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2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, a budget is always a test that makes it possible to separate real political intentions from empty political proclamations. Discussion of the guidelines for the 2026 budget of the European Union is one such test. The amendments we have tabled give a clear answer: it is possible to have a budget that gives centrality to the solutions to the problems of the peoples. That i…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Mr Gonçalves, this action plan for affordable energy prices announces the intention to decouple the price of energy from the price of gas, as you mentioned in your speech, but it makes this announcement very timidly and does not introduce any substantive change to the price formation mechanism. And so what this means is that energy produced from renewable sources – and cheaper – continues to be pa…

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2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, what the European Commission is proposing is to accentuate a wrong path of concentration and intensification of production. The path should be another. It should be support for small and medium-sized production, family farming, promoting a quality – and sustainable – production model that ensures social and territorial cohesion. The path should be the defense of food so…

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Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr Rodrigues began his speech by talking about the income that must be guaranteed to farmers, and the two questions I wanted to ask him are these: The first is whether or not it agrees with an agricultural policy that intervenes in agricultural markets, ensuring not only the disposal of production, but the guarantee of fair prices for those who produce, ending the dictatorship that is imposed by t…

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2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, the first 100 days of the European Commission's term of office are marked by three 'plus': more militarism and war, more neoliberalism, more federalism. The European Commission has found neither the time nor the will to denounce the genocide of the Palestinian people, to distance itself from Netanyahu's genocidal regime in Israel. It has found neither time nor resources to invest in …

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2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, 'Tanks instead of cars': this is the slogan It thunders the drums of war in Germany and the European Union. Turning automobile factories into armaments factories is what the plan for the conversion of factories of Germany's largest armaments company points out. For multinationals, there are multi-million dollar support and plans, such as Rearmar Europe; for workers, there are redu…

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2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

Mr President, this discussion on the European Semester shows that the needs of the people are second to the choice of a war economy and the diversion of funds into profits and capital accumulation. Especially at a time of economic stagnation, the priorities in the discussion of economic, social and fiscal policies should be to strengthen public services and the social functions of the state, to in…

12

Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

Mrs Toussaint, I would like to ask you, in this discussion we are having on the European Semester, if you do not think that there is a contrast between the secondaryisation of social issues, such as poverty, such as the need to combat poverty and social exclusion, the need to improve the living conditions of workers, and, on the other hand, the favouring of policies such as military spending or me…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr Sousa Silva, do you really think that it is with the arms race that peace and collective security are guaranteed? The European Union already spends three and a half times more on military spending today than Russia and 1.3 times more than China. What is the signal given to the rest of the world with this arms race? How can diverting money from cohesion funds to military spending meet people's n…

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Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

Mrs Ana Catarina Mendes, it goes against any consideration of fundamental rights. This is a proposal that deepens the Pact on Migration and Asylum in the worst way, violating and disrespecting the fundamental rights of migrants. It is obvious that it assumes and recognises detention measures, particularly in relation to minors, which have hitherto been denied, but which appear in the text of this …

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2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, go out to migrants, ask them whether they are fleeing war, hunger, disease or just looking for a better life, and if you have the courage, look them in the eye and tell them that the only thing the European Union has to offer them is a policy of living underground, a policy of mass detention, expulsion and deportation, a policy of violation of fundamental rig…

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, Mr Cotrim de Figueiredo, the honourable Member thinks it is a good idea to ease the budget squeeze for military spending, the Stability Pact squeeze for military spending, but he does not think it is a good idea if it is for spending on housing, health, pensions. The honourable Member believes that public resources cannot be used to invest in housing, to solve the problems of acce…

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2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Lídia Pereira, if bureaucracy is the problem, why not fight bureaucracy instead of allowing the rules on environmental requirements and pollution control and prevention to be overridden? If the problem is the red tape affecting small and medium-sized enterprises, why not make life easier for small and medium-sized enterprises and, on the other hand, choose to allocate it to enter…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, the Mercosur agreement is good and bad. It is a good deal for agribusiness multinationals, but it is a bad deal for small and medium-sized farmers and consumers. It is a good agreement for the major industrial groups of the European Union powers that are now opening up markets in Latin America, but it is bad for the other countries, which will still not be able to develop their indus…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr Assis, if this agreement is so good, why is the Commission trying to prevent Member States from having their national scrutiny? Why is the Commission wanting to split the agreement in two in order to prevent national scrutiny by Member States that might prevent the entry into force of this agreement? Do you not think that this is confirmation of the damage that can result from this agreement in…

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2025

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Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)

Mr President, it is essential to break the stigma barrier that mental illness represents for young people, but not only for young people. It is necessary to raise awareness in identifying signs and symptoms of young people themselves so that they can ask for help, but also to raise awareness among parents, schools, public universities, where it is necessary to ensure the ratio of one psychologist …

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Mrs Marta Temido, the question I want to ask you is very direct, whether or not you understand that distancing from these decisions of Donald Trump requires, in essence, distancing from these policies, including in cases where the European Union itself takes them on. With regard to environmental issues, for example, I wonder whether you do not agree that distancing yourself from Donald Trump's dec…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mrs Ana Catarina Mendes, you asked the Commission about the means that the Commission intends to allocate to the achievement of these objectives. The question I ask you is: is it really in line with the objectives of this competitiveness compass? Is it really in line with the objectives, for example, of introducing into the roulette of speculation pensions and workers' contributions to their pensi…

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2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Séjourné, this compass of competitiveness has the North pointed to the interests of economic groups and does not serve to steer the economy in favour of the peoples. It does not point to a single measure to combat the increase in the cost of living, but extends a sheet of facilities and favouring measures to large transnational companies. It simplifies requirements an…

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Mr Cunha, you have spoken about industry and there are, in fact, many measures in this work programme to strengthen the industrial capacity of the major powers of the European Union, especially to project themselves internationally. But there is no measure to recover industrial production capacity in countries such as Portugal, which have seen their industry sacrificed over decades with the imposi…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Lídia Pereira, you spoke in your speech on competitiveness, and when we look at the Commission's work programme, we find competitiveness dealt with in that perspective of competition between companies. But it's not just any competition. This work programme eases the responsibilities and demands of large transnational companies, eases regulation and facilitates the action of la…

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2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner McGrath, there is no international justice without compliance with international law and the United Nations Charter. And there is no respect for international justice when the interim measures ordered by the International Court of Justice for Israel to put an end to the genocide in Gaza have simply been ignored. When Donald Trump announces to the world his intention t…

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2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Mr Asens, you spoke of Israel's disrespect for the measures ordered by the International Court of Justice to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. He also spoke of Donald Trump's statements that are the revelation of what a rules-based international order means, which is a world functioning according to the rules that imposes who has the strength to enforce those rules. The question…

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

Mrs Miranda, in fact, the European Union's position has been one of complicity with Israel's policy and one of double standards, because, truly, the European Union, which intervenes so much and is so attentive to other conflicts, has closed its eyes to what has been happening in Palestine with Israel's genocidal policy. And this double position, this double criterion, this complicity of the Europe…

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2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

Madam President, a just and lasting peace in the Middle East requires an end to the genocide and criminal policy of Israel against the Palestinian people. It demands full compliance with the ceasefire in place, which must be permanent, and urgent access to humanitarian aid, which remains limited. It demands the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and an end to their attacks on th…