What Eleonora spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equality (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is not just the resolution on Cyprus that I ask you to support. This is the story behind the resolution. It is the women, the girls, the ones who left, the ones who are still here, the ones we met a year ago on our mission, the ones who told us the darkest events of violence, despair, humiliation and abuse · those who in 1974 were still underage girls, pre…

17

Jun

2026

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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen: Get ready with me to go to school. So they start their day, today, children 10 and 12 years old, presenting to thousands of strangers the beauty routine, the styling of clothes, the retinol they use, the makeup they consider suitable to go to school, and all this with our tolerance. For God's sake. We allow our children to lose their innocence, …

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May

2026

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, sooner or later, lies are bad, we will all be able to take care of a person we love and at some point we may all need care. That is why this dossier is not only for professional carers, nor only for those who care silently in their own home. It's about each of us. Yet, as you have seen and heard all too often, care remains invisible. It is taken fo…

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May

2026

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

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak about this dossier in as simple and humane terms as possible, because this dossier has been created by Rosa Estaràs Ferragut and myself with great care for all those who are called, chosen or led to care professionally or informally. And believe me, there are many: 6.2 million European citizens are professionally active in …

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Apr

2026

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Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in my own country, Greece, I have travelled to many places in the province, in our villages, in our islands, everywhere. There, then, I have met incredible women of all ages, with vision, strength and stubbornness. Women who do not want to leave, want to stay in their place, to create and offer, to keep their communities alive, to strengthen the local economy, to hig…

27

Apr

2026

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

Thank you, Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I want you to imagine a woman still, with her body frozen and someone raping every cell, mental and physical. She wants to scream, but her mouth doesn't make a sound. He doesn't scream, he doesn't ring, he doesn't run. Not because he consents, but because he is paralyzed by fear. What some still ask why science hasn't responded to is …

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Mar

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, homosexuality is not a disease and conversion practices are not cures. Yet, even today, there are people – many times among them minor children – who are subject to such practices. Practices based on fear, guilt, rejection, not science. There is not the slightest scientific evidence that these practices, even if there is consensu…

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Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

10

Mar

2026

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International Women’s Day

Madam President, I would like to address all those who consider Women's Day to be graphic. To those who are almost tired of hearing about our problems and about women's rights. People were talking on the phone and laughing while Jackie Fox was talking. So I tell you that your attitude is not towards us women. It is your attitude towards the mother who gave birth to you and raised you· your attitud…

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Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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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, Commissioner, Minister, millions of women have seen themselves naked online, without ever having undressed and without ever having been able to download the content from the platforms. Between them and me. Simple photos, from Instagram, dressed, everyday, stripped bare with a click of algorithms, without permission, without shame, without consent, without consequences. This is not…

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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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Dec

2025

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

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Nov

2025

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EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (debate)

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Nov

2025

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Madam President, violence against women remains one of the most persistent pathologies. But let's talk openly. Violence is not just murder and physical abuse. Violence is also emotional abuse, constant demotion, internalized misogyny, hate speech. In all this there are not only male perpetrators and female victims. There are men and women who consciously or unconsciously reproduce stereotypes that…

12

Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there are many who believe that the issue of equality has been settled. Let's go see if that's the case. Pay gap: women receive 12% lower pay and 37% lower pensions than men. Medicine and health: clinical structures and drug studies are primarily conducted on a male sample, with the result that women are often misdiagnosed and, in some cases, not at all. Gender-based…

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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Madam President, let's talk a little bit about surrogacy: not for her pure form, that is, when a woman becomes a bearer of hope through the supreme act of altruism, but for the other, the darker side of surrogacy, that is, when need becomes a commodity; where vulnerable women are used as coercive means of reproduction; When women promote the process of surrogacy on social networks as a trendy prof…

9

Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

Mr President, combating gender-based violence, reproductive rights, equality at work, in education, in health: all are contemporary issues and important priorities of the Women's Rights Roadmap. But do you know what the most common question women get today? Whether work is combined with motherhood. Do you know what the correct answer to this question is? It doesn't exist. No matter what the woman …

7

Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, 31 August, Afghanistan: 6.2 Richter and over 6 000 dead and wounded – most of them women and girls, who die because they are forbidden to be helped. In Afghanistan, where underage girls have been blackmailed into marriages since the age of 9, women are banned from speaking in public places, singing, seeing with both eyes, and studying. I will not ask where the activists…

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Oct

2025

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Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, our elderly are not the past. It is the living link that connects us to history and our values. They are the ones who set up the Europe of peace, solidarity, human dignity through wars, crises and hardships. They carry the memory, wisdom and values on which our European edifice was built. That is why today, more than ever, Europe must stand by them in practice, with …

7

Jul

2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, none of us dream of our old age in an old-age care facility. No one wishes to spend the last years of their life behind the closed doors of an institution. We all want to grow old where we blossomed, where we created, loved and were loved. In our home, in our neighborhood, among people who know us by our first name. Deinstitutionalization is not…

17

Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, 'why now?' This is the question that victims of sexual abuse are asked when they decide to talk about their trauma, even years after experiencing it. At last, we have the opportunity to put an end to this targeting of victims. It is important to vote on the Directive on the protection of children - victims of abuse. It opens the frame of sexual crimes for the interne…

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May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is finally time to talk about mental health in the workplace. Since the first days in the European Parliament, I have sought to find out what Europe has done about bullying at work. I saw great initiatives. But they were all meant to empower the victim of workplace bullying, not to contain the bully. As if there is no way to deal with the problem. The problem, of cou…

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Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, among other things, the Union of Skills has two major objectives: make Europe as competitive and inclusive as possible. Education and vocational training are not only learning and skilling tools of the future for a sophisticated and competitive workforce. They are also tools of empowerment, independence and equality for people with disabilities.…

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Madam President, the Commission has therefore presented the Charter of Women's Rights and has come to remind, especially to those who forget easily, what the values of the European Union are: equality, freedom, justice and security in all areas and actions of life for women and men. Europe once again makes clear its position that it wants to continue fighting for gender equality. What if gender eq…