What Eugenia spoke about.

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Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, there is no doubt that this has been the women's legislature. We have ratified the Istanbul Convention, we have called for gender-based violence as a Eurocrime, the reform of the Treaties to incorporate sexual and reproductive rights and gender-based violence or the inclusion of abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. We have just approved t…

22

Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (debate)

Mr President, it has already been said here: When we talk about trafficking, most people often think of victims of sexual exploitation because they are the majority. Many of them are women and girls. One also thinks of those who are forced to commit criminal acts or begging because they are more visible. But let us not forget that this directive also pursues labour exploitation, which is sometimes…

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Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (debate)

Madam President, it has been 12 years since the Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings was adopted, and it had to be reformed because trafficking was becoming increasingly sophisticated and our means of combating it were increasingly rudimentary, ineffective in detecting and prosecuting barbarism, identifying victims, protecting them, supporting them and repairing them. …

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Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Mr President, as far as the right to abortion is concerned, the European Union has an outstanding debt to women. Because those who shield themselves in state competences in health are still tolerated to hinder access to legal and safe abortion, delay its exercise or promote witch hunts; to those who, in their fervent defense of the life of the unborn, support practices that constitute torture and …

13

Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

–Mr President, Commissioner, despite whoever you are, for the last four years we have seen that there is life beyond neoliberal dogmas. Faced with austerity and its severe social consequences, the suspension of the Stability and Growth Pact offered oxygen to our governments in order to cushion the consequences of successive crises. And yet today we see that, despite the fact that exceptionalism is…

13

Mar

2024

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Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the People's Party, I am afraid that you have chosen a bad day for this debate, although for you none would have been good: cases Bárcenas, Gürtel, Punica, Palma Arena, Lezo, Erial, Kitchen, Taula, Tandem... I'm running out of time. Today they have in Madrid Mrs. Diaz Ayuso, who is a real prodigy: her father, her mother, her brother and now her boyfriend have …

12

Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in Europe the majority of those who suffer violence and harassment at work are women. They work in the service sector or informal sectors, have a precarious contract, are migrants, apply for a job or are apprentices. That is, they are vulnerable because of sex, social class or origin. If you are a woman, you have to add sexual abuse to labor abuse. If, in addition, you …

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Feb

2024

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EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement - EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement (Resolution) - Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile (joint debate - EU-Chile agreements)

Mr President, I am afraid that the agreements with Chile are flawed in the same way as the other free trade agreements that we know of: socialization of losses and privatization of profits both there and here. On both sides of the ocean, the losers and winners are the usual ones because they prioritize extractivist investments and trade flows that violate social and environmental rights in one pla…

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Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

Mr President, with the geographical indications system, our farmers can bet on quality products and get a fairer price for them, improving their position in the value chain. It is not that this solves all the demands of the field, but, in the face of the idea of agriculture as a simple extractive industry, it favors family and social agriculture and offers it tools to resist the plunder of investm…

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Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

Mr President, we are before the last Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of our mandate and the issue cannot be more appropriate considering the current times: pay gap, pension gap, care gap; male violence; privatisation of the most basic services; climate change; energy crisis; intersectional discrimination; barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive rights; Free trade agreements with dire…

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Feb

2024

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Water crisis and droughts in the EU as a consequence of the global climate crisis and the need for a sustainable, resilient water strategy for Europe (debate)

Mr President, Spain is the second European country with the highest water stress. 75% of our territory is threatened with desertification and 44% of our aquifers degraded by overexploitation or pollution. We have suffered a long-lasting drought since December 2022. Today Catalonia is going through the worst drought ever recorded after forty months in a row with hardly any rain and regions such as …

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Jan

2024

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The role of social award criteria in public procurement in strengthening social rights, good working conditions and inclusive labour markets (debate)

Mr President, ten years after the adoption of the directive on public procurement, we know that almost half of the tendering procedures in the European Union are still resolved exclusively on the basis of price. When sustainability criteria are introduced, their content is limited by the interpretation of free competition and, in addition, since they have to be linked to the subject matter of the …

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Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

Madam President, welcome, Mr President Sánchez, the expectations for this Presidency were enormous and it has been lived as an opportunity for social progress, despite the fact that the "many Spanish" right wings of this House have tried to boycott it. Today we take stock and Europe is more social, green and feminist than it was. Social dialogue, democracy at work, occupational safety and health, …

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Dec

2023

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Parliament’s call for the right to disconnect - three years on (debate)

Mr President, we want to live better, with safety and health at work, but also with time to take care of, reconcile and gain autonomy. Technological transformations cannot serve to camouflage new forms of exploitation: marathon schedules, houses turned into factories, continuous pressure, stress, anxiety, abandonment, loneliness. The Commission's commitment is welcome, but it must present as soon …

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Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

Mr President, today we are celebrating the last International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women of this mandate and I have mixed feelings. We in the Committee on Women's Rights have made a tremendous effort to punish abusers and protect victims, but, despite our insistence, we have not succeeded, for example, in transposing gender-based violence as a Eurocrime and that has, in part…

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Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

. – Mr President, third instalment of the parody that the People's Party has been representing in this House since the beginning of the legislature. It is entitled: Spain breaks down and the government is illegitimate, unless it's mine. She blushes, embarrasses and grieves, but no longer surprises. Ladies and gentlemen of the People's Party, retain this idea: Spain would be Poland if you ruled, bu…

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Oct

2023

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Situation of Ukrainian women refugees, including access to SRHR support (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, there are two facts here that are clear and incontestable. One, the situation of refugee women from Ukraine is worrying in terms of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Two, the European Union has room for manoeuvre to address many of the barriers these women are facing. The list of grievances is long: non-compliance with the right to receive medical care un…

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Oct

2023

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Urban wastewater treatment (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, spurred on by climate change, the European Union is facing a real water crisis, in the form of droughts and floods, but it also has a serious pollution problem, because untreated discharges affect flora, fauna and even human health. Some autonomous communities and local authorities in Spain are a good – bad – example of this. And the situation, in autonomous communities…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in Europe we are experiencing a widespread housing crisis that not only affects the most vulnerable sectors. Exorbitant prices – the result of property speculation and inflation – combined with ridiculous wages leave people literally out in the open. We must increase investment in public housing and non-speculative cooperatives, limit tourist rentals, change the tax …

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Sep

2023

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Regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women’s rights (debate)

Mr President, a sexual relationship cannot be the subject of an employment contract, even if there is consent, because that contract is always a violation of sexual freedom. And in the same way that no one can freely give himself in slavery, he cannot appeal to his own sexual freedom to leave it in the hands of a third party. Those who defend that prostitution is a job, precarious and feminized, l…

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Sep

2023

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Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini (debate)

Mr President, we are stunned by a new wave of repression one year after the assassination of Mahsa Amini. His family members have also failed to fulfil their right to truth, justice and reparation. The situation in the country is very serious: repression of protests, arrests, arbitrary imprisonment, sexual violence, torture, enforced disappearances. The violence and discrimination suffered by wome…

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Jul

2023

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Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, according to the ILO, if the temperature were to increase by one and a half degrees, Spain would lose about 7,700 jobs every year and in some precarious sectors with high accidents, such as construction or agriculture, for example, there would no longer be talk of losing one's job, but of losing one's life and health due to heat, thermal stress and other risks associated with clim…

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Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, irrigation in Spain already accounts for more than 85% of total water consumption and the area irrigated has continued to increase in recent years. Greater efficiency in irrigation has not contributed to reducing its consumption, but to increasing it, more and more in a world in which there is less and less. This is what happens when water is conceived only as a factor of producti…

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Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Madam President, children a la carte. Surrogate pregnancy is a eugenic practice that consists of dividing the role of the mother into three – adoptive, pregnant and donor – and searching for eggs with a certain genetic load and breasts of women with a specific personality. In some countries, the pregnant woman may even be forced to abort or not abort, in certain cases, to feed in this or that way,…

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May

2023

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Strengthening social dialogue (debate)

Mr President, beyond good words, any recommendation adopted by the Council must serve to promote effective social dialogue. And that is only achieved by including guarantee mechanisms, infringement procedures, condemnation of anti-union conduct and promotion of incentives in public procurement. Or promoting sectoral bargaining as a priority bargaining area for workers. It must be recognized that, …