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2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

Your question is about the multiannual financial framework. I understand that you are referring to the European Competitiveness Fund. It is a debate that is open and it is not the debate we are having here. I am referring to the importance of attracting investment. One of the most important problems we have in Europe is the mobilisation of private investment, both of savings and of attracting fore…

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Jul

2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, according to the International Monetary Fund, Europe's internal barriers amount to a cost similar to a tariff of 44% for goods and 110% for services. A company that wants to grow in Europe faces 27 different legal frameworks to which to add regional disparities within the Member State itself. That means more costs, more time spent on compliance rather than innovating…

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2026

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Ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, notably the Kawel village massacre

Mr President, Commissioner, it cannot be that the killing of Christians for religious reasons does not arouse the same indignation that other massacres and persecutions in the world cause us. I give you some facts: According to Open Doors data, 388 million Christians are persecuted in the world and last year there were 4,849 killed. Particularly serious is the case in Nigeria, where 72% of these m…

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2026

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Financing EU priorities in a sustainable, predictable and resilient way through a new EU own resource from the online gambling and betting services sector (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the approval of the Next Generation funds resulted in the issuance of 800 billion joint debt. In the final stretch of these funds, it is necessary to analyze what economic impact they have had and whether they have achieved their objectives. However, we do not have information even on the final execution data. In addition, the publications of the European Court of Au…

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Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, from the first day that the next multiannual financial framework was discussed, the European People's Group made its position very clear. A position that we have firmly defended and that today is clearly reflected in the final agreement. We cannot accept the imposition of the failed model of NextGenerationEU funds on the European budget. Nor can we allow the nationalisa…

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Apr

2026

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Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur for this report, Mrs Pereira, on her excellent work. Financial education is not a technical issue, much less a luxury or a complement: It is an essential competence, it is the basis for citizens to be truly independent, and yet the reality in the European Union is very worrying. Only 18% of European citizens have…

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Mar

2026

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Deposit protection and early intervention measures (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the agreement we are voting on tomorrow is great news: it is a step forward to strengthen financial stability and improve our framework for managing banking crises. I would therefore like to congratulate the co-legislators on this agreement. As I said, it is a first step, but if we want a stronger, integrated, resilient banking system capable of competin…

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Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament. It involves the concrete embodiment of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems, and that is what we are doing today, to discuss this Parliament's priorities for the 2027 budget, a budget, incidentally, which is again burdened by the repayment of interest and debt f…

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Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, one of the priorities of a Parliament – the most important one – is to make a budget and to monitor it. We in the European institutions have agreed to link budgets to the rule of law as a guarantee of our democratic system. This conditionality mechanism has been a major step towards the consolidation of the European project as an area of shared values rooted in the m…

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2025

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Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (debate)

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2025

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Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Union cannot simply look the other way in the face of the tremendous humanitarian crisis that the people of Sudan are suffering because of the war. I join all the demands that have been made today, especially that of urgently mobilizing humanitarian aid, creating a corridor and, above all, assisting women and children, bearing in mind that women, subject…

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Nov

2025

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2026 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, as I have said on several occasions, the adoption of a budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament. I therefore consider the adoption of the budget for the year 2026 to be very good news. It is a good budget that reinforces essential programmes and responds to our priorities. I would therefore like to congratulate the rapporteurs, Mr Halicki an…

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Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the pressure exerted by this Parliament seems to have begun to take effect, and I really welcome the fact that the Commission accepts that it has to amend its original proposal. It's a good first step, but it's manifestly insufficient. We continue to reject the nationalisation of European policies, the nationalisation of the CAP or cohesion, and we also reject the cuts …

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Oct

2025

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by thanking and highlighting the work of the European Court of Auditors. Its reports and evaluations have been, and continue to be, essential to shed light on the management of European funds by the Commission and the Member States. I will not tire of repeating it: the success of the Next Generation European funds, as well as the other European pro…

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Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, the budget is the origin and the reason for the existence of a Parliament: is the democratic legislative act par excellence; It involves the embodiment of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems. Unfortunately, repayment of the debt of NextGenerationEU funds is a limitation. Even so, the budget we are voting on tomorrow responds…

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Oct

2025

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The role of simple tax rules and tax fragmentation in European competitiveness (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, tax complexity and fragmentation between states penalises the productivity, investment and economic growth of European companies. An example: Spain is the second EU country to have increased corporate taxes the most in the last decade, and the result is catastrophic. Spanish companies are on average 9.6% less profitable than European ones, and Spain leads unemployment i…

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

This is precisely what I was saying. I sincerely believe that the main cause of European feminism is to speak up for women, in this case, like those in Afghanistan or many others, which is that they do not even have recognized rights as people. And is it really our concern now to talk about abortion? It's just so sad! What I'm saying is that what's happening in Afghanistan is dramatic. I think it …

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, when Afghanistan suffered a terrible earthquake a few weeks ago, we learned that the Taliban regime, an Islamist regime, prioritized rescues of men over women, leaving them literally alive under the rubble. Terrible. This horror that shocks us also provokes a sad reflection because, while in Europe we focus our efforts on debates and mobilizations on the situation of women – a contin…

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Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today is 7 October and I would like to begin by reminding the victims of the terrible terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas and calling for the immediate release of all hostages. Since that terrible day, according to the figures they give us, anti-Semitism in Europe has increased by 400 %. And the truth is that, in this debate, I have listened with amazement to how immi…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, as you are well aware, this Parliament is a strong supporter of cohesion policy. And it is because it is a successful policy, and as a Spaniard I know very well what I am talking about. We in the Committee on Budgets welcome any reform coming from the Commission to make this pillar of the Union more efficient. We therefore support this necessary simplification of progra…

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2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the time has come to send a very clear message to the Council: There is an ambitious plan, a roadmap, and we have to make it a reality. Despite the different ideological positions that exist in this Parliament, we have been able to find a meeting point to unite different political groups and say that we cannot maintain this situation in which, in Europe, savings are …

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2025

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The EU’s post-2027 long-term budget: Parliament’s expectations ahead of the Commission’s proposal (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, making things easier for businesses, SMEs and families, as well as making ourselves more competitive in the global economy in which we live, are fundamental objectives that we can achieve through simplification in the management of European programmes and the elimination of administrative and bureaucratic obstacles, but the answer to this need cannot be the merging o…

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2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, what will be the European Union's priorities for the next seven years and how will we provide them with the budget to be able to meet them? That is what will be decided in the agreement of the next financial framework. That is why I welcome the fact that this Parliament, in the report to be voted on tomorrow, includes as one of its priorities the quest to promote and fa…