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2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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2025

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Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the nature of the InvestEU programme is clear, and its conditions have never left any doubt as to who is benefiting and who is paying the benefit. Instead of supporting and financing public investment with direct public grants, the European Union has opted with InvestEU to provide public guarantees for private investments. The conditions of this program are those tha…

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2025

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Digital Package (debate)

Mr President, deregulation in matters as sensitive as artificial intelligence, the protection of personal data or e-privacy makes these proposals unacceptable. In artificial intelligence, we want to reduce requirements for high-risk systems and transparency requirements, we want to postpone the entry into force of control and protection rules, we want to delay and weaken rules that were already pr…

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Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

Honourable Member, you spoke about the need to introduce restrictions on young people's access, particularly by controlling age, introducing age verification criteria. My question to you is whether or not you think those solutions should be made compatible with requirements to protect the private and personal lives and privacy of young people and of those who use those commercial platforms, or whe…

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2025

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2026 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the position that came out of this Parliament on the 2026 budget of the European Union kept wrong choices and did not include aspects that were essential to meet the needs of the peoples. The conclusion of the discussion with the Commission and the Council confirmed this result: the detailed changes introduced at the final stage of the discussion of the 2026 Budget do n…

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2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Honourable Member, the situation with regard to semiconductors, which is really at the heart of this debate we are having here today – there is no point in deluding ourselves with that – is truly revealing of two things: On the one hand, the critical dependence of the countries of the European Union on issues that are absolutely essential for industrial and technological development and, on the ot…

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2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, honourable Member, before Donald Trump came to power and the threat of sanctions on China, there were no disruptions in international supply chains. And it is precisely the fact that the European Union puts itself in a subordinate position vis-à-vis Donald Trump in this trade war with China that leads to artificially created crisis situations, such as the one we saw recently in th…

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2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, sacrificing the answer to social problems to subsidise arms production is the great message of this programme of the European defence industry. And the European Union's options are clear: Spend money making weapons, but not building houses. When we talk about the Child Guarantee, the doors to the budget are closed. But if the topic is the arms race and the militarisatio…

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2025

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30th anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the new pact for the Mediterranean (debate)

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2025

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30th anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the new pact for the Mediterranean (debate)

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2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, the conclusions of this European Council are a faithful portrait of the European Union. On the militarisation of the EU, 21 paragraphs of political commitments, billion-dollar investments, accelerated timelines of measures to deliver by 2030. On the green paths of privilege for economic groups, dubbed competitiveness, 28 paragraphs of policies and measures to lighten rules and req…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Cunha, do you mention housing in the conclusions of the European Council? That's talking about rope at hanging house. In these conclusions, there are two paragraphs on housing issues, without political commitments, without funding lines, without timetables, without any intention to address this problem, which is a central problem for the peoples of the European Union. And in co…

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Nov

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, TAP is a strategic company for Portugal, a key company in air connections, passenger and freight transport and its development capacity in the areas of maintenance and engineering. Its strengthening – the strengthening of TAP as a public undertaking – is essential to ensure that it serves the national interest and the economic development of the country. But the current PSD-CDS go…

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2025

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Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that multinationals and large companies must be taxed, and taxed robustly and effectively, and that their income must be taxed in the territories where it is generated. That is an absolutely essential element and we regret that the small corrections that Parliament is preparing to make to this BEFIT scheme do not solve the problems that have been at the root…

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Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

You know that the problem is that when there is a towel that is too short for the table, no matter how much you pull to one side to cover one part of the table, there is another part of the table that is always without a towel. And in this case, the design of the national and regional plans that the European Commission has proposed to us brings together a large amalgamation of funds to cut, in gen…

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2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the proposal for a multiannual financial framework is a cloud that overshadows the future of the peoples. For arms and war, there are budget increases and drainage of other funds, but the cuts are merciless in cohesion, social policy, support for agriculture and fisheries, the environment and climate action. The national and regional plans are not for partnership, but f…

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2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, the European Union's migration policy and the Pact on Migration have no objective of regulating migration flows, combating trafficking in human beings or combating crime. They have no such purpose. The only objective is to maintain the unworthy situation with which migrants are treated so that they are more easily exploited and so that this exploitation helps to exploit other work…

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2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Miguel Pedro, this report gives us a relatively realistic picture of the cruelty of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, but there are three aspects on which it was important to reflect in relation to Portugal. Contrary to the narrative that is made, Portugal is not identified as one of the countries where there is migratory pressure or even risk of migratory pressure, but it is …

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2025

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Discontinuing seasonal time change (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Tzitzikostas, we agree that it makes no sense for the European Union to impose seasonal changes of time. The setting of standard time is a matter for the Member States and that is how it should be decided. And the decision on the seasonal change of time cannot be detached from the geographical, social, cultural or other particularities of each country. Although progre…

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2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Bjerre, Commissioner Šefčovič, as the European Council meeting is only tomorrow, we are still in time to leave a challenge. Make sure that this meeting of the European Council is not just a meeting of pretending concern for the peoples. They're really worried. Do not use housing, the situation in the Middle East or migration policy to pretend to care about peoples. Really worr…

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2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Mrs Temido, you certainly heard the speech by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in which you spoke precisely about these two aspects that you mentioned in your speech. And the question I want to ask you is whether you think that balance is achieved. The President of the Commission spoke in detail about plans, about investment packages, about timetables for investing in militar…

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2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, the mid-term review of the current multiannual financial framework has accentuated the diversion of budgetary resources towards militarism and war and the policy of expelling migrants outside borders, disregarding the needs of peoples and national development. This proposed budget of the European Union for 2026 reflects these options and deepens them, leaving th…

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2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Mr President, the European Commission's work programme for 2026 has a major imbalance between the work that the Commission wants to do for multinationals and that which can meet the expectations of workers, peoples, small and medium-sized enterprises. And it is not only in the number and type of legislative and non-legislative initiatives, it is in the objectives proposed and in the matters dealt …