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2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Ribera, the digital sector is, of course, a sector of great importance and economic impact. Today, it is a liberalised – absolutely liberalised – sector, where there is no public intervention of any kind not only in the conduct of scientific and technological development, but in the fact that the sector is completely dominated by multinationals, in particular US-based on…

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2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mr Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, cohesion, agriculture and fisheries accounted for 65% of the budget in the current multiannual financial framework. With the Commission's proposal, they now represent only 45%. And now this report raises that slice of the budget a little bit, but it does not even reach 50 %. How can a reduction of this size, in proportion to the budget, defend farmers? And how can fa…

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2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mrs Tinagli, you are also chairman of the Housing Committee and you referred to that. And indeed, it is important that this report has a reference to housing problems. My question to you is, first of all, whether you are satisfied with the fact that this matter is referred to the Regional Development Fund, within the national and regional partnership plans, with all the limitations that this means…

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2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, the European Commission's proposal for the next financial framework was a bad starting point. This report is limited to softening some of the negative aspects, but the underlying problems remain ‑se. The political choices in this multiannual budget are the arms race and the militarisation of the European Union, the contempt for cohesion and the fight against eco…

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Apr

2026

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Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Albuquerque, this debate is a good example of the European Union's policies and the interests it serves. The European Union promotes wage restraint, increases the cost of living, pushes workers into debt and then goes on to say that people need to be informed about the risks of credit and the precautions they have to take when in debt. The European Union promotes the …

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Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Lahbib, in our opinion, criminal laws should be reserved for sovereign national competence and no state should wait for the European Union to strengthen and make more effective its laws to combat sexual abuse, including rape. International legal and judicial cooperation in this area is essential, but we have many doubts that there is an advantage in uniform impositions, …

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Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Mr Buxadé Villalba, the first question I want to ask you is this: Are you only concerned about violations that are committed by foreigners? Because if they are committed by the nationalists there is no longer any problem for the extreme ‑ right? Question 2: You advocate increasing sentences when there are convictions, but you do not want to tamper with laws that presume consent whenever there is n…

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2026

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Order of business

Madam President, I am using Rule 163.º to express our displeasure at the fact that the European Parliament continues to reject a debate that has at its heart the defence of workers' rights, the improvement of their working and living conditions as factors of economic and social development, particularly at a time when these rights are under attack in several countries of the European Union, with c…

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2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (A10-0025/2026 - Borja Giménez Larraz)

Mr President, the report that the European Parliament is voting on today on housing issues is a real disappointment for those who had some hope that some prospect of a solution to housing problems could emerge from this. This report, making the diagnosis of the problem, insists on exactly the same policies that created the problem. A problem is identified with the functioning of the market which r…

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2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, Commissioner Kubilius, militarisation and the policy of confrontation and war are the greatest threats the European Union poses to the future of the peoples. And the reports we are discussing here today represent a faster and more intense ride on this precipice path towards confrontation and war, completely disregarding the consequences they have for the peoples. We are talking ab…

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Mar

2026

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Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by welcoming Mr Ušakovs, the rapporteur for these guidelines for the European Union's budget for 2027, for the effort he has made to focus more on social and cohesion issues, at least at the level of the budgetary structure. That good will on the part of the rapporteur is to be welcomed. For our part, we have put forwa…

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2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Séjourné, the proposals we are discussing today for the deepening of the Single Market are designed to encourage the accumulation of profits by multinationals and to ensure that the weakest and weakest economies of the European Union are controlled by the strongest economies. These measures are designed to benefit multinationals and to the detriment of micro, small an…

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Mrs Isilda Gomes, you have done an exact part of the diagnosis of the housing problem here, all over the European Union, including Portugal. And my question to you is whether the approach that emerges from this report is indeed the right one. Because the housing issue in this report is seen more as an economic issue, with concerns about the construction sector and financial investment, and not as …

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Mar

2026

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Harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, in a situation of insolvency the priority must be to maintain productive activity, to preserve jobs and workers' rights. To frame insolvency issues, as a matter of priority, in the deepening of capital markets seems to us to be wrong, especially when we envisage mechanisms such as the acquisition of insolvent companies that can generate accounting…

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2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, inequalities between women and men are one of the most obvious demonstrations of the inequalities that characterise the economic system in which we live. This report highlights the significant inequalities that persist, the most precarious and discontinuous careers, lower wages and pensions. But the problem is not in the diagnosis, it is in the policie…

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Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

Mr Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, the question I would like to ask you is: how do you reconcile the discourse on equality between women and men with the policy being pursued by the Portuguese Government that you support, particularly with the proposal for a labour package? How is it possible to talk about equality between women and men, particularly at work, if at the moment there is an amendment to …

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Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Latinopoulou, if I have understood correctly, you believe that we are discussing trivial issues here today. And my question to you is whether you believe that a woman, when looking for a job, should be asked whether or not she intends to have children in order to know whether she has access to that job, whether it is a trivial matter for her. If the circumstance of t…

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2026

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Upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Zaharieva, scientific and technological progress cannot be shared in the logic of competitiveness policy according to the profit-accumulation objectives of large economic and financial groups. Scientific and technological progress must be seen as an instrument for responding to economic and social needs, for solving problems that affect the lives of peop…