What Juan Ignacio spoke about.

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May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

Mr President, technology is never essentially good or essentially bad. It all depends on the purpose of its use and who uses it. Nuclear technology, with a missile, can be used to cause the greatest destruction that humanity has ever conceived, but also to eliminate cancers and save lives thanks to nuclear medicine. The same goes for Pegasus. Cyber-surveillance tools are critical to protecting our…

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Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

Madam President, Putin's worst nightmare is a strong European Union and cohesive Member States. That is why for years the Russian president tried to sow discord within the European Union by supporting disintegrating projects such as Brexit or financing extremist parties, but also by encouraging secession within many European states by supporting separatist movements such as the Catalan one. Some C…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Putin's invasion has awakened many Europeans from their dream of well-being and abundance and brought us back to reality. We Europeans have had to reorder our priorities to forced marches to worry about the eating thing, literally. Today, the food supply for millions of Europeans is not guaranteed. And not only for Europeans, neither is it for the millions of Ukrainian refugees wh…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation report on on-farm animal welfare (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are once again demonstrating in this report that farmers in the European Union meet the highest standards of animal welfare around the world and that they are still working day by day to improve them, because there is no one more concerned about animal welfare than the farmers themselves, no matter how much live animals try to criminalise them. Especially to…

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Jan

2022

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Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, European farmers are being subjected to unprecedented harassment. Radical activists and extremist politicians are trying to wipe out the meat sector with all sorts of accusations. Some have already started a campaign of total demonization of meat for its environmental impact, treating it as an ultra-polluting substance. Others are automatically associating the consum…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr. President, Mr. Borrell, Ortega seems to have followed all the steps in the manual to dismantle a democracy and impose a dictatorship. First, pretending to keep up appearances, he began to buy loyalties and subsidize the hungry stomachs of the underprivileged. When he saw that the dignity of the Nicaraguan people was not for sale, the tyrant turned to threats and resorted to violence. Following…

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Mr President, just over a year ago, the Spanish delegation of the European People's Party voted against the CAP proposal put forward by this Parliament: the proposal was too rigid in its environmental requirements and jeopardised much of the income Spanish farmers currently earn. Thanks to our failure, we put a stop to the most radical measures and supported a more reasonable and flexible reform; …

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Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

Mr President, with 780 million inhabitants and 40% of global GDP, Europe and the United States have developed the most important economic relationship in the world. But our relationship goes far beyond the purely commercial aspect: Europe and the United States are the two main pillars underpinning the liberal democratic order and the rule of law; a democratic order increasingly threatened by dicta…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this strategy suffers from a major imbalance. It has an excess of ideology and a great lack of scientific backing. This has been shown by numerous studies, including the study by the European Commission itself, whose worrying conclusions they tried to hide from us. And it is that Mr. Timmermans is willing to approve it falls whoever falls. But those who fall, Mr Timm…

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Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today the European Union is taking a step forward to address the common challenge of immigration and asylum. With today's decision, we are strengthening the European Union Agency for Asylum, providing it with better organisation and better means, capacities and effectiveness. As mentioned above, the Agency will have a total of 500 asylum experts – including security ana…

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the protests last July, the Cuban regime is trying to eliminate the minimum loophole of freedom that remained on the island. It is no surprise that communism is incompatible with freedom, but the Government of Havana has redoubled its efforts to prove it in recent months: State repression has skyrocketed with hundreds of illegal arrests, b…

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Sep

2021

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The Pegasus spyware scandal (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, cyber-surveillance tools are fundamental to the work of state security forces. As a career judge and magistrate and as a minister, I have been able to see first-hand how the fight against terrorism, against organized crime, drug trafficking and many other threats to our security depends on these cyber-surveillance tools. But we must be aware of its enormous power and…

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Madariaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Miguel Mora and, since last night, Medardo Mairena; six are already the pre-candidates for the presidency of Nicaragua, imprisoned by the satrap Ortega; six people who have been denied access to their lawyers and prevented from visiting their families to bring food and food to prison…