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Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Iran is in serious breach of basic obligations with regard to its nuclear programme. But this is hardly news. The introduction of sanctions is therefore both welcome and long overdue. The sanctions should be meaningful, fully enforced and closely monitored. But let's not forget that this is not the issue. The real issue is the Iranian regime, which is a challenge tha…

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Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the rule of law is not an internal matter. In the European Union, the rule of law can and must be the subject of common concern and corrective action. That is why, in affirming the legitimacy of Parliament's action, I would like to start by condemning the harassment suffered by our colleague Tomáš Zdechovský during his mission in Bratislava as a member of the Committ…

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Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

Mr. President, Mr. Commissioner. Rule of law in Spain: well, in September last year, the Prime Minister publicly stated that he was willing to govern without Parliament. Said and done: the Government has not submitted the draft Law on the General State Budget to Parliament for two years, despite the constitutional obligation to do so. He has broken all records in the production of decrees, with mo…

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Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union is very clear, it leaves no doubt as to the essential character of the rule of law as the cornerstone of the Union. Without the rule of law there is no European Union and this is neither an abstract nor an indefinite concept and, therefore, this Parliament has wanted to strengthen the instruments of control, monitoring and su…

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Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the directive on which we are debating here today is a great achievement that deserves our support and, of course, the recognition of the work done by the rapporteur, Mr Lenaers, as well as the shadow rapporteurs. We can never stress enough the extraordinary gravity of this problem. All indicators – the rapporteur has given us some of them – show that children in gen…

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Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, Commissioner, first of all, I think it is fair to congratulate you on the presentation of this internal security strategy of the Union, which means the fulfilment of a commitment, and of a commitment in a timely manner, and which allows us to be able to define a strategy that has to be consistent and that has to be appropriate to the nature and gravity of the th…

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Parliament is a very important institution but it is not an island. We talked about the problems affecting transparency in the European Parliament but we cannot forget the context, and that context today demands that the European Union be increasingly visible and have a growing intervention in anti-corruption policies. Firstly, because too many governmen…

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2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, no one can deny that in these hundred days what has appeared very clearly are the great challenges that the Commission has before it. Simplification will probably be the least if we compare it with immigration, with defence, with competitiveness. To this must be added the negotiation of a financial framework that will not be easy, which will require important de…

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Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this is a good proposal and it is a good proposal to start with because it is a regulation, not a directive - and when we are trying to unify and harmonise immigration policies, in this case return policy, that is an essential instrument - and because we agree with the approach of this proposal: clearer obligations for subjects to be repatriated, facilitating and enc…

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2025

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Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Madam President, Commissioner, Iran again. Death and oppression brought about by the Islamic theocracy. Hostage taking, among others, of European citizens, mass executions are the tools of repression used by a faltering regime. The Supreme Court, on the same day by the same judge, upheld the death sentence on Pakhshan Azizi, but also on Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani. In 2024, it's been said, ov…

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2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the issue we are debating today places us before the probably most inhuman, shameful and cruel dimension of the migration challenge. We certainly have a humanitarian challenge, but, above all, at this point we have a huge criminal challenge to which we have to respond. Europol has identified more than 800 criminal organisations, which are no longer mafia-style organi…

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Dec

2024

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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)

Well, corruption in other countries is better known to nationals of other countries. The truth is that when we talk about corruption, we are talking about a crime that is committed at national level, but that can be extended to the European institutions. When we talk about the rule of law, when we talk about corruption, when the Commissioner himself makes his annual rule of law report, he makes co…

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Dec

2024

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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, five days ago the President of the Supreme Court and the Council for the Judiciary had to come to the defence of Spanish judges after the Prime Minister, Mr Sánchez, I quote, spoke of a judicial harassment operation against him. Weeks earlier, the judge in charge of the criminal case against the woman of the President of the Government was the subject of three criminal …

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, child protection is one of the most accurate indicators of justice and decency in a society. And, this being so, the first conclusion is that we have to do more and that we have to do it together. The exposure of many children to risks of poverty – one million in Spain – and exclusion is a reality; As is a reality the abuse they suffer, especially girls, who are vict…

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Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

Madam President, Commissioner, violence against women in Iran is state-sponsored and institutionalised. How many women have been executed? How many girls and women assaulted, beaten or lethally hurt? Women are the most powerful force for change. That is why the regime targets women: the ayatollahs fear them. Maryam Akbari Monfared is one of the longest-held female political prisoners in Iran: she …

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Nov

2024

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Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Russia has to be included in the list of high-risk third countries for money laundering and terrorist financing for at least two reasons. Firstly, the Union must exercise its leadership to curb activities that are seriously dangerous, all the more so in view of the FATF's failure. Secondly, it is a question of coherence. It makes no sense that, while building a politica…

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Oct

2024

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Foreign interference and hybrid attacks: the need to strengthen EU resilience and internal security (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today it is Moldova, tomorrow it will be Georgia, as was the referendum of the Brexit or support for the attempted secessionist in Catalonia. However, make no mistake: We are not facing a simple opportunistic use of conflicts or specific situations that Russia wants to exploit in its favor. We are facing a permanent strategy and, therefore, we are talking about disin…

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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, Commissioner, can anyone doubt that the Iranian regime sponsors, promotes and finances terrorism in Europe? Well, if anyone has doubts, just remember what happened a year ago in the heart of Madrid, when a former vice president of this House, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, miraculously survived an assassination attempt perpetrated by assassins hired by Iran. Executions, widespread repressio…

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Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, I borrow an idea that I think is important: religious freedom is not a matter of religion; It's a question of freedom. And, therefore, religious freedom, such as that of thought or conscience, is an inalienable human right. Churches and religious denominations are part of the fabric of civil society and have a place in the public space. They are a compon…

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Oct

2024

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2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President Jourová, I would like to start with a special mention - if you will allow me - to you and Commissioner Reynders to acknowledge their commitment to the instruments for monitoring and strengthening the rule of law that have been developed in this mandate. I would also like to highlight the role that the Commission has played in facilitating the renewal agreement of…

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, Frontex is an essential instrument for the management of the external borders, with two exceptions: for the populist far-right, which has just described it as a travel agency, and for the socialist and communist government of Spain, which considers that Frontex has nothing to say or do when there is an unprecedented migration crisis in the Canary Islands. T…

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Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice President Jourová, it now turns out that, in one of the many Springfields in the United States, immigrants eat cats, dogs and pets. It also turns out that Putin invades Ukraine because he is the guardian of Christian values in the face of decadent Western democracy. In this same House we have had to remember the infamy of two totalitarianisms that agreed to divide Polan…

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2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I do not think I am exaggerating if I say that Schengen can be seriously damaged by the opportunist discourse of the extreme right and by the double standards and hypocrisy of the left. The generalisation of border controls raises some extremely worrying consequences. We cannot convey to citizens the idea that Schengen is a threat to their security, nor can we generate …

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2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Europol has identified eight hundred and twenty-one criminal organisations in Europe. They are organizations of multinational composition, they are organizations of transnational scope, they are organizations that carry out a great variety of criminal activities with technological means and they are organizations willing to use violence. Therefore, we have to act and…

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2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this is going to be the first debate of many that we are going to have in this new legislature, because we are all aware that we are facing one of the great political and social challenges and because we have to respond to the concerns and expectations of citizens. I do not intend to go into the very fact of the terrorist attack, as described by the Commissioner, but…