What Nicolás spoke about.

8 Jul

2025

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Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate)

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Mr President, can anyone imagine a prosperous Europe at the end of the century without the development of clean technologies? It won't be possible. This is no longer the century of fossils, it is the century of clean ones and – specifically within clean ones – of green technologies, of renewable technologies. A Europe will be prosperous if it invests in these green technologies, if it develops the…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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You said it yourself, Mrs Borras: It wasn't renewables. In Spain there are days with more penetration of renewable energy and solar energy, and you know it well, what happens is that I cannot agree in all your assessments because I do not come here to defend a fossil economy, as your party does. Therefore, I defend that the opportunities of my country are in indigenous sources of energy. Patriotis…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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(start of out-of-microphone intervention) ... I believe that economic criteria are important when it comes to making networks more efficient. Decisions must therefore also be made on the basis of these economic results, but certainly by improving networks, expanding interconnections, your country, Portugal, and mine – which rely on renewable energy sources – will have more opportunities, they will…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Madam President, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur and my group's rapporteur, Mr Tobback, on the good report. Spain and the blackout have been mentioned a lot and I would like to clear up some doubts because I see that there are people who do not know that, according to recent reports, renewables have had nothing to do with the blackout. Renewables are a guarantee of the fu…

18 Jun

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I will say it loud and clear: The future of Europe depends on the success of decarbonisation. In 2019, we started an exciting path of hope for the future of millions of Europeans with the European Green Deal. Giving up that roadmap today would be the biggest mistake of this century, and I am concerned that some now want to get off that ship - simply because they feel th…

18 Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

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You know that the president of the Community of Madrid was charged with a corruption case and that Mr. Casado was exchanged for Mr. Feijóo. That president of the Community of Madrid currently has a problem because her partner is a confessed tax fraudster and she lives in an attic of her partner. But what happens is that number three of Mrs. Ayuso, of the president of the Community of Madrid, is in…

17 Jun

2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

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Madam President, last week, thousands of Lisboners were savoring delicious sardines at the feasts of Saint Anthony in Alfama. And in the coming days, in the towns and cities of Galicia, we will do the same. Why do we eat sardines in Galicia or Portugal in June? Because we know that it is the best season to take advantage of its healthy nutrients; In other words, we have a culture of the sea, we kn…

7 May

2025

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The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season (debate)

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Mr President, the extension of the gas storage target until 2027 reminds us of something obvious: fossil fuels are unreliable. They are unreliable, and we must work to eliminate our dependence on them. Let us not forget the crisis of 2022. We have proof that every renewable watt reduces our dependence on Russia. That is why there is also an urgent need to reduce speculation in the gas market and t…

7 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)

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Do you know which government closed the only nuclear power plant in Spain in 2012? That of his party, the People's Party. But I'm going to ask a question: Do you consider that the renewable energy that supplied France's nuclear shortage during the summer of 2002, with its reactors with corrosion, was bad? Do you think that renewable energy was bad?…

7 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)

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Madam President, what a pity and what an obsession, what an obsession! What an opportunity the PP has missed to side with the interests of Spain! You have done it again, Mrs Montserrat: One day they want to prevent a Spaniard from being the number two of the European Commission, now they attack renewables that are an indisputable part of the future of Spain and, even if they steal copper on a rail…

3 Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we must tackle rare diseases in a necessarily European way, in this problem more than in any other. They affect 7% of the population and there are 8,000 different diseases. Many families do not find solutions and many of these diseases appear at birth. We need a mandatory minimum European catalogue of rare disease screening at birth. This is an imperative need: a Europe…

2 Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

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Mr. President... (The speaker is in an unofficial language). Galicia is not understood without the sea. And so we want it to continue to be, in Galicia and in the European Union. Therefore, if we want a pact of the oceans worthy of such a name, with whom we must agree, in the first place, it is with the people of the sea, who win and play life in it. There are many opportunities offered by the oce…

2 Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, in the Alcoa de A Mariña, in Galicia, the electrolytic vats that produce primary aluminium have stopped and have not yet been restarted, to the displeasure and concern of the hundreds of workers in that region who depend on that production. The European production capacity of this aluminium has fallen by 50% since 2021. Aluminum, steel and other products are needed t…

2 Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, there can be no security in Europe without European steel or aluminium. Aluminium that, for example, was made or made in A Mariña (Lugo). The anti-Europeans who sit here today celebrate "Liberation Day", paying tribute to Trump, who imposes brutal tariffs on our industry, and at the same time want to persevere in our fossil dependence as good puppies of Putin that th…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mrs Wiśniewska, the first thing I would say to you is that the CO2 cannot reach citizens' bills because it is not yet implemented. Therefore, you, already in your question, make false assertions. But what we are paying for are the more expensive fossil fuels than the rest. Do you know why? Because we don't have them here. Therefore, and in addition – in my case – there are externalities arising fr…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, let us not be fooled, energy in Europe has always been more expensive than in other places such as the United States. Why? Because it was based on fossil fuels. It's very clear. In addition, we have seen how Putin's friends or Trump's allies, those Trojan horses, defend consuming fossil fuels and betting on more and more gas. We must go in the opposite direction: sticki…

12 Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we must act intelligently. Every electron produced in Europe, every green molecule produced in Europe, is less of a benefit to Russia and Putin. Therefore, we need to strengthen the REPowerEU plan and support a clear roadmap to reduce Russia’s energy dependence. At the same time, Commissioner, I thank you for having set as one of your main priorities the elimination of …

12 Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

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Mrs. del Castillo, I share with you a good part of the diagnosis. He mentioned the supply of Russian gas to Spain. You know – you know it better than I do – that much of it is to supply Europe. We have a good part of the liquefied natural gas terminals and we supply the rest of Europe. But did you know that one of the main companies importing Russian gas is 50% owned by your party's Galician gover…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, the Clean Industry Pact has the potential to be an engine of transformation that strengthens European industry. While elsewhere they promote instability, we have to walk firmly through the European Green Deal as the only possible growth strategy. Some are promoting here the return to fossil fuels, to gas, which was truly the problem that hampered our competitiveness in recent year…

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we finally have this Essential Medicines Act, which is another step in that European Health Union that we want to build and that we built largely through the effects of COVID-19 and the steps we took in the past, for example with a list of essential medicines or with a platform for monitoring drug shortages. But now we clearly see that drug shortages are also one of …

12 Feb

2025

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Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, mental health is a serious public health problem among young people. Statistics don't lie. In the European Union, suicide – yes, suicide – is one of the leading causes of death among young people: one in five deaths. And the causes of suicide are multiple. But we cannot forget that nowadays hate, hate that is sometimes transmitted through the algorithms of social networ…

11 Feb

2025

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

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Mr President, in Spain, almost two thirds of nurses have thought about quitting, and it is something that occurs almost throughout the European Union: painful working conditions, overload, poor salaries... And that is happening, for example, to all European nurses. That overload is sometimes unbearable, but let's not take our hands to our heads. The same ones who made the social cuts, the same one…

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, we need to be involved in the merger debate in Europe. We must believe in the possibility of generating clean and abundant energy. And we're doing it: We collaborate with the ITER project, where Europe participates with 45% of the funding. But that project has delays and is having cost overruns. We therefore tell the Commission to come up with concrete plans for how …

20 Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

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Mr President, 2024 has been the warmest year on record in our history. We have exceeded the 1.5 degree limit and Europe is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world. Today Trump has arrived at the White House and has decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. Europe is not going to fall into those mistakes. Europe knows that climate change is happening. If Trump does…

18 Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Madam First Vice-President, welcome to the plenary session of the European Parliament. It's great news for Europe to sit in that chair. Why? Because the European Green Deal is the only sustainable growth strategy possible for Europe. Stopping it or pushing it back would be our biggest mistake in this century. And I know you're his best guarantor. According to Eurostat, the lowest ele…