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Sep

2022

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

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.

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

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.

4

Jul

2022

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

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.

4

Jul

2022

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Order of business

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

4

Jul

2022

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Order of business

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.

9

Jun

2022

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

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.

8

Jun

2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

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.

7

Jun

2022

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

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).

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))

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.

4

May

2022

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Reports of continued organ harvesting in China

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.

4

May

2022

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The case of Osman Kavala in Turkey

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.

6

Apr

2022

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

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.

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Apr

2022

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

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.

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Apr

2022

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

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.

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)

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.

10

Mar

2022

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

... 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 there, because although we have victims - as I say - throughout the Mexican geography and, in some States and organized crime, largely allied with the public authorities, has taken effective power and directly kills anyone who opposes or bothers them, journalists are a special case because they are the object of direct harassment, of accusations by the authorities in the capital. And they are direct - and this is a rather unheard of case in a democracy - on the part of the President of the Republic. The direct, personalised accusations made by President López Obrador against the press in Mexico are absolutely – as I say – unheard of and should be denounced by all; We must urge this head of state to return to a reasonable course of action to protect journalists, to search for those responsible for the many murders, 96% of which have not been clarified, to look for those responsible and not to pour more gasoline on what is a great pyre in which the freedoms of Mexicans are consumed. It cannot be that Mexico falls into the same spiral, with the same rhetoric, that Venezuela is in.

9

Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

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 to critically review its Green Deal and recognise that priorities need to change radically. Socialist Vice President Timmermans and many others intend, with their ecological and climatic obsessions, to continue as if nothing were happening on this continent, which is practically on fire. It is terrible that the big parties do not dare to oppose the radicals of fanatical and irresponsible environmentalism. We are facing a drama that demands that reality be imposed on ideological whims. This programme aims to be the framework for sustainable development, the Green Deal and the 2030 Agenda. The goals are bad, ideological and false. The text is very bad too and Parliament's position is almost worse. In a dramatic moment in which people are already dying in Europe because of the cold, because of energy poverty, in which the quality of life of Europeans has sunk because of an absolutely wrong policy, because of a senseless dependence on Russian fuels that the European Union has increased, and with solutions to renewables that are insufficient or that have directly failed, we see how they speak of a climate-neutral, sustainable, but non-toxic, resilient, competitive and circular economy in a fair, equitable and inclusive way. Reality demands an end to the ideological dreams of the 2030 Agenda and the Green Deal. Please, reality for everyone.

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Mar

2022

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

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 the Ukrainians has led us to really see what they are, what reality is and what is the necessary change of priorities that Europe must make. From here, I send a strong solidarity embrace both to the heroic Ukrainians, who defend their homeland, and to the Russians who are repressed under Putin's tyranny, to the Belarusians and to all countries, and especially to Poland, which, as vexed as it has been in recent years by the European Union, is showing infinite generosity and which will have to be helped in relation to those millions of refugees who are fleeing that barbaric offensive of President Putin.

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Feb

2022

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

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 stopped where he is. Their threat is not to Ukraine alone. Its threat is to the whole of Europe and, above all, to the whole of Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, the entire Baltic Sea, Bulgaria and Romania. Putin must be told that he cannot threaten countries that are internationally recognized, one of which has him busy at the moment. And, of course, it cannot play with European favors, such as Nord Stream, which must be suspended immediately.

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Jan

2022

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Situation in Kazakhstan

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 know whether these riots have been used in internal family wars in the regime; What we do know is, on the one hand, that the opposition has been crushed and, on the other hand, we also know, we know very well, that the Russians have arrived, that the Russians have created a very important precedent of intervention in a foreign country to supposedly restore calm, as they once did under the Soviet regime. In that sense, at this time when we have the crisis in Ukraine, it is really worrying that the European Union did not exist, that Borrell did not exist, once again, for the important issues.

19

Jan

2022

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

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. It turns out that Europe is in a dramatic situation, with an explicit military threat from the east of the European Union, and we have Poland directly threatened along with Ukraine. And you do not come here to defend the borders, to defend Poland, but you come here to scold everyone. Everyone's to blame. Poland and Hungary are very much to blame, you say, when you are implementing measures under the pretext of COVID that look like Chinese measures. And when the violence you exert against the yellow vests and other protesters is Chinese as well. These are violations of the rule of law, not what you are using for your ideological war against Poland and Hungary. His presence here is unheard of, as he has spoken: He has not said a word about the family, nor a word about the birth rate, about that problem, nor about the enormous economic problems that exist for the families beset by the pandemic. And does it turn out that the right to abortion is your priority? Man, for God's sake!... (The Chair took the floor from the speaker).

16

Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, in a walled cell to which water is poured from the ceiling so that it is always wet, they are slowly killing the political prisoner, sick and dying, who is José Daniel Ferrer. In the prison of Quivicán is Roberto Pérez Fonseca, 38, sentenced to ten years on false charges. In fact, he, like so many of the 600 Cubans who are in prison and who are being sentenced to long prison terms, are doing so because they left on July 11 in a cry for freedom to say Enough now! And yet, here it was interpreted, by the Foreign Service led by Mr. Borrell, that they came out because of the shortage of a series of articles that was due to Mr. Trump's sanctions. To that degree of manipulation we have come here with this obsession of the High Representative and his team to defend the narco-communist dictatorships of Ibero-America and, especially, the Cuban one. So much so that in Ibero-America the European Union is already considered complicit and whitewashing of these dictatorships, and the Cuban Sakharov prizes have said that they prefer to return the prizes to see this complicit passivity and this shameful silence on the part of Mr Borrell and his team and the Commission. There's nothing going on, they're not doing anything. I'm going to congratulate everyone on Christmas. I really hope that especially political prisoners know that there is hope and that the European Union regains the moral muscle to fight for a free Cuba, for a free Bolivia, for a free Nicaragua and for a free Venezuela.

24

Nov

2021

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Statement by the President

Mr President, this point of order is because we have just heard the words of Mrs Tsijanóuskaya from Belarus. We are facing the greatest aggression at the moment, not only against the people of Belarus themselves, but an unprecedented aggression against the borders of the European Union, against Poland. We are seeing aggression at our borders and it turns out that the High Representative for the European Union's foreign policy is not here. Mr. Borrell is hardly ever where he should be. Mr Borrell has sent a mission to Venezuela, in which he has only ridiculed and damaged the credibility of the European Union in a very serious way, but, above all, at this moment of aggression against the European Union and Poland, the borders of Poland, Mr Borrell is absent and we do not have him. That shouldn't be so. And I report it here.

24

Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, the Glasgow Summit has given us very revealing images, such as the jamming of the airport terminal with the private planes of the most reputable climate gurus, which say that the worker's tractors and vans pollute a lot; or the teenage Greta, with such scientific arguments typical of a priestess of science who does not go to school, screaming at the authorities to shove the weather up her ass, literally. Beyond the anecdotal, the substance is that there has been no talk of what is important, that is, the concerns of citizens and small businesses in the face of energy poverty, rising costs or the rural exodus. That hasn't been on the agenda. In Spain, thermal power plants are flying and now they are importing coal from Indonesia, and insolvencies in Spain are going to be the highest in the world. The final declaration of the Summit and the different agreements reached highlight the enormous distance between the EU's green fantasies and the productive and economic reality of our main trading partners and competitors. The European Union is a fictional leader. His claim to be an example to be followed by countries such as China or India on the green road map has failed miserably. A bit of a brake, please, on ideological ambitions that cause a lot of damage to the common European and little or no benefit to anyone.

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, some may not know that Sri Lanka managed to get ahead of the European Commission as a major global reference for environmentalism, with its Farm to Fork Strategy. His Government decided to suddenly eliminate all pesticides and become the first country in the world with 100% of its agroecological production; This decision received unanimous and enthusiastic applause from the European Union, the United Nations and even FAO. Today, this country is facing an unprecedented food crisis: production has fallen by 50%, food prices have skyrocketed and ration cards have been distributed. A miscalculated populist decision has led the country to food collapse: Sri Lanka has painfully understood that food is not at stake. What happened in that country should make us reflect on the need to analyse in depth the impact of some of the star measures of the European Commission, such as the reduction of 50% of pesticides, the withdrawal of production of 10% of the area or the objective of 25% of the agricultural area dedicated to organic farming. There are follow-up studies and reports on the impact of the Farm to Fork Strategy and we should be concerned that everyone agrees that it is not based on sound and scientific criteria. The debate is going to intensify now in the coming months and I hope that the European Commission will be able to modulate all this, bring realism into the situation, see the fundamental role of livestock and producers and, as I say, rationalize a very dangerous process.