unimelb-nlp/MultiEup-v2 huggingface dataset:
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Andrea Cozzolino
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Negli ultimi anni in Brasile la condizione della popolazione indigena è drammaticamente peggiorata. Abbiamo assistito a gravi violazioni dei diritti fondamentali e tutto questo in un clima di impunità totale, anzi. Lo possiamo riconoscere con chiarezza, pronti a fare un confronto in ogni sede, che le scelte politiche adottate dal governo Bolsonaro hanno favorito l'emergere di questo clima di violenza e hanno aggravato le condizioni di sfruttamento della foresta amazzonica. Diritti umani e tutela dell'ambiente in questo caso si intrecciano in un binomio indissolubile, la cui difesa assume la portata di un interesse universale, globale, mondiale. E questo interesse ci impone di assumere posizioni nette, non la prossima campagna elettorale. È innanzitutto per fare chiarezza, piena luce sull'assassinio e sull'uccisione di un giornalista intelligente e curioso come Dom Phillips e dell'esperto indigeno Bruno Pereira.  Inoltre, chiediamo alla Commissione e al Consiglio di adottare tutte le iniziative necessarie per ottenere il rispetto dei diritti delle popolazioni indigene amazzoniche e dei difensori dell'ambiente, per assicurare la tutela di un bene comune fondamentale per l'intera umanità, la foresta amazzonica.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Jordi Cañas
Political group: Renew
Country: Portugal
Language: ES

Pero, además de condenar, lamentar, hacer resoluciones —necesarias—, ¿qué más podemos hacer, aparte de la verborrea ideológica tradicional? Necesitamos instrumentos políticos para poder combatir y poder hacer algo efectivamente para luchar por los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. Con las resoluciones ni se apagan los incendios forestales en el Amazonas, ni se evitan los asesinatos de activistas medioambientales. Lo siento mucho, las resoluciones no sirven para eso, sirven para hacer propaganda. ¿Qué podemos hacer? Utilizar los instrumentos políticos. ¿Y cuál es el instrumento político que tenemos, donde sí que se ofrece un sólido marco para abordar las cuestiones relativas a los pueblos indígenas? Se lo voy a decir: en el Acuerdo entre la Unión Europea y el Mercosur. Y, para finalizar, miren, antes de dar lecciones, deberíamos exigirnos a nosotros mismos, porque, por ejemplo, hay países europeos que no han firmado el Convenio 169 de la OIT.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Eleonora Evi
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: IT

Bruno aveva ricevuto minacce di morte a causa del suo lavoro con le popolazioni indigene e la loro organizzazione Univaja, proprio per liberare le loro foreste da taglialegna illegali, minatori, bracconieri e trafficanti di droga. Ecco perché servono regole europee stringenti per dire basta alle importazioni di prodotti che causano deforestazione e violano i diritti umani. Ed è quindi scandaloso che il Consiglio su questo si sia accordato per garantire scappatoie e limitare i requisiti di tracciabilità. Inoltre, i popoli indigeni sono i migliori custodi della foresta, pertanto è necessario difenderli vigilando sul rinnovo delle ordinanze per la protezione territoriale. Infine, ritengo che tutti gli Stati membri dovrebbero ratificare la Convenzione dei popoli indigeni e tribali del 1989, l'unica convenzione internazionale sui diritti delle popolazioni indigene.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Younous Omarjee
Political group: The Left
Country: Cyprus
Language: FR

Pourtant, ce sont les défenseurs des peuples autochtones et de la forêt qui sont pourchassés par un gouvernement criminel qui n’a qu’une seule politique: saccager, piller et détruire un héritage biologique de 55 millions d’années, bien commun de l’humanité. Je le dis: le gouvernement raciste, xénophobe et néofasciste de Bolsonaro n’est pas seulement coupable de crimes contre la biodiversité. Il est complice d’une véritable persécution des peuples indigènes, à l’œuvre pour offrir la voie libre aux multinationales qui ne s’embarrassent pas du goût du sang et de l’odeur des arbres brûlés. L’Europe gagnerait à entrer en action pour la sauvegarde des peuples autochtones et de la forêt. C’est un enjeu de civilisation.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Pedro Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, as trágicas mortes de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira não são um episódio isolado e casuístico. Integram-se numa cultura de violência contra os povos indígenas, ativistas de direitos humanos, ambientalistas, jornalistas, várias minorias, que cresceu exponencialmente com o atual governo brasileiro. Para isso tem contribuído uma linguagem conflituosa e até ofensiva do atual presidente, antagonizando essas pessoas e essas comunidades e gerando um clima de impunidade que propicia a violência. Em vez de promover a proteção da Amazónia e das comunidades indígenas, como é a sua obrigação como presidente, Bolsonaro é conivente com a desflorestação descontrolada e está a cumprir a sua promessa de campanha de destruir a entidade pública de proteção aos povos indígenas.  Se a responsabilidade criminal deste homicídio tem de ser atribuída aos seus executores, a responsabilidade política e moral recai sobre as atitudes repetidas de Bolsonaro e do seu governo.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Javi López
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, hoy en este Parlamento, de forma solemne, queremos condenar los asesinatos de Dom Phillips y de Bruno Pereira en el Amazonas con toda nuestra contundencia y fuerza.  Pero lo queremos hacer también al lado del análisis de lo que está pasando en Brasil y la retórica del actual presidente Bolsonaro. Su retórica agresiva e intimidatoria a personas racionalizadas, defensores del medio ambiente, defensores de derechos humanos, mujeres y el colectivo LGTBI contribuye de forma decidida al acoso y a los ataques en el país.  Y todo esto pasa después de una muy deficiente gestión de la pandemia, pasa después de una nefasta política medioambiental en el Amazonas y pasa después de constantes ataques al sistema electoral de Brasil. Por eso es tan importante que hoy digamos alto y claro que tiene que acabar su retórica de odio, sus ataques a la democracia y sus ataques al planeta. Estamos seguros de que Brasil y el planeta entero merecen algo mejor.
Debate: The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Sandra Pereira
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, faz um mês que o jornalista inglês Dom Phillips e o indigenista brasileiro Bruno Pereira foram brutalmente assassinados na Amazónia que procuravam proteger. Duas vidas que se juntam a centenas de outras vidas que nos últimos anos têm sido ceifadas por se oporem à predação da floresta e dos seus recursos naturais.  A devastação dos biomas naturais brasileiros pelo fogo, pela poluição e pelas máquinas, o ataque a reservas indígenas e a apropriação ilegal de terras são mecanismos usados pelos que fazem da produção agrícola intensiva, da captura de espécies protegidas ou da mineração a sua forma de acumular riqueza.  São os seus interesses que a União Europeia, para lá das proclamações hipócritas, apoia quando insiste na liberalização do comércio ou na cumplicidade na desestabilização a forças golpistas no Brasil e na região.  Será o povo brasileiro que irá mudar as circunstâncias que permitirão preservar os ecossistemas naturais e defender as populações que deles dependem. Daqui expressamos solidariedade com as forças democráticas e progressistas brasileiras que lutam para retomar o caminho do progresso social, o desenvolvimento soberano da cooperação e da paz.
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Nicola Beer
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über sechs Entschließungsanträge zur Lage in der Autonomen Provinz Berg-Badachschan in Tadschikistan (
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Christian Sagartz
Country: Italy
Language: DE

Der erste Grund ist: Ich war ehemals tätig als Journalist, ich war Mitarbeiter einer Zeitung, und ich weiß, wie es ist, wenn man versucht, seine Arbeit als Journalist gut zu machen, objektiv zu berichten. Und es gibt eben viele Länder auf dieser Welt, da braucht es die Unterstützung, da braucht es mahnende Worte und den Blick von außen, um gerade Journalisten hier den Rücken zu stärken. So ist es auch in Tadschikistan und insbesondere in der Autonomen Provinz, wo die Staatsgewalt einfach die Spielregeln einer demokratischen Kultur mit Füßen tritt. Hier müssen wir als Parlamentarier das Wort ergreifen. Denn wir haben sonst keine Waffen. Parlamentarier haben mit Worten und als Redner die Chance, einzugreifen. Wir können einen ganz klaren Fokus auf etwas legen. Ich vergleiche das immer mit einem Scheinwerfer. Wir haben heute die Möglichkeit, hinsichtlich der Menschenrechtslage für diese Menschen etwas zu bewirken und unseren Scheinwerfer der Aufmerksamkeit dorthin zu richten. Unterdrückung von Meinungsfreiheit, Einschränkung von Demokratie, die Verfolgung von politisch Andersdenkenden in zahlreichen Ländern und heute ganz besonders in Tadschikistan – wenn wir heute darüber reden, dann geben wir diesen Menschen die Möglichkeit, ihre Anliegen der Öffentlichkeit – einer breiten Öffentlichkeit – kundzutun. Das ist unsere Verpflichtung als Mandatare. Wenn Menschen dort auf die Straße gehen und Angst haben müssen, dass Polizeigewalt sie daran hindert, ihre Meinung zu sagen, dann haben wir die Pflicht, als Parlamentarier einzuschreiten. Dann müssen wir ihnen die Stimme geben, die sie vielleicht so nicht haben. Der zweite Grund, den ich spontan noch einwerfen möchte, ist die geopolitische Lage. Alle diese Staaten in Zentralasien haben gerade dieselbe Drucksituation. Russland wird massiv Druck ausüben auf diese Staaten, und gerade deshalb müssen wir ein Auge mehr auf diese Region werfen. Das ist es, was aus meiner Sicht Verantwortung als Parlamentarier bedeutet, nämlich für jene Menschen das Wort ergreifen, die selbst unterdrückt werden, die selbst diese Worte nicht sprechen können. Dieser Aufgabe möchte ich als Parlamentarier stets nachkommen.
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Karsten Lucke
Country: Spain
Language: DE

Im Osten von Tadschikistan passiert genau das: Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit werden dort mit Füßen getreten, und es kommt zu Gewalt, Folter und auch zu Tod. Deshalb legt dieses Parlament den Finger in die Wunde und benennt diese Missstände. Und deshalb fordern wir heute mit dieser Dringlichkeitsentschließung die tadschikische Regierung auf, wieder Ruhe und Frieden einkehren zu lassen und die Menschenrechte umfassend zu achten und zu schützen. Damit es keine Missverständnisse gibt: Wir sagen das nicht, weil wir anderen vorgeben wollen, wie sie zu leben haben, oder wir uns in interne Angelegenheiten einmischen oder sonst etwas. Nein, hier geht es um etwas Universelles, nämlich die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte. Dafür werden wir immer die Stimme erheben, an jedem Ort und zu jeder Zeit.
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Engin Eroglu
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Was ist passiert? Ein Zivilist ist im Polizeigewahrsam nach Verhaftung verstorben. Menschen, die unterdrückt sind, nutzen das als Ventil, gehen auf die Straße, demonstrieren für ihre Menschenrechte. Unter diesen Menschen auch Journalisten. Die Autokratie hat keine andere Lösung in der Hand, als mit scharfer Munition in die Menschenmenge zu schießen. Es sterben Zivilisten, es sterben Journalisten, und wir schauen zu. Sehr geehrter Herr Kommissar, ich bitte Sie: Es kann nicht zum Modell werden, dass Autokraten mit scharfer Munition auf Menschenmengen schießen. Wenn wir doch etwas machen können, dann nehmen Sie das bitte mit in Ihre Agenda. Nehmen Sie es mit in den Rat. Zumindest der Einsatz von Gummigeschossen wäre doch eine erste Lösung, um den Autokraten sozusagen zu sagen: Man muss Menschen nicht gleich erschießen, die um ihre Freiheit kämpfen. Das ist nicht die Lösung der Probleme, aber den Menschen vor Ort wird damit geholfen. Das wäre ein kleines Symbol. Eine Bitte an Sie: Nehmen Sie das mit. Bringen Sie das in die Gespräche ein.
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Sergey Lagodinsky
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: EN

That’s why we appeal to the European Commission to do everything possible to show and to signal that we do not accept ethnic cleansing under the pretext of fighting terrorism and do not accept closing our eyes on human rights violations against minorities, unlimited mass surveillance and information blockades. This is our duty. We are watching and we are speaking out.
Debate: The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

The EU Delegation in Dushanbe issued a joint statement with the embassies of Germany, France, the UK and the US on 18 May to express strong concern about the situation in the region. The statement regretted the loss of lives, called for de-escalation and urged the Tajik authorities to refrain from the excessive use of force. The EU is constantly monitoring the situation in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region and we are deeply concerned at the crackdown targeting activists and independent journalists in the region and more widely in the country. We urge the government of Tajikistan to ensure that law enforcement agencies act in strict compliance with the rule of law and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, even in security-related crisis situations. The legitimate security concerns do not automatically mean that excessive use of force by security services should be employed. The shooting of protesters and continued arrests of local activists and civil society representatives are counterproductive, and disproportionate use of force contributes to the spiralling of violence. We remain concerned about the harsh sentences handed down to members of Commission 44, a group of lawyers and human rights activists established in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The EU urges the Tajik Government to allow the access of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the region to open an independent and effective investigation into the circumstances that led to deaths and injuries among civilian protesters. The EU will use the next round of the EU-Tajikistan Human Rights Dialogue and the GSP Plus fact-finding mission, both due to take place in September this year, to highlight these concerns and reminded the government that track record on human rights and fundamental freedoms – in particular freedom of association, peaceful assembly, expression and media freedom – are key elements for EU support to join the GSP Plus Scheme of Preferences.
Debate: Objection pursuant to Rule  Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Cristian Terheş
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Madam President, price is set by supply and demand. This is a basic economics and logic lesson taught in Western schools back in the days for a long time. It seems though that Ursula von der Leyen and Frans Timmermans missed this logical lesson. You cannot on one side close down supplies of energy and on the other side increase the demand and expect that the price of energy is going to go down.  I am pleased that today this Parliament rejected the proposal to stop the nuclear and gas energy and I hope that in the future we will support such proposals, because we clearly need cheap energy and sustainable energy, and nuclear energy and gas energy are the solution to this problem.
Debate: Objection pursuant to Rule  Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Jessica Stegrud
Political group: ECR
Language: SV

Fru talman!  Här i Europaparlamentet ser vi emellertid deras verkliga sida. Både Socialdemokraterna och Centerpartiet röstar nej till att inkludera kärnkraften i taxonomin. Man vill alltså fortsatt straffa ut kärnkraften som energikälla. Som vanligt säger man en sak, men gör något helt annat i verkligheten. Det går helt enkelt inte att lita på varken Socialdemokraterna eller deras stödparti Centern.
Debate: Report on Serbia
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Cristian Terheş
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Madam President, colleagues, Serbia is part of Europe, and we must help this country to pursue its goal in being part of the European Union. I was in Serbia a few months ago during the presidential elections, and I talked to many Serbian citizens, as well as with the President of Serbia. Unfortunately, with our position here, we put this country in a situation without escape. On one side, we are pressuring this country to do certain things against its own interests. And on the other side, the only support that this country receives in the Security Council is from Russia because of the issue of Kosovo. I think if we listen more to their problems and to their concerns, and we open our eyes to the actual situation in Balkans, we could help this country pursue its European goals.
Debate: The EU and the defence of multilateralism
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, this report talks about preserving a system of multilateralism that we are presently busy destroying. What is multilateral about a block of colonialist countries, their colonial outposts, and their conquered and occupied puppet regimes conspiring together to maintain a dying global order? We unilaterally impose crushing sanctions regimes against out-of-favour states and their populations, sanctions that are killing tens of thousands of ordinary people each year. How can we even pretend the concept of EU respect for multilateralism or human rights has any meaning anymore?  The G7 and NATO-aligned countries, which collectively represent a minority of the world’s people, want to contain Russia and China and stop EU-Asia integration. The BRIC countries, which represent a larger portion of the world’s people, are not calling for this break – for isolation or for containment. They are clear that they want to maintain a world where multilateral institutions such as the UN are respected. The EU seems to want world domination. The Global South really wants genuine multilateralism. We should listen to them.
Debate: The EU and the defence of multilateralism
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I voted against this report because, while there’s some good bits in it, overall it’s confused and deceptive. It purports to be a call to defend multilateralism, but instead it attempts to redefine it and turn it into its opposite. Multilateralism in a multipolar world means working through genuinely inclusive bodies – such as the UN – on the principle of sovereign equality, where each country has a say. It means listening to the people that you disagree with. It doesn’t mean groups of so-called like—minded partners forming a little gang – be it the G7 or the G20 – and negotiating your own rules and then imposing them on the rest of the world. That’s the opposite of multilateralism, but that’s the way it’s defined in this report. We should be calling instead for upholding international law. But instead this is about rules—based international order. That isn’t international law. That means the rich countries making up the rules and giving everyone else orders to follow. We couldn’t be more in need today of returning to genuine multilateralism, but unfortunately, this isn’t it.
Debate: Addressing food security in developing countries
Date: WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, UNICEF reports that every minute a child is pushed into hunger in the 15 countries most ravaged by the global food crisis. And it’s an interesting list of countries. Four of them – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger – long—suffering prisoners of France’s criminal colonial currency system in the Sahel, and for a decade dealing with the fallout from NATO’s war of aggression on Libya. Yemen, reeling from seven years of embargo and US/EU-made weapons intentionally dropped on their food and water production infrastructure. Haiti, whose last independent leader in 2004 was removed in a coup by France and the US. This country will never stop being punished for their revolutionary spirit. Afghanistan, who after 20 years of illegal occupation and bombing by NATO forces, was sanctioned and robbed by the US. Now 93% of Afghans are facing hunger and we can’t even help them. Not only does this report ignore the fact that we imposed the sanctions that have caused the present food crisis, it also ignores the principal role the political West has played in ensuring that so many of these countries face hunger.
Debate: Recent heat wave and drought in the EU
Date: THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2022
Speaker: Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Country: France
Language: EL

Το επόμενο σημείο στην ημερήσια διάταξη είναι η συζήτηση επί της δηλώσεως της Επιτροπής σχετικά με το πρόσφατο κύμα καύσωνα και ξηρασίας στην ΕΕ (