What Laura spoke about.

For socialists, the struggle for poverty eradication is a moral and political priority. The European Commission gives an optimistic assessment of the objectives achieved during this parliamentary term. 90% of the policy initiatives presented in 2019 as part of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan have been achieved. Of the 75 specific measures to which the Commission had committed itse

Madam President, colleagues, welcome to the idea that we must regulate AI. How many times do we hear in this House that regulating AI was against innovation? Also today. How much pressure did we have from big tech saying that the AI Act was against the future and technology? Now the same companies suddenly say to the world, 'Oh, this is too dangerous. We should stop machines and regulate ourselves

Madam President, when you ask a child today who he talks to when he is sad, one in two will tell you with a chatbot, with a machine. And it's not hard to understand why. For many children, artificial intelligence is becoming the perfect confidant, always available, never judges and always gives you the reason. But here's the problem, what looks like companionship becomes slavery, because that list

Mr President, Spain has said enough. People have taken to the streets and do not plan to return until they have a decent home. We are talking about families who spend more than half their salary on rent, young people who cannot emancipate themselves or people like Maricarmen who are evicted at 87. We are facing a housing emergency not only in Spain, but also in Europe, and therefore extraordinary

Mr President, colleagues, today I want to speak to you about Gospić in Croatia, where citizens have been living for far too long next to illegally abandoned and buried waste. Tens of thousands of tonnes of potentially hazardous waste still need to be removed, while additional quantities remain buried at the site. And citizens learn about the scale of this problem not because the system worked, but

Madam President, Mr Vice-President Séjourné, one out of every six euros of our economy goes through public procurement in the form of construction services and jobs. We talk about the buses with which we move, about our children's school canteens or about public hospitals where lives are saved. Therefore, hiring well can not be simply buying at the best price or the highest bidder; It has to be in

(start of off-microphone intervention) ...He cannot look the other way while denouncing what is happening in Gaza. While we call for the application of international law in Ukraine, but do not apply it with the same firmness in Palestine, the world understands a terrible thing: that in Europe not all lives are worth the same. This double standard is destroying our credibility and our dignity. Gaza

Mr President, Europe has already shown that it knows how to regulate technology. Now he has to prove that he also knows how to build it. If in the 20th century sovereignty was defended with tanks and cannons, in the 21st century it is also defended with algorithms, semiconductors or data. Just a few days ago, the US company Palantir, a provider of intelligence and defense technologies, said that p

Madam President, colleagues, by now, we all know that our kids are sad, isolated, having eating disorders, and too many self‑harming and also dying because of social media. We must address the root of the problem – the business model. Why does TikTok in Europe function like an opioid, with endless dopamine loops, while in China it has limits and breaks? Why did Mark Zuckerberg, who knew about the

Mr President, every day, millions of Europeans live in a territory that does not appear on any map: the digital space. But like we did with oceans, no borders does not mean no rules. Europe understood this in time, and we were pioneers. The digital laws that we approved in the previous mandate are not mere bureaucracy. They are our bill of rights of the 21st century. But the digital omnibus presen

Madam President, according to the recent report 'Digital Infancy', one in ten children admits to having suffered cyberbullying and one in three adolescents, digital violence as a couple. When we give 11-year-old boys and girls a mobile phone, are we really aware of the danger behind this screen? I don't think so. We have opened the digital wild west to our children without knowing the consequences

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, selling sex dolls that look like girls is not market freedom, it is an atrocity. What's next? Selling drugs or bombs online? In another debate we will talk about why some men are attracted to sex toys that resemble minors or the exponential increase in the consumption of child pornography, but today we talk about how there are online platforms that make their

Madam President, today we are talking about two Spanish citizens, Javier Marañón Montero and David Rodríguez Ballesta, who have been detained in Equatorial Guinea for months in very worrying circumstances and without formal charges. They are in Black Beach prison in subhuman conditions, without access to relatives or lawyers, and their health situation is extremely delicate, especially in the case

Mr President, thank you Madam Vice-President Virkkunen. This summer, Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen celebrated what they called the greatest new trade deal in history. Today, this promise feels like a mockery more than a reality. Some days after, President Trump put the European digital laws on the table, threatening to impose new tariffs against the countries that dared to regulate the dig

Madam President, Vice-President Séjourné, 30 years after its creation, the single market remains the European Union's greatest force for cohesion and prosperity, but also an unfinished promise. We continue to live with fragmented rules, duplicate procedures and obstacles that prevent our companies, especially SMEs, from growing beyond their national borders. In the digital age, this fragmentation

Mr President, every year more than 200 million Europeans take out package travel. And yet, when something fails - a cancelled flight, a suitcase that never shows up or a pandemic - too many consumers are still left alone in front of the big companies. 60% of complaints about travel incidents are not resolved satisfactorily. That is why this text - for which I congratulate the rapporteur - is a gre

Mr President, when we talk about public procurement, we are talking about millions of contracts and jobs, all paid for by European taxpayers. It involves around 250 000 public authorities and represents 14 % of European GDP. This powerful tool must be used, first, to improve labour rights of European workers; second, to fight the climate emergency; and third, to protect the European industry and e

Mr President, Commissioner, who has not bought a plane ticket in a hurry and not knowing how many extras it included because there was only one seat left at that price or has queued for hours to buy a Bad Bunny ticket at triple the advertised price? Or who hasn't seen the meme of what you buy on AliExpress and what finally comes to you? Timos, dark patterns, addictive designs, today e-commerce – w

Mr President, dear colleagues, what we are witnessing in Mali is deeply worrying. Since the 2020 coup, the country has been trapped in a downward spiral of authoritarianism. The military junta, led by General Assimi Goïta, has not only failed to deliver on repeated promises of democratic elections – it has now taken the alarming step of dissolving all political parties and organisations. This is n

Madam President, in Spain, six out of ten adolescents have been exposed to erotic and pornographic content without looking for it. Networks, video games and messaging channels are amusement parks for adults attracted by minors. And what for our children is a window into the world is also a Pandora's box full of hypersexualized and violent content. Europe must act to eradicate this pandemic. That i

Mr President, with the publication of the new strategy by the Commission, today we are celebrating a step forward towards a stronger, fairer and more connected single market. We share the diagnosis and support Vice President Séjourné's approach to simplifying rules without deregulating, removing internal barriers, recognising titles and digitising procedures to improve our competitiveness. However

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, last week, in Spain, we had a blackout that left the country without electricity, telephone and transport. I was there and I was lucky, but millions of people went offline, walking hours from their workplaces to their homes. And in this emergency situation, companies such as Cabify, Uber or Bolt increased the prices of their services by 300 %. This is a new commerc

Madam President, in Europe we have a problem with the price of food. While the shopping basket accumulates an overall increase of 30%, our farmers receive less and less money for their products. While our primary sector earns less and less income and is stalked by climate change, inflation eats the food of the most vulnerable families. And is that eating well today is becoming a privilege. And no,

Mr President, Europe can – and should – lead the global technology race, taking into account the following priorities: First, we need to reduce fragmentation and our internal barriers and move towards a true single market, by already creating the 28th regime to boost SMEs. start-ups and European unicorns. Secondly, we must bet on a humanistic and autonomous artificial intelligence, with projects s