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Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank all the political groups in the Committee on Regional Development for supporting this important initiative for the islands, and I believe that this debate is an important moment in the relationship between the islands of the European Union and the European institutions. I listened very carefully to the Commissioner and I believe that we need to …

6

Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today we call for a long-term vision for the European islands, based on an island pact and an island agenda. Article 174 of the Treaty is clear: the EU must pay particular attention to island regions, whose natural, severe and permanent handicaps are recognised. This particular attention today, Commissioner, does not exist enough. This is a gap to be filled and, let us …

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May

2022

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Discharge 2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, President of the Court of Auditors, Minister, the discharge for which I am responsible does not concern an agency, but a policy, the European Development Fund. We are now in the eleventh EDF and thus in its eleventh multiannual programming since its establishment by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and then by the famous Cotonou Agreements, which have given a solid framew…

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Mar

2022

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Refugees in Europe: CARE (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments we will be voting, almost unanimously I am sure, on the first package of measures that will make it possible to mobilise the Cohesion Fund to receive refugees. I would like to thank you personally, Commissioner Elisa Ferreira, for this proposal, which is growing cohesion policy. There are already 3.5 million Ukrainian refugees i…

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Mar

2022

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Votes on requests for urgent procedure (Rule 163)

Madam President, on behalf of our REGI Committee, I want to speak in favour of this emergency vote, which, you will agree, is not about a small matter, but about the most horrible, the most terrible, the most tragic: war, which is now part of our work. We all present that this war in Ukraine will have dizzying consequences for the whole of Europe. Already before our eyes, moreover, one of the larg…

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Mar

2022

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Implementation of the 2021-2027 cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, before referring to our oral question, I would like to say here, on behalf of our entire Committee on Regional Development, our full and unwavering solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Our solidarity is also total with Poles, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians, Moldovans who share a physical border with Ukraine and are at the outposts today to welc…

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Feb

2022

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Droughts and other extreme weather phenomena on the Iberian Peninsula and other parts of Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the extreme drought that hits Spain and Portugal in the middle of winter has now added to the long list of annual natural disasters, which are increasing in number and intensity. On the front line today, in the face of this drought in these two countries, farmers and national and regional authorities, to whom I want to reaffirm here, on behalf of our Group and on behalf…

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Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, Poland is a great country, one of the largest in our Union, and its history tells the powerful desire of its people for freedom and democracy. That is why we must first say in this debate that the first victims of breaches of the rule of law, both in Poland and Hungary, are Poles and Hungarians themselves. It is therefore for these peoples – and for the rea…

16

Dec

2021

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An EU ban on the use of wild animals in circuses (debate)

– Mr President, when so-called wild animals are deprived of their freedom, it is man who takes their lives. Animals have only one purpose: to live, to live free, and if they have a reason to exist, it is neither behind bars nor in circuses to satisfy our small amusements and our great resignations in the face of animal condition and suffering. It was said: Many European countries, under pressure f…

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Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

Mr President, the world has never been so rich in history and I think we can also say that we have reached a very high level of our human civilisation. And yet, in this twenty-first century, we are still talking about famines, about the millions of people around the world who are hungry and dying of hunger or malnutrition. This is a disgrace to humanity: this situation speaks of the accommodation …

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Madam President, this morning I would like to pay tribute to the collective, trans-partisan and exemplary work we have done in the European Parliament to save the POSEI budget for the outermost regions, which was unfairly threatened. And it is the honour of our European Parliament to have it restored. I would also like to welcome the personal commitment of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira, with whom we…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, I say it bluntly: the judgment of the Polish Court is extremely serious. Without the primacy of European law, which stems from the 1963 and 1964 judgments, there is no longer any protection of the fundamental rights of Europeans, there is no longer any common legal understanding and there is therefore no longer any European Union possible. It is as simple as that and it is as serious…

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Sep

2021

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Brexit Adjustment Reserve - Draft amending budget No 1/2021: Brexit Adjustment Reserve (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I say this because I think so: we have a good agreement and I want, as Chair of the REGI Committee, to congratulate our rapporteur Pascal Arimont on the work he has done and the unity he has achieved. I would also like to thank you, Commissioner, for your role and involvement in the negotiations. I would also like to thank the Portuguese Presidency this evening for its …

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Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this summer was a deadly and catastrophic summer. Hundreds of people lost their lives and regions were devastated by the floods and fires that ravaged Europe. And our thoughts go, this morning, to the victims of these disasters, to the families affected, but also to the regional and communal authorities who have rescued and who, since then, continu…

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Sep

2021

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A new approach to the Atlantic maritime strategy (short presentation)

Mr President, dear Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the Committee on Regional Development unanimously adopted this own-initiative report on a new approach to the Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Region, which calls above all on the Council and the Commission to create an Atlantic macro-region, as you know for the Baltic Sea, the Danube, the Alps and the Adriatic a…