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MEPs whose initial is “L” · 24 MEPs

Lara Magoni

• Since 2010, rents have increased by 50% in Europe
• Lombardy Region between 2022 and 2024 invested millions of euros to recover approximately 7,000 empty flats
• Only 16% of the most disadvantaged students reach fundamental skills.
• There were approximately 267 million illegal views during the Paris 2024 Olympics.
• As in the case that occurred in Cosenza in 2025, where over 100 students became victims of this new digital abuse.

Laurence Farreng

• Early school leaving decreased from 17% in 2002 to 9% in 2024.
• Two thirds of Europeans declare having confidence in their public service media.
• The Paris 2024 Olympics suffered five times more piracy cases than the Tokyo Olympics three years earlier.
• In France, the loss from piracy is estimated at 1.5 billion euros in 2024, representing 12% of the legal audiovisual mar

Laurence Trochu

• 1.5 million internally displaced persons in Lebanon
• More than 2,500 people have died in Lebanon

Laurent Castillo

• Placing up to 100% of the cost on the pharmaceutical industry, particularly on generics.
• 18% of the population in France is affected by obesity.
• One in six adults in the European Union is affected by obesity.
• In France, 12 weeks are needed between diagnosis and treatment due to lack of specialists, whereas recommendations advis
• More than one third of medicines authorized in Europe are not available in France
• More than one third of French people with cancer have encountered difficulties accessing medicines
• In Europe, there are 2.7 million new cancer cases annually
• Professional exhaustion in France costs nearly €15,000 per employee per year.
• More than one in ten minors has problematic use of social networks.
• Since 2017, nearly 40,000 people in France have died from the consequences of heat.
• Only 24% of homes in France are air-conditioned, compared with more than 50% in Italy.

Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos

• Greece is involved in the war with Patriot missile systems deployed in Saudi Arabia
• Greece has frigates deployed in the Red Sea
• In 2024, there were 1,500 railway accidents and 750 deaths recorded in the European Union.
• Over 200 people have died in workplaces in Greece
• Over 500,000 animal deaths occurred due to sheep pox in mainland Greece.
• In Greece, there were 201 workplace fatalities in 2025.

Leila Chaibi

• In France, 350,000 people sleep on the street, four times more within the European Union.
• Vinci has 75 billion euros in turnover, Bouygues has 56 billion euros, and Eiffage has 23 billion euros.
• During the first three years of the Grand Paris Express project, there were six deaths, not counting accidents.
• The US blockade of Cuba has lasted 60 years.

Leire Pajín

• Intellectual property contributes approximately 7,000 million euros to GDP and generates more than 81 million jobs.
• 305 million people currently need humanitarian aid
• Hundreds of people have been killed since the beginning of the ceasefire.
• More than one million people have been displaced.
• Last year only 35% of the humanitarian aid appeal was funded
• More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed
• More than 13 million people in Sudan are displaced.
• More than 33 million people in Sudan need urgent humanitarian aid.
• The area burned by wildfires already exceeds 130,000 hectares during the current European heat wave.
• Heat stress threatens more than 130 million workers in Europe.
• The Ebola outbreak centred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has already caused 500 deaths.
• In just three weeks, 15 drone attacks have hit the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, along with summary executions, kidnappings
• The humanitarian response for Sudan requires USD 2.9 billion and would address the needs of 20 million people.
• In 2026, 239 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance.
• The global humanitarian system is expected to reach only 135 million of the 239 million people in need in 2026.
• The United Nations hyper-prioritised humanitarian appeal for 2026 amounts to US$33 billion.
• In 1997, 39 humanitarian workers were killed worldwide.
• In the last three years, nearly 1,000 humanitarian workers died or were killed while carrying out their mission.

Lena Düpont

• Reports of children's sexual abuse online have multiplied by twenty in the last ten years, increasing from 1 million to
• One in six children between the ages of 11 and 15 in Europe report being victims of cyberbullying
• Antisemitic offences, hate speech, and online and offline harassment have significantly surged since 7 October.

Lena Schilling

• At least 1,300 people died in a heatwave.

Leoluca Orlando

• The Italian government failed to respect the International Criminal Court arrest warrant in the case of Libyan torturer
• The Italian government was referred to the International Criminal Court due to alleged collusion with Libyan authorities
• Only in recent weeks, Israeli killing of over 2,000 victims.
• There are 150 transboundary river basins in the world.

Letizia Moratti

• In twenty years, manufacturing has fallen below 15% of GDP
• Internal barriers are equivalent to tariffs of up to 40%

Li Andersson

• The new Eurostat classification treats interest subsidy loans for state-subsidised housing as government debt, even when
• Finnish Government decisions to cut family social benefits will result in over 30,000 more children living in poverty.

Liesbet Sommen

• Every day thousands of workers in Europe are injured or become ill at work.
• Belgian women have 6 hours less free time per week than men.

Lina Gálvez

• Data from 2025 show that more than 65 million women are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, and the average gender p
• 1 in 5 European women have suffered sexual assaults including rape.
• Spain led on the principle of consent-based rape legislation in 2022.
• The activity rate of women in rural areas is 20 percentage points lower than that of women in urban areas.
• In 80 years, no woman has served as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• One in three European women has experienced violence.

Liudas Mažylis

• The 1989 United Nations Convention prohibiting the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries.
• Russia's shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea includes more than 1,100 aging ships operating outside international regulatory
• In Lithuania, a data theft from the Register Centre resulted in the copying of more than 600,000 real estate and legal e
• Aliaksandra Pulinovich is a political prisoner sentenced to ten years and three months in a penal colony, accused of ter
• Moldova has already implemented 24 of the 26 reform steps required for EU accession.
• Russia's shadow fleet still transports two-thirds of Russia's oil exports.
• Around 130 active conflicts are currently taking place worldwide, generating about 70% of humanitarian needs.
• In recent years, violence against humanitarian workers has reached an unprecedented level.

Loucas Fourlas

• Thousands of people were arrested during recent demonstrations in Iran.
• The European Union recorded a record wildfire season last year, with more than 10 million stremmas (about 1 million hect

Lucia Yar

• In Europe, women are most often harmed, abused, and killed by men they know, such as partners, ex-partners, or family me
• Around 80% of victims of gender‑based violence in the EU still do not report these crimes to the police.
• Almost 75 million people across the EU become victims of crime every year.
• More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon due to the conflict.

Lukas Mandl

• The European Union is experiencing the longest period in its history without a Treaty reform
• The European Union is experiencing the longest period without an accession of new member states
• India is the largest country on earth by population.
• Economic growth in China was twelve times as high as in the European Union since the pandemic.
• Economic growth in the USA was seven times as high as in the European Union since the pandemic.
• The crisis in Sudan is the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth since April 2023
• The World Food Programme assists over 3,300,000 people each month in Sudan
• The World Food Programme distributed USD 12,000,000 in cash in February alone
• The EU Strategic Compass identifies and defines China in three dimensions: as a strategic partner, an economic competito
• 600,000 data records of persons were stolen from Lithuania by Russia in a cyberattack.

Lukas Sieper

• 64% of rental apartments in Germany are owned by small landlords
• The European Union is the biggest market in the world.
• The People's Mojahedin (MEK) carried out massive terrorist attacks against civilians during the 1990s.

Luke Ming Flanagan

• According to the Eurobarometer published this week, both adolescents and parents identified better implementation and en
• Roscommon received €1 billion in Common Agricultural Policy payments since 2014.
• €1 billion in Common Agricultural Policy payments has come to County Roscommon in Ireland since 2014.
• 87% of fishers in Ireland are small-scale fishers.

Lynn Boylan

• Israel has displaced more than 700,000 people in Lebanon, of whom 200,000 are children.
• Ireland is one of the ten Member States that has not yet ratified CETA
• More than USD 100 billion of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor courts
• Dublin is experiencing record-breaking rents.
• 320,000 households in Ireland are in energy arrears.
• 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire.
• In the first half of 2026, there were 88 attacks against Christians and Christian holy sites in Israel and the occupied
• The cost of living in Dublin is increasing.
• Israel has destroyed at least EUR 150 million of EU-funded infrastructure and has not paid back any of it.

Lídia Pereira

• This week Europeans are paying 20 cents more per litre of diesel
• Only one in five citizens in the European Union has a high level of financial literacy.
• China is the main source of EU imports and the third-largest destination for EU exports.
• Around 82% of European start-ups that manage to scale end up moving to the United States in search of financing.

Ľuboš Blaha

• American authorities killed two protesting people in Minneapolis.
• German ancestors murdered tens of millions of Slavs

Ľudovít Ódor

• No company with a valuation over 500 billion dollars was created from scratch in the last 50 years.
• Among the world's 50 largest companies by market capitalisation, only one is European.
• In 2025, Europe had 331 unicorns, compared with almost 2,000 in the United States.
• Since 2008, nearly 30% of European unicorns have relocated their headquarters outside the EU.
• Venture capital investment in Europe amounts to around EUR 30 billion, compared with USD 177 billion in the United State