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Jul

2026

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Joint communication on humanitarian aid (JOIN(2026)0025) (debate)

8

Jul

2026

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Ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, notably the Kawel village massacre

Mr President, Commissioner, when you denounced the persecution and torture of Jean Calas, Voltaire was not only defending a man unjustly condemned: I was reminding the whole of Europe that every intolerance practiced in the name of God is always a pact with the Devil. Intolerance dehumanizes both its victim and its perpetrator. From this denunciation was born a treaty on tolerance which remains on…

8

Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Gaston Bachelard wrote that fire is the greatest ambiguity of human experience. Ever since the first man saw a flame, we've figured out why. The fire heats up and destroys; illuminates and consumes; It shines in Paradise and burns in Hell. But above all, fire has always been the symbol of proof. In all cultures, the fire test represents the decisive test, the one tha…

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Jul

2026

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Mr President, where are the women? A political delegation never enters a room alone. It brings with it a vision of the world, its symbols and its moral order. Where are the women? When the European Union receives the Taliban, it receives more than one delegation, it receives a symbol. He receives the chibata that tears women, he receives the silence imposed on girls, he receives the political and …

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May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, as long as there is ignorance and misery on earth, books like this will not be useless. The Miserables. Victor Hugo understood that misery explains too much, but it doesn't explain everything. On The Miserables, No one is reduced to their misery. When Bishop Myriel welcomes Jean Valjean, he doesn't just offer him a roof and sheets: Give him back the reins of his dest…

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May

2026

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Mr President, exactly a century ago, in 1926, Martin Heidegger dedicated his Being and Time to Edmund Husserl: Years later, the dedication was erased when Heidegger chose the collaboration during the long Hitler night. Between inscription and erasure, there is a parable about the moral corruption of spirit and institutions, where anti-Semitism found no repudiation, no more legitimacy. In Nazi Germ…

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Apr

2026

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Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela

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Mar

2026

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Madam President, last Saturday in Lisbon, there was an almost tragic encounter between two conceptions of human life. On the one hand, a march for life, peaceful, family, marked by the presence of children and the affirmation that every human life, even the most invisible, has a value of its own. On the other hand, the negation of this life as a value, expressed violently through the launc…

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

9

Mar

2026

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Mr President, the safety of European citizens is a non-negotiable priority. Combating terrorism requires determination, cooperation and effective means. But it is precisely because we value security that we must also uphold the fundamental principles of our democracies. The new ProtectEU project presented by the European Commission raises a serious concern: the expansion of the concept of cou…

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Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the book The post-American world [and the rise of the rest], Fareed Zakaria places India, along with China and Russia, as one of the rising powers in the international system. The relationship between the European Union and the Indian Union must be based on the recognition that India is, in fact, increasingly a major world power, with the largest population in the…

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Jan

2026

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Mr President, there are times when power believes that time has stopped. Tyranny lives from this illusion: seem eternal, inevitable, natural. But the human being was not born to accept what denies him. As Albert Camus wrote, "Man revolts when he says no", and in this "no" there is already contained a "yes" to dignity. We see this "no" that is a "yes" to the Venezuelan people, spread around the wor…

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Dec

2025

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Grave political situation in Guinea-Bissau after the coup of 26 November

Madam President, Commissioner, Guinea-Bissau is going through yet another serious political crisis that cannot be ignored. The coup d'état represents a profound setback for a people who, since their independence, have been fighting for stability, dignity and the right to freely choose their leaders. There is no development possible without democracy, and there is no democracy when power is conquer…

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Dec

2025

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Mr President, in one of Zürau's aphorisms, Franz Kafka wrote: A cage went in search of a bird. Today, this unusual image describes well certain theories that wander the world in search of ancient guilt to justify present penances. In the name of simplistic post-colonial morality, they want to reduce the history of Portugal – and Europe – to a permanent court of indictment. They imprison the past i…

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Nov

2025

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Oct

2025

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Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (debate)

Mr President, Portugal and Europe have Africa in their flesh. Not only in maps, trade routes or diplomatic treaties, but in veins, in blood, in the living memory of our collective being. Álvaro de Campos wrote about the "old ships", the "ports of Africa" and the "winds of the South" he felt in his flesh. Like the poet, we feel Africa in our flesh, because our destiny has intersected with hers, in …

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Oct

2025

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Madam President, since the beginning, men have dreamed of freedom with the face of a woman. It's not by chance. The feminine contains the alchemy of the world: the tenderness that consoles, the fury that liberates, the patience that knows no surrender, the beauty that does not consent, sir. She was Athena in the marbles, Joan of Arc in the flames, Marianne in the barricades and the colossal freedo…

7

Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Mr President, today, on the second anniversary of 7 October, Europe is filled with demonstrations, not to remember it, but to erase it, not to remember the victims, nor to demand the release of the hostages still in Gaza, but to ignore them. Europe is sick again, with the same moral infection that less than a century ago led to the persecution and extermination of the Jews. In Europe of never agai…

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Oct

2025

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Madam President, the Austrian economist Friedrich August von Hayek recalled that 'the road to servitude' does not open with sudden blows, but with seemingly harmless small concessions in the name of hypothetical goods. The call chat control, under the pretext of protecting children, threatens to become a dystopian mass surveillance machine that, in the name of good, turns all citizens into suspect…