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2025

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Ninth report on economic and social cohesion (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Delivering on the EU Roma Strategy and the fight against discrimination in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Lahbib, on 28 March I took part in an initiative of the European Anti-Poverty Network, where I heard the report of a young gypsy who explained how the door to a job is always closed to him when it is known that he is a gypsy. And on March 14, I contacted in Portugal, in the municipality of Moita, a couple of young gypsies in the tent where they live with a four-year-old …

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2025

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Delivering on the EU Roma Strategy and the fight against discrimination in the EU (debate)

Mr Francisco Assis, Portugal has not had a national Roma integration strategy since 2022. It is, moreover, the only country in the European Union in this situation. Not even the evaluation of the previous strategy, which ended in 2022, was completed. And the questions I ask you are simple. How is it possible to ensure the integration of Roma communities if we do not even have a strategy for that g…

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2025

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Outcome of the recent COP16 biodiversity negotiations in Rome (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Roswall, reversing biodiversity loss while ensuring progress and social justice requires a profound change of policy and economic model. Defending biodiversity and preserving the environment requires policies for the rational use of energy and increasing energy efficiency, as well as an effective promotion of public transport, reducing dependence on fossil fuels by promo…

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2025

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Outcome of the recent COP16 biodiversity negotiations in Rome (debate)

Mr Sérgio Humberto, the theory that you have brought here is a good one. The question you ask him is: Why don't you practice it? Why, for example, in Portugal, the government, which is from the same party as the honourable Member, is pursuing a policy exactly contrary to that which you have advocated here. For example, when it does not support traditional agriculture, smallholders, productive prac…

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2025

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The importance of trans-European transport infrastructure in times of stalling economic growth and major threats to Europe’s security (debate)

Mr Tzitzicostas, we should in fact be discussing transport networks not on the basis of war and security issues, but on the contribution that transport networks have to make to territorial, economic and social cohesion within the European Union, to ensuring the mobility of people, to supporting economic activity. What support should the European Union give to national transport infrastructure inve…

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2025

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The importance of trans-European transport infrastructure in times of stalling economic growth and major threats to Europe’s security (debate)

Mr Muşoiu, the question I would like to put to you is simple. Do you not think that the priority in the discussion of transport policy should be how the European Union can support the development of transport infrastructure to ensure the mobility of people, to guarantee territorial, economic and social cohesion within the European Union and, more than defence issues, should it be the satisfaction …

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2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr President, this discussion on the Ocean Pact should enable us to discuss a strategy that takes into account that the sensitivity of marine ecosystems and the environmental, ecological and social functions of the seas and oceans require a strong role for the State in the sustainable management and safeguarding of resources, as a way of ensuring that the common interest, the public good, prevails…

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2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, one of the ways to respond to concerns about the environmental preservation of the oceans is precisely to support economic activities, which also have their place in the ocean, in a sustainable way, and, in particular, in relation to artisanal and coastal fishing, this is one of the absolutely essential elements to ensure that all these concerns are articulated. Howe…

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2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, better jobs, better wages and pensions, access to housing, health, education, better social protection, a better distribution of wealth, eradication of poverty. Here are the priorities of the people, but they are not the priorities of the European Union. The petition we promote in Portugal for the increase of wages and pensions shows this demand of the people in the more than 100,000…

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2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Mr Bruno Gonçalves, my question to you is simple: does the honourable Member agree with this approach taken by the European Commission to energy-intensive industries, disregarding the strong elements of social conditionality that should be present? This approach leaves workers, their jobs, their wages, their working conditions, sound collective bargaining processes, which should be safeguarded, co…

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2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Matthieu, you referred to an important aspect that has to do with social impacts, but I would like to ask you another question, which is whether you do not see with concern the concentration of political decision-making on these issues in the European Commission on competences that are the responsibility of the Member States. When we cross-reference this action plan with the C…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Lahbib, this debate on so-called crisis preparedness is the debate on escaping responsibility, promoting fear and the ideology of war. The European Commission underscores the role of states and essential public services and structures, and sees crisis preparedness as an individual responsibility of citizens. While dealing with situations that justify genuine concern f…

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2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office, the question I want to ask you is a very specific one: Do you agree with the European Commission's choice to support the role of states, structures and public services in the response they need to ensure in situations that are truly crisis situations, civil protection situations or critical infrastructure difficulties? Does the honourable Member agree with …

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2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Brunner, the European internal security strategy sets wrong priorities, threatens citizens' freedoms and is dedicated to hunting witches while turning a blind eye to white-collar crimes and threats from the far right. The Commission's proposal commits four major sins. First, it focuses on European agencies, while the priority should be to support investment in national s…

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2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr Cunha, you have come to praise the proposal for a European internal security strategy and I want to ask you two questions. The first is whether the honourable Member really thinks it is worth praising a strategy that stigmatises migrants, stigmatises religion, but closes his eyes to economic and financial crime, closes his eyes to the threats of the far right in terms of crime? And the second q…

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2025

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Ridel, you spoke about the violation of human rights, you referred to several important aspects, particularly in relation to what is happening in Palestine and the Gaza Strip, and that is very important to underline. But I wanted to ask you another question: does it not believe that, in a debate on human rights, we should also deal with issues that have to do with poverty, wit…

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2025

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Kaja Kallas, peoples need international relations geared to peace, cooperation, solidarity, the political settlement of conflicts, the de-escalation of international tensions and respect for the principles of international law. None of these objectives are present in the Common Foreign and Security Policy or in the resolutions we are discussing here today. These resol…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, Mr Costa, when we are told about the European Council meeting, the echo we hear in this Parliament is war, war, war, war. The European Union's plan is to make war the engine of the economy and a business so billionaire that it will never end. The future is built neither with war, nor with militarism, nor with more arms race. It is built with solutions of peace a…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Mr Cunha, you spoke here about the competitiveness of companies and the need to develop the economy, and I ask you how you, looking at the Portuguese reality, can think that the conclusions of this European Council serve us? How can an economy such as the Portuguese one, which is based mainly on small and medium-sized enterprises, benefit from measures such as the Omnibus package or the offshore o…

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2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, today we have brought before this European Parliament an important proposal to extend the deadline for implementing the funds of the RRP, the funds of the Resolution and Resilience Plan. And why? Because these funds are important funds at the disposal of the Member States, which must be fully exploited so that the Member States can, from them, project the development and the neces…

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2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, the root of corruption lies in the nature of the policy that is being pursued and the interests that it serves. A policy that is at the service of workers and peoples leaves no room for corruption. On the contrary, it is politics that serves economic and multinational interests that is the root of corruption, promiscuity, influence peddling, the links between political and economi…

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2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Ridel, every time there is a problem of corruption, there is a temptation to put the whole Parliament and all Members under suspicion. Moreover, a situation that is taken advantage of by the extreme right to make its circus. And the question I want to ask you is this: does the honourable Member not consider that, in the face of any circumstance of suspicion of corruption, it i…

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2025

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Savings and Investments Union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Albuquerque, banking concentration in megabanks does not serve the interests of depositors, just as privatisation or the destruction of public social security does not serve the interests of workers. Public Social Security is a guarantee for workers as to their social protection, including their current and future pensions. We must defend it, strengthen it, including …

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2025

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Savings and Investments Union (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Lídia Pereira, the Commission's plans in this area are dangerous plans and you, moreover, have not referred to one of the most dangerous aspects of these plans and that is precisely what I want to ask you several questions about, which have to do with mobilising resources to finance the economy from public social security systems, favouring the business of private pension systems…