What Isabel spoke about.

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Mar

2025

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Savings and Investments Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is estimated that, in the European Union, 70% of savings are in bank accounts and, in the United States, the other way around, 70% of savings are invested in capital markets. Also, we're hearing it here: European entrepreneurs do not find the funding to start their projects or to grow them. And a very significant number go outside the European Union, largely to the U…

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2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, budgets are the concrete and precise embodiment of political priorities, responses to challenges and solutions to problems. Budgets are essential for the proper functioning of the institutions. Without them, political action is limited to empty promises, false rhetoric and accounting artifices. No budgets, no priorities, no policy. If we want Europe to bet on competitiv…

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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, once again this Parliament raises its voice, in a united way, to denounce the atrocities of the Iranian regime. A regime that, according to the data, has executed a thousand people in 2024, a regime that oppresses mainly women, but also anyone who opposes the mandates of the regime itself. The important question is how long we in Europe – from the Commission, from th…

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2025

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

Mr President, it is undeniable that the new US administration poses potentially conflicting uncertainties for the European Union arising from mainly protectionist announcements. But what we cannot do is turn these uncertainties into the excuse to cover up our shortcomings and to avoid the much-needed self-criticism. Europe's problem with Trump is primarily a European problem. What leadership are w…

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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, Madam Vice-President, let me warn you that it is very dangerous and irresponsible to impose an ideology as if it were a kind of sacred doctrine that no one can question or debate or disagree with. When someone questions the excesses of the requirements imposed by the Green Deal, the immediacy of the deadlines, the effects it will have and has on the economy, they are not committing b…

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Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

Mr President, this debate coincides with the second anniversary of the horrific murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl, arrested in Tehran on 13 September 2022 for – according to the regime – violating laws on veiling in Iran. Plain and simple, for not wanting to wear the veil. Three days later, he died in hospital due to physical abuse in police custody. Her death sparked …

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Nov

2024

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Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I wish you all the best in the new phase that is beginning. I am going to read you some data from a report comparing the venture capital market in the United States and in Europe. And, truly, it's devastating. On the one hand, it tells us that the European Union represents less than 50% of the size of the American venture capital market. He then tells us that the cap…

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2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, Mr Minister, facing a budget is a huge responsibility because we have to decide what expenses and what investments we are going to allocate the money from the taxes of the citizens. So three things have to be done when we face a new budget. Firstly, to evaluate the programmes that do work, those that are having the desired impact, that are generating the opportunitie…

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Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, in the face of the very alarming increase in anti-Semitism in Europe, I would also like to raise my voice in relation to the increase in hate crimes against Christianity in Europe. The latest data we have speak of 748 recorded hate crimes against Christians in Europe. These data are very, very far from the tremendous data that speak of 365 million persecuted Chr…

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Oct

2024

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Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate)

Mr President, it is clear that the left does not want to learn: insists on the need to intervene in the economy through new taxes, without caring in the least about the low revenue achieved by these policies wherever they have been applied, their zero redistributive effect and the great damage caused to economic growth. The left persists in its demagogic discourses through which it points out and …

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2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, I would like to react to the intervention of Mr Borrell, whom I thank, of course, for condemning the terrible attacks of 7 October on behalf of the European Union and, of course, for calling for the immediate release of the hundreds of hostages still held by Hamas. However, I wanted to make it clear that I am concerned about some attempt to create an equidistance between what is I…

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Madam President, Venezuela is a great country that has been suffering a long totalitarian and dictatorial nightmare. It is macabre that it presents itself as the government of the people and defender of human rights to a regime that has expelled eight million people into exile, that has imprisoned and tortured thousands of Venezuelans and that systematically violates the rule of law, the separatio…

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Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

The best proof that the State of Israel is a free democracy is that its citizens can take to the streets to protest against their rulers whenever they consider it, they can go out and criticize their governments, they have elections and they change their governments: that is the best example that democracy in Israel needs to be defended so that they can continue to protest whenever they want; Unfo…

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2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, on 7 October 2023, the terrorist organisation Hamas murdered more than 1200 Israelis and abducted more than 250 innocent people, including children, in a bloody and inhumane attack on the democratic State of Israel. It is key to remember this date and this terrible attack so as not to lose focus and fall into biased stories that seem to pretend to forget this massacr…

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Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

As I said in my speech, this Parliament is trying to impose on the Member States its will, which is the will of a minority. And I reaffirm myself. Mr Macron, when he came here to announce his priorities to the Presidency, already announced that he intended to do this. Mr Macron is using abortion as a political tool in his own interest. Let's not fall into the trap. Let us respect subsidiarity and …

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2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, everyone has the right to life. This is Article 2 of the Charter that some in this Parliament want to amend. It's a surprising contradiction. Celso defines that Law is the art of the good and the just. For this reason rights are neither created, nor erected, nor conquered. Rights are recognized. Respect for human life in all its dimensions is the first act of justice to…

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2024

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Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by thanking the rapporteur for this report, Mr Andrey Novakov, for his interest in obtaining direct views from regional and local authorities, his negotiating spirit and the brilliant work he has done. Something, by the way, usual in the Committee on Regional Development, which is one of the pillars of this Parliament. As a Spanish Member, I can…

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2024

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Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

Mr. President, gentlemen of the PSOE, you feel absolutely desperate. And I understand that because the case we are debating today is a disgusting case, because it occurred in the middle of the pandemic when citizens were most vulnerable. It is unworthy and immoral for some to take advantage of those difficult times to collect those illegal commissions for the sale of useless masks. There were lead…

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Feb

2024

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Calviño, welcome to the European Parliament and congratulations on your appointment. First of all, let me congratulate you on your miraculous conversion in relation to nuclear energy. Until very recently, during five years in the Spanish Government, you have fought them and excluded them from any type of investment. Therefore, welcome this miraculous conversion and I hope that yo…

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2024

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Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to acknowledge the enormous leadership that you have had in promoting the capital markets union since you came to the Commission and to thank you for the impetus that you have had in an uneasy context. So I thank you very much for that leadership, that ambition and those milestones that we are going to finish the mandate having achieved. If we look at the c…

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2024

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Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are only a few months away from the end of the parliamentary term and this is a key opportunity to reflect on the way forward in the capital markets union. Since the beginning of the legislature we have been engaged in significant progress, but we have also had to face major challenges and challenges that have limited the potential of European capital markets. When i…

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2024

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Quality jobs in a competitive future-oriented social market economy (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, if we want jobs we need employers. Quality employment is the most reliable indicator of a good economic ecosystem that starts with those who generate jobs because they invest and risk their assets: entrepreneurs and the self-employed. Bureaucratic and administrative obstacles, high tax levels and regulatory excesses do not benefit, but act as counterproductive obstacles…

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2023

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Further reform of corporate taxation rules (A9-0359/2023 - Isabel Benjumea Benjumea) (vote)

Madam President, we are voting on this report on the reform of the rules on business taxation in the European Union, which is based on five axes: firstly, respect for the fiscal sovereignty of states and their free competition; secondly, the importance of coordination within the European Union in tax decision-making; thirdly, the reduction of red tape and the tax burden, especially for SMEs; fourt…

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2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this is and must be a platform for coordination between the various programmes and funds of the European Union. A coordination that manages to simplify processes, eliminate administrative and bureaucratic obstacles, and speed up the implementation of the different programs so that funding reaches those who really need it: families, businesses and sectors most affecte…