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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, as a planet, we need the COP30 in Bethlehem to be a moment to accelerate our global response to climate change. Science tells us that we can't waste any more time and that we have to move faster. The numbers are well known. Therefore, the European Union must assume the responsibility of leading action against the climate emergency with a commitment to the t…

22

Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Honourable Member, thank you for your question, we already missed your blue cards. I do not have a cynical reading of politics, so I really want to believe that these two topics are on the agenda, because the President of the European Council, who had the good time to write, on behalf of Portugal, a letter to the President of the Commission calling for European intervention on the subject of housi…

22

Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, on the agenda of the next European Council there are two issues that some political forces in this House consider incompatible priorities: defense and housing. It is good to see that the European Council does not give up any of them. We know that today we live in a hybrid situation, where none of our Member States are at war, but where the European Union is…

21

Oct

2025

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Delayed justice and rule of law backsliding in Malta, eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination (debate)

Mr President, 'we are not interested in justice without change', Daphne Galizia's children wrote on social media in their first publication after her brutal murder eight years ago. We know that advances have been made, that two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for supplying the car bomb, that two others have been accused of placing and detonating the device and are serving 40 years in …

21

Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the recent ceasefire agreement in Gaza has brought relief and hope, but it is not a peace agreement. This is a fragile and precarious truce. This is not yet the time for celebration. This is the time when European diplomacy must step up its efforts and this Parliament must continue to fight for respect for its resolution of last September: the free entry of humanitar…

9

Oct

2025

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Public health risks in a Europe affected by global warming: tackling the spread of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases (vote)

Madam President, Commissioner, according to the World Health Organisation, after the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change is the greatest global public health threat of the 21st century. You can deny it at will. Temperatures continue to rise in Europe, with longer and warmer summers, more frequent and severe heat waves, devastating rains, storms. These patterns are exacerbated by biodiversity loss an…

8

Oct

2025

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Arbitrary detention of EU citizens Javier Marañón Montero and David Rodríguez Ballesta in Equatorial Guinea

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to express my deep concern about the conditions of detention of Spanish citizens Javier Marañón Montero and David Rodríguez Ballesta in Equatorial Guinea. There are serious indications of violation of fundamental rights of defence and lack of transparency in the judicial process, which raises legitimate doubts about the respect for the rule of law in thi…

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Sep

2025

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Case of Victoire Ingabire in Rwanda

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to raise my voice for the release of Victoire Ingabire, leader of the opposition in Rwanda, who continues to be persecuted and imprisoned for exercising a fundamental right: the right to political participation. In the European Union, we cannot turn a blind eye to this case and to many others that have been happening in that country. O…

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President of the Commission, in your speech you said that we needed to be united, but we need to be united around the right priorities, those that respond to the anxieties of millions of European citizens, and they have been clear in every Eurobarometer, and also in the streets, about Gaza. So we are very clear about what we expect. First, our citizens have chosen peace as their main value a…

9

Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

President, Commissioner, today Moldova symbolises the choice and commitment of an entire people to a European future. Not only because that was the will that its voters expressed in the referendum a year ago on including the pro-European route in the Constitution, but also because, in the face of Russia’s constant malign interference and various hybrid threats – and I am only talking about Russia’…

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Sep

2025

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Wave of violence and continuous use of force against protesters in Serbia (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in Serbia, clashes between protesters, especially young students, and supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party and President Vučić have been taking place for almost a year, when the tragedy of Novi Sad took place. The initial demand for accountability has turned into a denunciation of authoritarianism, corruption, and the demand for early elections, pushing up the…

9

Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, rural fires have always been present in a country with Mediterranean forests, such as my own, Portugal, but climate change is happening more and more rapidly, with the repetition of extreme weather events and within a national framework of the highest number of fires among all the Member States. After 2021, we invested more in prevention than comba…

9

Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, Gaza is starving before our eyes and with it the credibility of the European institutions, both individually and collectively. We speak of values, but we accept the systematic violation of international law, with the children of Gaza condemned to starvation, the shooting of civilians in food aid queues and the repeated bombing of he…

9

Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Stockpiling Strategies - strengthening response capacities for a changing risk and threat landscape (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we know that the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic have made it possible to strengthen the European Union. Robusting our preparedness to respond to health threats or crises. But there is still a lot to do. In terms of citizens' literacy. Also in terms of accelerating the development of medicines, tests and vaccines against the main threats…

9

Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, in the European Union this year, temperatures, burnt areas and the number of fires are already above average. And in my country, in Portugal, there is significant fire activity, although we are still in the early summer. This reality is and will be more and more frequent and it is one of the reasons for strengthening preparedness at European level, because …

9

Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

Honourable Member, I can only answer for myself and my political family. We always associate two words: preparation for war and strengthening our security, but also peace. And she means all that she said: education, health, stronger welfare state.…

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Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the European Council, Commissioner, unsurprisingly, the conclusions of the last Council show how difficult it is for our Member States to form progressive consensuses. Commitments to support Ukraine, strengthening European defence and security and competitiveness are to be welcomed, but complacency in the face of the Israeli government, the timidity of the refer…

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President, we are all as embarrassed by the European Union's recent stance as the honourable Member and the Europeans know it.

8

Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, the situation in the Middle East continues to give us back the image of disrespect for the international order and multilateralism, but also the image of our collective failure. In Lebanon, the terms of the ceasefire are not being respected and Israel has conducted further airstrikes. In Iran, the Israeli and US bombings likely delayed the development of nuclear weapons, but led t…

18

Jun

2025

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Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali

Mr President, the dissolution of political parties in Mali is a serious violation of the fundamental principles of any rule of law and constitutional order. Without pluralism, without freedom of expression, without the involvement of civil society and without the democratic participation of citizens, no lasting political stability can be built. From the 2020 coup d'état and the military junta's ta…

17

Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, Madam High Representative, the military escalation between Iran and Israel is, unfortunately, a smokescreen over the immensity of the humanitarian tragedy that continues in Gaza, the political abandonment of the Hamas hostages, the diplomatic efforts to return to the ceasefire, the discussion on the situation of the two states and respect for international order and institutions, the…

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Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by stressing that the commitment and resilience shown by the Government and the people of Moldova to carry out, in a short period of time and in a difficult geopolitical context, the reforms necessary to meet the criteria for membership of the European Union and to refer to the constitutional enshrinement of a pro-European cou…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, for two months now, the refusal of aid has put the entire population of Gaza in the face of acute levels of food insecurity: 20% in catastrophic starvation, 71,000 children, 17,000 mothers with acute malnutrition – the antechamber of death. Meanwhile, at the borders, rows of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are waiting for permission to enter. I was there in Febru…

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2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it has been almost three decades since Parliament and the Council adopted an action programme on rare diseases - Fabry, Duchenne, Behçet or - especially present in my country, Portugal - Corino de Andrade disease, diseases that represent a small number of cases in society, but pose great difficulties for patients, families and national health syste…

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2025

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Prosecution of journalists in Cameroon, notably the cases of Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior, Tsi Conrad (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the persecution of media workers in Cameroon reflects the atmosphere of political repression in Cameroon, which is well known to be one of the countries in Africa with the highest number of cases of journalists being detained. Abusing national security laws, resorting to administrative measures and resorting to military courts, Cameroonian authorit…