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17 Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Kallas, anyone who is aware of a shred of humanism is outraged by what has been happening in Gaza for 620 days. The images of the killings of children at the so-called food outlets, which Israel has installed in conjunction with the United States, are just one last example of the barbarism that Israel raises to levels we thought we would never see again. With the complicity of th…

17 Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Sérgio Humberto, an absolutely essential aspect of the quality of the public transport service is the appreciation of workers, their careers, their professions, their working conditions and, of course, also their salaries. Whether it is rail, road, inland waterway or maritime transport, competitiveness does not depend on the valorisation of workers or their rights. In fact, the go…

17 Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Gonçalves, the honourable Member has spoken here of good intentions with regard to transport policy, but this debate we are having is about a communication which deals with public transport services according to the criterion of competitiveness and not the mobility needs of the population. That criterion of competitiveness is the criterion which guarantees funding for the trans-Eu…

17 Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Cunha, the European Union's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel is incompatible with the proclamations defending the rule of law. And the question we ask is: Where is respect for human dignity, democracy, freedom and human rights when you are complicit in the genocide that Israel is carrying out against the Palestinian people? How is it p…

17 Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Ressler, one of the main problems with the RRF is the deadline. The deadline for the end of the RRF will not allow a good part of the funds to be used and a significant part of the projects that were under consideration to be implemented. The report presents a proposal for an additional 18 months for projects with some maturity. It seems to us a timid proposal, so we have put f…

17 Jun

2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Kadis, the Ocean Pact is yet another EU strategy that adds little to what already exists beyond the usual propaganda in this type of instrument. Unsurprisingly, the ocean will continue to be a garbage dump for competitiveness, major economic interests, market liberalisation, with the prominent and perverse example of the carbon market. The preservation of the oceans requ…

17 Jun

2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Nascimento Cabral, this announcement of the Oceans Pact risks adding little to what already exists, beyond the usual propaganda associated with these instruments. Therefore, I would like to ask you – and even starting from the specific situation of Portugal – what specific measures can result from this Ocean Pact? With regard to the need to enhance small-scale coastal and artis…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, we must spare no effort in the fight against child sexual abuse. This fight requires much more than criminal measures. The proposal for a directive that we discussed focuses on criminal measures to combat abuse after it has occurred and ignores measures to prevent abuse. We need prevention measures that guarantee the proper and safe functioning of institution…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Mrs Ana Miguel Pedro, you spoke about the various contexts in which situations of child abuse occur. The first question I wanted to ask you has to do precisely with that. Does it not seem to you that this requires much more than criminal measures to increase penalties? Does this not seem to you to require preventive measures to ensure the proper and safe functioning of institutions and spaces wher…

16 Jun

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, housing is a priority in responding to people's problems and the European Union needs to take the necessary measures so that there are solutions at national level to increase the public supply of housing, protect tenants, combat property speculation, ensure that the necessary investment is mobilised so that homes that are vacant – State-owned real estate – can b…

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Fitto, the day we debate this report on the importance of cohesion policy for rural areas is precisely the day when the Committee on Budgets has just voted on amendments to the regulations for the European cohesion policy funds, namely the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund, which now have militarism as their specific objectives. Military mobility in the Union has become one of …

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Rodrigues, the honourable Member has referred to several important aspects of this report, but I would like to ask him about other aspects that go in the negative direction. Firstly, I would like to ask you how the development of rural areas is supported by placing this focus on militarism – which also appears in this report with the reference to the importance of military mobi…

16 Jun

2025

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The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Kos, the war has been raging in Ukraine for more than 11 years. Reality shows that dialogue is urgent; a dialogue for a political solution to the conflict, a dialogue addressing the problems of collective security and disarmament in Europe, a dialogue aimed at compliance with the principles of the UN Charter and the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference. The resumption…

16 Jun

2025

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The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians (debate)

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Mr Blaha, I have listened carefully to your speech and I would like to ask you a question. After all the speeches we have heard throughout this debate have expressed concern about the loss of human lives, about the destruction of Ukraine, the question I want to ask you is simple: do you really think that the European Union and its institutions are committed to a solution of collective peace and se…

22 May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Zaharieva, scientific and technological development is absolutely essential for the development of any country. And asymmetries and inequalities in development between the countries of the European Union are a serious problem that must be tackled – and it is therefore absolutely essential that the European Union’s choices in science and technology make a decisive contrib…

22 May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Mr Gonçalves, I would like to ask you two questions. First, how does Portugal get out of the situation of dependence of the strongest countries, of the great powers of the European Union, in access to funds for science? The European Union has just announced a set of measures with large associated funds. Portugal is always in a position of dependence, because to access these funds, our science and …

22 May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Sousa Silva, you have made a very important speech, but you have forgotten the most important aspect of investing in science: investing in the social and professional development of scientists and researchers. And this is one of the main problems facing Portugal. The social and professional devaluation of its scientists and researchers is a brand that sinks our country, condemn…

21 May

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, valuing work and workers is a condition for social justice and also for national development. A country that does not value its workers, their wages, their careers and professions, their working conditions is a country plagued by social injustices and inequalities, and also a country with less conditions for development. A government that executes a policy of attacking labour and soc…

21 May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Mînzatu, low wages and socio-occupational devaluation, job insecurity and discontinuity in employment and work, shift work and deregulated working hours, discrimination and harassment in the workplace, violation of maternity and paternity rights: these are some of the underlying problems that are at the root of the mental health problems that affect workers. We often dis…

21 May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

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Mr Tânger Corrêa, 53 000 dead – 15 000 of whom are children – 119 000 injured, 430 humanitarian workers killed – 305 of them from the United Nations –, more than 1 400 health professionals and 213 journalists killed. At the moment, there are 14 000 babies at risk of starvation, two million people without food, without water, without medicines because of the blockade of humanitarian aid imposed by …

8 May

2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

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Mr President, the policy that the peoples need is a policy of boosting the internal market that increases purchasing power by increasing wages and pensions; to gear the economy towards job creation and meeting social needs rather than the profits of economic groups; to stimulate productive development and the incorporation of science and technology into production; and to take on the objective of …

8 May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

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Mr President, the remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the day of the victory over Nazifascism must serve to recall the hard lessons learned by humanity from the tragedy of that war, so that the peoples can avoid its repetition. The legacy of Nazi-fascist barbarism is unprecedented destruction – genocide, concentration camps, tens of millions of deaths. With 20 million dead, it was the Soviet Un…

7 May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Mr President, a lady interviewed in Portugal about rising prices told Portuguese television that the worst thing is that you run out of money to buy a book. This sentence reflects well the consequences of the increase in the cost of living. It's not just what you stop buying in basic necessities, it's the rest of people's lives that gets compromised. And, speaking of the increase in the cost of li…

7 May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs Miranda, you have indeed referred here to a circumstance which is contradictory, or apparently contradictory. Because, while it is true that distribution groups crush the prices they pay to producers, the truth is that they have not stopped increasing prices in the sale to the public, particularly in essential goods. And when we question this, what we are told from the Europea…

7 May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Jørgensen, the problems that caused the blackout of 28 April may happen regardless of how the electricity sector is organised and operates, but their scale and consequences are the result of the policies of liberalisation and privatisation of the energy sector by national governments under the patronage of the European Union. These policies cut the electricity sector …