What Nacho spoke about.

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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 want real reciprocity in production conditions inside and outside the EU. In our view, this is unfair competition, as everyone within the EU is subject to the same production rules as required by the CAP. We are aware of the malaise of the sector, which is due to multiple causes, national or European depending on each Member State, but which has a common denominator in the low prices of the first link in the chain that do not cover production costs. In this debate we have reiterated that we are listening to the sector and we have denounced loud and clear the regrettable electoral instrumentalization that the right and the extreme right are doing of the malaise of farmers and ranchers and their difficulties.

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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 the Taliban. Why does the Commission have to bear this cost? Why don't you welcome the Taliban in the capitals that want to make that kind of deal? Or do they want the Union to negotiate the handover of women and girls who cannot work or study? Why does the Commission allow itself to be entangled in this obvious trap? Why are bilateral agreements signed with other countries by the capitals and with the Taliban is the Commission interposed? Why have we not been told that there has already been a supposedly technical meeting with the Taliban in January? Commissioner, we have a road map with the Taliban. I think the Commission should re-read it.

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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 text like this, one carefully avoids mentioning Trump critically? Isn't Trump a major player in the dismantling of our bilateral system? We speak of threats to the sovereignty of Denmark and Greenland as if it were an earthquake, without attributing it to anyone. We speak of UNRWA in an unrespectful tone, with its crucial and irreplaceable role, and I stress: UNRWA is irreplaceable. We insist again on the issue of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks, and we never talk about Israel's schoolbooks, in which similar signs of dehumanization of Arabs and Palestinians have been found. That is why, Andrey, despite acknowledging your work, our amendments are dedicated to filling in those shameful omissions. This text clearly points to a structural fatigue of the United Nations system and its difficulty in adapting to new international actors. The United Nations was born to host States, but today in the international arena there are interlocutors who are no longer States and for whom the United Nations has not yet adapted: the European Union, of course, and certainly also the African Union, from another point of view. And this disconnect with emerging realities is a brake on the renewal of the United Nations. Quite simply, this United Nations no longer represents the world if it does not include the European Union in its Security Council.

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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 Union is still a crossroads of democracies and not a geopolitical club? If the geopolitical point of view is predominant, why insist on the maturity or immaturity of the democracies of the candidate countries? Yesterday's toxic speech by the President of the Commission represents the anti-Schuman moment, the anti-Delors moment of the European Union. In relation to enlargement, what does that paragraph mean that the candidate countries must be brought in? already now? And what does it mean that enlargement is not about ideology, but is a matter of common European interest and security. Are interest and security now the measure for the accession processes? Between yesterday's defeatist speech and the Council's rejection of the reverse membership, I'm afraid your schedule has become extraordinarily complicated.

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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 many martyrs who will no longer be able to dream and whose photos we saw on the walls of St. Michael in Kiev. We have to make so much pain not useless. An essential element of our moral strength regarding war is the permanent remembrance of the basics: There's an aggressor and an aggressor. And the moral equidistances of the present American Administration are intended to obscure this origin. That is why peace is not enough: It must be a just peace consistent with the abysmal difference between aggressor and aggressor. Of course, it is the Ukrainians who have to measure the terms of that longed-for peace. But, for this, they need our help, not to prolong the conflict, but to negotiate in a position that guarantees a just and lasting peace: "fair" means military aid now, "durable", guarantees for the future.

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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 a reference to religious minorities other than Christians in Türkiye, but that has been declared inadmissible, apparently because it goes beyond Christians. At the same time, there is an amendment from the ESN Group that makes a reference to Christians all over the world, not in Türkiye, that has been declared admissible. Strangely, nobody noticed that the amendment goes beyond Türkiye. This is clearly unfair and unequal treatment, and my group will likely formally protest against the decision, and we reserve our right to address this matter at all appropriate levels. The administration should always apply the rules consistently and impartially.

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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 cannot be the result of juxtaposed and changing national interests depending on national electoral calendars. Does Europe want all the partners it can have or not? What cannot be easily explained is choosing to support one or the other agreement depending on the pressure of one or the other sector or depending on the electoral calendar of each country. Because one day it will be an agreement and a sector, but in the future it will be another agreement and another sector. Because in everything you can find some sectors that receive some kind of damage from the agreements. The underlying problem is that we are renationalising European competition in foreign trade. Just look at this morning's voting map with Mercosur: national alignments over political groups and forgetting our obligation to defend European interests. Today it has been Mercosur and tomorrow it may perhaps be India, because in that case too there will be sectors affected. At this stage, as soon as we slide down that slope, this Parliament will be organised by national delegations and not by political groups.

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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 promotion of democracy is not an optional policy of the European Union; is a mandate of the Treaties. It is a legal obligation, but it is also that a world of democracies is not only a fairer world, it is also a safer world. Democracies are boringly predictable; autocracies are unpredictable. Democracies have checks and balances, free press, critical public opinions, real systems of guarantees... Democracies do not militarily invade a neighbour at night – and if they do, they are no longer democracies. Therefore, our contribution to the stability of the world also lies in our policy of promoting democracy; They are not only the values of our civilization, they are also an instrument of stability and security for all.

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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 heads of state. In this panorama, which seems to be the end of the era of rationalism and the Enlightenment of which the European Union is the daughter, we must return to the basics, to the essentials: a period of essential consensus in foreign policy here, between the central groups of Parliament, between Parliament and the Executive, in the institutions of the Executive and between the Member States. Anything that weakens us must be rejected outright, and there we must speak of unanimity, as Hilde has done; find an acceptable term in the tone and volume of our public statements in foreign policy; and addressing European citizens when talking about foreign policy, because European citizens are starting to see their heads of government more than European foreign policy leaders.

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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 be required, "UNITY" with capital letters. We have to forget about the small domestic fights here, between groups, between groups and institutions, between the institutions of the Executive and between the Member States. We have to reject anything that might weaken us, agree on some basics, discuss them in a discreet area and appear before the world and Europeans as the bloc we say we are. To find that common space, you have to raise the tone in the Executive and you have to modulate the tone in Parliament, because European citizens are starting to trust their national leaders more than the leaders of the European Union. And, therefore, a year of basic consensus is not a suspension of European democracy, it is an imperative in the face of an existential threat.

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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 peace process but, for the moment, only a ceasefire that has not even managed to stop the deaths, which are already counted – again – by dozens; a ceasefire, by the way, which committed Israel to allowing humanitarian aid in and which, in one week, has allowed 800 trucks when 600 are needed every day and, of course, this aid – inevitably – cannot reach the devastated north of the Strip; But this is not only about food, this is about essential services such as water and health care, at least basic. Another aspect in which you do not have to relax: accountability for the crimes committed. How we act now will be the measure for Putin: When there is a ceasefire in Ukraine, are we going to abandon Putin's accountability? Attention to the dilemma and the answer, because a different treatment will again test our credibility in the Global South. So, when the dilemma arises about responsibilities in the Strip, let's not lose sight of Russia's case and Putin's personal responsibilities. This Parliament approved in September the full re-establishment of UNRWA's mandate and funding. Trump's plan, fortunately, does not exclude any international agency. Many novice actors - from politicians to real estate agents - are going to appear in Gaza and some, surely, combining both souls, but UNRWA alone has 20,000 Palestinians on the ground, experts in the provision of all kinds of public services, which could be the germ of a future Palestinian administration without Hamas.

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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 with the implicit threat that our interlocutor can look for other international sponsors and can move to the dark side: Another weakness that many exploit. And, therefore, it is not strange that in the new formats of agreements our differential weapon, values and principles disappear, and an allergy is imposed to put anything that can minimally bother the other party. In the case of India, I no longer speak of violence against religious minorities. I don't talk about pretrial detention for years. Not even the ILO conventions, not even a mention of sustainable development. Pure realpolitik and no proximity values. The temptation of Greater Switzerland is calling. An introverted, walled, rich, aged, yet free European Union. Is that the model?

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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 logical that it has been revised at this stage. It has an ambitious trade and sustainable development chapter, with a rather remarkable inclusion of labour rights, climate change policies and openness to European companies and investors and the importance also of critical raw materials. It also strengthens cooperation in the field of foreign and security policy, conflict prevention and terrorism. However, we follow with concern the trend towards a security political model that is rapidly eroding the democratic standards of what was once considered an island of democracy. And we hope that this agreement will provide the Commission with new tools to reverse this trend.

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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 made and do something very important in politics: call things by name, without diplomatic jargon. Let's try it in today's resolution, because this notorious lack of credibility is no longer just something we will suffer from for decades in our relationship with the Global South, but is already affecting European citizens; And I don't mean just the protesters, but anyone watching a newscast, with those images that aren't broadcast on Israel's public television. Naming moral evil is necessary. Let's remember Hannah Arendt's warning of the "banality of evil" and call things by their name. That is why our proposal includes the term "genocide", points to the Israeli authorities as responsible for war crimes, calls for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement and calls for sanctions, embargoes, recognition of Palestine and the release of hostages.

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia (debate)

Madam President, the script of the authoritarians is boringly similar, if not because it creates so much pain and so much cruelty. In addition to the pressure on the media, on NGOs, the harassment of minorities, the dismantling of the judiciary, paranoid narratives about imaginary external enemies, the falsification of elections and so on, they always coincide in the arrest of opposition leaders. It's happening in Turkey and it's happening in Georgia. Putin stops them and kills them, some of them he kills even without stopping them. In the case of Georgian Dream it is enough to remove them from the stage with any absurd excuse. In case there is any remote doubt about the political nature of the persecution, look at the offer of the president of the country: offers to pardon imprisoned opposition leaders if they agree to participate in local elections. First you are arrested so that you do not make public life - and all the sentences refer to the fact that you cannot hold public office - and then your own jailers offer you the key to the cell if you serve to legitimize their elections and their more than probable victory. Sarcastic and cruel. Commissioner Kos, be careful with the comparison and the tone we use with Georgia and Turkey, because the same things are happening.

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, before our eyes is unfolding in all its splendor a European foreign policy prey to Chamberlain syndrome: to appease and reassure the world's new authoritarian leaders. Only moral verticality towards Putin and Russia is shown; for the rest – for Trump, for Erdoğan, for Saied, for Al-Sisi, for Aliyev, for Netanyahu – appeasement: It is the only European policy. We exhibit values and principles like a peacock, with Putin, here, on the dark side of Belliard Street, but, for the others, double standards, which are becoming a non-traditional but genetic component: the metastases of our foreign policy. The case of Israel is a good example: Laziness in activating human rights mechanisms is costing lives every day. In this Parliament, the supposedly Israeli-American humanitarian spawn, whose sole function is to lure Palestinian men into the queues of hunger to be shot there at pleasure by American mercenaries, is normally received. Here the dilemma is whether or not to suspend an Association Agreement; There the dilemma is to watch the children die or risk their lives in a queue of hunger. I make it easy for the Council, because the Council has to choose how history goes: or Chamberlain, or Churchill.

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Jun

2025

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Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli

Mr President, one of the most common and sometimes annoying aspects of authoritarian regimes is not only repression, but treating citizens as minors, as children, with all kinds of fantasies. The idea of the outside enemy is one of the favorite mechanisms of authoritarian systems, and this childish narrative, this children's tale, takes the name "Deep State" in Georgia. Anything that annoys the government is "deep state": It can be a tweet from a student or it can be any pronouncement from this House about the country. But, to get that narrative implemented, it is necessary to displace the professional and truthful information made by journalists like Mzia Amaghlobeli. Freedom of the press is an infallible antidote to the psychotic fantasies of authoritarian systems and, therefore, it is necessary to remove any kind of freedom of the press from the environment, sometimes with ridiculous measures, such as, in the case of Georgia, prosecuting judicially if any journalist uses expressions such as "illegitimate parliament", "illegitimate government", "oligarchic regime", "prisoners of the regime" or "pro-Russian regime": Chemically pure Stalinism in a country that, until recently, was a leading candidate for membership of the European Union.

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Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Madam President, Mrs Bentele, can we close our eyes to the contempt and criminalisation of international courts? Can you close your eyes to new waves of illegal settlements? Can you close your eyes to plans to demolish a hundred houses in Jenin? Can one close one's eyes to withholding funding due to the Palestinian Authority, to the violent death of a thousand people in the West Bank, where there is no war, to the criminalization of honor and its replacement by a perfectly dysfunctional spawn? Can you close your eyes to the destruction of schools and hospitals? Can you close your eyes to the displacement of 700,000 people, to the withholding of international aid at the border, to the proudly genocidal statements - because words matter, and you have said so - by Mr Netanyahu's ministers about the use of hunger as a weapon of war? Can you close your eyes to 56,000 deaths, including 17,000 children and 1,000 babies under the age of one? Mrs Bentele, I'm asking you if you can close your eyes to all this at the same time, because all this is happening at the same time. The same army that boasts of being able to put a missile with millimeter precision in an apartment in a building in Tehran is carpet bombing the civilian population in Gaza, as in Guernica, Mrs. Bentele, as in Guernica. The double standards, Mrs Kallas, are the cancer of European foreign policy. Of course we can do things: Do not close your eyes, call things by their name, activate the clauses of the agreement that give us some ability to influence that situation, stop selling weapons to Israel, recognize the Palestinian state and persevere in the two-state solution.

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (A10-0067/2025 - Nacho Sánchez Amor) (vote)

At the beginning of the plenary, it was announced that the rapporteur intended to table an oral amendment to cover the events of last weekend in Cyprus, as follows: 'Reiterates its deep concern regarding all unilateral action which aim at entrenching on the ground the permanent division of Cyprus as opposed to its reunification; condemns, in this context, the recent illegal visit of President Erdoğan to the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus, as well as his provocative statements, which jeopardise the efforts of the UN, the EU, the international community at large and other parties involved for the resumption of substantial negotiations in the agreed framework; regrets that such unilateral actions are tantamount to a direct illegitimate intervention against the interests of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities;'.

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, there is one question that pervades this debate: Why don't we finally close the accession process? I would like to reflect on that. Some of the comrades on the right have expressed a kind of substantial social and cultural incompatibility that I do not see. The European Union gave Turkey the opportunity and it has been wasted many years ago, but please do not confuse Turkey with Erdoğan. Erdoğan is not Turkey nor Turkey is Erdoğan. I remind many of those who say close the door that in the last local elections Erdoğan's party did not win and the opposition party won. So let's look at the country. There is a civil society that implores us not to close the door, not to leave them without hope of changing the country. It is possible that in ten years there will be another Turkey really committed to a European path. And we must also look after a pro-democracy, pro-European civil society that is constantly demonstrating against repressive policies and defending the flags of the European Union. Why have we defended the flags of the European Union in Maidan? Why don't we defend the European flags on the streets of Istanbul? There is a vibrant and active civil society in Turkey wanting to continue the path towards the European Union. This Parliament needs to hear that voice and not just the voice of some rulers who are – hopefully – temporary rulers. That is why, in the opposition, for many years - I am talking about my previous colleague, Kati Piri - we have been suspending the accession process, but we have not finished it, because to finish it would require unanimity again and that would be very complicated. Therefore, I ask you to reflect that in the criticisms we all share that Turkey has missed its opportunity, the idea, sometimes very tempting, of confusing a country with its ruler at this time does not take hold.