What Juan Carlos spoke about.

21

Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr. President, on July 28, the Venezuelan people voted en masse for Edmundo González Urrutia as their legitimate president, hoping to end Maduro's tyranny once and for all. Right now, the situation in Venezuela leaves no room for doubt as to the way forward in the European Union: We have a democratically elected president and a tyrant who has staged a coup to perpetuate himself in power. Given suc…

21

Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr. President, Trump inaugurates his second term with the world left again predicting the end of the world. However, all those jeremiadas are no longer credible, since this man has already ruled four years in a mandate that has been the most pacifist in US foreign policy in recent decades. Trump himself, during his investiture speech, has reiterated that he will continue in an external line based …

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, let me see if I understand: if the tycoon, the billionaire, turns out to favor ideology surprised Putting money into the media, into educational programs, into NGOs, then he's a philanthropist, like George Soros and like Bill Gates. But if it turns out that what he does is buy and open a network to freedom - which means that instead of having verifiers he self-organizes, which is …

19

Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Madam President, the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes people with mental health problems. No one would say it by listening to you. I heard that the incidence was five million people in Europe. Eighty-seven million people before the pandemic had mental health problems in the European Union. There is a lot of talk about disability and all the disabled are put in the same…

17

Dec

2024

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Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, there is no war of aggression in which a justification or an excuse – or many – of historical appearance is not used. The powers that attack usually do so on the basis of I do not know what offenses and grievances of a historical type that are usually simplifications or open lies regarding facts that the general public does not know, because history, historiography, is a specialty…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr. President, I'm hearing here a kind of threat about shutting down the networks. Look, if you shut down TikTok, I personally will find it fantastic, because it's a company whose parent company is in Beijing and therefore it's a data-filled network of billions of people that's actually controlled by a fierce communist regime. But that's not the case with other social networks. I'm hearing things …

26

Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

22

Oct

2024

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State sponsored terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the recent attacks in Europe (debate)

Madam President, the Iranian theocratic regime has more than 400 documented and proven terrorist actions outside its borders, and a significant number of them have taken place on European soil. I would like to refer, in particular, to the attack on my 15-year-old Vice-President of this Parliament, as has already been mentioned here, and I repeat, my compatriot Alejo Vidal ‑Quadras, who miraculousl…

22

Oct

2024

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to say that the guidelines presented continue to have an ideological tufillo from which it seems that the European Union is unable to liberate, or to liberate, any of its proposals. My country, Spain, suffers from one of the highest unemployment rates and the highest youth unemployment in the Union. That ideological tufillo is a luxury that we cannot …

22

Oct

2024

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Protection of European journalists reporting on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, it is urgent, yes, to protect journalists who risk their lives covering Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: the deaths and attacks suffered by journalists at the front are inadmissible and this Parliament must demand more protection for those who risk their lives to inform us. Nor can I fail to mention the case of the spy Pavel Alekséyevich Rubtsov, alias Pablo González: f…

9

Oct

2024

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2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I was surprised by what the report says and what the report hides about Spain, a place where the basic rules of the rule of law have been violated for several years. The highest governing body of judges in Spain, the General Council of the Judiciary, has been renewed through a shameful tutelage of the European Commission, in which once again the PP and the PSOE have dis…

8

Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, once again we see that, for the plans of soft totalitarianism that these self-directed powers have prepared in great decision-makers of what does not correspond to them, there is nothing better than the verbiage to cover up those intentions, right? Addressing contemporary global challenges through renewed multilateral cooperation, blah, blah, blah. This doesn…

17

Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am surprised because I am just a MEP, a simple Spanish MEP who comes here to express a political position, and I hear how all the interventions that precede me tell what the European Parliament has to do, what the European Union has to do. Well, let me imitate you. I will say that the first thing the European Union would have to do is stop funding the Pales…

16

Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, comparing Israel to the Nazi state is an example of specific anti-Semitism offered by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which is an intergovernmental organisation to which most of the countries of the European Union belong. Today Israel has been compared here to the Nazi regime. This summer dozens of campuses in Europe and America have become lou…