What Ibán spoke about.

Article 7 TEU aims to ensure that all EU countries respect the common values of the Union, as enshrined in Article 2 TEU, including the rule of law. The European Parliament has always been very active in addressing the challenges related to the rule of law in the EU, in particular by adopting resolutions that initiated the above-mentioned Article 7(1) TEU procedure for both countries. Since then,

Madam President, since 9 February, despite the provisional agreement existing at interinstitutional level, the adoption of the proposal for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive has been repeatedly postponed in the Council. It has been some very specific countries that have prevented a definitive agreement. From Parliament and from my group, the Socialists and Democrats, we launched

Mr President, the Artificial Intelligence Act means the triumph of European democracy in a process that is complex, that has lasted many years, that has to summon many ideological wills and positions. In the end we got it and we got it by being the first in the world. And we get to have a rule that means a lot of good things: to begin with, which means security for citizens, which gives citizens c

Mr President, the rule of law report is, in a way, a diagnosis of how our democracies are doing in terms of the state of health of what is at the core, namely the health of the rule of law. There are elements of this report that are of concern and others that are more positive, such as that there has been follow-up on two thirds of the weaknesses identified in the previous report or that anti-corr

Mr President, the system of protected geographical indications is itself valued at EUR 80 billion today and still has potential room to evolve, to be able to bring even greater added value to our producers and so that there can be an evolution. In that sense, we must value, once again, the value of intellectual property and the importance it has in our market, in our ability to grow and in sustain

Mr President, this is a package that is absolutely necessary. It is one of the cornerstones to boost innovation in Europe, to establish fairer conditions and to have a more open market as well. I would first of all like to thank the rapporteurs for their willingness and work, several rapporteurs who have been looking for a much-needed balance point in a rule like this which, in the end, touches on

Mr President, freedom of expression does not protect the deliberate practice of disinformation. It does not protect the profusion of harmful poisonous contents for vulnerable people and for minors. It does not protect the use of any space for the whipping up of hatred against minorities and against people who are also in situations of vulnerability. After years of lack of control in the social med

– In view of the rapid technological progress we are experiencing, it seems as if everything contained in science fiction books becomes a reality overnight. With Web 4.0, with virtual worlds, exactly the same thing happens. It seems that we are facing a novel by Philip K. Dick, but, in practice, we are facing a reality that is already true. It is true that it is still very focused on the world of

– Mr President, music is a fundamental pillar of our cultural heritage, an expression of our diversity, including linguistic diversity. And, somehow, it is also the repository of a great cultural heritage that is gradually being incorporated also into the musical pieces, which today are the most modern pieces. It is also a sector that has been digitized in an accelerated way, probably the most dig

Mr President, in accordance with Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, for the accession of a third State to a convention, in the field of so-called non-objection mechanisms, the European Commission must submit to the Council a proposal for a decision, which, in turn, it will adopt with Parliament's consent. As a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, I believe tha

Mr President, the ability to analyse reality monochromatically or bichromatically, something that, unfortunately, is slipping into politics in general, politics in all our countries, also here in the European Union, resists understanding the analysis of relations between the European Union and China, precisely because China is big enough to play the same game we play, sometimes with a morality tha

Mr President, it is no coincidence that, when there are possible movements in a regime that has been entrenched and bunkerized for so long, there is a part of that regime, a part of that nucleus that governs a country, that resists those changes. It is true that Barbados has been a beacon of hope. It is true that it has not ended, or at least does not continue in the way that we would have liked,

Mr President, Commissioner, in Europe, as is also evident from the development of our latest pieces of legislation and our latest strategies, we have no oil, we have no rare materials, we have no silicon. What we have fundamentally is creativity and we also have intellectual property and it cannot be understood how in a strategic work plan for 2024 there is not a single reference to intellectual p

Madam President, housing is a basic necessity, as is eating every day or being dressed, but it not only has that significance from the point of view of human need, but also as regards the development of personality and the need to have an autonomous space in which to develop and in which to mature as a person. This is how it is reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in the Funda

Mr President, books are synecdoques of Europe or, at least, of the Europe we want to be, of the Europe we want to build. Through culture we form communities, we form shared collective spaces that transcend in some way our own individuality, we dream of projects of greater transcendence through communities, through spaces greater than those that are in front of our noses or our tribe. They are, the

Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank Mrs Walsmann for all her work - I would also like to thank her for the tangerines from the breaks - because it has not been an especially easy job on some extremes from a technical or political point of view. But I think the document we have today is very satisfactory. The protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products was

Mr. President, I will first make a brief historical replenishment of where we came from. About two years ago – just under two years ago – this Parliament finally, by its own insistence and by the good work of the current Portuguese Presidency, had the ability to unblock a report that stemmed from the public scandal that was generated by the Panama Papers and by the finding that financial engineeri

Mr President, generative artificial intelligence is a great opportunity: It has a great capacity to promote human creativity, to create new content, but above all from the sense of complementarity, not to replace human creativity, but to promote it. In that sense, it also entails challenges such as, for example, how we work with content that can be misleading. And in that sense also, the Artificia

Mr President, the existence of a healthy democracy has as its presupposition the existence, in turn, of a strong critical opinion, of a healthy, free critical opinion. And, for that, it is essential that the public authorities, that the institutions put means to balance the game against those who exercise abusive positions of power, who have enough economic or political means to be able to abusive

Mr President, indeed, we are facing a historic day, but a historical day that does not arise from chance, but from work matured over many years. I recall the text that was adopted here on ethics in artificial intelligence in 2020, of which I was rapporteur, the work of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the great work of the rapporteurs on this same law. Of course, we also need t

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, read the directive. Small and medium-sized enterprises are expressly excluded from their operation. Then, those who have that concern, let them take it away; They can touch and vote on this rule with complete peace of mind. Companies with more than 250 employees are those that are covered by it, not the minor ones. But I wanted to tell you fundamentally about a

Mr President, I was going to make a general reflection on the rule of law in Europe, but I found it and I find it impossible to avoid this coincidence that has occurred on the lectern between the Catalan independence movement and the European People's Party, in this case the Spanish People's Party. They make a very similar analysis of the rule of law in Spain. They have a very similar, very simila

Madam President, the digitalisation of our economies and societies poses many challenges for Europe. The first is, of course, to have a population that is aware of what this change means, that also has its rights protected. And also, of course, that we are able to be at the level that we need to be truly competitive on an international scale. In addition, finally and to summarize these challenges,

Madam President, Spain, as has been said here, does not have a problem with its rule of law. Spain has a problem mainly with the opposition and the type of opposition that is taking place, mainly because there is a party that is the Popular Party, which was one of the pillars of the system – it was a systemic party in the constitutional architecture –, which is behaving like a party that goes madl

Mr President, first of all, I would like to congratulate my colleague Tiemo Wölken on having been as thorough as ever in producing this report. We, the European Parliament, want to improve the entire cycle of European policy development in an open, transparent process that stands the test of time, makes it possible to make informed decisions and is supported by society. We seek to strengthen effec