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14

Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, rapporteur, this report makes very important requests and guidelines for an orderly acceleration of the deployment of offshore renewable energy. It is an excellent document to achieve the targets of the Fit for 55 package and specifically the Renewable Energy Directive that we are reviewing. The new marine facilities can also serve to improve the interconnections of …

13

Dec

2021

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Health technology assessment (debate)

Madam President, Mr Wölken, congratulations to all the rapporteurs on this long-standing work. It has taken years to bring to fruition something that my colleague Soledad Cabezón had already begun: bringing health technology assessment closer together – and making it more transparent – at a time when it is much more necessary. With all the disruptions and advances that we are experiencing derived …

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Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, atypical year, atypical report. We are talking about the year of the great confinement with emissions reductions of up to 10% in 2020... It is no longer the current reality. Renewable sources are positioning themselves as the main source of electricity generation: Let's support them, even though some say they are not important because at night the sun does not rise. How…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, dear Vice-President, the work of European leadership in Glasgow must be acknowledged. The commitments made have been an important leap forward in bringing us closer to the Paris Agreement, but they are still not enough if they do not always mean action. Expert meanings have said it: If this Summit had been twenty years ago, we would be talking about a success. The review of national …

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Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, Mariña de Lugo, from the north of Galicia, my region, is suffering serious industrial problems, sometimes due to the abandonment of the regional government's own policies and, at other times, due to the neglect and the use of resources and the workforce made by some companies of the people of that area of Galicia. I come here and I want to claim that, from the European Union and f…

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Oct

2021

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An EU strategy to reduce methane emissions (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the truth is that reducing methane emissions is a fast and efficient way of combating climate change. The European Union is the main importer of gas and oil. Between 75 % and 90 % of methane emissions are associated with fossil fuels imported and emitted outside the Union. Therefore, we must work for this to be provided for by a legal framework, so that our imports a…

6

Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, I am glad that we have this debate here; It was very necessary and my group has not hesitated to bring it because it is of maximum interest to the citizens. We are facing a price crisis for fossil-based energy. The price of natural gas has skyrocketed far beyond the foreseeable. We are slow in our commitment to decarbonization and we are paying for it. But we have a problem here a…

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Oct

2021

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EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crises and the role of the European Parliament in this (debate)

Madam President, we all agreed to create an entity to deal with health emergencies, a response to cross-border threats or to advance new treatments when what has already happened to us happens again. What we learned during the pandemic, with vaccines, has been very good for us and it is good to take that example, but we see that practically in this case Parliament is avoided, ignored, we are wante…

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Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

Mr. President, every new IPCC report is resounding: climate change is alarming. Following the Climate Law, we have an ambitious legislative package on the way to 2030. Thank you to the Commission and Vice-President Timmermans for presenting it. But let's focus on the fundamentals: 75% of emissions relate to the energy sector, which is largely fossil and imported. We need to move forward on renewab…

13

Sep

2021

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (continuation of debate)

Mr President, the two regulations we are debating today - the ECDC and cross-border threats - join the EMA Regulation, of which I am the rapporteur, in shaping this first development of the European Health Union, a genuine European health policy. We have seen how at the beginning of the pandemic we demanded data, information, etc. from the ECDC and it was not able to give them because there was no…

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Jul

2021

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First voting session

Mr President, pursuant to Rule 59(4) of the Rules of Procedure, I request that the report be referred back to the committee responsible in order to start the process of interinstitutional negotiations.…

7

Jul

2021

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European Medicines Agency (debate)

Madam President, allow me to address my first words to the European Medicines Agency and the Commission, to Mrs Kyriakides, for their cooperation, and, of course, to the shadow rapporteurs, to whom I would like to express my sincere thanks for the work done, for the always constructive tone and for the willingness to agree. We have not reached unanimity, but little has been lacking. Our obligation…