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Agenda of the next sitting

The next meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 9 October 2024, at 9 a.m. The agenda has been published. It is available on the European Parliament's website.

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Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters occurred in 2023 (A10-0002/2024 - Georgios Aftias)

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. This agenda item is closed.

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Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters occurred in 2023 (A10-0002/2024 - Georgios Aftias)

The next item is the explanation of vote on the report Georgios Aftias - Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France following natural disasters in 2023.…

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Explanations of vote

The next item is the explanations of vote.

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Situation in Sudan (debate)

Thank you very much, the debate is closed.

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Situation in Sudan (debate)

The next item is the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the situation in Sudan (2021/2851(RSP)). I give the floor, on behalf of the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to Commissioner Věra Jourová.…

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Composition of committees and delegations

Before proceeding further, I would like to inform you that the EPP Group and the non-attached Members have communicated to the President decisions on changes to appointments in committees and delegations. These decisions will be recorded in the minutes of today's sitting and will take effect on the date of this announcement.…

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

We are coming to the end of this debate. I thank colleagues for this interesting and lively debate. The debate is closed.

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on the EU response to the Mpox epidemic and the need for continued action [2024/2801(RSP)].

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2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

The debate is closed.

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2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost I would like to express our full solidarity with all the countries hit, the local authorities, the regional authorities who are on the bridge at the moment to help, and then our condolences to the families who have suffered. I remember that in 2021, I was at this podium, after the floods in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium that killed 300 …

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Forging a sustainable future together: economic, social and territorial challenges for a competitive, cohesive and inclusive Europe (debate)

Mr President, one minute for five years: how cruel the organisation of our work is. However, I would like to take this moment to say how honoured I have been to chair the Committee on Regional Development over the past five years and to thank the members of the Committee on Regional Development for the trust they have shown in me and for their ongoing commitment to cohesion. Commissioner, when we …

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EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, what more than genocide is needed for Mrs von der Leyen to finally act and suspend the Association Agreement with Israel? What is more than 34,000 dead, including more than 12,000 murdered children? Just yesterday, a mass grave was found in Khan Younes with more than 200 dead. Is all this still not enough for Mrs von der Leyen to suspend the Association Agreement? If I…

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, to prefer life to death, to promote peace, to defend justice and international law, to always be on the side of the oppressed, the colonised and the damned of the earth, to finally refuse to see one’s own humanity and dignity sink, denouncing the crimes committed today in the land of Palestine, unless one is complicit in its silence. This is what makes you in France today, not a just…

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Madam President, I bring the voices of animals here so that their suffering can be heard. It is a barbaric model, without any other faith or law than the quest for maximum profit, that animals are victims, denied in their suffering and in their condition as living beings. There can be no welfare for animals born to be killed, destined for consumption or become production machines, and no justifica…

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Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

Madam President, allow me, as Chair of our Committee on Regional Development, to congratulate Andrey Novakov on his excellent report, voted unanimously in our Committee. And this unanimity says the very great unity, throughout this legislature, that has allowed us to find solutions, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions in the regions, but also solutions to help Ukrainian refugees.…

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Madam President, it is when war rages that we must have the courage of peace. To say this is neither to be defeatist, nor to be cowardly, nor to play into the hands of the enemy: it is to raise a moral and universal demand high, it is to bring back to the understanding the only rational choice that is worthwhile, that of life against death, to remove from us the absolutisation of a nothingness tha…

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Rising inequalities in the world (debate)

Mr President, inequality kills. They lead to the death of one person every four seconds. This is our world where today’s inequalities are the largest in the history of human societies. This unworthy, indecent world, where inequalities do not arise from nothingness, but are methodically organized for the benefit of the predation of a few against the greatest number. 1% of the world's population own…

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Mr President, history repeats itself sadly. The great return of austerity takes us back ten years to this disastrous troika, this bad Greek tragedy written in Berlin and Brussels. Behind the so-called "structural" reforms lies a much darker plan: weakening the state, public services, destroying the welfare state to make room for markets. In reality, ordoliberalism is the desire to put an end to th…

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Madam President, throughout Europe, the bottom of the air is brown, nauseating and dangerous. The fanatics of the fascist, racist and anti-Semitic groups run the streets, and racism once again takes its ease in the public debate, in more polite but no less abject forms, between people of good society who, without complexes, invoke the defense of values to legitimize a deep racism. Everything has b…

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Madam President, there are rare moments in a life where the events of the world give us an appointment with who we are. In fidelity to these values, Europe was expected to firmly condemn all war crimes. It was expected, it is no longer expected. Rusting with her principles, she killed herself. Through its complicit silences, its convoluted speeches, its refusal to call for a ceasefire, Europe has …

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2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, who would agree, here in Europe, to be deprived of water two days out of three and, in the meagre hours when water flows from the tap, to use brown water unfit for consumption? Who would accept that? This absolutely incredible reality is that of Mayotte, the poorest outermost region of the European Union, but also a territory of a country, France, which is the s…

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2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

Mr President, crises are manifold, combine and become a permanent reality, which makes it particularly difficult to draw up the budget: geopolitical crisis, climate crisis (with the multiplication of natural disasters), energy crisis, inflation, explosion of poverty. We have to respond to all these crises, even though our budget is not sufficiently endowed to deal with them. Commissioner Hahn, the…

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2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, as Chair of the REGI Committee, I cannot leave your attack in good standing on our committee's position on the closure of programming unanswered. First of all, I want to tell you that the committee has used a budgetary cavalier, by inserting into a regulation with a different objective a provision that concerns precisely technical provisions concerning cohesion – the…

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2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, for the revision of this MFF, I am one of those who called for an increase in the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, because poverty is exploding. But did you listen to Commissioner Schmit last night in this gallery? He said: the available money must be spent immediately. There are billions that can be used to reduce precariousness. And Commissioner Schmit urged Member St…