What Pernando spoke about.

21

Jan

2025

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

Mr. President, I want to join the widespread concern about the autocratic and conservative consequences that Trump's rise to the presidency of the United States will generate for the peoples of Europe and particularly for the popular classes. And I also want to stress that the geopolitical role of the United States does not depend on who is in the White House. It is true that there are important –…

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, I'm going straight to the point. We are also talking here about European strategic sovereignty and this has been made clear in many of the previous speeches. There is a mantra in this Parliament that denounces interference in electoral processes, but it is only directed towards Russia, ignoring that the United States and some EU Member States also do so when they consider it appro…

17

Dec

2024

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Towards a shared vision for European tourism, its sustainable growth and brand Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the problem is not tourism, but the lack of regulation. The model that we have in force in a generalized way is the so-called "the more, the better". But on a finite planet there can be no infinite economies and growths. The same goes for our towns and cities and tourism. The lack of regulation causes problems of gentrification, because these neigh…

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Nov

2024

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Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate)

13

Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our deepest condolences to the families and the environment of the people who died in the environmental emergency of the the Valencià Country and Albacete. All the solidarity and support shown has to be transformed into deeds because, two weeks after the DANA of October 29, it is still being cleaned up and only now are towns and cities being rebuilt. It is ne…

24

Oct

2024

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Protecting our oceans: persistent threats to marine protected areas in the EU and benefits for coastal communities (debate)

Madam President, on this point about the persistent threats to marine protected areas and coastal communities, I would like to draw the attention of the Honourable Members to a project for the construction in Gernika (Basque Country) of a new Guggenheim museum in the heart of the Urdaibai biosphere reserve, which is an estuary at the mouth of the Oca River to the Cantabrian Sea, in the Atlantic Oc…

24

Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Madam President, like any disruptive change, the enormous advantages derived from the use of new technologies also have another side, in this case provided by the dehumanization that allows anonymity. The growth of far-right positions has a lot to do with manipulation online to spread hateful and undemocratic messages, from the deepfakes the mere mass dissemination of false and defamatory informat…

22

Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago Azerbaijan culminated in an ethnic cleansing of absolutely the entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, its ancestral land, where Armenians had lived for thousands of years, an ethnic cleansing preceded by all kinds of war crimes. At the moment, the situation of what happens there has been blurred by the magnitude of other crises and conflicts,…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the demand for decent and dignified living conditions for all citizens is a transversal discourse that requires taking the initiative from the public sphere, particularly in housing issues. Once again, the great liberal dogma of that supposedly self-regulating market falls by its own weight and proves incapable of guaranteeing basic rights. Housing…

8

Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the United Nations-sponsored Summit of the Future has agreed on a document that talks, among other ideas, about security and peace and the transformation of global governance. Both concepts are intimately linked and today it is impossible to talk about international security and peace without referring to Ukraine and Palestine and demanding once…

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Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, Afghanistan is currently facing multiple overlapping crises: economic, humanitarian, climate and political – each of which is interconnected and exacerbated by the growing women's rights crisis. Over the past two years, Taliban have imposed increasingly abusive policies, particularly against women and girls and religious and ethnic minorities that clearly vi…

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Sep

2024

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

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union, and this Parliament in particular, are obliged to denounce the genocide perpetrated by the State of Israel against Palestine with the complicity of the international community. The Palestinian population in both Gaza and the West Bank continues to be attacked and bombed by Israel, and this has to stop now. Pressure against Is…

7

Jul

2022

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Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

Mr President, it is essential to ensure that citizens fully exercise their democratic right in the process of European deliberation, ensuring their active role in processes of direct democracy. To this end, it is essential that the institutions deepen transparency, which is often called into question, as was the case with the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Minority SafePack’, which was ultimately …

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Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the experience in Navarre from 15 to 19 June has been an absolutely exceptional and unprecedented critical situation. The weather situation around 40 degrees for days, thunderstorms and the dryness of the earth with more than fifty days without rain, have caused several fires with devastating effects. Fortunately, there has been no serious personal damage and the condition in urban c…

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Jul

2022

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The UK government’s unilateral introduction of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill and respect for international law (debate)

Mr President, with the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, the British engineered a segregated statelet that denied the most basic rights to Irish nationals for decades. A system of social and political discrimination that sought to prevent their ever gaining proper representation and access to power. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 put an end to that situation and ushered in a new era of demo…

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there is a great parallel between Sweden's and Finland's betrayal of the Kurds to please Turkey and Spain's umpteenth stab at Western Sahara. In the Saharawi case, it is evident that Spain has changed its historical position in favor of the Moroccan occupier in exchange for outsourcing the southern border of the European Union in Melilla, with the tragic result of th…

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Jun

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, dear colleagues, may I call your attention to the situation of Basque students at higher schools sitting the final examination called the Diplôme Nationale du Brevet taking place in the French international system tomorrow and the day after. Students from Département des Pyrenées—Atlantiques that got all their status in the Basque language so far are being requested to take final …

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Jun

2022

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The Commission's proposal for "Attracting skills and talent to the EU", particularly the Talent Partnerships with North African countries (topical debate)

Mr. President, we all have the right to emigrate and improve our personal and economic situation, especially in circumstances of vulnerability or risk to our lives or that of our families. All, absolutely all people are subjects of human and social rights and this cannot be ignored for reasons of race, religion, culture or class. It is not acceptable that the approach proposed to us is solely and …

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May

2022

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Establishing the European Education Area by 2025 – micro credentials, individual learning accounts and learning for a sustainable environment (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this motion we are debating today comes from the oral question put by several Members on micro-credentials in education in the context of the European Education Area by 2025. The text contains ambitious proposals in the framework of universal accessibility to education, emphasising topics such as the close relationship between lifelong learning and employability, the st…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, in a rule of law nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies surveillance by means of Pegasus spy software and similar to elected politicians, journalists and activists. The European institutions must investigate which governments have violated European law and fundamental rights by illegally spying on political opponents. It is important to underline that we are tal…

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Madam President, first of all, we have to be grateful to the citizens who have invested their time in the Conference on the Future of Europe, to those who participated in the citizens' panels and plenary sessions and to all those who left their opinion in the contributions of the multilingual web. These people have shown us once again that citizens are ahead of the European institutions, which are…

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May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

Mr President [...]works of the AIDA Committee. It took a lot of effort and a lot of mutual understanding as well. I have to say that we are highly critical about the main ideas of the final draft. I have to admit that some progress was made in the course of the procedure and that some slight positive elements were introduced as regards artificial intelligence and the labour market, health and data…

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Apr

2022

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The Schengen evaluation mechanism (debate)

Mr President, the evaluation mechanism must ensure that respect for fundamental rights, as well as the right to free movement, is strengthened. And yet, since 2015, at the internal borders of the Schengen area there are cross-border crossings that have been closed for more than a year, something that initially should have been a temporary measure. This is the case of some steps in the Basque Count…

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Apr

2022

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

Mr President, I would like to begin by thanking rapporteur Domènec Ruiz Devesa for the work he has done and for his willingness to include our input since the first draft report was drawn up and throughout the negotiation process. I must say that we are satisfied with the result. The report includes a comprehensive review of actions to implement the concept of European citizenship, taking into acc…

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, the European Commission recently presented a joint action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy, setting out a plan to make Europe independent of Russian fossil fuels well before 2030, as well as, in the short term, responding to rising energy prices in Europe and rebuilding gas reserves for the coming winter: the REPowerEU plan. On the other hand, the Communication c…