What Jonás spoke about.

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Oct

2024

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Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate)

Mr President, Commission, it is always an honour to speak in this House and especially in debates such as the current one after a term of office. I wanted to thank the Commission as a whole. We have made a very remarkable effort to improve the fairness of tax systems. And, without a doubt, international agreements, such as the one reached within the framework of the OECD to put a minimum tax on la…

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Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is certainly a pity that Commissioner Vestager has not been able to be with us in this debate, although I am obviously very grateful for her presence, because I wanted - and I think all of us here should - to thank her and the Commission as a whole for the work and effort of these years, and especially in this case that has allowed us to put a point and apart in this…

17

Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, we are undoubtedly debating this report at an important moment in which we must decide on the future lines, the lines of work, of this mandate that is beginning. And I would like to highlight two important issues in the report. Firstly, it is important to recognise the problems we continue to have in mind in order to consolidate the single market: We still don't have a capital mar…

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Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2013/36/EU as regards supervisory powers, sanctions, third-country branches, and environmental, social and governance risks - Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards requirements for credit risk, credit valuation adjustment risk, operational risk, market risk and the output floor (joint debate - Banking Union)

Mr President, first of all, I am grateful for this discussion in which we discussed the Basel III Agreement, but we also discussed the evolution of the banking union. I have finished my first speech by saying that we can be reasonably satisfied as a Parliament with the work done in this legislature. But we certainly cannot be complacent, because the challenges are still facing us and because the b…

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Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2013/36/EU as regards supervisory powers, sanctions, third-country branches, and environmental, social and governance risks - Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards requirements for credit risk, credit valuation adjustment risk, operational risk, market risk and the output floor (joint debate - Banking Union)

Mr President, Commissioner, I was going to say Council, but there is no one there anymore; They're gone, sadly. And I think they've done well to leave, or that they've left has an explanation. And the explanation is that this Parliament has managed in recent weeks to finish the mandate by approving important legislative dossiers linked to the progress of the banking union and agreements in which t…

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Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

Mr President, Commission, it is a pleasure to conclude this mandate with this vote and this debate because in this legislature we have experienced – as both Commissioners recalled – difficult times: the pandemic or the start of Putin's war in Ukraine. Both challenges required flexibility from a fiscal point of view and that we take time to allow a response that would sustain activity in these diff…

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Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

Mr President, Commissioners, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, we are debating this Semester report at a key moment in this mandate because it coincides with the discussions on the review of the economic governance of the Union, and I wanted to congratulate, first of all, the rapporteur, René Repasi, on the work he has done to achieve these commitments. We have certainly solved some proble…

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Feb

2024

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, President Calviño, first of all, I would like to congratulate you on the recent election to lead the Union's main financial and growth-promoting institution. And excuse also some veleities of national politics that end up reaching too many places, where they should not. I have little to add to the summary of the priorities for this new stage of the EIB. I believe that i…

27

Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

Mr President, Commissioner, this is an important debate at a necessary moment. A debate to approve, to discuss the multiannual financial framework, the Union budget, but also a debate to reflect on the need to promote a European industrial policy. The STEP Platform is a first step. The European Parliament has certainly made tremendous efforts. We have negotiated loyally with the Council, even thou…

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Feb

2024

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Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I wanted to start my brief speech by congratulating Parliament's rapporteur, Isabel Benjumea, on her great work and, of course, the shadow rapporteurs who have collaborated, such as Paul Tang on behalf of the S&D Group, because it is an important project - as has been said - to advance this capital markets union. Yesterday we talked about the Immediate Pay…

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Feb

2024

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Instant payments in euro (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, on too many occasions, those of us who work in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, mainly on matters relating to financial regulation, discuss, approve, negotiate regulations, directives, and, on many occasions, it is difficult to translate into common language what we do. It is difficult to speak of the solvency of the entities, of capital requirements: …

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Jan

2024

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Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) - Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) (joint debate - Markets in financial instruments regulations)

Madam President, Commissioner, we started this plenary session just a few hours ago, paying tribute to Jacques Delors and among his assets, he is promoting the single market in the European Union. Simply by respecting its legacy, we have to recognise that there are still specific markets in the Union that are still not sufficiently consolidated: One of them is the capital market. I would like to c…

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Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there have undoubtedly been great debates, great steps have been taken and efforts have been made over the years, and I would particularly like to thank Commissioner Schmit for his work in developing a very active social agenda from the Commission, aimed essentially at answering the question that brings us here today: how to improve access to housi…

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Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have been talking for many years, perhaps too many, about the need to boost European industrial policy. The concept of open strategic autonomy is a necessary idea, a timely agenda, for the present of the Union, but it needs financial resources. And it needs financial resources because, without clear budgetary support from the Community instit…

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Oct

2023

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Financial services contracts concluded at a distance (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, without a doubt, the digitalisation of the economy is requiring us to update all laws, regulations, regulations and directives, in order to try to maintain the same principles and objectives, but through different instruments, inasmuch as that digital world needs, as I said, regulation equivalent to the rest of the economy. On this occasion we welcome – and I would like…

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Oct

2023

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European green bonds (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I must certainly start this debate by thanking and congratulating the work of Mr Tang, rapporteur for the report on the proposal for a regulation on European green bonds, over the last few months. An essential work, together with the rest of the shadow speakers, to put in place, also in this case, the first global regulation that will help to drive savings and invest…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Council representative, if we look at the situation of access to housing across Europe, perhaps we could agree that there are two major problems. The first is undoubtedly high prices – linked in some areas to shortages, mainly in rural areas – and the second is the challenge of improving the construction of our homes to avoid climate change and advance the Europea…

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Oct

2023

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The 10th consecutive increase in reference interest rates decided by the ECB and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, this is certainly a necessary debate these days and I would like to thank the Left Group for proposing this discussion in this week's plenary sessions after the last interest rate hike by the European Central Bank. I will barely put forward two ideas to fuel this discussion. On the same day as the Governing Council of the ECB met, its new inflatio…

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Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, representatives of the Commission and the Council, in this interesting and lengthy debate I believe that Parliament's position has become clear. And I join the words of my colleague Eider Gardiazábal on the need to respond from this budget to the challenges and challenges, not of the future but of the immediate present. And speaking of the immediate present, I would like to put a …

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Jul

2023

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Need to adopt the “Unshell” Directive on rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the truth is that this has been a legislature in which there has been remarkable progress in tax matters, both at European and international level. And it could be said that they are forcibly hanging and increasing public debt, which we were forced to carry out to cover the risks of the COVID crisis and, later, in the war, have som…

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Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, allow me to extend a special greeting to the Spanish Presidency, welcoming its representative. It is a pleasure to have this July plenary session with the Spanish Presidency, which will accompany us until the end of the course. And it is certainly a pleasure because the Secretary of State has pointed out well the efforts and successes that the European Union has had in …

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Jul

2023

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2022 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2022 (joint debate - European Investment Bank)

Mr President, Commissioner, allow me to devote these first seconds of my speech to thanking President Hoyer for his twelve years of service to the European Union, in which the European Investment Bank has undoubtedly taken an institutional leap of presence and cooperation with this Parliament that I would like to thank. It is true, as you said, that we have not always taken the same view – and I r…

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Jun

2023

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Competition policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, first of all, allow me to thank the rapporteur for this report, my colleague René Repasi, who has managed to produce a necessary, timely report which, in some way, also reflects the institutional inconsistencies of our regulatory framework, which requires a reflection on the review of competition policies. In recent years, we have had, first, the shock stemming …

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May

2023

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Revision of the Stability and Growth Pact (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, some of the problems of the current tax rules have already been reviewed in these minutes of debate, and I believe that there is a certain consensus in recognizing that, in the face of these problems, we need new rules, although, certainly, the debate on the new rules is pending for the coming months. Howe…

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Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, welcome back. We discussed before about the challenges, the opportunities, the uncertainties of the world around digital assets. And undoubtedly, in my opinion, the greatest uncertainty of this change, of this innovation in financial assets, is the potential loss of monetary sovereignty that could occur in the face of a growing disintermediation of publicly issued curre…