What Javi spoke about.

20 Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, in the face of the climate emergency we cannot compete with each other, we cannot confront each other – in fact, this is that zero-sum logic into which the world has been introduced in many of its dimensions; In the face of the climate emergency we can only do one thing, which is to cooperate: cooperate with each other, cooperate to bring the international community int…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, energy and electricity are basic and necessary goods; in fact, they are indispensable for the well-being of our citizens and for the competitiveness of our companies. And the exorbitant price escalation we are experiencing across Europe is simply unacceptable. It puts at risk the economic recovery and even puts at risk the necessary process of decarbonisation of our …

5 Oct

2021

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State of EU cyber defence capabilities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the world is entering the era of unpeace, of non-peace. Competition between great powers with quasi-subterranean and permanent conflicts, attacks, cyberattacks and hybrid attacks, which try to influence our decision-making processes and make democracy, our decision-making system, a strategic vulnerability in the eyes of the world. For all these reasons, cyber defence…

5 Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, our relations with the United States are a central pillar for our security, for the defence of democracies in the world, for articulating multilateral spaces and for regulating trade and technology. And any relationship, for it to work, must be based on mutual respect, autonomy and trust, mutual trust. And also any relationship, for it to work, has to…

16 Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

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Madam President, first of all, when we talk about Cuba, we must respect the right of the demonstrators to express their opinion and demand that the Cuban authorities listen to their legitimate demands. Human rights must always be respected in all places, including Cuba, and violations must be denounced, if any, as they have been in the absence of respect for the right to protest and demonstrate. S…

14 Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, we know that the planet is on the verge of a point of no return as far as climate change is concerned. The green transition is not only necessary; It's urgent, it's inevitable. The package presented today, here in the European Parliament, the Fit for 55 package, refers to the objectives already agreed by the Union through the Green Deal, legal and…

6 Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Madam President, Mr High Representative, democracy is dying in Nicaragua. The Government of Ortega and Murillo continues to turn a corner on the repression suffered by the Central American country. Over the past few weeks, there have been more than 125 arbitrary arrests: social leaders, businessmen, human rights defenders and up to six presidential candidates. The unacceptable authoritarian drift …