What Pernando spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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The EU’s role in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the accountability of Israel under international law (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, rebuilding Gaza is not only about devoting resources to making it habitable again, but also about how we make the Palestinians the sole owners and rulers of that territory. How we do, how Europe acts and presses for Gaza not to become a luxury resort for millionaires without empathy or shame. Gaza is no man's land, it is part of the Palestinian nation and theref…

7

Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

Mr President, it is true that we are facing a security crisis. Over the past year alone, we have seen an unprecedented number of software vulnerabilities discovered and exploited by malicious compliance actors. Too often, policymakers repeat the dramatic claims made by large AI companies, without subjecting them to independent scrutiny. We should keep in mind that these companies have commercial i…

7

Jul

2026

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EU-Mexico (joint debate)

Mr President, I will start by saying that we stand alongside The Left's historical criticism of the trade agreements that the European Union and some other international actors or states have entered into. Most of the time, these agreements are driven by Eurocentrism and extractivism, and negotiations are not held on equal terms. Huge harm on our first sector and better conditions for industrial p…

16

Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

Mr President, the European technological sovereignty package means good news, as it is allegedly aimed at strengthening Europe's digital autonomy and resilience. However, the package mainly supports a market‑led expansion of data centres and artificial intelligence infrastructure, risking either market fragmentation between Member States or the shift from third country dependencies, like China or …

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is becoming almost daily, but the accumulation of savages against international law that the United States and others are perpetrating in recent times cannot lead us to turn our attention away from the fact that Trump is announcing an illegitimate intervention against Cuba. It is illegal because, once again, it would violate international law, but it is es…

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Apr

2026

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Composition of committees and delegations

Madam President, I would like to raise a point of order under Rules 202 and 188 of the Rules of Procedure in relation to the inadmissibility of amendments. I would like to denounce before this House the inadmissibility of one of our amendments to the joint motion for a resolution on the new Chinese law on 'ethnic unity and progress' and the intensification of the repression of ethnic identities. T…

29

Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the Lebanese Republic has become one of the recurring victims of Israeli expansionism in Israel's continuing violation of international law. No state has the right to directly attack or invade another country, which is why the United States and Israel have become the greatest threat to global peace. They attack any country that does not abide by their leadership and com…

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Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

Mr President, this is a motion for a resolution which was based on an interesting draft by the rapporteur - congratulations, Mrs Strolenberg - but which has lost much of its initial content to the People's Party and the far-right groups. Despite this, we recognize some positive aspects: mentions of access to justice and the fight against corruption, detention conditions, social and economic rights…

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Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, currently, European individuals are protected from discrimination on the grounds of sex and race in employment and in some areas beyond the labour market. However, the grounds of religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation are only protected in relation to employment through the Employment Equality Directive. The European Commission introduced a proposal for a directiv…

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, President Trump's plan to stop Israeli aggression in Palestine arrives 67,000 dead late. From the political level, it is nothing but a compendium of restrictions and humiliations for the Palestinian side, demands for disappearance and threats of all kinds that are only made to one of the parties, the Palestinian one, while the red carpet of impunity is extended to Israel. This as …

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Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President, Mrs von der Leyen, European citizens are still ashamed of the images and content of your meeting with Donald Trump on 27 July. You have accepted 15% tariffs on European products and committed to million-dollar purchases and investments in favour of the United States. The image that you left for posterity is that of a governor of a colony paying homage to the almighty president of the…

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Jul

2025

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Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda peace deal agreement (debate)

Mr President, since the late 1990s, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been the scene of interconnected conflicts marked by the presence of multiple armed groups, the dispute over control of strategic natural resources and also the consequences of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. More than seven million people are internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and systematic vi…

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Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Madam President, Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It has surpassed all the limits of human indecency and humanity today links the name of Israel with that of a country deserving of the utmost contempt on the part of the international community. Israel has repeatedly premeditatedly and flagrantly violated international legality and has consistently waged a campaign of a…

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Jun

2025

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State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the list of recommendations drawn up by this Parliament's PEGA Committee was supported by a large majority: supports from left to right. But today, two years later, we have no record that these recommendations have served any purpose. To begin with, it should be noted that the victims of the use of this software They have not obtained any kind of reparation. Non…

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Jun

2025

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Statement by the President - 40th anniversary of the Schengen area agreement

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, forty years ago the Schengen Agreement was presented as the great step forward that was to give practical form to European law on the free movement of persons and goods and, in fact, today citizens still consider the free movement of persons to be one of the most tangible achievements of the European Union. The reality is that, 40 years later, some Member Sta…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, the announcement of the revision of the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a victory for all of us who have denounced the genocide that the State of Israel continues to commit with Palestine. But this review is late; 50,000 Palestinian dead late. Israel has almost totally annihilated a people, we have allowed ethnic cleansing against Palestine, and now you are telling us that you …

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at this point we still do not know for sure what caused the blackout on 28 April in the Iberian Peninsula, but it is true that it has at least served to make us aware of the vulnerabilities of the electricity system and to point in certain directions. It is out of time and place to take advantage of the bewilderment to blame all this on renewable energy, as i…

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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Madam President, High Representative, we would like to express our strongest support for the continuation of the European Union's Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba. The Cuban people have been suffering for sixty-five years from an unfair trade embargo that greatly limits their productive capacities and causes significant damage to the quality of life of their residents. The la…

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May

2025

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Protecting Greenland's right to decide its own future and maintain the rule-based world order (debate)

Madam President, the people of Greenland already overwhelmingly opt for pro-independence parties and have made it clear that they want Greenland to be an independent state. It is now lacking for Greenlandic citizens to be able to decide freely and formally, and for the international community – particularly the United States, Russia, Denmark and the European Union – to respect its final decision o…

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Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is 110 years since the genocide against the Armenian people. It is estimated that almost two million people were deported and massacred by the Ottoman Empire. Turkey then, as today Israel against Palestine, has always denied that the massacres of Armenians were genocide but the truth is that it was a systematic plan of ethnic cleansing against a people who su…

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Mar

2025

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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan

Mr President, Azerbaijan holds the painful record of having made a country disappear overnight without the international community paying too much attention. It's almost two years since Azerbaijan completed an ethnic cleansing of the entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh: it emptied the country of Armenians and replaced them with Azeri individuals. Furthermore, we cannot forget that Azerb…

11

Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, in the 1970s Israeli soldiers stood in front of a block in Gaza and whistled. All the Arabs in the bloc had to run away because if they weren't beaten, they were women, the elderly or babies. These are the words of Itzhak Ini Abadi, the Israeli governor of Gaza in the 1970s. Therefore, let no one come and tell us that it all started on 7 October 2023. In Palestine, a spiral of vio…

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Mar

2025

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The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in Syria (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when the Assad regime fell last December, we all knew that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Ahmed al-Shara, the self-proclaimed president of Syria, are related to Al Qaeda and that the Syrian National Army was a subsidiary force of the Turkish Government, both with a long history of human rights actions and violations of international law. Once again, history repeats…

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, reducing strategic dependence in the area of critical communication infrastructure is crucial to moving forward decisively on the concept of European sovereignty. A technologically sovereign and secure telecommunications system of European obedience is an indispensable tool not only in the field of critical communication infrastructures, but in all communication infrast…

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Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the lack of medical professionals in our public health systems is due to different factors that have to do with poor working conditions and low wages. We already know the cause: past and present austerity policies and cuts in social spending, which have plummeted the quality of many public health systems that were exemplary and that today are sustained thanks to…