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10

Oct

2024

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

Mr. President, what is the cause of the most common mental health problems? What causes anxiety? What causes depression? What causes us to have more and more suicidal tendencies? There are statistics that lead us to the path of how to fix it. 46% of people who live for rent are afraid that, in the next three months, they will run out of houses. More than 40% of salaried people do not arrive well a…

9

Oct

2024

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

Well, in the right of access to housing and the European Pillar of Social Rights, which we have to guarantee and which will be reformed precisely in this legislature. Simple as that. In the end, it is also a question of responding to what you said in the campaign to your constituents: He was going to defend citizens against speculators and corrupt people. Do you know who the speculators and the co…

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, while we are here listening to the representatives of the housing commercials, more than a hundred, two hundred, three hundred people are being thrown into the streets who cannot afford their homes even if they are workers, who although they work every day do not make it to the end of the month and cannot afford their homes. While this happens, in Europe we have eleven million empty…

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, the European directive on renewable energy sources calls on the Member States to ensure that it is implemented without significant impact on the environment, prioritising rooftops and already degraded areas and excluding specifically protected areas such as Natura 2000. Nothing to do with reality. Spain – the Spanish Government – is systematically infringing this European directiv…

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Sep

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr. President, President Metsola will hear these words: school, play, tramuntana, gregal... also orxata. These words are exactly the same in your language, Maltese, as in mine, Valencian, but, incredibly, in this Parliament I can only pronounce them if I say them in Maltese: That's how amazing the thing is. Maltese is spoken by half a million people; my language, our language, by more than ten mil…