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Debate: Inclusion measures within Erasmus+ -
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Virginie Joron
Political group: ID
Country: Estonia
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, je veux revenir sur deux votes importants de ce jour. Erasmus, évidemment, je suis pour. Les jeunes se rencontrent et découvrent l’Europe, ses paysages, ses châteaux, ses peuples. Et parfois l’histoire se termine bien avec des couples qui se forment. Mais à l’heure actuelle, Bruxelles organise une caravane mondiale: depuis 2004, plus de 100 000 Turcs ont fait Erasmus en Europe et on envoie nos étudiants au Nigeria. Cela coûte 26 milliards d’euros, et c’est quoi, le projet? C’est la raison de mon abstention sur ce vote. Quant au deuxième vote sur le passe sanitaire, j’ai évidemment voté contre. Le QR code pour tous? Non merci. La Commission de Bruxelles a ignoré les 400 000 Européens qui s’étaient exprimés contre et ici, au Parlement européen, la majorité les a ignorés aujourd’hui. Mais le combat continue. Pourquoi cet acharnement à vouloir injecter à des bébés de six mois un vaccin COVID qui ne marche pas? Tant qu’il y aura 1,3 million d’effets secondaires répertoriés par l’EMA, ne mettons pas en danger nos enfants, nos adolescents, nos étudiants.
Debate: Inclusion measures within Erasmus+ -
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Andrey Slabakov
Political group: ECR
Country: Spain
Language: BG

Г-жо Председател, аз съм един от докладчиците в сянка на този доклад и много харесвам програмата Еразъм +, но мога да ви кажа, че гласувах против.  В този доклад има много добри неща, като специално внимание към хората с увреждания или към тези, които са от отдалечени райони, но кажете ми къде в Европа сте чували някога за училище или университет, където се избира на база сексуална ориентация или на база етническа принадлежност. Това нещо никога не е съществувало и е напълно излишно да влиза в този доклад.  Не разбирам защо трябва да има някакви привилегировани групи, защото това води, според моите разбирания, до огромна дискриминация на мнозинството. Освен това, това е прахосване на пари, които биха могли да се пренасочат за нещо значително по-разумно в областта на културата и образованието. Това са двата сектора, които винаги страдат най-много по време на кризи, без значение дали са здравни, дали са геополитически, или икономически.
Debate: Inclusion measures within Erasmus+ -
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Billy Kelleher
Political group: Renew
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Madam President, I was very proud to vote in favour of this report, and particularly the inclusion measures contained in this. The Erasmus+ programme is a wonderful programme. It does allow young people to travel, to live, to learn, to love across Europe. Many Irish people have had that beautiful benefit of being able to study abroad, and we also welcome people to Ireland from other parts of Europe. It does give people a really grounded basis of what Europe is about and it opens up opportunities.  But it needs to be opened up more. I believe it’s too restrictive in the sense that people who access it primarily are coming through the third—level system. I’d like to see it opened up into areas where people are studying in the trade sector and in the technological area as well.  So I’d like to see that broadening of the base and to ensure that people with disabilities and from minority backgrounds also have access to this particular programme. It would be wrong of us if we were just to contain this to those that are going through the formal third—level process as well. It is a wonderful programme and most young European citizens should have an opportunity of being able to embrace it in some way or another, rather than just through the formal third—level process itself.
Debate: Future of EU-Africa trade relations
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, the relation of the EU to the continent of Africa has been, and still is, one of brutal capitalist exploitation in the service of maintaining Western corporate profits. This criminal history cemented in place a structure of intentional de—development that saw the enormous wealth of Africa flow directly into European coffers for hundreds of years, and little has changed.  The unmentioned spirit haunting the aspirational language in this text is China. China has approached many African countries with more attractive ways of doing business, and if Europe wants to compete, it’s going to have to change its approach. If all the recommendations in this report were followed to the letter, the world would be a better place. But the report does not go nearly far enough. There is no mention of France’s colonial currency, no mention of debt cancellation.  We are continuing to pauperise the global South. We enrich ourselves at their expense morning, noon and night.
Debate: Future of EU-Africa trade relations
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I voted for the report also. I’d like to compliment my Left colleagues who acted as rapporteurs. There’s a lot of really good stuff in it about safeguarding food sovereignty, preventing deforestation and degradation, and many more issues.  But the truth is, it’s a million miles from the reality of EU—Africa trade policy as it exists now, because our economic relations with Africa are simply a continuation of European colonialism perpetuating exploitation by other means. Africa trades more with Europe than it does with itself. It’s portrayed as a poor continent, but actually it’s the richest. It’s just that the people there are denied the fruits of their land and their labour by unequal economic relations, by unfair trade rules, by illicit capital flights into Western banks, and by multinational corporations allowed off the leash by Washington, London and Brussels. This report would begin to change that. But I think it would take a revolution to actually make that a reality.
Debate: Approval of the minutes of the part-session and forwarding of texts adopted
Date: THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Heidi Hautala
Country: Poland
Language: EN

The minutes of the sessions of yesterday and today will be given to the Parliament for adoption at the beginning of the next session. So if there are no objections, I convey the resolutions adopted in today’s session without delay to those entities and persons that are mentioned in the resolutions.
Debate: Statements by the President
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

So, dear colleagues, we are here today, a day after a horrific shooting in Copenhagen where three people were murdered in a shopping mall after being shot by an armed assailant. I think I speak for everyone here when I say our thoughts are with all the victims, their families and everyone in Copenhagen. Denmark, we are with you. Yesterday, we also saw the terrible news emerge of a mountain glacier collapsing in the Alps in Italy, leaving at least six persons dead, eight injured and twenty missing. Experts have told us that the warming temperature means that the entire glacier is under threat. The horrible tragedy in the Dolomites between the northern Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto has shocked all of us. And I wanted to use this opportunity to offer our deepest condolences and those of the European Parliament to those affected. I would like to ask you, dear colleagues, to join us in having a minute of silence.
Debate: Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

The IMCO and ECON committees have decided to enter into interinstitutional negotiations pursuant to Rule 71(1) of the Rules of Procedure. The reports which constitute the mandates for the negotiations are available on the plenary webpage, and their titles will be published in the minutes of the sitting. Pursuant to Rule 71(2) Members or political groups reaching at least the medium threshold may request in writing by tomorrow, Tuesday 5 July at midnight, that the decisions to enter into negotiations be put to the vote. If no request for a vote in Parliament on the decisions to enter into negotiations is made within the aforementioned deadline, the committees may start the negotiations.
Debate: Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

I would also like to inform you that since the adjournment of Parliament’s session on 23 June, I have signed, together with the President of the Council, four acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure, in accordance with Rule 79 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure.  I would like also to inform you that on Wednesday I shall sign together with the President of the Council, one act adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure. The titles of the acts will be published in the minutes of the sitting.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Katarina Barley
Country: Germany
Language: DE

DE Ich erinnere Sie daran, dass mit Ausnahme der ersten beiden Reihen, die für die Fraktionsvorsitzenden vorgesehen sind, freie Sitzplatzwahl besteht. Nachdem Sie Ihre Abstimmungskarte in das Abstimmungsgerät eingeschoben haben, können Sie über Ihr Abstimmungsgerät spontane Wortmeldungen und blaue Karten beantragen. Bitte führen Sie daher Ihre Abstimmungskarte stets mit sich. Entsprechende Anleitungen sind im Plenarsaal verfügbar. Wenn Sie sich für eine spontane Wortmeldung melden möchten, ersuche ich Sie, dies ab jetzt zu tun und nicht bis zum Ende der Aussprache zu warten. Außerdem möchte ich Sie darauf hinweisen, dass blaue Karten auch für eine kurze Wortmeldung hochgehalten werden können und dass danach eine Anschlussfrage zulässig ist. Ich weise Sie auch darauf hin, dass Wortmeldungen im Plenarsaal weiterhin vom zentralen Redepult aus erfolgen, außer spontane Wortmeldungen, blaue Karten und Bemerkungen zur Anwendung der Geschäftsordnung. Ich ersuche Sie daher, die Redeliste im Blick zu behalten und sich kurz vor Beginn Ihrer Redezeit zum Redepult zu begeben. Jetzt habe ich hoffentlich lange genug gesprochen, damit sich alle, die sich nicht beteiligen wollen, aus dem Saal entfernen können. Es ist ja auch klar, dass das jetzt eine emotionale Debatte ist. Deswegen möchte ich auch noch einmal daran erinnern, dass das hier ein Parlament ist. „Parlament“ kommt von „ Und wenn sich jetzt die Atmosphäre beruhigt hat, dann darf ich Frau Kommissarin Dalli für die Kommission das Wort erteilen und sie herzlich hier begrüßen.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi
Political group: PPE
Country: Sweden
Language: EL

Πέραν, όμως, του οπισθοδρομικού χαρακτήρα της, η απόφαση του Ανωτάτου Δικαστηρίου είναι εμφανώς επικίνδυνη, διότι δεν εκτίμησε σωστά όσα συμβαίνουν παγκοσμίως σήμερα, μεταξύ των οποίων ότι, λόγου χάριν, το 60% από 121 εκατομμύρια εγκυμοσύνες —ακούσιες— καταλήγουν σε άμβλωση· ότι η αποποινικοποίηση των αμβλώσεων δεν λειτουργεί αποτρεπτικά, αλλά αντιθέτως οδηγεί σε μη ασφαλείς για τη ζωή των εγκύων ιατρικές υπηρεσίες· ότι οι απαγορεύσεις και οι περιορισμοί εισάγουν ανισότητες μεταξύ οικονομικά ασθενών γυναικών που αδυνατούν να μεταβούν σε γειτονικές χώρες προς επίλυση του προβλήματος τους· ότι οι επιπλοκές κατά την εγκυμοσύνη ή τον τοκετό ευθύνονται για τον θάνατο εφήβων 15 έως 19 ετών.  Συνάδελφοι, τα κορυφαία κοινωνικά θέματα που μας προβληματίζουν δεν αντιμετωπίζονται με απαγορεύσεις. Στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση έχουμε υποχρέωση να προβαίνουμε σε αποφάσεις που ενώνουν και δεν διχάζουν. Τα κράτη μέλη θα όφειλαν, οργανωμένα και με σεβασμό πάντοτε προς την επικουρικότητα, να προβούν σε αποποινικοποίηση της άμβλωσης, να καταπολεμούν αποτελεσματικά τη σεξουαλική βία, να διαπαιδαγωγούν τους εφήβους για τη σεξουαλικότητα, την αντισύλληψη, την εγκυμοσύνη, τις ιατρικές υπηρεσίες και τη μεταγεννητική φροντίδα.  Ο κόσμος αλλάζει, συνάδελφοι, και εμείς στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση των δημοκρατικών αξιών στεκόμαστε με το βλέμμα στις επόμενες γενεές, σοβαρά και υπεύθυνα. Θεμελιώδη ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα που κατοχυρώθηκαν με αγώνες πολλών ετών απαιτούν την αδιάλειπτη προστασία μας —και θα την έχουν.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Iratxe García Pérez
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: ES

En el país más poderoso del mundo, las mujeres no tienen ningún poder sobre sus propios cuerpos. Un tribunal, formado mayoritariamente por hombres mayores, de género masculino, retrógrados, anclados en el pasado, ha decidido sobre las mujeres jóvenes del siglo XXI. Una mujer, una niña que se queda embarazada fruto de una violación o de una relación infructuosa no consentida, la vida de una madre que corre peligro o un feto que no tiene posibilidades de salir adelante: todo eso no importa. Lo único que importa es que el hijo nazca, aun sin tener en cuenta que pueda ser un niño sin madre o que pueda ser un niño en una familia sin recursos, con grandes necesidades. Obligan a las mujeres a tener hijos no deseados, pero no las ayudan a nada más. En los Estados Unidos el derecho a llevar armas es indiscutible, el derecho de una mujer a decidir sobre su propio cuerpo no existe. El aborto no desaparece al prohibirlo, solo desaparecen las condiciones de seguridad del aborto, que pasa a ser clandestino, en condiciones peligrosas muchas veces para la vida de las mujeres. Las mujeres que tengan recursos se irán a otros países y las que no, tendrán  que poner en peligro sus vidas. El derecho al aborto es un derecho humano inalienable. El Grupo Socialista ha pedido en reiteradas ocasiones la inclusión de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, que comprenden el derecho al aborto seguro y legal, en la Carta de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión. Mujeres de los Estados Unidos, mujeres del mundo, no estáis solas. Seguiremos luchando juntas, porque hay muchas mujeres que somos conscientes de lo importante que es luchar por nuestros derechos, para que nuestras hijas no puedan tener menos derechos que nuestras madres.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Stéphane Séjourné
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: FR

D’ailleurs, sur ce sujet, l’extrême droite et la droite ultraconservatrice ne sont jamais transparentes dans leurs programmes politiques. En Europe, ces partis sont plus que jamais discrets pour ne pas nous effrayer lors des campagnes électorales. Ils avancent masqués, mais ils espèrent bien arriver à leurs fins, en utilisant notamment les voies dérivées de la justice. Et c’est d’ailleurs là que l’état de droit, le droit à l’avortement et le droit des femmes se rejoignent dans le combat politique. C’est en ce sens que je vous propose et que nous vous proposons, avec Renew Europe, une demande de clarification et de modification de la Charte européenne des droits fondamentaux. Nous reprenons ainsi la proposition du président de la République française et nous nous inspirons des initiatives française, belge et suédoise qui demandent la constitutionnalisation de l’IVG dans leur pays.  Le vote de jeudi sur la proposition est un test pour nos groupes politiques. Qui sera véritablement sincère? Qui va défendre le droit des femmes? Qui assumera politiquement de remettre en cause le droit à l’avortement? Qui votera pour, qui votera contre? Les groupes politiques sont face à leurs responsabilités. Chers collègues, les Européens doivent savoir que, quels que soient les alternances politiques et les partis au pouvoir, les droits des femmes seront respectés. Les Européennes méritent la même protection que les journaux, les syndicats, les demandeurs d’asile, les propriétaires, les églises. Tous ont des garanties dans la Charte des droits fondamentaux. Tous ont leurs droits respectés dans cette Charte. Donnons donc aux femmes en Europe la garantie qu’aucun juge ne pourra détricoter ces droits et rappelons aux réactionnaires ce qu’ils sont vraiment: un reliquat du passé qui n’a aucun avenir dans l’Union européenne.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Terry Reintke
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Denying abortion care to a 10-year-old victim of rape is not a policy based on another person’s political opinion. It is a form of state-supported, gender-based violence. Forcing a 10-year-old victim of rape to go through with a pregnancy is simply brutal. But cases like this will be the outcome if we do not stand up to the aggressive authoritarian backlash that we are facing right now. We cannot simply wait and see. We have to act, and we have to act now to stabilise and strengthen our fundamental rights to bodily autonomy, to protect us, to protect our children and future generations before it is too late.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Political group: ECR
Country: Slovakia
Language: ES

Durante el embarazo existe una realidad diminuta: evidente. Es ilógico pensar que, si se desea, es un bebé, y si no, pues se desecha, como si fuera un objeto. Ábranse a un modo nuevo de entender la vida. No tengan miedo. Si falta la dimensión espiritual y trascendente, si solo valoramos la dimensión material, se instrumentaliza la existencia humana y se mercantilizan las relaciones. La protección de la vida no puede cuestionarse, no depende de circunstancias. No hacerlo nos desprotege a todos, especialmente a los más frágiles. La garantía de la seguridad de los derechos humanos radica en afirmar la vida.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Sandra Pereira
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: PT

O aborto tem de ser encarado como um problema de saúde pública e como uma questão interligada com os direitos fundamentais da mulher. A luta das mulheres pelo acesso a direitos sexuais e reprodutivos e ao domínio da sua sexualidade é uma luta secular que tem passado por perseguições que se prolongam, infelizmente, até aos dias de hoje. Os efeitos danosos e as consequências nefastas que esta decisão terá na dignidade humana e na saúde reprodutiva das mulheres norte-americanas deveriam indignar-nos a todas e a todos, mulheres e homens, para quem a exigência da participação e a tomada de posição é um ato de cidadania consciente na defesa dos direitos das mulheres.  A igualdade tem de ser plena, concreta, e não há igualdade sem direitos. Daqui expressamos a nossa solidariedade para com as mulheres que sentem na pele estes retrocessos inaceitáveis, na certeza de que nenhum direito se perde para sempre.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Laura Ferrara
Political group: NI
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, è recente la notizia stampa di una bambina di dieci anni incinta perché vittima di stupro, a cui la legge nega l'aborto in Ohio, e per eseguirlo è stata chiesta assistenza medica nel vicino Stato dell'Indiana.  Questo dramma descrive i primi, devastanti effetti della retrograda decisione della Corte suprema statunitense, che cancella la protezione garantita a livello federale del diritto all'aborto. Negli Stati Uniti e in alcuni stati membri dell'Unione europea è in atto un preoccupante regresso nel campo della tutela della salute e dei diritti sessuali e riproduttivi delle donne.  È solo ipocrisia pensare di impedire gli aborti criminalizzandoli, rendendoli inaccessibili, non legali e insicuri; quando ciò avviene aumenta infatti il ricorso a interruzioni di gravidanza clandestine, si mettono in pericolo vite, si creano discriminazioni tra chi può permettersi i servizi sanitari in un differente Stato e chi non può. Diventare madre dovrebbe essere ovunque una scelta fondata su diritti universalmente riconosciuti e non il risultato di un'imposizione o, peggio ancora, di una violenza.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, Madame la Commissaire, il y a une semaine, la Cour suprême américaine a mis fin à la jurisprudence quasi cinquantenaire qui consacrait le droit à l’avortement des femmes américaines. Cet arrêt ne rend pas automatiquement l’avortement illégal: il permet aux États de le considérer comme tel. Et vous l’avez rappelé, quatorze États ont ainsi déjà pénalisé l’avortement ou sont en passe de le faire. C’est évidemment une grave régression pour les droits des femmes, et cela ne concerne pas que les États-Unis. Nous le savons: sur notre propre continent européen, les droits des femmes sont aussi menacés. Si l’avortement relève de la compétence de chaque État membre, le Parlement européen peut se prononcer. Il doit même le faire lorsque cela devient un enjeu de santé publique. Dans le monde, une femme meurt toutes les neuf minutes d’un avortement clandestin. Alors que nous construisons ici l’Europe de la santé, dans ce Parlement dont Simone Veil a été la présidente, et alors que nous légiférons pour permettre à tous les citoyens européens un accès égal aux soins, pouvons-nous continuer à accepter que des femmes mettent ainsi leur vie en danger? Nous le savons: le fait de limiter l’accès à l’avortement n’en réduit pas le nombre. Nous devons donc rester extrêmement vigilants afin que la santé publique l’emporte sur toute autre considération.
Debate: US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU
Date: MONDAY, 4 JULY 2022
Speaker: Evelyn Regner
Political group: S-D
Country: Netherlands
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Sehr geehrte Frau Kommissarin! Abtreibungen kann man nicht verhindern. Punkt. Man kann nur sichere und legale Abtreibungen verbieten und damit das Leben von Frauen aufs Spiel setzen.  Wir müssen deshalb unsere Werte verteidigen. Das ist das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung über den eigenen Körper, das Recht auf medizinische Grundversorgung sowie der Zugang zu sicheren legalen Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen. Unsere Großmütter, unsere Mütter haben sich lautstark für das Recht auf Abtreibung eingesetzt und dafür gekämpft. Das müssen wir verteidigen – wir, das sind Frauen, das sind Männer, Jung und Alt. Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass sich die Gesellschaft weiterentwickelt. Und deshalb: