What Ibán spoke about.

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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, indeed, there are no first- and second-party spies, what is on the table are very serious accusations that affect fundamental rights, which affect the very health of the rule of law throughout Europe. That is why we need explanations and we need evidence – very transparent explanations and conclusive evidence – of who has actually been spied on, how they have been spied on, when they…

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May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

Mr President, we are debating a report which is indeed key, which concludes a work of 18 months, and which is also a very remarkable exercise in dialogue in the European Parliament. I would particularly like to thank the coordinators of this Special Committee, including the President and the Bureau, for the work they have done, in particular the many debates and conferences and a total of 14 publi…

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Mar

2022

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Role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism (debate)

Mr. President, throughout history we have built civilization by thinking that we had to abandon, in some way, the most animal impulses, the herd impulses, to build common spaces in which we lived and lived in freedom, regardless of the origin of each one, the way they feel. And, in that sense, all our constitutional texts in the European Union and also the laws that develop them enshrine that prin…

16

Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, the European Union is not a self-service where you take what you like and put on the plate what you don't like. The European Union is an institutional space that has rules and the most important rule of all is that this space is constituted by democracies, by full democracies, and a full democracy does not attack the separation of powers, does not break the rule of law. A full dem…

15

Feb

2022

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

Mr President, one in five Europeans collaborates with a non-governmental organisation, with a civil society organisation, about 2% of the budget of the European institutions is managed through such partnerships that help on issues such as humanitarian aid, such as international cooperation, such as youth, such as education, such as culture and even environmental protection. This is what we are tal…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, most countries in the world do not live in democracy. These are regimes that oppress their citizens in a greater or lesser way, which, of course, restrict public freedoms and fundamental human rights. If we had here the same level of debate that we have with some countries, such as Cuba or Venezuela, we would most likely not have dates on the calendar to be able to have them, to b…

10

Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you very much, Commissioner, for your words. It is true that this support seems massive and it is. I would just like to clarify a few points. First of all, I don't think this is a small step. I think it's a colossal step. I think it's a unique, pioneering step in the world. And I hope that, from this step that we are taking, oth…

10

Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Madam President, Voltaire said that the optimal, the perfect, is the enemy of the good. Here we bring a very good agreement, but not optimal, not perfect; And we don't mean it either. It's hard to pretend a thing like that when you sit at a negotiating table. But we do bring something that significantly improves the situation we had previously. We have had five years of deadlock on the table since…

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Oct

2021

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Artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters (debate)

Mr President, I would first of all like to thank and congratulate the rapporteur on his report, which I think is absolutely balanced and which is in line with what this Parliament has already raised on some occasions. We must indeed find a balance between the risk to the protection of rights and, of course, the technological development that somehow facilitates the achievement of social objectives…