What Juan Ignacio spoke about.

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Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

Madam President, for some, Europe's green transition is an objective to be achieved through legislation: requirements, restrictions and prohibitions on the productive sectors, which must be adapted at their own risk and by legal imperative. On the contrary, in the European People's Party we believe that the green transition is not imposed, but is incentivised and facilitated. It is incentivized wi…

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Jan

2024

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Improving the socio-economic situation of farmers and rural areas, ensuring fair incomes, food security as well as a just transition (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the left fills its mouth when it talks about inequality: inequality between men and women, inequality between people of one race and another, inequality between young and old. They talk about all kinds of inequalities, except the one that is the most flagrant in all of Europe: the inequality between the countryside and the city. The population in rural areas …

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I thought they had learned their lesson. He thought that after a pandemic, after a war and after an unprecedented drought, his positions would have been rethought. But it seems that the left of this Parliament is still ready to put an end to the productive capacity of the European countryside and the Spanish countryside – whoever falls will fall. This proposal for a reg…

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Oct

2023

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Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the countryside in Europe is becoming empty. Our farmers are aging and our young people do not see agriculture as a viable future for their lives. Rural depopulation therefore adds to the long list of challenges that the agricultural sector must face for its survival and, therefore, for ours. Without farmers, there is no food and, without food, there is no life. Today, …

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Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

Commissioner, Secretary of State, 13 October: A 20-year-old Chechen jihadist slaughters a teacher in Arras – north of France. He had been in the crosshairs of the authorities for several years. His father had been deported for posing a risk to national security. The deportation of the son, however, was still pending. 16 October: Another jihadist, on this occasion of Tunisian nationality, murders t…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, our neighbourhood is on fire again. To the bloody invasion of Ukraine we now add the war in Israel provoked by Hamas terrorists. A conflict that has overwhelmed the Middle East and reached our streets, as we have tragically seen with the jihadist attacks in France and Belgium. Europe, more than ever, must act as a cohesive geopoli…

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Oct

2023

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Urgent need for a coordinated European response and legislative framework on intrusive spyware, based on the PEGA inquiry committee recommendations (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I would like to begin by thanking you for your presence here today, Vice-President, but you have a long way to go to the Commission to address the recommendations contained in the PEGA Committee of Inquiry report. So my recommendation is: Get down to business. Despite the circumstances that are happening this week, I would …

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Sep

2023

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Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner McGuinness, the growing threat from wolf packs has spread to rural communities across Europe, to the point where the President of the European Commission herself has suffered it firsthand. And the situation is so dramatic that the European Commission is urging all Member States to take the necessary measures to address it. But, in Spain, instead of allowing effective …

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Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

Madam President, Mr Timmermans, yesterday hundreds of farmers from all over Europe were demonstrating outside this Parliament. They didn't ask for aid, they didn't ask for funding, they didn't even ask for laws favorable to the field. No, they simply asked that we not impose more restrictions on them and let them do what they know how to do: producing quality food at reasonable prices for all Euro…

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Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, summer after summer, Europe suffers from more severe water shortages than before. And this summer it is possible that we live the drought that fills the glass. In Spain, last April was the driest month since we kept the records. We have not even started the summer and Spanish water reserves are already below 50%, compared to 70% just ten years ago. And, in addition, …

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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, if we have learned anything during this year, it is that spyware like Pegasus is an enormously powerful tool, a tool that our law enforcement agencies must be able to use to deal with threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking, organized crime or attempts to subvert the constitutional order. But they are also tools that must always be used respecting the precepts of the rule of law…

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May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

Madam President, autocrats have turned migration into a weapon, mafias have turned it into a business, terrorists into an opportunity and populists on both sides into an instrument of political pressure. In the face of all of them, in the face of those who intend to use the tragedies of others for their own benefit, Europe must respond with determination. Because we have an obligation to give guar…

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner McGuinness, I would like to clarify to Mrs García Pérez, President of the Socialist Group, that the legalisation of the illegal wells in Doñana was done by the President of the Government, Mr Sánchez, granting 13 authorisations last year. Study, Mrs García Pérez, the administrative competences in Spain. And for false promises those of Mr. Sanchez, who has not executed th…

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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, Commissioner McGuinness, the abuse of our citizens is undoubtedly a serious violation of their basic rights and a worrying security problem. However, the legal and legitimate possession and use of , not its abuse, is a resource that responds to national security needs. It is therefore the sole responsibility of the Member States, according to Article 4 of the Treaty on European Union…

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Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner McGuinness, every time we speak in this Parliament on agriculture, in this case in the framework of the citizens' initiative 'Save bees and farmers: towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment", it seems that some have just discovered agriculture or want to make tabula rasa of all the achievements we have achieved in recent decades. A clear example is…

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Mar

2023

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Deterioration of democracy in Israel and consequences on the occupied territories (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, it is very curious to see how those who raise their voices today when talking about judicial independence are precisely those who for years have already handed down sentences against Israel. As on so many other occasions, we are having a preventive debate. Even before the reform has completed its process of debate within Israeli society, some members of this H…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

Mr President, in 2022, more than 300 000 people illegally crossed the borders of the European Union. Currently, 600 000 asylum applications are still pending. 79% of return decisions from the previous year have not yet been executed. About 270 000 people who should have been returned to their countries of origin have not been returned. People like the one responsible for the murder of a sacristan …

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, Commissioner, as a magistrate, I am deeply saddened that, from the European Union, my country is being singled out for attacks on the rule of law. We are used to the fact that, with some frequency from the Socialist Group's bench, they want to give us lessons in patriotism. And, here, lessons of patriotism, the Group of the People's Party need not receive any. I also believe that …

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Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

Mr President, I shall begin my speech with a basic reflection on international relations: A change of government that occurs through the ballot box should never be a reason to sever relations with a country. Much less when it comes to such a fundamental ally for Europeans as Israel. It is a strategic partner in energy and commercial security and intelligence, and in many other areas. It would not …

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Nov

2022

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Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

Mr President, the wolf situation in Europe is very serious. The exponential growth of this predator has increased attacks on livestock and even humans. And in Spain the situation is even worse. A purely ideological and radical decision of the Government of Sanchez has restricted the hunting management of the species north of the Douro River. The wolf population has soared that, in Galicia alone, w…

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Nov

2022

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EU-China relations (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, the European Union External Action Service has defined China as a strategic partner, a systemic rival and an economic competitor. Cooperation on strategic issues is indeed a shared responsibility, but to make progress we have to ensure reciprocity in the rules of the game. We need to continue to break down the unilateral trade barriers that China maintains …

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Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, after the invasion of Ukraine, the price of gas in Europe has increased by 800 % compared to March last year. This increase has led many European fertiliser production plants to close, reducing production by 70%. This, coupled with reduced imports from Russia and Ukraine, has virtually eliminated the supply of fertilisers on the European market. With a food security cri…

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Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

Mr President, we are witnessing today a deliberate, coordinated and utterly disproportionate attack on the Greek Government, and it seems that everything goes to attack, even muddying Greece's reputation in Europe with lies: I have come to hear these days that Greece is a second-class democracy or even an autocratic country. Quite the contrary, the action of the Greek government after the revelati…

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Jul

2022

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Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

Madam President, 'Our greatest hope is famine'. With these words, Margarita Simonyan, Putin's chief propagandist, summed up the enormous dependence of Africa and the Middle East on Russian and Ukrainian grain. After threatening to cut off gas to European countries and start a global nuclear war, Russia's latest deadly threat is the blockade of food exports. To avoid this Russian blackmail, we must…

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, what happened at the Moroccan border on the 24th, as you described, Commissioner, is an unmitigated tragedy. The death of dozens of people cannot be described in any case as a well-resolved matter, as Pedro Sánchez, the president of the Government of Spain, did. Far from being well-resolved, his Government's management of the complex situation on the southern border was a cluster …