What Idoia spoke about.

22

Jun

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, any country that wants to be part of the European project can do so through the Treaty on European Union and for that it must meet the Copenhagen criteria on democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Enlargement was a dead debate. It has departed from the expectations of peoples such as Albania or North Macedonia: 13 and 18 years without starting accession negotiations. It is nece…

7

Jun

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, to the previous speaker: If they care so much about the lives of workers, what they can do is support the European minimum wage and not vote against it, as they have done in recent months. Step by step ─ late, too ─ we are making progress on the European Union's road map to curb the climate emergency. Any measures aimed at decarbonising the economy, mitigating the effects of climate …

5

May

2022

ES Speech

Watch

State of play of the EU-Moldova cooperation (debate)

Mr President, from the European Left we say it loud and clear: All our solidarity is with the suffering peoples. More than two months after its inception, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is today causing the loss of thousands of lives, more than ten million displaced people, mainly women and children, the systematic destruction of essential infrastructure and soaring global food and energy prices.…

4

May

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Threats to stability, security and democracy in Western and Sahelian Africa (debate)

Madam President, today we are debating the threats to stability and security in the Sahel and the Sahara, and it is no longer a debate. Not only because Russia's invasion of Ukraine reminds us that if we do not act proactively and decisively and with agreements when dealing with conflicts, they end in barbarism, but also because the European Union can no longer rely on a concept of militarised sec…

4

May

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

Mr President, various investigations reveal Pegasus spying on activists, journalists, lawyers, national deputies and Members of this House. We recall that it can only be bought and used by States to spy on other States or to spy on their own citizens. And it spies not only conversations but has control of the device (documents, activation of the camera, the microphone, at any time, to be able to r…

5

Apr

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, the multilateral system is unraveling; The Trump era deepened this weakening: the exit of the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement, the abandonment of UNESCO... Multilateralism requires states to follow international norms and tries not to allow states to be differentiated depending on their power or their preferences, facing only the law of th…

9

Mar

2022

ES Speech

Watch

General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, this action programme is good news for the environment and, therefore, for all of us in the European Union. Increasing ambition, phasing out fossil fuel financing, integrating animal health and welfare are some of the elements that can make us proud to move in the right direction. Today, however, this Parliament has its sights set on 2,000 kilometres from here. The attempt to cont…

8

Mar

2022

ES Speech

Watch

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

Mr President, today we once again express our deepest solidarity with the Ukrainian people and condemn Putin's invasion of Ukraine. And to help the Ukrainian people, the Russian people, too, who do not agree with this invasion, and the European citizens, who also suffer its consequences, we have to put all our efforts into building peace as soon as possible. And that is not done with climbing or s…

1

Mar

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, today I would like to express our strong condemnation of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and our utmost solidarity with the victims of the Ukrainian people at this very difficult time. But today we must also remember that we have in this House groups of extreme right-wing allies of Putin, financed to work precisely for the destabilization of Europe, som…

15

Feb

2022

ES Speech

Watch

Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, in the face of the global challenges we face, it is imperative that an international actor of the weight of the European Union contribute to a foreign policy in an autonomous, strategic and responsible way, leaving behind the dictates from the other side of the Atlantic against the security of Europeans and Europeans. After the events of recent weeks in Ukrain…

15

Feb

2022

ES Speech

Watch

EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, the Summit between Europe and the African Union takes place two years late and with new and permanent challenges. The roadmap for the relationship should reflect, on the one hand, enhanced health cooperation beyond COVAX, real investment and patent release to ensure access to vaccines worldwide, which includes a continent where 1.2 billion people live, 16% of the world's populatio…

14

Dec

2021

ES Speech

Watch

Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

Mr. President, in the Sustainable Development Goals of 2015, we set the goal of 2030 to end hunger in the world. And what are we in 2021? One hundred thirty-five million people suffer from severe hunger, and malnutrition kills three million children under five every year. What these numbers hide are the realities of millions of people suffering not only from malnutrition, but also inequality due t…

20

Oct

2021

ES Speech

Watch

UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

Mr President, the 2019 COP 10 ended many of the great unresolved problems and since then we have faced a global pandemic, which has shown us the devastating effects of unpreparedness, the interrelationship between our planet and people, and the great vulnerability to which we are exposed. Biodiversity loss accelerates, droughts, famines worsen and melting progresses. COP 26 in Glasgow should mark …

19

Oct

2021

ES Speech

Watch

Climate, Energy and Environmental State aid guidelines (“CEEAG”) (debate)

Mr President, the role of public funding in climate objectives must take into account clear guidelines – who and how will use these public resources; it should be the engine driving the transition, not a mechanism to keep doing business: we need transparency, we need to look at cultural differences, the differences between the rural and urban worlds, the tremendous and growing economic inequalitie…

6

Oct

2021

ES Speech

Watch

Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

Madam President, with the Pandora papers we are experiencing a new scandal: many personalities from the ultra-capitalist Atlas Network lobby, the Legionaries of Christ, Guillermo Lasso, Sebastián Piñera, Vargas Llosa, Pastrana, links with the emeritus king of Spain or the current finance minister of the Netherlands and the Czech prime minister, both – I remember – with veto power in tax matters in…

5

Oct

2021

ES Speech

Watch

The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges (debate)

Madam President, the Arctic is a region of enormous importance for two main reasons. The first is climate change: The average temperature has risen three times more than in the rest of the planet. Melting is not just a local problem, it has direct consequences on sea level rise, leading to flooding, climate-related migration, ecosystem disruption and biodiversity. The second is that thawing also o…

14

Sep

2021

ES Speech

Watch

A new EU-China strategy (debate)

Madam President, the European Union has always had a hypocritical relationship with China: at Community level by encouraging tension, while the Member States separately see how they do big business and missell fundamentally strategic resources. The new strategy of the European Union with China should open a window of opportunity to, in a transparent way, stabilise and modernise a relationship base…

14

Sep

2021

ES Speech

Watch

Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, the collapse of Afghanistan indicates the catastrophe of the continuation of US military interventions, invasions in the name of human rights that Biden himself recognized as excuses. The causes of terrorism were not addressed, nor was there any work on social empowerment or the strengthening of democracy – now in the hands of the Taliban. More terrorist groups, more desolation...…

6

Jul

2021

ES Speech

Watch

Situation in Tigray, Ethiopia (continuation of debate)

Mr President, the terrible situation in Tigray makes the civilian population again a victim of the absence of international rules, with sexual violence, displacement, hunger, deaths; A situation that has also caused the death of eleven humanitarian workers, including the Spanish Doctors Without Borders María Hernández, along with her two Ethiopian colleagues, just a few weeks ago. Today I want to …

6

Jul

2021

ES Speech

Watch

EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) (debate)

Madam President, the fight against human rights violations must be a priority of European policy, inside and outside Europe; not a secondary element, but an essential pillar of our policy as a shared project. Every day we are seeing the increase of repressions with people killed, tortured, abused, the persecution of defenders of human rights, women's rights, the LGTBIQ collective, the environment,…