What João spoke about.

12 Nov

2025

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

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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…

12 Nov

2025

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

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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 …

23 Oct

2025

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Discontinuing seasonal time change (debate)

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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…

22 Oct

2025

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

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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…

22 Oct

2025

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

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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…

21 Oct

2025

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

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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…

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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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 …

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr Cunha, you referred to small and medium-sized enterprises and the question I wanted to ask you is precisely that: how do small and medium-sized enterprises survive with a European Commission work programme that focuses exclusively on the privileges and favouring of multinationals? In this work programme for 2026 we have the proposal of the legal offshore of the 28th legal regime, proposals for …

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mrs Ana Catarina Mendes, your political group said that it was satisfied with the work programme presented by the European Commission. My question to you is whether you are satisfied with a work programme which merely announces intentions regarding quality employment or the fight against poverty, without pointing out anything concrete and which, with regard to housing, is limited to short-term ren…

21 Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Šuica, the announcement of the ceasefire in Gaza is late and unfulfilled. It took two years of genocide, two years of courageous resistance by the Palestinian people in defence of their rights, supported by a growing international movement of solidarity with Palestine, to which we have also given expression and continue to give expression. The last few days confirm th…

20 Oct

2025

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Mînzatu, we are having this debate at a time when the European Union's first anti-poverty strategy is under discussion and under construction. We would therefore like to stress that the reference point of this European Union strategy must be the eradication of poverty, because the objective of eradicating poverty is an essential objective for building democratic socie…

9 Jul

2025

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The EU’s post-2027 long-term budget: Parliament’s expectations ahead of the Commission’s proposal (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Serafin, the discussion of the next multiannual financial framework still smells more like gunpowder than new houses ready to live in. People need a peace- and cooperation-oriented MFF that addresses problems such as the housing crisis, prioritising economic, social and territorial cohesion and objectives such as full employment, raising the living conditions of worke…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Costa, what this meeting of the European Council brings us is of no use to us: indefinite continuation of the war in Ukraine, military spending increasing at the pace of NATO's war drums, endless money and facilities for the arms race, with the Omnibus package for the arms industry, as Mrs von der Leyen has insisted again today. Promises of more advantages for multinationals, w…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mrs Temido, in addition to the issues you mentioned and with which we agree on the complicit silence of this meeting of the European Council with the genocide in Gaza, there is another aspect on which I would like to raise a question. It is because, both in the speeches by the President of the European Council, António Costa, and in the speeches by the President of the European Commission, Ursula …

8 Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

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Mrs Temido, in Gaza, Israel uses hunger as a weapon of war and murders adults and children at the point of distribution of food, and the pretext is the hostages taken by Hamas. In the West Bank, there are no hostages taken by Hamas. Israel persecutes, forcibly displaces refugees from refugee camps and murders Palestinians with its settlement policy. What's going on is genocide, it's ethnic cleansi…

8 Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr Bugalho, you have just referred to the war crimes committed by Israel at food outlets, where adults and children are being murdered in cold blood. And the question I ask you is very direct: what else needs to come into our eyes to demand that the European Union suspend the Association Agreement with Israel? Mr President, there are no external committees, no assessments that can wipe out the res…

8 Jul

2025

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

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Madam President, Mr Rasmus Andresen, I would like to ask you whether, from the point of view of the Greens, the Presidency programme that has been presented today really corresponds to the alternative that the peoples need. Is it possible to build the alternative people need by insisting on military spending, insisting on diverting budgetary resources to war, continuing the war in Ukraine indefini…

8 Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

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Madam President, against the danger of war, build peace solutions. Against the policy of confrontation, strengthen the ties of cooperation for the mutual benefit of the peoples. This should be the orientation for the development of relations with China and, of course, for the summit that is now taking place. The European Union should not be a sounding board for the US policy of confrontation and e…

7 Jul

2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Lahbib, deinstitutionalisation without decent employment and social protection means poverty and deinstitutionalisation without public services guaranteeing economic, social and cultural rights means abandonment and social exclusion. People with disabilities must be guaranteed the conditions for independent living. Whether they are adults or children, it is necessary …

7 Jul

2025

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Albuquerque, this report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank is in line with the political objectives of the European Union and therefore supports wrong choices that disregard the needs of the peoples and does not indicate the path that should be followed to meet those needs. EIB financing for the military industry is already around EUR 1 billion,…

7 Jul

2025

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Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, the European Parliament cannot remain silent in the face of measures that undermine rights, freedoms and guarantees, which undermine democracy and seek to condition political action, including the action of Members of this Parliament. That is the situation in the Czech Republic, where there is an unacceptable campaign of persecution against the Czech Communists and which is aimed …

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Zaharieva, in Portugal, in the municipality of Évora, a project is currently under way for the installation of a mega photovoltaic plant which will occupy 1500 hectares, with 1 600 000 solar panels, destroying agricultural, landscape, environmental and natural and archaeological heritage resources. This is a terrible example of the way in which energy policy choices are …

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Mr President, Mr González, you told us about the blackout and you told us that the problem is not renewable energy, and indeed it is not. Because the problem that caused the blackout could be caused either by energy produced from renewable sources or by any other source. There is a problem that is the non-diversification of the sources that power the production of electricity, because the market c…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Kallas, NATO is the most dangerous instrument available to US imperialism to maintain its hegemonic dominance by the force of war and destruction. NATO is the greatest threat to world peace. The European Union's choice to constitute itself as the European pillar of NATO confirms its militaristic nature and shows its complicit and subservient alignment with this warmonger…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Ana Miguel Pedro, how can you think that the future of the peoples can be war? That the future of our young people can be death and destruction? How can you come to defend investment in militarism and the arms race, thinking that this does not add dangers of war, that it does not add dangers of military conflicts, of particularly catastrophic dimensions, considering the capacity …