What Pernando spoke about.

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Mar

2022

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Destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh

Madam President, the Armenian people have known the worst with the genocides perpetrated by Turkey in 1915, and they have longed for freedom and democracy. Two years after the Azeri attack supported by Turkey against the people of Artsakh, the Armenian people and its cultural heritage are still under threat. In this context, we firstly call on Azerbaijan to discard once and for all its militaristi…

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Mar

2022

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Myanmar, one year after the coup

Madam President, a year ago, the military of Myanmar seized power through a coup d’état and arrested the State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the President. In August, the Commander-in-Chief of the army announced he was appointing himself Prime Minister and since then a mass protest movement has taken to the streets and protested for a return to a democratically elected civilian government. Sin…

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Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the more than two million refugees who have fled Ukraine to date need our help and that is why we welcome the Temporary Protection Directive, which gives access to residence, education and the EU labour market, as we have been calling for since 2015. This reflects that, when there is political will, the European Union is a place open to people fleeing war and…

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Feb

2022

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A statute for European cross-border associations and non-profit organisations (debate)

Mr President, rapporteur, the European Parliament has been calling for years for the creation of a statute at European level for associations and NGOs in order to ensure mutual recognition between Member States and to facilitate the cross-border work of such associations. To this day there are still major complications in recognising the activities of international associations and this is particu…

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Dec

2021

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2020 (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, I would like to begin my speech in line with what one of the honourable Members has said and, once again, to denounce the excessive political hand of the chairman of the Committee on Petitions, who repeatedly acts outside the impartiality that he is supposed to have, as we have been denouncing different Members of Parliament. The agreed text refle…

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Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (continuation of debate)

Mr President, since data on violence against women began to be collected in 2003, 112 women, 11 minors, have been murdered in Euskal Herria. Behind this unacceptable number are names and stocks, stolen life projects. We especially want to remember Erika Tavares, Conchi González, Aintzane Pujana, María Pilar Berrio and the 75-year-old neighbor of Biarritz who have been murdered throughout 2021 in E…

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Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

Mr President, I’d like to thank the rapporteur and the whole team that have been working on this file. We have achieved an ambitious report. The current European Union framework places too much emphasis on high-skilled workers and not enough on middle- and lower-skilled workers and pathways of labour mobility for migrants of all skill levels are crucial. However, we believe it’s time to stop seein…

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Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Šojdrová, and all the shadow rapporteurs, because we have achieved a good text that fits with the debate that, at least in the Basque Country, is taking place on the necessary educational innovation and pedagogical transformation, with ambitious proposals such as universal accessibility to education and the importance of …

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Madam President, we are experiencing a dramatic increase in electricity prices; In the Basque Country we have seen public outages and mobilizations because this is an issue that affects the most modest economies in a brutal way, and the measures that the Commission has presented to us are not aimed at lowering the price of energy, but at alleviating its effects on the domestic bill, and there they…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Poland is a State of the Union that no longer maintains minimum guarantees to preserve the separation of powers: courts are politically influenced, gender and LGBTI rights are systematically violated and the state of emergency has even been used to prevent the flow of migrants by flouting European asylum law. The judgment of 7 October this year denies the rule of law of the Union and…

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Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (continuation of debate)

Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank Malin Björk, who is a colleague of the Left Group, and Diana Riba, a fellow candidate in Now Republics, for the great work done with this report. Gender-based violence is one of the largest human rights violations in history, which lies in the patriarchal structure of societies and gender stereotypes and must be totally eradicated in order to sp…

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Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

–Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Javier Moreno, and his team for the work they have done on the revision of the Blue Card Directive, as well as all the groups that have worked together to reach this result after so many years. The objective was to achieve a more attractive blue card and, although trilogues have not been easy, we have managed to consi…

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Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, aeronautics is a strategic sector of the Union with more than 600 000 direct jobs. Aircraft manufacturers have been affected by the cancellation of deliveries and, in the Basque Country alone, 600 workers have lost their jobs. 20% of the sector has disappeared due to redundancies in Aernnova, ITP, Alestis, Aciturri and Lauak, and this puts the European Commission in nee…

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Jul

2021

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Slovenian Presidency (debate)

Madam President, for those of us who defend the role of the emerging states in the construction of Europe, Slovenia has been an unavoidable reference of a democratic, non-violent and successful process since that December 1991 in which it achieved its independence. Those of us who aspire, like the Basques, to have our own state in Europe believe that independence is the best way to achieve social …