What João spoke about.

21 Jan

2025

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

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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 …

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)

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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…

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)

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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…

20 Jan

2025

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

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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…

20 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)

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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, …

20 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)

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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: …

20 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)

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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…

20 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)

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Mr Tangier Corrêa, you have come here to tell us that Donald Trump is a great advocate of peace and you have come to tell us that he is largely responsible for the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. And I want to ask you how you can say that Donald Trump is a champion of peace, if he is the US president who calls for investment in the arms race, spending on war spending, extending NATO's military action…

20 Jan

2025

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Request for consultation of the European Economic and Social Committee (Rule 151)

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Madam President, you have already referred to the debate we will have today on Gaza, but we have not yet heard a single word from the institutions of the European Union about the aggression of Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population in the territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories illegally occupied by Israel. Reports of such attacks have multiplied in recent days. T…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, 30 years ago, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action set out a perspective that should have been a step forward on the path towards realising women's rights in all the dimensions of life in which these rights are expressed and felt. The 69th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is an opportunity, not only to assess the state of play, but to discuss solutio…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, the next session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is a good opportunity to assess the progress made with regard to the fulfilment of women's rights. And the question we ask is simple: Is it possible to combat the inequalities affecting women by maintaining the same neoliberal policies that aggravate exploitation and impose severe social setbacks? Is it possible…

18 Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the title of this debate is constructed with a good deal of hypocrisy. It even seems that the difficulties of small and medium-sized farmers and farm workers do not have a direct link to European Union policies. And it even seems that these policies do not have, in this Parliament, a majority support that goes from the Social Democrats to the extre…

18 Dec

2024

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Tackling abusive subcontracting and labour market intermediaries (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, subcontracting, labour intermediation, outsourcing of services are all mechanisms that aggravate the exploitation of those who work, which impose job insecurity and instability in the lives of workers. Now, the right way is not to create rules that make it possible to organize labor relations in such a way that, between the beneficiary of the provision of work and the w…

18 Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the role of trade unions is absolutely essential for the defence of workers' rights, and collective bargaining is one of the instruments for defending these rights and improving workers' working and living conditions. It is through collective agreements that wages are increased, working hours are reduced, safety and health at work are guaranteed, and vacation days are i…

18 Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, anyone who has created expectations by choosing António Costa to chair the European Council will certainly be disappointed today to see that there is no change in the policies of the European Union. This is not yet where the President of the European Council comes to Parliament to really discuss the problems affecting the peoples. And there is no prospect on …

16 Dec

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, in Portugal, the PSD-CDS Government has decided to limit pregnant women's access to public hospitals. The government parties, and the government itself, which here in the European Parliament and in the European institutions, say that Portugal is the good student of the European Union, that Portugal is a good example of compliance with all the budgetary rules, all the targets that are…

16 Dec

2024

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Conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the United Nations Convention on transparency in treaty-based investor-State arbitration (short presentation)

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Mr President, Commissioner, these amendments concerning the rules on the transparency of international arbitration, of course, are without prejudice to having more access to documentation, to having more access to information, in particular by the public, and it is, of course, a positive element. Now, these amendments do not solve the fundamental problem. And the fundamental problem is that, when …

16 Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the fires in Portugal, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira or in the districts of Viseu and Aveiro are examples of disasters, the damage to which needs to be repaired. Support is needed for small and medium-sized farmers and forest producers, for small entrepreneurs, for the people who have been affected by these disasters. And it is important that there are European…

16 Dec

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, I begin by welcoming the European Ombudsman and the report she has presented to us on the work carried out in 2023, which is a beautiful portrait of what is the reality today in the European Union, of those who are allowed to do everything and of those who are severely harmed by the European reality, the European Union and its policies. I would like to highlight two aspects of the…

28 Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Madam President, 35 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, many of these rights are just a mirage. The thousands of children killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip are the cruelest and most inhuman proof of this reality. There is much to be done to make the rights of the Convention a reality in the lives of children. Parental poverty must be eradicated so that it does n…

27 Nov

2024

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

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Mr Assis, the Draghi report says and I quote: “We need a genuine EU economic foreign policy. The EU should coordinate preferential trade agreements and direct investment". End of citation. The report also proposes the creation of a decision-making mechanism for the approval of common external direct investment, i.e. a mechanism enabling the European Union to decide on the external direct investmen…

27 Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Ladies and gentlemen, 20 years ago, Mr Barroso proclaimed the liberalisation of the energy sector, saying that competition would bring down prices. Exactly the opposite happened. Today, we are told that the energy transition and the reduction of energy prices will be achieved through further liberalisation. They are deceiving us again, choosing good pretexts to hide bad politics. The situation in …

27 Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Honourable Member, you have come here to attack the production of energy from renewable sources and I want to ask you a very direct question, from the Portuguese case. Portugal currently produces more energy from renewable sources than from non-renewable sources. But the European price formation mechanism makes us pay the price of energy at the cost of the price of energy produced from non-renewab…

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Mrs von der Leyen, voting against this European Commission means rejecting its political programme. People need peace, they need cooperation. They need social cohesion, better wages and pensions, access to housing, health, education, social protection, responding to environmental problems. The Commission insists on policies of militarism, war and confrontation; policies that deny social and labour…

26 Nov

2024

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Political and humanitarian situation in Mozambique (debate)

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