What Nacho spoke about.

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ES Written Statement

Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

The agricultural sector needs the EU as much as the EU needs the agricultural sector and sustainable agriculture. Socialists recognise the strategic nature of this sector for the EU and are convinced that maintaining the agricultural fabric and the profitability of farms are necessary conditions for further progress in the transition towards greater sustainability, including in this sector. We wan…

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2026

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The EU’s role in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the accountability of Israel under international law (topical debate)

Mr. President, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on. We mentioned it, but let's go to today's issue, which is Israel's responsibility. Commissioner Šuica, you told me on some occasions: Will there be money for reconstruction? There are different items from which to draw money. I believe that creating a mechanism for Gaza gives external visibility to our commitment. I would therefore ask you to re-examine t…

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Jun

2026

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Political prisoners in Nicaragua – the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera

Madam President, Nicaragua is experiencing many parallel dramas: the dramas of these hidden prisoners - but fortunately not forgotten in this House - and some of them having died in those prisons; the drama of the boundless cruelty of the dictatorship of the former supposed revolutionaries killing activists; the drama of exile with the best of the country living outside; the drama of not having na…

17

Jun

2026

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2025 Commission report on Türkiye (A10-0106/2026 - Nacho Sánchez Amor) (vote)

Mr President, in light of relevant recent developments, I would like to propose the following oral amendment to paragraph 40. After the sentence ending in 'International Federation of Air Line Pilots', I would like to propose the following two sentences: 'deplores the interference with military aircraft carrying European officials to a recent meeting of EU defence ministers in Cyprus;' and 'expres…

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Jun

2026

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2025 Commission report on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President, I thank all the Members who have spoken, although I will make a distinction: There is a sector of this Parliament that is simply Islamophobic and therefore Turkey is a majority Muslim country and there is nothing to do. They forget that there are 20 million Muslims within the European Union - I do not know what they intend to do with them. Then there are deputies who are impatient: W…

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Jun

2026

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2025 Commission report on Türkiye (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs, it has been a pleasure to work with them, and I ask for support for the updates that we will be voting on tomorrow in the report. Democratic standards are at the heart of every accession process, which is why every progress report must also be at the heart of it. Being the rapporteur for Turkey is very frustrating. My colleagues who de…

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Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, in politics, saying things as they are has a value and calling things by name is a virtue. Therefore, we must recognize the success of Mrs Kallas in naming apartheid what Israel does to the Palestinians. It's a no-brainer, of course. As much as some ministries are falsely scandalized, many of us would have liked that phrase to be uttered in public, here,…

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May

2026

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Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts

Mr President, Commissioner Mînzatu, under this regime, the Commission wants to sign an agreement on the deportation of immigrants on behalf of or at the request of some Member States, with two immediate effects: recognition de facto to the Taliban of an international legitimacy that they lack and to prevent that political stain and cost from falling on the governments that want to negotiate with t…

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May

2026

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Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (debate)

Mr President, this Parliament is as transparent in what it says as it is in what it is silent. And this Recommendation is no exception. I appreciate the tone that our colleague Kovatchev has managed to create in the group of negotiators and his flexibility in accepting our proposals. However, our amendments show our discomfort with some of these revealing silences. How is it possible that, in a te…

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Mar

2026

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Case of Elene Khoshtaria and political prisoners under the Georgian Dream regime

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Mar

2026

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EU enlargement strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, yesterday we heard a speech that raises many questions. If the world is no longer governed by international law and values must be put on the back burner, why do we insist on those principles and values as the indispensable core of the accession processes? If this ideological world no longer exists, except in our obsolete Treaties, why maintain the fiction that the Unio…

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Feb

2026

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Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, this is a sad anniversary, but it is a sadness softened by the widespread conviction that we are doing what is morally right. Acting politically with that moral security is important. I want to pay tribute to a whole generation of Ukrainians who have suspended the realization of their dreams in order to have a homeland in which to fulfill them, especially the young people and so m…

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Feb

2026

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, this is a point about the same Rule, Rule 188, on the admissibility of amendments. Our group believes that the President's services have applied this rule in a way that is not fair concerning an amendment tabled by our group and others from the Greens. The title of this urgency is 'Christians in Türkiye'. My group has tabled an amendment that tries to modify a paragraph to include…

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Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

Madam President, I say to dear Kaja – you and your team, you live here in the Parliament. Sorry for that. In the current landscape of domestic democratic regression and aggressive US foreign policy, the European Union has repeatedly expressed the need for reliable new partners in the world. One mechanism for securing such partnerships is political and trade agreements. But this policy and map cann…

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Jan

2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

Mr President, this is Parliament's annual report on human rights at the political moment of absolute prevalence of the crudest realpolitik and in the midst of a global reversal of the approach to principles and values. Therefore, it is also good to highlight the enormous contribution of this approach to principles and values in realpolitik. The defence of human rights, the rule of law and the prom…

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Jan

2026

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

Mr. President, I want to thank David and Thijs for the effort, for trying the impossible: a description of European foreign and defence policy at a time of heightened volatility and uncertainty over the past 75 years. As difficult as photographing a Formula 1 car. It is impossible to foresee some updates, David and Thijs, for example, the convenience of not publishing private messages between head…

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Jan

2026

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Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate)

Mr President, I would like to express my solidarity with almost all the Danish colleagues. My recommendation to Mrs Kallas, to the senior officials of the Commission and the Council and to Parliament itself is that the manuals on geopolitics and diplomacy should be forgotten and thrown away. What they will need in the coming months is patience and a basic child psychology manual. Unity will also b…

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Order of business

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Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President, there is a new risk surrounding the Gaza conflict: relaxation, the drop in the attention of international public opinion, which is even logical after so many months of tension; But it is a risk that must be avoided, and not abandoned to the idea that there is a peace process underway that – with shocks – will yield results. To begin with – as has been said here – it is not a real …

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Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr President, this framework is a perfect example of the European Union's new foreign policy. We're looking for partners around the world with a sign on their forehead that says "We're desperate. We have anxiety. We need friends. And our interlocutors know that. They know it and they use it. And that's not a good starting point for any negotiations. Another of our limitations is that we negotiate …

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Sep

2025

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EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (A10-0105/2025 - Nacho Sánchez Amor) (vote)

Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs for their work, with whom I have had an excellent collaboration. The Kyrgyz Republic is one of our main partners in a region where we have interests in security, connectivity, strategic diversification, conflict resolution and the defence of multilateralism. The previous agreement was already 25 years old and it seems logi…

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Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, the barrage of words about Gaza is not only a graphic example of political impotence, but it is becoming an obstacle to action, an alibi for inaction. We must break this vicious circle and move from the mere description of horror to its political and legal qualification and the attribution of responsibilities, inside and outside the European Union. You have to abandon the phrases …