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2022

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Resumption of the sitting

The President. – The meeting resumed. I wish you an excellent afternoon on this International Women's Day: A strong and robust European Parliament needs strong and robust leadership, including both women and men. (The meeting resumed at 3 p.m.)…

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Mar

2022

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Resumption of the sitting

The meeting resumed. I wish you an excellent afternoon on this International Women's Day: A strong and robust European Parliament needs strong and robust leadership, including both women and men.

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Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner Dalli, dear Secretary of state, climate emergency is our reality, as well as gender inequality and both are intrinsically linked. But so is the solution. When we take gender—responsive climate action, we further close gender inequalities. When we have more women in decision—making, we have better, more effective decisions also on climate mitigation and when we empow…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

The next speaker to speak is Emmanuel Macron. Not Macron – Emmanuel Maurel.

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on EU-Africa relations (2022/2533(RSP)). I remind Members that all debates at this part-session do not accept spontaneous interventions or blue cards. In addition, as in the previous part-sessions, access from Parliament's lia…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation report on on-farm animal welfare (debate)

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the report by Jérémy Decerle, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the implementation report on the welfare of farm animals (2020/2085(INI)) (A9-0296/2021).…

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Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

The debate is closed. The vote will take place on Tuesday 15 February 2022. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the Members who have spoken and contributed, but above all, of course, to President Lagarde and Commissioner Gentiloni. Written declarations (Article 171)…

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Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

We are now continuing our debate on the report by Dimitrios Papadimoulis (A9-0351/2021).

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Feb

2022

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Voting session

Before we proceed with the debates, I will now open today's voting session. We shall vote on the files indicated on the agenda. The voting session will be open from 6 p.m. to 7.15 p.m. The voting procedure is the same as in the previous part-sessions. The matters of immunity shall be voted on by secret ballot. Members can cast their votes in a traditional way. However, the ballot you receive and n…

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Jan

2022

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

Madam President, the right to safe and legal abortion should indeed be enshrined in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. As President Macron said yesterday, it’s about women’s lives. Simone Veil, as the first proud President of this House, was fighting for women’s rights, for abortion rights, and still we have to do this decades later. When we talk about human rights, we often talk about th…

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Jan

2022

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Agenda of the next sitting

The meeting was closed and resumed tomorrow, Thursday 20 January at 9 a.m. with the announcement of the results of today's voting session. The agenda has been published and is available on the European Parliament's website.…

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Jan

2022

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Political crisis in Sudan

The debate is closed. The vote will take place tomorrow, Thursday 20 January 2022. Written declarations (Article 171)

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Jan

2022

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Political crisis in Sudan

And now, at my very first plenary session, chaired by me, I am pleased to invite my fellow Austrian MP Hannes Heide to the lectern for the S&D.

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Dec

2021

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MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions (debate)

Mr President, gender equality is a core value of the European Union, yet the many debates in this plenary week and around it have made it clear we are still far from achieving it. We are indeed in a crisis, not only a sanitary one, a crisis of women and their rights. Women’s rights have to be a priority on everyone’s political agenda, also within the European Parliament and the other European inst…

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Dec

2021

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Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the situation is serious. Equality between men and women has simply deteriorated in many EU countries and areas in recent months and years. It's hard, often hard, to be a woman. For example, unemployment in the European Union increased from 6.9% in April to 7.9% in August 2020, more than for men. Women’s lives have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, des…

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Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (continuation of debate)

Madam President, we are debating yet another form of violence today – one that is relatively new, but nevertheless unacceptable. Cyberviolence has affected up to 7% of women in the European Union in the past 12 months – at least as far as the estimates go, because, here too, we have a lack of data. But what we know is – and I underline this once more – that seven out of 10 women have experienced c…

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Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (continuation of debate)

Mr President, 28 – 28 women were killed this year in Austria. 28, nearly all of them by men close to them, murdered simply because they are women. But violence against women and children doesn’t start with these femicides, it starts in the heads, the words, the first black eye hidden from others. Why hidden? Because still today, instead of holding the men responsible who use violence against women…

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Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Madam President and shadow rapporteur! Time is an important factor, can not be implemented early enough. We're all fed up with all these scandals from LuxLeaks, Panama, Paradise, Pandora, Cum-Ex. This policy will allow us, as a public, for the first time to see where tax injustice is happening. And for the first time, we will not only be dependent on these great investigative journalists or whistl…

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Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, That was teamwork – I would like to say that in advance. A big thank you to all those who have worked so hard on this - to the shadow rapporteurs very explicitly, to the Finnish Presidency, which was very committed here from 2019, but above all to the Portuguese Presidency, which then brought this to a close with great enthusiasm. And, o…

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Oct

2021

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The first anniversary of the de facto abortion ban in Poland (debate)

Madam President, the de facto abortion ban of the Polish PiS government is a fundamental breach of fundamental human rights, and I can repeat again: we will not accept it here in this House in the European Parliament. Democracy and women’s rights are intrinsically linked. If you attack the one, you also violate the other. The European Union will take action. I call for freezing the funds of the Pi…

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Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, first I would like to thank everyone who worked on this resolution and all those brave women and men, in the US and beyond, for being loud and for calling the Texan misogynists out. They are de facto banning safe abortions, a crucial aspect of women’s health and safety, and this violates human rights, especially since there are no exceptions for rape, incest or fatal foetal health…

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Oct

2021

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Reforming the EU policy on harmful tax practices (including the reform of the Code of Conduct Group) (debate)

Mr President, I would like to congratulate Aurore Lalucq on this excellent report. Jedes halbe Jahr ein neuer Steuerskandal, und das in immer größeren Ausmaßen – Panama Papers, Paradise Papers und nun die Pandora Papers, die noch keine zwei Tage alt sind. Wir können einfach nicht mehr zur normalen Tagesordnung übergehen. Sagen wir, wie es ist: Steuervermeidung ist schlicht und ergreifend moralisch…

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Oct

2021

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Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! And the marmot salutes forever. Here it is again, the next tax scandal. Panama, Paradise, now the Pandora Papers. But these Pandora Papers revelations surpass their predecessors with a force you can hardly imagine. This inevitably leads to many questions: Why is it still possible that there are letterbox companies whose sole purpose is to avoid taxes? Why is it still…

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Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Yes, there is a lot of talk about the pandemic, but not enough about the much longer-lasting shadow pandemic of violence, violence against women, violence against LGBTI people. And that is why it is good to hear that you, Commissioner, will be presenting a law on combating violence against women later this year. It's time. Because in our democracy, we cannot simply accept the fact…

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Sep

2021

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Implementation of EU requirements for exchange of tax information (debate)

Dear Commissioner, First of all, thanks to the rapporteur, it was a lot of work. The concept of administrative cooperation in the field of direct taxation, the automatic exchange of information, that's a paper, okay. But it's practically awful. Far too often, people or companies bypass their tax liability or even engage in money laundering. And that hurts our economy and our society enormously. Es…