What Juan Ignacio spoke about.

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, in two weeks' time we will hold a historic summit: the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the European Union and China, which have brought trade benefits by promoting investment and creating jobs. But in recent years, the relationship has accused a turbulent geopolitical concept, as well as the emergence of growing asymmetries. That is why this S…

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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, Commissioner, I would need at least an hour to be able to list Pedro Sánchez's attacks on the rule of law in Spain, but I only have one minute. A minute to denounce that Spain is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of gravity: a prosecutor-general of the State prosecuted for his political interferences – prosecuted; judges and prosecutors who are engaged in a historic strike in the …

18

Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, congratulations. Next week's NATO summit should mark a turning point. We Europeans must demonstrate our strategic coming of age and our responsibility for self-defence. Unfortunately, not all partners seem willing to do their part. The government of my country, Spain, has already declared that raising defence investment to 5% of GDP is a huge mistake and that 2% is mor…

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May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that tariffs lead us to disaster is no surprise. The most basic economic theory says it, the history of international trade says it and now the data confirm it again. The price of the products concerned has increased by around 12% for consumers. If this increase continues, it will cause a loss of 7.3 billion dollars per year, something that is already b…

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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, two billion tonnes. This is the amount of steel that has been produced in 2024. A real tsunami of metal that, far from being reduced, is expected to increase an additional one hundred and forty million next year. An exorbitant overcapacity that has brought down prices and is dynamiting the European market. And, as if that were not enough, the United States has reacti…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, after a few weeks of geopolitical storm, few doubt that we need a strong, joint and well-funded European defence. However, there are still some, from the left, who present a dichotomy as false as dangerous: We either invest in hospitals or we invest in tanks. Ask the Ukrainians, who suffered hundreds of bombings and cyberattacks in their hospitals, what they think of th…

11

Mar

2025

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

Madam President, Commissioner, we have been building a new migration policy for years: the Pact on Migration and Asylum which occupied us long afternoons and mornings during the last legislature. But we were missing his vault key: the new return legislation. The reality is unappealable, it has already been said several times this afternoon. Every year, European justice orders the expulsion of half…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, in the United States, tariffs; in China, unfair competition; and, in Russia, simply war. This is the balance sheet of the trade relations we are currently facing. For Europe, trade has always been an economic tool, but Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin have turned it into a political weapon and are thereby putting our competitiveness, our prosperity and even our security at risk. That is w…

11

Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Look, you've given me a series of reflections on what you think should be done. It is precisely what I have just asked for here, in my speech, that we should have a moderate approach, that we should not reach an uncompromising position on one end or the other; I just said that we have to be firm to react, but very flexible to negotiate. On the concrete extremes, it is a reflection that you have ma…

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Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Donald Trump does not leave anyone indifferent, this is undeniable. He is a polarizing figure and the extremes of this Parliament are using him as a throwing weapon to defend their partisan interests. On the one hand, the left is dedicating itself to insulting and vilifying him. They have come to call him a Nazi and a fascist, qualifiers that - in addition to being c…

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Jan

2025

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Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, last week the Secretary-General of NATO said that we have three defence options: invest more, move to New Zealand or learn Russian. As New Zealand is 19,000 kilometres away and Russian has six declensions and a different alphabet, you will agree with me, ladies and gentlemen, that the most reasonable thing is to invest more in defence, especiall…

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Jan

2025

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

Mr. President, Donald Trump last night put Spain in the BRICS group, the allies of China and Russia, that is, as one of the rivals of Washington and the Western bloc. His conclusion can be reasonable if we consider that Pedro Sanchez has tried to negotiate for free with China in an unsuccessful way, has made us the European country that buys more gas from Putin and has labeled NATO's efforts to in…

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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, on 24 December, when Pedro Sánchez sits at the table on Christmas Eve, it will be very difficult for him to know if he is at a family dinner or on the bench of the courts: his wife is charged with misappropriation, professional intrusion, influence peddling and business corruption; His brother is charged with influence-trafficking, prevarication and a continuing crime a…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, in recent years, Europe has faced the four riders of the economic apocalypse: pandemic, war, Frans Timmermans And now Teresa Ribera. After endangering the future of Spanish industry and agriculture, Mrs Ribera disembarks in Brussels ready to replicate in Europe the failed and ideological model she imposed in Spain. But we still have time to rectify, to stop his feet. Today we pay a v…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, we could sum up the challenges facing the steel sector in one word: overcapacity. Over the past two decades, China has increased its production by 639%. You have heard correctly, ladies and gentlemen: 639 %. Far from reducing this excess capacity, Chinese manufacturers continue to expand it. According to the OECD, by 2026, China will increase its production by an additional 630 mi…

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, since Putin's invasion, Ukraine has lost 30% of GDP. The cost of rebuilding the country is now close to $500 billion, a figure which, unfortunately, is increasing every day. To deal with the humanitarian drama and prevent the collapse of Ukraine, tomorrow we will vote on a package of financial assistance to Kiev of up to EUR 35 billion: a bill of billions of euros charg…

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Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, thank you very much for the legacy of your effort and dedication over the past five years. Let's face it, since 2020 drug trafficking in the European Union has doubled: There are twice as many addictions, twice as many vulnerable young people and twice as many families destroyed in just four years. And with it, the threats to our security have also incre…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Commission has finally confirmed the tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, a well-intentioned measure that responds to the will to end the illegal subsidies that are threatening the very survival of the European automotive industry: the survival of up to 13.8 million jobs across Europe. However, we must not forget that the European Union is the economic pow…

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Sep

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, the fight against drug trafficking in the European Union is increasingly similar to the fight against hydra: When you cut off one of the monster's heads, three others grow. When police persecution in one country escalates, as is happening in Belgium or the Netherlands, drug traffickers easily move the activity to other latitudes within Europe: As the Commissioner for…

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Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

Madam President, Commissioner, Commissioner, today we are celebrating a historic day. After more than a decade of blockade, the European Union has reached an agreement on the Pact on Migration and Asylum, or I hope it can be reached. The time cannot be more opportune, since the figures of the last year bring us closer to a crisis similar to that of 2015. That is why the EPP Group supports this pac…

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Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, hundreds of thousands of farmers have been on the streets all over Europe for months calling for urgent measures for the survival of the primary sector in the European Union, but it seems that many do not want to find out. There are still those who insist on tightening the nuts much more, on continuing to add to the primary sector more demands, more requirements. On thi…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Let me tell you, first of all, that the European People's Party is very clear that, in order to make further progress in improving the quality of products and also contribute to curbing climate change, it is necessary to be guided by scientific criteria and not by ideological criteria, which is what you do. You first put ideology before each and every technical report and scientific report. Look, …

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, last week many were alarmed to see the streets around the European Parliament full of tractors and farmers protesting with just demands. This week, fortunately, the Commission has reconsidered and started to address farmers' demands, reversing the implementation of some of the most radical measures of the Green Deal, such as the new Pesticides Regulation. Today,…

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Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

Madam President, the plot that connects Catalan secessionism with Putin seems to be taken from a spy novel. But, unfortunately, it is not fiction, but facts contrasted and investigated by justice. Puigdemont's meeting with a Kremlin emissary is under investigation just twenty-four hours before the failed declaration of independence. The transfer of explosives in Catalonia by spies from Moscow days…

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Feb

2024

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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, Commissioner, drought is no longer a phenomenon limited to summer and Mediterranean Europe. Today, February 6, in the middle of winter, several regions of Spain already suffer from drought and fear for the summer that is coming; And even countries in the wettest Europe, such as Belgium, faced a severe drought last year. Therefore, we can no longer speak of episodes of drought, but of…