What Antoni spoke about.

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, the response to the global resurgence of the pandemic and the summit with the African Union in early 2021 are closely linked issues at the next European Council. Indeed, the pandemic reappears largely because of the Omicron variant, which started in Africa, where the vaccination rate is 7%. And we know that the likelihood of new variants of the virus appearing where the vaccination r…

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Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the Commission, in order to ensure access to vaccines worldwide, proposes that WTO Member States use the compulsory licences provided for in Article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement instead of advocating the temporary suspension of patents. This is a serious mistake, Commissioner, it is irresponsible, because this Commission proposal will not increase the production and glo…

24

Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, COP26 confirmed that the pace of politics and the pace of nature are dramatically decoupled. We know that, before COP26, the warming forecast for 2100 was 2.7 °C, but these forecasts are now 1.8 °C, in case all agreements are implemented. This is still too far from the 1.5°C that science requires us to avoid collapse. It is true that they are not a…

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Garicano, I thank you for waiting at the end of the debate to hear this speech and for allowing me to speak with all due respect, but with all forcefulness. I know that some of you don't like history at all, but history says that Nazism was defeated in Germany; Fascism was defeated in Italy; Salazarism in Portugal; Stalinism, in the countries of the East ... But Francoism was n…

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, at the next European Council you will show how far you want to go in order for Poland to accept the primacy of European law. But, probably, Poland will tell you: “Spain can ignore it and we can’t?” And you will not be able to answer, because Spain ignores the decision of the Luxembourg Court that has affected our immunity for months. As a result,…

19

Oct

2021

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EU-Taiwan political relations and cooperation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the authoritarianism of the Beijing regime challenges our concept of democracy. We're all saying it. Their minorities (Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong citizens and also the democrats who since the Chinese regime fight for a better country) suffer a systematic violation of their fundamental rights. Europe must abandon the "one-China" policy, or rather recognise that China a…

18

Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in order for the Farm to Fork strategy to achieve its proposed objectives, consistency with other EU policies is needed, all of which are: agriculture, trade, biodiversity, etc., which is not the case at present. We have the theoretically key tool, the CAP, but we missed an opportunity with the latest revision that is not aligned with the objectives of the Gr…

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Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in November Poland plans to receive EUR 24 billion from the Recovery Fund but, in accordance with the conditionality mechanism that accompanies this fund, the Commission informed Poland that it will first have to comply with the provisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union. When the Polish Constitutional Court challenged the Luxembourg Court and r…

6

Oct

2021

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Reforming the EU policy on harmful tax practices (including the reform of the Code of Conduct Group) (debate)

Mr President, what characterises the European model of life? Or rather, what should characterize it? We know this very well: the defence of human rights, civil and political rights; But, most especially, what is specific to Europe is the defence of social and economic rights. In other words, there is no European model of life without a welfare state. But there is no welfare state without a suffici…

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Sep

2021

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Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

Madam President, this Parliament is very concerned about the problems of the rule of law in Poland or Hungary, and it does well; But it cares very little about the degradation of the rule of law in Spain... And it's bad, very bad. Freedom of the press must be protected at all costs, in every corner of the Union. We cannot look the other way when it is threatened in Poland, but the independence of …

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Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the latest IPCC report of last August makes it very clear that in order to end global warming we need to stop emitting carbon as a matter of urgency. We are at a point of no return, there is margin but it is a concrete and unambiguous margin. The thirty years that we have set ourselves up to 2050 cannot be a test, the challenge is enormous because it concerns ev…

13

Sep

2021

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (debate)

Mr President, the pandemic has undoubtedly been a huge human tragedy, with social and economic consequences that we are all aware of. However, the EU has learned useful lessons for the future. Among them, the need to make progress in building a common European health policy, in the specific areas where greater integration will allow us to do more and better. This regulation on cross-border threats…

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Jul

2021

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 June 2021 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure for me today to make this speech in Italian. In the last Council, President Michel said that non-discrimination against LGBTI people is part of the DNA of the Union. No country can therefore claim to be part of the Union if it does not respect this principle. However, Hungary recently passed a homophobic law that prohibits talking about…

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, the harassment of dissidents in Nicaragua is unacceptable, and it is very sad to see how those who call themselves heirs of a revolution that in 1979 generated so much hope in Latin America, in Europe, in the whole world, today embody exactly the opposite of what that revolution symbolized. The European Union must demand that the Nicaraguan Government release the candidates for th…