What Leire spoke about.

On the occasion of the anniversary of 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence, socialists are once again leading the way in supporting effective European action to end gender-based violence, which continues unabated. Women's rights are human rights and there is no place or space for violence against women in Europe. Following the ratification of the Istanbul

You have said that you want more European technology and we fully agree. We need a more European AI model. But it's not about having more rules. We have a great Artificial Intelligence Law, pioneer in the world. What we want is for it to be complied with, for it to be applied, for rules to be put in place so that they respond to our ethical, control and transparency values. What we want is to stop

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is about ambition, leadership, how we understand the world and how we want to exercise our power of influence. Thirty-one years ago, the Barcelona Process inaugurated a new way of understanding the relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean: an ambitious commitment to peace, cooperation and prosperity. Then, Javier Solana tal

Madam Vice-President, one of the main problems we have today - as you well know - is access to housing. There is a whole generation that these days has taken to the streets precisely to demand their rights. In my country, in Spain, the government has put a 2% cap on rent updates and protected the most vulnerable against speculators. The question that many citizens in Europe are asking today is wha

Madam President, I want to start by highlighting the commitment of the majority of young Europeans who are demonstrating today in France, in Spain, in Italy, in Belgium, because we have called them an apathetic generation, and yet they are a solidary and courageous generation that takes to the streets in a largely peaceful way to demand a decent future, stable employment, accessible housing, clima

Madam President, Paula was 13 when an adult, ten years her senior, contacted her via social media. He gained her trust, stayed with her, abused her, and then uploaded the images to the network. Of these there are many cases. It is a heartbreaking example that reminds us of the importance of regulating, because the problem is not only at what age you enter, but what they are when they enter, who ca

Mr President, Commissioner, the reasons for this communication and for making humanitarian aid a priority for the European Union are many. This Communication comes at a particularly difficult time - probably the most difficult time we have experienced in recent times - for humanitarian aid. By 2026, 239 million people will need humanitarian assistance, but at the same time, the global humanitarian

Mr President, Commissioner, I confess to you that I am attending this debate with a dose of frustration and helplessness, because we are bringing the debate on Sudan to this House again and again as Sudan bleeds to death and El Obeid becomes a symbol of a tragedy announced again and again. In just three weeks there have been fifteen drone strikes in the city, summary executions, kidnappings, tortu

Madam President, the outbreak originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is not an African matter. It is a global issue and also a European one. Diseases do not stop at borders. An outbreak can start very far from Europe, but it takes exactly as long to get there as it takes for a person to move. At first, we get news, figures, a few hundred cases and the first deaths - we alre

Madam President, in recent days we have experienced temperature records throughout Europe. And I'm afraid this is going to be the coolest summer of the next few years. Heat waves have left thousands of victims and multiplied the fires. Thermal stress threatens more than 130 million workers and the burned area already exceeds 130 000 hectares. In our land, in Castellón, in Soneja, but also repetiti

Madam President, Commissioner, with our support, Europe and Mexico will not only seal a strategic agreement, but a shared way of understanding the world. It is an alliance between two democracies that, against those who use their power to impose their will and their own benefit, defend dialogue, cooperation and clear and agreed rules to build peace, prosperity and collective sustainable developmen

Madam President, Commissioner, as you rightly said on Wednesday 6 May, the World Health Organisation issued an alert for the outbreak of hantavirus on board the cruise ship and called for a rescue and a response. On Sunday, May 10, just four days later, 148 passengers and a large part of the crew members had been disembarked and repatriated to their countries of origin, with a strictly controlled

Mr President, Commissioner, women and women's rights have always been the cause and also the excuse for political dialogues and military presences in Afghanistan. However, on some occasions we have had the feeling that when the Allies decided to leave Afghanistan and the cameras stopped being there, the weight of the women ceased to be so present. And I say that because today the situation of wome

Madam President, Vice-President Kallas, it is not the first time, nor indeed the last time, that we have spoken in this House of the people of Cuba, but I would like us, for the first time, at least for this time, to really have a debate thinking about the people of Cuba and not about other interests, and to defend a coherent and clear position of the European Union based on the values that we saw

Madam President, Commissioner, I want to start by recognising and embracing the victims of railway accidents and their families, because they must always be at the centre of everything. Secondly, I would like to highlight the Spanish railway system, one of the most robust in the world, which will soon reach 90% of the urban and rural population. It is a high-performance service

Madam President, after the presidential elections in Honduras, we must congratulate the winning president and, above all, the people of Honduras for their commitment to democracy. But we also want to recall the importance of ensuring the peaceful resolution of any differences and, above all, the full transparency of the contestation processes opened during a recount in the votes. We must also work

Mr President, Commissioner, intellectual property is crucial for the development and growth of the European Union. It contributes nearly €7 billion to our gross domestic product and generates more than 81 million jobs. But the other side of the coin is the huge losses caused by online piracy; increasing piracy, using increasingly complex, more sophisticated instruments and undermining investment c