What Jonás spoke about.

In recent months, the situation in the Middle East is putting a strain on energy prices and is being reflected in inflation developments in much of Europe. In the absence of courageous decisions, I fear that we will see significant restrictions on interest rates in the hands of the European Central Bank, complicating in some cases - or creating - complementary problems. We need strong measures in

Madam President, Commissioner, this legislature has focused one of the major debates, at least in the economic field, on the objective of improving the competitiveness of the European economy. In these two years of legislature we have discussed different initiatives to try to simplify, adapt and improve the regulatory frameworks. But we have really been unambitious when it comes to tackling the co

Mr President, Commissioner, the truth is that the time is opportune to have this debate and the need is demanding, because there is no better way to ensure the strategic autonomy of our economy than, without a doubt, to consolidate the single market. We talk about the shadow tariffs that we still suffer: around 40%-60% for trade in goods, more than 100% for trade in services – guarismos estimated

Mr President, good morning, friends. Today we are voting on the first major legislative package proposed by the current Commission on financial matters in this mandate. An agreement was reached in the ECON Committee that is supported by pro-European majority of this House. I am well aware that there is another potential majority which will never be capable of delivering policies in favour of Europ

Mr President, last summer, businessman Chus Mirantes, responsible for the death of five people in the Cerredo (Asturias) mine, in a flagrant act of raising goods allegedly sold Mina Miura to Fernando Martínez – as I say, after the death of five miners. Since then, miners at Mina Miura have not collected a single payroll. The workers have behaved exquisitely responsibly in this time, but with twelv

Mr President, Commissioner, the truth is that today is a day to be reasonably satisfied after an express negotiation that comes to protect the production of steel in Europe, of steel in our continent, with a courageous proposal by the Commission - which I believe must be valued - and with efficient work by this House. However, we still have some unfinished business. First of all, I would like to u

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the Global Retail Investor Outlook it is said that the main force – the main place – where young people – where Generation Z – are informed about financial issues are social networks and on social media platforms we see good communicators – good influencers— They certainly try to recommend to young people how to manage their heritage. But it

Madam President, I believe that today is a time to congratulate ourselves, a time when, after long years of negotiation, we will be able to vote tomorrow on a good agreement that is not a revolution in the framework of bank resolution, but which is certainly a step in the right direction and is a firm step. I would also like to congratulate ourselves as a Parliament on the close work betwe

Madam President, according to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, we Europeans are dealing with shadow tariffs that are around 40-60% of the cost in the goods market and are above 100-110% for the services market. Behind these restrictions on the functioning of the Single Market in Europe is neither the European Green Deal nor the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence D

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, I cannot begin this speech this afternoon here in Strasbourg without taking up the last words of Vice-President Ribera and without thanking the Socialist Group for the work, tenacity and effort to make an important decision; A decision that, in a way, also comes to discuss some of the rumors and threats that came to us from the other side of the Atlantic about t

Madam President, Commissioner, the truth is that one tries to maintain optimism, positive spirit, and sometimes it is not so simple. We have been talking for too many years about the Banking Union, the Capital Markets Union and, in this legislature, that Union of Savings and Investments. And the truth is that we still believe in it. And this report - and I would like to congratulate the rapporteur

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, I believe that the report - and I would like to congratulate Francisco Assis on his good work on it - reflects the effort that the Bank has been making mainly in recent years, since Nadia Calviño has been President, to modernise and accelerate its pace of investment, but I wanted to limit my intervention to two points w

Madam President, Commissioner, it is a pleasure to discuss at this moment the evaluation and implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, which, as has been said previously, has been a key piece to jointly overcome, all Europeans united, the harsh crisis of COVID-19. Perhaps I can add two notes on what has been said: it is important that we spend well, it is important to speed up implem

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would certainly like to thank the rapporteur very much for his work in these months, a few months of discussion and debate in which we have been able to come up with a reasonable text, a text agreed between the pro-European forces that makes an analysis of the situation of the banking union. Now, the positive news I think ends there, because the banki

Madam President, I would like to congratulate MEP Wolters on this report and, of course, the Vice-President. My full support for the decisions on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act and the fines recently adopted by the Commission. It's a good way. I believe that, in terms of competition, I would like to convey two messages to the Commission very quickly: The first is that we know that t

Madam President, first of all, I extend my solidarity, support and affection to the mining family of Asturias and León. Coal mining has been the history of Asturias and has accompanied steel, which has been and continues to be the present and hopefully the future of our region. That is why I would like, secondly, to congratulate the Commission on first of all assuming the need to offer a future to

Madam President, Commissioner, an initial note to try to gain some optimism: The forecast for the European economy is that we will grow by 1% this year. It is little, but the United States faces a fall in activity in this first quarter of the year of more than 2.5%. So we already know what we should not do and we need to focus on what we do know and what the Commission is proposing with this repor

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, I believe that in this debate there are at least three points that I would like to highlight. The first concerns the debate on administrative burdens and simplification. My group is prepared to negotiate the omnibus package and negotiate how we can simplify European rules. But I believe that the real problem of administrative costs, which is none other than nationa

Mr President, Commissioner, Madam President, it is a pleasure to have you here and to take advantage of this debate that we have every year not only to discuss the details of the report that we are voting on tomorrow, but also to talk about monetary policy and the activity of the European Central Bank. And I believe that, in view of the indicators, the estimates, the data that we know, there is st

Madam President, Commissioner, without a doubt, I think we could all agree on the need for such international standards for the crypto market. That is how I understood the Commission's words, appealing to the need to set these minimum standards. But certainly, looking at what we are seeing on the other side of the Atlantic, I think we should start reconsidering the good intentions and start workin