What Emma spoke about.

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Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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May

2026

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Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as long as society relies on the precarious or invisible work of women, there will be no real equality. 78% of caregivers are caregivers and the more precarious the position, the more numerous they are. These jobs are hard, sometimes despised. Even today, they are the ones that keep our societies standing. For many women, caring is also the job of: the end of…

27

Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, MeToo, #BalanceTonPorc... The word is liberated and, little by little, shame changes sides. In 2024, we adopted a major directive to combat violence against women. But due to the unfortunate positioning of some heads of state, such as Emmanuel Macron, a common definition of rape at the European level is still missing. They've since changed their minds, it's happ…

12

Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, throughout Europe the same scenario is repeated. The same strategy of the reactionaries: firstly, to denigrate public broadcasting 24 hours a day, secondly, to demand the abolition of funding, and finally, to seek to privatise. But the story does not end there. Once in power, they put public TV channels and radio to the test to make it a propaganda tool in the service o…

21

Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

Madam President, Executive Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, while Europe can only rely on itself, the Commission is finally taking stock of the threat to the security of our digital networks. I support his intention to ban Huawei from our infrastructure, whose aggressive lobbying and espionage attempts we are familiar with here. The new Network Regulation and the future Space Law will make Eu…

20

Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, can it be accepted today that artificial intelligence services are producing massive amounts of pedophile content of unprecedented violence? In 2025, 1,286 videos were generated by AI, including on X, thanks to Grok. Sexual and paedocriminal violence are becoming daily hobbies. Horror is encouraged, commodified. Advertising for crime has become a business like any other. And what …

17

Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the extreme right here say that to fight discrimination would be to fight against Europe, against European civilisation. I have even heard some talk about fighting Christmas. As if they themselves represented the European identity here; as if, even, they were the embodiment of the spirit of Christmas. It must be said: You are not Europe, you hate it. The …

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Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Threat to freedom of expression in Algeria: the five-year prison sentence of French writer Boualem Sansal (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Boualem Sansal has been languishing in an Algerian prison for one hundred and thirty-seven days now. One hundred and thirty-seven days. Last Thursday, he was sentenced to five years in prison by an Algerian court. His crime, in the eyes of the military regime? To have wielded his pen, acidic and impertinent, to have exercised his fundamental right to freedom of expressi…

11

Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Madam President, everywhere the reactionary shadow is spreading, and with it the backsliding of many rights for women. Europe must wake up and our awakening must be feminist. The Commission had a major opportunity to stand up to the reactionaries and reaffirm its commitment to equality. This roadmap includes important steps that the Socialists, together with Mrs Mînzatu, have taken away from the C…

12

Feb

2025

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Honouring the memory of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová: advancing media freedom, strengthening the rule of law, and protecting journalists across the EU (debate)

Madam President, seven years ago, on 21 February 2018, Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová were coldly murdered. A double gunshot murder at their home. Their crime? Doing their job as a journalist: Investigate, inform. Seven years later, not only has justice not been fully served, but even worse, Robert Fico, who had to resign under the pressure of the scandal, is back in power. A slap in the face fo…

19

Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, I know that we are looking with great demand at the immense women who have left their mark on this institution, such as Gisèle Halimi and Simone Veil, women who would not let us regress and fall into the vile traps set for us by the extreme right in this Chamber. We will not fall into any of your traps because we know who you are. You claim to…

27

Nov

2024

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The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria (debate)

Mr President, in 2006, in a letter to his Algerian compatriots, Boualem Sansal already denounced the violence of censors: You have no right to think that. You're not an Algerian, you don't deserve to exist. In another life, they must have been the Holy Inquisition. This same violence of censors, he is today the victim. It is now seven days, seven days that the Franco-Algerian writer is detained af…

7

Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 'abortion is the leading cause of death in the world'. This is the lie that CNews broadcast on February 25, 2024. A false information, one more, which is part of a real cultural battle, orchestrated by the media empire of Vincent Bolloré in France, at the service of the extreme right. Offensives that can be found elsewhere in Europe, in Hungary …