What Marta spoke about.

1

Apr

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

Madam High Representative, today I want to talk to you about the unbearable silence of the European Union regarding the crimes of Mr Netanyahu's government. The silence in which our Member States take refuge, when in this House we call for the suspension of the Association Agreement with Israel, because it makes trade relations conditional on respect for human rights and every day they are violate…

1

Apr

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, I would like to welcome the conclusions of the last European Council regarding the centrality which they attributed to the economic agenda. We know well that strengthening the European Pillar of Social Rights depends on Europe's prosperity, that only with more growth can we create more jobs, more quality jobs, and strengthen Eur…

12

Mar

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rape

Mr President, Commissioner, Sudan is experiencing an unprecedented human catastrophe since the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces started a civil war almost two years ago. Trapped in this confrontation are millions of Sudanese, in particular women and children. Sexual violence, rape of women, girls, boys – including collective rape – is systematically used as a weapon of war, with …

11

Mar

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in a tragic stalemate. To put pressure, Israel cut off all electricity supply to Gaza (which also prevents access to desalinated drinking water) and suspended all humanitarian aid inflows. We can no longer passively watch the degradation of life in Gaza. Israel must again allow humanitarian aid – which is not an instr…

11

Mar

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the proposed Critical Medicines Act is an essential part of the architecture of our common security and defence, as we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. We know, in our countries, the experience of rupture of vital medicines (such as anesthetics, antibiotics, even insulin), as we know the diagnosis of our weaknesses: dependence on less than a handful of geographi…

11

Mar

2025

PT Speech

Watch

European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, dear President-in-Office of the Council, I would like to begin by welcoming the conclusions of last week's extraordinary European Council. More than ever, we all understand that European security is closely linked to the outcome of the war in Ukraine. The rearmament of the European Union, notably to respond to hybrid threats, is not a choice, it is an emergency of deterrence. Ukra…

12

Feb

2025

PT Answer

Watch

US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Mr President, what I think is required of the European Union is that the voices we hear in this House today, this afternoon, should not be those that triumph at the end of the day, but rather the voices of support for common responsibility, respect for others, respect for human life, respect for the international order, because that is why we came to politics, not to be 'America first', not to be …

12

Feb

2025

PT Speech

Watch

US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the world we have known in recent decades has changed. O American First It represents hostility to the multilateral order. The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement will weaken for the second time the global commitment to fight climate change. The withdrawal from the World Health Organization will remove 330 million people fro…

23

Jan

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, desertification and land degradation, like climate change, are a reality that calls into question the most basic human rights, such as the right to food or the right to access clean and safe water. They hit the most vulnerable communities in particular, women, children, indigenous peoples, but potentially they will hit us all. And COP 16, which too…

22

Jan

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Case of Boualem Sansal in Algeria

Madam President, Commissioner, Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian citizen, free spirit, award-winning writer and political dissident, was arrested last year for daring to speak out against the political and social situation in his country, accused of an attack on state security. His act is considered terrorism and he risks life imprisonment and the death penalty. This detention, like many others in…

21

Jan

2025

PT Answer

Watch

Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Honourable Member, two very important things: firstly, the response that China has just given to what was the withdrawal of US support for the World Health Organization is an example for this House, as China has just stepped up its financial intervention in the World Health Organization to cover the withdrawal of the United States. That is what the European Union needs to do. Secondly, on the ques…

21

Jan

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, Trump's arrival in the White House, his inaugural speech and the first presidential decrees clearly show what we can expect. Trump's "America First" shows us the choice for weakening transatlantic cooperation in areas such as defence, trade or climate policies. The reference to the construction of a society blind to diversity shows us a choice not only with re…

20

Jan

2025

PT Speech

Watch

Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, 24 hours have passed since the start of the ceasefire in Gaza and we do not know for how long the hope will last, but we are delighted at the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees. Today is the day of a new phase that asks, in addition to seriousness in its implementation, restraint of the parties. At any moment, the fragile peace agreement can be broken. The release …

18

Dec

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Continued repression of civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan and the cases of Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, Anar Mammadli, Kamran Mammadli, Rufat Safarov and Meydan TV

Mr President, Commissioner, in Azerbaijan, state repression against civil society and independent media gained prominence on the eve of COP29, with the authorities using politically motivated charges to detain activists and journalists, with the aim of silencing and restricting citizens' fundamental rights. One of the paradigmatic cases is that of Gubad Ibadoghlu, an economist and political activi…

17

Dec

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Use of rape as weapon of war, in particular in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, ten years ago, in this very room, Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize to Denis Mukwege, the doctor who has dedicated his life to healing the bodies of women who have been victims of war rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr Mukwege said that women's bodies have become a real battleground in his country and in others, such as Sudan, which we are …

17

Dec

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, High Representative, after more than 50 years of control by the Assad family, Syria has flooded with hope for the end of a regime that has used chemical weapons against its own people. I would like to say that there is no 'but' for the end of a cruel dictatorship. However, the collapse of the regime at the hands of the HTS movement, outlawed by the United Nation…

27

Nov

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, the vote in this College of Commissioners is a hard test for many of us. It was not we who chose to ignore the principle of parity in its composition. We did not choose to assign a vice presidency to the radical right. We do not choose to hand over central portfolios to Europeans that affect the rights of European women and girls to those who have nothing but indifference to them.…

26

Nov

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

13

Nov

2024

PT Speech

Watch

EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the current agenda of the future Trump administration poses worrying threats to the political priorities of the European Union. On the one hand, there is the climate threat. A second withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, or even the complete abandonment of the UN climate change negotiating framework, will undermine all efforts to achieve carbon ne…

13

Nov

2024

PT Speech

Watch

The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, first of all, I would like to extend a word of condolence and solidarity to all the Spanish people for the tragedy in the Valencian region. We think that things like this only happen in vulnerable countries, which we promptly come to with humanitarian aid. Suddenly they happen on our doorstep, with one of our Member States, showing our fragility in the face of the force of nature.…

22

Oct

2024

PT Speech

Watch

Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the war in the Middle East is worsening on a daily basis, now also affecting Lebanon, where the bombing of Israel has forced 1.2 million people to leave their homes. And last week we saw an Israeli army attack on UNIFIL, which follows a pattern of disrespect already used towards UNRWA. This is further evidence that what is at stake in the Middle East is, in addition …

18

Sep

2024

PT Speech

Watch

The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, Commissioner, classifying this debate as an urgency is more than a procedural designation. There is an urgent need to denounce the apartheid Just as urgent is the need to do everything in our power to put an end to it. The repression of women took hold in the country when, for the second time and in the known context, the Taliban returned to power about three years ago. Since then, w…

18

Sep

2024

PT Speech

Watch

EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, let us start with the facts. The European Union has competences complementary to those of the Member States in the field of health, and we need to stop for a few seconds so that everyone fully understands this. Today we are gathered here because this is an outbreak of Mpox clade 1, which since November 2023 has been hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo and has sprea…

17

Sep

2024

PT Speech

Watch

War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Madam President, almost a year after the barbaric attacks of 7 October by Hamas against Israel, humanitarian tragedy dominates the Gaza Strip. More than 40 000 deaths, difficulties in accessing food, basic health care, electricity, drinking water and sanitation systems, 75% of essential service infrastructure damaged or destroyed. The situation on the ground cannot be normalised. It cannot be norm…

17

Sep

2024

PT Speech

Watch

The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, I would like to begin by welcoming two of the proposals in the Draghi report: advocacy for the regular issuance of common debt by the European Union and investment focused on critical areas of the economy. This is a progressive view and I must say that in Portugal the socialists have been fighting for it for a long time. But I'd like to deal with a specific point. By including the…