What Hermann spoke about.

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Jun

2023

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

Madam President, first I would like to say to my friend Javi López that everything he has been listing about Nicaragua can be applied exactly the same to Cuba and yet he wants to punish Nicaragua and with Cuba he wants to talk about modernisation, like Mr Borrell, who tells us that there are reforms and modernisation. The reforms that have taken place are that there are a number of minors who have…

13

Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, this is the fourth resolution that we have brought to this House in a year and a half to confirm the deterioration of the political and social situation in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan people, besieged by poverty, brutal repression, the curtailment of their freedoms and the persecution of ecclesiastical representatives by the regime, are already worthy of a Nero or a Domitian. The dicta…

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May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

Mr President, we have seen how every so often the European Commission comes to tell us that we have to protect the seas, that we have to respect biodiversity and that we have to respect ecosystems, but no one ever comes to tell us that we have to respect fishermen, that we have to respect their families, that we have to respect the population and that we have to respect, in general, Europeans, fro…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, all the forces which base their political project on purely socialist social engineering must justify their policy with terrible threats of imminent, ever more imminent and ever greater catastrophes. That's what the IPCC and its scientists do. It was also scientists who said that Mrs. von der Leyen's Pfizer vaccines were so safe and effective, and were neither. It stands to reason th…

19

Apr

2023

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Repression in Russia, in particular the cases of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alexei Navalny

Madam President, I am very happy to be in full agreement with Mr Verhofstadt today. Once again Russia is condemned to have its best children in prison and its worst bandits in the palaces of power. Once again the Russians are condemned to ignore all their rights as people. Again the Russians are condemned to die by the whims of a tyrant. Again, as in 1937, Russians who tell the truth disappear fro…

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Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

Mr President, Peru has suffered a lot in recent years and especially in recent months. But their democracy has won a great battle against totalitarians, with a democratic muscle and strong institutions like no other country on the subcontinent. Its communist president, Pedro Castillo, elected in dubious elections, launched a coup last December. He wanted to accelerate the path to a narco-communist…

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Apr

2023

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

Mr President, Mr Borrell, the People's Republic of China is a strategic rival and adversary of the interests of Europe and of the way of life of the so-called free world, of which Europe is a part with America – with the United States as well – and which penetrates every day in Africa, in Ibero-America, in Asia and in Europe itself. As we are seeing, in Europe we are selling much of our infrastruc…

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Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr. President, right, every death at sea is a drama. But many of these tragedies are preventable and some willingly take them on to continue the immense business of human trafficking to Europe. The culprits in the deaths are not the nations that protect their borders, but the policies of uncontrolled immigration and the irresponsible knock-on effect that drive crowds into the sea and risk their li…

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Mar

2023

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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

Mr. President, good afternoon to you all. The report by rapporteur Urmas Paet calls for a reform of the European External Action Service (EEAS) to give it more powers and more power; and, incidentally, also to change the way of voting in the Council through the back door, so that the dominant ideology of the EEAS, so marked, is imposed and has no one to oppose it. The war in Ukraine has brought so…

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Feb

2023

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Violence against opposition activists in Equatorial Guinea, notably the case of Julio Obama Mefuman

Madam President, I am going to tell you the same story, but with something that some of you have forgotten here. This is this unfortunate incident in the dictatorship with the world's oldest dictator. In November 2019, four opposition members – two of Spanish nationality – were abducted in South Sudan by Obiang agents. After being imprisoned and tortured in Guinea, they are sentenced to 60 and 90 …

15

Feb

2023

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The erosion of the rule of law in Greece: the wiretapping scandal and media freedom (topical debate)

Madam President, the scandal of wiretapping in Greece has spread endlessly and, as often happens in these cases, there are already so many injured that it will be increasingly difficult to find the culprit, because there are many injured and few benefited. That a state-building dynamic is being created in all European countries at the expense of citizens' rights seems very clear. We are seeing it …

14

Feb

2023

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

Mr President, it has been necessary for a vice-president of this Parliament, a socialist, to be in jail today in order for us to know about Qatargate, Moroccogate and corruption, of course, which may have been key in a policy of privilege to Morocco that has seriously damaged Spain's interests. But these arrests have also been necessary for us to know about the NGO Fight Impunity, one of the hundr…

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Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

Mr. President, everyone here seems to agree very much. I very much agree that we must strongly condemn the violence that took place in Brasilia on the 8th, with the assault on state buildings that represent the democratic state of Brazil, and we must all firmly condemn it and hope that those who really participated in it will have a fair trial. However, I do not remember anyone right now who has r…

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Jan

2023

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Protecting the Rule of Law against impunity in Spain (topical debate)

Madam President, it was time, of course, for this Parliament to deal with the most scandalous and serious case of undemocratic degradation in Europe, which is what Spain is suffering. In three years, under Pedro Sánchez and his government of socialists and communists, harassment of judges and prosecutors has reached levels typical of Ibero-American Chavista regimes. The abuse of public and private…

17

Jan

2023

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“The Road to 2023” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership (debate)

Madam President, this roadmap for 2023 is announced with great fanfare so that we can unite and achieve that leap that we want to take after thirty years of passivity with Ibero-America. Ibero-America has immense, colossal problems that have only been aggravated. They have been aggravated by poverty, lack of democracy, systematic destruction of weak democracies and the arrival of regimes; All of t…

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Jan

2023

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EU response to the protests and executions in Iran (debate)

Madam President, Iran, that is already very clear, is one of the worst enemies of freedom in the world. It has been for forty years. All opposition has been silenced in blood and violence and its years of existence are counted as massacres. That is so, as I say, for a long time. And yet, Europe has always had a position of compromise, looking for ways to do business when others warned about the br…

22

Nov

2022

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

Madam President, well, this is a report - with all affection, Mr Pineda - signed by someone in this Parliament who has photographs with virtually all the terrorist groups in the Middle East, which initially clashes. But it certainly reflects well what is the manifest sectarianism of this Parliament and the European Union towards the Middle East. It also explains why we paint practically nothing in…

22

Nov

2022

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EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran (debate)

Madam President, it is very good that we are taking these measures against Iran. You have to take a lot more. They have to be taken by the Member States. But it is certainly funny, almost, to see the tears and hear the laments of a number of countries and a number of attitudes that have been here. In 2019 there were 1,500 deaths in Iran, five times as many as there have been now. And yet within tw…

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Nov

2022

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EU response to the increasing crack-down on protests in Iran (debate)

Mr. President, we are not going to start talking now about how bad the criminal regime of the Ayatollahs of Iran is. They've been murdering the opposition for forty years. By the way, they came with Western help, let's all remember. Thirty thousand killed in 1988 alone. And then we have had regular - every year, every two years, every month - massacres, massacres and massacres all the time, and th…

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Oct

2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

Mr President, of course war is one more problem, but our problems with agriculture and food are being caused fundamentally by us. The politicians of the European Union and the Green Deal are making a substantial contribution to this food crisis that is spreading all over the world, a crisis that was already present before the invasion and that no one can hide now. Very soon, drinking a glass of wa…

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Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

Mr President, in this context of dramatic, economic, energy and food crises, here we are seeing how the Commission and this Parliament continue with the same thing, continue with the same litany, as if nothing were happening. Here we follow the mystical path of ecological transition. The greener we are, the more radically green we are, the better we're going to be and the better the world is going…

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Oct

2022

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Commission Work Programme 2023 (debate)

Mr President, it is a tragedy that we do not really know how to react here with an amendment, an amendment in general. We have half the continent threatened by a real war, we have part of the continent burning, we have the other part of the continent terrified before an imminent crisis as it has not been known, with fear of hunger, with fear of closures, with fear of unemployment. And we continue …

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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, Commissioner, disinformation by Putin’s Russian agitation and propaganda machine has been going on for many years and has, of course, been aggravated by the criminal aggression against Ukraine. It must be fought with truth, not with censure. And here are many temptations to do the latter. The Kremlin has been paying groups and parties in Europe for many years, from the extreme ri…

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Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr. President, monstrosities are happening in Iran. The police of the terrorist regime of the Ayatollahs kill a woman with beatings and torture for showing her hair, for wearing that shawl badly; for wearing badly a handkerchief of which the European Union makes propaganda and which the European Union protects in posters and in its own advertising. Then the police kill and kill and kill women and …

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, Nicaragua is a socialist dictatorship led by a brutal tyrant, Daniel Ortega, who for decades has been pampered by the European left. As have been Cuba and Venezuela. Let us remember that less than a year ago, on the part of the Commission, the demonstrations and brutal repression that took place in Cuba on July 11 were being explained and Cuba was being protected. As Venezuela has…