What Antoni spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot ignore science. Scientists have been sounding all the alarms for far too long. We're in an emergency. Climate change, rising temperatures will worsen and ecosystem degradation will not stop. We need to act now. We are late because nature does not wait. And we must bear in mind that the cost of not acting and not enforcing environmental policies is much

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, from the Committee on Development we want to share the three main points of our opinion for this to the European Commission. First of all, we wanted to underline the decisive role of this Parliament in terms of monitoring the implementation of the Global Gateway, as well as to ensure that projects financed from the resources of this instrument have

Mr President, only a ceasefire in Gaza will prevent the famine to which the Palestinian population of the Strip is now exposed. More innocent dead? And we'll look at it without doing anything? That is why we demand from the Government of Israel a cease-fire, unconditionally and immediately. In the same way that we demand from Hamas, with the same forcefulness, the release of all hostages, also wit

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have a 2006 regulation that theoretically allows the use of compulsory licences so that European pharmaceutical companies, in a situation of health crisis and with the authorisation of their national authorities, can produce and export both within the Union and to third countries, but in practice this is a farce because the procedures are so complex that they

Madam President, Commissioner, the blocking of the Due Diligence Directive by the Council is a disgrace, as it puts at risk human, labour and environmental rights in the Global South, which depend heavily on its approval. Are we aware of the serious consequences of not approving this directive or of contenting ourselves with an extremely diluted version? Should we allow the bad practices of our bi

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is not a question of discussing whether or not it is necessary to enlarge the European Union. Obviously, once the candidate countries meet the established criteria, they must be able to access the European Union, because the Union is not a closed club and must have the doors open to the countries of the Balkans, Ukraine, etc. But this necessary

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if the Union is not a community that protects the freedoms of its citizens, it is nothing. And one of these freedoms, one of the most precious, is the freedom to love whoever we want. Who could be against it? For what reason? The Commission's LGBTQ+ strategy has been an important step forward, but it can be improved. For example, with regard to the fourth pil

Mr President, the Global Gateway strategy aims to provide a credible perspective on China’s new silk routes and to strengthen the EU’s overall influence in the global South. To achieve these policy objectives, Global Gateway needs to be a mechanism that effectively addresses development needs in partner countries. Ten years after its implementation, we need to think about: Do we really align our e

Mr President, Russia seeks to destabilise the Union, indeed. To this end, Putin has sought allies within. And he found them: Not only is Orbán, but so are the far-right parties in various Western European countries. Who has practiced dangerous friendships with the Putin regime? Eurosceptics, those who, from within the Union, fight the project of European integration. But instead, we have heard aga

Madam President, Prime Minister, we are very pleased that the Belgian Presidency places the defence of the rule of law as a top priority. But yesterday it was revealed that the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy, from Dolors Montserrat’s People’s Party, investigated prospectively, without judicial authorisation and outside the law on pro-independence parties, with false accusations from the polic

Madam President, it is positive that the Commission is preparing proposals to increase the Union’s resilience to interference from third countries, but to ignore that the resilience of democracy in the Union starts here at home would be to lie to ourselves. The EU must also do its duty to ensure that our democracy can work. First, it must improve transparency and anti-corruption measures. For as w

Mr President, Mr Weber, the Amnesty Law, when published, will annul, among others, the sentences handed down by the judges of the Spanish Supreme Court against my colleagues in the Catalan Government on the events of 1 October. They were sentenced to between nine and thirteen years in prison. The judges of his country, the judges of Schleswig-Holstein, judged these same facts. And you know what th

Mr President, it is necessary to increase the democratic legitimacy of the Union and for that, this Parliament must have the right of legislative initiative, like all parliaments in the world, and must act as co-legislator on the MFF. It is also essential to reverse the roles of Parliament and the Commission in the election processes of the Commission Presidency in order to strengthen the democrat

Madam President, the NextGenerationEU funds were financed by a joint debt issue and therefore the COVID pandemic has broken the taboos of European banks. It was a big advance, but now comes the time to return this money to the creditors. And we know that there are only three ways to do that. Either we increase national contributions, which we all know generates a debate that easily poisons the rel

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the recent Agenda 2030 summit confirmed what we already knew: No country in the world, no one, is advancing fast enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs. Therefore, it is imperative to accelerate the involvement of the European Union in the SDGs. But what can we do? Funding plays a key role in achieving the SDGs. The Union must lead deci

Mr President, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus and Spain are the Pegasus champions according to the European Parliament report. Can we therefore rely on the Member States to defend citizens' rights? Can we continue to believe that, simply with state regulations, the political freedoms of dissident minorities will be protected? The answer is no. In Spain, Catalan independence activists who are victi

Mr President, there is no doubt about the link between climate change and the droughts we are experiencing. A drought that is a dramatic consequence of this – and requires immediate action – and persists across almost the entire EU. But in southern countries like my own, Catalonia, drought requires more urgent action. The main idea is to give water a second life: no drop can be wasted. This requir

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a trade policy based on a purely mercantilist approach to free trade is incompatible with the Union's strategic autonomy. So, we need to think about our trade policy from a geopolitical perspective. There are two ways to tackle this challenge: recover protectionist logics, which as a Union we cannot afford to support, or distribute our dependencies in a balan

Madam President, Commissioner, we cannot remain impassive in the face of the human tragedy of Azerbaijan's aggression and ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. We know why this happened. On the one hand, Turkey, protector of Azerbaijan, provided it with the necessary armament, but also Russia punished Armenia for its pro-European orientation and its condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine, thus wi

Madam President, we cannot remain unmoved by the interference of the prosecution to alter the outcome of the democratic elections in Guatemala. We've all said it. We all share this position. Prosecutor Curruchiche tried to prevent the Seed Movement from competing in the second round of the elections, has criminally prosecuted the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, has just raided the headquarters of this

Madam President, the future of the Union is inextricably linked to the future of its Member States. In 1978, the Spanish state underwent a crucial political negotiation that allowed the transition from dictatorship to democracy and paved the way for Spain’s accession to the European Union a few years later. At the time, Europe understood that this negotiation that led to the 1978 regime was decisi

Madam President, a few minutes ago, I was able to vote in favour of the Nature Restoration Act. Restoring nature is essential if we do not want to find ourselves in situations like the one we are currently living in: a period of historic drought, which no longer knows North-South borders, because the factors that cause it affect us all. Winters are increasingly warm, dry and mild across the EU, es

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, tax havens are estimated to cause the governments of the world to lose almost $500 billion a year. Yes, a five and eleven zeros. The Pandora Papers remind us that tax evasion is one of the most important problems facing the world today. It undermines the tax bases of the Welfare State in the countries of the North and the resources that are lost due to tax ev

Mr President, we read the IPCC report and we will find that our inconsistency is monumental, every effort made today to combat global warming will be more effective than if it were made tomorrow. The same effort, if made in a year, will have less impact than if it were made now. If we do it in five years, there will be less profit than if we did it in two years. This is how nature works, this is h

Mr President, yes, the Ugandan Parliament has passed a criminal law against the LGBTI community. But the EU dropped the LGBTI community in the negotiations of the post-Cotonou agreement with ACP countries, including Uganda. It did not ensure that the agreement included an explicit commitment to the rights of that community, which is also mine. Given the level of violence and persecution suffered b