A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)
On trade, this is the most worrying issue for the EU and multilateral institutions: the effects on the economy and on the world political and economic order of the political and, in this case, commercial lines of the new US Administration. Unity is the concept that stands out above others. The President of the United States must not succeed in dividing the members of the EU and despising its insti
Mr President, do we need global governance of artificial intelligence? Of course, of course we need it, it is a challenge that demands the best of the actions of governments and the entities that govern us. But is it possible today? It is very complicated to see that, for example, the United States has a president who does not want to participate in international forums or who even despises them.
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Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)
Mrs Solis, bearing in mind that I agree with many of your postulates, I wanted to ask you some very specific questions: How many nuclear power plants have closed in Spain from 2018 to today? And how many between 2010 and 2018? Because they are different governments. Secondly, our country needs hydrogen – green hydrogen – to decarbonise, for example, industry in Asturias. Do you think we should go
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Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)
Well, indeed, geothermal energy is a renewable energy and, if we manage to advance it, it can be very efficient. I too call on the Commission to have an action plan. I would like to mention that, for example, in my country, in the Canary Islands, geothermal surveys have recently been launched to produce affordable and renewable energy on an island – which is volcanic but does not have a large terr
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Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)
Madam President, how much more evidence do climate deniers or Trump's vassals need? We pay double for our fossil dependence: with thousands of lives lost to climate change and with continuing crises shattering our economy and competitiveness. Europe needs an ambitious trajectory with a binding 2040 renewables target, accompanied by energy efficiency and electrification targets. Investors in green
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Urgent need for a tax on super-profits of polluters: protecting people’s health and lowering energy bills in times of the climate crisis (topical debate)
Mr President, the current fossil price crisis has not fallen from the sky. Look, this is the sequence: Trump and Netanyahu provoke an illegal war in Iraq that was going to last two weeks and we are going for eight months, the extreme right and the right support this war and what we have is high prices of gasoline, diesel and electricity. At the same time, there is a robbery of European pockets – w
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Protecting patients from illegal and falsified medicines sold online: strengthening enforcement and cross-border cooperation (debate)
Mr President, as you know, Commissioner, (the speaker is in an unofficial language). It is true that the Common Fisheries Policy has made it possible to improve the sustainability of European catches. But now it is important to ensure the sustainability of fishing communities, because that is what is at risk. Let's admit it: the evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy notes the destruction of 30
Firstly, geothermal energy must be part of this electrification strategy, but it must also have its own section. An action plan for geothermal energy would seem quite right to me. And I say more: an action plan for geothermal energy that also supports the development and innovation of drilling and exploration systems to make geothermal energy less risky and more financially affordable. I believe t
Madam President, in Galicia, my land, a new plant of electric vehicles is projected while the one we already have is electrified. And yet, here in this Parliament, we see the right and the far right coming together against that electrification to delay it. That is, they unite against the interests of my land, Spain and Europe. Another example: we are seeing how some intend to power new data center
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European solidarity: key to securing medicine access in a shifting geopolitical era (debate)
Mr President, in Europe we have opted for cooperation and universal access to medicines. We know what our model is and we have made it efficient. What we cannot tolerate is decisions being made today about our own health in the White House. It is true: Trump's tariffs on our medicines also affect Americans, but we must defend our model, and health can never be a currency of geopolitical change. We
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The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins (debate)
Mr President, it does not seem easy to organise maritime space, but the directive promised to balance interests and ensure fair management of Europe's seas and oceans. But more than a decade later, Commissioner, that promise has not been fulfilled and the directive favoured those who already had a voice at the expense of fishermen and coastal communities. Small-scale fishing has decreased, regiona
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Cali fund – follow up from the COP16 UN Convention on Biodiversity (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, the COP16 agreement on the Cali Fund was presented as a historic breakthrough and it is: This is an important step towards strengthening the principle of fair benefit-sharing and ensuring that those who benefit from the use of biodiversity also contribute to its protection. But today we must ask ourselves a simple question. Is it working? The answer for now is uncomf
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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)
Mr. President, this is a fossil fuel crisis caused by Trump and Netanyahu. And I wonder: Why is the EPP repeatedly denying that this is a fossil fuel crisis, that we have to abandon them? Why is he avoiding talking about Trump and Netanyahu, if Chancellor Merz himself has said that the United States is being humiliated by Iran for having no plans for this war? Why does the EPP not call things by n
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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)
Mr President, Europe faces colossal challenges and what is the Commission's priority? Facing the challenges of our time on a scary budget? Undermining the European social model through deep cuts to cohesion, fisheries or the environment? No, that's not Europe's way. When our world burns because of dictators, autocrats or aspirants, Europe's response cannot be that of a surrender embodied in a budg
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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)
Mr President, we are all concerned about high energy prices. I see two certainties: the first is that an illegal war, which some here support, is affecting our economies; the second is, how curious, that it is the same people who support the war who create the problem and push to continue consuming expensive, volatile and harmful fossils. Let's show the whole of Europe who populists r
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European response to the attacks on the Ukrainian energy system causing a humanitarian crisis (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe must wake up. Trump knocks on our door to tell us that the blame for the exorbitant prices of medicines in the United States lies with the Europeans and that we must pay for it. And that's not true. The reality is different. The countries of the European Union have a social, functional State that negotiates the prices of medicines effectively in favor of
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Development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (debate)
Mr President, competitiveness goes hand in hand with decarbonisation, that is clear. That is why we need sustainable aviation fuels, which also offer an industrial opportunity for Europe. If we don't support those who invest, others will occupy that space. Two more notes. First, it seems that now in third countries are miraculously fried tons and tons of chips but - oh, oh, miracle! - without pota
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Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities
Madam President, breast cancer is not pink. It's a brown for women who suffer from it. When we did the report of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer, we saw that there were inequalities in screening. across Europe. And we set ourselves a goal: reach 90% early detection of breast cancer. Because it saves lives, it increases survival four times in an early diagnosis. And that is what has been st