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Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: José Gusmão
Political group: The Left
Country: Finland
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, a garantia do direito à saúde mental pressupõe a regulação da atividade das empresas e a existência de serviços públicos de fiscalização das condições de trabalho e de saúde que têm sido, infelizmente, enfraquecidos um pouco por toda a Europa. Mas exige também o regresso a um paradigma de proteção dos direitos do trabalho que impeça as situações de precariedade, de abuso, de arbitrariedade e de violência no local de trabalho. E nisto não estamos todos de acordo.  A mesma direita que defendeu a desregulação das relações de trabalho, a mesma direita que defendeu a desregulação dos horários de trabalho, a mesma direita que se opõe, e continua a opor-se, a uma diretiva sobre o direito a desligar, a mesma direita que defendeu políticas de austeridade e de privatização dos serviços públicos, nomeadamente dos serviços públicos de saúde, vem hoje aqui chorar lágrimas de crocodilo com as consequências dessas políticas na saúde mental de tantos trabalhadores, em tantos países da Europa. De lágrimas de crocodilo não precisamos.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Deirdre Clune
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, as we discuss mental health it is so important that we take time to reflect on the Ukrainian people at this time and the horrendous experiences that they’re going through, experiences that will leave them both young and old, severely traumatised. And I say to the Commissioner: you’ve outlined how we can help in this area through effective strategies that require political leadership, coordination and cooperation across organisations and, of course, sufficient resources to implement these strategies. We must be aware that these people will suffer for years to come. And, of course this year, 2022, is the European Year of Youth. And our young people, I believe, have had an enormous burden to bear over the last number of years, and their mental health most definitely has suffered: lack of engagement and socialising with their peers, gaps in their education that some may never be able to fill or get the opportunity to close, unemployment at a time when they should be advancing and building experiences and isolation that nobody should ever have to suffer at a time when they most need engagement and interaction for social development. We must be prepared for the impact of this amongst our young people, some who may have had difficulties previously that would have been accentuated during COVID and others find themselves unable to cope now in this new world to them. So we must support them, keep them to the fore and recognise that, as one of our previous speakers has said, we know the solutions and we need now to engage and support.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Patrizia Toia
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, potremmo tristemente dire che in Europa c'è una specie di fantasma che si aggira, che è invisibile perché noi non vogliamo vederlo, perché sta nascosto nelle famiglie, nella loro disperazione, nella loro solitudine, in poche strutture di cura. Parlo della malattia mentale, per la quale noi tutti abbiamo la grande colpa di aver lasciato sole le famiglie, sole le persone che ne soffrono e di averle un po' dimenticate. Ecco perché dico che è un fantasma, perché non vogliamo vederlo e continuiamo a non vederlo. A questa gravità della malattia mentale vera e propria, delle patologie mentali e psichiatriche, si sono aggiunti oggi tanti altri problemi di disagio psicologico: l'effetto post-COVID per i giovani, la realtà delle fasce più vulnerabili e anche delle donne soggette a violenze o delle vittime di violenza. Insomma, noi abbiamo il dovere di indagare tutti questi aspetti e di affrontarli. Allora dico, signora Commissaria ma tutta la Commissione, che noi dobbiamo davvero affrontare questo problema. Sono poco studiate queste realtà: c'è poca ricerca, anche nell'ambito di Orizzonte si fa poca ricerca sulle malattie mentali, vi sono poche strutture di cura e di riabilitazione e pochissima prevenzione. Allora la mia richiesta è che si elabori un piano d'azione, come abbiamo fatto per il cancro e per altre patologie: occorre un piano d'azione europeo.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Alin Mituța
Political group: Renew
Country: Germany
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, doamna comisară, acum câteva luni am fost în vizită la liceul pe care l-am absolvit. Știți ce mi-au spus elevii de acolo? Mi-au spus că se simt sub o presiune imensă, din cauza standardelor false pe care le impune  Dar pandemia și acum, războiul au făcut ca ele să devină și mai grave. Trebuie să luăm foarte în serios aceste probleme, până nu e prea târziu. Altfel, riscăm să avem generații întregi cu probleme de anxietate cronică și inadaptare socială. Avem nevoie cât mai curând de un plan european pentru sănătate mintală, care să ajute în special tinerii europeni, dar și ucrainienii care fug îngroziți de război.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: João Pimenta Lopes
Political group: The Left
Country: Romania
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, as alterações profundas provocadas pela COVID-19 no quotidiano das pessoas impactaram, e impactam ainda, na sua saúde mental e bem-estar psicológico. São necessárias respostas urgentes e medidas concretas para garantir a prestação universal de cuidados de saúde, de proximidade e qualidade.  É necessário mais investimento na saúde para promover a cobertura regular dos serviços hospitalares de psiquiatria e saúde mental, sem assimetrias, serviços comunitários, articulados com serviços hospitalares e com os cuidados de saúde primários públicos, contribuindo para a prevenção, diagnóstico e tratamento; dotar os serviços públicos de saúde com o número adequado de profissionais, médicos, enfermeiros, psicólogos e outros técnicos de saúde mental, valorizando as carreiras e a sua colocação onde mais falta fazem; intervir precocemente na saúde mental da primeira infância e adolescência, articulando as unidades de saúde com a escola.  No Dia Internacional da Saúde, importa afirmar a importância e imperativa necessidade de investir e reforçar o Serviço Nacional de Saúde público, de qualidade, gratuito, que comporte a dimensão da saúde mental, intervindo na prevenção e promoção da saúde em proximidade com as populações.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Domènec Ruiz Devesa
Political group: S-D
Country: Malta
Language: ES

Señor presidente —querido Rainer—, según la OCDE, el número de personas que sufren ansiedad y depresión ha aumentado sustancialmente desde marzo de 2020, incluso, en el caso de España, mi país, por poner un ejemplo, se ha duplicado. Es algo que ya han comentado muchos diputados: el impacto de la pandemia, ahora el impacto de la guerra.  Pero creo que la cuestión de la salud mental, cuyo estigma, por cierto, tenemos que contribuir a borrar, es muy anterior. Creo que habría que retrotraerse al inicio de la era neoliberal —finales de los setenta, principios de los ochenta—, con esa falta de énfasis en la política social que hemos tenido en estos cuarenta años.  Por tanto, este cambio de era en el que vivimos debe ser la gran oportunidad para avanzar en esa estrategia europea de salud mental que debe ponerse en marcha, y también para fomentar la educación emocional desde la primera infancia, invirtiendo en niños de entornos desfavorecidos. En este sentido, la Garantía Infantil desempeña un papel fundamental.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Valter Flego
Political group: Renew
Country: Sweden
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, povjerenice, dame i gospodo, zbilja mi je jako drago da danas, na Svjetski dan zdravlja, pričamo upravo o mentalnom zdravlju jer nema zdravlja bilo koje osobe bez mentalnog zdravlja. Znamo, naime, da se mentalno zdravlje najjednostavnije može opisati kao stanje u kojem se svaka osoba može uspješno nositi sa svakodnevnim stresnim načinom života. I jasno je da ono ovisi o utjecaju okoline, ali i o socio-ekonomskim okolnostima, a one su, znamo svi, u ove posljednje dvije godine sve osim jednostavne i lagane.  Upravo zbog toga, dame i gospodo, smatram da nacionalne zdravstvene politike bi trebale puno više pozornosti i konkretnih aktivnosti učiniti oko promocije važnosti mentalnog zdravlja i konkretnog rada na njemu. Posebice je to, naravno, važno za djecu i mlade, te se nadam da to i države članice odnosno nacionalne vlade i resorno ministarstvo shvaćaju, a i Europska komisija, kako bi zajedno učinili pozitivne pomake na ovom tako važnom pitanju. Hvala na pažnji.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Seán Kelly
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: EN

Mr President, this is a very important topic and I would like to compliment my colleague behind me, Maria Walsh, who has done tremendous work here in Parliament and elsewhere on this whole topic. As has been said, COVID-19 put a huge mental strain particularly on young people, who couldn’t go to school, who were not able to meet their friends, who couldn’t play, and of course, on elderly people, who were locked at home and couldn’t see their families for long periods. Then, as the Commissioner pointed out, along comes the Ukraine war, caused by the war criminal Putin, and refugees coming here under enormous mental strain. Of course, we are very pleased that so many people in Europe are welcoming them and making it easy for them, despite the fact that it leads to a rise in the cost of living. And of course, that’s putting strain, particularly on a lot of people who are close to energy poverty and other types of poverty. So it’s good we discuss it and that we do a European strategy.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Billy Kelleher
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Mr President, I too welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and I want to compliment all colleagues across all political parties that keep this very much to the fore in the European Parliament.  Of course, there are significant challenges now because of the COVID-19 pandemic, social isolation, individual isolation, the changes in economic circumstances of families and individuals and now, on top of that, the significant challenge that Europe faces and its obligations to ensure that we put in place the necessary resources around child psychiatrists, psychotherapy and counsellors to address what will happen and is happening in the months and years ahead with regard to refugees coming into Europe from across Ukraine.  We have an obligation to increase the capacity of our health services, to provide support for children who have been scarred and who have been damaged and potentially destroyed. If we don't step in in time and provide the necessary supports around child psychiatrists, psychotherapy and counselling, we owe that to the children of Europe, be they Ukrainian or be they French or Irish. Let's deal with mental health pan-European to ensure that every child has an opportunity.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, Ireland spends just 6% of its total health budget on mental health; Germany spends 12%; Norway 13.5% and France 15%. More than 3300 children are waiting for a consultant appointment with the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Ireland. Acute adult psychiatric units are operating at almost 90% occupancy, yet the safe occupancy level is at 85%. We have a medicalised mental health model that all stakeholders appear to agree is a massive problem. Yet, still we have little or no public health talk therapy. In her statement last October, Commissioner Kyriakides said EUR 7 million will be invested in projects to prevent depression and suicide and to support more person-centred, community-based mental health services. In 2019, the HSC in Ireland admitted that it needed EUR 189 million to fully implement the staffing requirements alone that were set out in a vision for change that was going to deal with our failure to supply mental health services.  The Commission’s EUR 7 million is a drop in the ocean.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Maria Walsh
Political group: PPE
Country: Austria
Language: EN

Mr President, some six years ago, a total of 84 million people suffered from mental health. And since then, we've been challenged to no end with the new realities of a pandemic and now a war. Balanced mental health is, of course, everything. Without it, we struggle to cope, adapt, maintain a good quality of life. We are currently living in a silent pandemic and no one deserves to suffer in silence. I ask the Commission and the Council to dedicate 2023 to an EU year that looks at mental health and develop an EU-wide mental health strategy, now and for all. I particularly like to highlight our staff, our teams and our advisors that work tremendously hard in these institutions that are experiencing and facing burnout and mental health pressures at work and at home. As Dragoș Pîslaru, our EMPL chair, shared, this debate deserves to be on a time when Parliament is full. We cannot continue to stigmatise mental health yet mourn the loss of it.
Debate: Mental Health
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Věra Jourová
Language: EN

I must say we are very encouraged by the Parliament’s ongoing strong support for European mental health action. I have heard the calls for a new strategy. The Commission’s new Healthier Together EU Non—Communicable Diseases Initiative will very much provide a hands—on approach to help Member States reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases. Mental health and neurological disorders form one of the five thematic strands in Healthier Together, which will also address health inequalities and encourage integrated approaches. Member States, health authorities, stakeholders, international organisations and Commission departments are working together on a plan of action to which we would certainly welcome further input from all of you in this House. Underpinning the plan, we will have a mapping exercise of legal frameworks, initiatives and financial instruments from Commission departments to make sure that we work across sectors as efficiently as possible and maximise opportunities.  In this place, I would like to also share something from my portfolio and my preparedness to cooperate on this plan, because in my portfolio I deal a lot of with the impact of social media and the internet on our society. We are still missing sufficient research on how strong and how negative this impact is on the young generation and on children, but we already see from different surveys that there is a loss of social contacts, there is an isolation, and there is also the fact that, at this moment, reality is still better than what we see in the digital mirror. All this together has a negative impact on young people and on children, especially in the situation when the father is Instagram and the mother is TikTok. I think that there is a space to do something, to raise awareness, to campaign, to influence society, parents and schools because we cannot organise the free time of children, but we can influence those who can do that. We should also think about how to use the future digital tax because the tax should be used for reparation of the things which have been damaged, also by means of social media. This is just my humble contribution, which I want to come with when we work together in the Commission on this plan.  Honourable Members, I know that Parliament is finalising a report on this issue and my colleague, Commissioner Kyriakides, and I very much look forward to reading it and to pursuing our fruitful cooperation with you on this most important issue of mental health that concerns us all because mental health really matters.
Debate: The Schengen evaluation mechanism
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Vlad-Marius Botoş
Political group: Renew
Country: Germany
Language: RO

Domnule președinte, spațiul Schengen este unul dintre marile atuuri ale Uniunii Europene. O piață comună, libera circulație a persoanelor în interiorul Uniunii, sunt posibile tocmai datorită acestui spațiu. Este așadar firesc să facem totul pentru ca aceasta să funcționeze cât mai bine, regulile de control să fie cât mai transparente. Existența granițelor interne a fost o adevărată povară în perioada de pandemie, când unele state membre au reintrodus controalele la graniță, îngreunând astfel nu doar circulația persoanelor, ci și schimburile economice, prin timpii de așteptare la granițele interne.  Noi, în România, vedem cât este de dificilă integrarea reală în piața unică, atunci când nu ești membru al Spațiului Schengen. Am votat astăzi îmbunătățirea mecanismului de evaluare, pentru că regulile clare aduc cu sine creșterea șanselor României de a adera mai repede la această zonă, iar odată cu aderarea, cresc șansele de coeziune, șansele întreprinderilor mici și mijlocii de a face parte cu adevărat din piața unică europeană.
Debate: The Schengen evaluation mechanism
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Angel Dzhambazki
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: BG

Г-н Председател, колеги, гласувахме против този доклад по една много проста причина. Темата Шенген е пълното, абсолютно доказателство за двуличието, лицемерието и двойния стандарт на Европейската комисия.  От години Европейският парламент, Европейският съюз и Европейската комисия отлично знаят, че България, Румъния и Хърватска са изпълнили всички критерии за членство в Шенгенското пространство, но не ни допускат там. Това ни нанася транспортни щети и това донася щети на нашата икономика.  Но тези причини се коренят само и единствено във вътрешнополитическите драми на държавите от сърцето на Европейския съюз, като например Холандия. Заради техните вътрешни проблеми и причини, България, Унгария, Румъния и Хърватска имат такива гранични проблеми. Защото са на границата на Шенгенското пространство. Това е неприемливо и недопустимо, поради което гласувахме против.
Debate: Right to repair
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Billy Kelleher
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Mr President, I strongly support this resolution on the right to repair and I am glad today that the House adopted this report and sent a strong message to the Commission. We know, of course, that there are millions and millions of tons of electrical goods discarded every year across the European Union. In Ireland alone, there are over 5 million phones in drawers, on shelves and inside garages all over Ireland.  So we have a problem with regard to waste, and what we need to do now is to shift the focus from disposal to the right to repair and the obligations that will have to be placed on people, companies and entities to ensure that there is proper affordability in terms of accessing repair of electrical goods. It happens day in, day out, across the European Union, where products that break down are simply discarded, a guarantee system in place, and a new product provided to the customer. While that’s very welcome for the customer, there is a hidden cost to the environment. There is a hidden cost to the supply chain right back to the original manufacturing and where all those raw materials came from. So the right to repair is not just about consumers’ rights. It’s about us protecting the environment for future generations as well. So I commend that resolution on the right to repair.
Debate: Right to repair
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Angel Dzhambazki
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: BG

Г-н Председател, колеги, въвеждането на право на ремонт на електрическите уреди е сред основните законодателни инициативи, заложени в плана на Европейската комисия за тази година. Целта му е да удължи живота на уредите и да предостави по-дълга гаранция за защита на правата на потребителите, като улесни по-дългото ползване на въпросните уреди от хората, които трябва да ги ползват. Това е чудесна идея, аз я подкрепям, но настоявам същата идея да бъде приложена по същия начин към тези, които произвеждат, да речем, соларни панели или електрически автомобили.  Не е лошо да попита Европейската комисия, да направи въпрос и да попита производителите на електрически автомобили, например Тесла, какъв е въглеродният отпечатък на производството на техния автомобил от началото до неговото изпълнение или тези, които правят слънчевите батерии или тези, които правят перките, защото е добре да се знае, дали това е толкова екологично, колкото се твърди. Защото ние си мислим, подозираме и сме убедени, че това не е точно така, че някой ни позалъгва и се опитва да ни прави на глупаци и се опитва през нашия начин на живот да провежда политика.
Debate: Right to repair
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Mr President, the Commission’s right to repair legislative proposal this year should include unrestricted access to spare parts and software, comprehensive information and affordable repair services. The Commission should support local, grassroots and community repair initiatives, cooperatives and social enterprises. This is all important to avoid monopolies in relation to repairs. However, the Commission’s circular economy action plan fixates on GDP growth and consumer empowerment, repeating the problems of the Commission’s formulation of the European Green Deal as a new growth strategy. I believe we need to radically alter our economic system in order to move away from GDP growth, which depends on perpetual extraction of finite resources to fuel infinite expansion. The aim of economies should be to satisfy the basic needs and well-being of all people within planetary boundaries, regardless if the economy grows or not. The circular economy should not be used to rebrand acts of consumption as climate action.
Debate: Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Seán Kelly
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: EN

Mr President, I was relieved to see that the situation in Afghanistan was on the plenary agenda this week. I gave my strong support to the EU’s solidarity towards Ukraine, but we must also continue to advocate for those suffering under the oppressive Taliban regime, particularly for women, girls and the LGBTI community. I was horrified by the news on 23 March that girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan had been ordered to close just hours after reopening. And, therefore, I fully support the calls in this resolution for the Taliban to uphold their commitment to ensuring the right to education for girls. I also support the many other important calls in this resolution: to allow women to fully participate in government and society, to allow women to access proper health care, to release all activists and human rights defenders who have been detained for advocating for the rights of women and girls and to stop all intimidation and harassment of these groups. I was pleased to vote in favour of this resolution.
Debate: EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine
Date: THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022
Speaker: Seán Kelly
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: EN

Mr President, over 4.3 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on 24 February. According to UNICEF, over half of those fleeing are minors. This is a massive humanitarian crisis at the hands of a ruthless dictator, and the numbers will continue to grow. European Member States are opening their borders and citizens are opening their homes to those fleeing the war. But the journey to safety is not an easy one. Unaccompanied minors in particular are at a risk of abuse, exploitation and trafficking. This resolution calls for the creation of safe passages for children fleeing the conflict. It emphasises that measures must be put in place to prevent trafficking and abduction. It goes without saying that I voted in favour of this resolution, and I was proud to do so.