What Javi spoke about.

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, today the European Union is going to take an important step towards meeting its climate objectives. A fundamental step. A new regulation for CO2 emissions from cars and vans, which allows us to have the horizon of the year 2035 for our arrival on the Moon in this field: Put an end to combustion cars. In addition, we must remember that it is a fundamental…

18 Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

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Mr President, today the European Parliament wants to show full support for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president-elect of the country of Brazil, after fair and free elections, and to express our utmost solidarity after an unprecedented attack on Brazil's democracy on the main institutions, the main powers of the country. An attack that, in addition, has the same pattern: the pattern o…

17 Jan

2023

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“The Road to 2023” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, from here, from the European Parliament, we welcome the roadmap for 2023 of the High Representative, as the expression of the will and the need to strengthen and bet on our strategic relations with Latin America, because we share values, because we have enormous complementarity and because we also need ourselves to protect our autonomy in the world and address the gr…

17 Jan

2023

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EU response to the protests and executions in Iran (debate)

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Madam President, Iran's human rights record is egregious and bleak. We know that there has always been a systematic violation of fundamental rights in the country: absence of freedoms, persecution of minorities, systematic use of arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial executions... But now, more than ever, we want to raise our voices in the face of the Iranian regime's brutal response to the…

17 Jan

2023

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New developments in allegations of corruption and foreign interference, including those related to Morocco, and the need to increase transparency, integrity and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, in view of the regrettable and very serious case of corruption that came to light at the end of the year and for which we have more information today, it is time for us to demand a response with the utmost forcefulness and determination from the European Parliament, from this institution, because it is the only way to restore the credibility of this House, of this Ho…

13 Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

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Mr President, we are making a resolution here today, in the European Parliament, because we are concerned about and occupied by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. We are concerned that tension has increased in recent years and that violence is being experienced by both sides. At the same time, we believe that, after five years without a resolution by the European Parliament on the conflict…

12 Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, we all wondered after COP 27 whether it was a good COP or a bad COP. It was probably a difficult COP, and you know it better than anyone. All these types of encounters end with a bittersweet taste. There are shadows, which we have mentioned: the difficulty in maintaining mitigation objectives and ambitions; the gap that continues to exist between scie…

23 Nov

2022

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Human rights situation in Egypt (debate)

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Mr President, now that the COP27, held in Egypt, in Sharm el-Sheikh, has come to an end, but that the nightmare experienced by human rights activists and defenders, journalists and civil society has not ended in the country, it is a good time to talk about it, to shed light on the more than 60 000 political prisoners in the country: women and men who are arbitrarily imprisoned and do not have acce…

19 Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, many conservatives and some liberals have decided that to achieve power anything goes, covering up their bad results in the elections; Everything goes, even agreeing with the extreme right. We have seen it now in Sweden, where the traditional right has reached the government thanks to a party with neo-Nazi roots. We are also seeing it in Italy, where Berlusconi's traditional right ha…

18 Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the international community is meeting again to address climate change. We do it at COP27, in Egypt, and we do it when there continues to be a great crack, a great gap, a great distance between our rhetorical aspirations and the actions, the facts that we undertake. In fact, in addition, this happens when we are about to reach the point of no return. Meanwhile, extreme …

14 Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

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Madam President, Commissioner, today we are talking about the latest episode in the politics of terror that Nicaragua unfortunately lives as a result of the dictatorship that both Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have ended up establishing. After having systematically imprisoned all presidential candidates, persecuted any voice of dissent, journalists, human rights defenders, student leaders ... …

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the European energy market is broken. Simply put, the goals for which it was created today are not being met in terms of accessibility, by price to its consumers, and positive economic incentives and disincentives. Strong intervention on the part of the public authorities and Europe is necessary if we do not want inflation and the price of energy to end up destroying…

6 Jul

2022

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The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

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Madam President, today in this Parliament, we solemnly want to condemn the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in the Amazon with all our force and force. But we also want to do it next to the analysis of what is happening in Brazil and the rhetoric of the current President Bolsonaro. Its aggressive and intimidating rhetoric towards rationalized people, environmental defenders, human rights …

5 Jul

2022

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The EU and the defence of multilateralism (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that in today's debate the unwavering commitment of this House to continue to fight for the multilateral method, a way of organising international relations, has become clear. Some things have also been made clear. One of them is what the war in Ukraine means for the multilateral method; that a nuclear force invades a third country by lifting the right of conq…

5 Jul

2022

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The EU and the defence of multilateralism (debate)

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Madam President, today we are debating the report, on which we have been working in the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the past year, on the European Union and the necessary defence of multilateralism. A last year in which, especially, the shadow rapporteurs have been contributing decisively to a good report. I would like to thank all of them for their contributions, which have made us have a us…

7 Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, first of all, the truth is that it is worth saying that this is a process that comes from below; whereas today we have this huge package to discuss because over the last few years, if not the last few decades, science has been warning us where we were going; and that the youngest and the mobilizations all over the planet were telling us on the streets that it was necessary to start t…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, today the European Parliament is launching the Objective 55 package, our roadmap for decarbonisation. We hope that the measures we are promoting, and are debating today, will make it possible to transform our maritime transport and aviation sector using the emissions trading system. For this, the European Parliament demands to take into account carbon leakage, whic…

6 Jun

2022

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The EEAS’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap (debate)

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Mr President, today climate change is not only a gigantic environmental problem, it is also one of the greatest threats to our global security because it acts as a threat multiplier and because it has enormous implications in terms of security because there are four factors behind it that aggravate it: one, delve deeper into poverty; two, it will multiply forced displacement; Three, it's going to …

3 May

2022

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the war in Ukraine is yet another example of how cyber-attacks have become elements of the battlefield. And, unfortunately, they will be part of the landscape of international tensions for years to come. That is why, with good judgment, the Strategic Compass explains how cybersecurity and cyberattacks are one of the main threats facing Europe. A threat to their prosperi…

6 Apr

2022

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The situation of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Guatemala

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Mr President, today the European Parliament wishes to express its deep concern about the situation in Guatemala: Since 2019, when it was decided to unilaterally liquidate the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, the country has been constantly dismantling its rule of law and obstructing and harassing the work of judges and prosecutors. The truth is that several of…

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, Commissioner, for years Putin has consistently supported, financed and exploited all political movements that could weaken or divide Europe and the West: some share their ideas – ultra-nationalism, homophobia, etc. – others simply believe that they can be exploited and used. We saw it with Trump's victory in the United States, we have seen it with Brexit and we continue to see it …

4 Apr

2022

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Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Timmermans, science at the hands of the United Nations reminds us of how climate change is worsening and accelerating. In fact, last week, just last week, in Antarctica and the Arctic we had 40 and 30 degrees more than would be usual at this time of year. At the same time, in southern Europe - it is not necessary to go further - in the Mediterranean, we have 1.5 deg…

17 Feb

2022

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The recent human rights developments in the Philippines

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Mr President, Commissioners, since Rodrigo Duterte began his term as President of the Philippines, the country has been immersed in massive human rights violations and extrajudicial executions. In fact, the so-called "war on drugs" has led the country to more than 30,000 murders through the practice of drugs. Network Tagging, which, arbitrarily, in the street, or as a result of police raids, has b…

15 Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr High Representative, this year's report on the implementation of the common security and defence policy is a call to action. A call for action, in light of what happened this summer in Afghanistan, what is happening today in Ukraine and the geopolitical consequences that the pandemic is having. A call to action that must become the construction in Europe of our own capacities, our…

14 Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Mr. President, on November 7, a farce with an electoral appearance took place in Nicaragua whose sole objective was to shore up the control of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo over Nicaraguan citizenship. This process can be considered anything but democratic. It has violated all international standards and has developed in a context of great violence and intimidation, with the supp…