What Isabel spoke about.

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Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr representative of the Spanish Presidency of the Council, let me wish you the best of success for these months. Over the last 15 years we have suffered economic crises that have particularly hit families, SMEs and the self-employed, who are undoubtedly the real engine of the European economy; those who promote consumption, investment and savings; Those who create jobs…

12

Jun

2023

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Competition policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, as has already been discussed in this report, regulatory coherence between EU Member States, bureaucratic simplification, the removal of barriers to free markets and cross-border investments are pillars on which a more competitive Europe must continue to be built. In this regard, I believe that the NextGenerationEU programme deserves particular mention. These funds were…

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May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the success of recovery funds cannot be measured in payment claims or transfers made by the Commission. Nor can it be done for the aesthetic quality of PowerPoint presentations where individual Member States are presenting their national plans. An art, that of propaganda, in which, by the way, Mr Sánchez's government is absolutely a genius. However, the success of th…

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Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I am very glad that this debate is taking place today, because it is a very important debate. There is no doubt that the digital euro proposal would improve the efficiency of payments by reducing costs and transaction times. It would also strengthen the international role of the euro by allowing the EU to diversify its international foreign exchange reserves and redu…

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Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, representatives of the Council. I am very glad, Commissioner, that in this debate you have highlighted something that I consider essential, which is the Next Generation EU funds. Precisely in a debate on competitiveness, when we have in place a plan of 800 billion euros that we are financing with European debt, which future generations will have to pay, and when we talk…

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Feb

2023

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, without a doubt, the adoption of the REPowerEU chapter today under the Recovery and Resilience Fund is very good news, because we are providing solutions to the real problems caused by Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, resolving the serious inflation crisis and the serious crisis that high energy prices are causing for both European families and businesses. But t…

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Dec

2022

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The 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (debate)

Madam President, I was going to use my minute and a half to denounce - and I do not want to stop doing so - the persecutions of Christians in the world and to appeal to the Commission not to look away from the constant massacres of religious minorities, in this case Christians, throughout the world, especially in an institution such as Parliament, an institution of the European Union where we are …

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Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, of course it is a priority. And it must be our priority to tackle the escalation of prices that affects in a tremendously cruel way many European households, but also entrepreneurs, the self-employed, entrepreneurs and European SMEs who are making real, immense efforts to get ahead, to continue creating jobs, to continue creating wealth. I do not tire of sa…

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in the face of the terrible energy crisis, the inflation crisis, the difficulty of paying mortgages due to the high rate of interest rates or the supply crisis, there is already a tool to start tackling them: These are NextGenerationEU funds, which I know the Commissioner knows very well. We are talking about 800 billion euros which, in a very high percentage, are pendi…

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Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are recalling that there are more than 24 million SMEs in Europe employing more than 100 million Europeans: We must not forget that there is no better social policy than job creation, but it is precisely these 24 million SMEs that have been suffering the consequences of the crises of the last fifteen years and, even so, have been able to continue to carry on…

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Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

Mr President, I simply want to reaffirm myself in each of the words I have spoken. Mr Comín is a fugitive from Spanish justice and I hope he will be held accountable very soon... (the Chair took the floor from the speaker).…

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Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

Mr President, before I begin my speech, I would like to remind you that the man who has spoken before me is a fugitive from Spanish justice and that I hope that he will soon be accountable to the Spanish courts so that they can judge him with all the guarantees for the crimes of which he is accused. We are in a debate that we have been talking about practically all this week, that is, that citizen…

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Jul

2022

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EU initiatives to address the rising cost of living, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, in the face of rising inflation - I would say skyrocketing inflation - that we are living in Europe, which is punishing families, the self-employed, SMEs and anyone who is trying to develop an economic activity, but also anyone who is trying to make ends meet - and many are finding it increasingly difficult - Europe has put on the table, in the wake of the COV…

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Jun

2022

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Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in future we will be judged by the speed and efficiency with which these funds were managed; We will be judged on whether, at this time of tremendous economic uncertainty, we were able to generate opportunity and growth. This is why it is now time to require Member States to implement these funds swiftly, effectively and transparently to ensure that they reach busine…

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Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to take the minute and a half that I have of time to address the American people and sincerely apologize for the embarrassing spectacle we are giving from the European Parliament by organising a debate to, after wanting to stand up as the great defenders of the rule of law, criticise a decision of an independent court on the basis of a leak on a future j…

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today's debate is a debate to ratify a decision taken by the main states within the framework of the OECD to decide that there should be a minimum tax rate. We can discuss whether this minimum tax rate should be higher or lower, but, really, what we have to do is ratify a decision that has been taken, which is what the Commission is doing by putting that ratification…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the Committee on Petitions we adopted an opinion which had two main objectives. On the one hand, to reflect the fundamental principles of the rule of law, principles to be respected by each and every Member State: separation of powers, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, equality before the law, enforcement of sentences, fight against corruption and fa…

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Mar

2022

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European Withholding Tax framewor (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I wanted to thank and congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Marques, because I think it is a good report that we are presenting today and also for the good spirit that has reigned during all the negotiations and long meetings that we have had to be able to present this report today and put it to the vote. And I have already told you that the EPP Group is going t…

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioners, Madam Minister, at this time of economic uncertainty, the European Semester is even more important as a guarantee of macroeconomic stability within the European Union. The terrible consequences of the COVID crisis or the consequences that are to come and that we are going to live through from the war in Ukraine cannot be the excuse for the European Union to anchor i…

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Mar

2022

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Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020 (debate)

Mr. President, look, if I had been born in the nineteenth century, I assure you that I would have been a suffragette and would have fought with all my ability to claim equality between men and women; If I, in these times, had been born in Saudi Arabia, Iran or Chad, for example, I assure you that I would be fighting tooth and nail, with all my ability, for equality between men and women. But I was…

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Jan

2022

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

Madam President, first of all, I would like to express my deepest condolences on the passing of President Sassoli, while congratulating Mrs Roberta Metsola on her election and wishing her the best of luck. While Europe suffers the umpteenth wave of infections, the European Parliament, on the proposal of the Socialist Group, devotes the first debate of the year to abortion. As European citizens try…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, the European Commission recommends against congratulating Christmas. It does so for the sake of so-called inclusive language. They had to rectify, it's true. And it may seem like a joke, an anecdote without major transcendence, but it is not. Last year I wanted to donate a birth so that it could be exhibited in a main place in the European Parliament. With this small gesture, I wa…

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Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, during the crisis caused by COVID-19, banks have undoubtedly been a fundamental pillar for the recapitalisation of companies and for the revival of the European economy. And they have been largely thanks to the progress that over the last year has strengthened the third pillar of the banking union and led to the creation of a European Deposit In…

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Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I came to this debate today to talk about what is important, which is the recovery funds, to ask you from this House for that diligence in the analysis of national plans and also to ask you for extreme diligence in supervising the execution of funds, to avoid waste, that there is clientelism, that there is diversion of funds and, above all, to m…

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Sep

2021

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Implementation of EU requirements for exchange of tax information (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the fact that the European Commission has among its priorities the fight against tax evasion and tax fraud is certainly a success. First, because whoever makes it must always pay for it, wherever it comes from; and that public institutions work together to prosecute crime and to ensure that the sense of impunity disappears is very good news. Secondly, because the reg…