What Jordi spoke about.

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Oct

2023

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Scheme of generalised tariff preferences (short presentation)

Mr President, we are here today doing what is necessary, which is to extend the scheme of generalised tariff preferences. But we are here because of the inflexibility of the Council and the complicity of the Commission against this Parliament. This Parliament has asked for very few things and has been very flexible. It's been very talkative. He's tried to approximate positions. The response of the…

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Oct

2023

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Need to complete new trade agreements for sustainable growth, competitiveness and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Madam President, it is good to be ambitious and come up with new agreements, but I think it is good to be responsible and try to ratify the existing ones. But there are many irresponsible, there are some who defend, behind strategic sovereignty, strategic autarky. Some advocates of sustainable development would love to go back to the Neolithic or Paleolithic - maybe not even that - but the truth i…

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Oct

2023

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Economic coercion by third countries (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Dombrovskis, does Europe need new instruments to defend itself and respond to acts of economic coercion by countries that interfere, through trade, with the interests and sovereignty of the European Union and its Member States? Obviously, yes. But, the question is: Is Europe willing to use these new instruments quickly and forcefully to be credible? Do you really want…

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Sep

2023

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50 years since the murder of Allende and the Coup in Chile: democracy and sovereignty (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, today we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the military coup d'état in Chile. To commemorate as a form of condemnation such a tragic date for Chilean democracy, so terrible for all those citizens who were killed, disappeared, tortured, kidnapped, imprisoned or exiled by a criminal and totalitarian regime. Commemorating is an obligation in this way for eve…

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Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, the truth is that it is going to be difficult for me to start this speech, because I came to recognize the personal success that you have had as a promoter of this meeting and, really, the success that the same meeting has meant. But every time I listen to him, the desire to thank him for his work is taken away. Because really the treatment that you are giving…

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Jul

2023

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The political disqualifications in Venezuela

Madam President, the Nicolás Maduro regime is a regime addicted to crime and disqualifications. In recent years, more than 1,400 citizens have been disqualified from exercising their right to elect and be elected. Now, when Venezuelans prepare to choose in primaries to which the opposition can be the candidate to face a hypothetical presidential election in 2024, the disqualifications reappear, in…

12

Jul

2023

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

Mr President, if we stop to listen, if we listen carefully, we hear anger, anger, discontent and also insecurity, uncertainty, concern and fear. It's the sound of the middle classes. They are middle classes that are experiencing progressive erosion and impoverishment; middle classes suffocated by the rise in prices, food, energy and housing, who are increasingly having trouble reaching the end of …

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Jun

2023

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Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware - Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (draft recommendation) (debate)

Mr President, from Citizens we denounce from the first day that the work of the Committee of Inquiry in charge of examining the use of the Pegasus Surveillance Spy Program and other equivalent programs could be instrumentalized by convicted criminals or by escapees from justice for violating democracy and the rule of law or by Kremlin pawns in their strategy to weaken European democracies. In shor…

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Jun

2023

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State of EU Cuba PDCA in the light of the recent visit of the High Representative to the island (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, in connection with your visit to Cuba, you said that we must talk to everyone, I subscribe to you. So, the question is what is being talked about with everyone. And the question is, have you spoken to Mr. Díaz Canel or the Cuban authorities about the freedom of political prisoners? Has he spoken of the cessation of the persecution of the Sakharov Prize laureates given …

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May

2023

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Myanmar, notably the dissolution of democratic political parties

Madam President, Commissioner, according to the United Nations, more than 2 800 people have been killed, more than 16 000 irregularly detained, more than 1.2 million citizens have been displaced, political parties have been disbanded. That is, Myanmar's level of degradation is unbearable. And I think that here, recurrently, we are telling ourselves what we can do. What can we do that we haven't do…

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May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we very much support this resolution on a roadmap towards a social Europe: two years after the Porto Social Summit. But two years after Porto we have to recognize that in this roadmap we have forgotten about the middle classes. And two years after Porto we must recognize that the middle classes have become impoverished and are becoming impoverished by leaps and bounds. …

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Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, a Europe that wants to be a global player needs a common defence policy. And a common defence policy needs common defence military units. This would seem very obvious, but it must be said. It must be said here, in parliamentary headquarters: We need permanent military units that are operational to be deployed quickly where the European Union needs them and decides. A…

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Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

Mr. President, Mr. High Representative, "From the door of [the] [daily] La Crónica Santiago [Zavala, Zavalita] looks at Tacna Avenue, without love: cars, uneven and discolored buildings, skeletons of luminous warnings floating in the haze, the gray noon. And he wonders "at what point had Peru fucked up?" Well, this was written by Vargas Llosa at the beginning of Conversation in The Cathedral, in 1…

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Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, High Representative, when one wonders about the need for a coherent strategy it is either because it has no strategy or because it is not coherent. Or both. Any of the three is bad news, because China does have it; China has a strategy that is hegemony. As you know, go is a game that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. It is a game where two players fight to …

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Mar

2023

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

Madam President, the importance of preventing lies and disinformation from being used has once again been highlighted in this Council. I'm going to ask you, first, for forgiveness for my intervention. I did not think I had to do it, but we cannot allow lies and disinformation to thrive in this House, because lies only thrive in silence. A Member who is not present – because she has already done th…

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Mar

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, I, as a Catalan, would ask you, please, to try to prevent this House from becoming a space for political debate that goes against the principles we have just defended. We came from celebrating a space of meeting, of union, of agreement. This kind of situation doesn't help at all. You've given a way out of a situation that... Look, I have an opinion - I've given it in the media bef…

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Mar

2023

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Lack of actions taken by the Commission in the context of the duty of sincere and loyal cooperation (debate)

Mr President, the aim of the Committee of Inquiry to examine the use of the Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware was and is to determine the legal use of surveillance programmes to guarantee the fundamental rights of European citizens, i.e. to delimit the legal use of the illegal use of these surveillance programmes. A legal surveillance program is a surveillance program and an illegal surv…

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Mar

2023

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Situation in Georgia (debate)

Mr President, when we talk about Georgia, its etymology - the Greek 'georgos' - inevitably comes to mind: the farmer, the planter, the farmer, and the metaphor of St. George and the dragon. Georgians sowed the seed of freedom twenty years ago and are now threatened by a dragon. In Latin: "Hic sunt drachones". There are dragons near Georgia. It is a dragon that is gradually eroding its democracy, w…

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Mar

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda (debate)

Madam President, Mr Nausėda, unfortunately, in Europe, countries are often – I would say too often – divided according to geography – whether they are in the north, south or east; depending on their population – whether they have many millions of inhabitants or few; or on the basis of their GDP – whether it is very high or small. But on many occasions reality arrives, and reality acts as a reactan…

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Feb

2023

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Violence against opposition activists in Equatorial Guinea, notably the case of Julio Obama Mefuman

Madam President, Equatorial Guinea is governed by a dictatorial regime that has systematically violated human rights since 1979, a regime that persecutes and harasses the political opposition inside and outside the country, executing kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings. The regime of dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema kidnapped in South Sudan at the end of 2019 four opponents, who were ill…

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Jan

2023

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Situation of journalists in Morocco, notably the case of Omar Radi

Madam President, Morocco is a strategic partner of the European Union and, as a strategic partner, must respect the agreements and commitments it adopts. When it does not, this Parliament is obliged to remind you that it cannot use immigration to blackmail a Member State, that it cannot spy on friendly governments and that it cannot bribe Members of this Parliament to condition its debates. And wh…

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Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

Mr President, we are here showing that the European Parliament denounces and condemns the assault on democratic institutions in Brazil to support its democracy, to denounce this unacceptable violation of the seats that represent the powers of Brazilian democracy and, I repeat, to support it. We in Europe know very well what this means. In 2018, Catalan separatists attempted to storm the Parliament…

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Jan

2023

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Protecting the Rule of Law against impunity in Spain (topical debate)

Madam President, if I were to tell you about a European Prime Minister who disobeys, fails to comply with laws and court rulings, who appoints his Minister of Justice as Attorney General of the State, whose government partners accuse judges and magistrates of the Constitutional Court of being coup plotters for enforcing the law, which causes three of the four judicial associations to write a lette…

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, Mr Reynders, at the end of last year, Mr Borrell launched the roadmap towards 2023 to strengthen relations in Europe and Latin America. Well, it's now 2023. Now what? What do we have to do? Well, do everything we haven't done in three and a half years. And so we're in a hurry, because we only have one year left. And then, as we are in a hurry, we have one year left and we have to …

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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)

Madam President, what is the main new development or accusation we have about foreign interference in the European institutions? For a month now there has been one, which is not Qatargate, it is "Qatar/Moroccogate", Qatar/Moroccogate. I thought Commissioner Johansson was going to provide us with some kind of information about, for example, Mr Borrell's trip to Morocco and the explanations that Mor…