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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, Mr Sérgio Humberto, in Portugal, the most qualified generation ever is also one of those who leave the country most in search of other places, where their qualifications are recognised and better working conditions and better wages and better life prospects. And the honourable Member has spoken here about qualifications and vocational training, solely on the basis of the criteria …

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Mînzatu, in order to solve the problem of the lack of health professionals, we need to invest in public health services and create the conditions for retaining and attracting professionals to those careers. Careers and salaries need to be valued. It is necessary to combat the overload of work and to value the public service with a regime of exclusive dedication. That is …

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Tomc, you referred to poor working conditions, low wages, overload of work, as some of the problems leading to a lack of health professionals, unattractive health careers. That, of course, to solve it, requires public investment, investment in public services, resources from national state budgets to respond to these problems. And the question I ask you is how this is compatible …

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Mrs Lídia Pereira, the first question I would like to ask you is whether you really think there is an incompatibility between deepening multilateralism and using trade policy, including tariffs, to protect strategic sectors? It seems to us that there is no contradiction, because both can be instruments for the development of commercial relations, naturally protecting what is relevant in each circu…

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2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has the greatest significance of focusing the values of the social progress of peoples and encouraging the development of friendly relations between nations. And when we discuss the value of this statement in the face of the barbarity of the war and the consequences for its victims, it is worth questioning what the insti…

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2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

Mrs Ana Catarina Mendes, you referred in your speech to the situation in Palestine and the Gaza Strip and I would like to ask you a question precisely about that. A few days ago, we heard statements by US President Donald Trump that he intends to buy and occupy the Gaza Strip, expel the Palestinians, prevent their return and find somewhere where they can be forcibly pushed. And my question to you …

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European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Lagarde, your policy of combating inflation from the European Central Bank is wrong, it is unfair and it must be changed. It is wrong because it wants to fight inflation by crushing the purchasing power of the people instead of intervening in prices. It is unfair because it ruins the lives of workers and small and medium-sized enterprises, but it guarantees scandalous profits to …

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Honourable Member, the Portuguese Government has recently put forward a law called the Soil Law, which aims to allow construction on land where up to now such construction was not allowed. This decision, of course, favours property speculation, but also creates problems of disorder in the territory. The honourable Member comes from the Valencia region - where there was a tragedy recently following…

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, the problem of desertification is an environmental or climatic problem, but it is essentially a problem of the relationship between human beings and nature, it is a human, social and economic problem. The conclusions of COP16 contain many of the elements relevant to the debate on combating desertification, but they also reveal the many difficulties that still need to be overcome. The…

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

EnglishMadam, you have made a speech of hatred against immigrants and contempt for the difficulties that young families have, which do not allow them to make the decision to have children. And the question I ask you is simple: Does the far right really have a solution to any problems in society? Can the far right come up with a proposal, a solution that is not one of hatred towards others, that is…

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2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

EnglishMadam, one of the essential issues in combating the demographic deficit is, in fact, the guarantee of employment and the guarantee of the ability to organise the life of each family on the basis of this essential condition. We need a job. And policies such as these – promoting eucalyptus, for example – which are disconnected from the reality of the territories and which do not allow the pop…

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, the demographic deficit is a serious problem and is directly related to the deterioration in living conditions, to the obstacles to the autonomy of young people, to the difficulties in making decisions to start a family, which result from job instability, deregulated working hours, difficulties in finding a house that can be paid for. It is therefore absolutely necessary to reverse t…

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Composition of committees and delegations

Madam President, we raise this point of order on the basis of Rule 123 of the Rules of Procedure on the violation of human rights. And we are doing so in order for the European Parliament to take a position of denouncing and condemning the violation of human rights and international law by the Netanyahu Government, which yesterday launched a military operation against the Palestinian people in the…

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Polish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, the motto of the Polish Presidency is ‘Security, Europe!". This proclamation conceals an appeal to militarism and war and a policy of privileges for the great economic and financial interests, and contempt for the economic and social problems affecting the peoples. In the programme of this Polish Presidency there is no reference to workers and their rights, and a magnifying glass …

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Costa, the conclusions of your first meeting as President of the Council are a cause for concern. Anyone who has raised expectations of his election will certainly be disappointed today to find that, after all, nothing has changed in the policies of the European Union. Concerns about social inequalities only take the place of footnotes. The Council conclusions and your speech t…

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2025

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

Mr President, the same staging has been repeated in this European Parliament for more than 20 years. There are more than two decades of interference, destabilisation and economic war against Venezuela, always accompanied by covert and ephemeral ‘democratic enthusiasms’ – in quotation marks. There are many who proclaim democracy, but who were responsible for, complicit in or conniving with the vari…

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

Mr Moreira de Sá, you made an intervention here today that brings together Chega, the PS, the PSD, the Liberal Initiative and the CDS, in a chorus against the decisions that the Venezuelan people have been taking for more than 20 years. We realize the inconvenience of the far right with the decisions that the Venezuelan people have taken in the last 20 years. The far right does not conform to the …

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mrs Temido, you referred in your speech to two points on which I would like to ask you: security and defence and matters relating to international organisations. One of the first news of Donald Trump's decisions is precisely the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization. We will certainly agree that this is a bad decision, because, of course, global health issues require c…

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr Cotrim de Figueiredo, you spoke saying that the European Union must distance itself from the Trump administration. And my specific question to you is how does the European Union have to distance itself? Should it give priority to increasing wages, pensions and improving the living conditions of peoples? Should the European Union prioritise support for productive sectors and the use of national …

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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)

Honourable Member, the far right argues that the tycoons who dominate the media space and the communication space should be able to use the power they have freely, without any limits. He believes that the media and communication space should function like any market where a commodity is bought and sold, even if it means manipulating people's consciousness, and considers that any limit to such acti…

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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)

Honourable Member, the media and communication space is too important for democracy to function. And the question I ask you is whether the path should be one of imposing limits on democratic functioning or whether, on the contrary, it is one of deepening democracy. Today, one of the proposals we have on the table is to strengthen measures to control content. And the question I ask you is: If disin…

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mrs Lídia Pereira, it is clear today that the attempt to implement policies with environmental objectives, using financial instruments and market instruments, is a failure. The carbon emissions market is truly a demonstration that there is no goal behind it to achieve certain environmental goals, but there is truly a business that is done at the expense of increasing production. And the first ques…

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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, the violence, the horror of Israel's genocidal action, to which the Palestinian people have been subjected for more than a year in the Gaza Strip, now suspended by a temporary ceasefire that must become permanent, is unimaginable. There are more than 160 000 Palestinian victims, among them dead, wounded and missing. The humanitarian, food, shelter and health situation is disastrous, …

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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 Bugalho, you mentioned the need for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people and in the Gaza Strip. That's evidence. The humanitarian situation is truly tragic, but it is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that is in a position to guarantee humanitarian assistance, and Israel has taken the decision to ban the action of this United Nations agency. And the question I ask you is: …

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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)

Honourable Member, you have indeed spoken of the need for a substantive solution to the fundamental problem of respect for the national rights of the Palestinian people, including the implementation of the United Nations resolutions giving expression to those national rights, namely the right to have a state. And the question I ask you is: What should be the role of the European Union in this rega…