What Cyrus spoke about.

4 Apr

2022

MT Speech

Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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– Ms President, at this unprecedented time for the European Union and the world, our job is to ensure stability - stability for European families and stability for European businesses, because this is how we safeguard the interests of the most vulnerable in our society. Stability was precisely why this instrument, theMarket Stability Reserve originally created - an instrument whose job is to keep …

15 Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

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Ms President, Ms Commissioner, Véronique, I cannot but start this speech today by not mentioning a Maltese hero who lost his life tragically, Dr Victor Calvagna, who healed and lived with hundreds of Maltese and Gozitan children from cancer. Today we are remembering cancer in children. In recent months we have met experts, scientists from around the world and what they have told us has been the sa…

16 Dec

2021

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An EU ban on the use of wild animals in circuses (debate)

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Vážená pani predsedajúca, the animals used in circuses are unattended participants in performances that endanger their physical and mental health. Researchers found that 99% of their time is spent in stressful living conditions and small cages without enough space to be able to grow and live their lives normally. In a short time, people will be hanging out. All of this is first and foremost cruel …

15 Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

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Madam President, a Member said earlier on that women should only be carers. What are they saying? Can’t they see all these women working here and being the representatives of a lot of European citizens? Madam President, Mr Commissioner, growing up as a queer person in a conservative society, I was always told that if I were to succeed in life I should not flaunt who I am and should keep my identit…

25 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)

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Mr President. Caroline, Elenor, Maria, Antonia, Shannon, Lourdes, Marija Carmela, Angele and Chantelle. Our sisters, our mothers, our friends. The nine women who have been killed in my country, Malta, only in the past five years because of a very specific disease: hatred and violence towards women. And despite the 137 women who are murdered every day in the world, femicide continues to be a de fac…

24 Nov

2021

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Fundamental rights and the rule of law in Slovenia, in particular the delayed nomination of EPPO prosecutors (debate)

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Mr President, unity in diversity. Colleagues, this is our slogan, and these are the words that bring us together. As a Union, we are all different and it is that which makes us European. We come in different shapes and sizes because of the places we come from, but we have diverse frames of mind and opinions, but regardless of these key and sometimes fundamental differences we are all European. Wha…

24 Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much Vice-President Timmermans for the strong work you and your team have done not only in Glasgow but also in all previous months to make sure that we are the most ambitious continent when it comes to climate change, and that this will be our whole fight, of the whole world, to convince everyone and Permit me to make this plea, on behalf of all the European youth and …

23 Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

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Ms President, I cannot but start today by not than than thanking Abir for her work on this very important report for the European Union and for the future of our European economy. Together with the negotiators of all political groups, we have seen how together we can come up with the strongest proposals to address not only the needs of the European Union today, but the needs of the European Union …

7 Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

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Mr President, I think that, before me, my colleague from the left should be allowed to speak in this Chamber, notwithstanding the fact that he has a message on his T-shirt. It is a message against racism, which is very important in this day and age, and he is not able to speak. I think that this is anti-democratic in a democratic Chamber, which allows the voice of everyone to be heard from the lef…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Ms President, whenever we had a challenge before us and worked on our own, each country for itself, alone. But whenever we had a common challenge and faced it together, as one European Union, we managed to achieve the best results for all European citizens. This as an example we had the joint procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. The challenge ahead is currently the prices of energy and fuels and conc…

16 Sep

2021

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EU transparency in the development, purchase and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines (debate)

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Mr President, I am very pleased to address this topic today because I feel that it actually affects the thinking of why we have a European Union and therefore the democratic legitimacy of this our Union. If anything, the COVID-19 experience has opened our eyes to a number of things and has managed to show where the European Union is the strongest and where we also have some shortcomings. One of th…

14 Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much to Javier who managed to close this Directive after a long time with many obstacles. Five years. So much so, as a European Union, we have come to an agreement on the revision of the Blue Card Directive, although a large number of businesses across the European Union are in doubt because of the great need for workers to be able to continue to grow and expand. Colle…

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)

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Mr President, in the past days, working on the resolution on Hungary, the only picture that kept coming to mind was of friends I had as I was growing up in my teenage years in a very conservative society. Friends like François who were burdened with facing a society that they believed could never understand them, that their only hope was that of leaving this world, and unfortunately, that is what …

6 Jul

2021

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Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2021-2027 - Integrated Border Management Fund: Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy 2021-2027 (debate)

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Mrs President, let me be clear from the beginning. The immigration package without solidarity between Member States is unacceptable. We cannot allow a small number of countries to fall and rise from European values and principles of solidarity, to keep all of us hostage and blocked from moving forward, with the consequence that the countries of the periphery, such as Malta, are left alone on immig…