What Paulo spoke about.

28 Nov

2024

PT Answer

Need to adopt an ambitious international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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Yes, nothing to oppose, the point here is that I come from an outermost region, an oceanic region, the Azores, and we there suffered well what is the impact of plastics and microplastics. We've got our dive sites under threat. We also have here the plastic that drifts and floats with the currents, which affects our own biodiversity. That is why, more than just talking about the consequences here, …

28 Nov

2024

PT Speech

Need to adopt an ambitious international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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Mr President, Commissioner, around 11 million tonnes of plastic and microplastic waste flow into the oceans each year, contaminating our coasts and diving sites, and these are one of the greatest threats to the conservation of ocean marine biodiversity and ecosystems. And we all remember the tide of pellets that washed up on our shores recently. More than 800 marine and coastal species are affecte…

26 Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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9 Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

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Madam President, trafficking networks are not looking at ways to increase the number of consumers, destroying families and lives. The use of highly addictive drugs results in craving and the need to buy more and more, leading to the exhaustion of financial costs and, inevitably, to the entry into the world of crime, either by the practice of small thefts to buy these substances, or by the fact tha…

19 Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, if in one part of Europe we have floods that leave a wide trail of destruction, in Portugal fires and drought threaten human lives and destroy forests and fields. Such events put enormous pressure on farmers, who experience significant drops in production, ever-increasing costs and put their own animal feed at risk. In many cases, reserves for the winter have already be…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Mr President, at this painfully difficult time, I express my sorrow to all the bereaved families and communities affected by the devastating fires raging in Portugal. I also express a deep appreciation for the tireless and even heroic work of our firefighters and operatives. I express, of course, my solidarity with the victims of the floods affecting Central and Eastern Europe. In Portugal, more t…

16 Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, in this first speech I would like to highlight dialogue as a positive point. It is crucial that we decide with farmers, in partnership with farmers, and not on their backs. A second note to strengthen the reference to a strategic pillar on the issue of food security, but also agriculture itself. There can be no strategic autonomy for the European Union without a strong …