What Idoia spoke about.

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, Europe must move forward, Commissioner. As Letta says, with more market integration, yes. But also with more common public policies that guarantee social Europe. Therefore, more integration, yes. But also more social Europe. We must combine the risks and opportunities to advance the competitiveness of our economies and our businesses. But it cannot be done at the expense of Europe…

6

Oct

2025

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

Mr President, Commissioner, we all know someone who lost his job after fifty years and, today, with more than sixty, he has not found another. And we also know young people who are denied a decent first job opportunity because they lack experience. Ageism affects both and we still live life in thirds: third of training, third of work and third of retirement. But now we live longer. Therefore, we m…

17

Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, I thank the rapporteurs for their work and for taking into account the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. We are at a crucial moment for the future of Europe and it is essential to take stock, but also to project towards the future. The Recovery and Resilience Facility has been our European response to an unprecedented crisis, based on European values of ju…

17

Jun

2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, vague promises are not worth it, because it is the future of future generations of our sons and daughters that is at stake. The Pact is a step in the right direction to address threats, but it needs to contain more concrete measures for fishermen. It is important that the Pact puts small-scale fishermen at the centre, addressing their real challenges, which are none …

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May

2025

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Preparation of the EU-UK summit (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, Commissioner, the social Europe that makes us unique and that we must preserve has been built as a safety net for people. But today we have a key challenge: how to respond to the loss of purchasing power and the increased risk of exclusion in Europe? One hundred and twelve million people are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Too many people today face difficulties to reach the …

12

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)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, the dispute over attracting talent is today the big battle, because talent is a strategic priority of the European Union if it wants to remain globally competitive. Investing in people means investing in our future and in the competitiveness of our companies in a world full of threats. Vice-President Mînzatu has clearly pointed out the task: we need to develop a…

12

Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, what we are adopting today is not just another report because we are at the beginning of the new multiannual financial framework and, at this critical moment for Europe, we need a clear vision combining economic prosperity and social justice. I would like to stress the importance of further developing the European Pillar of Social Rights. This must be our compas…

11

Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, people are the key to the success of any European industrial action plan. Investing in people is investing in the competitiveness of our economic and industrial model. Our goal must be to continue working for quality jobs, with fair wages and good and safe working conditions. Last week we met the proposed Union of Skills, called to ensure a European citizenship trained and prepare…

11

Feb

2025

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

Madam President, Madam Executive Vice-President, in this Parliament lately we have only heard about the competitiveness of companies and productivity, and they forget what is important: The key is the people, those we all represent. And I also want to tell you that training is a right. Investing in people, a dual vocational training more oriented to the economic reality, a first decent work experi…

11

Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are having a crisis of health and care workers in Europe, and this is mainly due to the ageing of staff and also the abandonment of the profession. To cope with this situation it is necessary to recruit new professionals and also be able to retain those we have. To do this, it is clear, it is necessary to improve their working conditions and manage the workload much …

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, demographic change is the result, above all, of the success of public health. But Europe today is not prepared for the impact of ageing on employment, housing, health, long-term care and the social, economic and political participation of older people. So far, this issue has been addressed in a piecemeal way, in watertight compartments, and with well-intentioned documents, strategies…

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Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, at Disability Week we discussed and analysed the situation in Europe and concluded that we can actually do much better. We all recognise as a major step forward the adoption of the European Strategy in 2021, with all its actions and objectives, but we have also seen that it has not been possible to implement concrete actions that really transform the lives of people …

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that working conditions, health and mental health are closely linked. The primary sector is under a lot of stress. It suffers from aging, seasonality and temporality. And it has – we also know – very difficult generational renewal, and this threatens its long-term viability. We must therefore be able to guarantee good working conditions if we want to make it…

18

Dec

2024

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Tackling abusive subcontracting and labour market intermediaries (debate)

Mr President, mobile and migrant workers are essential for the proper functioning of our internal market. But experiences such as COVID and labour market schemes, involving undeclared work or abusive subcontracting, clearly point to the vulnerability of these workers. The number of infringements detected demonstrates the value of the European Labour Authority, but also the need for further stronge…

18

Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this Parliament is committed to promoting social dialogue, collective bargaining and the right to strike. Trade union action is always complicated, but today we have new difficulties added. There is a fierce campaign of attack on the trade union movement that is taking place from economic, political and media sectors. And don't be distracted. Behind these discourses, th…

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Nov

2024

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Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, digital and green job training is not the only one we need. The demographic challenge requires putting care on the political agenda, promoting a model guaranteed from the public, accessible and quality. We need a European legal framework that ensures good working conditions and lifelong learning, that values these key jobs for economic activity and that ends gender segr…

23

Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

I thank you for the question, because it gives me the opportunity to continue to insist on what we Socialists stand for, which is a transformation of European industry, with funds, such as those from the Recovery and Resilience Facility that were approved after the pandemic, that are allowing us to transform the economy: we have to bet not so much on the quantity, but on the quality of the steel w…

23

Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, today we are discussing a crucial issue for Europe's strategic autonomy and for thousands of workers. The steel industry is a strategic sector for the EU and it is essential to defend that we maintain the entire value chain in Europe: the solution is not to backtrack on climate commitments; on the contrary, we must move decisively towards a clean, sustainable and competitive indus…

22

Oct

2024

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, first I wanted to thank the rapporteurs for their work. Employment is at the heart of the green, digital and demographic transformations, connected to competitiveness, yes, but with a social commitment to continue building a fairer and more inclusive Europe. We defend decent, quality and inclusive employment with a focus on underrepresented groups in the world of employ…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the right to decent and affordable housing is a fundamental right. In the Basque Country I led in 2015 a pioneering law that has positioned us as one of the most advanced regions in Europe in housing policies, by acting on demand, declaring stressed areas that limit prices, offering direct aid to people with less income and increasing rehabilitation and building housing…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are at great risk and not only in my region, the Basque Country, where the automotive sector employs more than 40 000 people, a figure that reflects the importance of this sector. We are at a decisive moment for European industry, which needs specific funds for its transformation and an ambitious plan at European level. Europe has recently shown that, when we act tog…