What José Manuel spoke about.

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European green bonds (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the objective of combating climate change is cross-cutting, involves everyone, and the path also involves rigour and, at the same time, gradualism and ambition. The European Union is doing its part in financial terms. The multiannual financial framework devotes 30 % of its amount to the objective ‘combating climate change’. In the Recovery and R…

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, housing is a right that is primarily in the hands of the Member States. The European Union has to do its part and it does. The European Union is making available through Cohesion Policy, Recovery and Resilience Plans and InvestEU a multi-million storm that, unfortunately, Member States are not using. This housing problem is serious in my country, Portugal. Commissioner, how do you…

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Question Time with Commissioners – EU-China trade relations

Mr President, I congratulate the Commissioner on his permanent readiness to be here. We have a trade deficit that has worsened. It is already over EUR 400 billion. The European Union reacts slowly when it should be proactive and the rulers have a lot of responsibility. The question is: do you not think that we should have investments in common structuring projects to strengthen the strategic auton…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner and Council representative, in the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, the European Parliament argued that the 2021-2027 budget was not up to the challenges, was not robust, did not have flexibility, would not respond to unforeseen events and that the payment of the debt arising from NextGenerationEU, the recovery and r…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, thank you for your leadership, perseverance, competence that helps all the citizens of the European Union. Member States did not want €93 billion under the recovery and resilience plans and had it by 31 August this year. My question is whether the European Commission is available to reuse these amounts, for example for strengthening the strategic autonomy of the European Union, fo…

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2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, representative of the Council, every year we regret the fires, drought, deaths and floods. More than words, we must have action. And the Member States are not doing their part. You're not short of money. You have storms of millions. My country, Portugal, did not want €8.3 billion in the RRP loan window, which it could use for water storage, for the…

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union must move towards strategic autonomy, it must promote competitiveness and productivity, entrepreneurship through common projects. And you also have to value the merit, the rigor, the work. Member States that do not lack financial resources (have a storm of millions) have to move forward with projects that should also be common projects, which …

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, water is an essential asset and a limited resource and must therefore be managed competently at national and European level. First of all, we have to fight waste. In my country, in Portugal, 190 billion litres of water intended for human consumption are wasted every year. We need to tackle this waste and invest in the efficiency and maintenance of our systems…

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to have a favourable environment in the European Union for attracting investment, we must not be afraid of the words entrepreneurship, merit, productivity and competitiveness. It is with these words that we attract investment, it is with the love of small and medium-sized enterprises and liking private initiative that we can move forward. Key compete…

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2023

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Large transport infrastructure projects in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, major infrastructure projects, particularly railways, are essential for the competitiveness of the European Union, for territorial cohesion and also for sustainability. We know that competence is national, but it is necessary for the European Commission to be vigilant and to tell the Member States that they must quickly…

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, colleagues and colleagues, in the European Union, farmers produce high-quality food at affordable prices, with high standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental standards. Farmers are essential, as the pandemic has shown. Farmers, however, struggle with the context costs exacerbated by the war. And here I ask the Council and the Commission: We ne…

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, in view of the debate, the report and the work we have done on the European Development Fund, I ask you to grant discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Fund funds. With regard to future steps, I would like to reinforce the call for greater planning, greater visibility of this f…

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, congratulations to the Commissioner, congratulations to the Council. The European Union is the world's largest donor, and it is also the world's largest provider of development aid. However, there is no such perception. It is necessary to give visibility to what the European Union does in terms of humanitarian aid, in terms of development aid. It is a matter …

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank all the Members who have taken part in this debate. There are points on which I do not agree. I don't agree with new taxes, more income taxes, more property taxes. We have Member States where property and income taxes are already almost in a situation of confiscation. But it's important to have revenue, new revenue. Otherwise, we will either call on Member State…

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Commissioner, the budget of the European Union needs genuine own resources, genuine revenue. The distinction between net contributors and net beneficiaries is unacceptable, when all Member States benefit from the EU budget and all benefit even more from the internal market. In fact, the so-called frugals benefit the most from the European Union's internal market…

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Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the rules and amounts of State aid must not distort competition or undermine cohesion. That is why I advocate a European solution for the capitalisation of companies and why I have insisted that InvestEU can provide such a European solution for the capitalisation of our companies. On the other hand, State rules and aid must take into account the…

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to address our rapporteur, Janusz Lewandowski, for the excellent work he has done and is also doing. Then we need to draw attention here to a negative point in the implementation of the partnership agreements, which allow cohesion policy to reach businesses, SMEs and farmers, also through the European Fund for Rural Develo…

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we must achieve the climate objectives gradually, firmly and with sufficient financial resources to ensure the inclusion and territorial, economic and social cohesion of all territories. And here I place particular emphasis on the outermost regions – in the case of Portugal, the Azores and Madeira – which, given their natural handicaps, must be tre…

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A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Council, Faces and Colleagues, competitiveness, productivity, entrepreneurship are very important key words and are not incompatible with the Green Deal, with the Green Deal. The European Union needs to have, on a global scale, a force that it cannot always have for internal divisions, which it cannot always have for lack of common projects, such as, for example, the en…

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2023

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, European citizens, families and companies pay a very high price because of our excessive energy dependence. There is no shortage of resources for Member States to invest in energy efficiency and renewables. But then we have to have a real energy union, and for that, cross-border projects, interconnections, are key. And, in good time, we insisted…

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Swedish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, you can count on the European Parliament to achieve your objectives: a safer Europe, a more competitive, resilient European Union, and one that upholds European values. I hope that it also counts on the Council for these objectives, because it is not enough to discuss, analyse and state it, it is necessary to put it into practice…

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the revision of the multiannual budget is urgent, it is obvious. Moreover, the European Commission, with its proposals for REPowerEU, for secure connectivity, for semiconductors, the proposal for a sovereign wealth fund to strengthen strategic autonomy, has shown that it is changing the multiannual financial framework, is cutting some programmes…

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner and Minister, representative of the Council, the European Union needs real leaders or, in their absence, good leaders. Unfortunately, we have those who use unanimity for blackmail and for other cases, such as the veto on Romania's entry into the Schengen Area, for purely internal reasons, for populist reasons. The problem is not only unanimity. This…

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Amending Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 as regards the establishment of a diversified funding strategy as a general borrowing method - 'Macro-Financial Assistance+' instrument for providing support to Ukraine for 2023 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is not enough to announce solidarity or to preach it. Concrete actions are needed, which reflect the solidarity mentioned by Schuman, the solidarity of truth, the solidarity that we must realise. And so what I have to say here is that we have carried it out with these concrete actions and this rapid, urgent approval, to enable Ukraine to use EUR 18 billion…

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2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, with our proposals, with our opinion, which I am sure will be approved, we have achieved about EUR 15 billion in revenue without penalising the citizens, contributing to the objective of combating climate change, also helping to achieve tax justice and accelerating the objectives of the digital transition. New revenues that serve, it's true, to pay…