What Diana spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, people do not live on macroeconomic figures; He lives on what he has left after paying the rent, the electricity and the purchase. Energy has risen by 19% in the last year; food, 40% in the last five years, and housing, 60% in the last ten years. Meanwhile, wages grow at a ridiculous rate, making the majority of the population poorer each year. And what does the Comm

Madam President, the case of Félix Navarro and Saylí Navarro is yet another example of the serious deficiencies that exist in Cuba in terms of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms. While we denounce this, we cannot forget that the Cuban population suffers from a very serious shortage of food, medicine and energy, a shortage created mainly by the blockade, with which the United States h

Madam President, on top of your office – in Berlaymont – there is a letter signed by more than 650 local and regional elected representatives from 25 European regions. They ask that the future budget, as well as European policies, not be centralised in the hands of the states. Too often we have seen how this European Union is conceived as a union of states. But let's remember: What are states but

I think it is true that we are talking in broad strokes, but, when we see the figure of thousands of deaths that our colleagues have also exposed, within these figures there is a majority that are of legal age. I think we need to pay more attention to these vulnerable groups – older people and children. We have seen that in Germany there is not a hospital that is air-conditioned, there are no air-

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, (spoke in an unofficial language), so Núria reacted, a pagesa Catalan to see how the flames of the fires that these days affect Catalonia turned the territory into ashes. Extreme weather events such as heat waves or sixth generation fires, which are already part of the summers in southern Europe, are increasingly frequent in the ce

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Union must seek new alliances of all kinds: trade, politics and even surely defence. The old world we knew is dying and the European Union must become a place in the new world that is being born. Partnerships with sister countries such as Mexico are key. They are a geopolitical opportunity of the first order. Here, we all agree; What we may no longer all

Mr President, Commissioner, the rule of law is not a technical debate or an institutional ritual, it is the line between democracy and the abuse of power. It is what protects those who investigate corruption, those who go out to demonstrate, those who defend legitimate and democratic political ideas, those who need an independent judge and those who want to be informed with a free press. That's se

Mr President, Commissioner, the Commission's proposal is not a technical procedure, it is a political decision on what Europe we will build. And this Europe that they propose to us is not the one that we want: cut social funds, cut support for the countryside, and what they call flexibility, we will call abandonment. And there is something even more serious: This proposal distances Europe from its

Madam President, Commissioner, every day we take financial decisions: when we spend, how we save, what we do with our income tax return or which mortgage suits us best. And yet, how many of you remember if you were taught any of this in school? Meanwhile, more and more young people are learning about finance solely on social media. Well, sometimes they learn, thanks to creators who add value, but

Mr President, Commissioner, the figures are terrifying: one in 20 women in the European Union has been raped, and almost 20% have experienced sexual violence. I address the gentlemen of the extreme right, and specifically to Mr Buxadé I say: Don't tell the women in this Parliament to talk to the police to find out who the rapists are. We know perfectly well who they are. Ask, if not, the ladies ne

Madam President, in order to boost competitiveness and overcome the hurdle of unanimity, you are proposing a two-speed Europe and let me draw a parallel between the two speeds: regional trains versus high-speed trains. I explain myself: In Catalonia we have a network of regional trains that use almost half a million people every day. Trains are slow, old and service collapses every time it rains.

Madam President, Commissioner, free and independent media are one of the pillars of democracy. That is why what we are seeing today in Lithuania with its public radio and television is deeply worrying. Because when trying to weaken a public media, we are not only facing an attack on journalism, but a violation of fundamental rights; and because, unfortunately, we know how the democratic backslidin

As I said, we started this legislature by talking all of us in this room about sovereignty: industrial sovereignty, food sovereignty... over all kinds of sovereignty. And a year and a half after this mandate we are already remaking a contract – such as Mercosur’s – where we are selling all these much-needed sovereignties. COVID-19 gave us a great lesson: we need to be much more sovereign; our town

Mr President, today it is clear that the globalisation to which the European Union gave itself was a subcontracting of the pillars of our sovereignty. We outsource our defense to the United States, electricity supply to Russia and production to China. We have paid very dearly for this strategy. It makes us highly vulnerable and dependent. Will we make the same mistake by outsourcing our food sover

Mr President, Commissioner, sexual harassment is neither a throwing weapon nor a resource for partisan combat; It is a structural violence, a manifestation of patriarchy and a drama that crosses the whole society, without distinction of acronyms or territories. Today we are debating serious events in the PSOE and the institutional response. And it should be said with absolute clarity from the begi

Madam President, support for Ukraine is a matter of European security and the defence of international law and there should be no doubt about it. But this war has exposed an uncomfortable reality: The United States is no longer that reliable and predictable partner. This is confirmed by its new national security strategy, where the European Union appears more as a threat than as an ally. This same

Mr President, Commissioner, threats to democracy are no longer a hypothetical warning. It is enough to listen to certain speeches in this Chamber, to see the networks full of Francoist nostalgia or to read that a quarter of young people in the Spanish State prefer, in certain circumstances, an authoritarian regime. That is why we expected this European Shield of Democracy. Welcome back. But a shie

Madam President, we see how the People's Party has just taken off its mask this week. It is breaking with the democratic commitment that we had in this House and decides to collaborate directly with the extreme right to overthrow environmental, social and, also, human rights laws. Laws that, for example, require large corporations to take responsibility for their production chains. In the Greens/E

Mr President, this proposal made to us today by the President seems to be heading in the right direction, but it is still entirely insufficient. For now, we have only one draft – not a formal proposal – which in essence does not change anything. Three key aspects remain intact: the Commission does not renounce centralisation with the 27 national plans, maintains the financial conditionalities for

Madam President, a political project without culture is a political project without a soul. That is why the Audiovisual Media Services Directive is not a matter of technique. It is a column of our cultural model. Can you imagine a Europe where Anatomy of a fall Wouldn't it ever have been done? Or that we didn't find The area of interest o Alcarràs in any catalog? Thanks to this directive, platform

Madam President, today we remember the victims of the devastating damage that affected the Valencià Country on 29 October 2024, their families and all those who still do not receive the reparation that corresponds to them. Tragedy does not deserve institutional delay or indolence and, of course, does not deserve to be held accountable by its head. Because the meteorologists didn't fail. Politics f

Madam President, the European Union has historically played a key role in reducing territorial inequalities. This principle has been fundamental in the construction of Europe and the basis of the close link between the regions and our common political project. Unfortunately, however, the budget proposal for the European Union and the new national plans are going in the opposite direction. The merg