What Maite spoke about.

10 Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, racism is prohibited in Europe, but it does exist. That's why we're here. And we don't know if states do all they can. We don't think so. Social hatred is directed towards people who are part of vulnerable groups because of their haters and defined mainly by their haters. They take away their individuality and differentiate them by race, language, ethnic ascendant, ideological, whate…

18 Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (debate)

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Mr President, we cannot bring young Matúš and Juraj back to life. His nineteen-year-old killer committed suicide, but before he did, it seemed funny to him not to feel remorse. He had dehumanized his gaze towards the people he murdered by a mixture of prejudice, intolerance and fanaticism. Authorities are investigating the killings as perhaps the first case of lone wolf terrorism in Europe for hom…

17 Oct

2022

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The Rule of Law in Malta, five years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia (debate)

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Mr President, Malta has fallen 31 places in the global press freedom rankings since the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana in 2017. He's risen to 78th out of 180. The murder of the most annoying journalist sought, in reality, the fear and silence of many. And, from the ranking data, we know that things haven't changed substantially. Slow justice is less justice and relative impunity is not justic…

5 Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is now clearer that Putin's second coming to power in 2012 was fraught with toxic and resentful identitarianism. National-populism has worked inside and outside Russia with its disinformation industry (we have said so). In recent decades it has captured and financed conspiratorial ideas and also anti-European political movements and ultra ideolo…

14 Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I bring you a problem and a solution. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union can only be invoked when the rights being infringed are in application of EU law, and not when those situations of infringement occur in so many real-life situations. This, in fact, leads to a systematic and silent lack of protection of citizens in Member States where, for diff…

14 Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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Madam President, the identitarian, populist regimes, whether left or right, seek to accumulate power around the Executive and its leader; Orbán's case is also like this, he has had to control the judiciary, the electoral law, reach the media: Everything he doesn't control wants to suffocate him. The fundamental issue from the European point of view is that it has the political will for us to have …

6 Jul

2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

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Madam President, it has become very clear: Today the proxies are silent, they are looking the other way, but nothing related to Putin's Russia of recent years is foreign to the current invasion of Ukraine. The vast majority of those who have played within Putin's strategy to weaken Europe and to weaken the liberal rule of law - whether left, right or secessionism, as in the case of Catalonia - all…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr. President, two metaphors for today: a positive and a negative. The trains of Council representatives have been delayed, and the fact is that the Council has lost trains for years: trains to solve problems more effectively and faster. The positive part and metaphor today is that you have arrived on time and this is the important thing: has arrived on time. Beyond the ideological biases of each,…

8 Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

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Mr President, first of all, thank you very much to Mr Rangel for the wonderful work he has done. We are talking here again and again about the Conference on the Future of Europe and that citizens quite naturally call for legislative initiative for the European Parliament. Is it on a whim? No. It's because they don't live in a bubble; This is because they want quick solutions to real problems and t…

18 May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

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Madam President, I just listened to Mr Lacapelle, I listened to Mr Lebreton... Let's see: Invoking sovereignty or invoking parliamentary majorities does not serve to justify the commission of crimes or to circumvent the rule of law or not to follow the courts according to the corresponding hierarchy. Let's start there: not in the European Union. On matters outside the European Union, I am not goin…

3 May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have attended all the meetings of the Conference on the Future of Europe and this, like you, has allowed me to listen, as never before, to citizens who were transforming, committing themselves to thinking about the common policy. A path has been opened that will not be closed thanks to new technologies. And this new form of citizen participation has come to…

6 Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are not at war, but we are not at peace. The invasion of Ukraine has painfully served us to understand how much Putin's totalitarian strategy affects us. It serves to complete a puzzle of which the destabilisation of the European Union through hybrid threats and industrial disinformation is part. Putin's agents have worked to blow up the European Union, al…

9 Mar

2022

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EU Citizenship Report 2020 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we are all very concerned these days. I would therefore particularly like to thank my colleague Yana Toom for the great work he has done together with the shadow rapporteurs for this report. This report is very important, even if it is a very late hour of debate. Three years ago, I myself had to assess the implementation of European citizenship; That's why I know how im…

8 Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Mrs Klinkert, Mrs Kalniete, ladies and gentlemen, the bombs we see falling in Ukraine today have been in preparation for a long time. The excuse for the control of the Dombás is preceded by years of disinformation war, with the clear objective of destabilizing Western democracies and anyone who wants to approach them. Foreign interference, notably Russian, together w…

7 Mar

2022

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Role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, educating the gaze, cultivating the gaze, humanising the gaze is the key, from childhood, to seeing every human being as valuable and dignified. The resolution calls for addressing the basis of prejudice and hostility, which generates social hostilities of the kind of racism and xenophobia and discrimination. I will tell you a personal experience: for the last two an…

7 Mar

2022

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Citizenship and residence by investment schemes (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are in a great hurry because we do not want to leave gates for Russian or Belarusian oligarchs. But we have been pointing out for years, as Mrs In ’t Veld has done, as Mr Casa has done, as we have done so many times, that there are a dozen countries that offer residence by investment schemes and even directly facilitate citizenship, as in …

16 Feb

2022

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

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Mr. President, I'm not young. Yeah, it's in plain sight. That the European Union has helped countries and many people progress for decades is a reality. That those of us who are no longer young believe we know everything that is convenient for young people, that happens in every generation. Now, the technological transformation is so profound, the geopolitical challenges are so serious or our poli…

23 Nov

2021

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Condemning police violence against Romani people in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg handed down a judgment in April this year in a case of the use of force by the police against three Roma children in a police vehicle while they were being transferred to a police station in 2009 in Košice, Slovakia. Endless procedures for twelve years to prove the victims right. The system wasn't with these people. In…

19 Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

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Mr President, Mrs President von der Leyen, Prime Minister, the victory of the PiS came under the promise of reforms in the name of independence, but the reality is different: the reform of the Polish judicial system with arbitrariness and discrimination of judges, including the review of the Constitutional Court, led to the rule of law procedure initiated by the European Commission in 2016. The Po…

5 Oct

2021

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Disinformation and the role of social platforms (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Breton, the chairman of the committee dealing with disinformation raised the question - I think quite correctly - and he ended up quoting a German poet. I was coming here, towards the plenary, thinking rather that this is the third time that I am going to cry out in this Parliament this week against disinformation. And I have remembered Cato the Elder, that of "Carthago delenda…

5 Oct

2021

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State of EU cyber defence capabilities (debate)

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Madam President, malicious cyber operations against the European Union and its Member States are the result of the opportunities offered by digital transformation. Attacks against our societies are transforming, increasing, and it is time to tackle our technological and legal vulnerabilities, also in the international structures of which we are part with our allies, but not only with them. These a…

4 Oct

2021

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Artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters (debate)

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Mr President, thank you, Commissioner Johansson. Parliament’s consideration of the application of artificial intelligence in criminal law and criminal matters was necessary, even if it was a sensitive matter. We need to strike a balance between security and freedom when social or technological circumstances change, and the fact is that they have changed. There are no magic solutions to complex iss…

15 Sep

2021

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Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, I would first like to congratulate you on your strength and conviction at this hour of the night. To date, the COVID pandemic has caused more than 750 000 deaths in the EU and has tested every gear, every piece of social gear and public policy, amplifying the crises, threats, challenges of our time. All of us who have passed through here - talking to him, asking …

15 Sep

2021

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The Pegasus spyware scandal (debate)

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Madam President, there are technologies that can be born as software aimed at fighting terrorism and crime and that can become malware, can cause abuse. Its creators said that the limit of its sale would be that of governments that guarantee that the ultimate purpose of this technology and its use would be legitimized according to the law in force in each of the territories. And it is serious, bec…

6 Jul

2021

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Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Borrell, in any case, you cannot turn into a black swan. Since 2018, European measures in the cyber domain represent a joint diplomatic response to malicious activities in cyberspace. However, there is no allocation of responsibility to any of the countries of nationality of the cyber attackers. Even in the proven cases of Chinese, North Korean and Russian…