What Sandra spoke about.

The trial of Dominique Pelicot – and 50 other men – for drugging his wife to rape her for almost ten years, in the middle of the 21st century in the heart of Europe, shows how widespread the rape culture is. Socialists lead the support for effective European action to end gender-based violence, as we did in Spain with that Law against gender-based violence that turns 20 this 2024. 25 November is t

Mr President, in this budget we also decide what role we want Europe to play in the world and, if we want our voice to have weight, we need the means to be able to defend our positions. That is why the Socialists have defended recovering 14 million euros from the European External Action Service. Behind them are our delegations, the security of their personnel and our diplomatic capacity. And we w

Madam President, let me stress that today's debate goes beyond climate policy. It is also about how we finance the future of the European Union, since precisely the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is one of the candidates to be part of the basket of own resources since 2020, so that, among other things, it contributes precisely to the debt financing of the NextGenerationEU. Despite the need for

Madam President, the position taken by the European Council on the Multiannual Financial Framework is simply disappointing. While Europe faces huge challenges such as the climate transition, competitiveness, digital sovereignty or access to housing, the Council's response has been to cut the budget; i.e. a smaller and unresponsive Europe. We can't do more with less. We cannot talk about strategic

Mr President, as a Valencian, I have to start by regretting the fire that we have suffered in Soneja, in Castellón, which has razed more than 183 hectares and, fortunately, there have been no victims, but we cannot ignore what this fire tells us. Droughts and heat waves lead us to consequences of climate change that are not a threat for the future: have consequences in the present, of pain and suf

Mr President, I would like to begin by congratulating our colleague Bernd Lange on his firmness throughout this process. Turnberry's deal was never the deal we wanted: It is unbalanced and born out of an illegal tariff policy by the Trump administration that despises not only international standards, but also its historic alliance with Europe. However, a trade war with the United States benefits n

Madam President, first of all, allow me to highlight citizens' initiatives: a real tool of citizen participation that allows us not only to listen to Europeans, but also to have the capacity to propose debates and initiatives like this. An initiative that has obtained more than one million signatures and that, therefore, shows us that there is a real concern about rights in the digital economy. In

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are not talking about how we balance the MFF accounts with new own resources. I believe that we are doing so today in compliance with the fact that own resources must accept and comply with the principles of social justice and European sovereignty. And the European Parliament's proposal to include online gambling as an own resource goes in that right directi

Mr. President... (Speaking in an unofficial language of the European Union). Because we are experiencing an educational emergency. Thousands of students study in overcrowded classrooms, without air conditioning, withstanding temperatures of more than 40 degrees or worse, in barracks, in the case of students affected by the damage. And, meanwhile, teachers are required to sustain alone an increasin

Madam President, this report addresses a fundamental issue for the credibility of the Union: it is not enough to adopt legislation, but we have to ensure that the law is applied effectively, transparently and uniformly in the Member States. And from the PETI Committee, we wanted to provide precisely that practical perspective based on the direct experience of citizens, since petitions are not a se

Mr President, there is something in this House that most of us share: ambition; the ambition to invest more, to respond to crises, to protect citizens and to make the European Union a stronger Union. But the reality is that there's an uncomfortable question that we keep avoiding, and it's how we pay for it, and that's where the inconsistency starts. The Commission and governments like to demand mo

Mr. President, let's be clear: the Turnberry deal, as signed by Trump and von der Leyen, was deeply unbalanced. And it is even more so in a context in which the United States has acted with disloyalty, threats, pressure ... even against Member States such as mine, Spain. And that's not cooperation between allies, that's coercion. That is why today we are not going to give a blank chec

Madam President, 'homosexuality: we help people explore their identity and correct the causes of their confusion'. This is an advertisement that has been found in various places that should be a place of peace. Homosexuality occurs because men have been seduced by their mother, and by not having sex with her because of the taboo of incest, they focus sexual energy on men. This text has

Madam President, this report should have been an exercise in institutional responsibility to strengthen transparency, ethics and good governance in the European institutions. And we did our part of the work, kept our word and voted on the compromises in the Committee on Petitions. But, as usual in that committee, the EPP Group, instead of sticking to the work done, opened the door to

Mr President, uncertainty is increasing throughout the Union, not only because of wars, but also because of new emerging challenges, such as the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters that we are experiencing, for example, in my homeland, in Valencia. While it is clear that these problems cannot be solved by the annual budget alone, we can ensure that the Union has sufficient reso