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Debate: Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I was happy to answer the call of the civil societies organising the coalition for a global and just transition, and vote against this file because, as they say, mining is an act of war; extraction is an act of war. It always means human rights violations. It always means poisoning the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. Mostly the poison stays in the ground and water forever. We are in a hunt for critical raw materials, trying to decarbonise, but we have to realise that endless and continued growth is not the solution. Some of the proposals in this text are absolutely outrageous, such as the idea that if extraction projects are located in protected areas such as  We need to take precautions regarding the environmental, social and economic aspects of extraction, and we absolutely have to tackle the abusive practices of our mining companies outside of the European Union.
Debate: Regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Angel Dzhambazki
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: BG

Г-жо Председател, убедено гласувах против този доклад. Както биха казали някои мои съмишленици и приятели, жестока история. Доклад за легализация на проституцията се разглежда от Европейския парламент. Други зевзеци биха казали, че Европейският парламент в една част може би е в конфликт на интереси, гласувайки по тази тема.  Категорично всеки разговор, който би превърнал проституцията в професия, е неприемлив, недопустим и наврежда на поколения и наврежда на общества, наврежда на семейства. Подобно отношение и подобно поведение са напълно неприемливи и необясними. Да не говорим, че отново в доклада любимите ЛГБТИ, К, плюс, минус, 3,14, които се вкарват във всеки един такъв доклад, изобщо категорично ... Да не говорим, че темата би трябвало да бъде част от вътрешното законодателство. Такава тема е свързана с какво? Свързана е с наказателното право, което е вътрешен въпрос, свързана е със семейното право, свързана с образованието. Това са изцяло национални въпроси и желанието на докладчици в Европейския парламент да легализират и да узаконяват проституцията на европейско ниво е втрещяващо. Ако заменят думата проституция със сексуален работник, ще решат този проблем. Категорично не! Безумие, просто безумие.
Debate: Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Rainer Wieland
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

The EPP Group recognises the importance of the proposals to strengthen parliamentary democracy and citizens’ participation contained in this report. However, we also underline our reservations, mainly with the two following proposals.  First, granting the European Parliament scrutiny powers over the European Council as this represents a questionable understanding of the institutional role of both institutions, insufficiently taking into account the democratic legitimacy of elected representatives of Member States.  Second, the proposals for establishing a permanent European agora and EU-wide referendums, as we believe strengthening citizens participation cannot overthrow the principle of representative democracy.
Debate: Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Angel Dzhambazki
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: BG

Г-жо Председател, без никаква изненада, отново против, убедено против този доклад. Цялото ми уважение към колегата Виланд, защото отново този доклад призовава за това да се премахне единодушието на Съвета, да се гласува с квалифицирани мнозинства, изобщо налага отново федералистката наднационална рамка, която да замества Европа такава, каквато е замислена от нейните бащи основатели. Такава, каквато е трябвало да бъде, Европа на свободните, суверенни отечества, която споделя единствено общ пазар и която работи за просперитет на своите граждани.  Няма как решенията да се вземат в Брюксел. Хората в този балон, в този стъклен балон в Брюксел, живеят извън живия живот. Те не виждат инфлацията, те налагат политики, които вдигат цените, те унищожават малкия и средния бизнес, те ликвидират средната класа в европейските държави и за всичко това се очаква да се реши, през това да се направи едно европейско наднационално правителство, излъчено от неизбрани от никой хора, налагащо лобистки политики, каквито са в ущърб на гражданите.  Категорично против! Това е вредно и това не трябва да се случва, защото противоречи на интереса на гражданите и на държавите - членки на Европейския съюз.
Debate: Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I too voted against this file because while there are a lot of general aspirations about making the EU more democratic, they were absolutely cancelled out by the call to get rid of consensus decision-making and to put in place a system of qualified majority voting, which is ruled by the big boys and is inherently anti-democratic.  You can dress it up all you like, but nothing really in this proposal is going to deal with the fundamental absence of democracy at EU level. How is it democratic that the current EU was roundly rejected in democratic referendums on an EU Constitution in 2005, but then repackaged and rammed through by EU elites in the Lisbon Treaty? Three years later, only Ireland got another referendum. But again, wrong answer, so do it all again! That’s so-called ‘democracy’.  Nobody voted for Ursula von der Leyen, yet she is supposedly the head of the EU. Elections or not, the truth is that actual democracy would require a hell of a lot more than its offered in this package.
Debate: Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy
Date: THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, I too voted against it as giving the big boys more power than they have already is a disaster. The reforms proposed in this report are only scratching at the surface of the problem.  Is the EU a democracy? What started as an ideal has, through the decades, been muddied and garbled by right-wing neoliberal reforms and undemocratic Treaty change. We have deeply flawed institutions that are unanswerable, opaque and endlessly bureaucratic.  The place is run by lobbyists. We have 705 MEPs with 60 000 lobbyists in Brussels. My God! Most of them are hired by big industry trying to influence the decision making.  But what is democracy anyway? Do we ever ask ourselves that? Is it having a vote every five years? I don’t think so. Democracy is where the ordinary citizen would have a say in how his country, how his community is run. They don’t have it. We don’t even have local government. You couldn’t have it without local government.  Democracy is overrated as we know it, and we pretend we have it, but a really good example of that is that today 80% of the people have made clear in Europe that they want the war in Ukraine to end and they want peace rather than continuing to punish Russia, but 80% of the politicians across Europe want the war to continue and they want to continue to fuel it.  So who represents who? The politicians do not represent the citizens of Europe!
Debate: Opening of the sitting
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Good afternoon, dear colleagues. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you all that tomorrow will mark 10 years since the Lampedusa shipwreck of 2013. In this hemicycle tomorrow before the votes this Parliament will mark the tragic loss of over 360 men, women and children. I would encourage the presence of all colleagues at this solemn moment.
Debate: Statement by the President
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Cari colleghi, è mio triste dovere informarvi della morte del Presidente emerito della Repubblica Italiana Giorgio Napolitano, avvenuta il 22 settembre. Per tanti anni protagonista di primo piano della vita politica italiana, Giorgio Napolitano è stato anche un fervente sostenitore di un'Italia forte in Europa, come autorevole membro di questo Parlamento, dove è stato anche presidente della commissione per gli affari costituzionali. Il primo Presidente della Repubblica Italiana eletto per due mandati consecutivi. Nel suo discorso di insediamento del 2006, il Presidente Napolitano richiamò a valori tra loro inscindibili: il ripudio alla guerra e la corresponsabilità internazionale per assicurare la pace. Questo richiamo oggi è più forte che mai. Un uomo che ha messo la sua passione politica al servizio dei cittadini italiani ed europei in passaggi storici complessi con senso del dovere e coraggio.  A nome del Parlamento europeo porgo le mie più sentite condoglianze alla famiglia e vi chiedo, cari colleghi, di osservare un minuto di silenzio in sua memoria.
Debate: Closure of the procedure concerning a request to defend the immunity of a Member
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

The Committee on Legal Affairs has informed me that it has received information from the Spanish courts that there is no ongoing investigation concerning Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó. Therefore, on 19 September 2023, the committee concluded that the request to defend his immunity announced in plenary on 14 September 2020 was without foundation. Therefore, the procedure concerning this request for defence of privileges and immunities is closed.
Debate: Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Several committees have decided to enter into interinstitutional negotiations pursuant to Rule 71(1). The reports which constitute the mandates for the negotiations are available on the plenary web page, and their titles will be published in the minutes of this sitting. Pursuant to Rule 71(2), Members or political groups reaching at least the medium threshold may request in writing by tomorrow, 3 October at midnight, that the decisions be put to the vote. If no request for a vote in Parliament is made before the deadline, the committees may start negotiations.
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

I would also like to inform you that, together with the President of the Council, I shall on Wednesday sign three acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure in accordance with Rule 79 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure. The titles of the acts will be published in the minutes of this sitting. ***
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Klára Dobrev
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: HU

Elnök Asszony! Tudják, mi magyarok néha egészen különleges csodákra vagyunk képesek. Mi sem bizonyítja ezt jobban, minthogy a mai napon az orvosi Nobel-díjat a magyar kutató, Karikó Katalin kapta meg. Karikó Katalin, akinek kutatásai segítségével sikerült megküzdenünk a koronavírus járvánnyal, és az elkövetkezendő évek fogják még megmutatni, hogy ő és kutatótársai szabadalmai még hány millió ember életét mentik meg a Földön. Mekkora szívességet és mekkora segítséget jelentettek az emberiségnek. Nekem külön büszkeség, hogy Karikó Katalin az első női Nobel-díjas a 16 magyar Nobel-díjas közül. Azt hiszem, hogy nemcsak magyarként, nőként, de európaiakként is büszkék lehetünk Karikó Katalinra, és hálásak a munkásságáért. Azt hiszem itt, Európa szívében, megérdemel egy tapsot.
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Jean-Paul Garraud
Political group: ID
Country: Italy
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, ce rappel au règlement se fonde sur l'article dix du règlement intérieur, qui prévoit que les députés préservent la dignité du Parlement et ne portent pas atteinte à sa réputation. Jeudi dernier, deux députés européens du même groupe politique d'extrême gauche que M. Mélenchon en France, et Mme Aubry ici même, ont organisé au Parlement européen une conférence intitulée «Fermer Guantanamo», dont l'un des intervenants apparaît, d'après les médias, comme un ancien recruteur d'Al-Qaïda et fondateur d'une association considérée comme islamiste par un service dépendant du gouvernement français. Était également présent un autre ancien de Guantanamo, mis en cause à son retour en 2016 en Belgique pour l'aide qu'il aurait apportée au financement d'une filière djihadiste.  Tous ces intervenants ont exigé la libération de tous les détenus de Guantanamo et leur répartition dans nos États membres de l'Union. Madame la Présidente, il est inacceptable que des députés de cette Assemblée organisent un tel événement à la gloire d'individus qui prônent le djihad, l'asservissement des femmes et des mécréants, comme ils les appellent. Il est inadmissible que ces individus s'expriment ici même au Parlement européen, qui se targue pourtant d'être le temple de la démocratie. Ces députés ont pour le moins gravement porté atteinte à la dignité et à la réputation du Parlement européen. Mon groupe souhaite que vous vous saisissiez de cette question essentielle.
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Brando Benifei
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, grazie per le sue parole di ricordo del Presidente Napolitano. Ci tenevo ad aggiungere qualcosa da parte nostra, come delegazione del Partito Democratico. Il Presidente Giorgio Napolitano è stato un uomo di Stato e delle istituzioni italiane ed europee. Parlamentare prima di tutto, ma anche uomo di governo e, come lei ha ricordato, il primo Presidente della Repubblica a essere eletto per una seconda volta. Egli scelse, da Presidente, come prima visita nel 2006, l'isola di Ventotene per il seminario federalista fondato da Altiero Spinelli. È stato omaggiato in questi giorni da leader e personalità di tutto il mondo, non solo nel campo della politica. È stato un grande meridionalista, oltre che un intellettuale, un amante dell'arte e della musica. Ha attraversato la storia del Novecento e della sinistra italiana, come titola la sua autobiografia "Dal Pci al socialismo europeo". Non aveva paura di mettere in discussione dogmi e certezze. In questo Parlamento europeo è stato un collega stimato e determinato – lei lo ha ricordato come presidente della commissione per gli affari costituzionali – e poi è stato presidente anche del Movimento Europeo in Italia. Voglio ricordarlo, infine, ancora con queste sue parole: "Oggi per l'Europa occorre che quanti credono nei suoi valori e sentono l'imperativo della sua unità sappiano osare e rischiare, non dimenticando che, specie per superare incomprensioni, condizionamenti storici, contagiose paure e resistenze al nuovo, la politica deve farsi passione". Parole dense di significato in un momento decisivo per la nostra storia, un testamento morale a cui rivolgere gratitudine e da cui attingere.
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Bei diesem Tagesordnungspunkt darf ich auch recht herzlich Herrn Kommissar Schmit als Vertreter der Kommission willkommen heißen. Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Erklärung der Kommission zu der zunehmenden Prekarität in Europa und der Notwendigkeit der Unterstützung der bedürftigsten Personen (
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Cindy Franssen
Political group: PPE
Country: Hungary
Language: NL

Steeds meer mensen kunnen nog moeilijk de eindjes aan elkaar knopen. Steeds meer mensen kloppen aan bij de voedselbanken. Dit zorgt voor een exponentiële toename van de vraag, terwijl het aanbod kleiner wordt. Bovendien zijn de prijzen met ongeveer 30 % gestegen. De financiële steun voor het FEAD uit het ESF+ en de extra middelen van het React-EU-programma zijn broodnodig om de voedselhulp min of meer op peil te houden. Maar alle knipperlichten staan op rood, donkerrood. Een volgehouden engagement voor de meest kwetsbaren is onze morele plicht, zowel vanuit de Europese Unie als vanuit de lidstaten. Er is dus meer nodig. Wie de ambitie heeft om tegen 2030 15 miljoen mensen uit de armoede te halen, zal meer moeten doen dan enkel directe crisishulp bieden. Structurele maatregelen dringen zich verder op. De volgende legislatuur moeten we de sociale pijler bijstellen en aanscherpen. We kunnen op het vlak van de strijd tegen armoede niet langer ter plaatse trappelen. Lidstaten die de subsidiariteit hoog in het vaandel dragen, mogen wat mij betreft op sociaal vlak dan ook wel wat meer beleidstestosteron hebben.
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Pedro Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

Because the war triggered the cost of living crisis, many families, as was just said, cannot even make ends meet even if they are fully employed. Housing costs are skyrocketing for those families, and particularly for the youngsters. Anyone that loses their job at this stage or even anyone who chooses to divorce, faces enormous risks at this stage. For women, as always, the risks are even more acute.  The EU must deliver on the Porto agenda with more ESF, more RRF funds to the most excluded. Putting pressure from the Commission to the Member States to prioritise social housing on their recovery plans, like a progressive government did in Portugal. Finding the resources for the Child Guarantee. More social on the economic semester. Minimum salaries, minimum income, as you said. So many challenges. We need a strong action plan from the Commission for the poverty goal.
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: FR

Nous ne pouvons pas être une Union de valeur si nous laissons ces injustices perdurer. Le cap de réduction de la pauvreté établi au sommet de Porto, Monsieur le Commissaire, est le bon, et il est urgent que la Commission et surtout le Conseil accélèrent les initiatives. Il nous faut agir en Européens pour des résultats concrets, utiliser les fonds à notre disposition et les renforcer, viser toutes les formes de pauvreté – et surtout les plus extrêmes –, organiser un nouveau sommet qui y soit consacré.  Il n’y aura pas de diminution de la pauvreté sans nouvelles mesures pour contrer l’inflation galopante, résoudre la crise du logement, s’attaquer à la dette financière et à la dette écologique. Des solutions existent, même si nous savons que ce ne sera pas facile.  Je veux saluer ici l’engagement de ma collègue Sylvie Brunet, qui ne peut être présente, et pour qui l’Europe sociale et solidaire est la mère de toutes les batailles. Alors soyons à la hauteur, pour tous.
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Mounir Satouri
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: FR

Je regrette que le président Séjourné ne soit pas dans cette salle – puisque ce débat a lieu sur proposition du groupe Renew – parce que j’aurais voulu au moins le féliciter pour son sens du timing. Ce débat nous est proposé au moment même où, en France, Emmanuel Macron et la majorité présidentielle, celle qui siège en nombre au sein du groupe Renew, proposent, en pleine situation de difficulté, d’imposer aux plus vulnérables en France de travailler – j’allais dire: «d’être forcés à travailler» – quinze heures par semaine pour toucher un revenu minimum bien en dessous du seuil de pauvreté.  Il faut de la cohérence et il faut de la mobilisation. Quelques chiffres: le Secours populaire nous dit que 35 % des personnes ne peuvent plus manger trois repas par jour; les Restos du cœur doivent faire face à une augmentation de 22 % des demandes de bénéficiaires, et le coût du financement de cette aide alimentaire a plus que doublé ces derniers mois.  Il faut une mobilisation importante. C’est pour cela que l’Europe doit mobiliser ses moyens. On s’est félicité dans le débat public français d’un don de 10 millions d’euros d’une grande fortune internationale. Mais cela représente très peu au vu de la gravité de la situation. Ne substituons pas la charité à la nécessaire solidarité, ce qui permet le respect du droit humain.  Monsieur le Commissaire, les associations nous demandent de renforcer d’urgence les dispositifs européens d’aide alimentaire. Que leur répondez-vous de manière concrète et précise, ici, maintenant? Parce que, dans quelques mois, avec l’arrivée de l’hiver, cette situation sera dramatique.
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Elżbieta Rafalska
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: PL

W bogatej Europie 73 miliony Europejczyków zagrożone są ubóstwem. Ubóstwem zagrożone jest co czwarte dziecko. 39% dzieci z rodzin o średnim i niższym wykształceniu w Europie doświadcza deprywacji materialnej.  W moim kraju, w Polsce, kraju tak często w tej Izbie niesprawiedliwie atakowanym, mamy zupełnie inną sytuację: większe poczucie bezpieczeństwa na rynku pracy, jedno z najniższych bezrobocie, niższe ubóstwo niż średnie. Można nawet powiedzieć, że jedno z najniższych. Najniższe zagrożenie deprywacją dzieci. Skuteczną, silną, mądrą politykę społeczną. Mamy wzrost minimalnego wynagrodzenia, dobrze adresowaną politykę do osób starszych. Osoby potrzebujące traktowane są priorytetowo. To skutek polityki rodzinnej, zdrowych finansów publicznych. Może warto przyjrzeć się temu, jaką politykę społeczną prowadzi od wielu lat Polska?
Debate: Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived
Date: MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Rosanna Conte
Political group: ID
Country: Hungary
Language: IT

In Unione europea si stima che un nucleo familiare su tre faccia fatica ad arrivare a fine mese; in Italia questo dato scende a una famiglia su due. Ecco perché bisogna intervenire con urgenza e farlo su più livelli, per affrontare concretamente il problema di precariato, soprattutto di tutti quei lavoratori con contratto a tempo determinato e stagionali, molto diffusi in settori chiave come l'agricoltura, la pesca, il turismo e l'edilizia. Questi lavoratori vengono assunti per periodi limitati, solitamente durante le stagioni di picco dell'attività, e per questo si trovano in una situazione di instabilità e incertezza lavorativa ma anche creditizia. Dobbiamo quindi intervenire sull'accesso al credito che oggi per i lavoratori precari è particolarmente difficile, se non impossibile, e dobbiamo unire le forze per adottare politiche e misure armonizzate che garantiscano tutele e diritti adeguati. Solo così riusciremo a regolamentare il lavoro stagionale e a garantire sicurezza e salute ai lavoratori.