I see that you have some welcome among some Members of this Parliament. I certainly do not share your view. Look, I think we have to take our mask off at once and stand up for freedoms, equality between men and women and, as far as funding is concerned, let us know where it comes from and for what purposes it is used. I say that we must guarantee that freedom is used for good and not to attack dem
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The need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, the nature of Islam is to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet. These words are not mine, they are from Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and the greatest exponent of radical Islamism infiltrated into European societies. We Europeans know what there is, we know what the Islamists
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we Spaniards have been suffering for eight years from the most corrupt government in the entire European Union; eight years of democratic deterioration and institutional demolition orchestrated by the Socialist Party and executed from Moncloa. Influence trafficking, commissions, rigged contracts, illegal financing, hookers plugged into public companies, milliona
Mr President, Commissioner, when we talk about preparing our European defence, we think of anti-missile batteries, tanks and even state-of-the-art fighters. But sometimes the reality is much simpler. On July 30, 80,000 people invaded European territory from Morocco, because the city of Ceuta was not prepared to resist the attack. There were no personnel, no teams and no means to stop an attack unp
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Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate)
Mr President, High Representative, in 2021, Europe's enemies launched 8 000 people from Belarus against the borders of Poland, Finland and the Baltic countries. The countries of the East have been resisting for decades the pressure that Putin and his allies exert on them with all kinds of attacks and provocations. On July 30, the European Union understood that it has a new open front: the south fl
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The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, imagine for a moment that in less than twenty-four hours, twelve million immigrants storm the borders of France and occupy Paris, that four million take Berlin in a single day or three million take Rome. Well, that – in proportion – is what has happened in Ceuta, a city of 80 000 inhabitants assaulted by 80 000 immigrants, of which – after a month and a half – a
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Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (debate)
Madam President, today we are taking a very important step with the European Shield of Democracy to combat disinformation, respond to foreign interference and protect ourselves against hybrid attacks, tools that would have been very useful in my country, in Ceuta, when about 80 000 people stormed the border in just one hour. But tools are of little use if there is no political will to use them. Th
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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)
Madam President, "there are nights when my partner and I are alone against fifteen drug dealers". Unfortunately, it's not the beginning of a Colombian Netflix series: This is the testimony of a Spanish civil guard, denouncing the helplessness with which our agents are forced to fight the narco. A defenselessness that has a very high human cost. In the last two years, four agents have been killed i
Madam President, Commissioner, we Europeans and Mexicans know well that our prosperity is greater when it is shared and, in a world where trust is scarce and the list of reliable partners is getting shorter, Mexico reaffirms itself with this Agreement as a strategic trade ally for Spain and for Europe. This agreement will open up new opportunities for our exporters and businesses and encourage man
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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)
Mr. President, "The Coming Storm," Churchill called the first volume of his memoirs on World War II. In 1939, the storm looming over Europe was metaphorical. In the year 2026, this storm is very concrete and comes in the form of Russian drones. In just one year, Russia has violated the airspace of a dozen European countries with impunity, from French submarine bases in the Atlantic to Estonian pow
Mr President, Commissioner, European businesses and families are going through a time of extreme volatility: the price of gas and oil is skyrocketing, the stock markets are shifting from green to red every day and inflation is having a major impact on the shopping basket. Faced with this uncertainty, we must bring stability to our trade relations and, to do so, we must keep a cool
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Rail transport safety in the EU – lessons learnt from the Adamuz accident and three years after the Tempi tragedy (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, today I can only begin by recalling the victims of the accident, the forty-six who died, the more than one hundred and fifty injured, and their families, and also by recalling with great pride the people of Adamuz, who in the toughest hours showed more humanity, more efficiency and more dignity than the entire Government of Spain, a Government that has replace
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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)
Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)
Mr President, Madam Vice-President, as early as 1903 the New York Times He claimed that flying machines were unnecessary inventions and predicted that it would take between one and ten million years to become a reality. Just two months later, the Wright brothers successfully made the first flight in history. A few years later, the airstrike on Pearl Harbor made it clear that these flying machines
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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, we Europeans have taken the challenge of defence seriously, a seriousness that is reflected in an unprecedented budgetary commitment: EUR 800 billion of investment. But investing is not enough: we must do so in a much more efficient and coordinated way, avoiding duplication. At present, the armed forces of the members of the European Union have invested in more than
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EU response to the continuous airspace violations and sabotage of critical infrastructure in the EU originating from Russia and Belarus (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, Europe's response to growing trade frictions with China must be threefold: dialogue, defend and diversify. First, dialogue. Because our prosperity, like China's, depends on trade, and we are simply doomed to understand each other. That is why we must avoid escalations of tension that are mutually damaging. In this regard, we welcome Beijing's decision to lift controls o
Mr President, Commissioner, information manipulation effectively undermines trust in our institutions and weakens democracy. We take good note of the recommendations in your report, but also of those you have made here today in this rostrum. But in Spain, unfortunately, much of the information manipulation emanates from the government itself. In recent months, President Sanchez has embarked on a v
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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)
Madam President, the creation of this European Defence Industry Programme is good news for Europe, an important step in strengthening and modernising our armed forces. But if we truly aspire to have an effective deterrent capacity and, ultimately, a credible defence, we must significantly raise our level of ambition. Russia, of course, is doing it. All the data suggest that Putin is preparing for