What Raquel spoke about.

27 Apr

2026

EN Question

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

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Mr Sell, if a German girl goes on holiday to Italy and she meets an Italian guy, and they decide that they want to have a nice time together, and they go to bed and, you know, she is feeling all right, but at some point he wants to do something that she does not want to do, but she freezes. Don't you want that German girl in Italy to be able to go to the police station the next morning – like she …

25 Mar

2026

ES Speech

Combating corruption (debate)

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Madam President, I should like to thank the Commissioner for his kind words and for his commitment again. Thank you to the Chair of the LIBE Committee, Mr Javier Zarzalejos, for the good cooperation, and when it has been necessary, also, the good advice. I would like to address some of the issues that have been raised by colleagues, because I acknowledge that, as I said in my opening statements…

25 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Combating corruption (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, tomorrow this Parliament will vote on a historic piece of legislation: a binding law to tackle corruption all around the European Union. A first. But not all of our citizens will get to celebrate. Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who exposed corruption in Malta. Slovak investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova. The pa…

25 Mar

2026

NL Speech

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

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Mr President, when it comes to trans people and specifically young people who want to use gender-affirming care, the far right is shouting murder and fire here that we must protect young people from something that would have been imposed on them from woke culture – we have just heard again. Today we are talking about therapy that does just that: imposing a worldview on young people. A …

12 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, the Ombudsman – or Ombudswoman in this case, in the previous case – is one of the biggest fighters for transparency in our Union, and more specifically for the right to access public documents. She has rightly pointed out that the Commission President's deliberate deletion of text messages is a case of maladministration. I note in my conversations – and we have seen it…

11 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Situation of the rule of law in Greece, following the Court decision on Predator spyware (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioners, spyware is, in most cases, illegal, and we cannot say it loud enough or often enough. Greek judges have delivered some justice for this illegal use of spyware, and four people have been sentenced. That is real, it is tangible, and we should applaud it. But the fact remains that no high-ranking official in the Greek government has offered any democratic accountabilit…

10 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, on behalf of the FEMM Committee, two days ago on 8 March, the world celebrated International Women's Day. Two hours ago, this Parliament did the same. Our timelines were full of marches and beautiful shows of solidarity and admiration for and from women, yes, but also thankfully from men. Men like our own Manfred Weber, who posted an inspiring video praising and cele…

12 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, colleagues, I will try to strike a slightly different tone. Listen, we are a house of democracy, and we should have a lot of freedom to engage in also radical ways of calling for the attention of citizens for different subjects. But we have had already two plenary sessions when banners, including this one that we have seen today, have been hung without permission, infringing the R…

12 Feb

2026

NL Speech

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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12 Feb

2026

NL Question

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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11 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Europeans want a strong and united Europe in times of international turmoil – just like the majority of Slovaks do. However, Europe can only be as strong as our weakest link. And if we tolerate corruption running rampant in one of our European capitals, it weakens all of us. Corruption kills trust: trust between citizens and their governments, but also trust betwe…

21 Jan

2026

EN Speech

European Council meeting (joint debate)

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Madam President, madam Commissioner, dear President Costa, in the words of California Governor Gavin Newsom, it is time to buck up and have a backbone, and growing a backbone will take more than words, even though I do appreciate President von der Leyen saying yesterday in Davos, nostalgia will not bring back the old order. And that is why I would like to remind you and all of us in this House, th…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Pending approval of the Hungarian national plan for Security Action for Europe (SAFE) funding in light of persistent concerns around the allocation of public funding (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, the days of Viktor Orbán at the head of possibly the most corrupt government in the EU are numbered. And so I guess he thinks that desperate times ask for desperate measures. And that must be exactly why Hungary has requested billions from Europe, this time from the SAFE loans programme, despite vowing – vowing! – to stay out of the same defence cooperation which SAFE …

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

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

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Madam President, colleagues, we have heard many, many good things today, but I think that we have heard too little about enforcement and why it's taking us – why it's taking the Commission – so long sometimes to publish investigations, to come up with the fines, to enforce the rules that we already have in place. I wonder: might this have something to do with the threats that we're getting from so…

19 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

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Madam President, what we are trying to do here is to guarantee supply of medicines for which inefficient supply would result in serious harm or risk of serious harm to patients. Now, let me remind you that there are a lot of women in Europe who are still not enjoying the right to safe and legal abortion, and this situation will only become worse if we do not include abortion medicines in the list …

19 Jan

2026

EN Question

Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

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I was shocked to hear that, in trilogues, essential medication for women was simply dismissed as non‑essential – I am talking about abortion medication – and this while women in Europe still die today because of lack of access to safe abortion. Now, we could be solving this on a European level, and groups such as yours still refuse. Your party leader, Marine Le Pen, supported enshrining abortion a…

18 Dec

2025

NL Question

European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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18 Dec

2025

EN Speech

European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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That was not my argumentation, because I appreciate every single thing that is done for women to become more independent. I am talking about all those men in Hungary who, influenced by social media platforms which are totally out of control, now think that women should be under their direct financial control. That is what I am talking about. You are not responding to that.…

18 Dec

2025

EN Question

European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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I would like to speak about Hungary. In Hungary, 68 % of men think it is acceptable to control the financial situation of women. That is 22 % higher than the European average. And among young boys, especially, 72 % think that it is the task of men to earn money – that is 30 % higher than the European average. I think that we should be shielding Hungarian women from this development, and I was wond…

17 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, I've been told that Viktor Orbán really cannot get enough of a Hungarian comedian called Somogyi András, because he does a wonderful impersonation of how Brussels is an evil conspiracy and how Ursula von der Leyen doesn't want anything to do with democracy and only wants to punish Hungary. And I understand why people in Hungary love him, because that's exactly what we have heard t…

16 Dec

2025

EN Question

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

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Thank you, colleague, for your reading of the situation in Slovenia – which I do not share, because this initiative is not about Slovenian politics. This initiative is about providing women everywhere in Europe, regardless of whether they have the resources or not, with access to safe and legal abortion. But let me ask you something. Have you talked to organisations who help these women coming fro…

16 Dec

2025

NL Speech

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

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15 Dec

2025

NL Speech

Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Mehdi Kessaci, lawyer Derk Wiersum, crime journalist Peter R. de Vries, Hakim Changachi, Mohamed Bouchikhi: They were all killed by drug criminals. A threat to our European security, freedom of expression and democracy. In the fight against international drug crime, we are not going to win with endless discussions about ‘sovereignty’ or ‘subsidiarity’, as we do in this …

12 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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Colleague, thank you for your answer. I was not implying anything about the personal circumstances of anyone who has had difficulty in becoming a mother – I do regret that and I hope that we can, as institutions, support those people as well, whether they are women or men, by the way. But my question was not that and you're not answering my question. So I would really appreciate if you answered th…

12 Nov

2025

EN Question

Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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Thank you for taking my blue card. The regional government in Lazio, in Italy, is preparing to approve a law that would guarantee protection of the foetus from conception. I was wondering if you, Ms Magoni, agree with this proposal – that is my first question. My second question is, if you do, and you said that every woman has should have the right to be a mother, then would you also support crimi…