What Domènec spoke about.

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (continuation of debate)

Emmanuel Macron detailed the Presidency’s main objectives with a focus on upholding the rule of law and democratic principles, as well as legislative dossiers seeking to improve job quality, ensure decent wages, reduce the gender pay gap, give rights to platform workers, combat discrimination and ensure gender balance on boards. It also proposed including abortion rights in the EU Charter of Funda…

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

Madam President, allow me to take the floor today of course as an MEP, but I will speak also in my capacity as President of the Union of European Federalists in order to tackle this topic. Thank you to Commissioner Sinkevičius, particularly because you lately are filling in for every other Commissioners, which of course we thank you, but I think it’s a very bad sign that, I mean, debate after deba…

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Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

Mr President, first of all, here we must emphasize that the coalition government of Carlos Mazón of the Popular Party with VOX intends to replace the Democratic Memory Law with a law that equates the Francoist period with the democratic period of the Second Republic. It should be remembered – or stressed – that this initiative falls outside the European framework. The European framework states the…

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The European Parliament's right of inquiry (debate)

Mr President Marc Angel, thank you to those present, also to the colleagues on the negotiating team for this report in Parliament, particularly those who have maintained a line of coherence, such as Helmut Scholtz. We are obliged to take this step of putting oral questions to the Council and the Commission on this matter because Parliament's right of inquiry, Parliament's powers of inquiry are cur…

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The use of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine’s victory and reconstruction (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, Josep Borrell, for his presentation. I believe that, in view of the debate, we can conclude that there is a very large majority in the House in favour of using the profits from frozen assets for the defence and reconstruction of Ukraine – as the…

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

Madam President, thank you to the Commission for your presence. Unfortunately, the European Council is not present although we are discussing its strategic agenda and the conclusions of the last Council meetings. I imagine that there will be someone taking note on your behalf and, therefore, I take this opportunity to remind the European Council that it still does not include on its agenda the pro…

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

Mr President, it is clear – as many Members have repeated – that war crimes are being committed in Palestine. The indiscriminate bombing of civilians is a war crime. The use of famines as a weapon of war is a war crime. And, in the face of this, we have to react strongly as the European Union. And I think that we in Parliament have already sent very clear signals. We need the Council to act. And w…

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Minister Lahbib, as President-in-Office of the Council, you have explained to us in great detail the agenda for the European Council meeting. They practically address any topic: agriculture, competitiveness, the crisis in the Middle East, the war of aggression against Ukraine. But institutional reform, nothing at all. It seems almost done on purpose: We are going to fill the agenda w…

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for your presence. By the way, the first thing that should be said is that it is regrettable that the Council does not participate in this debate and that it is not present. This is a debate on a report that connects and raises the question of enlargement together with deepening and it seems to the Council that this does not seem important and does not inte…

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The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia (debate)

Mr President, I want to support the colleagues that have already expressed that we don’t need, in this debate, a collection of eulogies or remembrance. Of course, Navalny has been killed, has been murdered. And what we need to propose here is concrete answers to this crime and also to prevent these type of crimes in the future. For this reason, I want to emphasise two measures. First, to use the N…

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

Madam President, I wanted to take advantage of this debate on European security and defence policy to add a concrete proposal to those that have already been put forward. In the same way that a proposal for a European diplomatic academy has already been launched by Nacho Sánchez Amor and Josep Borrell, I believe that we must also launch a true European military academy, updating and strengthening …

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, thank you for your presence in this long debate. Actually, I agree with many of the things that have been said, but I also think that we need to be more concrete and more practical when it comes to tackling this problem. It is not enough to give ourselves blows to the chest, to say that anti-Semitism is very wrong, of course, Islamophobia too, but we nee…

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

Madam President Metsola, Mr President Iohannis, thank you for your words. I congratulate him on his commitment to European integration and for his Europeanism. I am also grateful that you mentioned the institutional dimension in your speech. It is clear that, with an enlarged Europe, with the relaunch of the enlargement process, that process must accompany the deepening of our political project in…

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Water crisis and droughts in the EU as a consequence of the global climate crisis and the need for a sustainable, resilient water strategy for Europe (debate)

Mr President, it is clear that droughts are unfortunately becoming more frequent because of climate change. Therefore, certainly our first weapon, the great priority to combat droughts, is precisely to maintain, or even increase, all our efforts in the fight against climate change. But in the meantime, we need to do other things: certainly increase the amount of water we reuse, which we purify; im…

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, President Michel, Vice-President Šefčovič, I would like to highlight one topic that was not part of the speeches that you delivered, which is the institutional reforms and linking, as you know, President Michel, the enlargement process with the political deepening of the EU. I encourage both of you, the Commission, to come to our next plenary to present your communications on Trea…

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

Mr President, Vice-President Šefčovič, Minister Lahbib representing the Belgian Presidency, I would like to tell you – as Juan Fernando López Aguilar has already said – that coming to the House, after Hungary has spent five years in the Article 7 procedure, to propose that you organise another meeting or other hearing, forgive me for telling you, is a joke. It's a joke, I'm really telling you. Aft…

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Implementation of the Treaty provisions on national parliaments - Implementation of the Treaty provisions on EU citizenship (joint debate – Implementation of the Treaty provisions)

Mr President, I thank Vice-President Šefčovič for his presence and, of course, the rapporteurs of these important reports: Paulo Rangel and Maite Pagazaurtundúa. These reports deal with two issues of great importance to all of us. On the one hand, the relationship with national parliaments. We are also parliamentarians, there have always been attempts to oppose national parliaments with the Europe…

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2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, congratulations, in the first place, to the rapporteur, Tonino Picula, for this excellent report that I fully support. I just wanted to bring something else to the debate. In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Clarence Streit published a book, Union Now. In this book, he proposed a federal union of the Atlantic democracies to face Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. In 1941, Churchill and…

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2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, thank you to the High Representative, Josep Borrell, for having maintained from the beginning, in the face of this conflict, in the face of this escalation, a clear position, also balanced. Because I am of the opinion – listening to the debate that has taken place – that it should not be the subject of disagreement between us to say that, of course, we support Israel in its objective…

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Defence of democracy package (debate)

Madam President, thank you, of course, to the Vice-Presidents for their presence and for the proposals they have brought to us, which I support. In the dimension of strengthening democracy, I do believe, Vice-President Šuica, that perhaps - or perhaps not perhaps, but clearly - it was a mistake to have closed the digital platform of the Conference on the Future of Europe. But they can still correc…

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Dec

2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for this debate. I think the positions are very clear. References have again been made to the proposal for a pan-European constituency. Of course, I agree with my friend Sandro Gozi that this would be an element that would really have a very profound effect on the Europeanisation of debates and on strengthening the application of the principle of the main…

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2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

Mr President Angel, Commissioner Gentiloni, on behalf of the Commission, thank my colleagues in the negotiating team, EPP co-rapporteur Sven Simon and shadow rapporteurs Sandro Gozi from Renew, Daniel Freund from Verts-ALE and Helmut Scholz from The Left for their constructive cooperation. I think we got a good report at an important time. It is a report on the elections to the European Parliament…

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2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

Mr President, I would like to express to the House today that I support the proposal for an amnesty law put forward by the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Congress of Deputies, for a number of reasons which, in reality, are not relevant in this House and which I would not have time to explain. At the same time, I understand that the comrades of the Popular Party – especially in Spanish – disa…

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President Othmar Karas, High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell and Commissioner Janez Lenarčič, I believe that the High Representative should be congratulated on his tour of the countries of the Middle East, which I believe has been very useful in making the European position clear. I think it is a good thing that it is also clear from the European Union that we are against Hamas cont…

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2023

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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, Vice-Presidents Šefčovič and Šuica, present, President-in-Office of the Council, I will start by first thanking the five rapporteurs for this report. There are five rapporteurs representing five political groups in this House – the democratic and pro-European groups – as well as five members of Altiero Spinelli’s Federalist Intergroup and, not by chance, we see this important imprint…