What Hermann spoke about.

5 Oct

2022

ES Speech

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

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. – 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…

4 Oct

2022

ES Speech

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

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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 …

14 Sep

2022

ES Speech

Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

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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…

13 Sep

2022

ES Speech

Renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – a new agenda for the Mediterranean (debate)

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Madam President, if anything harms the European Union, it is the lack of credibility and all this kind of talk that is without a doubt ineffective, because all the pressing problems, the really pressing ones, do not come under consideration here. Our real problems are right now in seeking to curb absolutely unchecked immigration and seeking to curb the terrorist threat. It is necessary to make the…

13 Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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Mr President, I would like first of all, from here, to pay tribute to all the firefighters, many of them dead, the firefighters and the military forces, who have been all over Europe, and especially in Spain, fighting terrible fires, as they were this summer - and some are still there. Now they cry out again and ask for laws again, I am hearing that they want laws and that they want to take care o…

6 Jul

2022

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The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

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Madam President, we all deeply regret the deaths of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, an environmentalist and journalist murdered in Brazil. Two brave men who went out to protect the environment. As we regret that of Virgilio Trujillo Arana, 38 years old and a member of the Uwottuja people, killed on Thursday in the Amazon State. That's in Venezuela, in the Mining Arc. Why do we all know so much abo…

4 Jul

2022

ES Speech

Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

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Madam President, with regard to the dead on Spain's border with Morocco, do not seek responsibility among Spanish policemen or, of course, among the common-sense Spaniards who suffer in their neighborhoods the consequence of illegal and uncontrolled immigration. It was remembered here that Sanchez has described this assault as an aggression against our borders. It has been. Finally a truth of the …

4 Jul

2022

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, we would like to have the resolution in September.

4 Jul

2022

ES Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, yes, we believe it is extremely urgent that we talk about the brutal mistreatment and injustice that a woman suffers for doing her duty and complying with the law: Jeanine Áñez, Bolivia's former interim president, has been sentenced to ten years in prison in a trial that former president Evo Morales himself has previously acknowledged rigged. The Bolivian regime is preparing other…

9 Jun

2022

ES Speech

The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, since the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union has been shackled one crisis after another. It is clear that very bad things have been done here and some of us see the mistakes, learn and seek amendment. Others, full of pride, are obsessed and persevere in mistakes and do not recognize the obvious. The project of a federal Europe leads us to be governed by a caste of bureaucrats, olig…

8 Jun

2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

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Madam President, Nicaraguans are living through a permanent, terrible nightmare, in which the repression of recent years has reached absolutely unprecedented levels. And it has caught up with them because the regime feels able to do so; He feels capable and has that impunity he feels, and that impunity he feels because he feels protected. Its judges commit barbarities and perpetrate immense, colos…

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Mr. President, the truth is that many here appeal to history, but they do not seem to remember. To blackmail Poland with the money, to withdraw money from it, when it has four million refugees that it has taken in and that, in large part, it has because Ukraine is not being defended, because Germany is sabotaging Ukraine's heroic resistance effort... In Germany it is being systematically sabotaged…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, 'to be fit' means being ready to do something in better condition and without adverse effects. That is the first of the lies of this authoritarian social engineering project that is the Green Deal, which includes the Fit for 55 package that we are going to vote on tomorrow. The process of decarbonising the economy is a legitimate objective in itself. Doing so under conditions wher…

4 May

2022

ES Speech

Reports of continued organ harvesting in China

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Madam President, we are again today, unfortunately, dealing with an absolutely frightening issue, as terrible and inhumane: the forced removal of organs from prisoners and other subject persons. This, in the People's Republic of China. It is a monstrosity that has been practiced for decades, that has not ceased to be practiced and that now, with the regime of Xi Jinping, is carried out with a mass…

4 May

2022

ES Speech

The case of Osman Kavala in Turkey

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we see what Mr Erdoğan has achieved with this absurdity of the persecution of Osman Kavala: that we all practically agree, that there are no discrepancies here in relation to the persecution of Osman Kavala and his environment. The persecution and obsession that Erdoğan's regime is demonstrating in the persecution of Kavala has really become an international sca…

6 Apr

2022

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The situation of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Guatemala

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Mr. President, the truth is that a resolution on Cuba should have been discussed here, because there have been brutal sentences in Cuba of decades of imprisonment for people, even minors, for demonstrating and asking for freedom on July 11. That resolution has not been made and a resolution is invented to punish one of the few countries that is advancing in its institutionality, that has a coopera…

6 Apr

2022

ES Speech

Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, really, how late! what a boast of hypocrisy! First there is a fictitious, absurd debate about Putin's friends; From the parties of Mrs Merkel-Nord Stream and Mr Schröder-Nord Stream, from the parties of Mr Macron, the biggest arms dealer to Russia, come here to tell us about other friends of Russia. Mr. of the Spanish Socialist Party, partner of ETA, partner of the Catalan separat…

5 Apr

2022

ES Speech

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

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Madam President, Mr Borrell, speaking of the Council, of the meeting between the European Union and China, we must see with satisfaction that we are really facing a change of era, that even in the European Union we are beginning to perceive and to become aware of this terrifying change that we are witnessing. In the case of China, it had already been perceived here, in this House. Perhaps one of t…

23 Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, I too would have liked Mrs von der Leyen to be here to explain. Three years ago it came to us with a tale of Alice in Wonderland, with a series of priorities that have been seen to be radically wrong priorities and that have brought us to where we are. Of course, there is one thing very clear: We are in a situation where it is becoming increasingly clear that if Ukraine were a mem…

10 Mar

2022

ES Speech

The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

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... Resolution on violence against journalism in Mexico, which has included other victims of violence. We could have extended the list indefinitely because the brutal violence that is spreading throughout Mexico is absolutely incredible and reminds us of the most brutal situations in some other countries, where these have already directly collapsed law and order. Journalism has a special character…

9 Mar

2022

ES Speech

General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, the 8th General Union Environment Action Programme is not just an example of how the green ideology, which dominates the whole of Parliament, despises science, the reality of the market and the interests of the European citizen; In the current circumstances of a Europe at war, it is a real insult. Neither COVID nor Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has allowed the European Commission t…

8 Mar

2022

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

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Madam President, Europe is now facing a total crisis, a crisis in which it will decide its fate. This is not an invented crisis, like the alarms and catastrophes that the European Union has invented to feed its ideological questions over the last decades and invent priorities that went behind the backs of the European population. We are facing an infinite tragedy, an aggression; and the heroism of…

16 Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, weakness produces monsters and European weakness, now added to the chaos and weakness of the current US government, has invited Putin to show his worst face. We already had the first chapter of this drama under Obama, when he let himself be run over by his red lines in Syria and we had, as a direct consequence, Crimea. Weakness, as I say, produces monsters and Putin must be stoppe…

19 Jan

2022

ES Speech

Situation in Kazakhstan

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Mr President, prices, which led to serious unrest throughout the country, were crushed with relentless force and foreign intervention by Russian forces. President Tokayev called for shooting to kill protesters and Russian forces were also relentless. So, we don't really have the death toll and, of course, we know that, not coincidentally, there are many opposition activists among them. We do not k…

19 Jan

2022

ES Speech

Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, congratulations, President Macron, you have managed to convince many millions of Europeans now that the Europe they want is the opposite of yours, to this one that comes with that arrogance, with that arrogance, to the European Parliament, which abuses the time massively to campaign French elections in Parliament, as it has done in this absolutely unusual response of 39 minutes. I…