What Nicolás spoke about.

10 Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

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Madam President, we are completing the dossiers of the Fit for 55 package. Positions will be adopted and agreements crucial for the decarbonised future of the Union will be ratified. Go ahead. I would like to highlight the important step taken by the European Union with the rectification of this Energy Efficiency Directive. More energy efficiency also combats energy poverty. In this regard, I woul…

18 Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

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Mr President, thank you, Commissioner, for appearing here today to discuss such an important matter as storage. I want to acknowledge that very important things have been done during this energy crisis, such as in terms of gas storage, which has helped us to overcome, even with some pain, the crisis we have experienced. The truth is that for the Green Deal to be a reality, an important part of ene…

14 Mar

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - How to ensure energy security in the EU in 2023

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Mr President, Commissioner, if we want more security, what is clear is that we need more renewable energy and less fossils. We finally have a reform of the electricity market in the European Union; Welcome back. Thank you for this reform, which we have long asked for and is itself good news; I think it is somehow on track, but it is not ambitious enough, especially with regard to emergency measure…

17 Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, once again in Europe we are in the position of not being able to offer patients the medicines they need. Missing painkillers, antibiotics... It is true that the situation in China and the need for this country to use more medicines in the serious COVID-19 crisis that it is suffering cause a disruption at European level. We are able to better monitor this shortage situat…

13 Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (debate)

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. – Madam President, Mr President, if the climate emergency requires renewable energy to mitigate the effects of climate change, the energy crisis requires renewables to contain citizens’ bills and make us independent of Russian fuels. Accelerating administrative permits is therefore vital; Without accelerating them, climate goals are an empty promise. This report contains tools to address this pr…

24 Nov

2022

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Revision of the Medical Devices Regulation – how to ensure the availability of medical devices (debate)

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Mr. President, a clinician, with a ventilator that gives 12 ventilations per minute and a breathing volume of 0.7, what he wants is that in one minute he reaches 8.4 liters. This means that it is accurate. And that is what the Medical Devices Regulation that entered into force in 2017 intended, that is, that medical devices should not fail. None. And we know that there were cases where that was th…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it seems that the single energy market is a building under construction in which laying every brick costs a barbarity. The lack of interconnections is the best example and we are far behind the objectives set. And that makes it difficult to share the benefits that renewables can produce in terms of price and decarbonization. In this crisis, for example, Spain and Por…

20 Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

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I share what you say about the protection of the seas and that it is necessary to protect our seas, but my question is: You defend an implementing act, what evidence do you have that fishing for hake longlines affects the seabed in this way? What evidence do you have to say this? Does this affect the implementing act? I mean, I see a terrible incongruity in what you just said.…

20 Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, my country, Galicia, has the most powerful fisheries sector in the European Union. Coastal communities live from the sea, from fishing, and, therefore, we also demand respect here: respect for fisheries, respect for seafarers who are being harmed by the European Commission's decisions on the bottom fishing regulation. We see that even anti-Europeanism is being create…

3 Oct

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, while many fishing areas are closed in the Atlantic Ocean without any scientific evidence, and without socio-economic impact studies, we see that countries that were traditionally self-sufficient in fish consumption have to import it, which is also contrary to the Green Deal. While we restrict European fishing, which is the most sustainable, which brings food with a low carbon foo…

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I think you know what I am going to say. I have to say 'I told you so', because a year ago we had this debate here, we asked to decouple gas prices from electricity and take emergency measures and reform the electricity market. A year ago. But now we are in a very complicated scenario. We have also made a lot of progress in recent times. For example, decisions have b…

13 Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr. President, I hope you will give me that minute left by Your Honor Ehler. The truth is that, when we started this discussion of renewables, no different things had happened in Europe: There was no invasion of Ukraine, there was no price crisis that we have now, and that makes us need to push for more renewables, and that was one of the reasons, too, why it was decided that ambition had to be in…

12 Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by thanking my colleague Isabel Carvalhais for her excellent work. In these reports we are faced with the adaptation to the EU regulatory framework of standards agreed in regional fisheries organisations, standards that advance the conservation of vital fisheries resources so that citizens have access to quality food with a minimum carbon footprint…

7 Jul

2022

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the truth is that the bicycle is sustainable, it gives you freedom, it is beautiful, it is healthy... Well, it's healthy as long as it's safe. A few days ago in Spain they hit the world champion, Alejandro Valverde, in a serious accident. Therefore, the bicycle is healthy when it is safe and, for it to be, we need good infrastructure. When we talk about mobility we alwa…

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Mr President, rapporteur, if there is one thing we all agree on, it is that transport is one of the least successful sectors in reducing emissions. And, within transport, aviation can also be pointed out as one of the sectors that has less fulfilled, evidently because of its technological problems. It is a very difficult sector to decarbonize. Therefore, this proposal is very necessary for aviatio…

6 Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

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Mr President, it seems that some are calling for energy taxes to be lowered, but they are already almost zero in almost all countries and the International Energy Agency has said that there are 200 billion profits falling from the sky for energy companies. There is a very clear market failure: If there are benefits fallen from the sky, the rules are wrong. If we can't change the rules now, at leas…

23 Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

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Mr President, Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark; now Italy and France. We are facing a very serious situation and we are already aware that Putin is using gas as a weapon of war. The Director of the International Energy Agency said: The closer we get to winter, the more we understand Russia's intentions. The need to ensure a minimum level of storage is crucial. The stockholdin…

19 May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Simson, thank you for the efforts you are making in the energy situation and for the package presented: This is about solidarity, and we must show solidarity, for example with Bulgaria and Poland, and I believe that we must move forward there. Our energy dependence is being used as a weapon of war, and Russia cannot again be a reliable supplier to the European Union. The…

3 May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

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Madam President, I wanted to say that Commissioner Simson has not been very specific about gas interconnections. I understand that assessments have to be made, but with regard to electrical interconnections, which are at less than 3% when they should already be at almost 15%, the Iberian peninsula is not being met. So what are they going to do with the electrical interconnections? Because we're cu…

3 May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for submitting to this exercise, which is the first time we have done so and I know it is a challenge. And also thank you for the measures you are taking. We will not have energy autonomy in Europe without reducing fossil fuels, without increasing renewable energies, without interconnections, and we will not be able to start increasing that strategic autono…

5 Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, there will be no true single European energy market without interconnections. We will not take advantage of renewables if we do not interconnect and integrate electricity grids. We are now living through the mistakes of the past. We bet on fossils, which are being a weapon of war, and that increases our energy dependence and, incidentally, the prices that consumers pay. The IPCC repo…

24 Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, if the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that joint actions lead us to mutually beneficial joint solutions. And we have been saying for some time that energy prices are a problem. Putin has played too long with gas prices and now we must not allow it. We already have that, once and for all, to touch the price that they can offer to the mix gas plants and decoupling the price …

10 Mar

2022

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A systematic EU approach to chronic kidney disease (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, first, I would like to thank you for having the opportunity to debate in the European Parliament about a disease, chronic kidney disease, which affects between 75 and 100 million European citizens, which has a high degree of underdiagnosis because we do not put the right means in place and which, in some cases, can be preventable. And the Commissioner said that Europe's…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, believe me that it is difficult to go up here to talk about energy prices while attacking Ukraine, but our stability and our unity also depend on social peace and this, on energy prices. Today we welcome some of the measures - we have called for them, I have called for them on this stand and my country has called for them - because they are positiv…

15 Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Madam rapporteur, if there is one disease that has touched us all at some point, it is cancer. That is why we cannot look the other way, because if we do nothing we run the risk of increasing new cases by up to 21%. This commission has spent months delving into the study of cancer and there are two fundamental principles: commitment to equality and commitment to scie…