What Silvia spoke about.

5

Oct

2021

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EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crises and the role of the European Parliament in this (debate)

Mr President, the management of the COVID crisis has ultimately been a success for the EU if we look at the development and distribution of vaccines to the Member States. We were faced with a completely new situation, and there were no ready-made operating models. With that in mind, I think we have succeeded, and against that background, we need an actor like HERA. But this process has not been op…

7

Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Mr President, I would like to begin by thanking the rapporteur. This report is quite good. You have improved the Commission's proposal, thank you. I would like to highlight one fundamental problem, which this report, too, does not yet change. That is, when the recipe for solving climate change is ultimately simple – emissions down, sinks up and financial flows to support the necessary ecological r…

7

Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Mr President, Hungary's new law is a continuum in a development in which the fight against women's and minorities' rights has been harnessed as a tool for a dark policy. This is not an isolated issue, but is part of a broader development that systematically curtails the rights and freedom of rainbow people, thus placing them in an unequal position on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. Wha…

6

Jul

2021

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The creation of guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Hahn, unfortunately your speech did not bring clarity, no answers, but above all it did not give confidence that the Commission wanted and intended to act. This situation can no longer be explained by the concerns of those Europeans who send messages about the erosion of core values. Why are we still only discussing and debating when this has already been decided? These …