What Eleonora spoke about.

11

Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, evolution, automation, digitalisation, the economic crisis, the pandemic, the need for a green transition are factors that have put many professions at risk, but have also opened doors to new ones. And those professions that manage to survive, will have to adapt to new data and upgrade. In any case, vocational training, new skills and education …

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, things are simple. In real life out there, the freedom of one stops where the freedom of the other begins. This is because rights and dignity, democracy, are protected by laws. In the parallel digital universe, however, democracy is under attack in its own name by distorted algorithms that, while giving a sense of the circulation of ideas and information in the conte…

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, Commissioner, we still need 286 years to achieve absolute gender equality around the world if we continue to go at the pace we are going now. The good news of the day is that in Europe the numbers are a bit more optimistic. If 100% is absolute equality, we are currently at 71%. We certainly have a long way to go, but we also have some progress behind us, if one realizes that in 2019 …

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

I listened carefully to your speech where you insisted and focused on the fact that we cannot ask the state to interfere in the way parents raise their children. However, there are also families that have completely inappropriate parents, parents who neglect their children emotionally, psychologically, do not care for them, and, in much worse cases, parents who rape and sexually abuse their childr…

28

Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, 35 years have passed since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty which stipulates that all children in the world must be safe, healthy, have access to food, education, medical care, play, technology, happiness. 196 countries from the outset signed and ratified this treaty, because we all recognize that our children need us, they need our protection. We, too, need …

27

Nov

2024

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Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union (debate)

We have just heard you vulgarly attack fellow human beings who may have been born of the wrong sex or have fallen in love with the same sex as them. I would like to ask you very much, because you have labelled these people mentally ill, to tell us in what capacity you say this – if you are, for example, a psychiatrist – and whether there are any substantiated scientific samples to prove your claim…

27

Nov

2024

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Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union (debate)

Madam President, I think you have all been informed of the fact that a few Member States have decided to ban schools from speaking about inclusive ideas and views concerning the LGBTIQ community, and have even set financial penalties for all those who do not follow the law. I don't want to dwell on this decision anymore, because I don't want to become a partaker of these toxic and regressive homop…

26

Nov

2024

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Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap (debate)

25

Nov

2024

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

Mr President, today is the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Not just physical, but all forms of violence. Every year this day arrives, when we count dead, abused, raped, beaten, leveled women, as if we were making a "violence fund". We're not doing something right. Are we not dealing enough with stereotypes? With beliefs about what a woman's place is? Today we often condemn pract…

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Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in my country, Greece, recently, a group of underage girls organised the beating of a classmate via an online platform. The audio messages and visual material that came to light were shocking. The video of the beating went viral. The girl ended up in the hospital and her friends incited people to revenge through hate speech by posting on social media the deta…

10

Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. 84 million European citizens have admitted that they have experienced or are experiencing mental health problems. 51% of them were ashamed to acknowledge it. Imagine, then, how many people there are still out there who suffer inside their souls and dare not ask for help. The European Union is known to have mental health issues high on its agenda th…

9

Oct

2024

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Iraq, notably the situation of women’s rights and the recent proposal to amend the Personal Status Law

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Greece I have a daughter who is 6 years old. She likes ice cream, she started school, she likes going to the swings and playing with her dolls. She does what all the little girls in the world do. Or not all the girls in the world? In Iraq right now political leaders are trying to pass a law that through a series of despicable acts against women will pave t…

7

Oct

2024

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Need to fight the systemic problem of gender-based violence in Europe (debate)

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι. Βρισκόμαστε στη Γαλλία όπου δικάζεται η φρικιαστική υπόθεση βιασμού της Ζιζέλ Πελικό. Γι ́ αυτό επιτρέψτε μου να μιλήσω στα γαλλικά. The defendants, her husband and more than 50 men raped the victim after the husband drugged her. More than 200 rapes were committed over a ten-year period. The perpetrators are all accused of rape because, in addition to the visual…

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Sep

2024

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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, I have one minute to talk about women's rights in Afghanistan. So I have a minute to talk about something that just doesn't exist. Women in Afghanistan no longer have any fundamental rights. The Taliban regime and the abusive laws it imposes have taken care to violate women's rights to an absolute extent, with the aim of simply forcing them to roam a life without a real existence. Ha…

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Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

Mr President, I would very much like to read to you today some of the millions of messages that LGBTIQ people, people with disabilities and women receive every day, in addition to religious groups, on social media and beyond. However, the rules of this Chamber, which condemn and prohibit the use of abusive language and verbal violence, do not allow me to do so. No one, of course, accuses us of vio…