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8 Oct

2026

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EU strategies for islands, coastal communities and outermost regions (debate)

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Madam President, we are not talking about immigration, we are talking about a forced exodus. Commissioner, I listen well to your good intentions, but then look at the budget you present, you want to centralise and cut funds to the regions to feed the already millionaire military industry. I ask you, Commissioner, what are you going to say to a young man from Faial, to a young man from Porto Santo …

6 Oct

2026

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister, it is a pleasure to see you here, we can go to difficult accounts. Notice, a person when he starts working only earns his first salary after having worked all month. But when you rent a house you have to give two months in advance, plus two months of bail. It's four months that the person has to have, and he hasn't set foot there yet. Who has that money? And now th…

17 Sep

2026

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Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for the opportunity of this oral question. There are some absurd debates here in Parliament. I would like to try to explain very briefly why there is no opposition between prioritising the health response in Europe and prioritising global health. Because anyone with two foreheads knows that if there was no global cooperation, Covid-19 would have been an e…

17 Sep

2026

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An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we ask you to work an endless number of hours, at an overwhelming pace of work, with pressure on your skills, but also on your direct responsibility, with more and more people and with very vulnerable people. We ask them to study for years, many years, and then we pay salaries that are not enough to pay the rent of a house where they work. And then…

16 Sep

2026

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, it is Palestine. The name of the state is Palestine. The name of the country is Palestine. The European Union cannot say that it supports Israel and sends humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. This is not a two-state solution. Israel continues to kill. Genocide is ongoing, and Europe has an association agreement with Israel that does not stop. We…

8 Jul

2026

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Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda: EU solidarity and preparedness in global health (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I know that you personally supervised the shipment of paracetamol to Congo to help combat the Ebola outbreak. But it's short-sighted, isn't it? I would like to ask you two questions about concrete actions of the European Union. Firstly, we are dealing with a variant for which there is no commercial vaccine, but we now know that there are exciting scientific advances.…

8 Jul

2026

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

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We are discussing the civil protection mechanism in Europe and I have argued that we need to include early recovery in a solidarity mechanism. In Portugal, we are having fires in forests where the wood of storms is still lying and we have populations still without electricity and even difficulties in communications. Groups here in the European Parliament have had a consensus on the need for early …

18 Jun

2026

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International Day of Play: promoting children’s right to play (debate)

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17 Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

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21 May

2026

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The Union’s preparedness for and response to health emergencies: the case of the MV Hondius and the hantavirus warning (debate)

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Madam President, let us imagine that, in the wake of the far right, Europe had followed in the footsteps of Trump and left the World Health Organization. Now, in the face of the hantavirus outbreak, we would be completely in the dark, with no alerts, no coordination, no response. Fortunately, that is not the case, and indeed the United States should thank the rest of the world for maintaining inte…

20 May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, the single market is a kind of horizon for liberals. Thirty-three years after its creation, it is said that it does not yet exist. But there is a single market and there is liberalisation, there is free movement of capital, provision of services, free trade – what there is not is the prosperity they have promised. In Portugal, the liberalization of communications privatized and cl…

19 May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, tax rules must be decided by qualified majority in order to wipe out the Member States. offshore? Is it necessary to decide social, labor and environmental minimums to prevent the race to the bottom? Do we need cooperation projects between Member States? Let's do it. We need a Union that values rights more than markets, that protects the planet more than profits, that fights more for…

19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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We are not prepared in Europe, which is why I believe it is crucial that we develop models of artificial intelligence, with the ethical, democratic and environmental criteria that we consider important, even to protect our democracy. There is a Portuguese poet who says "It is not yet the end nor the beginning of the world, calm, it is only a little late". I would say: We're really late.…

19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, 'the hard power This century will be built on software.» The phrase is from the manifesto of Palantir, a company created by the CIA in 2003 that registered with the European Commission as an artificial intelligence literacy company that both guides bombings in Iran and serves for the German police to track people. Last month, two Big Techs The United States has launc…

18 May

2026

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European solidarity: key to securing medicine access in a shifting geopolitical era (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Europe invests a lot – and well – in health innovation and medicine innovation, but then agrees to pay stratospheric prices for new medicines, supposedly to pay for the risk that we already paid when we paid for the investment and still accepted the relocation of generic medicines, because that was the only way to have affordable prices. It's a lot of public investment …

30 Apr

2026

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Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions (debate)

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Madam President, women do not lack the capacity to work, to take decisions, to take risks or to build new projects. But there is a heavy anchor that makes everything more difficult: the burden of domestic and family care, daily violence and its downgrading – patriarchy, therefore. In rural and outermost areas, this burden is greater. Access to public services is scarce, protection from violence is…

29 Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

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12 Mar

2026

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Prevention and treatment of obesity (debate)

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Mrs Miranda, thank you for talking here about fatphobia. It's a topic that hadn't been talked about yet. The stigma associated with obesity is very heavy. We also talked about socio-economic factors, they are important. But it is true that the stigma increases and with the bullying Social media is growing even more. I would like to ask ‑ if he thinks that at European level we can do mor…

12 Mar

2026

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Prevention and treatment of obesity (debate)

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Madam President, there are two myths about obesity that must be dismantled. That is merely a matter of individual choices, it is not. And that is a problem that is solved only with health policies, it is not so either. It's actually how we organize ourselves as a society. There are 8 billion people with obesity in the world. More than 400 million are children and we have more than 1.7 m…

11 Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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10 Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Mr President, while the people of Europe are despairing at the rise in energy prices, the Commission decides to say that it will lower them and do the exact opposite. At the same time, the Commission manages to increase the cost of living and discredit the institutions, which is the new normal. We are now experiencing a new episode of this political farce, while the United States and Israel attack…

9 Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Madam President, fix these figures: men are 41% of the Portuguese workforce with tertiary education, but occupy 84% of top positions in companies. Is it really merit? Across the European Union, women earn on average 12% less. In some countries the difference is more than 18%, working 54-67 days a year without pay. And we already know: Low wages condemn low pensions. In Portugal, w…

11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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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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9 Feb

2026

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World Cancer Day (debate)

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