What Jonás spoke about.

19 Apr

2023

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Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCa) - Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, there is no doubt that the crypto environment and technological advances in this area make it possible to open up new avenues of innovation and also open spaces for financial democratisation. However, crypto-assets also generate very important challenges: supervisory challenges, regulatory challenges, challenges in controlling the financing of terrorism and other ill…

29 Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President of the European Council, welcome, it is a pleasure to be here to review the conclusions of the last meeting of the European Council and I will dwell in particular on the proposal and on the support of the European Council for the revision of the tax rules. The debate on the need to adapt our economic governance framework had been on …

15 Mar

2023

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Failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and the implications for financial stability in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I will be very quick. Very quickly, because I reasonably agree with you on how you have exposed the situation and the emergencies or problems we have in Europe. First, we need a proposal now to revise the banking crisis management framework. We know that it has been delayed and we need a legislative proposal now to deal with it quickly. Secondly, I would like to send…

15 Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, we are certainly facing a timely debate, a relevant debate and a debate also necessary to face the future of the European economy. It is true that in this discussion that we are holding there are different proposals, different ideas, different contributions. But I believe that at this time too, of - let us be clear - uncertainty…

15 Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, President Lagarde, some time ago, when the European Central Bank was reviewing the definition of price stability, some of us felt that there was some uncertainty in that new definition. That medium term had doubts about whether it was 18 months, two years, one year... What was "medium-term"? In addition, it introduced uncertainty about the extent to which we could de…

15 Feb

2023

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A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the European economy certainly needs more private investment, but also more public investment to meet the challenges of the industrial future in the context, of course, of the energy transition. But let me focus my speech - these few seconds I can talk to you directly - on the fact that we cannot pretend to respond to US initiatives by leaving only the financial capacit…

14 Feb

2023

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Amendments to the European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is right to come to a debate in this Parliament with an agreement with the Council based on the European Commission's proposal, which certainly has to help address those transitions that the European economy has ahead of it: the digital transition and the green transition. It also has to cover the need for long-term investment; Europe suffers from still limited inves…

16 Jan

2023

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Rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, the battle against circumvention, against tax fraud, against tax havens, is a battle that we have to win and it is true that in recent times we are having some good news. The OECD agreement to set that minimum corporate tax rate at 15% is a great initiative that we have to put in place now, after blockades and blockades by some countries or others, and there is …

14 Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we are certainly going through difficult times. The economic and social effects on the whole European continent of Putin's war in Ukraine are present. And they are also present in the difficulties to make ends meet and in the difficulties to pay the energy costs or the food costs of our citizens. And I think the Commission has worked well. We welcome the agreement on…

21 Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the debate we are having today undoubtedly marks a before and after in the design of the European Union, just as it was marked by the decision to issue the debt of the Next Generation EU, undoubtedly looking for the fringes or spaces that the Treaties allowed us. And I would like to congratulate the Commission on its debt strategy, which is applauded by our creditors…

18 Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the debate we are having today, which we repeat every year, is undoubtedly relevant, interesting and aligns the interests of the European Parliament and, with it, the representation of citizens. But it is also true that in these debates we always miss the structural changes that we must undertake in the Union budget and, especially, after having issued hundreds of milli…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, prices are still high, electricity and gas bills are still very high and the European Central Bank is raising rates, and will continue to do so. And I think it is important for the political authorities - the Commission, the Council and Parliament - to agree that we cannot leave inflation alone in the hands of the European Central …

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that, first of all, it is appropriate for us to be able to focus the debate well, and this is not a debate on whether or not we need to invest in gas or nuclear energy. In politics it is important, very important, to differentiate the instruments from the objectives, and I think we are confusing both, because the taxonomy, the Taxonomy Regulation, was born to …

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Madam President, Commission, Council, this is a key European legislature for the future of the Union. In just three years we have faced the Brexit crisis, then we face the fight against the COVID pandemic and at the moment we are facing a war on the European Union's own border that also threatens liberal democracy on our continent. But liberal democracy has also been under attack from within the U…

18 May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would particularly like to thank the negotiating team for the resolution that we are voting on tomorrow, and especially the lead rapporteur, Aurore Lalucq, for having achieved a very broad consensus in this institution to support the European Commission's proposal and, without a doubt, to increase pressure on some country in the Council that seems to …

4 May

2022

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The social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine - reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (debate)

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Mr President, Commission, Council, I would like to start this debate by congratulating the European Commission on the new package it presented this morning and certainly on the leadership's work in decision-making to help Ukraine and block Putin's intentions. I believe that this work must be acknowledged and we hope that the Council will continue to maintain the unity that we have seen in recent m…

23 Mar

2022

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Pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, and given the broad support for the proposal for a regulation on a pilot scheme to develop digital infrastructure, I would like to congratulate all the rapporteurs and most especially Eva Kaili, the shadow rapporteur for my group. And I would also like to take advantage of this debate – while we welcome that broad agreement for this proposal for a regul…

9 Mar

2022

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European Withholding Tax framewor (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the truth is that it is difficult to talk about anything other than the war in Ukraine, especially after seeing the images this afternoon of that bombed mother and child hospital. But let's try. First of all, I would like to congratulate Pedro Marques on this good report which, in some way, unites or insists on a certain reorientation of the tax debate that we are obser…

9 Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commission, Council, the truth is that we are facing a debate at a delicate time, at a time that we certainly did not contemplate a few weeks ago, when we were negotiating the report that is being adopted today - a robust report, a consistent report - and I would like to thank Irene Tinagli for her work in these weeks to reach a large majority in this House. In any case, Putin's w…

14 Feb

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, more than three years ago I accompanied a group of Asturian workers to the judicial hearing they had in Rotterdam for the announcement of the closure of a plant in Asturias and also in Galicia (in the case of Asturias, with more than 250 workers). Since then, to the present, everything has happened: fraudulent sales, new owners without any kind of industrial program, lifting of go…

14 Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Madam President of the ECB. We discussed this report at an opportune time and I would, of course, like to congratulate Mr Papadimoulis and the other shadow rapporteurs, especially Mr Costas Mavridesa, on this report, and, like them, I hope that this House will approve it as adopted by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Just a few minutes ago we celebrate…

15 Dec

2021

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State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

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Madam President, Commission, Council, we are already at that moment when we can assess the functioning and implementation of this new instrument, an instrument that had to be negotiated very quickly in the autumn of last year, and which is undoubtedly bearing timely fruits and fruits necessary to help in the recovery process. Today we knew the scoreboard. A few hours ago, before we started this de…

10 Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

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Mr President, first of all I would, of course, like to thank the rapporteurs for their work on this directive, and especially Ibán García Del Blanco and Evelyn Regner, who have worked very hard and well to get this agreement. I would also like to vindicate the role of Parliament, because this directive has been blocked for many years in the Council, where some governments did not want any kind of …

6 Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank and congratulate Danuta Hübner, Costas Mavrides and the other shadow rapporteurs for negotiating a much-needed report on the Banking Union. As necessary as it is essential after the blockages that we saw in recent months in the Council, in the Eurogroup, that they have been unable even to put black on white a road map, a road, a gu…

6 Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the truth is that at the moment, in the implementation and development of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, we must congratulate ourselves on how this instrument has been working so far, on how we managed to close an agreement at the end of last year between the Council and Parliament and on how the Commission has been deploying an instrument that is working well, t…