What Idoia spoke about.

The main objective of the S&D Group in requesting the debate was to highlight the need for immediate support to the victims of the recent floods that have devastated large areas of Spain – which have particularly severely affected the Valencian Community – and to fight the climate crisis that underlies these natural disasters. This disaster is not an isolated phenomenon, but a clear symptom of the

Mr President, Commissioner, a year ago, the European Commission presented us with a proposal to simplify chemicals, which represented a serious setback for public health. It facilitated the presence of carcinogenic substances in cosmetics, reduced labelling information and reduced safety controls. However, after months of negotiations, the Socialists have managed to improve the text substantially.

(start of out-of-microphone intervention) ... negative consequences for the economy, but above all for British and European citizens. This decision cannot condemn us to live on one another's backs. We share values and share the great challenges of the future. Socialists advocate a much more ambitious and strategic relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom. A relationship that

Mr President, Commissioner, for a moment I am going to ask you to close your eyes and ask yourselves how you would like to grow old. This is the question that so many older people have not had the opportunity to answer because they have simply never been asked. If we do that exercise, surely most of us want to imagine ourselves accompanied, vital, eager to do what we want and, above all, surrounde

Thanks to the efforts of the Social Democrats, we have managed to have in this legislature a commissioner, a commission, a plan and now an Affordable Housing Law, to which the PP has already expressed its opposite position. Do you not think that Europe should plan affordable housing with the whole life cycle in mind, young and old, and above all ban vulture funds, ensure that the elderly can choos

Madam President, Commissioner, the challenges are forcing us to look to the future and the common fisheries policy designed more than a decade ago needs to be updated. The Arrantzales The Basques expect answers from Europe and yet today we have an outdated and underfunded policy. It's not about starting from scratch. The Common Fisheries Policy has promoted more sustainable fisheries, improved sci

Mr President, there are already an estimated 20 000 deaths in Europe this year, half of them among the elderly, and we are still doing nothing. The lack of investments to adapt their homes is not being a priority for this commission. Many nursing homes also fail to meet climate adaptation. In Europe the elderly suffer an ageism that makes them live worse and die sooner. Ask yourselves, ladies and

I wanted to share with you if you consider that what we need, taking into account the regulations that we have in process, is really a greater accompaniment to our companies, a clear definition of theMade in Europe», unique and harmonised, easy to apply and, above all, easy to audit, and, above all, that any definition of origin must be clear, stable and easily verifiable. I also believe that we n

Madam President, Commissioner, imagine buying an e-book and discovering years later that it is no longer accessible because someone has decided to deactivate it. That happens today with many video games, and video games are part of the lives of millions of households in Europe. They generate talent, innovation, jobs and creativity, but they are also artistic creation and European cultural heritage

Mr President, Indonesia is a strategic partner for the European Union and we want to continue building a strong, stable and forward-looking relationship with Indonesia and ASEAN, but precisely because we believe in that relationship, we speak clearly: a strong partnership cannot be based on economic or geopolitical interests alone, it must be based on shared principles. Human rights and the protec

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, 16 billion hours are needed. Those are the hours women spend on unpaid care work around the world. In Europe, 45% of the population provides unpaid care, and the vast majority are women. So, the question is inevitable: If women spend much of our lives caring, why do we still treat care as secondary and invisible? Because without care, our societies, our economy,

Madam President, this first European anti-poverty strategy was necessary and urgent, because behind the figures there are real lives. Today more than 93 million people in Europe are on the poverty line, not to mention the 20 million children who are also poor and that we have more and more working poor. That is why we value measures such as the strengthening of the European Child Guarantee, the fi

President, the European Union is facing unprecedented pressure. Geopolitical instability is joined by climate change and technological disruption, along with great uncertainty. We have seen how Orbán paralyzed us with decisions. We see the Commission's weakness in trying to pressure Netanyahu. We also have serious difficulties in responding to Donald Trump's threats. We therefore need to go beyond

Mr President, Commissioner, steel is a strategic sector for our industrial sovereignty. Global overcapacity and production and unfair competition are putting unbearable pressure on European steel, and also threatening other essential industrial sectors. Europe needs to act with determination. We need more transparency in the global steel market. We need to defend low-emission green steel, as well

Madam President, strategic autonomy is not built on speeches, but on concrete decisions. And the time has come for the European Union to take a step forward. We can no longer talk about security and strategic autonomy while keeping our defence capabilities fragmented and remaining overly dependent on third countries. There will be no Europe, stronger, safer and better equipped to protect its citiz

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, I have worked for this European Semester to ensure convergence, stability and growth, but also social cohesion, which is our European identity. Because Europe cannot be guided by the Competitiveness Compass alone if we want a strong, competitive and secure Europe, we also need a Semester that measures and ensures what makes us better and unique, our real comp

Mr President, we still have a serious pay and pension gap problem. Women are still concentrated in the lowest-valued and lowest-paid sectors and are also the majority in part-time employment. And the result is clear: poverty has a woman's face during working life, but also in old age. Many retired women today live on pensions that do not allow them to live with dignity. Theref

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, I want a Europe that protects, that offers living wages, that guarantees housing and in which children are not condemned to poverty. The new action plan should serve to correct errors and reinforce it. It cannot be a catalogue of good intentions. We need guaranteed rights and sufficient funding to achieve the results. Just this week, the International Monetar