What José Ramón spoke about.

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Nov

2022

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Promoting regional stability and security in the broader Middle East region (debate)

Madam President, many things have changed in recent years in the countries of the Middle East. It has gone unnoticed, but do you know who accompanied the emir of Qatar on the front line during the inauguration of the World Cup? Well, it was Mohamed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and not two years ago only that Saudi Arabia was leading the largest known blockade in the region against Qat…

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Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this debate comes at the very moment when thousands of petrol stations in France are totally undersupplied due to a strike that threatens to paralyse the country. And what shows, once again, is the enormous dependence on fuels. When there is no affordable and reasonably priced fuel, our economies shrink and social tension increases. That is why, ladies and gentlemen, we…

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are defending the Catholic Church in Nicaragua. Today we defend Bishop Rolando Álvarez, Assistant Silvio Báez, the Sisters of Charity of St. Teresa of Calcutta and the thousands of anonymous priests who are only trying to give hope to a people whose dictator wants to steal. Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have persecuted, imprisoned and expelled all politi…

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Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

Thank you so much for your question. Well, let’s talk about some figures. You don’t say that only 2% of CO2 emissions are because of the aviation sector. And we have to allow that the industry can rise to that goal. If we are doing alone without counting with that industry, we’ll be alone and it will be possible to democratise, obviously, this situation. Not only the use of the flight – the aviati…

7

Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

Mr President, the price of a flight between Frankfurt and Palma de Mallorca on 1 August is already over €400. There are several causes, undoubtedly: the international situation and the increase in prices of changes, which increases the cost and a lot. In 2022, a quarter of the cost of total operations is due to fuels. Given this situation, we could probably think that fuel prices would promote the…

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Madam President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, this is not a debate on environmental protection or sustainability, because we all agree on that. This debate is about whether their measures improve the quality of life of our Europeans or whether they will lead to economic and social ruin. And I'm sorry to tell you that, outside of this bubble, our industry is dying. And, with a war, much more. You …

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May

2022

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Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that Putin's war is not only being waged in Ukraine and that the European Union has more than enough mechanisms to further weaken the Moscow regime: sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions. But we must not forget that all this has a cost and that it can place us on the edge of the economic abyss and also suppose the collapse of our own energy system. Sanctio…

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Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr. President, the infamy of which Vladimir Putin is capable knows no bounds. The Russian army has targeted the Ukrainian civilian population and its artillery fires indiscriminately at humanitarian corridors. To such an extent comes the cruelty, that the Red Cross discovered, yesterday, that the evacuation routes from the city of Mariupol were full of mines. Attacking civilians is simply a matter…

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Feb

2022

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Harmonised EU approach to travel measures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in exceptional situations, exceptional solutions. That is what many of us defended when we launched the COVID certificate with a single objective: re-establishing mobility in Europe after months of paralysis and closed borders. Even so, many Member States and many European regions have made inappropriate use of the COVID certificate. Some governments, for example, have …

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, we still do not know for sure what will happen in Ukraine in the next few hours. But we do have one thing clear: We Europeans have woken up from a lethargy that lasted thirty years, where we thought that a war in Europe was simply impossible. And that possibility, unfortunately, is very real. Russian blackmail is not done against Ukraine or NATO, it is done against the European Un…

16

Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the moment a good friend of mine, José Daniel Ferrer, is torn between life and death in a prison of the Cuban regime, and, like him, hundreds of political prisoners whom the dictatorship wants to bury alive. Mr Borrell is not present here today in this debate, but yesterday he said, speaking about Nicaragua, that there were no dictatorships of either the l…

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Dec

2021

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Stocktaking of the European Year of Rail (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, paradoxically, the European Year of Rail has been for some citizens and territories of the European Union the year of the dismantling of the railway, and it is that some citizens of some Member State, specifically Spain, and specifically Cuenca, have practically all this year 2021 with a poster like the one I am going to show them at the train stations that says the fol…

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Dec

2021

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EU response to the transport poverty (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the price of electricity in Spain today reaches its all-time high of EUR 291 per megawatt day; Gasoline in November reached figures not seen since 2012: currently filling an average tank in Spain costs 75 euros, 15 euros more than at the beginning of this year 2021, and, just as a result of the increase in fuel, the costs of a carrier in Spain this month are 800 euros m…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, my worst fears – of which I have been warning in this House for more than two years – have been fulfilled: Ortega has managed to plunge Nicaragua into a repression that has not been known since the worst times of Somoza, but now the question is how we help Nicaraguans recover democracy, and the answer is also very simple: By simply giving them back everything Ortega has s…

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Nov

2021

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International ports’ congestions and increased transport costs affecting the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you very much for your appearance, although I regret that the person who is not here to give explanations is the Commissioner responsible for the matter, in the face of an unprecedented freight transport crisis for which she is directly responsible. Ladies and gentlemen, all over the world and in Europe, we are in the midst of an unprecedented supply crisis that a…

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Oct

2021

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Assessing the Union’s measures for the EU tourism sector as the end of the Summer season nears (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Breton, when many hotels, tourist establishments and restaurants on our coasts begin to close their establishments for the winter, many other entrepreneurs, self-employed and workers begin to raise their businesses to face and start a winter tourist season that will allow them to have many millions of tourists. However, there is an island in Europe where the tourist s…

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Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, there are few certainties in international politics, but this is one of them: the world is a more prosperous and freer place the stronger the alliance between the United States and Europe. When the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia sealed one of the most important alliances in recent decades, they did so behind the backs of the European Union. Staying out of…

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Oct

2021

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EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 – Recommendations on next steps towards "Vision Zero" (debate)

Mr President, until now we have been hearing figures and numbers, but I want to tell you, in this case, about people and a specific name: Paula Torrens, a girl who was run over in Mallorca in 2018 by a person who did not have a circulation permit, who was drunk and who also went on the run. And, like Paula, there are more than 2,500 people who die annually as a result of people who are in command …

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to address the members of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Left in general, to tell them to open their eyes once and for all and to accept and visualize what is the true reality that is taking place in Cuba. A few months ago, Díaz-Canel acted forcefully, in an absolute repressive manner against his own people. A form of repression t…

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Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, since February 2020 we knew that the United States was going to withdraw from Afghanistan. We also knew that there could be a collapse of the Afghan Government and we also knew that the arrival of the Taliban could occur precisely in that government that they now hold. And precisely because that had a great chance of happening, we in the European Union had more than a …

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Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Vălean, if there is one sector that has been strongly affected by the coronavirus crisis, this is, without any doubt, the aviation sector. The fall in traffic due to the coronavirus will have dramatic consequences in the coming years and, above all, threatens the economic viability of companies, the jobs generated by and linked to air transport and, of course, working co…

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Jul

2021

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State of play of the implementation of the EU Digital COVID Certificate regulations (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, since last Thursday, 1 July, the citizens of the European Union have had access to a tool that strengthens our Union and consolidates many months of work, precisely to restore mobility in Europe; a tool born in this House; a tool called a ‘COVID certificate’. However, despite its implementation, we continue to suffer today restrictions that complicate the life …

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, nine months ago I warned in this very House that neither Ortega nor Murillo had the slightest intention of negotiating; Their only goal was simply to entrench themselves in power. Almost a year has passed and what we feared has become a new reality, and Ortega has directly launched a total offensive against the people of Nicaragua. And every day, in addition, we wake u…