What Nacho spoke about.

The agricultural sector needs the EU as much as the EU needs the agricultural sector and sustainable agriculture. Socialists recognise the strategic nature of this sector for the EU and are convinced that maintaining the agricultural fabric and the profitability of farms are necessary conditions for further progress in the transition towards greater sustainability, including in this sector. We wan

On behalf of my group, pursuant to Rule 206, I would like to request the postponement of the vote on this AFET own-initiative report on the Pact for the Mediterranean.

Madam President, we abstained in AFET despite a complete alignment on human rights, protection of our industry and criticism regarding China's relationship with Russia in relation to Ukraine, but we still think that there is a lot of development of the critical and confrontational aspects of the role and less development - just a few scattered mentions - of the aspects of the future relationship,

Madam President, Commissioner, the recent crackdown on LGBT activist organisations in Turkey is part of an official campaign that the Turkish authorities cynically call 'My family is safe'. Always the excuse of families, as if homosexual people do not have fathers, mothers, brothers, children and grandchildren. It is a perversion of language with the sole purpose of attacking a very specific colle

Mr. President, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on. We mentioned it, but let's go to today's issue, which is Israel's responsibility. Commissioner Šuica, you told me on some occasions: Will there be money for reconstruction? There are different items from which to draw money. I believe that creating a mechanism for Gaza gives external visibility to our commitment. I would therefore ask you to re-examine t

Madam President, Nicaragua is experiencing many parallel dramas: the dramas of these hidden prisoners - but fortunately not forgotten in this House - and some of them having died in those prisons; the drama of the boundless cruelty of the dictatorship of the former supposed revolutionaries killing activists; the drama of exile with the best of the country living outside; the drama of not having na

Mr President, in light of relevant recent developments, I would like to propose the following oral amendment to paragraph 40. After the sentence ending in 'International Federation of Air Line Pilots', I would like to propose the following two sentences: 'deplores the interference with military aircraft carrying European officials to a recent meeting of EU defence ministers in Cyprus;' and 'expres

Mr President, I thank all the Members who have spoken, although I will make a distinction: There is a sector of this Parliament that is simply Islamophobic and therefore Turkey is a majority Muslim country and there is nothing to do. They forget that there are 20 million Muslims within the European Union - I do not know what they intend to do with them. Then there are deputies who are impatient: W

Madam President, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs, it has been a pleasure to work with them, and I ask for support for the updates that we will be voting on tomorrow in the report. Democratic standards are at the heart of every accession process, which is why every progress report must also be at the heart of it. Being the rapporteur for Turkey is very frustrating. My colleagues who de

Madam President, Madam High Representative, in politics, saying things as they are has a value and calling things by name is a virtue. Therefore, we must recognize the success of Mrs Kallas in naming apartheid what Israel does to the Palestinians. It's a no-brainer, of course. As much as some ministries are falsely scandalized, many of us would have liked that phrase to be uttered in public, here,

Mr President, Commissioner Mînzatu, under this regime, the Commission wants to sign an agreement on the deportation of immigrants on behalf of or at the request of some Member States, with two immediate effects: recognition de facto to the Taliban of an international legitimacy that they lack and to prevent that political stain and cost from falling on the governments that want to negotiate with t

Mr President, this Parliament is as transparent in what it says as it is in what it is silent. And this Recommendation is no exception. I appreciate the tone that our colleague Kovatchev has managed to create in the group of negotiators and his flexibility in accepting our proposals. However, our amendments show our discomfort with some of these revealing silences. How is it possible that, in a te

Mr President, Commissioner, yesterday we heard a speech that raises many questions. If the world is no longer governed by international law and values must be put on the back burner, why do we insist on those principles and values as the indispensable core of the accession processes? If this ideological world no longer exists, except in our obsolete Treaties, why maintain the fiction that the Unio

Madam President, this is a sad anniversary, but it is a sadness softened by the widespread conviction that we are doing what is morally right. Acting politically with that moral security is important. I want to pay tribute to a whole generation of Ukrainians who have suspended the realization of their dreams in order to have a homeland in which to fulfill them, especially the young people and so m

Madam President, this is a point about the same Rule, Rule 188, on the admissibility of amendments. Our group believes that the President's services have applied this rule in a way that is not fair concerning an amendment tabled by our group and others from the Greens. The title of this urgency is 'Christians in Türkiye'. My group has tabled an amendment that tries to modify a paragraph to include

Madam President, I say to dear Kaja – you and your team, you live here in the Parliament. Sorry for that. In the current landscape of domestic democratic regression and aggressive US foreign policy, the European Union has repeatedly expressed the need for reliable new partners in the world. One mechanism for securing such partnerships is political and trade agreements. But this policy and map cann

Mr President, this is Parliament's annual report on human rights at the political moment of absolute prevalence of the crudest realpolitik and in the midst of a global reversal of the approach to principles and values. Therefore, it is also good to highlight the enormous contribution of this approach to principles and values in realpolitik. The defence of human rights, the rule of law and the prom

Mr. President, I want to thank David and Thijs for the effort, for trying the impossible: a description of European foreign and defence policy at a time of heightened volatility and uncertainty over the past 75 years. As difficult as photographing a Formula 1 car. It is impossible to foresee some updates, David and Thijs, for example, the convenience of not publishing private messages between head

Mr President, I would like to express my solidarity with almost all the Danish colleagues. My recommendation to Mrs Kallas, to the senior officials of the Commission and the Council and to Parliament itself is that the manuals on geopolitics and diplomacy should be forgotten and thrown away. What they will need in the coming months is patience and a basic child psychology manual. Unity will also b

Madam President, there is a new risk surrounding the Gaza conflict: relaxation, the drop in the attention of international public opinion, which is even logical after so many months of tension; But it is a risk that must be avoided, and not abandoned to the idea that there is a peace process underway that – with shocks – will yield results. To begin with – as has been said here – it is not a real