What Sebastião spoke about.

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Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, if the voices are to be heard, the guns must be silent. This is what happened yesterday in the Gaza Strip. Today, there is still silence and we must use it so that the hostages can be released, and the Palestinian humanitarian disaster can be alleviated as soon as possible. But this is also a silence that forces us to reflect. Fifteen months after the horrendous October attack, the I…

18

Dec

2024

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Continued repression of civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan and the cases of Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, Anar Mammadli, Kamran Mammadli, Rufat Safarov and Meydan TV

Mr President, Commissioner, the relationship between the European Union and Azerbaijan dates back to 1996. It is almost 30 years of a cooperative relationship where we agreed 30 years ago that this partnership would be based on two things: democracy and the defence of human rights. Thirty years later, the reality is different. The path taken by the Azerbaijani regime forces us to reject this path,…

17

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, the European Commission has today opened proceedings against TikTok on suspicion of breaching the Digital Services Act. The detention order, issued in December, and the investigation initiated today were set in time and mode. In the way, for the flagrant violation of the Regulation by TikTok and for the unwillingness to provide the necessary clarifications to this Parliament and the …

17

Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, this Parliament and this Union are often accused of being worth nothing but words. Since the minute Bashar al-Assad fell, we have proved the opposite, in our contacts with partners in the region, in the search for stability, with ideals of realistic multilateralism that does not give up defending rights. Europe is the world's largest humanitarian donor to the Sy…

28

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (RC-B10-0191/2024, B10-0189/2024, B10-0191/2024, B10-0192/2024, B10-0193/2024, B10-0195/2024, B10-0198/2024, B10-0200/2024) (vote)

Madam President, on behalf of the EPP Group, I would like to move an oral amendment to paragraph 16, recitals T and Q. To paragraph 16 and recital T, requesting a change in each, of the word 'Hungary' into 'Hungarian Government'; and in recital Q changing 'Hungary's' to 'Hungarian Government's'.…

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Nov

2024

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The shrinking space for civil society in Cambodia, in particular the case of the labour rights organisation CENTRAL

Mr President, Commissioner, relations between the European Union and Cambodia date back to 1997 and are based on a cooperation agreement which provides for the promotion of democracy and human rights. Unfortunately, today there is a notorious setback, especially since 2017, which we must condemn and not ignore. The path taken by the Cambodian regime obliges us here to demand the release of all pol…

26

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

26

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

25

Nov

2024

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Condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of independence of the secessionist entity in Cyprus and all efforts to legitimise it and reaffirming the need for European solidarity - 41 years after (debate)

Mr President, dear friends, Commissioner Schinas, the first colleague I met in this Parliament is Cypriot. He's in this room. The first question that my colleague asked me was: Have you ever been to Cyprus? I told him no and he asked again: "Are you married yet?". I told him not yet and he promptly told me: "Then comes the honeymoon to Cyprus". For me, Cyprus is this unique complicity between patr…

13

Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, High Representative, 83 years ago, in the middle of the Second World War, the American Prime Minister and President met in the Atlantic Ocean. Continental Europe was in Hitler's hands, but these two men pledged that day to do everything they could to get the occupied countries back their freedom. 83 years later, in the midst of the war in Ukraine, that is the spirit we will have t…

13

Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, in the days of Franco and Salazar, parliaments did not talk about tragedies. In democracy we can and should talk about what is not going well, and if there is one thing we have all agreed on, it is that something has not gone well. The warnings arrived late, it is true, the national emergency and the activation of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism also arrived late. Recognizing th…

22

Oct

2024

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People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in a decade haunted by wars and conflicts, we must not ignore those who, when surrounded by darkness, do not give up a light that unites us. The people of Taiwan are definitely one of them, and democracy is definitely something that unites us. In recent years, the European Union has refined its geopolitical instinct, named China as a systemic ri…

9

Oct

2024

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The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas

Madam President, Commissioner, in August 2022, Michelle Bachelet presented a report at the United Nations. The report is clear: Xinjiang is a zone of practices that undermine Uighur rights, where "restrictions and the more general deprivation of fundamental rights can constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity". I would stress 'crimes against humanity'. The European Com…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Very briefly, Mr João Oliveira, whom I thank for the question, I have to tell you that if you ask me which side I am on in relation to the housing crisis, I am on the only side where there are solutions: on the side of Europe. So yes, we are on the side of fiscal responsibility. Yes, we are on the side of the social market economy. Yes, we stand by our membership of the Union, because we believe t…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, my generation is the first since the Second World War that does not feel that it will live better than its parents – it just hopes that it will not have to live worse. My parents knew that by joining the European Union, they could live better than my grandparents. My grandparents knew that, with the arrival of democracy, they would live better than their paren…

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (RC-B10-0023/2024, B10-0023/2024, B10-0025/2024, B10-0027/2024, B10-0030/2024, B10-0034/2024, B10-0035/2024, B10-0037/2024) (vote)

Thank you, Madam President. I would like to present another oral amendment, that reads 'Urges the European Union and its Member States to recognise Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the election and as the next constitutional and legitimate President of Venezuela as of 10 January 2025;'.…

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (RC-B10-0023/2024, B10-0023/2024, B10-0025/2024, B10-0027/2024, B10-0030/2024, B10-0034/2024, B10-0035/2024, B10-0037/2024) (vote)

Madam President, I would like to present an oral amend to this resolution, and this will need to be presented first. This amendment reads 'Recognises Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the election and the next constitutional President of Venezuela as of 10 January 2025 and also recognises María Corina Machado as the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela, since she was elected at the…

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the world has seen and understood that Nicolás Maduro did not win the presidential elections of 28 June 2024, he lost them! For us Europeans and Democrats, there is one thing that needs to be clear today: If we limit ourselves to recognizing the defeated without recognizing the victor, we are benefiting the one who lost and does not want to leav…