What Susana spoke about.

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EN Written Statement

Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Europe’s dependence on China for critical raw materials is not new. It’s structural. And it’s becoming a strategic vulnerability. China controls a significant share of global CRM supply and has used this dominance to restrict exports, from rare earths in 2011 to gallium, germanium and graphite in 2023. This pattern exposes EU industries to bottlenecks, price shocks and loss of competitiveness. Fro…

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ES Written Statement

State of the Union (continuation of debate)

Now that it is time to take stock of the state of the Union over the past year, we must be proud of the EU. Despite the shadows, which have also been there, we cannot ignore that the European management of the crisis has been positive, creating a safety net for citizens when it was most needed. Examples of this success are the vaccination campaign or the management of the ERTE. However, it is cruc…

18 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, when we talk about steel, we talk about industrial sovereignty, jobs and the future of regions like mine – Asturias – where thousands of families depend on the steel industry. That is why Europe can no longer remain naive in the face of Chinese overcapacity and unfair competition. We cannot demand from our industry more costs, more regulation, more climate demands, whil…

16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

ES Speech

Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

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Commissioner, Europe cannot remain naive vis-à-vis China. Just yesterday he announced his intention to create an international alliance to further strengthen control over rare earths. This is a worrying sign. Beijing is willing to institutionalize the use of raw materials as a geopolitical weapon. China already controls virtually all of the world's rare earth processing and subjects thousands of E…

8 Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is not just about technology, it is about people and avoiding job and industrial losses, because the reality is stubborn: Selling only electric cars in 2035 is unrealistic. But it's not about backtracking either, because we know there are billions invested. What the industry is asking of us is something much more sensible. It asks us fo…

7 May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

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Madam President, ten days after the blackout, we still do not know the causes. But it was not an unforeseeable fatality: many experts had already warned of the risk of blackouts with an energy mix too dependent on renewables, low investment in electricity grids and the fragility of the system in the face of peak demand. The problem is not renewables, a very abundant resource in Spain and that we k…

2 Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, first of all, let me send a big hug and all our affection to the families of the miners who died in Asturias. I wish the wounded a speedy recovery. Today this Parliament pays tribute to them. Thank you, dear Commissioner Séjourné, for your involvement in finally having a plan to protect European steel. It's about time. This sector, which is strategic, had been demanding solutions …

12 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this Action Plan for the automotive industry is very welcome. The sector is at a critical moment and thousands of jobs are at risk. It is very good news that the Commission is finally reacting to avoid million-dollar fines for European manufacturers. It would be incomprehensible to punish our industry - which we have forced to electrify - and then benefit Chinese car…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the Clean Industry Pact is a very good sign that Europe is changing and there is strong support for reindustrialisation. That's good news. But, in my opinion, this is four years late and, therefore, today I want to emphasize, first, the urgency, because its success will depend on how fast we are in implementing all the actions you have announced today and this roadma…

20 Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, while you are here today defending the future of nuclear fusion, nuclear power plants are being shut down in Spain. Because of the ideological dogmatism of the Government of Spain, we give up 20% of cheap, clean and safe energy to replace it with gas. The first plant to close will be Almaraz in Extremadura, regardless of the 3,000 jobs that are going to be lost, nor …

23 Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Asturias will stop next week due to lack of demand: Chinese imports of cheap and subsidised steel are flooding our market and putting at risk a strategic industry for Europe and, with it, thousands of jobs. Commissioner, we already need urgent trade defence measures and review the safeguard clauses, as other countries are doing, but we…

8 Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the automotive sector, the jewel in the crown of European and Spanish industry, is on a tightrope. We know what China's bet is on the electric vehicle. We know what the response of the United States has been, but do we know what the response of Europe has been? We have rules that set objectives, yes, but the mechanisms to reach them are not established. There is a la…

10 Apr

2024

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Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

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Mr President, Commissioner, after a very difficult negotiation we have managed to agree on a balanced and ambitious reform of the pharmaceutical legislation. Today's protagonists are patients, who will have better access and availability of medicines regardless of where they reside. The protagonists are people living with a rare disease today or children, because we encourage innovation in areas w…

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, after lengthy negotiations, we are finally going to adopt today a Euro 7 standard with which we must all be very satisfied. A sensible proposal with realistic implementation times and that improves air quality. Fine particulate matter – the most harmful to health – is regulated for the first time, as are brake and wheel emissions and battery durability. And this does no…

12 Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, today we are giving the green light to the Artificial Intelligence Act, a law unique in the world. A law that allows or prohibits its uses depending on the risk to people and provides for penalties for non-compliances. A law that includes transparency criteria so that we know if a text or a photograph has been generated or manipulated artificially and to ensure that the…

12 Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, today is an important day: we passed innovative legislation that will improve health care for all European citizens. With this health data space, patients will be able to access their medical history or e-prescription anywhere in the European Union. And, for that, we have introduced guarantees so that they do so with maximum security, privacy and confidence. The citi…

12 Dec

2023

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Reshaping the future framework of EU structural funds to support regions particularly affected by challenges related to the automotive, green and digital transitions (A9-0326/2023 - Susana Solís Pérez) (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in recent years we have passed a lot of legislation in this Parliament to make the European Union a benchmark in the fight against climate change. But let's not fool ourselves: this transition will have a social and economic impact on the day-to-day life of citizens, on the way our industry operates, and will affect some regions unevenly. For example, regions…

12 Dec

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, without lithium, there are no batteries, and without rare earths, there are no wind turbines or electric cars. China controls 98% of these lands, using them as a Russia-style geopolitical weapon with gas. Without secure supply, there is neither energy transition nor strategic autonomy in Europe. Therefore, this law that we have processed in record time is very welcome. …

8 Nov

2023

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, after lengthy negotiations we will be able to vote on a coherent and balanced Euro 7 standard that takes into account the health of citizens and improves air quality. Our proposal reduces NOx emissions by 60% in trucks, 33% in cars and – for the first time – particulate pollutants from brakes and wheels, as well as increasing battery durability. As I say, it is a sensib…

3 Oct

2023

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Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we are bringing a very important debate to this House because the shortage of medicines, such as antibiotics or medicines for children, is a recurring and chronic problem. And the situation is getting worse and worse. But, in addition, the European Union is already dangerously dependent on very few manufacturers and regions, especially China and India, and we suffer a c…

13 Jul

2023

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Global Convergence on Generative AI (debate)

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Mr President, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence has shown us only the tip of the iceberg of this technology. The potential and business opportunities that open up are unprecedented. The use cases are so broad that no industry is going to be left out of this revolution. But the threats are also evident. If not properly regulated, we are jeopardising intellectual property, fundamen…

12 Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we have made no progress since the last debate in this House on SMEs, and our economy and competitiveness depend on those 25 million small and medium-sized enterprises, many of them micro-enterprises, which generate innovation, growth and jobs in Europe. Today we are failing them and we need action now. We need and urgently need the revision of the Late Payments Directi…

14 Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

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Madam President, today we are addressing a critical issue: how to make the European Union more attractive to businesses and investors in a globalised world where the US and China lead us. We cannot limit ourselves to being mere spectators, nor is it about competing in grants and subsidies. Europe has always been a reference in innovation and technology, with leading companies in the automotive, ph…

13 Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, this is historic legislation. Europe is a pioneer in having an artificial intelligence law. A technology that can bring many benefits, but also poses clear risks in fundamental rights, security or disinformation. That is why I welcome the approach taken by this law, because I believe it is vital to distinguish between technology and use. We do not condemn artificial int…