What Diana spoke about.

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Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, adopting the European regulation on media freedom was an act of democratic victory. For the first time, Europe has a regulation that guarantees the right of citizens to receive free and plural information. But there is a risk: have a historical Regulation that is not complied with. The Liberties organization has already alerted us: there are Member States that are not p…

18

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, Commissioner, in 2018, Ignacio Cosidó – then the PP’s spokesperson in the Senate – wrote a WhatsApp: We will control the Second Chamber of the Supreme through the back door. The same Chamber that judged and condemned for sedition the leaders of the Catalan Government. Ladies and gentlemen of the PP: You have to have your face made of reinforced cement so that, precisely, you are the …

7

May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, we can draw three key lessons from the great blackout. The first is that our daily life is electric. Without energy we do not communicate, trains, traffic lights or elevators do not work, we can not pay with a credit card in a store. This vulnerability forces us to strengthen the resilience of the system with intelligent and decentralized infrastructures and to comply with key dir…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, preparing Europe for the crises before us is not an option, it is a necessity. But we are surprised that, of all the security challenges, the Commission has decided to focus its communication on a survival kit, a kit that was proposed in a report in this Parliament a year ago and which appears now. We wonder why, and I think you don't have to be very bright to see th…

12

Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, today, when I talk about the European automotive industry, my first thought goes to those workers who have suffered the consequences of relocation and, among them, I think of the more than 20 000 people who lost their jobs with the closure of the Nissan plant in Barcelona. The Commission knows that the crisis in the automotive sector does not come overnight. We have spent years, E…

11

Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, the European Union spends 1.9% of its GDP on defence, almost the famous 2%. And what does this mean? I will give two examples so that it is better understood: firstly, the European Union spends three times more on defence than Russia and, secondly, the European Union and the United Kingdom together spend more than global powers such as China. In fact, if Europe were a state, it wo…

12

Feb

2025

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Repression by the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua, targeting human rights defenders, political opponents and religious communities in particular

Mr President, Commissioner, the first message we want to send is to Nicaraguan citizens, to all those citizens and to those civil organizations that see their rights and freedoms trampled on day after day. To all of them - especially political prisoners - we say that there is a broad consensus in the European Union to accompany and advance their struggle for a freer society. Unfortunately, the sit…

11

Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, the global geopolitical situation leads us to reformulate our alliances, to find new partners. And in this I think there is a consensus. But what we can't do is cheat. We cannot talk about the strategic sovereignty of the European Union and, at the same time, want to ratify trade agreements that bury our primary sector and, therefo…

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, it is unlikely that you will end up listening to my speech today in plenary on a social platform; and this is precisely the power that these platforms and their algorithms have in our day to day: your ability to influence or decide what you see, what you read, and eventually what you buy, what you think, and what you vote for. And this is their business model: keep u…

27

Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioners, was it possible to have a Commission without the presence of the far right? Certainly, probably, it wasn't. If there are states governed by the extreme right, we know that there will be commissioners of the extreme right. But what was in their hands, President von der Leyen, was to decide what role these commissioners were going to play. And, faced with this el…

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Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today, 25 November, we must raise our voices for all those who do not have the strength to do so. And let's not deceive ourselves, sexist violence does not have to occur in a lonely alley, in a poorly lit park or in a parking underground. It can be in our work, in our classes or in our own room. And the aggressor doesn't have to be a stranger: is our boss, our classmate…

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Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, Valencia is asking for help from the muddy streets, from the shattered homes and from the devastated fields. He yells at us from the pain of the one who has lost his loved ones. In Valencia we have seen very starkly the devastating effects of climate change, with a devastating impact on people's lives. But in Valencia we have also seen in a very crude way the effects of climate de…

23

Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, they stumble again and again on the same stone and fail to learn their lesson: this Parliament has repeatedly denounced the blackmail suffered by the European Union by third countries such as Turkey or Morocco, which you have decided to make our border guards; In fact, we have seen, in a very crude way, how the Moroccan Government, to give an example, turned thousand…

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Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the idea had long been established that disinformation was an external attempt at destabilisation. But the reality is more complex: Truthful information is also being attacked from within by those who seek to undermine democracy, sowing doubts and fuelling hate speech to impose undemocratic values. This is not just a KESMA problem in Hungary. We see clear examples in…

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Sep

2024

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The case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

Madam President, Commissioner, I belong to a parliamentary group, Verts/ALE, which never bothers to talk about human rights; In fact, we always want to talk about human rights because it is at the basis of our political action: We work for a Europe and a world where people can enjoy a dignified life and where their rights and freedoms are respected, wherever they may be. The problem is that some g…

17

Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, who cares about Venezuela and why? It matters to the right and the European extreme right, especially the Spanish one, that in Venezuela it finds a battering ram, a political weapon to manipulate to extract revenue from the rivalry of domestic politics. By the way, very silent right-wingers when it has been necessary to raise their voices against sinister characters …

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, Ukraine has shown unwavering courage and resilience in the face of unprecedented adversity in recent decades and from the outset we have shown them our strong support. Support that is not limited to words, but is reflected in our actions, in humanitarian aid, in economic sanctions against those who perpetuate this aggression and military assistance. But history also shows us and has …

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Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today is a very important day for all European women. It is the day on which this House will vote for the first European law against violence that discriminates against and kills us for the simple fact of being women. And before the transcendence of this vote, one feels the pressure of history and gives many turns on what to say in a moment like this. I could spend my s…

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Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Mr President, access to safe and legal abortion is a human rights issue and, as such, it is obvious that it should be included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. But being obvious doesn't take away from the fact that this possible inclusion is a victory for feminism. Because we live in a historical moment in which we have to fight for the most basic and the most obvious. A…

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Mar

2024

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Creation of a European initiative for an annual designation of European capitals for children (debate)

Madam President, it will be the children who in the future will be directly affected by the decisions we, the adults, make today. So we must ensure not only that their voices, their needs and their priorities are taken into account, but also that they can fully participate in those processes that will shape their lives. This should also be done in coordination and cooperation with local authoritie…

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Mar

2024

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today is a historic day in this Parliament. With the adoption of the European Media Freedom Act, the European Union adopts a crucial instrument for the protection of its democracy. This first European Media Freedom Act will be instrumental in ensuring a free, independent and pluralistic communicative space, which is a fundamental condition of any democratic system. The …

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Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, violence and harassment in the workplace is a problem that affects one in five people in the world. This means that for all these people the workplace, where they spend many hours each day and where they develop professionally, has ceased to be a safe place. It is crucial for all of them that the European Union takes action on the matter and moves from good words to act…

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Feb

2024

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EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement - EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement (Resolution) - Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile (joint debate - EU-Chile agreements)

Mr President, Commissioner, it has been weeks since our peasants, the nostres pagesos, have been asking for help. Don't they see it? This group, the Verts/Ale, will always be on your side. That is why our vote today is clear. We will vote against this agreement and all those free trade agreements that lethally harm our primary sector. We are against an agreement that some of you intend to present …

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Feb

2024

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Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this is the fourth year of this exercise and, although we recognise that the Commission has been improving the methodology of these reports, we are far from having an effective and effective instrument to protect the rule of law in the European Union. If the Commission does not provide solutions to every problem identified and applies sanction mechanisms to States that …

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Feb

2024

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Recent revelations of spying on Members of the European Parliament and the lack of follow up on the PEGA committee recommendations (debate)

Mr President, I must begin by saying that I am very surprised at how little attention this news has received in the European Parliament. Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about espionage: of espionage against Members of this House who enjoy parliamentary immunity. It seems that there is carte blanche to spy on because no one - not the President of this House, not the Commission, not the Council…