front page of all the reports we adopted in the European Parliament: "United in diversity". Every time I stumble upon this phrase is, especially when we are working on some report on the backsliding of women's rights or on the persecution by some governments of LGTBIQ people, I say to myself that perhaps we should c…

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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, according to EIGE, the Union has 60 years to achieve equality. Progress remains slow; have stagnated or even receded in certain regions and countries. In the area of sexist violence, obstacles continue and, with them, difficulties in prosecuting crimes and compensating victims. Ratification of the Istanbul Convention remains stalled and some threaten to withdraw. I hope that the C…