What Nicolás spoke about.

27 Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

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Mr President, yes, tobacco kills, it is the main cause of lung cancer, the main cause of heart attacks or preventable sudden deaths. Tobacco kills and the tobacco industry has been following the same strategies for decades; Now, with new products that seek to create nicotine addicts, disguising them as new technological products, catch young people to create that nicotine habit, so that they can t…

27 Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

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Mr. Liese, you always talk about being a doctor. I am also a health worker: that gives us the right to speak with a certain property, but it does not give us the right to speak ex cathedra, as if we were high pontiffs of health. But I'm going to something more concrete. You say that these new products may be good for quitting smoking or even that you don't have to be so radical, but I appeal to an…

27 Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, it is the third winter after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and we continue to have problems with gas, which also translate into higher electricity prices, but we have tools and we have a lot of legislation to implement. We have solutions: there are tools in the hands of the Member States – and also the Commission – to put in place. We have, for example, a mechanism to deal with sho…

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)

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Madam President, first of all, I would like to express my condolences to the victims, those affected and those who are still having a hard time at the moment and who can have a hard time, even today, in Malaga, where there are serious floods at the moment. I remind everyone here of one thing: today in Malaga people are not in the streets; Today in Malaga there is no school. Do you know why? Becaus…

10 Oct

2024

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Consequences of the devastating forest fires in the Amazon and the importance of the Amazon for climate change (debate)

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Madam President, fifty thousand outbreaks of fires this year in the Amazon, fifty thousand. This is the record for the last fourteen years. These fires are mainly caused by the uncontrolled expansion of human activities, by humans, by people who burn the most important forest on earth for their own benefit and do not care about the consequences that this has for the planet. This, in addition, does…

10 Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

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Mr President, 150 million Europeans live with mental health problems. The most serious expression is suicide. In Europe, 47 000 people die every year and it is the leading cause of death among young people. A real drama. It needs to be addressed. We need to talk about this. Mental health must be addressed in all its dimensions, without stigma and without prejudice. Caring is the fundamental, the p…

7 Oct

2024

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The extreme wildfires in Southern Europe, in particular Portugal and Greece and the need for further EU climate action on adaptation and mitigation (debate)

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Madam President, I deeply regret the misfortunes that have occurred in Portugal and Greece. In Galicia we have followed with great concern what was happening to our Portuguese neighbours, because we are facing similar conditions. It has bet dangerously for a forest monoculture. Demographic abandonment and rural abandonment are also determining factors. I have seen and see disappearing biodiverse f…

18 Sep

2024

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

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Mr President, just over a year ago, the alert declared in 2022 for the mpox virus ceased, but the situation has never ceased to be worrying in Africa. Although we stopped watching the news, the crisis continued in the Democratic Republic of Congo and, on August 14, the WHO declared a new emergency outbreak with 14 affected countries, 37,500 infections and 1,500 deaths. And there is a new subtype t…

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, very good five years, very intense, of course. This report serves to confirm once again that there is a gap between the objectives and the trajectory. In addition, we see that there are sectors – such as transport or heating and cooling – very lagging behind, so we are waiting for the long-awaited plan to decarbonise them. It is also noted that energy prices remain high…

23 Apr

2024

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

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Mr President, at last, after years of negotiations, we see the exit from the Energy Charter Treaty tunnel. Europe is in an energy transition and that requires us to say no to fossil fuels. If we are facing this transition we want to leave the Energy Charter Treaty because they are contrary climate policies. This Treaty is contrary to the climate struggle that we are championing in the European Uni…

22 Apr

2024

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Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution (debate)

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Madam President, in my country, in Galicia, a few months ago we suffered a harmful spill of pellets. People had to pick it up while the regional government abandoned it in the face of this pollution, which we later learned was not only harmful to ecosystems, but could also be harmful to human health. We therefore welcome this ambitious new regulation, which is a commitment that the polluter pays. …

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Madam President, the truth is that we are going to approve it. It's going to be a success. And I would tell the Commission and the Council not to abuse Article 122 again, because this Parliament can work properly and even faster than they can. In line with what was heard: emergency situations require emergency measures. Some called the Iberian solution "timo ibérico", which was able to protect cit…

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, first of all, I thank the shadow rapporteurs with whom I have worked, Petersen, Bloss, Krasnodębski and Mesure, and also Maria da Graça Carvalho, who is now Portugal's energy minister and is not here. In summer 2021, with electricity prices picking up, some from the S&D Group denounced the flaws in the design of the electricity market. Putin was already beginning his blackmail by pla…

10 Apr

2024

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Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

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Madam President, Commissioner, today we are voting on the reform of the pharmaceutical policy of the European Union with deep socialist marks. It has only guided me, it has guided the general interest: improve the problems we have in Europe of accessibility to innovative or industrial drugs. The final text encourages innovation and access, encourages investment in the treatment of diseases such as…

13 Mar

2024

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Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

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Mr President, the question is whether when seven hundred people died a day you can hire your brother and receive 286,000 euros. What sounds to them was said by Pablo Casado before his head was cut off for denouncing the president of the Community of Madrid. And what happened? That he was right. And just yesterday, in the environment of Mrs Díaz Ayuso, a new fraud of hundreds of thousands of euros …

11 Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, congratulations to Parliament's rapporteurs, the Commission and the Spanish Presidency for reaching an agreement on time. Much of the barriers we have in Europe to implement energy efficiency measures in buildings are not economic, but due to lack of information and correct financing instruments. And that's the first barrier to overcome. And this directive is one of the pillars of th…

18 Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Galicia is facing a double tide today: a plastic tide and a tide of incompetence, concealment and lies on the part of the autonomous government of the PP, whose disastrous management has left municipalities and citizens to their fate in the cleaning tasks. The Xunta has spent weeks denying the importance of pollution, that caused by microplastics, which is a key priorit…

17 Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their report. The consensus they have had is proof of good policy. Geothermal energy has a vast potential, which has not yet been fully exploited. This report highlights this issue. However, we need to move forward in this climate emergency so that these systems have more support, more strength, and more research to get all the performance…

11 Dec

2023

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Small modular reactors (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteur. It is clear that we need climate action at the same time in many parts, and the technology of small nuclear reactors may be one that provides us with decarbonized energy. Even so, developing these small reactors will not eliminate one of their problems, which is waste. But, of course, it is necessary to investigate and it is convenient to adva…

8 Nov

2023

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, this edition is the first to assess the impact of the energy crisis, and I see that the report is optimistic about how the Union has dealt with the price crisis, but I think it forgets to assess how energy prices have moved to the public in the form of inflation in commodities as basic as food and how some of the measures implemented in certain countries have been more …

16 Oct

2023

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Fisheries control (debate)

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Madam President, the European fisheries sector is the most regulated in the world, both in terms of ecological sustainability and in terms of quality standards, which are the highest. The commitment of the sector is what is behind the recovery of the stocks, especially in the Atlantic. Pragmatic solutions to very complex problems have been found in this Control Regulation. For example, in the fish…

3 Oct

2023

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Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for responding to our request for a debate and for coming to Parliament today. The truth is that medicines are lacking in the European Union. Shortages are reported in all Member States and the situation has increased in recent years: there has been a worsening even since 2022. We are highly dependent on external countries, such as China or India, which produc…

14 Sep

2023

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Amendment of Regulations (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2019/942 as well as Directives (EU) 2018/2001 and (EU) 2019/944 to improve the Union’s electricity market design (A9-0255/2023 - Nicolás González Casares) (vote)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would ask you to vote in favour of this mandate. Thanks to the good cooperation of the rapporteurs, we have managed to establish a balanced position with broad support from the four main groups in this House in the face of a complex and far-reaching reform. This proposal responds to citizens' demand expressed during the crisis. It will make it possible to redu…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you to the rapporteur and to all the negotiating team who have made this agreement possible and a reality. The truth is that aviation is a sector that lags behind in decarbonization. He hasn't made any efforts. And it was time to put in place legislation that would force the sector to advance technologically on that path of reducing emissions. And I think we've made it. We a…

11 Sep

2023

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, at last, after two years of many shocks, the Renewable Energy Directive is going to be a reality. And it is that the climate crisis is already here and, if there is a tool that works for us to decarbonize, to emit less CO2, it is renewables. That is why I am also asking some groups flirting with climate denialism to bear in mind that, in that way, we are also losing the…