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Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

The honourable Member rightly mentioned that one of the main priorities of this work programme of the European Commission is housing. I well remember your party and your former head of delegation here and today Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, as well as the current Prime Minister saying that former Prime Minister António Costa was very wrong when he said that housing should be a European …

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, Madam Executive Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, today I want to talk about the history of a continent. A continent that, after centuries of conflict, has decided to put an end to war and to establish, through shared sovereignty and cooperation, a future of peace. That continent is Europe and that project is the European Union. It is for him, for his past and for his peoples tha…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Colleague, thank you very much for accepting – my two questions are very simple, because you brought here the question of hate speech. So I just want to ask you very clearly: if a minor is attacked on social media and the rest because of how he or she looks, isn't that hate speech? If, for example, a person from a minority is attacked because of her or his ethnicity, isn't that hate speech? Becaus…

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Sep

2025

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, big tech companies are not paying their fair share of taxes today. And we know that this is no longer a controversial stance, only a fact. All evidence points to workers and small businesses paying higher rates than Meta, Amazon and other digital giants. Unfortunately, when we were close to an international deal with more than 130 countries, President T…

9

Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

(start of intervention with microphone off) ... accompany you in your requests, in your demands, for the benefit of national destinations. But this year, about 2.35% of our national territory burned in Portugal. It is more than 200 000 hectares, well above twice the average of the last ten years. Let me ask you a question that worries the Portuguese and that certainly worries me: why has the Gover…

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Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr Cotrim de Figueiredo, I believe that we agree on the essential points: that the European Union must negotiate with the United States, that our relationship must be positive, but that this relationship cannot be achieved at any cost. And that is why, allow me, I would like to ask you about your position on the taxation of the big tech companies currently operating in the European Union. We know …

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May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

If I could respond with a sale, I would say that this intervention comes from a deeply Europeanist party, concerned about Europe and the way European funds are allocated to our country. That's not the case. And so I will respond by being a deeply Europeanist party, a party that created, in Portugal, the Foundation for Science and Technology, a party that deepened European integration also in knowl…

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May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

Dear President, Dear President, Dear President, Dear President, Dear President, Dear President, Dear President,, the future of European industry and competitiveness is not built on low wages or unrestricted deregulation; It is built with a strategy for innovation, a strategy that we lacked. The initiative Chose Europe, now presented, adds €500 million, making it possible to value our qualified you…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Don't miss it so much, honourable Member. It's like that again and it's like that for you. His party says it wants a reflection on a two-state solution. You say you want to negotiate, but you refuse to recognize one of them, Palestine. But what's more, he says he doesn't recognize Palestine because he understands that there, in Palestine, are no free citizens. And therefore, if I acknowledge that …

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 28 April is remembered as the day when the Iberian Peninsula went dark and our fragility was exposed. In Civil Protection, the Portuguese government spoke late and did not provide security. He left the Portuguese to their fate and resigned from the required leadership. Louis Montenegro failed. And if Louis Montenegro was unable to lead a 12-hour…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

The honourable Member said that this blackout was planned. I think that the honourable Member, if he is not Messiah, is at least the only enlightened Portuguese. But let's go a little further. Clarified as you are, there was a Member of Parliament who, in the dark in the Assembly of the Republic, being from his party, said that the big problem was that we had shut down coal-fired power stations. N…

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Dear Member, as you will understand and as you can read, not only in this Commission's programme, but from what our Group has brought here, you can see that employment contracts are always guaranteed when there is wealth creation. What we cannot tolerate, what we cannot accept, is that the relocation of jobs, which – yes – affects a large part of the workers of the European Union, millions of work…

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the loss of European competitiveness is unfortunately nothing new. After decades of underinvestment in innovation and a bet on cheap imports, the results are in sight and 850 000 jobs in industry have disappeared in the last four years alone. These are not numbers, they are lives. Many people for whom work has ceased to be a source of stability …

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, dear President-in-Office of the Council, dear Commissioner, in times of fear, let us hope. And on the Council's conclusions, I have to say that since the arrival of Donald Trump, the word we have heard the most has been the word crisis. And had the Greeks known that the word crisis — krisis — would be employed with more will to danger and with less hope of will, perhaps they would…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Dear Member, as I mentioned in my speech – and you also mention it well – the most important thing at the moment is to reduce the price for families, for small and medium-sized enterprises, for those who need it. This obviously means looking at the price formation mechanism, understanding it and redesigning it. And that is why I am delighted that this Commission, for the first time, is facing this…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, investing in renewable energy production is not an ideological issue: it is the right bet for a Europe that wants more strategic autonomy, a favourable price path and less polluting emissions. We know that in the short term, it will be very difficult to compete with energy prices, either from American competitors or from Chinese competitors. We lac…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

I've seen that you come from the Sovereignists, and it's very curious that you speak about energy, about energy prices and sovereignty, while at the same time recommending that the Commission still allow Russian gas and Russian oil to come into the European Union, therefore increasing prices, and therefore reducing our sovereignty. So my question to you, colleague, is very simple: what kind of sov…

12

Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

Mr David, thank you very much for your intervention. Every time we hear someone from your political family, you are speaking about families, you are speaking about defending them, and you are truly right about that. But just today, in the plenary, you voted against the European care strategy to defend all types of large families in your vote in the plenary. So, my question is very simple: are thes…

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, five years ago, with the pandemic, it became clear that we cannot rely on China for health goods. We said we'd learn from the mistake. Then, three years ago, it was time to realize that relying on Russia for cheap energy was also a mistake. We said again that we would learn. And today, even though Trump threatens us almost daily, there are those who want to rely…

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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Mr President, let me begin by saying that there is absolutely nothing in the report that mentions making such a correlation. But we are already accustomed to the false truths or the many lies of your party. Let me bring you a dice. In the year 2023 to 2024, irregular immigration into the European Union decreased by 40%. And since we're talking about data, let's also bring facts. The first, in the …

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Jan

2025

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Welcome

Madam President, I want to evoke today Rule 40 of the Rules of Procedure that relates to the respect of fundamental rights. I want to evoke it on the Article 11 that states the right for everyone to receive information without interference, regardless of frontiers. Today, censorship has started on Meta. I invite all Members here in the House to search for the hashtag #Democrat on Instagram or Face…

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

I've seen your posts on the internet and you seem someone that is often speaking about freedom. You are very worried about freedom. You are worried about the content that is being lectured in schools. When it comes to gender, you are worried about sexual and reproductive rights. You are worried about lecturing social rights in school. But you are not very worried when it comes to the internet or t…

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Dec

2024

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Human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, in particular the case of Temirlan Sultanbekov

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, Temirlan Sultanbekov is a young political activist in Kyrgyzstan. And he is not only a young political activist, he is one of the most brilliant democrats in his country. Last month, he was unfairly detained and denied these rights in an attempt to prevent him from standing in the next elections. This is not the first time that this administration …

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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)

Honourable Member, you are not advocating freedom here, you are advocating the victim, in which the victim is your constituents, you are the Honourable Member and you are your political group. Now the freedom that speaks so much is the freedom for intolerance, is the freedom for hatred, is the freedom for false accounts. As I understand that the Honourable Member does not understand the language o…

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Nov

2024

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Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, before the financial crisis, the GDP of the euro area was comparable to that of the United States. Today, it's only about 60%. In the face of this economic anemia, the answer cannot and should not be more of the same. We need a European Competitiveness Fund that promotes our industry and skilled employment. But we must also mobilise private investment, creating …