What Javi spoke about.

6 Feb

2024

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Water crisis and droughts in the EU as a consequence of the global climate crisis and the need for a sustainable, resilient water strategy for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, today various droughts are threatening different parts of Europe. They threaten our way of life, our economy or our agriculture. One of those cases is that of my territory, Catalonia. During the last three years it has rained in a very abnormal way: much less than normal. In fact, since February 80% of the population has been in an emergency situation due to drought. Im…

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, today from the European Parliament we welcome this positive announcement by the European Commission to reduce our emissions in Europe by 90% by 2040. A message that strengthens our global credibility as leaders in climate action and reaffirms our commitment to the Paris Agreement and climate neutrality by 2050. It is important that this be done now that denialist voices…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the world is powerless in the face of a massive humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. A tragedy that cannot be justified by the heinous attacks committed by Hamas on 7 October and which this Parliament has already strongly condemned. Today we are witnessing Israel's indiscriminate bombing of civilians, attacks on hospitals and critical infrastructure, severe famine, …

14 Dec

2023

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Mr President, COP 28 will enable the world to take a step in the right direction in what is the greatest challenge for humanity in this century: global warming. It has shown that climate multilateralism works, with a space for dialogue and rules to face common objectives and common challenges, and I want to say that, in a world like the current one, dislocated, with so much competition between gre…

22 Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, today the conservative forces in this House have decided to bring a debate here to tarnish the good name of one of Europe's most established democracies and to instrumentalise the European institutions. And the reason is the inability to assume the result of the polls in the last elections in Spain, on July 23. Spain voted and a parliamentary majority has given continui…

20 Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the world is once again holding a Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, this time in Dubai, in a world full of geopolitical tensions and confrontations, and where multilateralism operates in the climate as one of its last springs, of its last dimensions. It is a meeting that will serve us to take stock, especially the…

19 Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (RC-B9-0436/2023, B9-0436/2023, B9-0438/2023, B9-0442/2023, B9-0444/2023, B9-0445/2023, B9-0447/2023, B9-0448/2023) (vote)

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Madam President, this is a very important vote, so we ask the Bureau to indicate how many Members have stood up to block this oral amendment. The exact number, simply.

18 Oct

2023

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Outcome of the SDGs Summit (18-19 September 2023, New York) – transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030 and beyond (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, today we are discussing the Sustainable Development Goals now that the United Nations is meeting again to discuss them. But it's worth taking stock now that we're halfway there. In 2015 the United Nations and the two hundred countries of the planet made a common roadmap for the challenges we share: peace, security, poverty, inequality or the fight against climate cha…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, Mr High Representative, Europe is going through the most geopolitically turbulent time it has experienced since the end of the Cold War. Competition between great powers, very serious conflicts in our neighbourhood that could escalate, an uncertain political future for the United States, a hostile nuclear force on our borders and a new disruptive political reality – China and its …

13 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (A9-0233/2023 - Javi López) (vote)

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Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank the support and work of the entire public health sector for this dossier, to thank the doctors, nurses, public health professionals, who asked us to take a step forward in favour of higher air quality, cleaner air. And we've done it. By the way, they are the same ones who two and three years ago were risking their lives for us, against the pande…

13 Sep

2023

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Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, I invoke Rule 10 of this House's Rules of Procedure on Members' obligations, after hearing yesterday in the debate on Latin America MEP Hermann Tertsch, from Vox, from the ECR Group, as it literally said: No one killed Allende. Allende was preparing a dictatorship like the Cuban one and that stopped. Freedom of expression does not justify a murder or justify a seventeen-year dicta…

12 Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

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Mr President, Mr High Representative, today we value the EU-CELAC summit, which was held after eight years without summits. Why do I think it has been a success and a first step, a first stone to build a qualitative leap in relations with the region? Not only because we celebrate it, but because of its participation. It should be remembered that 26 heads of state from the 33 in Latin America atten…

12 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to start by thanking you for this final turn and thanking the shadow rapporteurs who have helped to build a majority in the Commission and who are working to get a favourable position tomorrow, all the staff of Parliament and, very especially, Olga from my office, and Laia, whom I also see around here, who have worked very hard to move this fi…

12 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, today we are discussing the important vote that we will have here tomorrow, in the plenary of the European Parliament, for the revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives in favour of cleaner air in Europe. Why is the discussion about air quality important? Today the European Environment Agency ranks air pollution as the greatest environmental threat to human heal…

12 Jul

2023

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The political disqualifications in Venezuela

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Madam President, today in the European Parliament, in an urgent resolution on human rights violations in the world, we deal with political disqualifications in Venezuela, an unconstitutional and arbitrary practice that retains fundamental political rights through administrative decisions for Venezuelan citizens. We have now had one last major disqualification, but in recent years there have been h…

12 Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, during this month we have had, in the records, the three warmest days recorded in the history of humanity so far. It's July 3rd, 4th and 5th. It is proof that climate change, global warming, is already a reality, a reality that has become a quasi-existential threat, not only to our way of life, but also to our economy, to our ecosystems, to our agricu…

13 Jun

2023

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State of EU Cuba PDCA in the light of the recent visit of the High Representative to the island (debate)

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Madam President, today we are discussing the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Cuba, approved in 2017, and of the High Representative's recent visit to the island. To begin with, why does the High Representative travel to Cuba? To implement the foreign policy of a political dialogue agreement that this Parliament approved not many yea…

13 Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Mr President, once again today, this Parliament is once again denouncing the terrible situation in Nicaragua under the repression of the Ortega-Murillo regime. Nicaraguans continue to live under persecution that affects anyone who expresses any kind of dissent or discrepancy with respect to the regime. Democracy has literally been liquidated in the country. The judicial system and the rule of law …

12 Jun

2023

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EU Day for the victims of the global climate crisis (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Vestager, today we are debating the creation of the Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis with one priority objective: Make visible the victims, with names and surnames, that exist today in Europe and around the world. Why? Because large layers of the Earth are going to become inhospitable territory, where life is not going to be possible, which will cause g…

18 Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

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Madam President, there is a clear consensus in this House on this report, especially with support for building rapid response capacity. Some of your interventions have stood out. I believe that necessarily learning has to come out of the battlegroups. To a large extent we want to build this new instrument because the operability of the battlegroups. They've never been activated. They have not been…

18 Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

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Madam President, today in this Parliament we are having an important debate on what will be a key instrument for strengthening our security and defence capabilities: the EU Rapid Deployment Capacity. This is a proposal by the High Representative, Josep Borrell, following the frantic and very problematic evacuation and departure from Afghanistan during the summer of 2021, which highlighted some sec…

18 Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative, Peru is experiencing a serious institutional political crisis, especially since December 2022, but during the last five years it has not been possible to channel the country's governance. Since 2022, the country has experienced huge demonstrations that have left 60 dead and 1,200 injured. That is why, today, I think it is worth it that, from here, from the Europe…

17 Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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Mr President, during this week we approved some of the most relevant elements of the Fit for 55 legislative package, which should allow us to decarbonise our economy. We turn our promises into action, into transformative agreements that – we stress – have a very important social element. I would like to highlight the extension and strengthening of one of the pillars of our climate policy, which is…

15 Mar

2023

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Strengthening the EU Defence in the context of the war in Ukraine: speeding up production and deliveries to Ukraine of weapons and ammunitions (debate)

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Madam President, the invasion of Ukraine has probably been the most important geostrategic shock to Europe since the end of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But it has also highlighted our defence and security gaps and challenges. A country attacked and an aggressor country. And obviously, Europe seeks peace: a just peace, respecting the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. But to seek…

13 Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, tomorrow the European Parliament will approve several key pieces of the Fit for 55 legislative package, our roadmap for decarbonisation. Among them, we will adopt the Effort Sharing Regulation, a key piece, as we have rightly said, because it will regulate 60% of greenhouse gases and have an impact on European transport, buildings or agriculture. In a…