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Sep

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin (debate)

Madam President, dear Prime Minister Sanna Marin, allow me very shortly to express in Portuguese my condolences to the British people. Uma vez mais em nome do Grupo do PPE, mas agora em português, eu quero expressar a profunda solidariedade com o pesar de todo o povo britânico pelo falecimento da Rainha Isabel II, a que os portugueses estão ligados por uma profunda afeição e também pela mais velha…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

It is also my football team, so the colour is the same. And, by the way, it’s the EPP colour. Senhora Deputada Isabel Santos, queria só fazer uma pergunta muito clara. Não vê uma contradição entre a entrevista que o primeiro-ministro António Costa deu ao Financial Times, em que praticamente disse que não havia perspetivas europeias para a Ucrânia, e a atitude que ele tomou passados quatro ou cinco…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Vice-President, Russia's illegal, unjustifiable and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has changed the nature of the European Union. Putin has made the European Union a geopolitical entity and, to that extent, we must have new criteria and new standards for the enlargement of our European Union. So, of course, we have to accept Ukraine's candidate status. The PPE is d…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, I have to say again: if you want to have a debate on this issue, the Council has to do everything to be present. And that is the truth, because this is an image that shows very well what is the commitment with this, with the Conference. Because in other debates, they don’t have these kinds of problem. And so I would like to say that, because we have to be fair, the ones that are clea…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

From France? It’s a shame.

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, dear Vice-President, and I would like to say dear Minister, but unfortunately the Council decided to be absent in this debate. They decided: they are not here.

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

Mr President, so to conclude our debate, I would like to say first that there is no point in the argument that we are trying to build a superstate. If you acknowledge – and all of you acknowledge because you vote in ECR and in ID, you vote in every opportunity that you have – that we have legislative competence and legislative powers, then, of course, there is no reason not to have the right of in…

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

Mr President, dear Vice—President, I would like to thank you for your presence, because I know that you made an effort to be here today. I would like to start by stating that I deeply regret that this debate isn’t acknowledged as a key debate by our Parliament. The same applies to the previous debate on electoral law reform and the debate that we’ll have tomorrow on the triggering of Article 48. I…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, the annual Rule of Law Report is a central tool for guaranteeing the values enshrined in Article 2 and for ensuring that they are respected throughout the Union; to identify and prevent problems and also to verify that they are met by all Member States. While the scope of this report should be broadened, it is already a good start and allows for objective insight into areas that a…

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, of course we have to consider that the Conference on the Future of Europe has been a great success. It was and will be, because the conference does not end here. It has to have a follow-up, it has to have what we call in English a . First of all, it must be said that we managed to do this exercise of democratic participation with the active presence of the citizens, …

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I have to say that I do not understand the interpretation of the conclusions of the conference. I was in the working group and I heard citizens say that this is not the case. And in the conclusions, it is very clear that there is a double vision because it is about the direct election of the President of the Commission, it is in the written conclusions that we have appr…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, I must say that I have already spoken, but I like this debate because it is a parliamentary debate. For the first time, I see a parliamentary debate here, and that is very good. I just want to ask Pascal Durand a question. Isn't the United States a democracy? Is Switzerland not a democracy? Do we need to create this artificial figure of transnational lists in order to have a represen…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

In fact, you cannot complain because the President of the Commission is German now. But let me tell you something that is very clear. I always defended that the European parties were on the ballots, in the ballot papers at home, across all Europe. Now, with this system and, by the way, I defend the direct election of the President of the Commission, that will be a different system but it would be …

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

But if you look at all the systems, you have the lead candidate without any constituency. I see my prime minister was elected in at least one constituency and Mr Boris Johnson was in a very local constituency. And this was not a problem. Why do you need a European-wide constituency? And second, let me say, I am a federalist and I want Europe to be a federation, and that’s the reason why I am again…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, this electoral law is a bad electoral law because, instead of reinforcing democracy, it puts the citizens further away from their representatives. This is a bad law because it will create two kinds of MEPs: the ones that feel themselves Europeans and the others that will be the locals. And this is unacceptable to a parliament. This idea of transnational lists has nothing to do with l…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, first I would like only to say that I don’t know why someone forgot that in 2018 this idea was repealed by this House by a huge majority. And this was not said by the rapporteur, which is a false thing. In 2018, this idea was repealed. But what I would like to ask you is, where did you see a link between the lead candidate and transnational lists? Because when I read the piece of leg…

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Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the fundamental values of the European Union enshrined in Article 2 must be respected by all Member States. And it is clear today that both Hungary and Poland, in particular through the actions of their governments, are not respecting these values and, therefore, the Commission has opened a procedure under Article 7 and, on the other hand, Parliament has opened a pro…

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Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the links between Putin and his regime and various European movements have long been known. Firstly, far-right movements, such as those of Le Pen, Salvini and others; secondly, to separatist movements, the case, for example, of the Catalan issue, where Russian interference was clear. But also, for example, the case of Brexit. Brexit, which dealt a profound blow to th…

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Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Madam Vice-President, it is essential to show solidarity with the Ukrainians, with the humanitarian tragedy that we see every day before our eyes. But for this it is essential to end the financing of the war of the Kremlin and Putin. This means being able to make an immediate embargo on the purchase of oil and gas, and eventually a full trade embargo. At the …

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Mar

2022

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Debate with the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas - The EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine (continuation of debate)

Madam President, I would say to the Prime Minister that she has just said that her mother taught her that saying ‘I told you’ was rather impolite; it may be impolite, and it won’t change the past, but it can be very useful. I hope that today everybody in this House and every leader in the European Union has heard you and has listened to your advice, your proposals and your views. Then we won’t nee…

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Mar

2022

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The situation in Bosnia Herzegovina (debate)

Mr President, in the shadow of the new major conflict in Europe, the aggression of Russia, we have repeatedly heard that this is the most dramatic situation in Europe since the Second World War. We cannot, and we should not, compare the tragic suffering caused by different conflicts. But neither should we forget the much more recent drama of the Balkan wars of the 90s. In 1995, a difficult agreeme…

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Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Presidency, I would first of all like, of course, to greet all women on this International Women's Day and to have a special word for the Ukrainian women who, either in Ukraine or now outside it, have shown so much courage. In these last thirteen days, Russia's unjustified criminal and illegal invasion and aggression of Ukraine is also the product of our tolerance fo…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Vice-President Borrell, Vice-President Schinas, ladies and gentlemen, it should be noted that the groups and Members who increasingly defend the self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states here are those who least defend the self-determination and sovereignty of the people and state of Ukraine. They agree to the occupation of Donbass, Donetsk and Luhansk, the occup…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, High Representatives, the partnership with Africa that will be discussed at this summit was always necessary for humanitarian reasons, I would say for reasons of cooperation. But also for common history. There is a very strong common history between Europe and Africa, between African countries and European countries. But there is also an additional reason and this is of self-inter…

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President, Mr President, I wish the French Presidency every success. Senhora Presidente, Senhor Presidente, desejo todo o sucesso in Presidência francesa. Do seu discurso destaco duas falhas, duas lacunas. Por um lado, em relação à reforma de Schengen falou muito, e bem, das fronteiras externas. No entanto, a pandemia de COVID-19 pôs em crisis as fronteiras internas. Temos hoje o espaço Sche…