What Lina spoke about.

22 May

2025

ES Speech

Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, at a time when, on the one hand, Europe needs to improve its competitiveness, but, on the other, academic freedom and science are also being challenged in other parts of the world, the Choose Europe for Science initiative is more important than ever. Europe must position itself as a refuge for researchers who seek to develop their ideas in an environment of freedom a…

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, as rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for including the concerns of the FEMM Committee in the resolution. A gender equality perspective should be integrated into and ensured across all policy areas. Gender budgeting should be implemented at all stages of the budgetary process, in order that we could…

31 Mar

2025

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Situation of European academics and researchers in the US and the impact on academic freedom (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, academic freedom has been diminishing for years thanks to illiberal proposals and also to the commodification of knowledge. But now, in addition, with the arrival of the Trump Administration, censorship, the anti-scientific narrative and the cancellation of funding for many research projects and academic programs have put the scientific community in a position to the…

12 Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, the wealth of nations or territories throughout history has not always drank from the same sources, but there is one that is very important, especially now: have a well-formed population. That is why we Socialists welcome the Union of Competences and all the initiatives it contains; also the strategic plan for training in science, technology, engineering and …

11 Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President, we really welcome this roadmap on women's rights and gender equality. So thank you very much, Vice-President. Thank you also to Commissioner Lahbib to show a clear commitment to gender equality. In a moment, we are facing a backlash on gender equality and women's rights. So especially also for including sexual and reproductive health rights. It is very important and w…

13 Feb

2025

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

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Mr President, we are debating a lot this week about the reorganisation of the world order and the need to guarantee strategic technological autonomy for the European Union, for the survival of our democracies and, ultimately, of the European project itself, and we must achieve this in order to really guarantee the development of our own artificial intelligence, economic resilience and, as I say, t…

11 Feb

2025

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US AI chip export restrictions: a challenge to European AI development and economic resilience (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, two things are clear today. The first, that artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology and that it will end up applying to all economic sectors, to all productive, administrative, medical processes, to the generation of knowledge. And the second is that a new world order is being designed, in which key players no longer respect the rules of multilateralism or…

22 Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

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Well, I think that the socialist parties have dedicated themselves to families, because it is precisely the socialist parties that have been behind the formation of the welfare states. They have been behind public services and quality employment, because there is a direct correlation between women's employment and fertility rates, which is the number of births per woman of childbearing age. Theref…

22 Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Europe is certainly experiencing a demographic winter, but also an intentional use of that demographic winter to send regressive messages, such as the role of women in our society and in our economy. We just heard it. It's like the demographic winter, in the end, becomes a kind of blackmail for women against our sexual and reproductive rights, as if we were responsible …

20 Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, innovation in nuclear fusion - nuclear fusion, I insist, non-fission, which is what we normally have now and which does involve many accident risks and other problems - is a paradigmatic example of a strategic sector to advance European autonomy, putting the European Union at the forefront of clean energy technologies and supporting the competitiveness of our industr…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, I will start in English and then move to Spanish. Thank you very much, Commissioner, for your words, for your commitment, because we need it and we count on you. Thank you very much for all the inputs we have received for this file, even the absent inputs of the Presidency that is absent from this debate, even the inputs that are really against gender equality, against women's rights…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you very much to the various parliamentary representatives who have participated in this report and also to all your teams. Almost three decades ago, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action paved the way for gender equality and women's rights. It was a historic moment, which ignited hope for a more just and equitable future. However, as the 69th session…

27 Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

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Mr President, Commissioner, today we are summoned here by an urgent subject: That of the struggle of women and women activists in Iran against a regime that, for decades, has made repression its main tool of control, its very essence. Since the protests over the tragic death of Mahsa Jina Amini in 2022, we have witnessed an alarming upsurge in human rights violations: Brave women, activists and hu…

26 Nov

2024

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Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap (debate)

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25 Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, sexist violence feeds on those who keep quiet, those who deny it, those who laugh, those who do not believe the victims and make them go through a new ordeal again, those who do not put budgets or means or laws to combat it, those who naturalize it, those who give likes They share the grievances of women, of those who objectify and dehumanise us, especially in the digit…

13 Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President, the election results of the United States confront us with significant challenges as Europeans and as Europeans, despite the close cooperation we have with the United States. The new US administration can at least impact trade, multilateralism or the resilience of the institutions and principles that support our liberal democracies, including equality between me…

23 Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is blunt in its report on abortion in Poland: with the current abortion law – which the Tusk government has not changed – Poland has discriminated against women, their rights, led to trauma, deaths, fears and threats for specialists and activists. The conclusions of this report are clear: Poland must…

23 Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we Socialists agree that we need to be more competitive and that innovation must be key to contributing to solutions that make us less dependent and that allow us to develop our industry while maintaining our social model. We also agree that we must remove regulatory and administrative barriers that fragment the single market and limit the inclusion of citizens or small…

22 Oct

2024

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, gender equality is a principle enshrined in the European Union Treaties. And in order to advance on aid and gender equality, we need to develop a gender equality law policy, but also to bring equality to all policies. And the best way to do it is through budgeting and promoting indicators to truly measure the gender transformative impact of our policies and spending pro…

9 Oct

2024

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Iraq, notably the situation of women’s rights and the recent proposal to amend the Personal Status Law

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Madam President, the Iraqi Government has tabled a reform of the Personal Status Law which, if approved, would legalize de facto the marriage of girls and adolescents if the family demands it, since it could apply a traditional jurisprudence against the Personal Status Code (something that is already done, on the other hand, outside the law). UNICEF highlights that in 2023, 28% of girls in Iraq we…

7 Oct

2024

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Need to fight the systemic problem of gender-based violence in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we have recently heard a lot in this Parliament about the identification of gender-based violence with cultures other than the European one. And that happens, shamefully, while in France the trial of the Pélicot case unfolds: that good neighbor, very European, who for ten years drugged, raped and offered his wife to other men to rape her as well. Up to fifty men from a …

18 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”

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Mr President, a minute of silence is usually a testimony of solidarity, pain or condemnation, it usually symbolizes mourning and collective respect in the face of a death by catastrophe, by accident or by murder, and we do it before football matches, in town squares or in parliaments like this: With these collective silences in public spaces we show our respect for people and for our fundamental v…

25 Apr

2024

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the Net-Zero Industry Act aims to strengthen Europe's manufacturing capacity for technologies that support the decarbonisation of our economies. This law will allow strategic projects to benefit from accelerated permits and financial support, and that will allow us – it will allow Europe – to achieve the objective of climate neutrality by 2050. Our reindustrialisation m…

24 Apr

2024

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Cyber Solidarity Act (A9-0426/2023 - Lina Gálvez Muñoz) (vote)

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Madam President, we are facing more and more cyber-attacks every day in Europe. Last December alone, more than a hundred million. And is that every time we advance in the digitalization of our administrations, our societies or our economies, we become more vulnerable. Every attack on our governments, our hospitals, our critical infrastructure undermines citizens' trust in our democracies. And that…

13 Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

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Mr President, Commissioner, the situation in Gaza is appalling and worsening every minute: Israel’s deadly military offensive, the blockade of part of the humanitarian aid by the Netanyahu government, the destruction of infrastructure, including hospitals, death, starvation, human rights violations... Already more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed. Lots of women, boys, girls. No one denies…