What Manu spoke about.

24

Apr

2024

ES Speech

Watch

Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

Mr President, totalitarianism is not a risk, as the title of this debate says. Totalitarianism is a reality and I'm not going to waste time arguing about it with the far right or the far right. I want to talk to progressive friends and progressive friends. They don't have to have the majority. In our societies there is already totalitarianism. When a framework is created so that, in Spain, in Alme…

23

Apr

2024

ES Speech

Watch

EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, yesterday we tried to put on the agenda of this plenary session a debate on what measures the European Union is going to take to implement the UN resolution and the opinion of the International Court of Justice. And the majority of this Parliament voted against, prevented this debate from taking effect because the answer is that it will not implement any measures. They…

27

Feb

2024

ES Speech

Watch

Critical situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, how naive of me that I thought that those who proposed or promoted this resolution were concerned about the human rights situation in Cuba. How naive I am! Once again, they come here to talk about the human rights situation in Cuba to, in the end, talk about other things that have nothing to do with it, without naming a blockade that is to blame. Of course, the Cuban people are su…

27

Feb

2024

ES Answer

Watch

War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Mr. President, man, if we were in a meeting, in a congress, in a Hamas parliament, we could ask you and you would answer us. We are in the European Parliament and that is where I can move the questions, and I have to move them to the European Union. Hamas will know what it does. I believe that what Hamas is calling for is an unconditional ceasefire and negotiations. They offer to release the Israe…

27

Feb

2024

ES Speech

Watch

War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Mr President, it has been 29 days - one month after tomorrow - since the opinion of the International Court of Justice. More than 4,000 people have been killed since January 29, the day that the ruling was issued. More than four thousand people killed directly under the bombs, plus an incalculable number of people - children, women, the elderly - who are dying of famine, thirst, epidemics. It is n…

5

Feb

2024

ES Speech

Watch

Order of business

Madam President, South Africa denounced Israel to the International Court of Justice by appealing to the Genocide Convention. The International Court of Justice has seen evidence that genocide is being committed and has imposed a series of precautionary measures to prevent further genocide. We would have understood that this Parliament would even have convened an extraordinary plenary session to t…

16

Jan

2024

ES Speech

Watch

Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

Mr President, it is incredible to hear the representative of the Council and the representative of the Commission continue to speak at this stage of a military operation against Hamas. It's amazing to keep talking at this point that Israel is exercising its right to defend itself. Who is Israel defending itself from right now? After 24,000 civilians killed and 8,000 buried beneath the rubble, who …

13

Dec

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

Madam President, President Sanchez, you recently described the genocide in Gaza as indiscriminate killing. He was insulted, vilified and mistreated by the Israeli regime, just as he did with the UN secretary-general for vindicating international law. The Israeli regime considers itself legitimated to despise, insult and... Well, I don't mean rude words to anyone who claims international law. Here,…

12

Dec

2023

ES Speech

Watch

EU-China relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, I believe that the approach taken by the European Union in its relations with China so far has been wrong: It has been based on hostility that may be very good for the interests of big American companies, but it certainly hasn't been good for our citizens. At the recent EU-China Summit, it seems that its course has been changed, that it is committed to policies of dialogu…

12

Dec

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Mr. President, the strange dictatorship of Mr. Maduro, who calls his people to the polls every nine or ten months. I don't remember any country where you vote more than in that dictatorship. To the right of this Parliament, because it seems to bother them: I do not know if the polls are called, I do not know if the Venezuelan people can vote so much or if what bothers them is the result of these v…

12

Dec

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, I agree with most of your speech. I agree with the comparison you make between today's Gaza and the German cities destroyed after World War II. But what do we intend to do about this? How does this speech tie in with maintaining the preferential partnership agreement with Israel, with allowing Israel to participate in EU-funded programs that, among other things, fund two …

22

Nov

2023

ES Speech

Watch

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

Mr President, the threat to the rule of law in Spain is not the amnesty law. More than 50 amnesty laws have been passed in Europe and there has been no problem. Last time, in Portugal last August. The problem or threat to the rule of law in Spain is that we have a Spanish right that does not have democratic concepts - neither are they, nor are they expected. We lived the transition we lived, the o…

22

Nov

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, this Parliament refused last Monday not to call for a ceasefire, but even to debate it. There are 14,128 people killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, including 5,840 children, 3,920 women and 6,000 people buried under the rubble of the Gaza Strip. In the first three weeks of thi…

8

Nov

2023

ES Answer

Watch

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

Let's see, I've met a lot of people. I met with Prime Minister Haniya when I was Prime Minister of Gaza, where I lived, at a protocol meeting. I've met a lot of people, and I'm not ashamed of that meeting. I might be embarrassed by other meetings that I have also had right here in the European Parliament. I condemn the crimes of all civilians. When you kill a civilian, it's a crime. Do you condemn…

8

Nov

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

Madam President, Gaza's nightmare is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity. Gaza has become a children's cemetery. The October 7 attacks don't come out of nowhere. They come after decades of suffocating occupation. These are not my words. These are the words of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr António Guterres. And the response of the Israeli regime has been to…

18

Oct

2023

ES Speech

Watch

The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, please, before making use of my time, I would like to mention a point of order. I do not know why it has just been claimed here that the kippah can be worn, that any religious and cultural symbol can be worn, and I have just been prevented from going out with the kufiya, which is a Palestinian cultural symbol. I am not making propaganda, I do not carry a flag of anything, but here, i…

16

Oct

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Order of business

Madam President, yes, we are in a very difficult situation. Israel is bombing the civilian population of Gaza. It has already killed 2,750 civilians, 1,030 of them children. It has imposed an absolutely illegal siege regime, blocking access to electricity, food, building materials, fuel... He's decreed a blackout so you don't see what's going on there. The president with whom you met last week, to…

12

Sep

2023

ES Speech

Watch

50 years since the murder of Allende and the Coup in Chile: democracy and sovereignty (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, according to papers declassified by the CIA itself, President Nixon instructed the director of the CIA, on September 15, 1970, to do whatever was necessary to prevent the inauguration of President Allende, of Dr. Allende as president. The director of the CIA failed and entrusted it to someone more effective, Henry Kissinger, who organized the coup d'état that, with the…

11

Sep

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Order of business

Madam President, today 11 September marks one more anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile that assassinated President Allende. And 50 years later, on the 50th anniversary of that coup, we see coups continue to take place in Chile. There are coups, in some cases, classic, with their military, their police, their massacres and their murders, as in Bolivia, and others that use new tactics such as th…

12

Jul

2023

ES Speech

Watch

The political disqualifications in Venezuela

Madam President, the resolution proposed by the right is a mixture of colonialist nostalgia and servility to what the boss, the United States, commands. Gentlemen of the right, for your mental health and for that of your stomach, I suggest that you assume at once that it is the Venezuelan people who decide who governs it. That the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a rule of law, that it has a Co…

11

Jul

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Relations with the Palestinian Authority (debate)

Mr. President, Palestine is suffering from continued ethnic cleansing. 2022 was the deadliest year since the 2005 intifada, with more than 120 Palestinians killed in the West Bank and Jerusalem alone, not counting those killed in the Gaza ghetto. Also last year, more than 8,000 illegal settler homes were built and at least 7,000 Palestinians were detained, including 865 children. Unfortunately, th…

13

Jun

2023

ES Speech

Watch

State of EU Cuba PDCA in the light of the recent visit of the High Representative to the island (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, you have seen in Cuba a people who are in need, but you have also seen a people who are aware of who is responsible for their needs: an American blockade that has lasted almost sixty-two years. We have to deepen our relations with Cuba and fight against that blockade, for the sake of Cuba and for our sake, because that blockade suffocates Cuba and us, preventing us fro…

12

Jun

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Order of business

Madam President, this plenary session will debate tomorrow on the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Cuba, following the visit of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. It is important that Parliament discusses the strategic lines of European foreign policy and, of course, we believe that the political a…

10

May

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Media freedom and freedom of expression in Algeria, the case of journalist Ihsane El-Kadi

Mr President, we see that, despite the regrets, the Moroccan still has a lot of weight in this Parliament and that he is able to impose his agenda on us. We also see, with tremendous concern, that there are groups determined to keep the European Union as a battering ram for the interests of others, even if this goes against our own fellow citizens. In Algeria, there is a population that suffers fr…

18

Apr

2023

ES Speech

Watch

Situation in Peru (debate)

Mr President, it took 133 days and more than 70 deaths for this Parliament to address the serious political and human crisis in Peru. Months of mass mobilizations, strikes, protests and popular demonstrations calling for elections to an illegitimate government, without popular support and entrenched in power based on violence and repression. Repression and brutality that have already counted not o…