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Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Thank you for your question. I will make an effort to speak in French. My colleague is not here. She is able to answer for herself. But what I can say is that Portugal this summer has done a lot of things, but I don't have the... I don't have the numbers to compare these years with the previous years, so actually I cannot respond to your question except to say that my colleague is very good and sh…

11

Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Mr President, Europe is facing increasingly intense heat waves, with significant impacts on public health, especially among the most vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, children and the chronically ill. This happens in Portugal, where we also had the largest wave of fires in the whole of Europe, which further evidenced the insufficient protection of the populations. I take this opportunity to …

11

Sep

2025

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A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

Mr President, 'education is everything. We don't need small changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces, competition for the best teachers should be fierce. These words from the series The West Wing They remind us that education is not a building like any other. It must rise like a palace: with foundations of cooperation that add strength, and columns of competitivenes…

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Jul

2025

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Outcome of the Conference on the Financing for Development in Seville (debate)

Mr President, last month the plenary of the European Parliament rejected the report on the Seville Conference. There were 340 MEPs against, 282 in favour. A new political majority has realized that what many pretend not to see: the current development finance model is exhausted. The Seville Conference ended with more vague promises and a general declaration, the so-called 'Seville Commitment', whe…

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Jul

2025

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Madam President, in 1945, contemplating the devastating power of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project, quoted the Hindu Vedic scriptures: Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Nuclear proliferation is the most serious threat to international security. She is the slow poison of our age: silent, strategic, relentless. Every clandestine facility, every centrifuge …

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Jun

2025

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Mr President, in the doctrine of Ordo Amoris, St. Augustine taught that love must be ordained: from the nearest to the furthest. First to God, then to the family, then to the community, and then to the most distant. Today, with family reunification at the heart of migration policy, it is essential to assert our position head-on against policies that promote uncontrolled immigration. Portugal alrea…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, Thomas Hobbes' monumental work 'Leviathan' refers to the image of a monstrous state in size and absolute in power, which becomes an end in itself and lives for its own survival and expansion. The budgets of the European Union – what is under discussion today and the previous ones – increasingly resemble Hobbes’s Leviathan, a huge financial monster, sustained by taxpayers, but dedicat…

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May

2025

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Apr

2025

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Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani (debate)

Mr President, the wave of executions plaguing Iran once again exposes the nature of a regime that does not govern, it haunts. Iran is not just a political regime. It is a night without stars, a theological project of darkness, an immense moral eclipse dedicated to extinguishing, under the same cruelty, the light of reason, the flame of freedom and the brilliance of woman. Against this heavy and an…

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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, the flight of the most talented young Europeans is a symptom of a more fundamental problem: The Decline of Europe. This escape is a warning, a signaling system on the road of history. It is in their youth that civilizations see their own future, and what they tell us as they depart is clear: Europe has no future and loses ground every day to the United States, Asia and even parts of …

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Mar

2025

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Madam President, recently, the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, revealed hidden USAID funding to media outlets such as Politico and the BBC, as well as to NGOs associated with specific ideologies. This scandal exposed the lack of transparency in the use of public funds in the United States. In the European Union, we face similar challenges. We have the right to know where our…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we strongly support free trade, recognising its benefits for economic growth and the prosperity of nations. We know well the history of the 1920s and 1930s and we do not want to repeat it. We also believe that the EU-Mercosur Agreement has geopolitical advantages, such as curbing China’s growing influence in South America and strengthening Europe’s Atlantic axis. But…

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Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr President, it is precisely because I respect the Venezuelan people that I take this position. I think everyone – perhaps less the Honourable Member and his party – recognises that the last elections were not free and fair elections. That is what this is all about. If, in free and fair elections, the people had chosen who is there in power now, the question would be different, but unanimously kn…

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Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr President, Venezuela is going through one of the worst crises in its history. This country, once the leader in Latin America, is collapsing. In 1998, GDP per capita exceeded $8,000. Today it is only 1,500. More than 40% of the population lives in extreme poverty and almost seven million Venezuelans have left the country, seeking refuge abroad. This tragedy is the direct result of the corruption…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Thank you very much for the question. The victim is not, on the contrary, the trust of those who are not afraid of social networks and of those who are not afraid of freedom. And the answer to your question is one: It is trust in the people, in the discernment of the people, in the common sense of the people, in the intelligence of the people. Since, besides everything else, the alternative, which…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, this debate is about TikTok as much as it is about social media and the fear of the power that it gives to ordinary people. If the 20th century was called "the century of the people," the 21st century will go down in history as the century of the people's power. And that's essentially because of X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. Under the pretext of fighting disinformation and hate spe…

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Dec

2024

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Mr President, with the reopening of Notre-Dame, we are witnessing more than the restoration of a monument, it is the rebirth of a vital symbol of faith and Western civilization. After the devastation of the flames, its reconstruction is a call to unity in defence of our values. As Pope John Paul II said: Do not be afraid. Open, or rather, open wide the doors to Christ. This appeal now echoes in th…

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Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

Mr President, on the subject of revolt, Albert Camus reminded us that freedom is that terrible name inscribed on the chariot of storms. In Iran, this name echoes today in the voice of women who refuse the veil and, even under the whipping of the whips and the darkness of the prisons, dare to say: We are the storm. The veil imposed upon them conceals the flesh, but it does not cover the truth which…

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Nov

2024

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Political and humanitarian situation in Mozambique (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Mr President, Donald Trump's landslide victory in the recent election in the United States is a historic break almost as deep as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the end of the Soviet Union. Born from the strength of a wider popular movement, this election inhabits the hearts and minds of the American people and also of the European. Europe now faces a choice: subject transatlantic relations to outd…

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Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

Mr President, in the same city where Anne Frank sought refuge, lived in hiding, wrote her dreams as a girl, was captured by the monstrous Nazis and is today remembered as a symbol of our promise to never again, the horror of the hunt for Jews has returned to the streets. The spectre of anti-Semitism returning to Europe shows the need for our unequivocal support for Jewish communities and the State…

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Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Honourable Member, I confess that I thought I would speak precisely about what is happening in Portugal. Then I thought I shouldn't do it here, in this place, I should do it in Portugal and for the Portuguese. What I think contributes a lot to hate speech – indeed what is happening in Portugal, yes – is when we confuse police with thieves, when we side with those who do not comply with the law and…

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Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Madam President, we live in a time when hate speech and anti-democratic rhetoric have become perfect excuses for justifying a new despotism – censorship camouflaged as virtue. Whenever power feels threatened, freedom is its first target, and the case of Elon Musk of the Sakharov Prize is an example of this – excluded in an opaque process, a silenced voice, on the pretext of freedom of expression i…

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Oct

2024

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State sponsored terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the recent attacks in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Iran, in every proxy war it instigates, in every terrorist militia it sustains, stands today as the great shadow that hangs over the Middle East, and the complacent blindness of the West, forgetting the lessons of history, repeats Munich in 1938. To appease the tyrant does not avoid confrontation, on the contrary, it makes ‑o inevitable. Iran is not just a regime among regimes, it…