What Eugenia spoke about.

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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, María Isabel, Erika, Mónica, Zuita, Pamela, Amal, María de los Ángeles, María Pilar, Hazna, África, Consuelo, Alicia, Rocío, Nicoleta, María Teresa, Betty, Lucía, Jordina, Mari Cruz, Mari Carmen, Conchi, Flora... some of the 37 women murdered by their partners and ex-partners, by those who claimed to love them. And while, in the European Union, despite the efforts of this Parliament,…

10

Nov

2021

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

Mr President, ensuring quality and inclusive education and training requires a fair and well-funded education system that puts an end to sexism and classism. For example, to close the gender gap and break the glass ceilings in science and academia, research led by women or peer teams must be funded, gender prejudices and stereotypes must be eradicated, positive female role models must be fostered …

20

Oct

2021

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The first anniversary of the de facto abortion ban in Poland (debate)

Madam President, with their struggle, Polish women have taught us a lesson that we should remember because the far right is obsessed with birth politics across Europe. For example, a few years ago the Spanish People's Party filed an appeal of unconstitutionality against the 2010 abortion law to attack women's freedom, end sex education and expand a regime of conscientious objection that is already…

19

Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Mr Morawiecki, you have some confusion about the system of sources of Community law. The European Union, in fact, is not a state, but neither is it a book club or an ill-agreed marriage. Do you think that without the principle of primacy, without the obligation to apply EU law in full, you would have the right to veto other governments in the European Council? Or do you think you can…

18

Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, all farmers know that they have to invest more and more to become poorer: more pesticides, pesticides and fertilisers in increasingly eroded soil, without water or nutrients. Tomorrow we can start changing that. We can change the way we produce, distribute and consume to avoid the water and food crises we already suffer today. The change we all need must also be an opportunity for…

7

Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, when abortion is banned, as we are seeing in Texas - if a judge does not prevent it - the lives and physical and psychological health of women are put at risk, who have to resort to clandestine and unsafe abortions. Inequality and discrimination are encouraged, because it is women who give up and who face the greatest difficulties when they have children. They limit their autonomy…

4

Oct

2021

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The impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children (debate)

Mr President, a batterer is never, I insist, never a good father. It is therefore surprising that when women report violence against themselves or their children, exclusive custody is given to abusive parents. It is surprising that children who suffer violence are not heard and are assumed to be being manipulated by their mothers, despite having medical and psychosocial reports that prove otherwis…

15

Sep

2021

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Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)

Mr President, we already know that the pandemic has had devastating consequences. The question now is whether we are going to take advantage of the recovery to fight against the inequalities that have been accentuated during this year. If the answer is yes, we need more social justice with sufficient minimum wages, European unemployment insurance, the definitive suspension of the Stability Pact an…

15

Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Mr President, a food system that leaves more than 800 million people hungry and economically homeless in the world and, at the same time, causes forms of malnutrition such as overweight is a diseased system. That the Farm to Fork Strategy takes up this diagnosis and calls for a transition to sustainable food systems based on environmental, social and public health objectives is all well and good, …

15

Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (debate)

Mr President, gender-based violence is insufficiently and unevenly recognised and persecuted in the European Union. Many countries have not ratified the Istanbul Convention or are threatening to leave; most do not differentiate between domestic violence and gender-based violence, or do not even consider domestic violence as a crime; and the few who contemplate gender-based violence do not define i…

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, Commissioner, we hear about flexibility and optimisation, resources, technological development and new forms of employment, but reality is pulverising the advertising engineering of the platform economy, a model built for tax dumping and social dumping, that is, from the denial of labour rights and tax avoidance. That is why, first of all, we must recognize the presumption of empl…

5

Jul

2021

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Old continent growing older - possibilities and challenges related to ageing policy post 2020 (debate)

Madam President, to tackle ageing in Europe we need a care pact and strong public investment in social services, without losing sight of the gender perspective. Think of women, but not to undermine their reproductive autonomy and turn them into childbearing machines at the service of the motherland, but to give them a better old age than they have. Because our grandmothers, the great caretakers, l…