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12 Mar

2024

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A single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for third-country workers legally residing in a Member State (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, this European Parliament has been asking for years to change its focus on migration and to open up legal and safe ways to enter the European Union. And here we finally have an instrument, the Single Permit Directive, within the package of measures on skills and talent adopted during the Spanish Presidency (well done, Javier Moreno, rapporteur for this initi…

12 Mar

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners - Preparedness of EU governments to combat foreign interference, including from Russia

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, we are in the European Parliament's Question Time on Russian interference in democratic processes. Este Parlamento Europeo ha dedicado muchos debates a seguir paso a paso a la Comisión y al Consejo los últimos nueve años, desde la Brújula Estratégica hasta los grupos especializados de trabajo StratCom, el Centro de puesta en común y análisis de la informaci…

12 Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Breton, in this parliamentary term, no less than a European law on artificial intelligence, the European Union was not only at the forefront of the world, but also faced with an extremely difficult material objective, as evidenced by the negotiation and the pre-emptive attacks launched by the technological giants. The aim is to establish a risk-based system, with prohibi…

12 Mar

2024

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, by finally approving the European Media Freedom Act in this plenary session of the European Parliament, a lawyer recognises a constitutional step forward because we are protecting journalists in secret from sources, but also from espionage. We are protecting information pluralism by establishing transparency obligations in the financing and advertising of each…

12 Mar

2024

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Šefčovič, President von der Leyen has announced that the Council intends to support the humanitarian maritime corridor from Larnaca (Cyprus) by a chance route of four hundred and fifty kilometres to try to help a crowded population, tortured by the brutal aggression, brutal offensive, of the Netanyahu Government, in Israel, the most far-right in history, and subject…

11 Mar

2024

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Definition of criminal offences and penalties for the violation of Union restrictive measures (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, as Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I had the honour of being rapporteur for the transitional legislation, the provisional one, which led to this definitive criminal directive that we are approving in this plenary session of the European Parliament, happily, to establish criminal sanctions – binding on all Member States – for…

28 Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, yes, we agree that the history of enlargements is the story of success, just as the only case of voluntary departure from the Union – Article 50, Brexit – ends in a fiasco for those who promoted it. But there are several debates in this plenary where we have urged the European Union to move beyond the age of innocence and that means, in terms of enlargements…

28 Feb

2024

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Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, Fourth Rule of Law Report with its four chapters: anti-corruption strategy, independence of the judiciary, freedom of the press and democratic control of public authorities. But instead of being able to talk here about the link between the rule of law, conditionality and Article 7, I have to talk once again, unfortunately, about what I have heard the spokeswoma…

28 Feb

2024

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The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia (debate)

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Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, Yulia Navalnaya's testimony this morning is impressive. And strong and prolonged the applause of this European Parliament standing before the testimony of the martyrdom and murder of the heroic Alexei Navalny, Sakharov Prize for this European Parliament in 2021 and creator of an anti-corruption foundation with which he stood up to the…

28 Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, the ambitions proclaimed by President von der Leyen for the European Union to mature once and for all towards a relevant geopolitical actor with a foreign security and defence policy and, let us not say, for the next Commission to incorporate a defence portfolio will be incomplete if the institutional reform that makes it possible to overcome the…

27 Feb

2024

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Rising inequalities in the world (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Urpilainen, when we are talking in this European Parliament about growing inequalities in the world we are talking about the root causes and, in essence, the migratory event, for whose political and legislative response we have worked tirelessly in this European Parliament during this legislature. In a globalized world there are now 75 million people on the move from whe…

26 Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, as Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I had the honour of participating in the Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of the Belgian Presidency. I remember a remarkable moment, when a warm welcome was given to the announcement made by the new Polish Minister of Justice to restore the rule of law, facing the difficulties of reforming the Judici…

26 Feb

2024

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Protection of the environment through criminal law (short presentation)

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Mr President, Commissioner Breton, criminal law was the exclusive competence of the Member States of the European Union until the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force, with the area of freedom, justice and security making this European Parliament a criminal legislator. Now that we are so concerned about the environment – for so many good reasons – now that we are embarking on the green transition, …

26 Feb

2024

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, the elections of 9 June 2024 are approaching and it is time for the truth that the European Union, which is an area of freedoms, does not allow precisely that guarantee of fundamental freedoms – including free communication and the free flow of information – to harm, deteriorate or weaken the integrity of democratic processes. That is why the Committee on the …

7 Feb

2024

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Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, EU no place for hate. That beautiful motto has resonated strongly in three debates this afternoon in the European Parliament and it does so now, rightly so, when we assess the implementation of the LGTBIQ European Strategy. It is time to affirm that the infamous motto of LGBTIQ free zones must be overcome by its alternative, that the European Union be an LGBTIQ…

7 Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, the Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights, Robert Biedroń, brings this point to the European Parliament seeking inspiration to represent us all with dignity at the next session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. I believe that the voice that emerges with resolution from this debate in the European Parliament is clear and clear: equality of women is a …

7 Feb

2024

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Automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”) (debate)

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Mr President Angel, Commissioner Johansson, passing this European law on automated exchange of police data is a good opportunity to explain to the citizens we represent what the promise of the area of freedom, security and justice is, not only criminal judicial cooperation for the prosecution of crimes, but also police cooperation for the prevention, detection and investigation of crimes. There wa…

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, of course we are concerned and motivated to talk about antisemitism in the European Parliament. This is a form of racist hatred against Jews that is deeply rooted in Europe and on which this European Parliament adopted a definition last parliamentary term – in June 2017 – clearly stating that antisemitism is incompatible with European values, as well as …

7 Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Breton, one of the proclaimed objectives of this legislature – and we now say one of the achievements – was the Digital Agenda, with a European Digital Services Act aimed at imposing obligations and responsibilities on online platforms, including social media – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter – to remove illegal content to the extent that their algorithms induce hat…

7 Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

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Madam President Metsola, Mr President Iohannis, after listening to you with attention and respect, I want to share with you two positive messages. The first: I am sure you know how many of us in this European Parliament welcome the fact that, at last, during the Spanish Presidency at the end of December, restrictions were lifted for the full enjoyment of the Schengen area and, therefore, of the fu…

6 Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, this morning, two years after Putin’s brutal and illegal Russian aggression against Ukraine, we celebrated in this European Parliament the EUR 50 billion in aid to Ukraine, as well as the EUR 7 650 million for the neighbourhood, the EUR 2 billion for the European Defence Fund, the EUR 1.5 billion for solidarity helping those fleeing the war in Ukraine an…

17 Jan

2024

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Rule of Law and media freedom in Greece (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, a while ago in this plenary session of the European Parliament we discussed the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union and we pointed out, precisely, the concern that the safety of journalists, the situation of independence of the media and, above all, information pluralism raises among the Member States. And now we have exactly one point conc…

17 Jan

2024

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, since we launched the fundamental rights cycle in this legislature, the debate in this European Parliament on the resolution on your situation in the European Union – rapporteur for the 2022 and 2023 annual report – is a classic: Katarina Barley. Of the many points to which you have referred, I am left with two. One of them will be dealt with in this plenary…

17 Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, I add my voice to this choral majority clearly expressed by the European Parliament which welcomed and supported the Commission's initiative to widen the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime, to begin with, on its basis: It covers not only discrimination on grounds of sex or race but, as mandated by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Europea…

17 Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President, Madam representative of the Council, Madam representative of the Commission, from the December Council conclusions I am left with the proclaimed will for the European Union to grow in order to be geopolitically relevant in the world. Firstly, in the face of migration, because there is no way to tackle illicit trafficking and deaths at sea if legal and safe routes to the Union are not…