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Oct
2026
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Francisco Assis
MEP · Portugal
Plenary speeches · European Parliament
Plenary speeches · EU Parliament
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Speeches updated
49 minutes ago
All Contributions
98
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
2.5h
≈ 148 min
Average speech length
1:34 min
≈ 1.6 min
· Rank 161/694
Activity
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Lukas Sieper | GermanyDE | Renew Europe (Renew) | 392 |
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6
Oct
2026
Effective measures to protect and empower children in the digital world (debate)
Madam President, this is a very important issue, that of children's relationship with the digital world. Children are not miniature adults. They are human beings who are still in the process of mental, biological and cultural development and, as such, the concepts of freedom and responsibility that apply to adults, of course, cannot apply to children, and that is why some prohibitive legislation i…
6
Oct
2026
This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro (debate)
Madam President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Commissioner. Mr Prime Minister, I am not going to talk about Portugal or Portuguese internal issues, because I am talking about Portugal in Portugal. I will talk about Portugal in Europe and the European dimension of Portugal and the repercussions of European policies in Portugal. From my point of view, we are currently experiencing a decisive mo…
16
Sep
2026
Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung
Madam President, Commissioner, like Hong Kong, Macao has been under one country, two systems, since it returned to Chinese rule in 1999. Unlike Hong Kong, however, China has succeeded in silencing civil society and suppressing dissent. In recent years, no demonstrations have been authorised in Macau. Opposition politicians were deposed. Freedom of speech has been destroyed. This demonstrates well …
17
Jun
2026
Political prisoners in Nicaragua – the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera
Mr President, a dictatorship is a dictatorship. Whether it is left-wing or right-wing, it is a dictatorship, and there cannot be the slightest condescension on our part to any kind of dictatorship. There is no doubt that Nicaragua is today one of the most dreadful dictatorships we are confronted with. I am part of a generation that was enchanted in its adolescence by the Sandinista Revolution and …
19
May
2026
Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that there is no doubt, for those who want to make a rigorous analysis of the situation, that the economic collapse that Cuba is facing today is the result of a great political and moral failure that preceded that economic collapse and that is the great political and moral failure of the Cuban revolution. In fact, this revolution that created huge expectati…
18
May
2026
Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)
Mr Oliveira, I would like to begin by answering the second question. I believe that the answer lies in my speech; I expressed the same concern. We have a manufacturing industry that could be harmed if care is not taken to strictly monitor and monitor the implementation of the measures that are now going to be approved. I therefore believe that the European Commission now has a huge responsibility …
18
May
2026
Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's trade opening is one of its major international strengths and an enormous economic advantage. We therefore see with growing concern the resurgence of an ultra-protectionist discourse which may be popular, but which seems to us to be contrary to European interests. However, we do not ignore the need to protect certain strategic sectors. The…
29
Apr
2026
Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela
Mr President, Mrs Delcy Rodríguez, a double illegitimate president of Venezuela at the moment, has announced the end of the amnesty law. It refers to new legal instruments, which do not yet exist, to resolve the many outstanding cases. Let us be clear: the absolute priority in Venezuela must be an immediate return to democracy. This can only be achieved by holding free elections. Those who are afr…
29
Apr
2026
New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the law on 'ethnic unity and progress', adopted in March, is nothing more than a legal tool for the forced assimilation of the identity of the various minorities that exist on Chinese territory. Drafted in vague terms, it leaves the field open to all kinds of arbitrariness. It is a typical legislation of a totalitarian project, which sees diversity and plurality…
29
Apr
2026
Sudan’s abandoned humanitarian crisis: three years of conflict (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three years after the beginning of barbarism in Sudan, the international community and the European Union continue to clamorously fail with the population being bombed, raped and deliberately besieged to starve to death. We cannot continue in this graduation of human suffering that leads us to action in some conflicts and to inaction in others, as if there were …
29
Apr
2026
Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)
Mr President, the situation in Lebanon is too tragic and too complex to be properly analysed by means of simplistic visions and purely dichotomous confrontations. It is unquestionable that Hezbollah is a serious problem, and that the Israeli army obviously has the legitimacy to try to end Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has behind it, as we know, Iran and Iran's project to destroy the State of Israel. Th…
29
Apr
2026
The need to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish life in Europe, following the recent attacks against the Jewish community in the Netherlands and Belgium (debate)
Ladies and gentlemen, anti-Semitism is one of the oldest and most tragic moral diseases in Europe. In the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, one of the greatest figures of German Social Democracy, August Bebel, stated the following: Antisemitism is the socialism of fools. We must constantly reflect on this, at a time when a growing majority of Jews claim to have been victims of anti-Sem…
28
Apr
2026
Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, the European continent experienced in the 20th century the totalitarian phenomenon, in its Nazi and Soviet versions, the Holocaust, the most repugnant manifestation of the persecution of the Jewish people known in history. But it was precisely to react to this that a political project emerged: the European project, based primarily on the promotion of human rights. And t…
11
Mar
2026
Human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine
11
Mar
2026
Immunity of International Criminal Court officials and the activation of the EU Blocking Statute to strengthen EU strategic autonomy (debate)
11
Mar
2026
Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)
11
Mar
2026
Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)
11
Feb
2026
Systemic oppression, inhumane conditions and arbitrary detentions by the regime in Iran
Mr President, Commissioner, today they are spending exactly 47 years on an Islamic revolution that led, at the time, to the accession of some European intellectual sectors, completely dominated by ideological blindness, which led them to believe in the merits of a revolution that quickly proved to be the origin of one of the most tetric regimes that contemporary times have known. And the cruelty o…
11
Feb
2026
State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)
Madam President, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and, four years later, published his famous book Democracy in America. And what did he see in America? He saw the most advanced laboratory in modern democracy. He saw in the United States an unprecedented model of balance between individual freedom and representative government, based on a solid institutional structure. It saw a socie…
10
Feb
2026
Violence in the Great Lakes Region, particularly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)
10
Feb
2026
Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)
10
Feb
2026
Urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace (debate)
10
Feb
2026
Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)
21
Jan
2026
Case of Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, half a year later, we are once again discussing the situation of Joseph Figueira Martin. We'll all be more or less the same. Unfortunately, he is much worse. In the meantime, he was tried and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. A trial that developed in absolutely precarious conditions. And our position can only be one - the one we had half a …