What Marc spoke about.

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Cross-border adoptions from third countries (debate)

Mr President, just before you started chairing, the German MEP Christine Anderson from the ID Group, she talked about ‘Regenbogen Mafia’, ‘Rainbow Mafia’. And let me call let me recall the definition of ‘Mafia’. Mafia stands for an organised international body of criminals. And I think that people who defend the rights of rainbow families, people who defend LGBTI rights, they are not criminals. They are just human rights defenders, they defend fundamental rights. And I think that kind of talk is totally inappropriate for this Parliament. And it equals to me to hate speech. And hate speech has no place in this house.

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

Thank you Mr Séjourné, and I forgot to mention that you are the author of this topical debate.

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

The next item on the agenda is the topical debate (Rule 162): ‘More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all’ (2023/2601(RSP)). I should like to inform Members that for this debate there is no catch-the-eye procedure and that no blue cards will be accepted. I would also like to invite the speakers to keep the time as we are running a bit late, so I want you to respect the times.

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Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

The minutes of yesterday’s sitting and the Texts adopted are available. Are there any comments on the Minutes of yesterday’s sitting? I don't see any. The minutes are approved.

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Composition of committees and delegations

The S&D Group has notified the President of a decision relating to changes to appointments within a committee. This decision will be set out in the Minutes of today’s sitting and takes effect on the date of this announcement.

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Closure of the session

I declare closed the 2022-2023 session of the European Parliament.

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Closure of the sitting

The sitting is closed, I wish you all a pleasant evening and night. (The sitting closed at 22.49)

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Approval of the minutes of the sitting

The minutes of this sitting will be submitted to Parliament for its approval tomorrow, 14 March 2023 at the beginning of the afternoon.

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Agenda of the next sitting

The agenda of the sitting of 14 March 2023 has been published on the European Parliament website.

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

With this we end our one-minute speeches.This was the last item on our agenda. The next sitting is tomorrow, Tuesday 14 March at 9.00.

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

We now move to the next item on the agenda: one-minute speeches pursuant to Rule 172.Members are invited to take the floor from their seats. We will start with Mr Sokol. Mr Sokol, the floor is yours.

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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

The debate is closed, the vote will be held on Wednesday 15 March. Written statements (Rule 171)

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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

The next item on the agenda is the report by Urmas Paet on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy taking stock of the functioning of the EEAS and for a stronger EU in the world [2021/2065(INI)] (A9-0045/2023). Mr Paet is not present yet. We are searching for him, but I do not want to interrupt the debate, so I propose that we continue, and I invite Executive Vice—President Timmermans to take the floor and hope Mr Paet will join us very soon.

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Policy Coherence for Development (short presentation)

The debate is closed. The vote will take place tomorrow, Tuesday 14 March. Written statements (Rule 171)

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Policy Coherence for Development (short presentation)

The next item is a short presentation of the report by Janina Ochojska on Policy Coherence for Development [2021/2164(INI)] (A9-0019/2023).

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

The debate is closed. The vote will take place tomorrow, Tuesday 14 March.

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Activities of the European Ombudsman - annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, dear Commission Vice-President, dear Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, and dear colleagues, first of all, I would like to thank our rapporteur, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, for the excellent work she has done on this file and the shadow rapporteurs, the colleagues, I think we did a good work to make this report a success. Since her first election, our Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, has been working on increasing the standards of EU administration. This is not only making us happy here in the European Parliament but this is very important for our citizens and they appreciate it very much, so thank you very much for that work. We, the S&D, welcome very much the hard work of the small office of the Ombudsman that increased its efficiency and has proven to have an important role to bridge the gap between EU citizens and the EU institutions. The structural organisation and the efficiency of the Ombudsman’s office, the need for full transparency, the management of the COVID-19 crisis, the management of our agencies, the avoidance of the risk of conflict of interest for officials from EU institutions – all these are topics covered by the Ombudsman and included also in our report and very important subjects. Transparency is the basis for our citizens’ trust and we must make sure to honour it, especially when it comes to the use of public money. Access to work-related documents is very important and has been discussed in your report, in our report, also including instant messages, the access to which must be included and guaranteed. Indeed, in this particular period, it is important to demonstrate our capability to be close to our citizens. Fundamental rights are the core values of the European Union and they should apply to all of our policies also inside the institution when it comes to ensuring equal access to work and teleworking for all workers, especially persons with disability but also when it comes to the management of our agencies such as Frontex. I am glad to see how the Ombudsman’s recommendation can help to improve our internal functioning in terms of transparency, accountability, but also make our institutions and agencies a better place to work. I would like to apologise to the Ombudsman and to the President that I will leave now because I’m going to the EP Bureau where we discuss cooling-off period, which is also a subject which you are very interested in. So thank you very much and keep on your good work.

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Adjournment of the session

I declare adjourned the session of the European Parliament.

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Approval of the minutes of the sitting and forwarding of texts adopted

The Minutes of this sitting will be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of its next sitting. If there are no objections, I shall forward forthwith the resolutions adopted at today’s sitting to the persons and bodies named in the resolutions.

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (B9-0101/2023)

That concludes the explanations of vote.

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Developing an EU cycling strategy (B9-0102/2023)

Dear colleague, I heard you were speaking on the minimum income resolution, which was not on the vote. We are on cycling right now, so it’s just ‘get on your bike’.

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Explanations of vote

The next item is the explanations of vote.

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European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers (debate)

The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 171)

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European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers (debate)

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers (2023/2564 RSP)

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Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

The Minutes and Texts Adopted of yesterday’s sitting have been distributed. Are there any comments? I see no comments. (The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved)