What Manu spoke about.

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Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

Mr President, the debate on the European Union's relations with China puts us before the dilemma of having an autonomous international policy based on our interests or continuing to sublet our international policy to organizations and structures that make their decisions based on the interests of others, if not contrary to ours. The speeches by President von der Leyen or Mr Borrell do not invite o…

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Mar

2023

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Tunisia: Recent attacks against freedom of expression and association and trade unions, in particular the case of journalist Noureddine Boutar

Mr President, we are concerned about the situation in Tunisia. The situation of the dissolution of Parliament, the reform of the judiciary or the attack on freedom of expression is very bad news for the Tunisian people. We are particularly concerned about the attempted repression being suffered by the Tunisian General Labour Union, the country's main trade union and a key organisation in the overt…

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Mar

2023

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Deterioration of democracy in Israel and consequences on the occupied territories (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, the Israeli regime has intensified its spiral of violence against the Palestinian people. So far this year, and not counting what is happening in the Gaza ghetto, 83 Palestinian people have been killed and 144 homes have been destroyed. They have authorized nine settlements and announced the construction, in the West Bank alone, of more than 10,000 homes for illegal settl…

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Feb

2023

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Madam President, the right, once again, has blocked a debate in this House on the brutal repression suffered by the Peruvian people for protesting against the dismissal of a president elected by popular vote. Peruvians are on the street fighting against dictator Fujimori's constitution, which shields corruption, perpetuates racism and allows multinationals to continue plundering natural resources.…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, it will be one year since the war, Russia's aggression and invasion of Ukraine. And once again we reiterate our condemnation, as we have been doing since the beginning. But we think that from the European Union we are working in the opposite direction to what the situation requires. We cannot think that we are fighting a war by arming the parties. We cannot think that we are fight…

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Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

Mr President, we welcome the fact that this Parliament is positioning itself with democracy, strongly condemning the fascist attack by Bolsonaro's supporters. Let's be clear: The shameful assault on democracy in Brazil began on April 17, 2017, with the coup against President Dilma, and continued with the campaign of lawfare who unjustly imprisoned President Lula. Both had the complicit silence of …

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Dec

2022

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Chinese government crackdown on the peaceful protests across the People's Republic of China

Madam President, on 1 and 2 December a meeting was held in Washington between the United States Deputy Secretary of State and the European Union's Head of External Action. One of the conclusions of that meeting was that the United States and the European Union had never been so aligned in our strategic perspectives. Now, then, in this European Parliament, it seems that there is no limit that we ar…

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Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

Mr President, today we can decide whether we want to respect international law or whether we prefer to make a new toast to the sun. If we respect the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to live in their own land, in peace and dignity, or if we confine ourselves to making a new declaration in which we express, in compunction, our deepest concern for this unacceptable situation. Words as gra…

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Dec

2022

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Madam President, today begins an evidentiary hearing that seeks to assess whether or not a diplomat enjoys diplomatic immunity. That is, a further contempt of the United States for international norms and diplomacy as the basis of international relations begins. On 12 June 2020, the United States maneuvered for Cape Verde to arrest Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. A diplomat who, despite the economi…

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Nov

2022

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

Madam President, I would like to think that, in most of the speeches, although some Members have put more emphasis on one thing and others on another, the majority of them have always opted for the positive. I share some allegations, such as the one made by my colleague from the Greens/EFA Group, that it is true that we talk a lot about gender issues, but in the end, when we have to decide, we dec…

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Nov

2022

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

Madam President, this report highlights the need for coherence and accountability in the European Union's security and stability policy towards the Middle East in general and towards the Gulf region in particular. This is very relevant since the current regional situation is characterized by increasing instability and a violation of human rights that is often perpetrated by armed governments and s…

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Nov

2022

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EU-China relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, the European Union has to decide whether it is betting on a world divided into blocs, on a new version of the Cold War, or whether it is really defending a multipolar international order. The current policy of the European Union towards China is characterized by subordination to the directives of the National Security Council of the United States and entails a battery of …

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Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the Commission seems to have only an industrial view of fishing, completely ignoring the reality of the different fleets and the real situation in ports and auction halls. Or so it seems with the Regulation for deep-sea fishing, drawn up without taking into account either the type of vessel or the characteristics or specificities of each coast. They treat large indus…

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Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

. – Mr President, today, rescuing a proposal from the European People's Party, we are debating here Russian and anti-European propaganda. But, let me clarify something before I begin to value freedom of expression and plurality: There is no greater source of Russian propaganda than what the European People's Party makes possible by whitewashing far-right parties and putting the red carpet on them …

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Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Vice-President, Mr Weber's speech obliges me to change the start of my speech. It seems to me that the fact that the godfather of his party’s agreement in Italy with Mussolini’s heir party – with Italian neo-fascism – speaks here of authoritarianism is only a bad joke. Focusing on the topic of the debate, I want to start by condemning, once again…

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Sep

2022

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Mr. President, Salah Hamouri is 36 years old. He is a French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender from Jerusalem. Since the age of 15, when he was shot, Salah has suffered Israeli persecution, facing continued judicial and administrative harassment. He has suffered arbitrary arrests, travel bans, bail and fines, house arrests and separation from his family. His family, whom I have recently…

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Jul

2022

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The EU and the defence of multilateralism (debate)

Madam President, it is high time for the European Union to reflect on its alliance policy. While his mouth is filled with talk of multilateralism, his actions go in the opposite direction. We see it with every international conflict. The European Union does not hesitate to abide by the dictates of the United States, a country that continues to sow the world of war and attack the peoples who questi…

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Jun

2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

Madam President, this debate shows the obsession that some sectors of this Parliament have against democratic and progressive governments and movements in Latin America. This has always been the case on the part of the extreme right, especially the Spanish, but it is very sad to see groups that consider themselves democratic, and even some progressive, support a resolution promoted by Vox, which a…

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Jun

2022

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The EU’s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, after more than 100 days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an aggression which we condemn from the outset, the European Union is facing an important decision. You can opt for the path proposed in the report, a path of confrontation and military escalation, or for the alternative position that we present and that proposes a different way out. After decades of policies of pressure and h…

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May

2022

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The killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqla and the violent incidents at her funeral (debate)

Mr President, on the morning of Wednesday 11 May, at 6.13 a.m., the editorial staff of Al-Jazeera in Ramallah received the following email: The occupying forces storm Jenin and surround a house in the Yabriyat neighborhood. I'm on my way, I'll bring you the news as soon as I've collected clear data. It was signed by Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran and well-known journalist. When she got to do her job…

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May

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, we have come to ask for a statement from the Commission on the attack on Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupying forces, in particular the case of Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli regime kills Palestinians virtually every day: in the last year, more than 300 dead, two of them journalists; In addition, there is also a journalist imprisoned. Despite this, the Israeli regime e…

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May

2022

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Reports of continued organ harvesting in China

Madam President, for a person to suffer the removal of parts of his own body against his will is one of the worst human rights violations we can imagine. But let's be serious; There is no evidence of this happening in China. What we do know is that the Chinese government has invited UN High Commissioner Bachelet to see if there is any truth to this complaint. What there is evidence of, for example…

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Apr

2022

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

Madam President, Mr High Representative, the European Union and China share a very close commercial bond that we cannot ignore; We therefore believe that it is good that meetings, such as the one at the last Summit, should be held which should serve to strengthen dialogue and cooperation. A stable relationship with China is crucial for peace and stability: I think we would be wrong if we re-entere…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, we condemn Russia's attack and invasion of Ukraine, without any nuances. Neither the eight years of attack against the Dombás, nor the impunity of the murders committed by the Nazi gangs, nor the breach of the Minsk agreements, nor the deployment of NATO on the Russian border: None of this justifies the attack. We are against war and, precisely for this reason, we cannot support a re…

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Feb

2022

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Political crisis in Burkina Faso

Madam President, Burkina Faso is a country deeply affected by neoliberalism and imperialism. We have good examples of this, such as the grabbing of land and resources by multinationals, the imposition of free trade agreements that aggravate the economic situation, or neoliberal reforms imposed from outside with disastrous consequences for the people. It is certainly regrettable that in the twenty-…