What Isabel spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, the budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament. It is the democratic legislative act par excellence. It involves the concrete expression of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems. The draft budget that we are presenting today shows that this Parliament is once again fulfilling this democratic mandate,

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, we in the People's Party are very clear about the priorities for the next EU budget. We must strengthen the security of our borders to ensure the freedom and integrity of our countries, fighting organised crime and illegal immigration. We need to strengthen our competitive capacity to attract investments that generate opportunities and job creation, avoidin

Your question is about the multiannual financial framework. I understand that you are referring to the European Competitiveness Fund. It is a debate that is open and it is not the debate we are having here. I am referring to the importance of attracting investment. One of the most important problems we have in Europe is the mobilisation of private investment, both of savings and of attracting fore

Madam President, Commissioner, according to the International Monetary Fund, Europe's internal barriers amount to a cost similar to a tariff of 44% for goods and 110% for services. A company that wants to grow in Europe faces 27 different legal frameworks to which to add regional disparities within the Member State itself. That means more costs, more time spent on compliance rather than innovating

Mr President, Commissioner, it cannot be that the killing of Christians for religious reasons does not arouse the same indignation that other massacres and persecutions in the world cause us. I give you some facts: According to Open Doors data, 388 million Christians are persecuted in the world and last year there were 4,849 killed. Particularly serious is the case in Nigeria, where 72% of these m

Madam President, Commissioner, the approval of the Next Generation funds resulted in the issuance of 800 billion joint debt. In the final stretch of these funds, it is necessary to analyze what economic impact they have had and whether they have achieved their objectives. However, we do not have information even on the final execution data. In addition, the publications of the European Court of Au

Mr President, Commissioner, from the first day that the next multiannual financial framework was discussed, the European People's Group made its position very clear. A position that we have firmly defended and that today is clearly reflected in the final agreement. We cannot accept the imposition of the failed model of NextGenerationEU funds on the European budget. Nor can we allow the nationalisa

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur for this report, Mrs Pereira, on her excellent work. Financial education is not a technical issue, much less a luxury or a complement: It is an essential competence, it is the basis for citizens to be truly independent, and yet the reality in the European Union is very worrying. Only 18% of European citizens have

Madam President, Commissioner, the agreement we are voting on tomorrow is great news: it is a step forward to strengthen financial stability and improve our framework for managing banking crises. I would therefore like to congratulate the co-legislators on this agreement. As I said, it is a first step, but if we want a stronger, integrated, resilient banking system capable of competin

Mr President, Commissioner, the budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament. It involves the concrete embodiment of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems, and that is what we are doing today, to discuss this Parliament's priorities for the 2027 budget, a budget, incidentally, which is again burdened by the repayment of interest and debt f

Madam President, Commissioner, one of the priorities of a Parliament – the most important one – is to make a budget and to monitor it. We in the European institutions have agreed to link budgets to the rule of law as a guarantee of our democratic system. This conditionality mechanism has been a major step towards the consolidation of the European project as an area of shared values rooted in the m

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Union cannot simply look the other way in the face of the tremendous humanitarian crisis that the people of Sudan are suffering because of the war. I join all the demands that have been made today, especially that of urgently mobilizing humanitarian aid, creating a corridor and, above all, assisting women and children, bearing in mind that women, subject

Mr President, Commissioner, as I have said on several occasions, the adoption of a budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament. I therefore consider the adoption of the budget for the year 2026 to be very good news. It is a good budget that reinforces essential programmes and responds to our priorities. I would therefore like to congratulate the rapporteurs, Mr Halicki an

Mr President, Commissioner, the pressure exerted by this Parliament seems to have begun to take effect, and I really welcome the fact that the Commission accepts that it has to amend its original proposal. It's a good first step, but it's manifestly insufficient. We continue to reject the nationalisation of European policies, the nationalisation of the CAP or cohesion, and we also reject the cuts

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by thanking and highlighting the work of the European Court of Auditors. Its reports and evaluations have been, and continue to be, essential to shed light on the management of European funds by the Commission and the Member States. I will not tire of repeating it: the success of the Next Generation European funds, as well as the other European pro

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, the budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament: is the democratic legislative act par excellence; It involves the embodiment of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems. Unfortunately, repayment of the debt of NextGenerationEU funds is a limitation. Even so, the budget we are voting on tomorrow responds

Mr President, Commissioner, tax complexity and fragmentation between states penalises the productivity, investment and economic growth of European companies. An example: Spain is the second EU country to have increased corporate taxes the most in the last decade, and the result is catastrophic. Spanish companies are on average 9.6% less profitable than European ones, and Spain leads unemployment i

This is precisely what I was saying. I sincerely believe that the main cause of European feminism is to speak up for women, in this case, like those in Afghanistan or many others, which is that they do not even have recognized rights as people. And is it really our concern now to talk about abortion? It's just so sad! What I'm saying is that what's happening in Afghanistan is dramatic. I think it

Mr President, when Afghanistan suffered a terrible earthquake a few weeks ago, we learned that the Taliban regime, an Islamist regime, prioritized rescues of men over women, leaving them literally alive under the rubble. Terrible. This horror that shocks us also provokes a sad reflection because, while in Europe we focus our efforts on debates and mobilizations on the situation of women – a contin

Mr President, Commissioner, today is 7 October and I would like to begin by reminding the victims of the terrible terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas and calling for the immediate release of all hostages. Since that terrible day, according to the figures they give us, anti-Semitism in Europe has increased by 400 %. And the truth is that, in this debate, I have listened with amazement to how immi

Mr President, Commissioner, as you are well aware, this Parliament is a strong supporter of cohesion policy. And it is because it is a successful policy, and as a Spaniard I know very well what I am talking about. We in the Committee on Budgets welcome any reform coming from the Commission to make this pillar of the Union more efficient. We therefore support this necessary simplification of progra