What Francisco spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, in his monumental and extraordinary book, Fernand Braudel wrote that the Mediterranean is a set of interconnected sea and land routes. The decay, the crises, the evils of this sea are the disruptions of this circulatory system. The circulatory system is now deeply ill. Once marked by the overabundance of life, in the words of Albert Camus, the Mediterranean has become s

Madam President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, today we are clearly faced with two mutually exclusive understandings of international law. One understanding is that the international justice system, with its core at the International Criminal Court, is now an obsolete vestige of the post-war Tunisian order and, as such, must simply be dismantled. The other understanding is that this internationa

Madam President, this is a very important issue, that of children's relationship with the digital world. Children are not miniature adults. They are human beings who are still in the process of mental, biological and cultural development and, as such, the concepts of freedom and responsibility that apply to adults, of course, cannot apply to children, and that is why some prohibitive legislation i

Madam President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Commissioner. Mr Prime Minister, I am not going to talk about Portugal or Portuguese internal issues, because I am talking about Portugal in Portugal. I will talk about Portugal in Europe and the European dimension of Portugal and the repercussions of European policies in Portugal. From my point of view, we are currently experiencing a decisive mo

Madam President, Commissioner, like Hong Kong, Macao has been under one country, two systems, since it returned to Chinese rule in 1999. Unlike Hong Kong, however, China has succeeded in silencing civil society and suppressing dissent. In recent years, no demonstrations have been authorised in Macau. Opposition politicians were deposed. Freedom of speech has been destroyed. This demonstrates well

Mr President, a dictatorship is a dictatorship. Whether it is left-wing or right-wing, it is a dictatorship, and there cannot be the slightest condescension on our part to any kind of dictatorship. There is no doubt that Nicaragua is today one of the most dreadful dictatorships we are confronted with. I am part of a generation that was enchanted in its adolescence by the Sandinista Revolution and

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that there is no doubt, for those who want to make a rigorous analysis of the situation, that the economic collapse that Cuba is facing today is the result of a great political and moral failure that preceded that economic collapse and that is the great political and moral failure of the Cuban revolution. In fact, this revolution that created huge expectati

Mr Oliveira, I would like to begin by answering the second question. I believe that the answer lies in my speech; I expressed the same concern. We have a manufacturing industry that could be harmed if care is not taken to strictly monitor and monitor the implementation of the measures that are now going to be approved. I therefore believe that the European Commission now has a huge responsibility

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's trade opening is one of its major international strengths and an enormous economic advantage. We therefore see with growing concern the resurgence of an ultra-protectionist discourse which may be popular, but which seems to us to be contrary to European interests. However, we do not ignore the need to protect certain strategic sectors. The

Mr President, Mrs Delcy Rodríguez, a double illegitimate president of Venezuela at the moment, has announced the end of the amnesty law. It refers to new legal instruments, which do not yet exist, to resolve the many outstanding cases. Let us be clear: the absolute priority in Venezuela must be an immediate return to democracy. This can only be achieved by holding free elections. Those who are afr

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the law on 'ethnic unity and progress', adopted in March, is nothing more than a legal tool for the forced assimilation of the identity of the various minorities that exist on Chinese territory. Drafted in vague terms, it leaves the field open to all kinds of arbitrariness. It is a typical legislation of a totalitarian project, which sees diversity and plurality

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three years after the beginning of barbarism in Sudan, the international community and the European Union continue to clamorously fail with the population being bombed, raped and deliberately besieged to starve to death. We cannot continue in this graduation of human suffering that leads us to action in some conflicts and to inaction in others, as if there were

Mr President, the situation in Lebanon is too tragic and too complex to be properly analysed by means of simplistic visions and purely dichotomous confrontations. It is unquestionable that Hezbollah is a serious problem, and that the Israeli army obviously has the legitimacy to try to end Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has behind it, as we know, Iran and Iran's project to destroy the State of Israel. Th

Ladies and gentlemen, anti-Semitism is one of the oldest and most tragic moral diseases in Europe. In the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, one of the greatest figures of German Social Democracy, August Bebel, stated the following: Antisemitism is the socialism of fools. We must constantly reflect on this, at a time when a growing majority of Jews claim to have been victims of anti-Sem

Mr President, Commissioner, the European continent experienced in the 20th century the totalitarian phenomenon, in its Nazi and Soviet versions, the Holocaust, the most repugnant manifestation of the persecution of the Jewish people known in history. But it was precisely to react to this that a political project emerged: the European project, based primarily on the promotion of human rights. And t

Mr President, Commissioner, today they are spending exactly 47 years on an Islamic revolution that led, at the time, to the accession of some European intellectual sectors, completely dominated by ideological blindness, which led them to believe in the merits of a revolution that quickly proved to be the origin of one of the most tetric regimes that contemporary times have known. And the cruelty o

Madam President, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and, four years later, published his famous book Democracy in America. And what did he see in America? He saw the most advanced laboratory in modern democracy. He saw in the United States an unprecedented model of balance between individual freedom and representative government, based on a solid institutional structure. It saw a socie