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Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

Madam President, the five biggest fossil fuel companies – TotalEnergies, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell – together generate roughly EUR 8 trillion in revenue every year. According to the Commission's own estimate, making Europe heatwave proof would cost EUR 70 billion a year – just 7 % of these companies' revenue. These same companies have spent decades profiting from the very emissions now kil…

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Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

Mr President, dear colleague, over the past four years, more than 200 000 people have died from heat in Europe. This week, temperatures are exceeding 30 °C in cities across the Continent. And work continues on construction sites and in fields regardless. I agree on your point on water, definitely. But so far, the far right, together with many right-wing parties, has said 'no' to the binding rules …

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Jun

2026

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Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)

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Jun

2026

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Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, right now we are surrounded by a mood of darkness that is difficult to put into words – maybe dystopia is not too far‑fetched. The international rules‑based order is crumbling; ecological crises are accelerating; democracies and the rule of law are being systematically dismantled. Threats are being sought out deliberately: the far right finds them in immigrants, in arts, …

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Jun

2026

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Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner Kallas, colleagues, Russia’s goal is not to simply breach our airspace, it is to conquer. It is to conquer by occupying our attention, our confidence and our sense of security. This starts at an individual level, and that is why resilience also starts and begins with people. We need stronger societal preparedness: security literacy – which is similar to media litera…

21

May

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

Thank you, my colleague, for your good speech. As you said well here, it really is about culture and cultural products, and we should, as Europeans, together respect and export them to the world and make Europe the best gaming continent in the world. We should be able to create a harmonised European approach to prevent market fragmentation and consumer protection. How do you feel, for example, tha…

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May

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, I love video games. I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. All the memories, the friendships, winning and losing together. And here's the thing: I can still play those games, those old console games from the 90s, but many newer ones? Gone. Not because they broke, but because a publisher decided to shut down a server, sometimes without even t…

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May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the happiest country in the world, people are queuing for food, unemployment is the highest in Europe and homelessness is on the rise – this is the case in Finland. The EU is one of the richest regions in the world. So how can it be that 93 million people are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, that more than one million people, including 4…

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Apr

2026

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World Day for Safety and Health at Work (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, one life lost every minute. Globally, the ILO estimates that work‑related psychosocial risks are linked to 840 000 deaths a year, making psychosocial risks at work now one of the leading causes of death, disease and distress for workers worldwide. High workloads, extended hours and limited autonomy present critical challenges in every workplace, and we spend an av…

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (A10-0025/2026 - Borja Giménez Larraz)

Madam President, colleagues, in this report, housing is not considered primarily as a human right and as a cornerstone of dignity, but as a tool that can be used for speculation. Therefore, I would like to put forward an oral amendment at the beginning of paragraph 1, which reads as follows: 'Emphasises that speculation on housing must be eradicated as a matter of priority; underlines that adequat…

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

I hope that the millions of people across Europe who are currently suffering from high housing costs will read this Parliament's report and find that the big problem with this report is that it says that there is a greater right to own housing than that housing is a human right for every single person. This is a huge problem, and this tells the story of the EPP in this report. I therefore also won…

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner Jørgensen, dear colleagues, housing is a human right and we in this House have the responsibility to make sure every single person in the EU has a place to call home. The report we are going to vote on today fails to recognise this right. Some of the solutions the report proposes are exactly those that have created the current housing crisis all across Europe. In…

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Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

Madam President, Commission, first of all, my condolences to all affected. As the climate crisis intensifies, extreme weather events are becoming a norm, not an exception. Droughts, wildfires, heat, flooding – while the financial cost is high, the human cost is staggering and no one is safe here. We cannot escape these effects in European workplaces either. Intense conditions cause accidents, illn…

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, tonight, 1.3 million people in the European Union do not have a place to call home – not because they chose it, but because politics has failed to provide it. And home is a human right. Yet hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings are living in the streets of our Union – a union that preaches about human rights and equality. In its affordable housing …

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May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, nothing is more important than a viable planet, and it is therefore absolutely crucial that the EU's multiannual financial framework should pave the way for the gradual phasing out of all fossil fuels and environmentally harmful subsidies. This has been a clear and long-term goal of the Greens, for which we have been fighting for the last few months, including with rega…

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, to be able to provide accessible social and health care, affordable housing, education and other services. we collect taxes. But while most people contribute towards this common good, there is one group that avoids its duty and this is the ultra-rich people. A small group of them sit on billions of euros and do not pay their fair share. If the top 0.5 % of s…

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Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, for years we've known that governments and companies must be able to innovate and plan for the needed green and digital transitions. Still, we have almost a million jobs lost in manufacturing in only four years, proving that they haven't. The green and digital transition has a huge impact on work and the lives of workers. Now, honourable Commissioner, you…

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the far right is on the rise and the conservative centre-right is enabling this all over Europe. Nazi salutes and bizarre culture wars every day. They are not any accidents. They divert people's focus from painful political decisions restricting workers' rights, making access to healthcare and education harder, cutting from social security, reducing the capacity of civi…

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Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the shortage of nurses is an acute threat both in Finland and in the European Union as a whole. At worst, the risk of violence against healthcare workers can be as high as eighty per cent. Wages are running in place, occupational safety and health is not sufficient, and the workload has increased. The price is high. Failure to invest in workers reduces the well-being of…

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

As I said in my speech, we see all over the world how democracy and the rule of law are now being trampled down. Here, many colleagues have well said that part of a functioning democracy is a functioning civil society, and civil society will not work if it is not also supported in some places by the political forces. What we demand is the same criteria for everyone. The same transparency must appl…

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, we are witnessing in real time how countries after another fall into autocracy. And I want us all to think for a moment: is this really the time we want to see the civil society in the EU suppressed? The Commission wants to stop environmental NGOs receiving EU funds from doing advocacy work. This attack has been pushed by EPP, their far-right allies and corporate …

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, year 24 was the first calendar year in which the average global temperature exceeded an aspen and a half degree. Efforts to halt climate change and biodiversity loss are not only too limited, but also literally deadly slow. As climate denier Trump regains power and the West breaks through, the EU must reclaim its role in global climate leadership. …

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Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, none of us without us. This principle must be reflected in the update of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. European disability organisations have already made good concrete proposals, of which I would like to highlight housing in particular. Home is the foundation of a good life, and home is a human right. During this period, we will decide on a …

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Dec

2024

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Urgent need for EU action to preserve nature and protect biodiversity to avoid the extinction of species (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, what is the link between fell owl, red mud, naal, sea trout and eel? They are all classified as endangered species. According to the latest report of the International Panel on Nature, biodiversity is depleting all over the world and on all indicators. The reasons for this are overconsumption of climate change. The reasons for the threat are similar in Finland and aroun…