What Hermann spoke about.

18

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 Europe…

5

Oct

2021

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Disinformation and the role of social platforms (debate)

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…

16

Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

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…

14

Sep

2021

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A new EU-China strategy (debate)

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 c…

14

Sep

2021

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Direction of EU-Russia political relations (debate)

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…

7

Jul

2021

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Commission Work Programme 2022 (debate)

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…

6

Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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 t…