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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 the Middle East. For that sectarianism, for that bias that has led us to continue financing organizations that have a lot to do with destabilization and that, for example, here there has not been at the time any interest in supporting the great American success of President Trump that were the Abraham Accords, which are the ones that open the door to real stability, to what is prosperity and openness within the Middle East to open a new era of cooperation in that region. That's what we have to look at: Why Europe doesn't paint anything. And it's because of these things.

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 two months, Mr. Borrell was shaking hands with the Iranian president, looking for business. We've been lobbying for Iran here, against the United States for years. Iran has been protected. I would like to know where the Spanish Government is, which has not yet condemned the sanctions and that blacklist that Iran has made against European parliamentarians, including Spaniards. Why will it be? It may have something to do with the connections that the Podemos group, the communists and the Spanish socialists have with Iran.

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 they have always been forgiven by a Europe that is willing to make agreements with Iran, permanently; whereas it has connections with Iran; He has seen how Iran has entered Ibero-America in the way it has entered, hand in hand with Maduro, with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, with contacts with Spain's Podemos communist party. All the infiltrations that have been outside, the threats... are now the sale of drones and weapons to Ukraine. They assault outside, murder inside; We are now being threatened by parliamentarians and human rights protection associations. We are being threatened and there is absolute silence from governments like Spain. Why is that happening? Those complicities have brought us here. We must close the embassies, put real sanctions on Iran and block, call the terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard terrorists and end this complicity that has existed all these years.

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 water will be a luxury in the countries of the European Union as a consequence of applying an irrational agricultural model where the farmer is presented as the number one enemy of the environment, productivity as a taboo and the profitability of farms as a marginal or unimportant aspect. In Spain we are seeing that every day a stab is given to our primary sector, to our agriculture, to our fishing. We're looking at it. Spain was really the granary and agricultural producer of the Roman Empire, and now we will end up being Sri Lanka as we continue with the policy of the European Union. Let us all remember Sri Lanka.

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 to be. It's radically false. You are asking for sacrifices from the European population, from the European nations, which do not correspond at all to the results that will be achieved. We are going to have a food drama in Europe very soon. We are in an energy crisis of terror and you continue as if nothing happened and all you announce are punishments, sanctions, fines and repression for companies, for individuals. And it's all repression and lack of freedom. You believe that with that social engineering you are going to solve something and all you are doing is condemning us.

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 on the same path, with this overdose of ideology, of sustainability, of the same plans that we had before, when there was nothing we are talking about. Ukraine's position: In Ukraine we are on the bright side of history, but not France and Germany, who have been insistently delaying everything that is a real defense of Ukraine, as should have been done. And, as for vaccines, what about vaccines? Are we going to have clarity about vaccines at some point here, in this Parliament, about what has happened with vaccines, or are we going to have absolute silence here, without any transparency at all? Here we are seeing that it is not changed: we continue to obsess over social engineering plans; We are with the plans of radical environmentalism, which has trapped this whole House and which does not take into account, at all, the interests of the workers. They have just taken the fishing grounds from all the fishermen of the Basque provinces, the Galician provinces and the Andalusians, for some issues that do not come to the case. In these moments of food alarm, they're doing things like that. Pure ideology.

. – 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 right, from the extreme left and also, gentlemen, from the conventional parties, which are you. Because the Euro Putins Putin's European acolytes are fundamentally the big parties in Germany, which have led us in Europe to this situation of general prostration against Putin. We do not know if Putin would have dared to do a number of things if he had not had these guarantees that have been given him for fifteen years, fifteen years of helping him to achieve total dependence on the part of Europe, on the part of Mr Schröder, on the part of Mr Steinmeier, on the part of Mr Scholz, on the whole Social Democratic Party of Germany in general. But we also have that disinformation and that propaganda in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, which is the partner of all those countries that vote against the condemnation of Russia in America, in Ibero-America, in the Alliance of the São Paulo Forum and Puebla Group, where the PSOE is, where Podemos is and where they have Russia Today making anti-European, anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian propaganda, always with the support, as I say, of a Spanish government. There they are. mainstream, there are Mr Putin's acolytes; They're here, in the big parties.

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 men who protest against this monstrous regime. It's over 300. And it may be, it may be that this is the beginning of the end of that regime. But, curiously, very little comes out in our media, in our European media, so social democratic and trained, it comes out very little because there are other interests. In 2019, Mr. Borrell, we had 1,500 dead in December. A month later you were shaking hands with the authorities, with the bosses of the murderers, with those who stained all the streets of Iran's cities with blood. Behind, there are interests, apparently very powerful. The European Union must put an end to the agreements with this regime. The European Union must stop treating Iran as if it were any partner; is a terrorist partner, of which you cannot be a partner, in any case. It has rather poisoned European politics with its funding of Spanish communists who are currently in government.

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 been protected so many times. Now a regime is condemned, the criminal Sandinista, for an arrest of a bishop, of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, because the persecution of the Catholic Church is what the dictatorship has left at this moment for repression. They have arrested the opposition, tortured and murdered students, the cage is being completed and closed in a brutal way, but, here, in the Resolution, attempts to decontextualize are again seen. The Nicaraguan dictatorship is a socialist dictatorship that exists because the São Paulo Forum exists, because Cuba exists, because Venezuela exists, because other democratic governments have fallen and, through violence and drug trafficking, we are seeing how democracies in Ibero-America are sinking and how Ortega, now with Russian help, is arming himself and consolidating his dictatorship. There we have the responsibility, in the São Paulo Forum, in Russia, in what is the whole context of socialist and narco-communism in Ibero-America. And that is what must be included in the resolution. The rest is all words and words.

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 deportations that take place effective and to put an end to the existence of international networks of illegal immigration trafficking, in which NGOs, also financed by European governments, participate very actively. It is necessary to defend the external borders, also with physical barriers, also in Ceuta and Melilla, which are two Spanish cities, and to put an end to the education in hatred and the cult of terrorism that the European Union finances in the Palestinian territories. Our fundamental problems, with incentives and deterrence, are to convince young people in the Maghreb and across Africa that their future lies in the development of their countries and not in Europe. No overdose of political correctness will give us solutions, but it will delay and harm us and create more problems for us.

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 of the water. Here is some socialist who is talking about water, when they sabotaged a National Hydrological Plan for the real and equitable distribution in Spain, so that there could be water everywhere and no water was poured into the sea for free. And more laws, for what? There are fewer laws we need: We need the people of the countryside to be able to re-treat the countryside and they can clean up the forests. The forests have not burned because of climate change, they have burned because they are a fuel pump that has been accumulating because they do not let the forests clean up, because they do not let the people of the countryside act as they have always acted in the field.

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 about the first two, Pereira and Philips, and we know nothing about Trujillo, who has not been on any television, who has not been in the press, for whom no one has asked for a resolution? Because it has been in Venezuela, it has been in the Mining Arc, where there are gold mines owned by some European socialists. Because there are all or the FARC, there is the ELN and there are all those who feed the São Paulo Forum to stay with Ibero-America, to stay with the continent. And they get it: They have taken Honduras, they have taken Peru, they have taken Chile, they have taken Colombia and now they are going for Brazil, which is what they have left. That is what we are seeing, how the left is not thinking about Pereira and Philips, is thinking about the electoral campaign of Mr. Lula, the head of the São Paulo Forum, who must take Brazil and defeat his hated Bolsonaro. That's what you guys care about.

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 president of the Spanish Government, so infrequent those truths. But Vox has been saying that for a long time and is labeled as racist and xenophobic for it. Those are the facts. The facts are that those responsible for this happening are within Europe, they are in the Government of Spain, for example, and they are also here. Responsible are all those who promise, with the money of others, a paradise in Europe that does not exist; responsible are those who call for 50 million immigrants to come to overflow the lists and smash wages; those responsible are those who subsidize these vessels of fake NGOs that are traffickers; responsible are those who want here many, many immigrants to exchange within their playing field. Guilty are the mafias too. Many of us will insist on mistakes, but there will be 2.5 billion Africans in twenty years' time. We can't handle everyone.

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 farce trials for many opponents. Even if we leave the resolution for September, it is a moral imperative now to speak out for Áñez and others unjustly persecuted. Áñez assumed the interim presidency with the endorsement, many forget, of the Organization of American States and the European Union, in the midst of a crisis, after Morales fled when his electoral fraud was discovered. Áñez assumed the presidency after the transition, organized an election, those elections were held, Morales' party won with his candidate Arce at the head and an impeccable transition of power was made. Now he's in jail with a ten-year sentence, for a sham trial. We have to raise our voices for this woman who fights for freedoms in Ibero-America in the face of the narco-communism of the São Paulo Forum, headed by that Evo Morales that we have there, by Maduro and by so many others.

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, oligarchs and ideologized and parasitic NGOs, which would destroy democracy, freedom and also the united Europe. His idea of democracy of those 800 citizens at the fingertips. Diese 800 Bürger, das ist ein Witz. That of the 800 chosen by finger, and who are the ones who tell us how well things are going, is a bad joke, it is a farce. Nations must do together what they do best together and sovereignly the rest. Health, education, justice should not be European competences, and those who want to make new treaties or a convention for the revision of treaties to trample on national sovereignties are only inviting countries that want to remain sovereign to take the path of the United Kingdom, which has not sunk and is enjoying in itself what is another situation, out of here unfortunately, but another situation that is not at all worse than the one we have.

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, colossal iniquities against all opponents and all dissenting. And they do it because they have that impunity. And that impunity is because the Nicaraguan regime has protection. It has protection from Russia, of course, but it has fundamentally the protection of the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group. Those two multinationals of narco-communism are the ones that protect Mr. Ortega and so he feels capable of doing what he does, like Maduro in Venezuela, like Díaz-Canel in Cuba. That's Ortega. That is why we must put an end to that regime, with a total blockade.

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 and, therefore, Poland is as it is. We see now the Germans threatening the Poles, threatening the Hungarians because they don't behave well with them. Have you heard about the violations of judicial independence in Spain? Have you heard of how the Spanish social-communist government tramples on judicial independence? How do you trample on prosecutors, how do you change them, how do you have a Attorney General who has been Minister of Justice and who uses politics and uses justice brutally against everything they complain about and who covers up all their corruption? Haven't they said any of that? That doesn't bother them. There, to Spain, they are giving Sanchez money. And Mrs. von der Leyen comes to Spain and says that Mr. Sanchez is wonderful and what a great example Sanchez is. Sanchez is an embarrassment... (the Chair took the floor from the speaker).

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 where the safe harm outweighs all possible benefits is not at all. Using legitimate citizen expectations in a cleaner environment to impose an economic and social model imbued with interventionist, socialist and climate ideology is worse than illegitimate. It's a scam to European nations. Doing so with hardly any impact studies and no scientific basis is also an attack on the safety and well-being of Europeans. The package has unrealistic objectives that are at the opposite of the needs of the sectors affected by the proposals on land use, effort sharing, emissions trading or the carbon border adjustment mechanism. The consequences will be a greater relocation of our companies and an increase in dependence on strategic industrial sectors, with an excessive impact on the most disadvantaged classes that will not alleviate that fig leaf of the Social Fund. With those wickers, the climate package Fit for 55 It's not part of the solution, it's part of the problem.

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 massive aggravation of all repressive measures and we believe that it may be on the rise again. Doctors against forced harvesting of organs have denounced in their recent congress that this is so, that this practice is on the rise. However, we in our resolution do nothing but ask China. We're asking China for favors. Without some kind of mechanism vis-à-vis China, both in relation to doctors and their health structures, we are not going to make any progress on this terrible, terrible issue.

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 scandal that harms him and harms the regime very much. Now we have to try to find formulas to at least bring positions closer together, despite the fact that we know the catastrophic human rights situation in Turkey and that we know of the thousands of political prisoners that Turkey has, of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience that it has in dramatic situations, much more dramatic than those of Kavala. But Kavala is a scandal with that acquittal, with the arrest of the judges who acquitted him, with the new arrest, with the sentence, finally, to an absurd, ridiculous, grotesque life sentence. That's the term, perhaps, we should use. In that sense, Mr. Erdoğan has to know that this obsession is going to haunt him and is doing him immense harm. Let it recapacitate and that we really return to some terms of civilization. For that, the best sign is that you release Osman Kavala.

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 cooperation with the West, that has a continuous positive cooperation with the European Union, such as Guatemala. With a country that is within our orbit, it wants to be and advances in it, and it does not want to be like the other countries that support many of you here, as El Salvador is, as Nicaragua is, as Cuba is or as Venezuela is. That is really what you seem to want in Central America for everyone. Guatemala, with Costa Rica, is the only country that advances and you try to destroy it here with ridiculous accusations.

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 separatists, who are in contact and who conspire with Mr. Putin, partner in Venezuela of the drug traffickers, of Mr. Maduro's mafia, of Mr. Díaz-Canel's mafia, both partners of Mr. Putin. And now they come to us with Poland and Hungary. You attack them because they are the countermodel of their hypocrisy, because they are societies that work and that are increasingly going to be an example for all the other countries of Europe. And you're afraid of them.

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 the best things that has been done in recent years in this Parliament has been the report on the new strategy with China, which already had a clear and more realistic view of what China is today and the risk it means. Now we are seeing it clearly when it has already really taken the side of an aggressor, of the greatest aggression we have since World War II, of the Ukrainian War, and we also have serious suspicions that it could imitate Russia also in Taiwan. That is why it is very good that we become aware of this radical change and that, despite our veleities with the social engineering of the Green Deal and other issues, we really get into the priorities of the things to eat. Congratulations to all of you.

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 member, a province far from a federal European Union, they would have already made it surrender. Ukraine is fighting and Ukraine is changing the pulse of Europe because it is a nation, because it is a sovereign nation, because it is an independent nation and because it is fighting with its children to maintain that sovereignty and that independence. That is the great lesson we must draw from this war and help them regain that sovereignty and maintain all of us our sovereignty as well.