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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, it is really desperate: 67 years of dictatorship, a murderous communist regime, which has imprisoned its children, which has made the world's largest prison for more than six decades. And here we are talking about reforms, not intervening. Do you know what's going on? This dictatorship is now closer than ever to collapse, because of its brutal and abysmal general failure, which generates nothing but misery, fear, hunger and death, and also thanks to the action of American politics. Yes, José Daniel Ferrer has been here – he has been quoted now – and Zoé Valdés has been here. And what did the two of you ask for? American intervention to end the miserable dictatorship of the Castros and the communist mafia. That's what you're asking for. And that is what anyone who has common sense and has a little compassion and piety for the Cuban people, tortured for 67 years, is asking for. And what does the European Union do? It has maintained for a decade a shameful Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with the dictatorship, which the dictatorship does not comply with at any point. This agreement has provided the dictatorship with supposed legitimacy and millions of euros from the European taxpayer. The High Representative tells me that she is going to civil society, that she is not going to dictatorship. But what do you really know about Cuba to think that some of those money actually goes to civil society, but goes to the party organizations that terrorize the people and goes to the mafia groups at the top of the dictatorship? It has also provided precious oxygen to a regime in agony to continue spreading its tentacles of violence, crime and subversion throughout Ibero-America, pouring its poison everywhere there. That is why we must put an end to this Agreement and help bring down the dictatorship once and for all. Everything else is complicity with crime.

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2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

The problem is not that the European Union is doing something - which, of course, it is doing things - but that there are some members of the European Union who are acting against the pacification actions by the West, Europe and the United States; and that they are actually objectively helping Hamas, helping Hezbollah, helping the Houthis and finally helping Tehran. I am referring specifically to the Socialist Government of Spain.

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, in February the European Council formally designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, at last. However, since 2016 the European Union has spent more than 124 million euros on allegedly humanitarian operations over territory directly controlled by this same Iranian regime, which has proven its crimes by murdering tens of thousands of its compatriots. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, are all instruments of the same destabilization architecture directed from Tehran that today blocks the Strait of Hormuz and thus threatens Europe's energy supply. Meanwhile, there are European governments, like Pedro Sanchez's, that not only refuse, like others, to support the United States, but have directly aligned themselves with the enemies against our main allies. They have even refused to extend the mandate of missions such as Aspides in the Gulf of Aden, invoking a non-existent de-escalation against a regime that the European Union has just classified as terrorist. What are we going to do about these members of the European Union who behave like this in crisis situations?

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EU-US trade deal (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, go ahead and say that VOX does not participate in this House's anti-American phobia. Europe needs a stable and loyal trade alliance with the United States. There is no real alternative to the great transatlantic pact. To throw oneself in the arms of China, as many here propose, would be suicide. Unfortunately, what von der Leyen presents to us as an agreement with the United States cannot be approved: 15% of tariffs against 0% would mean for Spain another nail in the coffin of the primary sector, systematically injured by the inquina of Brussels. President Trump knows how to negotiate, always with the interests of his country in mind. This Commission and its President von der Leyen do not know how to negotiate and do not care about the interests of European nations. As always, the neglect and ineptitude of our negotiators are paid for by our battered European societies. Either we radically change this model now and drive out the bureaucrats who pilot it or we will end up sinking the ship with our compatriots inside. Many of those who insult American democracy on a daily basis will vote in favor of the agreement only to save von der Leyen and that waning majority alliance of the Popular Party with the left from ridicule. Yes, we want an agreement with the United States, as we want it with Ibero-America, but different from what this European Commission offers us, incapable and finished. To give an affirmative vote is to applaud von der Leyen's ineptitude. And that's what we're up to.

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, thanks to the report of the American Congress, we already know what are the operations of disinformation, censorship and interference that are here in Europe, centralized by Brussels. Therefore, they should not miss the lies and nonsense heard in Europe about the hysterical offensive of the left in the state of Minnesota against the federal immigration police. It is presented to ICE as a kind of Trump's private Gestapo. ICE, in fact, was created in 2003, and only during Obama's tenure caused, in his work of capturing violent illegal immigrants, up to fifty-seven deaths, which did not even appear in the local news. Today, during Trump's term, two people who assaulted ICE have died, and all the media talk about fascism in the United States. The left that promotes illegal immigration is terrified that the Trump administration will be able to impose legality also in states where, as in Minnesota, no identity card is needed to vote; Socialist rulers also win there with illegal votes. When Trump succeeds, the left will have fewer votes, but, in addition, it will be precedent for the whole West to face the fight against illegal immigration and the absolutely necessary deportations also throughout Europe.

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

Madam President, we have just spoken about Iran. If the United States finally ends the leadership of the Ayatollah regime, the Iranians will make Donald Trump a national hero, and the people will change the regime in Iran. The European Commission will mourn and condemn Trump for violating international law. That has happened in Venezuela, a monstrous dictatorship that the European Union has supported for decades, almost as much as the criminal regime in Cuba. If it were for the European Union, Venezuela's dictatorship would have eternalized like Cuba's, and Maduro would have died in bed like Castro. But Trump finally understood that the alliance of socialism, Islamism and drug trafficking, which had come together precisely in Venezuela, threatens the US – and is a direct security threat to the US. And in Venezuela, there was heroic resistance around an extraordinary woman, María Corina Machado, who showed the world that she had all the support of the people thanks to those miraculous acts, and asked the United States for help – and that help came on 3 January. The Venezuelan people celebrated it, and the European Union mourns and regrets it. And since he can't stand Trump's success, he denies the obvious: that Venezuela’s dictatorship without Maduro is already in dissolution – that there is still a long way to go, that prisoners have to leave, that there are many accounts to settle ... but that we are on the road to democracy in Venezuela. It will be a democracy sooner rather than later, despite the European Union.

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President Kallas, in its first five years, the Islamic dictatorship of Khomeini murdered some ten thousand opponents. In the past week alone, this regime has almost double-killed, say 20,000. He blocked the internet and all communication so that the world would not see the mountains of corpses. At birth, as at death, this failed and murderous regime only knows how to kill - and, now, as the only way to delay its end. Unfortunately, the Union has helped a lot. The European Union has greatly helped the Islamic dictatorship to reach our day. His predecessors, Mogherini and Borrell, always helped the Ayatollahs limit damage after the bloodbaths that crushed the protests. Now, again, instead of helping the Iranian people put an end to the regime, to tyranny, by declaring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorist and closing those embassies, the Union seems to want to save the regime from US intervention, as happened with Venezuela. Their anti-Trump phobia leads them to have strange allies. Let's clarify, what is international law for? To give impunity to murderers who do not respect any rights? No, no.

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Mr President, the Commissioner says that there are geostrategic risks. It's okay that we fell off the horse at once. Xi Jinping announced eight years ago before the Communist Party Congress the intention to turn China into a world power at our expense. In half the world it has already been imposed with very expeditious and coercive methods. Ten years ago Beijing launched its Made in China 2025 strategy to stop being the cheap factory of rich countries and become that systemic rival that it already is. The Chinese have met their goals very successfully thanks in large part to the negligence - and not just negligence, but complicity - of the West in half the world. Dependence on China continues to increase, and in Europe —of course – in a very special way. In Spain, Chinese infiltration is particularly scandalous. The current Secretary of State for Telecommunications is a former lobbyist linked to Huawei, half of the government has relations with people who have been - or continue to be - professionally related to this Chinese company, the couple of the Minister of Foreign Affairs was vice president of Huawei Spain until 2023, now carries Hispasat. The main opposition party is not spared from this infiltration. Both the Popular Party and the PSOE are in that pro-Chinese lobbii called Acento, in which the two parties are. They're both pissed off. How many senior positions of Spaniards and Brusselsers are making strategic decisions at the dictation of Beijing? Before discussing our trade and industrial policy with China, that question should be answered clearly.

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, yesterday you asked why we patriots oppose fact-checking. He hinted that we are afraid of the facts. No, sir. Facts are feared by you. Because the facts are on our side. It is a fact that mass immigration generates terrible problems of crime and overflowing services. It is a fact that Islam is a serious threat to freedom and equality of the sexes. It is a fact that there is no sex other than female and male. But their fact-checkers say otherwise, because they are actually censors who cover the facts with false progressive narrative. This European Center for Democratic Resilience they announce is the Orwellian Ministry of Truth. They don't see the oxymoron of announcing massive spending of public money for independent journalists. Not independent, obedient. Disinformation from Moscow and Beijing must be combated, but also from Brussels. Russia's interference must be combated, but so must the European Commission's obscene interference in Hungary. You are afraid and want censorship precisely to entrench yourself. That supposed democratic shield is a bunker against the truth, which is already its greatest enemy.

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First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)

Madam President, it is one year since the tragedy, the flood, of those 230 - or the dead that were. Neither the national government of the PSOE nor the regional Popular Party warned before the catastrophe, and Sánchez did not allow, for several days, aid to reach destroyed villages. Today it is known that the dead would have been avoided if some simple works had been undertaken in a series of ravines, but they had been paralyzed by the Ministry of a lady known here, Teresa Ribera, that socialist of lethal effects for her ideological fanaticism. What about the delay in aid? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Sanchez left Spaniards to die to wear down the political adversary that governs that region. Today the victims still live among rubble, garbage and rats, and the children study in barracks. The climate fanaticism, the failed regional system and the lack of scruples of a Sanchez to whom nothing matters more than his power, made possible this tragedy that, like so much crime committed by the Spanish Government in this five years, is still unpunished. That is what needs to be corrected.

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President. Oh, my God! Some seem to be angry that there is a peace agreement. The very title of this debate is already a bad joke and explains the bad conscience that exists: the recent Middle East Peace Agreement and the role of the Union. The role of the European Union is soon summarized: It's been a hindrance, and it's been ridiculous. Positive paper? None. Nothing. Zero. Absolutely zero. The Spaniard Pedro Sanchez has been directly a collaborator of Hamas terrorism. Macron left with Starmer and his despicable decision to recognize the nonexistent Palestinian state. And he almost failed the negotiations that were advancing, with that absolutely irresponsible and absurd measure. If there is a ceasefire right now in Gaza, and hopes for peace, it is thanks to your favorite enemy: Mr. Donald Trump. In the meantime, you have been pulling Hamas and you have also allowed that Palestinian state to manifest itself in all European cities, generating an arrogance that we are going to pay for very soon here. Here in Europe.

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Oct

2025

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EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

Madam President, this report may have been something else, but it is once again a cruel con of this Parliament to the nations of Ibero-America, which suffer from the repression, violence, terror and misery of narco-socialism, such as the CELAC summit - that invention that was made in all the movements of Chavismo and narco-socialism to get rid of the OAS - which will once again be another con. And it is because the Popular Party again prefers to ally itself with a left complicit in all the tyrants and bosses of organized crime. Without the truth none of the problems we have in this relationship is fixed, which should be another. This report does not call for the suspension of unheard-of European funding for Cuba's communist dictatorship. It still qualifies Maduro's usurping regime as a government, when it is the criminal cartel of the Suns. It does not require the European Union and its members to recognize the legitimate Venezuelan president, Edmundo González Urrutia. He does not denounce the criminal drift of Gustavo Petro towards the narco-dictatorship. He ignores the brutal repression unleashed by President Lula da Silva in Brazil, with thousands of political prisoners, as he ignores Xiomara Castro's maneuvers in Honduras. This report is saturated with globalist mantras of the 2030 Agenda, silly leftism that generates artificial problems and solves none of the real lives of people in Ibero-America. The People's Party has not wanted a possible majority against narco-socialism. He preferred to make a report with the socialist accomplices of the criminal forces in Ibero-America. Well, that's how it came out.

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2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Madam President, do you know what anti-Semitism is? That in Madrid a mob whipped up by the socialist government and its televisions attack a cycling race because Jews participate, that in Barcelona houses of Jews are marked by the left -for that left there that is linked with this right here-, that the houses of the Jews are marked with the slogan "From the river to the sea". That's anti-Semitism. In reality, the campaign of hatred of Israel has become a massive anti-Semitism. The hatred of Israel here is the hatred of the nation. It is hatred of the nation that defends itself. Because Israel is the example of the self-defense of the nation, the people, their identity and their sovereignty. You want to wipe out the nations. You, the left and its allies. And they have now allied themselves with the anti-Semitism they have massively imported from Islamism, which is as much an enemy of us as it is of Israel. And they make executioners, victims, and victims, executioners. But Israel will survive them all: Sanchez, Macron and Thunberg. And in the European nations the example of Israel's self-defense already sets. We Patriots are the proof. And anti-Semitism here is going to lose - all that anti-Semitism like the one on the street - because they will be deported.

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Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, George Orwell would be stunned... you surpass everything imagined in hypocrisy, euphemisms and manipulations of a totalitarian regime. They talk about protecting democracy, when they only want to protect their privileges and their failed path in the face of the democratic will, which is growing every day in the face of its dwindling majority, increasingly smaller and increasingly frightened. That's why they want censorship and censorship and to impose their narrative. Are you telling us that you want to promote independent press, paying for it, like the NGOs that you pay to release your narrative around? Alleged NGOs that are in your pay and are subsidized by the public money of all Europeans to keep the mouths of Europeans in general quiet. The weaker you are, the more undemocratic methods you are willing to use. You do not want a democratic shield, but a bunker for your threatened despotic power and a cage for the Europeans, who every day have more information and every day know better than you deceive them.

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2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, you have been putting forward plans for six years and spending hundreds of billions of dollars that you take from Europeans. The result? Europe is weaker, poorer, more insecure, more ineffective, more vulnerable and much less free. You failed in three ministries in Germany and here you have already reached the height of your failure. It only causes problems: for his arrogance, for his inability, for his lack of transparency, to put it mildly, for his threats to all dissent, as he has done today, announcing, in addition, independent media with money from the Commission, the whole propaganda apparatus that he has to hide the subsidies that NGOs receive for all this ideological propaganda. We are sunk by the slab of the European Green Deal, we are destroyed by the Muslim invasion that Mrs Merkel launched and that is still here, continues and that will make us, at some point, have to fight as Israel is fighting. Hopefully – despite all their slander against Israel – we Europeans will find the courage and determination to defend our civilization and our society as Israel is doing.

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, I love socialists evoking Churchill... Now I'm going to tell you. I don't know if you already know that Prime Minister Netanyahu has proposed Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize; A prize that should have been given to him already in his first term for Abraham's Agreements that changed the Middle East already then and that warned of what the path of authentic peace and the possibilities of stability in the Middle East was going to be. They didn't, of course, give it to Trump out of ideology; By ideology they had given it preemptively to Obama, who sowed the whole world of wars with his weakness and his progressivism. Moreover, I propose that, together with Donald Trump, they give Israel the Nobel Prize, because Israel has changed the Middle East – it is changing the Middle East – to resist evil, to break the axis of evil, and has ended it. Hizbullah no longer exists today. There is no Assad today. Today Iran's great terrorist ties around the world are weakened, even though Iran is still there and has not yet fallen. But the Middle East has prospects for peace when they realize that Israel is there to stay, and a giant step has been taken for that. Israel is defending us, the entire West, and Israel, which gives the lives of its children, its soldiers, in a cruel war, deserves this recognition.

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, of the very little good that the European Union did in the last legislature was to warn of the grave danger posed by the dependence and strategic weakness that Europe had created vis-à-vis China in the past five years: The report on China was the framework for that radical turnaround proposal to mitigate dependencies and risks. In this parliamentary term, the European Commission and its main partners seem to want to get back on track a little bit. If I still believed the President of the Commission in something, I would be happy here, because I see her taking a number of distances, but it is certainly not the case that I am going to trust myself at this point. The animosity, the hatred towards President Trump, who blinds so many here in the delusional idea of turning his back on the United States to replace it with China – which is typical of communist dictatorships or tyrannies such as Brazil or South Africa – is also being seen and felt in these environments. And, as we know the corrupting capacity of the Chinese regime, special care must be taken with the purchase of wills. China is always a threat: in the totalitarian essence of his regime is the will to impose itself and phagocytize us as it does with countries on other continents. Recent incidents have alarmed us once again: Chinese diplomats dare to threaten and intimidate MEPs in this house, because they do not like human rights and freedom to be defended in China, Taiwan or any other corner of the world. China must know that we want sober and correct relations in reciprocity and that it is going to end that they do here what they want and we can not do anything there.

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2025

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Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide

Madam President, 30 years ago in Srebrenica there was the greatest massacre in Europe since the Second World War. Serbian forces, in a war, gathered all adults, children and adolescents of another belief, of Muslim belief, in the Bosnian community, in the village of Srebrenica. They drove away the women, opened pits and began killing, as was only remembered from the German special units when they were in Poland and the East. The population of Srebrenica was officially protected by the United Nations. We know the result: the war ended much later thanks to an intervention by the United States, let's remember, not Europe: Europe failed miserably then. Then there was a court, which worked that time, and there were a number of convicts, who for the first time paid. But, let us know that, now that the term "genocide" is used in such a vile and utterly inappropriate way, genocides are possible in Europe: They are and have always been. And, of course, it is Europe that has that message: It has to fight always, not with goodism, but with firmness.

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Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

Mr President, I very much agree with the People's Party that we have here the representatives of a criminal organisation and a criminal government. Definitely. But you voted everything with them today, including to make the umpteenth harassment of Hungary with the resolution on the Commission's rule of law report. Spain as a whole has heard from the three closest collaborators of the head of Government Sánchez how they talk about their robberies, bribes, illegal commissions and prostitutes employed in public companies. It is the underworld, with the Sanchez family, that is adding cases of corruption, one after another. And more recordings arrive – more have arrived today – involving more ministers. So this just started. It is already evident that the PSOE is a criminal organization that has kidnapped the Government of Spain. Sanchez and his environment are like the dictator Maduro: Only power prevents them from going to prison. Therefore, from now on they will be able to do everything. Sanchez has kidnapped the prosecutor's office, the lawyer's office, corrupted the media, persecuted journalists, judges and prosecutors. Thanks to the Popular Party, Sánchez controls the Constitutional Court to amnesty his own criminals and allies. The rule of law in Spain, already in ruins, hangs by a thread. The Bolaños law against judicial independence may be the end, the coup d'état. And all of you and von der Leyen have continued to make the alliance there, with the whole left, against the will expressed in the elections.

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

Madam President, Hungary is probably one of the safest countries in Europe for homosexuals. It is one of the countries where there are no beatings, such as the beatings that occur in France, that occur in Spain, that occur in Germany, that occur in many places where the police recommend that there be no signs of affection among homosexuals because something may happen to them before that immigration that has made the neighborhoods unlivable and Islamist Muslim neighborhoods. That is not a problem in Hungary – that there are homosexuals, that they have their spaces, and so on. The problem is when you – and that is why the left in Europe is going to disappear sooner rather than later – are looking for elements of marginalisation in order to elevate them to the social canon of cultural Europe, and that is intolerable for any country that wants to have healthy growth and that wants to have a balanced education and children.

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

Mr. President, you happen to be upset and scandalized by transparency, for God's sake. It is true that, seeing what happens with Pfizer, with Mrs. von der Leyen, with Huawei, with Qatar and with so many things, it is possible that many of the things go around. Now, there is a scandal about the willingness of the waning majority in this Parliament to interfere in Hungary: People, socialists, communists and greens, who are the same and vote the same. With foreign money, they try to overthrow the only really conservative and sovereign government in Europe, as they did in Poland two years ago. To end Hungary's sovereignty, its favorite weapon is NGOs. Masses of European public money go to Hungarian NGOs, which are not Hungarian, but are directed and financed from Berlin, Brussels, Paris or the United States. Millions were injected into NGOs in the 2022 elections and it was useless. And now, with a popular socialist puppet like Donald Tusk, who is Péter Magyar, they believe that by infesting NGOs with money they will have an obedient boy in Budapest. The Hungarian government wants transparency in NGOs because it wants the fate of Hungary to be decided by the Hungarians. And I very much agree with that.

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, I hope you will be as generous with me over time as with this lady. Less hypocrisy, because what we're seeing is what they want: an Israel that cannot be defended. That's what they're looking for. This Parliament will today play bottom in its moral drift with a debate that is not going to be about Gaza but against Israel, of course. There they have Macron and Starmer arguing with Pedro Sanchez for the position of best ally of the terrorists, the Islamists of Hamas, who are the only genocidal ones. It is the reflection of a hypocritical Europe whose freedom eighty years ago began after the deaths of men, women and children in a razed Germany, because it was necessary. Then, as now, crime had to be removed from its lair, the heart of evil, which is Hamas. They've had time. They could have made the pressures on Hamas that they are now making on Israel, because it would have handed over the hostages, the tunnels and the weapons, and Gaza would not be as it is at the moment. This European assault in favor of Islamist terrorism against the only democracy that is there and that defends itself is all based on data that are all from Hamas. The data, the images, etc., are all from Hamas. You're doing the terrorist narrative here. It's an embarrassment.

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Violations of religious freedom in Tibet (RC-B10-0248/2025, B10-0248/2025, B10-0251/2025, B10-0253/2025, B10-0254/2025, B10-0256/2025, B10-0259/2025) (vote)

Mr President, thank you. It would be as follows: 'Is deeply concerned about the increasing levels of attacks, coercion, discrimination, harassment, violence and repression against religious freedom as a global phenomenon under CCP rule in Tibet; in particular, condemns in the strongest possible terms the persecution against Christians, the most persecuted religious group in the world.'