What Hermann spoke about.

Madam President, it is very true that there is massive disinformation on social networks, it is very true that there are a number of States that have turned networks into a weapon widely used to exert influence and damage enemies and undermine democracies, but it is also very true that the disinformation of some in the networks is used as a pretext by certain forces, the owners of the networks and related political forces, to exercise systematic censorship, always with sectarianism and Manichaeism and always in the same direction: against conservative and national forces. I am glad to hear now that you want to break the monopolies, but right now the monopolies are all acting in the same direction. The biggest disinformation in the past four years in the world has not only been on networks, but on television and in the media, and journalists across Europe and the United States have been part of it: This is Trump's alleged conspiracy with Russia, totally false. Collusion, collusion! It was false, and right here they echoed it and nobody has denied it, and the biggest scandal that has been censored in the networks have been the depraved habits of Biden's son and the concealment by his father, which could have changed the elections and the results and at least certain votes; has never been in the networks, precisely because of this censorship: That's where we have to look at what's going on in these networks that we're talking about.

Madam President, today this Parliament has the possibility of really repairing an immense and very long affront that has been committed against a people, a subjugated people, a people that has been crushed, tortured for sixty-three years, to whom they have taken away all rights, to whom they have made in large part to throw themselves into the sea, to be devoured by sharks, to have a large part of the population out in exile, and that is still there, as an absolutely intolerable example of what has been, on the one hand, condescension and, on the other hand, the direct complicity of the democracies that have allowed this anomaly, this absolute anomaly that is Cuba, to continue there and to be maintained. The time has come to denounce an Agreement that was an unfair Agreement when it was made and that is absolutely unbearable today, when, five years later, we all know that they do not have the slightest intention of fulfilling anything that it puts and that for the only thing that serves is to subsidize the communist mafia that runs that party, which lives with a life of privileges and luxuries while having the country - which was the fourth richest country in America - prostrate in destitution, at the same level as Haiti and that its province, Venezuela, that they invaded with the agreement with Chavez and that they have turned into another well of misery, torture and pain. Because, with its complicities, Cuba not only crushes its own, its own people, Cuba is also promoting misery, pain, destabilization and subversion throughout the continent. It is time to say that we must apply the clause that suspends that Agreement, which, as I say, has only brought privileges, greater privileges and more money for the mafia that governs Cuba at this time. We must tell the High Representative and a number of parties that continue to support this dictatorship here that the position they have adopted after 11 July, when Cubans took to the streets to defend their dignity, their right to freedom, their right to democracy – as we all have and as we demand for ourselves – is intolerable, while some claim that Cuba remains a socialist reserve for tourism – the tourism of the ideal – a series of characters from the European intellectual left. That's an embarrassment and it has to end. Therefore, please vote in favor of this resolution so that some justice is finally done with the Cubans.

Madam President, this is a great report, Mrs Vautmans' report, which really, for the first time in this House - perhaps for the first time in the European Union - presents an overview of a great threat to our civilisation, a great threat to our security as China is at the moment. We are at the end of an immense misunderstanding that began forty years ago, when we all thought that the approach to capitalism was going to make China a slowly becoming more tolerant, increasingly plural and increasingly open country. It was the opposite. Right now, we've been ten years with a leader who has really become a dictator like only Mao was, and with a hardening of the situation inside China. China's attitudes outside of there are increasingly aggressive and more threatening. The internal repression is immense and the attitude towards the rest of the world is absolutely overwhelming and there is a bullying that threatens us and tries to intimidate us all. So we have to have a very, very clear concept of what China is at the moment. We have to have a very clear concept that we have to have a global and general policy towards it. And we have to have the exact opposite of what has been wanted with those temptations of new investment agreements. We have to have a policy of resistance against an immense aggression that is thrown at us.

Mr President, it is difficult to say whether it is possible for the European Union to have normalised relations with Vladimir Putin's Russia, and yet we have to try. This report says many things and very hard and very true. We have been demonstrating for 20 years that Putin is unreliable. It does not respect international law, conventions or, of course, human rights, inside or outside Russia: from the killings of opposition members or the imprisonment of Navalny to the invasion and annexation of Crimea; from disinformation operations with Puigdemont and Catalan separatists to aggressions against Ukraine or provocations to the Baltic. There are many obstacles, currently insurmountable, that put President Putin in relations that could be and should be much more intense and beneficial for both parties. The European Union must be firm and united against Putin's Russia. For this reason, they are condemnable initiatives that divide, such as the selfish German adventure of the North Stream II. At the same time, the European Union must insist on that cooperation with Russia, because Russia will remain there when Putin ends, that Russia whose future cannot be to become the reserve of raw materials for China. We need in Russia a cooperator for the future and somehow we have to do it.

Mr President, when we are going to talk about the Commission's work programme for 2022, we learn that the Commission is considering the pointlessness of suspending the recovery fund plan for Hungary. In this past year the pandemic has led many governments to act in an authoritarian, arbitrary and even illegal way. There we have the Spanish government, social-communist, which has really skipped all the rules and has been imposing perfectly illegal states of alarm, and continues with its blow to end the monarchy and democracy in Spain. But in the Commission you seem to imitate this now, and we are moving towards absolute illegalities. In no treaty is it written that the European Commission or any other country has any kind of competence over education in Hungary. And what this is about is, it seems, crushing all other countries so that ideologically they have to go the same way as the social democratic, leftist and globalist majority. We're really seeing unusual things. You have every right to take your children wherever you want, but every country has its right. And the resolution that most groups are trying to present to Parliament now only oozes hatred, which you attribute to others. It is a Resolution full of hatred, made by a person with a background, with hatred and, in addition, perfectly incapacitated to make that type of text. And to that person you have precisely given that resolution. It's hate, gentlemen.

Madam President, some are now holding their hands to their heads with the atrocities and arrests that are taking place in Nicaragua, but the truth is that it was seen to be coming for a long time, because the regime chaired by Daniel Ortega has followed the same script as Venezuela. It comes with elections to power, rallied by left-wing forces around the world, including European ones, and, from there, democracy is systematically dismantled, with enabling laws that empty constitutional guarantees of all content. And now Ortega detains, one after another, the leaders of the opposition, from Cristiana Chamorro to the last, Lesther Alemán, and four others, to make it clear that the November elections will be only a farce for their continuity. That happened in Venezuela and that's happening in Nicaragua. And it can only happen because they have the support and intervention of the one who always acts in this sinister totalitarian clan of the São Paulo Forum, which is Cuba; Yes, Cuba, that criminal dictatorship subsidized by the European Union and protected by the High Representative, Josep Borrell, is also in Nicaragua. Ortega is not a Martian who came to take power in this country; He is a socialist brought to power by socialists and communists from all over America and Europe. And, above all, he is a protégé of Cuba and the São Paulo Forum, with close ties to the Spanish Government and also to the party of Mr. Josep Borrell ⁇ the Spanish Socialist Workers Party ⁇ . Cuba is a dictatorship that subsidizes and protects this European Union in an unprecedented way. We are talking here about condemning a dictatorship, when we know that all those who help this dictatorship ⁇ many of them ⁇ are receiving millions of euros from the European Union. And I'm referring right now to Havana. Less hypocrisy, more sanctions on Nicaragua, of course, more sanctions on Venezuela, but sanctions and very serious sanctions on Cuba as well, Mr. Borrell.