What João spoke about.

Madam President, 11 months, more than 40 000 dead, most of them women and children, almost 100 000 injured, more than 1 700 000 people forced from their homes in Gaza. A territory of flat earth. Israel has cut off water supplies, impeded access to food and basic health care. The European Union, which is always so lavish in imposing sanctions on third parties in the face of the ongoing genocide, ignores the barbarity that Israel imposes on the Palestinian people. In view of our question, it does not even consider the suspension of the Association Agreement with Israel, let alone measures aimed at the recognition of Palestine. Enough of complicity and hypocrisy. The EU-Israel Association Agreement is suspended. An immediate ceasefire is agreed. The recognition of the State of Palestine, as determined by the UN resolutions, in the pre-1967 borders, with capital in East Jerusalem and the right to the return of refugees.

Madam President, the Draghi report reveals the European Union's plans to speed up the transfer of wealth from labour to capital, to favour multinationals, to concentrate decision-making power in the EU and to accentuate the imbalances between the major European powers and the peripheral countries and to accentuate militarism. Instead of pointing to solutions for improving wages, pensions, housing or labour and social rights, instead of identifying measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises and productive sectors, the Draghi report puts competitiveness on a pedestal and, in its name, wants to privatise Social Security and turn pensions into the roulette of speculation by international pension funds. It proposes the suspension of competition rules in order to create large monopolistic groups, in telecommunications, energy and the production of military equipment. It promotes the disease business and the profits of pharmaceutical multinationals. And he proposes, at the end of all this, that the peoples should pay the bill of 800 billion euros per year for this policy...

Madam President, respect for international law, self-determination of peoples, inviolability of borders, territorial integrity, peaceful resolution of conflicts between States, renunciation of the use of violence. We should be discussing in this Parliament a collective peace and security solution for Ukraine and for the whole of Europe on the basis of these principles. Instead, we are once again discussing the 1001 ways to continue the escalation of war and to spend the money and lives of peoples feeding the billionaire arms and death business. When our children and grandchildren judge us by the world we have left them, they will not be able to say that we all supported the war or watched it with folded arms. Some of us will continue to stand firm and raise our voices against the barbarity of war. Because peace is the future of peoples.

Mr President, Portugal is currently experiencing a dramatic situation as a result of the fires that are hitting the centre and north of the country. First of all, I would like to express my solidarity with the victims of these fires and with all those involved in fighting fires, in protection operations and in rescuing the population. Secondly, I would like to stress the seriousness of these fires, which are already taking on a tragic dimension, due to the loss of human lives, the injured, the displaced, the destruction of homes, businesses, agricultural and forestry holdings and the natural heritage. Finally, I would like to highlight the need to mobilise resources to deal with this tragedy. Naturally, at the moment, attention is focused on the means that need to be mobilised to combat the fires and put an end to the tragedy that is befalling Portugal. But we're going to have to recover everything that the fire destroyed. Rehabilitate homes, recover economic activity and jobs, naturally mobilising national means and resources, but also European means and resources that will be needed in a simplified way and with streamlined procedures to ensure the recovery caused by this tragedy.

Madam President, the path that best serves the interests of the people, ecological balance and environmental sustainability is the path of harnessing the productive potential of each country, including it in agricultural production, supporting family farming, small farmers, community ownership of common land and promoting local production policies and local consumption. This path requires policies to support production rather than abandoning it. It requires fair payment policies for production. Policies that protect small farmers from wild competition and crushing by large distribution companies. It demands a refusal to favour multinationals and agribusiness. It demands an end to the liberalisation of markets, which destroys producers and production capacity, as has already happened with milk and is now happening with wine. It requires a common agricultural policy geared towards those objectives. Unfortunately, this path is not reflected in the choices made by the European Union and is still missing from this report presented to us by the Commissioner.